Molecular insights into evolution, mutations and receptor-binding specificity of influenza A and B viruses from outpatients and hospitalized patients in Singapore by Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius, Zhou, Xinrui, Lau, Suk Hiang, Rashid, Shamima, Teo, Jasmine S. M., Lee, Hong Kai, Koay, Evelyn S., Chan, Kwai Peng, Leo, Yee Sin, Chen, Mark I. Cheng, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Chow, Vincent T.

“…Background: This study compared the genomes of influenza viruses that caused mild infections among outpatients and severe infections among hospitalized patients in Singapore, and characterized their molecular evolution and receptor-binding specificity. …”
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That's Not How We Do It Here! : A Story About How Organizations Rise, Fall - and Can Rise Again / by Kotter, John P., 1947-, author 368412, Rathgeber, Holger, author 507836

“…This book distills Kotter's decades of experi­ence and award-winning research to reveal why organizations rise and fall, and how they can rise again in the face of adversity"--…”

21W.730-2 Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture, Fall 2005 by Boiko, Karen

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Chris Ryan Extreme : Night Strike / by Ryan, Chris, author 329350

“…Shadowed every step of the way by a ruthless CIA hitman, Bald soon finds that the lines between friend and enemy are blurred, and he'll have to call on all his warrior instincts to stay alive...…”

Performance and validation of a digital memory test across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum by Toniolo, S, Attaallah, B, Maio, MR, Tabi, YA, Slavkova, E, Klar, VS, Saleh, Y, Idris, MI, Turner, V, Preul, C, Srowig, A, Butler, C, Thompson, S, Manohar, SG, Finke, K, Husain, M

“…Most digital metrics were able to discriminate between healthy controls and patients with mild cognitive impairment and between mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease patients. …”

Efficacy of inactivated pasteurella multocida against the bacterial infections in broiler chickens by Koh, Sien Ling

“…Severe pneumonia and severe congestion and necrosis of lung parenchyma were also recorded. In contrast, mild hepatitis with mild necrosis and degeneration of hepatocytes and mild pneumonia with mild congestion, degeneration and necrosis at the lung parenchyma were recorded in all the scarified chickens in all group. …”
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents by Ratcliffe, H

“…It also allowed exploration of potential risk factors for COVID-19 seropositivity and the utility of symptom-based indicators of infection.</p> <br> <p>The findings of ‘STORY’ confirm that SARS-CoV-2 infections in children are generally asymptomatic or mild and rarely progress to severe disease and hospitalisation. …”

Enzymatic preparation of diacylglycerols: lipase screening, immobilization, characterization and glycerolysis performance by Xie, Rui, Peng, Xianwu, Lee, Yee-Ying, Xie, Pengkai, Tan, Chin-Ping, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Zhen

“…Backgrounds: Glycerolysis, with its advantages of readily available raw materials, simple operation, and mild reaction conditions, is a primary method for producing diacylglycerol (DAG). …”

Methods for the Study of Galactofuranose in Mycobacteria by Taylor, Katherine I.

“…Finally, we characterized the kinetics of a mild electrophile, the squaric ester, and assessed its utility in selectively binding and modifying a key galactofuranosyl transferase involved in mycobacterial cell wall biosynthesis. …”
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Deep brain stimulation of the hypothalamic region: a systematic review by Mofatteh, M, Mohamed, A, Mashayekhi, MS, Skandalakis, GP, Neudorfer, C, Arfaie, S, MohanaSundaram, A, Sabahi, M, Anand, A, Aboulhosn, R, Liao, X, Horn, A, Ashkan, K

“…Future large-scale studies with long-term follow-up are required to validate the safety and efficacy data and extend these findings.…”

Anisotropic protein diffusion on nanosurface by Liu, Yang, Song, Xiaohan, Yang, Yanmei, Li, Yong-Qiang, Zhao, Mingwen, Mu, Yuguang, Li, Weifeng

