Promoting Singapore as a premier tourist destination by Koh, Hui Ling, Lim, Karen Wee Peng, Tan, Fiona Lay Choo

“…Against the backdrop of a booming tourism industry in the Asia-Pacific region, this study is undertaken with two purposes in mind - to analyse the current trends in Singapore's tourism industry, and to develop strategies that will enable the Republic to exploit opportunities in the environment. …”
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Development a novel paradigm for characterization of emerging contaminants in mixed-use anthropogenic impacted watersheds by Lee, Theodora Hui Yian

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Priorities to inform research on marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia by Omeyer, Lucy C. M., Duncan, Emily M., Aiemsomboon, Kornrawee, Beaumont, Nicola, Bureekul, Sujaree, Cao, Bin, Carrasco, Luis R., Chavanich, Suchana, Clark, James R., Cordova, Muhammad R., Couceiro, Fay, Cragg, Simon M., Dickson, Neil, Failler, Pierre, Ferraro, Gianluca, Fletcher, Stephen, Fong, Jenny, Ford, Alex T., Gutierrez, Tony, Shahul Hamid, Fauziah, Hiddink, Jan G., Hoa, Pham T., Holland, Sophie I., Jones, Lowenna, Jones, Nia H., Koldewey, Heather, Lauro, Federico M., Lee, Charlotte, Lewis, Matt, Marks, Danny, Matallana-Surget, Sabine, Mayorga-Adame, Claudia G., McGeehan, John, Messer, Lauren F., Michie, Laura, Miller, Michelle A., Mohamad, Zeeda F., Nor, Nur Hazimah Mohamed, Müller, Moritz, Neill, Simon P., Nelms, Sarah E., Onda, Deo Florence L., Ong, Joyce J. L., Pariatamby, Agamuthu, Phang, Sui C., Quilliam, Richard, Robins, Peter E., Salta, Maria, Sartimbul, Aida, Shakuto, Shiori, Skov, Martin W., Taboada, Evelyn B., Todd, Peter A., Toh, Tai Chong, Valiyaveettil, Suresh, Viyakarn, Voranop, Wonnapinij, Passorn, Wood, Louisa E., Yong, Clara L. X., Godley, Brendan J.

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Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2... by Brauer, M, Roth, GA, Aravkin, AY, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Browne, AJ, Graham, SM, Rodriguez, JAB, Runghien, T, Sartorius, B

“…Age-sex-location-year-specific estimates were generated at global, regional, and national levels. Our approach followed the comparative risk assessment framework predicated on a causal web of hierarchically organised, potentially combinative, modifiable risks. …”

Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…Abbreviations are marked, and can be checked against the "List of abbreviations used in the edition".…”

An epigenetic analysis of planarian stem cells by Dattani, A

“…We also show that genes with little transcriptional activity in NBs, but which switch on in post-mitotic progeny during differentiation are bivalent, being marked by both H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 at the promoter-proximal region. …”

How painted backdrops link photographic studios: a case from Cameroon by Nyamndon, V, Zeitlyn, D

“…Painted backdrops were moved between studios and gifts of backdrops marked the end of an apprenticeship as a new studio was established. …”

W-type normal dispersion thulium-doped fiber-based high-energy all-fiber femtosecond laser at 1.7  µm by Chen, Shaoxiang, Chen, Yuhao, Liu, Kun, Sidharthan, Raghuraman, Li, Huizi, Chang, Chen Jian, Wang, Qi Jie, Tang, Dingyuan, Yoo, Seongwoo

“…With a proper dispersion management in an all-fiber chirped pulse amplification (CPA) scheme, we demonstrate so far the highest pulse energy of 128.0 nJ in a stable pulse of 174 fs in the 1.7-1.8 µm region, which marks above an order of magnitude improvement in pulse energy while exhibiting the shortest pulse duration among fiber-based CPA works at 1.7 µm. …”
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A model for wet-casting polymeric membranes incorporating nonequilibrium interfacial dynamics, vitrification and convection by Lee, Hanyong., Krantz, William B., Hwang, Sun-Tak.

