Serological prevalence of leptospiral infection in domestic animals in West Malaysia by Bahaman, A. R., Ibrahim, A. L., Adam, H.

“…The prevalence of infection in pigs was observed to decline during the study period, and it is suspected that pigs in West Malaysia are the maintenance host for serovar pomona whilst cattle are the maintenance host for serovar hardjo. …”
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Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semi-arid woodland by Sultaire, SM, Montgomery, RA, Jackson, PJ, Millspaugh, JJ

“…Despite declines in their established range west of the Pacific Crest in western North America, western gray squirrels are extending their range into the Great Basin, where they were not historically found. …”

Which surrogate insulin resistance indices best predict coronary artery disease? A machine learning approach by Mirjalili, Seyed Reza, Soltani, Sepideh, Meybodi, Zahra Heidari, Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Firouzabadi, Danial Dehghani, Eshraghi, Reza, Restrepo, David, Ghoshouni, Hamed, Sarebanhassanabadi, Mohammadtaghi

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Demography-religion nexus: tipping point for societal norms by Mohammad Alami Musa

“…It can potentially bring a largely conservative Singaporean society to a tipping point where many of its traditional pro-family norms may be undermined, even replaced with secular-liberal norms, leading to a decline in religion. This is not a conjecture. Some countries in the West have crossed such a tipping point.…”
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Shale oil in Russia – commercial catalyst required by Henderson, J

“…As Russia enters a period when oil production from its traditional heartland in West Siberia has plateaued and could go into decline, the search has begun for new sources of output that can help to maintain the country’s output above 10 million barrels per day (mmbpd). …”

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

“…Some, including Absolute Localization Error, also differed significantly between patients with subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment. Identification accuracy was the best predictor of hippocampal atrophy, performing as well as standard screening neuropsychological tests. …”

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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CORPORATE FINANCE : Theory And Practice / by Vernimmen, Pierre, author 257949, Quiry, Pascal, author 403601, Le Fur, Yann, author 617929

A Sustainable System Dynamics Optimization Model for Rice Self-Sufficiency in Malaysia (S/O: 13248) by Hawari, Nurul Nazihah, Zainal Abidin, Norhaslinda, Benjamin, Aida Mauziah, Applanaidu, Shri Dewi

“…These two approaches have been integrated in this research to determine best strategic policies for rice supply sustainability for the unique case in Malaysia. …”
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Temporal disruption in tuberculosis incidence patterns during COVID-19: a time series analysis in China by Zhang, Jiarui, Sun, Zhong, Deng, Qi, Yu, Yidan, Dian, Xingyue, Luo, Juan, Karuppiah, Thilakavathy, Joseph, Narcisse, He, Guozhong

“…The Prophet model demonstrated the best predictive performance and proves to be a valuable tool for analyzing PTB trends and guiding public health planning in the post-pandemic era.…”
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Modelling Malaysia air quality data using Bayesian Structural Time Series models by Aeshah Mohammed, Mohd Aftar Abu Bakar, Mahayaudin M. Mansor, Noratiqah Mohd Ariff

“…The seasonal component showed a repetition of weekly concentration patterns, while the local linear trend component showed a steady decline in PM10 and PM2.5 concentration levels in most stations. …”
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Identifying stakeholders in the land use management process and related critical factors in ASEAN by Tulus Tambunan

“…Involving all people impacted by land is an effective (if not the best) way to reduce the risk of land conflicts, resulting in good Land Use Management (LUM). …”
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Harvest age and planting density effects on yield and quality of two kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus l.) Varieties for fibre and animal feed by Mohammad Yusoff, Masnira

“…This is based on the low decline in crude protein content from 8 to 12 WAP in MHC 123 (18.9 to 17. 2 %) compared to the rapid decline for V 36 (21.7 to 11.3 %). …”
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Flood inundation modeling under stochastic uncertainty by Sun, He.

“…Moreover, it was indicated that the generalized extreme value distribution was the best stochastic distribution for the channel roughness coefficient. …”
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A network-based approach to interpreting pore blockage and cake filtration during membrane fouling by Han, Qi, Li, Weiyi, Trinh, Thien An, Liu, Xin, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Three fouling parameters can be obtained to characterize the fouling behavior, namely, the probabilistic factor for deposition in the dead zone (β), the initial cake resistance (Rc0), and the specific cake resistance with respect to cake thickness (R′c), by best-fitting the experimental flux-decline data to the network model. …”
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Classifying vulnerability to sleep deprivation using baseline measures of psychomotor vigilance by Kwoh, Chee Keong, Gooley, Joshua J., Patanaik, Amiya, Chua, Eric C. P., Chee, Michael W. L.

“…These results demonstrate the utility of drift diffusion modeling of baseline performance in estimating vulnerability to psychomotor vigilance decline following sleep deprivation. Citation: Patanaik A, Kwoh CK, Chua EC, Gooley JJ, Chee MW. …”
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A longitudinal qualitative study on lived experience of oral cancer patients during covid-19 pandemic in khyber pakhtunkhwa Pakistan by Khattak, Maria Ishaq

“…Oral cancer health experiences are profound and complex for patients even at the best of times. There is, however, little knowledge of how oral cancer patient’s health experiences may alter and develop in response to the COVID-19 pandemic's changing environment. …”
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Investigation of indoor thermal comfort and energy demand in different locations along the sub-Himalayan belt - a simulation based study by Thapa, Samar, Zaki, Sheikh Ahmad

“…Additionally, it was seen that the thermal environment and comfort both declined more rapidly with elevation in the locations lying in the western Himalayas as compared to those in the eastern Himalayas.…”

Predicting glaucoma progression using deep learning framework guided by generative algorithm by Hussain, Shaista, Chua, Jacqueline, Wong, Damon, Lo, Justin, Kadziauskiene, Aiste, Asoklis, Rimvydas, Barbastathis, George, Schmetterer, Leopold, Yong, Liu

“…We showed that our generative model-based novel approach can achieve the best AUC of 0.83 for predicting the progression 6 months earlier. …”
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Critical events detection and management in complex networks by Yu, Yi

“…We study the problem of finding the best locations of a given number of monitors in the network to minimize the worst-case infection size of a strong infection. …”
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