Smart LED lighting by Tan, Wee Beng

“…Sensors include light dependent sensor to adjust the brightness and passive infrared sensor to turn on or off the LED lighting when it detects movement. …”
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The concept of security before and after September 11 by Smith, Steve

“…Six main 'schools of thought' are examined in turn to demonstrate how each of these 'schools' challenge and contest the traditional agenda of 'security studies' by attempting to both widen and deepen the concept of 'security'. …”
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Pan-Tonkin Gulf cooperation : de-securitising the South China Sea? by Li, Mingjiang

“…The Pan-Tonkin Gulf proposal, if adopted, will turn the South China Sea into an "internal lake" of this regional economic zone.…”
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Non-Abelian elastic collisions, associated difference systems of equations and discrete analytic functions by Kassotakis, Pavlos, Kouloukas, Theodoros E., Nieszporski, Maciej

“…Relativistic elastic collision equations turn out to be a particular case of these generic equations. …”
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Coupled sleep rhythms for memory consolidation by Staresina, BP

“…How do passing moments turn into lasting memories? Sheltered from external tasks and distractions, sleep constitutes an optimal state for the brain to reprocess and consolidate previous experiences. …”

AV Dicey on English imperialism by Middleton, A

“…Dicey’s analysis of the rise of imperialist conviction reminds us that the phenomenon was not just a background to new currents of imperial political thought, but one of the transformations imperial thinkers aimed to explain. This in turn reveals an even larger, similarly neglected development in the realm of British ideas: the growing preoccupation with the structural explanation of political change in the contemporary world.…”

Decolonizing the past and confronting climate change futures: bringing the state back in by Schroeder, R

“…There are various reasons for this, but among the consequences of this gap is that an urgent social problem – climate change – has received little attention and is poorly connected to existing theories. This problem, in turn, is tied to the fact that the transition to modernity is no longer central to social theory. …”

Natural gas in Latin America and interactions with the rest of the world by Honoré, A

“…In the mid-2000s, a shortage of natural gas production coupled with political disagreements, tensions over price renegotiations, and shortfalls of deliveries from neighbours led several countries to turn to LNG imports – either to replace or supplement indigenous production and imports of pipeline gas. …”

Holographic Carrollian currents for massless scattering by Ruzziconi, R, Saha, A

“…We deduce the expressions of the stress tensor components in terms of the bulk radiative modes, and these components turn out to be local at I in terms of the twistor potentials. …”

性格特征、代际差异与职场冲突 ：中国90后研究 = Personality traits, generation gaps and challenges in the workplace : a study of China’s post-90s generation by 魏妙凌 Ngai, Jasmine Miao Ling

“…The China’s Post-90s generation was born when the country was at a relatively stable state. …”
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探析中国打工妹之婚恋 = A study on love and marriage of Chinese female migrant workers by 朱嘉怡 Zhu, Jiayi

“…As China moves into an era of market-oriented, modernized and globalised economy, Chinese migrant women become an indispensable part of cheap labor. Rural-born female migrant workers hope to gain a brighter prospect in the city through labour work and also desire to find their love in the city. …”
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Marta Czok URBE by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Ionescu, Georgiana, Czok, Marta

“…Here, the broad imagery of Marta Czok, as an international artist, born in Beirut (1947) to Polish political refugees, raised in London and, since the seventies, Italian by adoption, focuses on the urban context, exploring the scenes of social life that have made the work of this artist recognizable all over the world. …”
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Discovering non-equilibrium mechanisms that regulatestructure and function of biomolecular condensates usingphase-field modeling by Natarajan, Pradeep

“…However, the living cell is inherently out of equilibrium with non-equilibrium reactions that constantly burn ATP and turn over biomolecules. My thesis investigates how the interplay between biomolecular interactions and non-equilibrium reactions that turn over biomolecules affect the structure and function of biomolecular condensates. …”
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Surface water sensitivity to climate variability by Paltan-Lopez, H

“…Furthermore, anthropogenic climate change is understood to importantly perturb these mechanisms and in turn magnify hydrological risks. As such, understanding the way in which these mechanisms of climate variability influence hydrological processes has become a present and pressing scientific challenge. …”

新加坡华族移民家庭学前儿童汉语语言习得个案分析 = A case study on a Chinese immigrant pre-school child’s language acquisition in Singapore by 方静 Fang, Jing

“…Although many immigrant children are born in such an environment, there is a lack of study on language acquisition of immigrants’ children. …”
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我们 = wo men. by Zhou, Jessli Hui Fen.

“…Women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore” by Nirmala PuraShotam, which made me realize this middle class way of life that the majority of the women in Singapore pursued could turn out to be merely a beautiful illusion of modernity. …”
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Interactions between ocean carriers' operations and shippers' supply chain by Xu, Cen.

“…More shippers are also engaging in long term relationship with other players in the supply chain, including the ocean carrier and this in turn improves the supply chain performance. But besides the above strategies, very few of the shippers surveyed/interviewed have made drastic changes to their distribution strategies to cope with the current situation.…”
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Friendship and self-love through the transformed self by Ang, Charlene Hui Xuan

“…In this thesis, I explore the process of self-love which underlies one’s desire for autonomy, and in turn deepening one’s capacity for genuine friendships.…”
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Conceptual development of revenue and yield management system for shipping business by Poh, Pei Heng.

“…For this paper, we will first look deeper into the airline industry to understand the characteristics that they possess to allow yield management to be efficiently and effectively implemented. We will then turn our focus to the container industry and try to understand the principles on how they earn their revenue. …”
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XYZ translation by Au, Chong Weng

“…When 3D animated films started out, an additional depth was added for me; the ability to turn fantasy into reality, the possibility to create realistic fantasies. …”
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