On the stability of moral preferences: a problem with computational elicitation methods by Boerstler, K, Keswani, V, Chan, L, Schaich Borg, J, Conitzer, V, Heidari, H, Sinnott-Armstrong, W

“…We address this possibility here by asking the same survey participants the same moral questions about which patient should receive a kidney when only one is available ten times in ten different sessions over two weeks, varying only presentation order across sessions. …”

Elemental characteristics of particulate matter (Pm10 and Pm2.5) from peat swamp area in kuala pahang by Eng, Hwai Ern, Teoh, Chee Shan, Firdaus, Ismail, Abdul Syukor, Abd Razak, Suryati, Sulaiman

“…When the direction of monsoon season change, the graph tends drop because the wind tends to convey the PM away. …”
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Empirical analysis on the paradoxes of loyalty programs in the Singapore hotel industry. by Guo, Meixi., Lim, Gladys Gu Yan., Tan, Siew Teng.

“…The research aims to find out the effectiveness of generating loyalty amongst customers through the implementation of Loyalty Programs, particularly across different hotel grades in Singapore by empirically analyzing ten possible paradoxes. Analysis on whether individual hotel grade hotels should invest in loyalty programs will then be evaluated.…”
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A novel approach to designing a guitar distortion effects pedal by Zheng, Luka

“…However, the odd harmonic tends to dominate in the harmonic distortion, different from tube amplifiers. …”
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Zombies and the agency of women as the living dead. by Kwek, Marguerita.

“…It seeks to explore the position of women‟s agency in the fragmented role of the zombie. …”
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Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments? by Saxena, Anju

“…Sharma: The glottal fricative /h/ tends to be realized as high falling tone in a prepausal position, as in /meh/ = /me/. …”
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Digital image forensics by Chong, Alvin Sheng Yuan.

“…The basic principle for the method was tested with ten images and the effect was found to be consistent. …”
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Taking data feminism to school: A synthesis and review of pre‐collegiate data science education projects by Lee, Victor R, Pimentel, Daniel R, Bhargava, Rahul, D'Ignazio, Catherine

“…In this review paper, we draw on principles from data feminism to review 42 different educational research and design approaches that engage youth with data, many of which are educational technology intensive and bear on future data-intensive educational technology research and design projects. …”
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Easing the “second-shift” burden : grandparental childcare and the subjective wellbeing of working mothers in Singapore by Cheo, Rachel Ka Yang

“…However, it is still common for working mothers to bear the brunt of both domestic and paid work. In the present study, I explored the role of grandparents as providers of childcare for their grandchildren in contemporary Singapore. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. …”

Analysis of the Triple Helix model and Cabral-Dahab Paradigm in the context of Singapore Science Park. by Chiang, Yin La., Leong, Kelly Chee Mun., Tan, Wei Cheng.

“…With the two framework in mind, the authors try to apply the frameworks in the context of Singapore Science Park, examining if the ten elements (as proposed by Cabral-Dahab Paradigm) really exist in the park and value of their existence.…”
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Comparison for decentralized control multivariable process by Kyaw, Kyaw Htike.

“…In this dissertation, the design procedures of four typical decentralized PI/PID controller design methods: the biggest log modulus tuning (BLT) method, the gain and phase margin (GPM) method, the internal model control (IMC) method and the effective relative gain array (ERGA) method, are revisited first, and then implemented to ten different distillation systems that vary from two-input two-output systems up to four-input four-output systems.…”
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READY PLAYER ONE / by Cline, Ernest, author 655943

“…Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation. …”

Service quality in Singapore bus service by Ang, Hui Shan, Zhang, Liyao, Goh, Robin Jin Quan

“…Firstly, the research seeks to determine the public perception of the current service standards being provided by bus operators. …”
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Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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Southeast Asian space activities: recent trends in regional cooperation by Berthet, Maximilien

“…Though not new, it has increasingly flourished in the last ten years, especially in three areas: satellite engineering, space policymaking, and space entrepreneurship. …”
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A time evolution study of the ecologies of collaboration in two business schools. by Wee, Jee Foon.

“…In this dissertation, the ecologies of collaboration among the academics at two business schools, namely, the Nanyang Business School (NBS) and INSEAD were studied by analysing the ten-year publication output of the two schools using techniques from both scientometrics and social network analysis. …”
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Time/cost performance ratio modelling for estimation and project evaluation by Goh, Ngan Hong.

“…The objective of this study is to develop a theoretical background for defining and measuring performance of construction projects in relation to both time and cost effectiveness and to investigate and analyze the contract performance with respect to public institutional building and road projects in Singapore in the last ten years (1981 to 1990). It also attempts to formulate methods by which the results of the study can be used for improving performance of similar building and road projects in future by setting realistic time and cost targets.…”
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3-D Topology Optimization of Spatially Averaged Surface-Enhanced Raman Devices by Hammond, Ian M.

“…An objective function represented by ട|E|⁴dV effectively approximates Raman enhancement. This function tends to diverge near sharp tips and other singular geometries in three-dimensional spaces for relevent materials. …”
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Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy by Holman, Christopher

“…Democracy is tragic to the extent that it must be a regime of self-limitation, there existing no ethical standard external to society that may intervene so as to guide our political self-activity, and yet the structure of deliberation in democratic assemblies tends to render such self-limitation impossible. …”
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