No man's land by Chuen, Kah Jun

“…Adopting a whimsical visual language, No Man’s Land surveys representations and records of masculinity, in all its myriad forms, into three outlandish stories, fostering an embrace of this contradicting and complex construct without subverting it.…”
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UMPSA ends National Month with patriotic spirit by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

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Patients with neurological or psychiatric complications of COVID-19 have worse long-term functional outcomes: COVID-CNS—A multicentre case–control study by Shil, RSK, Seed, A, Franklyn, NE, Sargent, BF, Wood, GK, Huang, Y, Dodd, KC, Lilleker, JB, Pollak, TA, Defres, S, Jenkins, TM, Davies, NWS, Cousins, DA, Zandi, MS, Jackson, TA, Benjamin, LA, Easton, A, Solomon, T, Bradley, JR, Chinnery, PF, Smith, CJ, Nicholson, TR, Carson, A, Thomas, RH

“…Those receiving either statins or angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors had a lower risk of impairment in ADLs (OR 0.09, p = 0.0006, 0.17, p = 0.03). …”

Historicising Keats’ opium imagery through Neoclassical medical and literary discourses by Cox, O

“…This chapter argues that conceptions of opium in long-eighteenth-century culture, in medical and literary genres of writing alike, predominantly harked back to classical precedent, which had dominated for centuries, there being then scant scientific understanding of opium’s chemical physiological mechanisms. …”

Characterisation of the genomes of brain metastases by Ulahannan, D

Imagining Malaya, practising multiculturalism : the Malayan consciousness of Singapore Chinese intellectuals in the 1950s by Quah, Sy Ren

“…Singapore in the 1950s had undergone a series of transitions, from 150 years of British colonial rule, followed by Japanese Occupation in the Second World War, to the anti-colonial independence movement, and presented a multifaceted, complex and active state in all social, political and cultural aspects. …”
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Student teachers learning to use Assessment for Learning in schools by Tan Chia Chun, D

Remote digital cognitive assessment reveals cognitive deficits related to hippocampal atrophy in autoimmune limbic encephalitis: a cross-sectional validation study by Shibata, K, Attaallah, B, Tai, X-Y, Trender, W, Hellyer, PJ, Hampshire, A, Irani, SR, Manohar, SG, Husain, M

“…The global score on the online cognitive tasks correlated significantly with the established Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III (ACE) pen-and-paper test. Deficits in visuospatial processing and language were identified in ALE compared to controls using remote digital testing but not using the ACE, highlighting higher sensitivity of computerised testing to residual cognitive impairment. …”

Immunoprofiling of drug-resistant epilepsy with a focus on glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 antibodies by McGinty, R

“…All were female and demonstrated continuous GAD65 autoantibody production throughout long-term follow-up. Five of seven had temporal lobe epilepsy, three had T1DM and two had had bilateral hippocampal sclerosis. …”

The Impact of Different Level of Education Towards Acceptance of Islamic House Financing by Abd Aziz, Noriza, Abu Bakar, Azizi, Abd Aziz, Ibrahim, Yusuff, Noraini, Ahmad Musadik, Siti Hajar Salwa

“…The introduction of Shariah-compliant Islamic house financing products and services is embraced by many Muslim customers as obligatory and as a duty. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection by Kemp, SA, Collier, DA, Datir, RP, Ferreira, IATM, Gayed, S, Jahun, A, Hosmillo, M, Rees-Spear, C, Mlcochova, P, Lumb, IU, Roberts, DJ, Chandra, A, Temperton, N, Sharrocks, K, Blane, E, Modis, Y, Leigh, KE, Briggs, JAG, van Gils, MJ, Smith, KGC, Bradley, JR, Smith, C, Doffinger, R, Ceron-Gutierrez, L, Barcenas-Morales, G, Pollock, DD, Goldstein, RA, Smielewska, A, Skittrall, JP, Gouliouris, T, Goodfellow, IG, Gkrania-Klotsas, E, Illingworth, CJR, McCoy, LE, Gupta, RK

