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.…”

Effects of interaction between information technology (IT) and a Singapore hotel : a case study by Lee, Elena Yen Ping, Lim, Amos Beng Lee, Heng, Lee Cheng

“…Information Technology (IT) adopted in an organisation is influenced by various organisational and social factors. In turn, the organisation design is affected by the implementation of IT. …”
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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.…”

Closer and Closer Worlds: Using LLMs to Surface Personal Stories in World-building Conversation Games by Lee, Cassandra, Mindel, Jessica

“…This demonstration presents Closer Worlds, a 2-player digital game designed to facilitate intimate conversation through the magic of collaborative world-building. Players take turns responding to context-aware introspective questions generated by AI (GPT-4) and collaboratively generate images (DALL-E 2) of a personalized world they can imagine sharing. …”
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Scalable data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks by Lu, Haifeng, Foh, Chuan Heng, Cai, Jianfei

“…In this paper, we introduce the use of opportunistic wireless transmission for data diffusion which deals with the all-to-all data dissemination in a wireless sensor network. Our design turns the network infrastructure into a single fountain encoder where source packets arrive from each sensor node and these packets are encoded while flooding throughout the entire network to all nodes. …”
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Controller design of a tidal system by Nur Insyirah Sazali

“…The P&O MPPT controller algorithm will be used as the primary controller system in this project since it allows the system to produce more power which in turns improve the overall system performance. Additionally, MPPT controller using lookup table will be explored. …”
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A high-power factor permanent magnet vernier motor for direct drive application by Guo, Feifan

“…Furthermore, optimizations about number of turns, magnet height and split teeth distance are made. …”
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Mobile app to play team building games by Phua, Wen Yao

“…The game created for this application is a sliding tile puzzle game where users must take turns to try arranging the tiles back into their proper ascending order. …”
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Constructions of Japan and the Japanese : war, memory and foreign policy in Singapore by Liu, Joseph Woon Keong

“…The collaborative mode of memory was born of the political and economic engagements with Japan since Singapore’s independence. …”
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Moral cultivation, meritocracy and the origin of petty people: a hypothesis by Lee, Sheng Yue

“…Specifically, one of the main problems in accounting for petty people is that everyone is born as a petty person and petty people are defined to be people who freely express their dispositions and do not pursue moral cultivation, but some are able to undergo ethical transformation and some remain as petty people. …”
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The rise and fall of Britain’s golden cohort: how the remarkable generation of 1925-1934 had their lives cut short by austerity by Hiam, L, Dorling, D

“…The British born between 1925 and 1934 experienced exceptional improvements in their annual mortality; earning them the title ‘the Golden Cohort’. …”

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. <i>Rule Britannia</i> is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.…”

How user empowerment influences social interaction and purchase intention. by Chow, Mei Yin., Lau, Yew Han., Tay, Paul Tiong.

“…Together with social platform features, social interaction enhances the understanding of customers‟ needs which in turn influences the willingness to purchase. This begets us to the question of “What are customers looking for?” …”
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From Words to Worlds: Bridging Language and Thought by Wong, Lionel Catherine

“…We talk about what we see, believe, and imagine, posing questions and communicating our plans. Language, in turn, stocks our mental inventories with new concepts and theories, communicating ideas that we might not otherwise have discovered by thinking on our own even over the course of a lifetime. …”
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The Accident / by Pavone, Chris, author 656312

“…In New York City, Isabel Reed, one of the most respected and powerful literary agents in the city, frantically turns the pages of a manuscript into the early dawn hours. …”

Rotator cuff tendons of the shoulder joint : anatomy and investigation of strain profile by Sheng, Jia-Min

“…The knowledge of the average footprint area of each tendon helps the surgeon to restore torn tendons to their functional anatomic positions. …”
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Holographic entropy inequalities and multipartite entanglement by Hernández-Cuenca, Sergio, Hubeny, Veronika E., Jia, Hewei F.

“…In attempting to interpret the corresponding sign-definite quantities as correlation measures, we also obtain a no-go result: the superbalance property of holographic entropy inequalities turns out to preclude them from being monotonic under partial tracing. …”
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Commutative algebra and algebraic varieties by Tan, Zhi Hong

“…Lastly, we explored the Hilbert Series of the quotient of the polynomial ring by the rank varieties. It turns out that the Hilbert Series depends on the degree of the homogeneous polynomial associated to the rank variety.…”
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High-dimensional data analysis with constraints by Zhou, Hanxiao

“…Inspired by these two methods, we proposed two new algorithms which is constrained scaled lasso and constrained square-root lasso, which turns out effectively reduced the computational cost and works well in the high dimensional portfolio selection problem. …”
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Characterisation of ball impact conditions in professional tennis: Matches played on hard court by Lane, Ben, Sherratt, Paul, Xiao, Hu, Harland, Andy

“…Ball tracking information taken from three consecutive years of an ATP 250 tour event played on hard court was analysed. The frequency of first serves, second serves, racket impacts and surface impacts was assessed per game and extrapolated to show how many impacts a single ball is subjected to. …”
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