Waning of specific antibodies against Delta and Omicron variants five months after a third dose of BNT162b2 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in elderly individuals by Goh, Yun Shan, Rouers, Angeline, Fong, Siew-Wai, Zhuo, Nicole Ziyi, Hor, Pei Xiang, Loh, Chiew Yee, Huang, Yuling, Neo, Vanessa Kexin, Kam, Isaac Kai Jie, Wang, Bei, Ngoh, Eve Zi Xian, Salleh, Siti Nazihah Mohd, Lee, Raphael Tze Chuen, Pada, Surinder, Sun, Louisa Jin, Ong, Desmond Luan Seng, Somani, Jyoti, Lee, Eng Sing, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Wang, Cheng-I., Leo, Yee Sin, Ren, Ee Chee, Lye, David C., Young, Barnaby Edward, Ng, Lisa F. P., Renia, Laurent

“…However, the induced immunity by the third BNT162b2 vaccine dose was transient. The findings suggest that elderly individuals may require a fourth dose to provide protection against SARS-CoV-2.…”
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Effects of noise exposure on occupational stress among palm oil mill workers in Malaysia by Roya, Latifi Naeini

“…Similarly, the results of the PSI score support the finding about sAA and shows that, there is a significant association between PNE and PSI score among palm oil mill workers (rs=579**,p<0.001). …”
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A New Hyperbox Selection Rule and a Pruning Strategy for the Enhanced Fuzzy Min–Max Neural Network by Mohammed, Mohammed Falah, Chee, Peng Lim

“…The results compare favorably with those from other related models. The findings indicate that the newly introduced hyperbox winner selection rule coupled with the pruning strategy are useful for undertaking pattern classification problems.…”
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Assessing the level of competence in automated trading among Malaysian traders by Zarith Sofia, Zulkifli, Hairuddin, Mohammad, Miswan, Surip, Nurnadiah, Zamri, Mustafa, Mamat, Sahimel Azwal, Sulaiman

“…The data was analyzed using statistical software (SPSS). The findings of this study reveal that Malaysian traders have an excellent comprehension of AT. …”
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A review on heat transfer enhancement in a heat exchanger by Gobinathan, Sashwin Nair, Azizuddin, Abd Aziz, Oumer, Ahmed Nurye, Mohd Yusof, Taib, Ahmad Basirul Subha, Alias

“…This paper reviews the research related to the characteristics, advantages and findings on various type of compact heat exchanger. …”
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The triple, quadruple, and quintuple helix models: A bibliometric analysis and research agenda by Haziman, Zakaria, Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Diyana, Kamarudin, Norazah, Mohd Suki, Mohd Ariff, Kasim

“…This literature review integrates thematic groups from different analyses to offer a holistic picture of the current state-of-the-art, designing its main approaches and offering future field trends. These findings are crucial for academics, practitioners, and stakeholders in seeking to improvise the helix model for policymakers by incorporating the helix model into a knowledge-sharing strategy.…”
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Job application intention and search behavior of crowd workers by Zuria Akmal, Saad, Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Azim Azuan, Osman, Mohd Safwan, Ramli

“…The research involved 66 students from the Bachelor of Office System Management program at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pahang, who participated as part-time crowd workers on various online platforms as part of the study requirements. The findings reveal significant positive relationships between job characteristics, person-job fit (as the signaler), and job-related factors influencing crowd workers' intentions and search behaviors (as the receivers), in alignment with Signaling Theory. …”
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Assessing narrative competence in preschool children: Key measures and ensuring reliability and validity by Wu, Bo, Jamal Rizal, Razali

“…This study employed a content analysis approach to review the literature on the assessment of narrative competence in preschool children, focusing on evaluation dimensions, reliability, and validity. The findings reveal that narrative competence assessment primarily revolves around macrostructure and microstructure analyses. …”
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Optimal policing with (and without) criminal search by Gao, Carol, Vásquez, Jorge

“…We also identify conditions under which policing all neighborhoods equally is optimal. Our findings underscore that an optimal policing design must not only consider neighborhood characteristics but also other factors that may impact criminals’ decision-making, including whether they engage in active search.…”
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Designing a digital fitness game system for older adults in community settings by Li, Jinhui, Erdt, Mojisola, Lee, James Chong Boi, Vijayakumar, Harsha, Robert, Caroline, Theng, Yin-Leng