“…The spike deletion mutant ΔH69/ΔV70 had a twofold higher level of infectivity than wild-type SARS-CoV-2, possibly compensating for the reduced infectivity of the D796H mutation. …”

A facile formulation based on polyacrylate resin for SLA 3D printing by Lie, Anthony

“…Many companies have embraced 3D printing and have even proclaimed that 3D printing would become our 4th industrial revolution. …”
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Rocking the boat: maritime humanitarianism and responses to displacement at sea, 1978-2022 by Dobie, IR

“…At the same time, it prompts us to reflect on how humanitarianism looks different when it is carried out in the specific setting of the sea, instead of in landed contexts ‘in the field’.</p>…”

Relative deficiency in interferon-γ-secreting CD4+ T cells is strongly associated with poorer COVID-19 vaccination responses in older adults by Ho, Vanda W. T., Boon, Low Heng, Cui, Jianzhou, Juequn, Zhou, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Gupta, Rashi, Tan, Nikki Y. J., Qian, Xinlei, Purushotorman, Kiren, Fong, Siew-Wai, Renia, Laurent, Ng, Lisa F. P., Angeli, Veronique, Chen, Jinmiao, Kennedy, Brian K., Ong, Catherine W. M., Macary, Paul A.

“…We assessed functional, neutralising antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2 variants using ACE-2 inhibition assays, and changes in B and T-cell subsets by high-dimensional flow cytometry. …”
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Yeast9: a consensus genome-scale metabolic model for S. cerevisiae curated by the community by Zhang, Chengyu, Sánchez, Benjamín J., Li, Feiran, Cheng, Eiden Wei Quan, Scott, William T., Liebal, Ulf W., Blank, Lars M., Mengers, Hendrik G., Anton, Mihail, Rangel, Albert Tafur, Mendoza, Sebastián N., Zhang, Lixin, Nielsen, Jens, Lu, Hongzhong, Kerkhoven, Eduard J.

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How ready is general practice to improve quality in chronic kidney disease? A diagnostic analysis by Crinson, I, Gallagher, H, Thomas, N, de Lusignan, S

“…Nearly all practitioners had reservations as to whether CKD was really a disease; problematised the diagnosis of CKD purely on an estimate of glomerular filtration rate; questioned whether CKD in older people was part of natural ageing; and had experienced difficulty in explaining the condition to patients without frightening them. …”

Statistical analysis on students’ evaluation and students’ final exam marks in undergraduate Mathematical courses at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia by Abd. Rahman, Haliza, Mohd. Khalid, Zarina, Mohamed Ismail, Noraslinda, Kamisan, Nur Arina Bazilah, Siti Mariam Norrulashikin, Siti Mariam Norrulashikin, Mohd. Nor, Siti Rohani, Shabri, Ani, Hamdan, Muhammad Fauzee

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health issue and has had a major impact on education. Distance learning was implemented during COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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The post-modern Japanese identity of Haruki Murakami's literature. by Ling, Shannon.

“…Regarded as the literati ahead of his contemporaries, his words would come to ring true in the following century, as the concept of identity (and national identity) would rise to the forefront of most literature coming out of East Asia, with the traditions and cultures of these nations challenged by the onset of modernization (or Westernization) into the region. Japan, in particular, had undergone massive changes since the end of the Meiji era and the Second World War, giving birth to a new generation of Japanese torn between respecting the traditional and embracing the modern. …”
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Revisiting “conversations between father and son” by Ong, Bendini Junior Boon Kok

“…The notion of a loving father encouraging his son to undergo castration in order to advance had a profound effect on her philosophy in life. …”
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解析海峡华人领袖如何通过早期的《海峡华人杂志》塑造海峡华人独特与中间人的形象，并探讨其中的意义 = An analysis of how the Straits Chinese leaders shaped a distinct and intermediary image of Straits Chinese through the early Strai... by 朱碧瑜 Zhu, Bi Yu

“…They needed to progress socially and intellectually, in which they had to discard their outdated beliefs and customs, and turned to embrace knowledge from the modern civilization. …”
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