Use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: nested case-control studies using the QResearch and CPRD databases by Vinogradova, Y, Coupland, C, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…In recent oestrogen only users, between three (in younger women) and eight (in older women) extra cases per 10 000 women years would be expected, and in oestrogen-progestogen users between nine and 36 extra cases per 10 000 women years. …”

A survey on family reading by Low, Eik Sin.

“…This study on the current family reading practices by parents and caregivers who visit the public libraries under the National Library Board system and Community Children's Libraries in Singapore, specifically investigated the following: (i) the practice of parent-child reading for children aged 12 years old and below, and especially for the pre-school group below 7 years old (ii) the profiles of non-reading families. …”
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Unveiling optimal car alarm’s sound pressure level (SPL) for effective alerting of drivers on locked children in cars: Insights from a physical survey. by Murali, R., Shahriman, A. B., Mohamed, M., Razlan, Z. M., H. Rani, M. F., Abashah, A., Ahmad, Y., A.Ali, M. H., Sunan, S., Khudzari, J.

“…It was found that a minimum SPL of the car alarm of 79.841 dBA and 83.179 dBA is required to effectively alert drivers for age group 1 (17-26 years) and age group 2 (27-36 years), respectively. …”
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The relationship between leisure time physical activity patterns, Alzheimer’s disease markers and cognition by James, S, Sudre, CH, Barnes, J, Cash, DM, Chiou, Y, Coath, W, Keshavan, A, Lu, K, Malone, I, Murray-Smith, H, Nicholas, JM, Orini, M, Parker, T, Almeida-Meza, P, Fox, NC, Richards, M, Schott, JM

“…Findings drawn from 468 participants (49% female) demonstrated a direct association between being active before 50 years old (≤43 years) and throughout life (up to age 69 years), with larger hippocampal volume at age 70 (P < 0.05). …”

Age-hypogamy, emotional intelligence, sexual self-efficacy, and subjective happiness associations by Thomas, Marilyn, Banbury, Samantha, Lusher, Joanne, Chandler, Chris

“…Seventeen women in age-hypogamy relationships had a mean age = 45.86 years (SD = 4.47), and seven women in age-homogamy relationships had a mean age = 42.34 years (SD = 9.04) with an age range for both groups between 25 and 57 years. …”
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中国成年人文化程度与体格指标的长期变化关系 by Tan, Y, Shen, Z, Yu, C, Guo, Y, Bian, Z, Pei, P, Du, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Lyu, J, Li, L

“…Both body weight and waist circumference (WC) increased with age. From age 25 years to baseline survey (mean age 45.2±6.5), the mean weight change per 5-year was (1.70±2.63) kg for men and (1.27±2.10) kg for women. …”

Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Glob... by Naghavi, M, Ong, KL, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, R, Dolecek, C, Lacey, BWH

“…For this analysis, 199 new country-years of vital registration cause-of-death data, 5 country-years of surveillance data, 21 country-years of verbal autopsy data, and 94 country-years of other data types were added to those used in previous GBD rounds. …”

Human metapneumovirus in Singapore : epidemiology, fusion-attachment protein interaction and virus-like particle assembly by Loo, Liat Hui

“…At the same time, it was also revealed that this virus had been circulating in the human population for at least 50 years. In the years that followed, an increasing number of research groups began to publish work on various aspects of HMPV. …”
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Software Project Management : With PMI, IEEE-CS, and Agile-SCRUM / by Radaideh, Moh’d A., author 656397, Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Online service) 655461

“…Developed by the author over years of teaching in academia and industry; Offers a blended online learning framework with extra online material (Lectures and Power Point slides) provided by the author; Discusses PMI, IEEE-CS and Agile-SCRUM.…”
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Incidence and mortality rates of 14 site-specific infectious diseases in 10 diverse areas of China: findings from China Kadoorie Biobank, 2006-2018 by Huang, R, Kartsonaki, C, Turnbull, I, Pei, P, Chen, Y, Liu, J, Du, H, Sun, D, Yang, L, Barnard, M, Lv, J, Yu, C, Chen, J, Li, L, Chen, Z, Bragg, F

“…During the 12 years of follow-up, 101,673 participants were hospitalized for any infectious disease. …”

Metastatic pituitary tumors: an institutional case series by Yearley, Alexander G., Chalif, Eric J., Gupta, Saksham, Chalif, Joshua I., Bernstock, Joshua D., Nawabi, Noah, Arnaout, Omar, Smith, Timothy R., Reardon, David A., Laws, Edward R.

“…Median PFS and OS were 0.6 years (range 0.0-2.2) and 1.5 years (range 0.1–9.6) respectively upon development of metastases. …”
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Dietary pattern trajectories in early childhood and their associations with patterns of maternal feeding practices in a multi-ethnic Asian cohort by Appannah, Geeta, Toh, Jia Ying, Lai, Jun Shi, Yong, Heng Yaw, Shariff, Zalilah Mohd, Tint, Mya Thway, Yuan, Wen Lun, Pang, Wei Wei, Godfrey, Keith M., Tan, Kok Hian, Yap, Fabian, Lee, Yung Seng, Eriksson, Johan G., Chong, Mary F. F.

“…Results: Two DPs, namely the ‘healthy’ and ‘less healthy’ were consistently derived at 18 months, 5 and 7 years of age. From each DP, 2 stable DP trajectory groups were further identified between 18 months and 7 years of age. …”
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Thinking people : information, technology, learning by Marshall, Stewart, Hanley, Neil

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Development and communication by Modoux, Alain

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The multimedia computer by Motiwalla, Juzar

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Characteristics of materials used in the writing of Singapore popular history by Narayanan, Rakunathan

“…The median citation age was 27 years and the mean was 42.1 years, with the Price's Index at 14%. …”
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Development of healthcare applications on mobile devices by Lee, Min Yi

“…As high blood pressure gets more common from 30 years of age onwards, and the emerging issue of aging population in Singapore, this project aims to create an Android application for these users. …”
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Oil discoveries and protectionism: role of news effects by Perez-Sebastian, F, Raveh, O, van der Ploeg, F

“…Our empirical results indicate that an oil discovery increases tariffs during pre-production years and decreases tariffs in the years to follow yet to a lesser extent, most notably in capital scarce economies with a relatively dominant tradable sector. …”

The social and cultural implications of cutting edge communications by Javed Jabbar

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Privatisation in Malaysia : an empirical study of financial and operating performance. by Tang, Yuen Kin.

“…The results of this study are generally robust when the author analyses the full sample for a longer study period of 11 years, the specific sample of firms with comprehensive data for the full 7 years, and the smaller sample of firms in which the government held more than 80% shareholding prior to privatisation. …”
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