The greening of the offshore and marine industry. by Wee, Shi Hao., Leong, Pei Ling., Kong, Justin Jude Tse Sen.

“…Lastly, green alliances form the stepping stones towards global citizenship and eventually a sustainable business model as pro-active and integrative approaches are taken.…”
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Biodegradable antenna on fiber-based substrate by Tan, Yun Xian

“…This will be a stepping-stone to future research, which if successful, will be beneficial to the healthcare industry.…”
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Analysis of strategies in translating idiomatic expressions from English into Malay by Farah Syazana Suhaimi

“…Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. This study employs quantitative and descriptive quantitative methodologies and defines an idiom as a multiword expression that are either pure or semi idioms whose meaning and use are conventional, and contain at least one nominal element which functions as a noun. …”
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The 'Clisurean' finds from Climente II cave, Iron Gates, Romania by Bonsall, C, Boroneanţ, A, Evatt, A, Soficaru, A, Nica, C, Bartosiewicz, L, Cook, G, Higham, TFG, Pickard, C

“…Human remains were recovered from contexts identified as ‘Clisurean’ (Final Epigravettian), along with ca 6000 chipped stone artifacts, bone tools including awls, arrowheads and a fragment of a harpoon, and shell and animal tooth ornaments. …”

Causal inference in health and disease: a review of the principles and applications of Mendelian randomization by Lovegrove, CE, Howles, SA, Furniss, D, Holmes, MV

“…Using the example of serum phosphate concentrations on liability to kidney stone disease we illustrate how MR estimates may be visualized and, finally, we contextualize MR in bone and mineral research including exemplifying how this technique could be employed to inform clinical studies and future guidelines concerning BMD and fracture risk. …”

Gender equality or employment promotion? The politicization of parental leave policy in Finland by Nygard, Mikael, Nyby, Josefine, Kuisma, Mikko

“…The road towards this reform was not entirely uncontroversial, and one stumble stone was different interpretations of the meaning of gender equality. …”
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Managing age diversity in Singapore SMEs : exploring employees' perceptions towards younger and older workers. by Ng, Vivian Shi Ying., Low, Angela Hui Qing., Yue, Samantha Si Min.

“…Originality/value – This research acts as a stepping stone for future research about how to better manage age diversity in SMEs. …”
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Tunable three dimensional scaffolds for tissue engineering applications by Loh, Qiu Li.

“…Overall, the current study provides new insights into the role of the 3D physical environment in determining cellular function, and is a stepping stone towards the development of instructive scaffolds with tunable properties post-fabrication for tissue engineering applications.…”
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Platform development for control of induction machine (Part II control algorithm verification) by Kang, Jia Yi

“…In this project the VVVF method will be used in verifying whether the software control algorithm for VVVF and the hardware constructed could be successfully integrated and will act as a stepping stone for the future implementation of the close loop algorithm.…”
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A monstrous text : an exploration of genre in the Harry Potter novels by Vanderstraaten Vanessa Ann

“…When Bloomsbury published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 1997, Joanne Kathleen Rowling began a whirlwind, rags-to-riches tale of her own. …”
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Reverse mathematics in lattice theory by Ru, Junren

“…The first such representation theorem is Stone’s Representation Theorem, which states that every Boolean algebra is isomorphic to a certain field of sets. …”
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Machine health monitoring using local feature-based gated recurrent unit networks by Zhao, Rui, Wang, Dongzhe, Yan, Ruqiang, Mao, Kezhi, Shen, Fei, Wang, Jinjiang

“…The numerical representation for raw sensory data is the key stone for various successful MHMS. Conventional methods are the labor-extensive as they usually depend on handcrafted features, which require expert knowledge. …”
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Dynamic properties of high-Tc superconducting nano-junctions made with a focused helium ion beam by Couëdo, François, Amari, Paul, Feuillet-Palma, Cheryl, Ulysse, Christian, Srivastava, Yogesh Kumar, Singh, Ranjan, Bergeal, Nicolas, Lesueur, Jérôme

“…The Josephson junction (JJ) is the corner stone of superconducting electronics and quantum information processing. …”
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Secondary structure predictor by Kong, Benjamin Xupeng

“…This project aims to be a corner stone for logically dividing a macromolecule into smaller pieces of secondary structures which can be then used as coarse grains for molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. …”
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Anomalous crystalline ordering of particles in a viscoelastic fluid under high shear by Sun, Sijie, Xue, Nan, Aime, Stefano, Kim, Hyoungsoo, Tang, Jizhou, McKinley, Gareth H., Stone, Howard A., Weitz, David A.

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Livin' on a prayer : carving spaces of faith in Singapore by Pillai, H Sharanya, Lim, Paige Ying Hui, Kamil, Noor Asyraf, Pang, Xue Qiang

“…The 350m-long Telok Ayer Street also hosts a temple, mosque and church – all a stone’s throw from each other. According to a study by the Pew Research Center in 2014, Singapore is the most religiously diverse country in the world. …”
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Bibliometric visualization analysis of 'World Heritage' topic in web of science database using citespace by Wang, Suhua, Mohd Isa, Norliza, Li, Lintong, Shi, Keyi

“…Despite China ranking second in document publications, there is a need for increased international collaboration. (3) The most influential keywords include "Community", "The Great Barrier Reef" and "Managing World Heritage". (4) Heritage tourism, encompassing satisfaction, motivation, loyalty, and place attachment, emerges as the largest keyword cluster in the field of world heritage. (5) Recent research trends and hotspots include "Risk", "Building", "Intention", "Support", and "Stone". The research results provide a more comprehensive and systematic overview perspective for the world heritage field, which fills the gap and promotes the knowledge pursuit in the world heritage field.…”
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Electrochemical polymerase chain reaction using electroactive graphene oxide nanoparticles as detection labels by Ang, Wei Li, Seah, Xin Yun, Koh, Puay Ching, Caroline, Caroline, Bonanni, Alessandra

“…This work will serve as a stepping stone for the development of a robust, efficient, and portable electrochemical PCR system, with a reduced cost considering the wide availability and suitability of carbon nanomaterials for mass production, and the cost-effective electrochemical detection.…”
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High-precision large-range optical fiber interferometric piezometer and its wideband interferometry for water pressure measurement by Wang, Shun, Yang, Yaowen, Cao, Jiyin, Zhang, Liang, Mohanty, Lipi, Jin, Rui-Bo, Li, Kaiwei

“…The EFPI forms a sealed chamber with only the outer plane of the aluminum alloy plate being subjected to the water pressure through another hydraulic chamber with a standard filter stone. The deformation of the metal plate is analyzed and simulated for parameter optimization by using the small deflection theory. …”
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Effect of nano-silica on the mechanical properties of LWC by Nashat, Alghrairi, Abd Aziz, Farah Nora Aznieta, Abdul Rashid, Suraya, Mohamed, Mohd Zuhri, Mohammed Ibrahim, Amer

“…The study findings highlight that the utilization of lightweight Iraqi porcelanite stone resulted in a one-third reduction in the weight of standard concrete. …”
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