“…However, the output quality of the system is not significantly associated with users’ perception of the usefulness and ease of use of the system. The findings from this research have provided new insights into designing elderly fitness games.…”
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Communication and knowledge as motivators : understanding Singaporean womens perceived risks of breast cancer and intentions to engage in preventive measures by Lee, Edmund Wei Jian, Ho, Shirley S., Chow, Josephine K., Wu, Ying Ying, Yang, Zixin

“…Attention to media, frequency of interpersonal communication, fatalistic belief, and knowledge structure density were found to be associated with risk perception of breast cancer among Singaporean women. Findings also showed that frequency of interpersonal communication, risk perception, elaboration, and factual knowledge were positively associated with women’s intentions to take up preventive measures such as breast self-examination, clinical breast examination, and mammography. …”
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Examining public acquisition of science knowledge from social media in Singapore : an extension of the cognitive mediation model by Ho, Shirley S., Yang, Xiaodong, Thanwarani, Amber, Chan, Juliana M.

“…The results showed that the CMM could be applied to a social media context with a focus on science literacy. Specifically, the findings indicated that people with higher levels of surveillance gratification and social utility motivations tended to pay more attention and to elaborate more about science news that they encounter on social media. …”
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Integrating disaster governance in Timor-Leste : opportunities and challenges by Cook, Alistair David Blair, Suresh, Vishalini, Nair, Tamara, Foo, Yen Ne

“…They were: time taken to respond to disasters, low capacity, and issues with coordination. The findings also revealed a number of challenges to disaster governance to support emergency preparedness and disaster response operations. …”
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Risk breeds risk aversion by He, Tai-Sen, Hong, Fuhai

“…Our experimental design allows us to conclude that this effect is driven by the risk environment per se, rather than the realized outcomes of the risk. This finding has important theoretical and policy implications.…”
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Hired or not even considered? : Investigating how the employment outcomes of deaf persons in Singapore can be promoted by Gan, Jessa Wan Zhen

“…Additionally, current policies which target employers are also not effective in shaping their behaviour to hire deaf persons with equal consideration alongside hearing persons. The findings of this study contribute to the minuscule deaf-related employment research set in Singapore and can be considered for research on employment outcomes of other PWDs.…”
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When three’s (good) company : third-party friendships on cooperation across departments by Wong, Sze-Sze, Boh, Wai Fong, Wu, Anne

“…Third-party influence is also marginally attenuated when providers have a larger circle of friends. Overall, our findings advance the social embeddedness perspective by instilling a greater appreciation for dyad member’s dependence upon the third party in explaining third-party influence on cooperation.…”
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When motivations meet affordances: news consumption on Telegram by Lou, Chen, Tandoc, Edson C., Hong, Li Xuan, Pong, Brenda Xiang Yuan, Lye, Rachelle Wan Xin, Sng, Trisha Ngiag Gya

“…We also found that news consumption is facilitated by Telegram’s affordances like customizability, increasing accessibility, aesthetics, and simultaneity of activities. The findings advanced extant literature on user motivations for news consumption on new technologies and research on affordances. …”
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Introducing a new dataset on Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) by Tominaga, Yasutaka, Lee, Chia-yi, Lyu, Mengting

“…We present some trends and patterns of terrorist designation over time and across countries and apply the DTO to analyze the impact of terrorist designation on groups’ attacks. Our preliminary findings show that terrorist designation is negatively associated with terrorist attacks, although the effect only appears in an earlier period.…”
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Nanyang venture formula 1: testing and performance evaluation of formula vehicle under FSAE on-track regime by Yip, Seng Han

“…The author hopes that the findings in this report will prove useful for future generations of NVF cars.…”
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Reversion of catalyst valence states for highly efficient water oxidation by Huang, Xiaolei, Wang, Fenghe, Ma, Lipo, Wang, Jiawei, Zhang, Tianyi, Hao, Xiaoyu, Chi, Xiao, Cheng, Hao, Yang, Ming, Ding, Jun, Ang, Diing Shenp

“…This points to the existence of a low-overpotential electrocatalytic pathway. Guided by this finding, we propose an intermittent electrocatalytic mode, which is able to significantly reduce the OER overpotential by utilizing the low formation energy of changing valence states. …”
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