Confinement practices among postnatal mothers in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Hong, Angela Lee Leh

“…The findings also demonstrated that more than half of the respondents had a massage (85.7%), consumed traditional herbs/ jamu (50.7%), and had restrictions to go out (58.8%) during the confinement period. …”
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Effect of post-deposition annealing on the interface electronic structures of Al2O3-Capped GaN and GaN/AlGaN/GaN heterostructure by Duan, Tian Li, Pan, Ji Sheng, Ang, Diing Shenp

“…From Hall-effect measurement, the density and mobility of the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) are found to decrease and increase, respectively, after PDA, supporting the XPS results. …”
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Computer aided diagnoses for detecting the severity of Keratoconus by Abdullah, Osamah Qays, Boughariou, Aicha, Al-Azawi, Fadia W., Al-Araji, Ahmed Mohammed Khadum Abdulamer, Mehdy, Mehdy Mwaffeq

“…Disease severity was categorized into three stages, namely, mild, moderate, and severe, according to the topographic KC classification by a senior ophthalmologist. …”
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Unveiling perspectives of Islam : seeing through the eyes of Singapore's educated Chinese youths who subscribe to No religion by Nur Ameera Amirrudin

“…Finally, while the negative perceptions of respondents are rather mild, these data reveal that actions should be taken to curb this negativity.…”
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Optimising investigative pathways in military medicine: operational impact of a military cardiopulmonary exercise testing clinic by Holland, JL, Cowie, P, Gardner, L, Mulae, J, Richards, S, Holdsworth, D

“…Individuals were referred for dyspnoea (22.1%), syncope (11.4%), chest pain (8.1%) (referred to as ‘higher risk’ symptom group), and pre-syncope (8.1%), palpitations (8.1%), and fatigue and/or exercise intolerance (6.0%) (referred to as ‘lower risk’ symptom group). 34% were asymptomatic with incidental findings on cardiac screening investigations. Reduced exercise capacity was rare, affecting only 11% of individuals, which was borderline/mild at worst. …”

Developing a Psychometric Tool to Measure the Emotional Impact of Visual Content by Cucu, Theodor

“…Our key finding is that these sequence-contingent valence responses can be closely predicted by a simple linear combination of the estimated human valence responses to individual images (held-out ρ = 0.94). …”
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Compositional dependence of spintronic properties in Pt/GdCo films by Suzuki, Daniel H, Lee, Byung Hun, Beach, Geoffrey SD

“…We find a 5× increase in effective spin Hall angle with increasing Gd concentration, suggesting an improvement in spin transfer efficiency in rare earth materials. …”
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A core in a star-forming disc as evidence of inside-out growth in the early Universe by Baker, WM, Tacchella, S, Johnson, BD, Nelson, E, Suess, KA, D’Eugenio, F, Curti, M, de Graaff, A, Ji, Z, Maiolino, R, Robertson, B, Scholtz, J, Alberts, S, Arribas, S, Boyett, K, Bunker, AJ, Carniani, S, Charlot, S, Chen, Z, Chevallard, J, Curtis-Lake, E, Danhaive, AL, DeCoursey, C, Egami, E

“…The physical processes that establish the morphological evolution and the structural diversity of galaxies are key unknowns in extragalactic astrophysics. Here we report the finding of the morphologically mature galaxy JADES-GS+53.18343−27.79097, which existed within the first 700 million years of the Universe’s history. …”

Determining optimal timing of birth for women with chronic or gestational hypertension at term: the WILL (When to Induce Labour to Limit risk in pregnancy hypertension) randomised... by Magee, LA, Kirkham, K, Tohill, S, Gkini, E, Moakes, CA, Dorling, J, Green, M, Hutcheon, JA, Javed, M, Kigozi, J, Mol, BWM, Singer, J, Hardy, P, Stubbs, C, Thornton, JG, von Dadelszen, P, WILL Trial Study Group

