From care diamond to care pentagon : private companies and childcare provisions in Singapore. by Lee, Gabriel Heng Bin.

“…Finally, this study concludes by suggesting that the institutional support structures that support care provisions for children, in the Singapore context, should be re-conceptualized from a structure resembling a diamond, as suggested by Ochiai (2009: 69), to that resembling a pentagon (i.e comprising private organizations, the State, the market, the family and the community).…”
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Dialogue : visual conversations inspired by Islamic geometry by Iffah Dahiyah Poniman

“…The research was spurred by the meanings of geometry by Keith Critchlow on the Circle (1), the Square (4), the Pentagon (5) and the hexagon (6). During the research, I’ve managed to visualise the expansion and continuation of the geometry that is inspired by beauty of Creation as depicted by Islam, from a common source--- the Origin, also metaphorically represented by the circle.…”
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Image processing for monitoring obstructive sleep apnea by Chan, Wei Kiat.

“…Simple square images were used to replicate the pharyngeal regions and the program was able to detect the required images as requested by the author. 7 images (consisting of squares, pentagon, triangles, and irregular geometries) are used to test the performance of the program. …”
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Experimental investigation of surface characterization of thin liquid layers on a solid substrate under different heating processes by Habeeb Mohamed Mohamed Khalifa

“…New types of cells which include square-like and “3D pentagonal-like” shapes are observed. In Phase 6, the Si oil only dissolves in the micelles and hence fails to give pattern when the SDS concentration is more than 5 times higher than CMC when small quantity of SDS solution is used. …”
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