Religious restrictions, country wealth, and religious violence : a global analysis by Tan, Malcolm Si-An

“…Utilising cross-national time-series analysis of data from 175 countries spanning 1991 – 2018, this study finds that countries which spend a larger share of their wealth to impose restrictions on minority, majority, or all religions are more likely to experience higher levels of religious hostilities and violence. …”
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Digital libraries and multi-disciplinary research skills by Thelwall, Mike

“…With the use of insights from cultural studies and the history and philosophy of science, it is argued that one likely outcome is a change in the acceptable standards for literature reviews, leading to changes in article contents to reflect a broader academic basis. …”
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Underrepresentation of Asia-focused articles in the top 10 economics journals by Ang, Roy Athanasius Tjin Shane, Teong, Xiu Yi, Tham, Weng Leon

“…This study highlights this fact and has found tenure to be a likely cause for the lack of Asia-focused articles. …”
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Subtle, natural and socially acceptable interaction techniques for ringterfaces : finger-ring shaped user interfaces by Pang, Natalie, Rissanen, Mikko J., Vu, Samantha, Fernando, Owen Noel Newton, Foo, Schubert

“…Through this analysis we show which kind of ringterfaces are likely to become general-purpose user interfaces and what factors drive their development toward commercial applications. …”
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Putting their best foot forward : emotional disclosure on Facebook by Qiu, Lin, Lin, Han, Tov, William, Leung, Angela K.-y.

“…We conducted two studies, and results from both self-report and observer rating show that individuals are more likely to express positive relative to negative emotions and present better emotional well-being on Facebook than in real life. …”
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Investigating the inner controls on explosive eruptions using textural analyses and petrology by Bernard, Olivier

“…Second I use apatite to finely study the volatile budgets and degassing rates of the magma batches that fed the sub-plinian, effusive and vulcanian phases of the 2006 Rabaul eruption. …”
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Causal Machine Learning to Discover Biochemical Determinants of Physical Fitness by Nawaz, Hesham

“…Identifying the key pathways relevant to cardiorespiratory fitness is of great importance for both predicting exercise responsiveness and potentially finding which interventions are likely to affect it. While contemporary deep learning models have demonstrated great success in pattern recognition and generation for various data modalities, their ability to decipher the causal mechanisms underlying these patterns is limited. …”
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Motor insurance in Singapore : problems and prescriptions by Ang, Cheng Sim, Lim, Siew Hui, Teo, Clarissa Suan Hoon

“…It emphasizes that immediate action is needed to avoid the erosion of profits from the motor insurance market. Furthermore, likely effects of the current situation are studied and this report attempts to recommend possible solutions to the problems.…”
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Culture as a research bias factor in bilingual markets. by Lee, Kin Man., Ong, Randall Choon Poh.

“…This poses a growing dilemma concerning the language in which marketing communications should be framed, as it seems likely that the use of a language could form a trigger that places a message recipient in a certain frame of mind. …”
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Evolutionary and ecological insights from Cytinus: a plant within a plant by de Vega, C, Thorogood, CJ, Albaladejo, RG, Rakotonasolo, F, Hobbhahn, N, Martos, F, Burgoyne, PM, Johnson, SD

“…Owing to this cryptic life cycle, the genus is poorly understood and is likely to include several hitherto undescribed species, particularly in threatened forest habitat in Madagascar. …”

Studies on high-frequency noise characteristics in deep submicron NMOSFETs by Zeng, Rong

“…The reduction of minimum noise figure with the increase in body bias may provide a possible methodology to finely adjust the device high-frequency noise performance for circuit design.…”
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Electrochemical modification of electrodes with metal nanoparticles by Mavrokefalos, C

“…For the first time, this study contradicts the classical theories for electrochemical nucleation and growth which proceed only by the fresh reduction of ions. It demonstrates that electrochemical nucleation and growth at the early stages is overpotential dependent and in fact proceed also by the aggregation of small clusters through surface diffusion when deposited at relatively higher overpotentials. …”

Studies on the physicochemical, biomechanical and biological properties of novel decellularized bovine scaffold for bone regeneration by Qabbani, Ali Abdul Qader Hameed Al

“…RAMAN spectroscopy showed an increased abundance of collagen and bone minerals, particularly phosphate ions (PO43-), in DCC scaffolds. In conclusion, the decellularization technique effectively produced an acellular DCC scaffold with minimal ECM damage and superior osteogenic potential in both in vitro and in vivo models. …”
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VI-VS: calibrated identification of feature dependencies in single-cell multiomics by Boyeau, Pierre, Bates, Stephen, Ergen, Can, Jordan, Michael I., Yosef, Nir

“…VI-VS is available as an open-source Python package, providing a robust solution to identify features more likely representing genuine causal relationships.…”
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A new method for evaluating kinesthetic acuity during haptic interaction by Casadio, Maura, Squeri, V., De Santis, D., Zenzeri, J., Masia, L., Morasso, P.

“…Although proprioceptive impairment is likely to affect in a significant manner the capacity of stroke patients to recover functionality of upper limb, clinical assessment methods currently in use are rather crude, with a low level of reliability and a limited capacity to discriminate the relevant features of this severe deficit. …”
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Early-onset breast cancer in a woman with a germline mobile element insertion resulting in BRCA2 disruption : a case report by Deuitch, Natalie, Li, Shao-Tzu, Courtney, Eliza, Shaw, Tarryn, Dent, Rebecca, Tan, Veronique, Yackowski, Lauren, Torene, Rebecca, Berkofsky-Fessler, Windy, Ngeow, Joanne

“…Subsequent reanalysis for MEIs detected a novel likely pathogenic insertion of the retrotransposon element (RE) c.7894_7895insSVA in BRCA2. …”
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Future failure rate prediction for transformers in power systems by Tan, Jia Le

“…Failure prediction is an important tool to estimate when these failures are likely to happen, which informs the replacement of transformers before a failure event. …”
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Certification of continuous professional development for librarians in Singapore by Choy, Fatt Cheong.

“…The paper discusses the philosophy and practical considerations behind its design, elaborate on the key components, address some issues raised by members of the community, outline the benefits to and impact on the professional community and finally discuss the likely challenges in its implementation.…”
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Protozoan parasite toxoplasma gondii manipulates mate choice in rats by enhancing attractiveness of males by Sapolsky, Robert M., Dass, Shantala Arundathi Hari, Vasudevan, Anand, Dutta, Deborah, Soh, Linda Jing Ting, Vyas, Ajai

“…Coevolving parasites are likely to attempt to circumvent this obstacle. In this paper, we demonstrate a case of parasitic manipulation of host mate choice. …”
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Low engagement and failed choices : exploring the mechanism for harbingers of failure by Wang, Yifei(Business management scientist)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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