Effect of Dactylaria higginsii on interference of Cyperus rotundus with L. esculentum by Kadir, J.B., Charudattan, R., Stall, W.M., Bewick, T.A.

“…At 106 conidia ml-1, D. higginsii reduced the interference from C. rotundus, controlled C. rotundus better, and increased L. esculentum yield compared to the weedy checks.…”

Effective 5D BIM requirements for risk mitigation during pre-contract stage. by Nazirul Fariq, Nazirul Fariq, Ismail, Syuhaida, Ab. Rani, Nur Izzati

“…Risk mitigation strategies are proposed to make a positive impact on the 5D BIM implementation, which consist of regular checks and balances, improve skills and knowledge through training and acquire suitable 5D BIM applications. …”
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API Governance at Scale by Ahmad, Mak, Geewax, J. J., Macvean, Andrew, Karger, David, Ma, Kwan-Liu

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Mobile application for optical character recognition (OCR) of digits by Luah, Yee Teng

“…To further improve the recognition accuracy, an API is created for sanity checks based on the domain knowledge adopted from clinicians. …”
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Discovering NTU with augmented reality by Tey, Jun Yuan

“…As Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has many buildings, with many lecture theatres, tutorial rooms, laboratories, research centers, offices, shops and eating places spread across them, many people, especially visitors and freshmen, find themselves having difficulties navigating through the different venues in NTU. …”
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Chiral secondary amine catalyzed asymmetric cascade reactions by Dai, Lu

“…All the reactions showed high to excellent diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity in multi stereogenic centers and hence constructed complicated molecules.…”
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Access to spirocyclic oxindoles via N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed reactions of enals and oxindole-derived α,β-unsaturated imines by Jiang, Kun, Tiwari, Bhoopendra, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…A diastereoselective access to β-lactam fused spirocyclic oxindoles and related compounds bearing all carbon spiro centers is described. This N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed process employed challenging β,β-disubstituted α,β-unsaturated imines to react with enals.…”
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Online learning with kernels by Fan, Haijin

“…The sparsification method performs a role to select a compact dictionary consisting of the kernel function centers. They are developed according to different measures, such as the mutual information measure, the significance measure, the coherence measure or the cumulative coherence measure, which are used to evaluate the novelty of new training samples. …”
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Deciphering Banyan tree networks by Chan, Zachary Zi Xuan

“…“Deciphering Banyan Tree Archives” centers around the Banyan tree, also known as the strangling fig. …”
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Characterizing Direct Product Testing via Coboundary Expansion by Bafna, Mitali, Minzer, Dor

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Application development on an Android smart-phone by Udit Batra

“…The application intercepts all incoming messages and checks them for a certain password which uniquely identifies the owner. …”
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Evaluation and fabrication of damaged composite material using non-destructive testing by Lai, Abigail Jang Wai

“…Since composites are extensively employed in many areas, it is important to determine the existence of surface and sub-surface defects before production and during regular maintenance checks. As time goes on, wear and tear occur to a material. …”
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Experiences, perceptions and ethical considerations of the malaria infection study in Thailand by Naemiratch, B, Kulpijit, N, Ruangkajorn, S, Day, NPJ, Prachumsri, J, Cheah, PY

“…We found that although compensation was a motivation for participation, this was secondary to it being beneficial to self (health checks; link to health networks; building merit) and others (medical research contribution; altruism). …”

Three essays on frictions of trade by Li, W

“…The analysis is based on an adapted gravity model with several alternative specifications for robustness checks. The result suggests that improvements on the road network lead to trade expansion on both intensive and extensive margins, but the effects vary across the regions. …”

Mediation effects of language anxiety and prior learning experience on academic speaking challenges and strategies among Libyan students in Malaysian universities by Halali, Ahlam Ali Salim, Ismail, Lilliati, Abd Samad, Arshad, Razali, Abu Bakar, Noordin, Nooreen

“…Field notes and member checks were used for validation. Correlational procedures, structural equation modeling (SEM), and bootstrapping resampling analyses were conducted to examine the relationships between variables, validate study models, and test research hypotheses. …”
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The structure of hadrons and other potential phases of QCD by Schindler, Stella T.

“…Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is a mathematical theory describing subatomic particles called quarks and gluons, and the strong force that binds them together into protons and neutrons. This thesis centers on two major thrusts of modern QCD research: (1) uncovering the inner quark and gluon structure of the proton, and (2) mapping out other phases of matter that quarks and gluons form as we vary pressure and temperature. …”
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Boron analogue of vinylidene dication supported by phosphines by Lu, Wei, Li, Yongxin, Ganguly, Rakesh, Kinjo, Rei

“…The reaction of 2 with ZnBr2 afforded the corresponding isolable complex 3, in which two boon centers coordinate to the Zn atom asymmetrically.…”
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A literature review on the concept of value in virtual worlds by Wen, Wen, Dong, Zilun, Tan, Junyan

“…However, existing research centers upon value to businesses, while there is a lack of such research for consumer value in virtual worlds. …”
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The treachery of authority through Banville and Atwood by Lau, Qian Yu

“…Conversely, The Handmaid’s Tale is set in the “Republic of Gilead” (33), which is a Christian theocracy, where citizens are oppressed and endure much brutality. The story centers on Offred, who has become a marginalized citizen under the new rule. …”
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Smart computers : can you tell my mood ? by Seow, Mervin Jun Jie

“…The ability for computers to understand a person’s emotions can be found in applications such as a lie detector, and call centers. The classifier is built and designed on MATLAB, based on multi-layer perceptron with back propagation as the training function. …”
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