Frailty trajectories preceding dementia in the US and UK by Ward, DD, Flint, JP, Littlejohns, TJ, Foote, IF, Canevelli, M, Wallace, LMK, Gordon, EH, Llewellyn, DJ, Ranson, JM, Hubbard, RE, Rockwood, K, Stolz, E

“…Included individuals were 60 years or older and without cognitive impairment at baseline. …”

AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE / by Jeffrey Archer, author 507936

“…Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi…thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of enthralling short stories. …”

Gender Differences in Real-Home Sleep of Young and Older Couples by Butt, Maryam, Quan, Stuart F., Pentland, Alex, Khayal, Inas

“…Participants: Ten heterosexual young couples (male mean age: 28.2 1.0[SD] years /female mean age: 26.8 0.9 years) and 14 older couples (male mean age: 59.3+ 9.6 years/female mean age: 58.8+ 9.1 years). …”
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Analysis of incidence of motor neuron disease in England 1998–2019: use of three linked datasets by Burchardt, JM, Mei, XW, Ranger, T, McDermott, CJ, Radunovic, A, Coupland, C, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…The median age of diagnosis was 72 years. Peak incidence occurred in the 80–84 year age group in men and 75–79 in women. …”

A 12-week Taijiquan practice improves balance control and functional fitness in fall-prone postmenopausal women by Bai, Xiaorong, Xiao, Wensheng, Soh, Kim Geok, Zhang, Yang

“…Methods: Chinese women who self-reported a tendency to fall and had a baseline one-leg stand test time (4.1 s in the Taijiquan group) below the national average for their age group (60–64 years: 10.9 s, 65–69 years: 9.9 s) were assigned to either a control group (n = 26, mean age = 63.9 years) or a Taijiquan group (n = 24, mean age = 63.9 years). …”
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The effects of instructional and motivational self-talk on vertical jump performance and kinematics by Muhammad Hakim Mustadza

“…Methods: 12 male (24.3±0.9 years, 1.75±0.06 m, 68.7±6.02 kg) and 12 female (22.8±2.1 years, 1.59±0.05 m, 55.3±6.02 kg) university students performed 4 CMJ’s with an unloaded 10kg barbell, 3 minutes apart, on a force plate set at 1000-Hz sampling frequency. …”
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Hedonic regression model : influence of housing characteristics and housing lease on HDB's resale price by Ng, Darren Kaiwen, Nah, Hng Meng

“…The result shows that the contractual variable, in number of years lease expired, is a statistically significant variable and effects a decline in resale HDB prices. …”
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Assessing the financial performance of container shipping companies by Shen, Wanling.

“…However, the selected companies performed better within 3 years of vertical integration, as supported by improvements in the 5 financial indicators. …”
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Press freedom : has the press gone over the top? by Locsin Jr., Teodoro L

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Current affairs: a security measurement study of CCS EV charging deployments by Szakály, M, Köhler, S, Martinovic, I

“…We find that only 12% of the charging stations we analyzed implement TLS at all, leaving all others vulnerable to attacks that have already been demonstrated many years ago. We observe an increasing trend in support for ISO 15118- 2 over the years, reaching 70% of chargers manufactured in 2023. …”

Scientometric analysis and comparison between the publication output of NIE and OISE. by Chua, Lawrence Ern Yau.

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Strategy as revolution for Singapore's custom tailor industry by Eng Leng Goy, Heu Ann New, Lim Shih Gin

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Development of healthcare application on mobile devices by Goh, Cher Chau

“…This will have a significant impact on Singapore in the near future to come, where the current number of citizens aged 65 years is projected to cover 47% of Singapore total population by 2050. [1]. …”
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Probabilistic modeling of nodal charging demand based on spatial-temporal dynamics of moving electric vehicles by Musa, Ryan Rezal

“…Global warming has long been a hot topic in discussion around the world very frequently in the past recent years and numerous times people have tried to make the situation improve and get better. …”
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Septic patients with cancer : do prehospital antibiotics improve survival? A sub-analysis of the PHANTASi trial by Panday, Rishi Nannan, Wang, S., Schermer, E. H., Cooksley, T., Alam, N., Nanayakkara, P. W. B.

“…Results: 357(13.4%) of the 2658 included patients had cancer in the past five years, of which, 209 (58.5%) were included in the intervention and 148 (41.5%) usual care groups; 28-day mortality was significantly higher in patients who were diagnosed with cancer in the past five years than those without cancer in the past five years: 15.2% vs. 7.1%, respectively (p < 0.001). …”
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Molluscum contagiosum and associations with atopic eczema in children: a retrospective longitudinal study in primary care by Olsen, JR, Piguet, V, Gallacher, J, Francis, NA

“…</p> <p><strong>Results</strong> The rate of MC consultations in primary care for children aged 0 to 14 years is 9.5 per 1000 (95% CI = 9.4 to 9.6). The greatest rate of consultations for both sexes is in children aged 1–4 years and 5–9 years (13.1 to 13.0 (males) and 13.0 to 13.9 (females) per 1000 respectively). …”

Thyroid autoimmunity and autoimmune thyroid disease in Malaysian girls with Turner syndrome: an understudied population by Lee, Yee L, Zaini, Azriyanti A, Idris, Arini N, Abdullah, Raja A, Wong, Jeanne SL, Hong, Joyce SS, Hussain, Suhaimi, Lim, Poi G, Lim, Song H, Nor, Noor SM, Wu, Loo L, Jalaludin, Muhammad Y

“…The prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity increased with age (33.3% for age 0–9.9 years; 46.8% for age 10–19.9 years and 57.1% age for 20–29.9 years) with autoimmune thyroid disease detected in 14.3% during adulthood. …”

Nutritional assessment of rural villages and estates in peninsular Malaysia: total blood cholesterol values in children, adolescents and adults by Wai, Tony Ng Kock, Lin, Khor Geok, Siong, Tee E., Hashim, Normah

“…Second, the study provides on a nationwide-sampling basis, information on total blood cholesterol (TC) levels in rural children (7.0-12.9 years; n = 1921) and adolescents (13.0-17.9 years; n = 753) which were hitherto unavailable. …”

Anti-ageing properties of edible bird's nest ascertained by in vitro and in vivo studies in animal model by Hou, Zhiping

“…According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the world average life expectancy as at 2014 is 66.26 years, having an average of 64.30 years for males and 68.35 years for females. …”
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Forecasting air passenger volume in Singapore: Determining the explanatory variables for econometric models by Guo, Rui, Zhong, Zhao Wei

“…Afterwards, forecasting for the next 18 years till 2033 is conducted and analyzed to have a better idea of the future development.…”
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