How Stories Change Us : A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real Life / by Reese, Elaine, author 655966

“…Regardless of media platform, fictional stories with violent and stereotyped content increase aggression and prejudiced attitudes and behaviors, and excessive consumption of fictional stories is unhealthy. In turn, real-life stories with inaccurate or biased content (fake news) increase memory errors; real-life stories with negative or traumatic content increase mental health difficulties. …”
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Impact of culture on mobility by Yap, Jackson Hong Liang

“…For people in Île-de-France, travel patterns during morning peak hour, lunch and dinner time were studied upon by using dataset provided by a telecommunication company in France. …”
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Route discovery optimization of reactive routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks by Seet, Boon Chong

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Effect of accelerated weathering on fire performance and general composition of photovoltaic (PV) back sheets by Mohamed Muhsin Mohamed Baseer Ahamed

“…The samples were placed in the Atlas UV accelerated weathering tester and were operated as per IEC TS 62788-7-2 standards, at cyclic exposure of UVA-340A lamps at 1.00W/m2 at 65°C for 8 hours, and condensing humidity at 50°C in the dark for 4 hours, with water spray of 0.15 hours. …”
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Effects of kinesio taping on Hamstring-to-quadriceps ratio on non-injured female amateur competitive team sports athletes by Tan, Priscilla Hui Yee

“…Methods: 11 female soccer players underwent 1 pre-test and 2 post test, 2 hours and 48 hours after KT application on their non-dominant leg, in a within-subject repeated measures study design. …”
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My garden of you by Chen, Zhi Lin

“…When my youngest brother was born, my paternal grandmother from Taiwan flew exactly 3,231 kilometres from home to be with my family to look after him when my parents were at work. …”
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Machine learning driven synthesis of two-dimensional materials by Chia, Jia Jun

“…No humans are born perfect and as such people tend to make mistakes or have limited capabilities in certain aspect as compared to machines. …”
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Soft cells and the geometry of seashells by Domokos, G, Goriely, A, Horváth, ÁG, Regős, K

“…Remarkably, these ideal soft shapes, born out of geometry, are found abundantly in nature, from cells to shells.…”

Italian literature in the US and UK since 1945: translation and interaction by Saroldi, A

“…</p> <p>Across its three chapters, the thesis traverses the realms of prose, poetry, and theatre, examining for the first time the case studies of William Weaver’s translation of Giorgio Bassani’s <em>Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini</em> (1977), Charles Tomlinson’s translation of Attilio Bertolucci’s <em>Selected Poems</em> (1993), and Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s American tour of 1986, featuring on-stage translators Ronald Jenkins and Maria Consagra.…”

Ce yin zhi xin in the Mencius : being concerned for the other by Han, Joey Ming Jie

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The effects of global versus local processing styles on ingroup favouritism by Ma, Chen

“…Social categorisation in turn facilitates comparisons between in- and outgroups. …”
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Studies on energy performance of high ambient temperature green data centres by Chua, Wee Jian.

“…It also discovered that water-side economizers are not suitable for Singapore’s weather context as it operates best in areas with wet bulb temperatures of 12.8oC for more than 3000 hours per year. On the contrary, air-side economizers are a viable option as they managed to clock 537 hours to produce a 6.21% energy savings against the energy consumption of a whole year (8640 hours). …”
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Selective laser melting of copper alloys by Muhammad Muzzammil Shaul Hamid

“…It was found that age hardening of 12 hours gave maximum hardness in the XY plane while maximum hardness in the YZ plane was obtained after 25 hours. …”
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Molecular characterization of microbial interactions with labile dissolved organic matter by Halloran, Kathryn H.

“…Here, I apply aniline derivatization to filtrate from cultures of Prochlorococcus grown under 24-hour diel light/dark conditions and sampled every two hours. …”
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The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari : Arabic-English / by Muhammad Muhsin Khan, translator 460388

Simple and rapid electroless metallization on glass using catecholic-based chemistry by Sim, Pei Hui

“…An optimized parameter have been achieved for the process where the substrate undergoes 24 hours of polydopamine coating and 24 hours of metallization in metal salt solution. …”
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Collection and annotation of Malay conversational speech corpus by Chong, Tze Yuang, Xiao, Xiong, Tan, Tien-Ping, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…Besides the word transcription, we also annotate linguistics phenomena such as fillers and disfluencies. To date, 20 hours have been recorded, transcribed and analyzed. …”
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The effects of fasting on acute ischemic infarcts in the rat by Schneider, AM, Buchan, AM, Couch, Y

“…After 24 hours, fasting was found to reduce infarct volume and BBB breakdown, and lower both circulating and brain neutrophils. …”

A study of atmospheric gradient for the analysis of weather events and prediction of rainfall in the tropical region by Naha Biswas, Anik

“…The gradient magnitude exhibits negligible shift in values between rainy and non-rainy hours while forecasting precipitation over a region. …”
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Network routers : simulation of congestion control by Lim, Beng Kwee.

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