“…In each group, maternal age was about 30 years, about one-fifth of women were from ethnic minorities, over half had obesity, approximately half had chronic hypertension, and most were on antihypertensives with normal blood pressure. …”

Molecular insights into evolution, mutations and receptor-binding specificity of influenza A and B viruses from outpatients and hospitalized patients in Singapore by Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius, Zhou, Xinrui, Lau, Suk Hiang, Rashid, Shamima, Teo, Jasmine S. M., Lee, Hong Kai, Koay, Evelyn S., Chan, Kwai Peng, Leo, Yee Sin, Chen, Mark I. Cheng, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Chow, Vincent T.

“…Background: This study compared the genomes of influenza viruses that caused mild infections among outpatients and severe infections among hospitalized patients in Singapore, and characterized their molecular evolution and receptor-binding specificity. …”
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Effect of Madden Julian oscillation on convectively coupled equatorial waves by Dobriyal, Ritvik

“…The investigation is carried out for the two seasons of DJFM (December January February March) and JJAS (June July August September). Key finding for both seasons is that when MJO enhances precipitation, wave activity becomes stronger, while when MJO suppresses convection wave activity is weakened. …”
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Measurement of mass attenuation coefficient of paraffin wax by using low energy x-ray by Daud, Nurul Shazliana Mohamad

“…This study explores the mass attenuation coefficient properties of paraffin wax at kilovoltage x-ray energies and compares these properties with those of solid water phantom, water, and Perspex, which are commonly used to mimic human tissue. Using the Half-Value Layer (HVL) method, we determined the effective energies for 60, 81, and 125 kVp, finding values of 35.22, 37.57, and 41.20 keV, respectively. …”
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Surviving the economic crisis in distribution and warehousing business by Chia, Tow Fong.

“…Empirical evidence collected through surveys provides insights into the severity of economic crisis faced by warehousing and distribution business, as well as the strategies taken to overcome the crisis. Survey findings revealed that almost half of the surveyed companies did not show improvement in terms of sales volume in 2009. …”
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Frame competition and climate change communication by Ong, Adeline Huilin, Neo, Eileen Hui Yan, Lim, Nigel Wen Bin, Loh, Clara Yi Jin

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Picture This! Social influence in a visually identified YouTube environment by Chua, Abigail Wen Qi, Gan, Damian Zheing Weii, Leong, Alisius Deon Xue Li, Looi, Jie Min

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A study of the expectation gap regarding fraud detection by Ang, Lay Hian, Chua, Hui Hoon, Tan, Teresa Tsai Lin

“…The r es ult s showed that approximately half of the surveyed investors expected the auditor t o detect fraud. …”
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Quality management : does it really pay? by Bukoh, Seng Khoon, Tan, Choon Huat, Toh, Choon Boon

“…The final portion of the text summarizes the findings of the Chi-Square as well as the Student T tests conducted, before concluding that there exists a positive relationship between TQM and common stock performance.…”
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ECG analysis of ventricular fibrillation dynamics reflects ischaemic progression subject to variability in patient anatomy and electrode location by Martinez-Navarro, H, Bertrand, A, Doste, R, Smith, H, Tomek, J, Ristagno, G, Oliveira, RS, Weber dos Santos, R, Pandit, SV, Rodriguez, B

“…Changes in frequency and morphology of the ECG during VF reproduced clinical findings but did not show a direct correlation with the underlying wave dynamics. …”

The association between the proportion of Brexiters and COVID-19 death rates in England by Phalippou, L, Wu, B

“…Scientific prowess – such as finding effective vaccines – may not be sufficient to solve crises.…”

Compressed sensing: a discrete optimization approach by Bertsimas, Dimitris, Johnson, Nicholas A. G.

“…We study the Compressed Sensing (CS) problem, which is the problem of finding the most sparse vector that satisfies a set of linear measurements up to some numerical tolerance. …”
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