A methodological note on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2024 changes over time results for 86 countries by Alkire, S, Kanagaratnam, U, Suppa, N

“…Six countries (Benin, Eswatini, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, and Thailand) have results for four points in time, three countries (Ghana, Mexico and Peru) for five time periods and Nepal have trends for six time periods. …”

Developing a framework for tracking antimicrobial resistance gene movement in a persistent environmental reservoir by Mathers, AJ, Li, TJX, He, Q, Narendra, S, Stoesser, N, Eyre, DW, Walker, AS, Barry, KE, Castañeda-Barba, S, Huang, FW, Parikh, H, Kotay, S, Crook, DW, Reidys, C

“…We successfully reconstructed the complete bacterial genome and plasmid assemblies of isolates sharing the same blaKPC carbapenemase gene to understand evolution over time in six confined hospital drains over five years. From 82 isolates we identified 14 unique strains from 10 species with 113 blaKPC-carrying plasmids across 16 distinct replicon types. …”

Cardiocutaneous syndrome is caused by aggregation of iASPP mutants by Lotz, R, Osterburg, C, Schäfer, B, Lu, X, Dötsch, V

“…Germline mutations in iASPP have been shown to cause cardiocutaneous syndromes, a combination of heart and skin defects usually leading to death before the age of five. Mutations in iASPP causing these syndromes do not cluster in hot spots but are distributed throughout the protein. …”

REACH story of change: building drought resilience in Ethiopian river basins

“…REACH Ethiopia partner WLRC are implementing, with the Ministry of Water and Energy (MoWE), Ethiopia, a €45 million programme, BRIGHT, to improve resilience and reduce vulnerability to drought and climate change in Ethiopia, working in five river basins. BRIGHT will build upon and scale up WLRC research on water resources management, climate science, water quality and inequalities to benefit an estimated 2.5 million people directly, and over 50 million people indirectly. …”

Nonlinear regression approach to estimating Johnson SB parameters for diameter data by Abd Kudus, Kamziah, Ahmad, M I, Lapongan, Jaffirin

“…This method was compared to five other methods; these were the four percentile points method, the Knoebel-Burkhart method, the linear regression method, the maximum likelihood (Newton-Raphson) method, and the modified maximum likelihood method through simulation. …”

Prevalence and resistance to antibiotics for Aeromonas species from retail fish in Malaysia by Radu, Son, Ahmad, Noorlis, Ling, Foo Hooi, Reezal, Abdul

“…A total of 87 market fish samples representing five types of fish were evaluated for the presence of Aeromonas spp. …”
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Analysis of primary school students' self-regulated learning in mastering higher order thinking skills in English subject by Mohd. Rameli, Mohd. Rustam, Truishwariaa, Truishwariaa, Ahmad Alhassora, Najua Syuhada

“…The design used in this study is a quantitative approach with the sample of 327 year five students in Kluang district. Self-Regulation Questionnaire was adapted to be used in data collection. …”

A conceptual paper on action research in job satisfaction and turnover intention for a chinese property company by Xue, Fu, Teo, Poh Chuin, Ho, Theresa C. F., Choo, Ling Suan, Tan, Jun Wei

“…Based on preliminary investigations and literature reviews, this study identified five (5) sub-dimensions of job satisfaction factors that potentially affect employee turnover intentions, namely work, pay, promotion, superior and co-worker. …”

Civil Disobedience and its Impact on 2008 General Election by Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus

“…In this election, the Barisan Nasional (BN) failed to maintain their two-thirds majority of parliamentary seats and also lost five states to the opposition. Subsequently, Abdullah Badawi regigned a year later and replaced by his deputy Najib Razak…”
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Dividend policy revisited : a Singapore perspective. by Chin, Shi Yin., Yeo, Chong Kiat., Ng, Yan Leng.

“…This paper aims to find the relationship between dividends and the market price of a company's share in the Singapore context. …”
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The development of automatic flexible endoscopes for gastrointestinal inspection or surgery by Phee, Louis Soo Jay.

“…Their common objective being to find a less traumatic and technically less demanding way to perform colonoscopy.…”
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Customers' perceptions on internet banking services in Singapore. by Chung, Xin Ni., Lee, Mei Li., Ng, Swee Moi.

“…Based on our results, we presented key findings and recommendations for enhancing the adoption of Internet banking.…”
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Explaining the decision-making process. by Tan, Veronica., Lee, Mabel Liying.

“…Our paper seeks to better understand human‘s decision-making behavior through conducting classroom experiments in Nanyang Technological University. We find that the behavior of mental accounting and prospect theory are not evident in our experiment. …”
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A study of extended minimal resource allocation network (EMRAN) alogrithm for multi-category classification problems by P. Karuppasami

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Effect of complexity of Chinese characters and their pinyin on recognition time by Zhao, Chunmei.

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Investigation of implementation of solar thermal energy on electric power system of Singapore by Ling, Gerald Chien-Ie.

“…There is a great reliance on imported fuel to supply our energy needs. We will need to find other ways to supplement our needs. The unlimited amount of sunshine in Singapore may be able to cover some of these needs. …”
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To enter or not : the effects of network intensity on real options and market entry. by Kwek, Chiaw Hong., Goh, Si Hui., Loh, Jun Yu.

“…This is then followed by a discussion of the limitations of our research and the implications of our findings  on  managers’  decision-making regarding market entry strategies.…”
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Stock trading and prediction using back-propagation neural network by Wang, Xiaogang

“…Then, variable input information including basic information, technical indicators and index indicators are investigated to find the most robust input combinations. The impact of neural network architecture is also covered. …”
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The role of investor relations firms in financial restatements by Li, Lingwei

“…This study examines the role of investor relations (IR) firms in the setting of financial restatements. I find that firms hiring an outside IR firm experience higher restatement announcement returns and they do not realize lower post-announcement stock returns than propensity-score matched control firms. …”
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Financial constraints and propagation of shocks in production networks by Demir, B, Javorcik, B, Michalski, TK, Ors, E

“…Using data on almost all Turkish supplier-customer links, we exploit the heterogeneous impact of an unexpected import-tax increase for identification. We find that this relatively minor shock had a nontrivial economic impact on exposed firms and propagated downstream through affected suppliers. …”