The incidence of perfect moments: acoustic eloquence and narrative terroir in modern fiction by Tan, Ignatius Lu Wei

“…Where such fictions frequently exhibit moments of extraordinary musicality within the medium of language, I posit that the terroir of music production finds equivalence in the semantics of the modern novel. …”
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Effects of tenability on the modelling of fire evacuation in a multi-storey passenger ship by Chen, Sebrina Xueqi.

“…A cellular automata (CA) model which adopts the findings on tenability analysis is proposed to simulate the evacuations from a multi-storey passenger ship. …”
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An experiment on living kin donations and donor registration systems by Tan, Clarice Zi Ling, Er, Michelle Xin Juan, Teng, Yi Ting

“…We further proved that if the subject’s matched partner donates to him, he would be more inclined to donate to his partner in the next few rounds. Our findings provide insights for policymakers who aim to increase living donation rates in countries.…”
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Tangible figurine story composer and narrator by Choo, Jin He

“…The results show that participants with no prior stop-motion background found both versions, designed for storytelling and story composition, more engaging than users with prior experience. Furthermore, the findings underline a strong preference for Version 2, which involves camera-based composition, in terms of ease of use, engagement levels, and intuitiveness when compared to Version 1, which relies on user interfaces. …”
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Effects of high fat diet on intestinal toll-like receptor activity by Mathan Raj S/O Thayalan

“…We employed Angptl4fl/fl and Angptl4vil-/- mice and conducted RT-qPCR analysis to assess changes in intestinal TLR expression levels. The findings are promising, shedding light on the relationship between HFD and expression of intestinal TLRs. …”
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Between parental practices and values: children’s free will beliefs are associated with their parents' autonomy granting but not authoritarian values by Lee, Clyde Jing Yi

“…When including both predicters and control variables in a regression model, parental autonomy granting was also found to uniquely contribute to children’s free will beliefs after controlling for children’s age, children’s gender, and parents’ gender. These findings underscore the importance of autonomy granting in fostering children’s understanding of choice and whether they can choose to do something that they do not like or something that is hard for them within the socio-cultural context of Singapore. …”
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Grid-connected current source inverter with instantaneous power control by Nor Amsyar Bin Zainuddin

“…This was done by designing the perfect inverter circuit, incorporating the appropriate control algorithms and analyzing the performance of the developed inverter under varied load cases to create a grid. The key findings indicate the development of the Current Source Inverter, which can instantly adjust its power output. …”
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Load forecasting for distribution network and electric vehicle charging optimisation to mitigate load fluctuations by Ng, Xin Yi

“…In response to these findings, this project proposes EV charging strategies aimed to optimise load fluctuations by minimizing peak-to-valley differences and enhance grid stability, with a focus on the distribution network in Singapore. …”
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Benchmarking feed-forward randomized neural networks for vessel trajectory prediction by Cheng, Ruke, Liang, Maohan, Li, Huanhuan, Yuen, Kum Fai

“…Our evaluation, utilizing diverse error metrics and datasets from various waterways, reveals the superior performance of the RVFL-based models with direct links in trajectory prediction. The findings underscore the critical role of direct links in enhancing the representational and generalization capabilities of RVFL models, thus offering robust and reliable prediction solutions.…”
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In-vitro validation of potential modulators of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) by Tang, Daryl Woon Tat

“…On the other hand, the downregulation of Target01 had no significant effect on cell proliferation and migration. These findings suggest that Target02 may offer a therapeutic pathway to improve liver regeneration in NAFLD, though further assays are necessary to confirm its potential.…”
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A study on social network in Singapore by Wang, Hao

“…From the analysis it is also implied that participants come in contacts with more people in transportation vehicles on weekdays than on weekends probably due to more crowed public transportations. The findings on the gender influence shows that gender makes no significant differences in deciding the number of days people put off taking actions or the time frame people continue going to work/school after they have flu symptom. …”
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Enterprise content management solutions in the context of information lifecycle management (ILM). by Parameswari G. M.

“…This study has investigated whether ECM adopters have a tactical or strategic roadmap for the management of their information, whether their organisations have established new information management policies to cater to information stored in their ECM systems, whether various stakeholders from their organisations participate in decisions pertaining to management of the information in their ECM system, whether information is classified according to its financial value and the roles and responsibilities of those who manage information. Key findings of this study indicate that ECM solutions are largely implemented to cater to specific business needs and not necessarily with the intent to converge enterprise content into a single solution. …”
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中国汽车工业的产业结构及其调整战略 = The industrial structure of China's automobile industry and its reform by 王舜 Wang, Shun

“…The focus of this study is the comparison between the Chinese automobile industry and the world automobile industry in terms of production concentration and marketing strategies. The finding is that the Chinese automobile industry is featured as too many firms, too fragmented geographically, too isolated between firms in production corporation. …”
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Functional roles of transforming growth factor activated Kinase-1 (TAK1) in skin wound healing by Tan, Siew Hwey

“…TAK1-deficient keratinocytes displayed lamellipodia formation with distinct microspikes protrusions, which was associated with an elevated expression of integrins beta1 and beta5, and sustained activation of cdc42, Rac1 and RhoA. Our findings provide evidence for a novel homeostatic control of keratinocyte proliferation and migration, mediated via TAK1 regulation of pVHL. …”
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Detection of earnings manipulation in S-share firms listed on the Singapore stock exchange by Chen, Edison Haoyang, Danaraj Matthew Kumar, Lim, Jeffrey Liang Jun

“…A total of 102 S-share firms with four year of complete data were analyzed using the calculated M-Score values from 2007 to 2009 as shown in Appendix 1.The results suggest that the phenomenon of high earnings manipulation probability is systematic across S-share firms. The findings suggest that investors to be cautious about pricing S-share firms without taking into account the systematic risk of earnings manipulation. …”
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Influences of social tags choices on academic papers over time : a user centric approach. by Khasfariyati Razikin.

“…Additionally, there are significant differences in the influence of the individual themes over time. The findings in this study have brought forward the factors that influence the users’ choice of tags for academic papers over time that have both research and practical implications.…”
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Experimental studies of melting PCM in a heat sink by Muhammad Azrin Sa'ad.

“…This project presents the experimental studies and findings of melting phase change material in a heat sink. …”
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Studies of DNA-interacting properties of certain topological enzymes by Lee, Jasmine Yiqin

“…The DNA-interacting properties of the two enzymes, Topoisomerase II and DNA gyrase were explored. These studies and findings have increased our knowledge between the topological properties of DNA and these enzymes. …”
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Analyzing the roles of human U1 snRNA variants in pre-mRNA processing. by Goh, Eling.

“…However, consistent with previous findings, knocking down of endogenous U1 variants had resulted in a surge of intron-retained products indicative of IPA. …”
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Ontology alignment for knowledge representation and integration : applications to biomedical text by Chua, Watson Wei Khong.

“…Ontology alignment refers to the task of finding correspondences between entities in different ontologies. …”
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