Quasi-Biennial Oscillation by Wang, Y, Rao, J, Ju, Z, Osprey, SM

“…The QBO can affect the climate in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres through at least three dynamic pathways, including the stratospheric polar vortex pathway, the subtropical downward-arching zonal wind pathway, and the tropical convection pathway. …”

Life satisfaction and work-life balance: the complexities of gender patterning by Brooks, R, Fu, J, Maire, M

“…Conventionally, issues connected to work–life balance have been thought to concern women more than men – not least through the promotion of a strongly gendered discourse about the imperative to become a ‘balanced woman’. …”

Receiver design for the REACH global 21-cm signal experiment by Roque, ILV, Razavi-Ghods, N, Carey, SH, Ely, JA, Handley, W, Magro, A, Chiello, R, Huang, T, Alexander, P, Anstey, D, Bernardi, G, Bevins, HTJ, Cavillot, J, Croukamp, W, Cumner, J, de Lera Acedo, E, de Villiers, DIL, Fialkov, A, Gessey-Jones, T, Gueuning, Q, Josaitis, AT, Kulkarni, G, Leeney, SAK, Maiolino, R, Zarb-Adami, K

“…Following this, we share laboratory results based on the calculation of noise wave parameters utilising an over-constrained least squares approach. For five hours of integration on a custom-made source with comparable impedance to that of the antenna used in the field, we demonstrate a calibration RMSE of 80 mK. …”

Secularization versus religious revival in Eastern Europe: Church institutional resilience, state repression and divergent paths by Northmore-Ball, K, Evans, G

“…We argue that the current literature has thus taken a mistakenly general approach, and that the post-Communist region consists of at least two distinct groups of societies with different trends in religiosity.…”

Self-Assembly of a Biologically Plausible Learning Circuit by Liao, Qianli, Ziyin, Liu, Gan, Yulu, Cheung, Brian, Harnett, Mark, Poggio, Tomaso

“…Over the last four decades, the amazing success of deep learning has been driven by the use of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as the main optimization technique. …”
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Past, present and future relationship between air and sea freight services in Singapore : competition or complementarity by Choo, Cai Ling, Huang, Pauline Jierui, Oh, Adeline Ying Ling

“…The complementary relationship of air and sea freight transport is discussed using the sea-air freight mode as well as by looking at JIT concept from an alternative perspective. In the last section, the report touches on the future outlook on the size of aircrafts and containerships, new technology, fuel prices, and the future economic development which will affect the future relationship of both the freight transport modes in Singapore.…”
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Infant learning platform using Arduino (project 2) by Xie, Shiqi

“…The summary and future work are concluded in the last section of the report. The recorded FYP Demonstration video is presented in Appendix C.…”
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​Revisiting soft power : 2019 rankings​ by Gopalan, Sasidaran, Park, Seung Ho

“…Quantifying soft power remains a formidable challenge despite the proliferation of academic and policy literature published in the last three decades. The Nanyang Centre for Emerging Markets (CEM) addresses that challenge by constructing a soft power index and applying it to the world’s Emerging Markets (EMs). …”
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Confronting the “seeker of newspaper notoriety” : pathological lying, the public, and the press, 1890–1920 by Clark, Justin T.

“…This article explores the origins of the diagnosis and its cultural importance as an explanation for the perceived prevalence of false reporting, unverifiable accusation, and manufactured “news fakes” in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, intensifying competition for scoops and an increase in libel suits prompted experts and the public to search for the origins of a perceived “epidemic of exaggeration.” …”
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Demonstration of attacks on SSL-TLS protocols by Iyer Rajagopal Mahadevan

“…It is used to secure communication between two parties across the internet ensuring the principles of identification, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity. Over the last decade there have been multiple attacks on SSL-TLS in order to break the encryption and obtain the sensitive information that was encrypted. …”
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The Chinese expansion and language coexistence in Modern China by LaPolla, Randy J.

“…This is one factor that created the different branches of Sinitic (“Chinese dialects”). The last section is on language coexistence in Modern China.…”
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Developing a web app in conjunction with a honey dehydrator by Sim, Yang Kai

“…Honey is a sweet tasting viscous liquid made by bees, and honey harvesting practices have grown in the last few decades. Studies have shown that the typical moisture content of honey ranges from 21 to 28%, an undesirable range for long periods of storage considering the fact that honey with moisture content above 17% contributes to the fermentation of honey[1]. …”
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CFD simulation of impeller stirred tank reactors by Tay, Ming Hui.

“…Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation has been maturing over the last few decades. In this thesis, CFD is employed to predict and study the hydrodynamic flow in the impeller stirred tank. …”
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Nature and effects of Chinese outward foreign direct investments. by Tjoenneland, Tor Erik.

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Singapore airlines : soaring to greater heights (an in-depth analysis of SIA's corporate strategy). by Gay, Elaine Ting Shan., Lee, Leng Choo., Seng, Figin Hui Hong.

“…Singapore Airlines has undergone continuous upgrading over the last few decades. In view of the recent increase in the intensity of competition in the airline industry, it is timely to examine the corporate strategies of Singapore Airlines and the factors contributing to its competitive advantage. …”
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A study of using simple features for video classification by Chow, Wei Ling.

“…The second phase involves feature extraction from episodes of each show using object-based visual features. The last phase is to do testing with a set of 20 videos to see if they fall correctly into their respective shows. …”
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Development of the capital market in Malaysia : a critical analysis by Li Qingyuan, Lim Boon Hau, Teo Yong Meng

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A study of periodic behaviors by Doan Manh, Hiep

“…The last few years have witnessed an increasing popularity of smartphones with full GPS capability onboard, which results in the collection of large spatial-temporal datasets and the opportunity of discovering useful information on people movement behavior to foster innovative location services. …”
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Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head design and simulation by Chaw, Li Huey

“…The storage capacity of hard disk drives (HDD) has extremely increased over the last decade. However, the rate of increase has reached a bottle-neck as the technology approaches a limit known as the superparamagnetic limit. …”
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Image processing algorithms for medical applications by Naseef Abdul Kareem

“…Last few years has witnessed exponential growth in neuro-scientific field, especially for brain connectivity. …”
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