“…On the MBP surface, HP35 migrates mainly along the zigzag direction but can also easily stride over the ridges and grooves along the armchair direction. Moreover, the mild binding strength between α-PC and HP35 does not cause distortion in the protein structure. …”
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Factors associated with body weight status and internet addiction among malaysian university students in Penang: mixed method study before and during covid-19 pandemic by Isaac, Nesamalar

“…The level of internet addiction was determined based on Young’s internet addiction self-reported scale, and students were classified as no IA users (0.3%), mild IA users (56.8%), moderate IA users (37.5%), and severe IA users (5.4%). …”
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Computer aided diagnoses for detecting the severity of Keratoconus by Abdullah, Osamah Qays, Boughariou, Aicha, Al-Azawi, Fadia W., Al-Araji, Ahmed Mohammed Khadum Abdulamer, Mehdy, Mehdy Mwaffeq

“…Disease severity was categorized into three stages, namely, mild, moderate, and severe, according to the topographic KC classification by a senior ophthalmologist. …”
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Bifunctional diazirine reagent for covalent dyeing of Kevlar and inert polymer materials by Liu, Richard Y., Luo, Shao-Xiong Lennon, Hirst, Elizabeth S., Doona, Christopher J., Swager, Timothy M.

“…The reagent's structure features a trifluoromethyl diazirine group as a precursor to a carbene that binds the textile surface. On the reagent's other terminus, a benzyl bromide group acts as a site accessible for substitution reactions. …”
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Unveiling perspectives of Islam : seeing through the eyes of Singapore's educated Chinese youths who subscribe to No religion by Nur Ameera Amirrudin

“…Finally, while the negative perceptions of respondents are rather mild, these data reveal that actions should be taken to curb this negativity.…”
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Optimising investigative pathways in military medicine: operational impact of a military cardiopulmonary exercise testing clinic by Holland, JL, Cowie, P, Gardner, L, Mulae, J, Richards, S, Holdsworth, D

“…Individuals were referred for dyspnoea (22.1%), syncope (11.4%), chest pain (8.1%) (referred to as ‘higher risk’ symptom group), and pre-syncope (8.1%), palpitations (8.1%), and fatigue and/or exercise intolerance (6.0%) (referred to as ‘lower risk’ symptom group). 34% were asymptomatic with incidental findings on cardiac screening investigations. Reduced exercise capacity was rare, affecting only 11% of individuals, which was borderline/mild at worst. …”

A correlational study between creative thinking ability and the performance of open-ended science investigations for secondary two female students by Md. Shahrin K.S. Moorthy.

“…The call to teach higher-order thinking skills has prompted science educators to seek new strategies in their instructional programme. …”
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Gaps in Singapore’s 3Ms healthcare safety net : the 4th M – membership. by Koh, Jansen Zhi Xiong., Goh, Shu Jun., Teng, Jessica Shu Jiao.

“…This paper thus aims to evaluate the comprehensiveness of Singapore's existing healthcare safety net of Medisave, Medishield and Medifund -- the 3Ms. Our findings suggest that there are five groups of individuals who still fall through the perceived well-constructed safety net. …”
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Effectiveness of interpretive exhibits in influencing students’ intention in birdwatching activity at a Bird Interpretive Center, Fraser’s Hill, Pahang, Malaysia by Mokhli, Nuraain Amalina

“…The study has shown that the new interpretive intervention exhibit is more effective in influencing students’ affect and intention to participate in birdwatching compared to the existing non-interpretive exhibit at the Bird Interpretive Centre. These findings indicated that the interpretive exhibit developed in this study successfully delivers the messages and the ‘call for action’ and shapes students’ affect and intention based on the objective of the interpretive exhibit.…”
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Resonance modes of tall plasmonic nanostructures and their applications for biosensing by Soehartono, Alana M., Tobing, Landobasa Y. M., Mueller, Aaron D., Yong, Ken-Tye, Zhang, Dao Hua

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