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Wei Yim Yap

- Verified email at suss.edu.sg - Cited by 1709

Wei Hsum Yap

- Verified email at taylors.edu.my - Cited by 1362

Climate variability and change in the United States: potential impacts on vector-and rodent-borne diseases.

DJ Gubler, P Reiter, KL Ebi, W Yap… - Environmental health …, 2001 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Diseases such as plague, typhus, malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever, transmitted between
humans by blood-feeding arthropods, were once common in the United States. Many of …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging for suspected appendicitis

JL Old, RW Dusing, W Yap, J Dirks - American family physician, 2005 - aafp.org
Acute appendicitis is the most common reason for emergency abdominal surgery and must
be distinguished from other causes of abdominal pain. Family physicians play a valuable …

[HTML][HTML] Formononetin: a review of its anticancer potentials and mechanisms

…, CK Chan, SL Hong, KG Chan, WH Yap… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cancer, a complex yet common disease, is caused by uncontrolled cell division and abnormal
cell growth due to a variety of gene mutations. Seeking effective treatments for cancer is a …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome in critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome

…, KM Kwan, Y Chan, CF Yim, SL Bek, AC Kor, WS Yap… - Jama, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
ContextSevere acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging infectious disease with a
25% incidence of progression to acute lung injury (ALI)/acute respiratory distress syndrome (…

Microparticles bearing encephalitogenic peptides induce T-cell tolerance and ameliorate experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

…, DP McCarthy, RL Terry, ZN Hunter, WT Yap… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Aberrant T-cell activation underlies many autoimmune disorders, yet most attempts to induce
T-cell tolerance have failed. Building on previous strategies for tolerance induction that …

A biodegradable nanoparticle platform for the induction of antigen-specific immune tolerance for treatment of autoimmune disease

Z Hunter, DP McCarthy, WT Yap, CT Harp, DR Getts… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
… The particles were then resuspended in a 20 mL solution of 3% (w/v) aqueous d-mannitol
and 4% (w/v) aqueous sucrose, gradually frozen to −80 C, and lyophilized to dryness. …

Competition dynamics between container ports in East Asia

WY Yap, JSL Lam - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper unveils the competitive dynamics between the major container ports in East Asia
by analyzing their extent and intensity. Time series data, with the longest series dating back …

Distinct Types of rRNA Operons Exist in the Genome of the Actinomycete Thermomonospora chromogena and Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of an Entire rRNA …

WH Yap, Z Zhang, Y Wang - Journal of bacteriology, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
We describe here the presence of two distinct types of rRNA operons in the genome of a
thermophilic actinomycete Thermomonospora chromogena. The genome of T. chromogena …

Transforming conventional teaching classroom to learner-centred teaching classroom using multimedia-mediated learning module

WL Yap - International journal of information and education …, 2016 - eprints.intimal.edu.my
There are higher education institutions in Malaysia which at the stage of transforming from
teacher-centred teaching in the classroom to a more learner-centred teaching environment. …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering dehydrated amino acid residues in the antimicrobial peptide nisin.

OP Kuipers, HS Rollema, WM Yap, HJ Boot… - Journal of Biological …, 1992 - Elsevier
… , 10 pmol each primer,2.5 pl of stabilizer (1% W-1, Bethesda of Research Laboratories), and
covered … Without nisin addition, the final AO values were about W, 1.2 for M. flauus, 0.5 for S. …