Sporotrichosis: an update on epidemiology and in vitro antifungal susceptibilities of Sporothrix schenckii isolated from humans and cats in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Selvarajah, Gayathri Thevi, Santhanam, Jacinta, Mah, Elizebeth, James, Jasper Elvin, Abdul Razak, Mohd Fuat, Selvakumar, Raja Rajeswari, Al-Shaibani, Muhanna M.

“…A total of 67 culture positive sporotrichosis cases were recorded from 2015-2018 at three Klang Valley hospitals, with a majority in the 19-30 years age group. Association with felines represent the highest (47.76%) risk factor for sporotrichosis. …”
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Measuring Sustainability of Takaful Performance in Malaysia by Che Arshad, Noraziah, Irijanto, Tubagus Thresna

“…Secondary data that was collected in this research comes from the annual financial report (balance sheet and income statements) of Takaful companies; and the World Bank Indicator for gross domestic product per capita and inflationfor years 2011 to 2019. The method employed in this study is Panel Data Regression. …”
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Modelling Framework of Regulatory Changes to Improve Efficiency of Malaysian IPO Market (S/O 14203) by Mohd Rashid, Rasidah, Abdul Rahim, Ruzita, Hwei, Khaw Lee, Tajuddin, Ahmad Hakimi, Che Yahya, Norliza

“…The study uses cross-sectional data over 16 years from 2000 to 2016. It uses ordinary least squares for the baseline model and incorporates an interaction term, quantile regression, quadratic term, break test and logit regression model for further analysis. …”
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Modelling Framework of Regulatory Changes to Improve Efficiency of Malaysian IPO Market (S/O 14203) by Mohd Rashid, Rasidah, Abdul Rahim, Ruzita, Hwei, Khaw Lee, Tajuddin, Ahmad Hakimi, Che Yahya, Norliza

“…The study uses cross-sectional data over 16 years from 2000 to 2016. It uses ordinary least squares for the baseline model and incorporates an interaction term, quantile regression, quadratic term, break test and logit regression model for further analysis. …”
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Towards robust sensing and recognition : from statistical learning to transfer learning by Yang, Jianfei

“…Secondly, current domain adaptation methods require careful manual hyper-parameter tuning, which is not realistic for unmanned systems such as smart cars. To stabilize the training of adversarial domain adaptation, Max-margin Domain-Adversarial Training (MDAT) is developed in this thesis to realize stable convergence without cumbersome manuals. …”
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Genetic and observational associations of nuclear magnetic resonance-measured lipid-related traits and atherosclerotic cardiovascular mortality in the Mexico City Prospective Study by Wang, Y

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> 107,504 eligible participants aged 35-84 years were included in the main analyses (33% male; mean [SD] age, 51 [12] years). …”

Epidemiology of endometriosis in women of Arab ancestry by Mousa, M

“… (2) The average diagnostic delay was 11.61 years, with single women experiencing 15.81 years of diagnosis delay. …”

Principles : Life and Work / by Dalio, Ray, author 656003, Simon & Schuster (Online service) 656004

“…Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals. …”
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Laser-based 3D printing using bessel beams for tissue engineering applications by Liew, Andy Wen Loong

“…This has led to the development of a variety of vascularization techniques in recent years. In this dissertation, a laser-based 3D printing technique using Bessel Beams was studied for applications in tissue engineering. …”
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Understanding the viral protein structures of clinically relevant arboviruses and fragment-based screening for antivirals by Farhana Abu Bakar

“…In recent years, antiviral drug discovery has increasingly relied on the use of high-resolution structural information of important viral proteins and have led to the development of potent inhibitors. …”
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Adiposity and metabolic health in Asian populations: an epidemiological study using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry in Singapore by Mina, Theresia, Xie, Wubin, Low, Dorrain Yanwen, Wang, Xiaoyan, Lam, Benjamin Chih Chiang, Sadhu, Nilanjana, Ng, Hong Kiat, Nur-Azizah Aziz, Tong, Terry Yoke Yin, Kerk, Swat Kim, Choo, Wee Lin, Low, Guo Liang, Halimah Ibrahim, Lim, Liming, Tai, E Shyong, Wansaicheong, Gervais, Dalan, Rinkoo, Yew, Yik Weng, Elliott, Paul, Riboli, Elio, Loh, Marie, Ngeow, Joanne, Lee, Eng Sing, Lee, Jimmy, Best, James, Chambers, John

