BACKGROUND Environmental contexts have been shown to predict health behaviours and outcomes either directly or via interaction with individual risk factors. In this paper, we created indexes of socioeconomic disadvantage (SEDI) and socioeconomic advantage (SAI) in Singapore to test the applicability of these concepts in an Asian context. These indices can be used for health service resource all...

PURPOSE To investigate the independent relationship of individual- and area-level socio-economic status (SES) with the presence and severity of visual impairment (VI) in an Asian population. METHODS Cross-sectional data from 9993 Chinese, Malay and Indian adults aged 40-80 years who participated in the Singapore Epidemiology of eye Diseases (2004-2011) in Singapore. Based on the presenting vi...

We have developed a new formalism to evaluate the gas-phase mobility of an ion based on elastic scattering on an electronic density isosurface ~SEDI!. In this method, the ion is represented by a surface of arbitrary shape defined as a set of points in space where the total electron density assumes a certain value. This value is the only adjustable parameter in the model. Conceptually, this trea...

A novel endophytic actinomycete, designated strain NEAU-LZS-5(T), was isolated from the leaf of candelabra aloe (Aloe arborescens Mill) and characterized using a polyphasic approach. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that strain NEAU-LZS-5(T) belongs to the genus Streptomyces and exhibited 99.51 and 97.37 % similarity to Streptomyces sedi YIM 65188(T) and Streptomyces specialis GW41...

BACKGROUND Early childhood is recognised as a key developmental phase with implications for social, academic, health and wellbeing outcomes in later childhood and indeed throughout the adult lifespan. Community level data on inequalities in early child development are therefore required to establish the impact of government early years' policies and programmes on children's strengths and vulner...