Use of co-cultivation method to stimulate the production of antimicrobial natural products from mangrove microorganisms by Tan, Jin Wei

“…Cryptic gene clusters from actinomycetes are suspected to harbor potential in producing bioactive products, and in this study, co-cultivation is utilized to stimulate these cryptic gene clusters in novel antibiotics production. 10 actinomycete strains isolated from Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve were co-cultured with Mycobacterium Abscessus and Asperigillus Westerdijikiae in two liquid mediums, Glucose-Yeast extract-Malt extract (GYM) and Minimum Media (MM). …”
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Discovery of novel antifungal drugs through the inhibition of the Shikimate pathway by T Niraj

“…The Malassezia DAHPS sequence was derived using BLAST. MD simulations were carried out for DAHPS using GROMACS. …”
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Our sub-universe, the wider universe, and their properties by Ng, Yew-Kwang

“…The question ‘why is there the wider universe?’ is meaningless or at least does not have an answer. Given the first law of thermodynamics, something must have existed for ever. …”
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Process development for moving mechanical assemblies by Tay, Beng Kang

“…They range in size from the millimeter level to the submicron level, usually with a moving or suspended part, and integrated together with at least some electronic circuitry. …”
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On a problem of El-Zahar and Erdős by Nguyen, T, Scott, A, Seymour, P

“…First, a strengthening: we can ask for one of the two subgraphs to have large chromatic number: that is, for all <i>t</i>, <i>c</i> ≥ 1 there exists <i>d</i> ≥ 1 such that if <i>G</i> has chromatic number at least <i>d</i>, and does not contain the complete graph <i>K_t</i> as a subgraph, then there are anticomplete subgraphs <i>A</i>, <i>B</i>, where <i>A</i> has minimum degree at least <i>c</i> and <i>B</i> has chromatic number at least <i>c</i>.…”

Use of bamboo in construction by Quek, Ming Hui.

“…Access to safe and healthy shelter is essential to a person, for it is a fundamental need. Currently, at least one billion people do not have access to safe and healthy shelter and the number will continue to increase if no appropriate action is taken. …”
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Consumers' perception of organic food in Singapore : now and future by Ng, Mee Eng, Leung, Kum Ping, Ang, Poey Hoon

“…Overall, there is general acceptance for Organic Food in Singapore, but we still need to look into areas of availability, labeling, and pricing in order to achieve the same widespread phenomenon of Organic Food in the West.…”
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Pulp friction : southern environment or western agendas? by Bill Durodié

“…In reality, they are facilitated by huge budgets and shaped by agendas emanating from the West.…”
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On the headings and marginal notes in the two Glagolitic psaltermanuscripts in St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai by MacRobert, CM

“…Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai, this article argues that there cannot be a direct copying relationship between the two manuscripts, but that they derive from a common exemplar containing spellings which reflected West Slavic pronunciation.…”

South African real estate investment trusts prefer Tuesdays by Ajayi, Oluwaseun Damilola, Gavu, Emmanuel Kofi

“…Generally, Wednesday was found to be the least profitable day to invest in all REIT classifications because it had the least average daily return. …”
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Early false-belief understanding in traditional non-Western societies by Barrett, H. Clark, Broesch, Tanya, Scott, Rose M., He, Zijing, Baillargeon, Renée, Wu, Di, Bolz, Matthias, Henrich, Joseph, Setoh, Peipei, Wang, Jianxin, Laurence, Stephen

“…Results were comparable with those from the West, supporting the hypothesis that false-belief understanding reflects an adaptation that is universally present early in development.…”
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The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

“…The United States' rebalancing to Asia, initially depicted as a "pivot" to the Pacific, is less a swing away from the Middle East and West Asia than a shift of U.S. focus to East Asia, following the winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. …”
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Optimization Of CIPP Evaluation Model as An Escalation of Educational-Industrial Collaboration Program by Rizal, Fahmi, Verawardina, Unung, Nadawina, Nadia, Sutadji, Eddy, Kuntadi, Iwa, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun

“…This research aims to explore the differing perspectives of universities, vocational schools, and industries in West Sumatra, Bandung, and Malang on the formation of CIPP components. …”
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A regulatory role for repeated decoy transcription factor binding sites in target gene expression by Lee, Tek‐Hyung, Maheshri, Narendra

“…Using a synthetic system in budding yeast, we demonstrate that repeated decoy sites inhibit gene expression by sequestering a transcriptional activator and converting the graded dose–response of target promoters to a sharper, sigmoidal‐like response. …”
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Discovery of stabilized functional mutants of human aquaporin 1 by Soh, Miao Yi

“…A cell-based freeze-thaw functionality assay that was developed by the lab was conducted on yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells transformed with the plasmids to identify the functional mutants, i.e., mutants that express the mutated AQP1 protein that would allow them to exhibit a protective effect in response to rapid freezing. ~ 5% of mutants from a total of 2816 screened from thirty-three 96-well plates were identified after a series of initial and verification screens. …”
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Optimization of carbon and nitrogen sources for phytase production by Mitsuokella jalaludinii, a new rumen bacterial species by Lan, G.Q., Abdullah, N., Jalaludin, S., Ho, Y.W.

“…Methods and Results: Replacement of glucose, cellobiose and starch in MF1 medium by RB or palm kernel cake and replacement of trypticase peptone and yeast extract in the medium by SM or enzymatic digested soybean milk significantly increased the phytase production by M. jalaludinii. …”
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Genes implicated in the storage and the production of energy : bioinformatics approach and application in coral reefs in Singapore. by Seow, Wan Yi.

“…A bioinformatics approach was used to study ATP synthase subunit beta and malonyl-CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase (MCAT), genes implicated in the storage and production of energy. 55 MCAT and 77 ATP synthase subunit beta protein and nucleotide sequences from marine clades were retrieved from the NCBI database using BLAST. Sequences were aligned using ClustalW2 and primers specific to corals and zooxanthellae were designed. …”
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Fire resistance of ECC materials by Sim, Tian Qi

“…With the water/binder ratio constant, variables of the mixes were the Aggregate/Binder ratio, PE-Steel fibres variation, Fly Ash (FA) replacement and Ground Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag (GGBS) replacement. Based on the tensile stress-strain graphs, the mix was chosen. …”
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Terrorism in Europe: a very different kind of threat by Pantucci, Raffaello

“…With the United States reeling from its latest bout of grim mass shootings, what exactly can be concluded from the fact that most terrorist incidents in the West are increasingly indistinguishable from apolitical mass murders?…”
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G-20’s Osaka Summit : What Putin Achieved by Cheang, Chris

“…The G-20 Summit in Osaka on 28-29 June 2019 marked another step towards the gradual weakening of the West’s diplomatic isolation of Russia.…”
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