“…The Health for Life in Singapore (HELIOS) Study is a population-based cohort comprising multiethnic Asian men and women living in Singapore, aged 30–84 years. We performed a cross-sectional analysis of data from individuals who had assessment of body composition by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry and metabolic characterisation. …”
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Translating local science fiction as social critique : a case study of Auspicium Melioris Aevi by Lee, Ying Jing

“…Although science fiction has traditionally been considered merely as a form of “popular fiction” with little literary value, this genre has gained greater recognition in recent years for its socio-political imagination and speculation of future problems in a postmodern world. …”
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中国成年人血浆酰基肉碱和胆汁酸水平与冠心病发病风险的关联研究 by Zhiyu, W, Shuyao, S, Yu, C, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Chen, J, Chen, ZM, Lv, J, Li, L, Yuanjie, P

“…<p><b>Results</b> The mean age of the participants was (53.1±9.8) years and 754 were males (34.9%). During (10.5±0.1) years of follow-up, 140 cases of CHD were recorded. …”

Canadians' opinions towards COVID-19 data-sharing: a national cross-sectional survey by Savić Kallesøe, SA, Rabbani, T, Gill, EE, Brinkman, F, Griffiths, EJ, Zawati, M, Liu, H, Palmour, N, Joly, Y, Hsiao, WWL

“…Generally supportive Canadians were characterised as being ≥50 years, with higher education, and being vaccinated against COVID-19 at least once. …”

Strategies to increase response rate and reduce non-response bias in population health research: a series of randomised controlled trials during a large COVID-19 study by Atchison, CJ, Gilby, N, Pantelidou, G, Clemens, S, Pickering, K, Chadeau-Hyam, M, Ashby, D, Barclay, WS, Cooke, G, Darzi, A, Riley, S, Donnelly, C, Ward, H, Elliott, P

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> Over 19 rounds, a random sample of individuals aged 5 years and older from the general population in England were invited by mail to complete an online questionnaire and return a swab for SARS-CoV-2 testing. …”

Childlessness and its associated factors among Chinese women: a nationwide population-based study by Han, Q, Dang, J, Wu, Y, Ye, W

“…A total of 10,802 women across mainland China who were (or had been) married were included, of whom 5,885 were of reproductive age (20–49 years) and 4,917 of post-reproductive age (≥ 50 years). …”

Individual differences in the effects of physical activity on classroom behaviour by Heemskerk, CHHM, Sumatic, M, Strand, S, Malmberg, L-E

“…</p> <p><strong>Method:</strong> Data was collected from 76 primary school-aged children (<em>M</em> age = 9.3 years, <em>SD</em> = 0.7 years; 46 females). The PE lesson intervention followed a 3 (intensity: low, medium, high) by 2 (complexity: low, high) within-person design. …”

Recurrent urinary tract infections and prophylactic antibiotic use in women: cross-sectional study by Sanyaolu, L, Best, V, Cannings-John, R, Wood, F, Edwards, A, Akbari, A, Hayward, G, Ahmed, H

“…</p> <p><strong>Method</strong> The characteristics of women aged ≥18 years with rUTIs or using prophylactic antibiotics from 2010 to 2020, and associated urine culture results from 2015 to 2020, are described.…”

Estimating risk factor time paths among people with Type 2 Diabetes and QALY gains from risk factor management by Gao, N, Dakin, HA, Holman, RR, Lim, L-L, Leal, J, Clarke, P

“…UKPDS-OM2-derived lifetime QALYs were extrapolated over 70 years using historical and the new risk factor equations.…”

Using QALYs as an outcome for assessing global prediction accuracy in diabetes simulation models by Dakin, H, Gao, N, Leal, J, Holman, RR, Tran-Duy, A, Clarke, P

“…<p><strong>Objectives:</strong> (1) To demonstrate the use of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) as an outcome&nbsp;measure for comparing performance between simulation models and identifying the most&nbsp;accurate model for economic evaluation and health technology assessment. …”