Distributed formation for large swarm of agents by Reza Haghighi

“…To obtain formation control of large-scale multi-agent systems with general Euler-Lagrange dynamic equations, the shape formation technique has been presented. However, in existing shape formation control problem, having access to the desired reference of the shape by all agents is a requirement. …”
Get full text

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

“…Pre-school children's language acquisition has been a concern in the field of linguistic study. …”
Get full text

新加坡华语中的双宾结构 = Double object constructions in Singapore Mandarin by 蔡宝仪 Choi, Bao Yi

“…此外，新加坡英语的水平尚未达到正规的英文水平。 All along, there has been a difference between Singapore Mandarin and Mainland China Mandarin, and the reason behind is very much due to Singapore‟s history and its linguistics situation. …”
Get full text

Thermodynamic modelling of adsorption isotherms and kinetics for gas storage and cooling applications by Sun, Baichuan

“…With an effect of low or negligible carbon footprint, it is capable of performing gas storage and adsorptive chilling. Extensive works have been done in the literature to establish the knowledge of adsorption isotherms, kinetics, isosteric heat of adsorption and adsorbent + adsorbate thermodynamic properties. …”
Get full text

Human detection and tracking in surveillance videos by Wang, Bing

“…Extensive evaluations following state-of-the-art practices have been conducted and the results from these evaluations show the improvements by the proposed method over some existing state-of-the-art methods. …”
Get full text

Electrical bio-sensing based on non-antibody recognition elements by Chen, Hu

“…Three specific hypotheses have been proposed. First, it is proposed that sports fatigue related biomarkers can be measured quantitatively in real time using carbon nanomaterial based FET sensors. …”
Get full text

Sanctions with Chinese characteristics : the effects of China's sanctions rhetoric on its behaviour by Poh, Angela Ming Yan

“…China’s increasing military assertiveness over maritime and territorial disputes has been a cause for concern for many countries. However, China’s use of coercive economic measures does not appear to be as clear-cut, particularly since economic relations have continued to grow between China and countries with which it has political and territorial disputes. …”
Get full text

End point detection of weld seam removal in robotic abrasive belt grinding process based on computer vision and deep learning by Murugan, Pushparaja

“…However, the determination of end point detection in abrasive belt grinding process has been a non-trivial process in the implementation of robots. …”
Get full text

中华传统文化在新加坡奄奄一息的危机 ：电视剧《红白囍事》案例研究 = The imminent crisis of Chinese traditional culture in Singapore : a case study of drama series “New Beginnings”... by 詹韻璇 Cham, Vanessa Yunn Shyuan

“…Over the years, the governments’ efforts has not been fully successful in promoting Chinese traditional cultures to the younger generations and preventing the decline and even loss of Chinese traditional culture in Singapore. …”
Get full text

Effects of thrombin and its related peptide fragments on neutrophils by Lim, Chun Hwee

“…NET-associated proteins have been argued to trap and kill bacteria, as well as being implicated in autoimmune complications. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Metabolite profiling in identifying metabolic biomarkers in older people with late-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus by Tam, Zhi Yang, Ng, Sean Pin, Tan, Ling Qiao, Lin, Chih-Hsien, Rothenbacher, Dietrich, Klenk, Jochen, Boehm, Bernhard Otto, Goh, Kelvin Kau Kiat, Suwanchaikasem, Pipob, Tipthara, Pornpimol, Koenig, W., Riepe, M., Peter, R., Geiger, H., Ludolph, A., Arnim, C. v., Denkinger, M. D., Yang, Song Yi, Nagel, G., Weinmayr, G., Rapp, K., Dallmeier, D., Steinacker, J. M., Laszlo, R., Becker, T., Stingl, J.

“…Elevated levels of 5′-methylthioadenosine (MTA), which previously has only been implicated in animal model of diabetes, was found in urine of older people with T2D.…”
Get full text
Get full text

Offset-16QAM-based coherent WDM with multi-carrier group detection by Xiang, Meng, Fu, Songnian, Tang, M., Shum, P., Liu, Deming

“…Recently, offset-QAM based coherent WDM (CoWDM) has been proposed to build up spectrally-efficient multi-carrier superchannels. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Advanced code reuse attacks against modern defences by Wang, Chenyu

“…The result shows that in addition to the cases that have been discovered in previous work, our tool is able to find more cases of non-blinded constant. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Novel mutation G324C in WNT1 mapped in a large Pakistani family with severe recessively inherited Osteogenesis Imperfecta by Kausar, Mehran, Saima Siddiqi, Muhammad Yaqoob, Sajid Mansoor, Makitie, Outi, Asif Mir, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Foo, Jia Nee, Anees, Mariam

“…To date several point mutations in 18 different genes causing different types of OI have been identified. Mutations in WNT1 compromise activity of the osteoblasts leading to disturbed bone mass accrual, fragility fractures and progressive skeletal abnormalities. …”
Get full text
Get full text

On the most energy-efficient input functions and the lowest input energy of passive linear circuits by Smunyahirun, Radit

“…Energy-efficient has been an interested research for decades. For fundamentals circuits, resistors in a circuit always dissipate energy when they have current flow and it decreases energy efficiency. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Cytogenetic and molecular aberrations of multiple myeloma patients : a single-center study in Singapore by Ng, Yit Jun, Tan, Yu Min, See, Karen Hsu Shien, Choo, Natasha Swee Lian, Lim, Sherry Xin Er, Lim, Alvin Soon Tiong, Lim, Tse Hui, Yee, Yenny, Lau, Lai Ching, Tien, Sim Leng, Sathish, Kumar, Tan, Daryl Chen Lung

“…Background-Much is known about the cytogenetic lesions that characterize multiple myeloma (MM) patients from the USA, Europe, and East Asia. However, little has been published about the disease among Southeast Asians. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Negative auto-regulation of myostatin expression is mediated by SMAD3 and microRNA-27 by Ge, XiaoJia, McFarlane, Craig, Vajjala, Anuradha, Arigela, Harikumar, Lokireddy, Sudarsanareddy, Bonala, Sabeera, Manickam, Ravikumar, Kambadur, Ravi, Sharma, Mridula

“…In fact, loss of Mstn has been shown to result in increased post-natal muscle growth through enhanced satellite cell functionality; while elevated levels of Mstn result in dramatic skeletal muscle wasting through a mechanism involving reduced protein synthesis and increased ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Evidence-based roadmap for geoheritage conservation in southeast Arabia: Inventory, evaluations, and communicating geocultural connections by Sayama, K

“…</p> <p>First, a GIS-based study was conducted to identify the status quo of Quaternary geosites that have been studied in this region. Second, a science communication study was carried out to test the efficacy of highlighting the human-nature interconnection in introducing Quaternary geoheritage sites. …”

Understanding customer retrials in call centers: preferences for service quality and service speed by Hu, K, Allon, G, Bassamboo, A

“…<p><strong> Academic/practical relevance: </p></strong> Little empirical research has been done to understand customers’ strategic retrials, and theoretical research studies retrials by assuming the degree to which pickup speed and service quality impact retrials. …”

Attack strategies in birds of prey by Brighton, C

“…The deep fovea is optimised for long-range vision, and is directed at approximately 45° to the side of the head. It has been proposed that the head is held in line with the body for streamlining, while the body is turned in flight to fixate the image of the prey on the deep fovea, resulting in a curved trajectory. …”