Information sensorium as a framework to read images: an interdisciplinary investigation on “reading images” using the Wayfarer Triptych by Jheronimus Bosch as a case study by Sum, Hedren Wai Yuan

“…It sought to address three main questions: How do scholars read images in paintings over time? How can a digital archive system be designed to guide users to read images online? …”
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The user experience of historical world maps in web-based systems. A selection of fifteenth-century world maps of Afro-Eurasia as a showcase by Liu, Danyun

“…Yet, there is a dearth of research concerning enhancing the user experience of scholarly users and casual users who access online resources to find better solutions to traditional questions and generate new insights. …”
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Re-animating the script : an exploration of new directions in calligraphic animation with reference to the kinesthetic, plasmatic and transformative qualities of Islamic calligraph... by Mohammad Javad Khajavi

“…These qualities can inform both artistic exploration of calligraphy and scholars’ understanding of temporal events in visual time-based media, specifically calligraphic animation. …”
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Serial engagements : viewer allegiance and contemporary crime television by Mani, Saravanan

“…Despite the many technological advancements, formal experiments, and narrative innovations over the past 70 years, TV texts are still treated collectively as passive, distracting, and distracted entertainment that bears little value for their viewers. Cultural studies scholars positioned TV as mass media in the 1970s, without differentiating the individual texts and their narrative constructions. …”
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Fear-based health messages for Malay diabetes patients in Singapore by Kawaja, Ariffin

“…Among the non-clinical intervention programmes, scholarly articles suggest that emotion-based health messages can be a powerful driver to promote health preservation attitudes and behaviours. …”
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Patterns of "reason": Spinoza and the Cheng brothers on understanding the one and the many by Simionato, Alice

“…Since the Jesuits brought to Europe the first Latin translations of Chinese Confucian texts in the 17th century, scholars have attempted to interpret foreign ideas through the lenses of familiar ones by associating the Neo-Confucian tradition to the thought of the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. …”
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The history of Nguyễn Vietnam-Singapore trade, 1820-1847 by Cao, Thi Van

“…Nguyễn Vietnam’s overseas trade with the Nanyang in the precolonial period, nevertheless, has received little attention from scholars, which leaves a feeling that Vietnam’s commerce with the other Southeast Asian countries was insignificant. …”
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An account of spontaneity in the Zhuangzi by Nord-Bronzyk, Alexa

“…The concept of spontaneity has appeared as a perennial theme in much of the scholarly research on the Zhuangzi. Aspects of spontaneity appear through concepts such as ziran 自然, wuwei 無為, and you 遊, fictional stories, and metaphors. …”
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Conceptualising objectification: examining objectification antecedents and effects on outgroup perceptions by Ho, Jack Yong

“…Overall, by providing clarity on objectification’s factors, explaining how attitudes might be shaped by the power of objectified social outgroups, as well as show the influence of stereotypes in facilitating objectification, this thesis advances conceptual and theoretical understandings of objectification, expands research applications and provides implications for communication scholars and practitioners interested in the framing and representations of social groups in the media.…”
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Essays on the emerging market platform's performance and internationalization by Li, Yang

“…Although the emergence of platforms has attracted significant attention from scholars across various disciplines, existing platform studies provide little insight into the platforms that originated from emerging markets. …”
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Making the illness experience visible: a participatory photography project with cancer survivors in Singapore by Zuccarelli, Marina

“…As the inherent characteristics of photography, widely discussed by scholars such as Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Margaret Iversen and Vilelm Flusser, offer a conceptual framework to guide critical consideration, I have further explored the potential of the medium to facilitate specific acknowledgment and profound expression of personal concerns through images. …”
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「過」、「咎」之用：對《周易》「過」、「咎」之詮釋及論其對《周易》道德哲學的揭示 = The use of "guo" and "jiu": an interpretation of guo and jiu in the Yijing and its moral implications... by 江復心 Kong, Solsar

“…It is an independent and innovative research that attempts to bracket certain assumptions about the Yijing adopted by later scholars and articulate the moral philosophy of the Yijing in a systematic way that is maximally devoid of later assumptions. …”
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Intensive parenting for success : a study of new Chinese immigrants in Singapore by Wang, Jun

“…My study contributes to the scholarly literature on immigrant education by going beyond the debate between structuralists and culturalists. …”
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Chinese writing in English: nation, representation, and identity in Chinese immigrant writers' literature,1980-2020 by Lu, Qianting

“…Each wave offers an aspect – historically, allegorically, and individually – that locates the ways in which Chinese immigrant writers reshape, challenge, and negotiate with the idea of “Chineseness”, a concept that scholars from diaspora studies have been wrestling with for decades. …”
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Role conceptions and alliances: explaining U.S. Asia-Pacific allies' policy alignment with the United States over the South China Sea by Wang, Shuqi

“…Based on primary and secondary sources, including official documents, high-ranking officials’ remarks, publicised databases, and interviews with policy analysts and scholars, this study conducts cross-national controlled comparisons that assess the most similar cases following the “congruence method.” …”
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Gendering migration in Asia : a case study of Chinese female migrant workers in Singapore by Yang, Wei

“…The conclusion chapter summarizes the significance of this study and calls for more scholarly attention to this understudied group of migrant women. …”
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Essays on state capacity, governance and public good by Manchanda, Stuti

“…While patterns in growth are often traced to differences in institutions, political agents who steer these institutions have also attracted much scholarly attention recently. Politics has witnessed a rise in participation of legislators with criminal backgrounds. …”
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经验、想象与记忆 ： 解严后的台北地景书写 = Experience, memory and imagination : rewriting Taipei landscape in post-martial law era by 陈晞哲 Tan, Xi Zhe

“…This thesis aims to go beyond the binary thinking (Mainlander/Taiwanese) of scholars in China and Taiwan, to examine the flow and shift of "Chineseness" and "Taiwan Consciousness" in Taipei writings from another country’s perspective. …”
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China's rural land transfer: land institutions, trans-local livelihoods, and agrarian capital by Chen, Xingyan

“…Land transfer in China has neither, as many modernization theorists believed, accelerated the pace towards urbanization, nor has it behaved as the voracious beast that critical agrarian scholars warn of, threatening to annex land and severely compromise the interests of the peasantry.…”
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A Xunzian theory of moral cultivation: a critique of situationism and a reconstruction of the ethics in the Xunzi by Hu, Jianping

“…Based on their readings of some social psychological experiments, Doris and Harman argue that moral behavior is mostly influenced or even determined by external situations instead of character traits. Scholars of virtue ethics, personality psychology, education, and Chinese philosophy contribute to the character-situation debate from various perspectives. …”
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