“…The predictions for initial casting-solution thicknesses of 75 and 125 m are markedly different. When densification induced convection is included, the 125 m film is predicted to enter well into the metastable region, thereby allowing supersaturation that promotes macrovoid defects. …”
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Combining detection dogs and camera traps improves minimally-invasive population monitoring for the cheetah, an elusive and rare large carnivore by Verschueren, S, Hofmann, T, Schmidt-Küntzel, A, Kakove, M, Munyandi, B, Bauer, H, Balkenhol, N, Leirs, H, Neumann, S, Cristescu, B, Marker, L

“…Vehicular searches to identify cheetah marking sites appear to be an efficient alternative or complementary approach (3.8/100km), if a road network is available and marking sites are visually distinguishable. …”

Staying connected: assessing the capacity of landscapes to retain biodiversity in a changing climate by Harwood, T, Love, J, Drielsma, M, Brandon, C, Ferrier, S

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:&nbsp;</strong>Mapping of the Spatial Resilience Index across New South Wales suggests that different regions, and locations within these regions, vary markedly in their expected capacity to retain biodiversity, depending on the direct rate of climate change, the degree of climatic buffering (or reduction of climate velocity) afforded by landscape heterogeneity, and the degree of anthropogenic impacts on the connectedness of habitat in the landscape. …”

Environmental conditions affecting global mesoscale convective system occurrence by Muetzelfeldt, MR, Plant, RS, Christensen, HM, Zhang, Z, Woollings, T, Feng, Z, Li, P

“…Several environmental variables are found to show marked changes before MCS initiation, particularly over land. …”

In vivo positron emission tomography imaging of mitochondrial abnormalities in a mouse model of tauopathy by Barron, Anna M., Ji, Bin, Fujinaga, Masayuki, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Suhara, Tetsuya, Sahara, Naruhiko, Aoki, Ichio, Tsukada, Hideo, Higuchi, Makoto

“…Tauopathy and neuroinflammation were visualized by PET using a tau probe 11C-PBB3 and a TSPO probe, 18F-FEBMP, respectively. A marked reduction in 18F-BCPP-EF uptake was observed in hippocampal and forebrain regions of TauTg mice, colocalizing with regions of tauopathy, neuronal damage and neuroinflammation. …”
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Reducing dependence on China? South Korea's shift in foreign policy under the Yoon administration by See, Yi Ro

“…South Korea’s foreign policy has markedly shifted after the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) incident and under President Yoon Suk Yeol’s leadership. …”
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Sensorium R(A) : the Singapore International Film Festival (1987-2000) by Ng, Chrystal Shu Min

“…And yet, given the significance of SIFF on the SEA region and Singapore’s film industry, current literature only highlights a fraction of the Festival’s impact on Singapore and the region. …”
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Tropical Deep Convection, Cloud Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity by Stephens, GL, Shiro, KA, Hakuba, MZ, Takahashi, H, Pilewskie, JA, Andrews, T, Stubenrauch, CJ, Wu, L

“…Interannual variability of the TTZ reveals a marked variation that connects the depth of the tropical troposphere, the depth of convection, the thickness of high clouds and the TOA radiative imbalance. …”

Enhanced charge transport properties of dye-sensitized solar cells using TiNxOy nanostructure composite photoanode by Lim, Chiew Keat, Huang, Hui, Chow, Chee Lap, Tan, Pei Yun, Chen, Xiaofeng, Tse, Man Siu, Tan, Ooi Kiang

“…Higher incident photon-current conversion efficiency (IPCE) values were also obtained for these composite photoanodes. This marked improvement was attributed to the combined synergetic effects of an extra absorption in the visible region and an enhanced efficiency in the electron transport. …”
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An adaptive isogeometric-meshfree coupling approach for the limit analysis of cracked structures by Huang, Jiazhao, Nhon Nguyen-Thanh, Li, Weidong, Zhou, Kun

“…Subsequently, the marked meshes are refined through the insertion of linear reproducing points. …”
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Ancient bacterial genomes reveal a high diversity of Treponema pallidum strains in early modern Europe by Majander, K, Pfrengle, S, Kocher, A, Neukamm, J, du Plessis, L, Pla-Díaz, M, Arora, N, Akgül, G, Salo, K, Schats, R, Inskip, S, Oinonen, M, Valk, H, Malve, M, Kriiska, A, Onkamo, P, González-Candelas, F, Kühnert, D, Krause, J, Schuenemann, VJ

“…Syphilis is a globally re-emerging disease, which has marked European history with a devastating epidemic at the end of the 15th century. …”

Large scale paired antibody language models by Kenlay, H, Dreyer, FA, Kovaltsuk, A, Miketa, D, Pires, D, Deane, CM

“…We show that our models outperform existing antibody and protein language models on a diverse range of design and regression tasks relevant to antibody engineering. This advancement marks a significant leap forward in leveraging machine learning, large scale data sets and high-performance computing for enhancing antibody design for therapeutic development.…”