Business contingency and continuity plan by maritime firms in Singapore by Muhammad Fahrur Razi Bin Yusoff

“…COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most disruptive events in global history. …”
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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. Hence what Hobbes sees as the inherent tendency of democratic activity to descend into excess and madness. …”
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Without passage by Chee, En Cui

“…They change across perspectives. I see a girl exploring her psyche. Maybe you see a witch trying to escape a prison? …”
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Stiffness of RC columns with hollow section by Teng, Ganyu

“…In particular, an accurate and reliable OpenSees model was proposed and validated against experimental data. …”
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Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…A 'naive' view of identity sees it as straightforwardly and deterministically causative, but if so the 2011 Pearl Uprising in Bahrain appears a paradox - a primarily secular episode of political contestation in a country with a Shi'a majority, against a Sunni dominated regime, in a political realm with a Shi'a Islamist-dominated opposition. …”
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Ant, spider and DNA: letting mindless generative mechanisms speak by Bråten, E

“…They are especially concerned with questions about agency and the character of relations. Where ant sees ‘networks’, spider insists that we deal with ‘meshworks’. …”

Pragmatic encroachment on knowledge? by Wong, Don Wei Wen

“…This view of knowledge has been contested by an opposing camp of anti-pragmatism or intellectualism which sees the matter of having knowledge as being solely dependent on truth-connected factors in that of epistemic reasons. …”
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Utilizing open-source hardware and software to construct a mesh of environmental sensors for microclimate studies by Chan, Cun Bin

“…A network of 3 Router sensors and Coordinator is prototyped using Arduino microcontroller, Raspberry Pi single-board computer, and ZigBee and Wi-Fi communication protocols. The wireless sensor network is deployed within Crest Secondary School as a test bed. …”
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Evaluation of the synergistic effects of novel antimicrobial polymer 147-1 by Leong, Philemon Ye Chao

“…Antibiotics have mostly been administered in standalone formulations, though there has been increasing evidence of the viability of combination therapy. …”
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The tower : transformation of a precedent by Cross, Elizabeth Ann.

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Han Suyin’s translation philosophies in the context of Mainland China since the 1950s by Cui, Feng

“…The first (1950s–1970s) sees her translation philosophy influenced by Chinese national politics and the Cold War; the second (1980s–1990s) reflects her beliefs in translation as an art as well as a creative process; the third phase (1990s–2000s) is characterized by Han’s influential nurturing of other translators, and her patronage of translation scholarship as a means of spreading Chinese literary culture. …”
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“Following according to a rule is FUNDAMENTAL to our language-game.” Rules and meaning in Wittgenstein by Child, W

“…There is widespread agreement that, in his later philosophy, Wittgenstein sees the meaning of a word as a matter of the rules for its use; to grasp its meaning is to grasp the rules for its use; and using the word with that meaning is a matter of following those rules. …”

Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters by Rose, G

“…The paper argues that, while both the technological affordances and the cultural imaginary of CDTs perform the kind of powerful white masculinity that sees space as transparent and actionable, discussions of CDTs also persistently generate an excessive form of human life which is understood as untwinn-able. …”

An integrated information management model for proactive prevention of struck-by-falling-object accidents on construction sites by Wu, Weiwei, Yang, Huanjia, Li, Qiming, Chew, David Ah Seng

“…The objective of this paper is to analyze the proactively preventive information requirement of struck-by-falling-object accidents and propose an integrated information management model using a ZigBee RFID sensor network to fulfill these requirements. …”
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Anti-microbial surfaces by plasma assisted immobilization of chitosan. by Toh, Daniel Seng Wei.

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Speaking to Angmohs : intelligibility and identity as motivators for speech accommodation in Singapore by Law, Eliana Yixin

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Dynamic range of camera in photography by Oon, Nicole Xin Jie

“…This is due to the dynamic range of the camera resulting in a difference in the image captured and what the human eye sees. Dynamic range is a measure of the ratio of the maximum and minimum measurable light intensity, which is also the total amount of light captured in a scene. …”
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Singapore premiere. by Ong, Shannon.

“…Once in a while, the box office sees hits from local film director, Jack Neo. …”
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Analysing the importance of drill artists’ offline environment in the creation of violent online identities by Alexander, James

“…Within this study, young people’s violent online personas are a response to inhabiting a social space that developed due to a nexus of factors, including social deprivation, a lack of informal guardianship and the rules of the online attention economy. This digital dynamic sees artists competing for viewers’ limited attention by producing exaggerated violent depictions to show cultural competence and embodied street capital as they vie for attention in an antagonistic continuum with other groups. …”
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Drafting ‘Anon’ and killing anon: Virginia Woolf and the genesis of English literary language by Phillips, J

“…The moment of English literature’s birth is the moment of Anon’s death: Woolf’s genetic narrative sees her figuration for the pre-literate oral tradition, Anon killed at the moment William Caxton begins to print books with authorial signatures. …”