A note on life testing under competing causes of failure with Type I censoring by Low, Chan Kee, Balasooriya, Uditha

“…In the computations of sampling plans for life test experiments where specimens are subject to competing causes of failure, Balasooriya and Low [1] used one of the failure distributions to approximate the exact failure distribu-tion. …”
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Gender and role identity as moderators in the relationship between work and family demands and life outcomes. by Choo, Phyllis Yoon Chee.

“…Through a survey of Singaporeans in full-time paid employment, this study aims to explore some of the relationships between the work and family demands experienced by Singaporeans on one hand, and their work and life outcomes on the other. At the same time, it examines the influence of self- identity and gender in moderating those relationships.…”
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Animating Singapore : the complex expression of Singapore's contemporary daily life and culture through animation by Goh, Wei Choon

“…This paper aims to investigate the complex expression of contemporary Singapore daily life and culture through the animated art form. This will be done a double-pronged research approach, utilizing a mix of theoretical and practical components. …”
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Pursuing business opportunities in life sciences logistics in Vietnam : a case study of TNT by Chang, Meng Yi, Khoo, Malinda, Indrawati, Marini, Regina

“…This paper attempts to understand how TNT introduces a new service offering, the Clinical Express service, for a niche market segment, the life sciences industry, and how TNT exploits the opportunities available to launch the new service offering in a specific market, Vietnam.…”
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Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020 by Gupta, A, Hathi, P, Banaji, M, Gupta, P, Kashyap, R, Paikra, V, Sharma, K, Somanchi, A, Sudharsanan, N, Vyas, S

“…Life expectancy declines in India were larger and had a younger age profile than in high-income countries. …”

Rome away from Rome: India, Rome, and England in Ælfric’s Life of St Thomas by Ostacchini, L

Book review: Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life, by Michael M.J. Fischer by Singh, A

Working-age mortality is still an important driver of stagnating life expectancy in the United States by Polizzi, A, Dowd, JB

Quality of life among patients with lower limb osteoarthritis in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Nazeri, Nuranis Milani Ahmad

“…Quality of life is an important component in patient’s well-being, which considered as a goal of treatment in chronic illness. …”
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Life cycle assessment and economic analysis of Reusable formwork materials considering the circular economy by Balasbaneh, Ali Tighnavard, Sher, Willy, Wan Ibrahim, Mohd Haziman

“…These include plastic, steel, plywood and timber. Evaluations of life cycle assessment (LCA), embodied energy, and life cycle cost (LCC) were conducted from cradle to cradle. …”
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Machine learning, IoT and 5G technologies for breast cancer studies: A review by Saroğlu, Havva Elif, Shayea, Ibraheem, Saoud, Bilal, Azmi, Marwan Hadri, El-Saleh, Ayman A., Saad, Sawsan Ali, Mohammad Alnakhli, Mohammad Alnakhli

“…Cancer is a life-threatening ailment characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of cells. …”
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Undermining Public Health, Facilitating Reproductive Coercion by Ahmed, Aziza, Evans, Dabney P, Jackson, Jason, Meier, Benjamin Mason, Tomori, Cecília

“…Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health continues a trajectory of U.S. …”
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Measurement of the background in the CMS muon detector in 𝑝𝑝 -collisions at √𝑠 =13 TeV by Tytgat, M., Muhammad, A., De Lentdecker, G., Jaramillo, J., Moureaux, L., Pétré, L., Yang, Y., Rendón, C., Gokbulut, G., Hong, Y., Samalan, A., Alves, G. A., Marujo da Silva, F., Alves Coelho, E., Barroso Ferreira Filho, M., Da Costa, E. M., De Jesus Damiao, D., Ferreira, B. C., Fonseca De Souza, S., Mota Amarilo, K.

“…This machine will run for at least 10 years starting in 2029 reaching an instantaneous luminosity of =5×1034cm-2s-1 and increasing ultimately to =7.5×1034cm-2s-1 . …”
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A secure and efficient message authentication scheme for vehicular networks based on LTE-V by Xu, Cheng, Huang, Xiaohong, Ma, Maode, Bao, Hong

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Data collection and analysis for air pollutants (NO2,PM2.5) in Hong Kong by Hui, Benedict Chung Wah

“…However, despite the risk that it poses, air pollution is still contributed by human activities. Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and Nitrogen Oxide (NO2) are common atmospheric pollutants that are being produced by human activities such as road traffic and burning of fossil fuels. …”
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Magic v.3 : an integrated software package for systematic structure-based coarse-graining by Mirzoev, Alexander, Nordenskiöld, Lars, Lyubartsev, Alexander

“…Here we present a major update (v.3) of the software with substantially improved functionality, compatibility with several major atomistic and coarse-grained simulations packages (GROMACS, LAMMPS, GALAMOST), analysis suite with graphical possibilities, diagnostics, documentation. …”
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Pillar[5]quinone–carbon nanocomposites as high-capacity cathodes for sodium-ion batteries by Xiong, Wenxu, Huang, Weiwei, Zhang, Meng, Hu, Pandeng, Cui, Huamin, Zhang, Qichun

“…In this research, we described the investigation of pillar[5]quinone (P5Q), which we determined to have a theoretical capacity of 446 mAh g-1, a value that makes it a very promising candidate as a cathode in rechargeable batteries. …”
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A constant pool of Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells is required for intestinal homeostasis by Tan, Si Hui, Phuah, Phyllis, Tan, Liang Thing, Yada, Swathi, Goh, Jasmine, Tomaz, Lucian B., Chua, Magdalene, Wong, Esther, Lee, Bernett, Barker, Nick

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SARS-CoV-2 accessory protein 7b forms homotetramers in detergent by Surya, Wahyu, Queralt-Martin, Maria, Mu, Yuguang, Aguilella, Vicente M., Torres, Jaume

“…A global pandemic is underway caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The SARS-CoV-2 genome, like its predecessor SARS-CoV, contains open reading frames that encode accessory proteins involved in virus-host interactions active during infection and which likely contribute to pathogenesis. …”
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Effect of negative mood on working memory in 3 to 5 year old pre-schoolers. by Revathy Pachamuthu.

“…This study examined the effects of negative mood and comparison mood manipulation on executive functions and working memory exhibited by preschoolers (3-5 years old) in the Self-Order Pointing Task (SOPT). …”
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