Maternal neonaticide, shame and social melancholy in Hsu-Ming Teo's Love and Vertigo by Zhou, Qiaoqiao, Omar, Noritah

“…However, the recurrent trope of maternal neonaticide has been critically neglected considering Teo’s portrayal of the predicaments of two generations of mothers who either dispose of or kill their neonates. …”
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Active control of microdroplets by Tan, Elton.

“…The ferrofluid droplet diameter seems to decrease linearly as the continuous phase flow rate was increased. …”
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Social media sentiment enhanced stock market prediction analysis by Tan, Adrian Yong Chang

“…The result implies that for classification, ensemble learning methods tend to perform better in terms of accuracy, while SVM tend to perform better in terms of F-Measure. …”
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Co-synthesis of CuO-ZnO nanoflowers by low voltage liquid plasma discharge with brass electrode by Li, Chaojiang, Cao, Xun, Li, W. H., Zhang, Bowei, Xiao, Longqiang

“…Transition metal oxides CuO-ZnO nano-flowers have been simultaneously synthesized by the low voltage liquid plasma discharge method using brass cathode. …”
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Sunlight and Culture by Fredriksson, Per G., Mohanty, Aatishya

“…The effects of the individualism vs. collectivism cultural dichotomy on economic outcomes have been widely recognized in the literature. We propose and test the hypothesis that individuals and populations located in areas exposed long-term to more ultraviolet radiation (UV-R; sunlight) exhibit a greater degree of collectivism. …”
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Long-term mindfulness meditation increases occurrence of sensory and attention brain states by Panitz, DY, Mendelsohn, A, Cabral, J, Berkovich-Ohana, A

“…Interest has been growing in the use of mindfulness meditation (MM) as a therapeutic practice, as accumulating evidence highlights its potential to effectively address a range of mental conditions. …”

Information gathering: dissociable effects of autistic and alexithymic traits in youths aged 6–25 years by Lee, KS, Long, EL, Catmur, C, Hauser, TU, Bird, G

“…Autistic youths tend to react negatively to uncertain events. Little is known about the cognitive processes associated with this intolerance of uncertainty, most notably the tendency to actively gather information to minimize uncertainty. …”

Cytoophidium complexes resonate with cell fates by Li, Y, Liu, J

“…Including CTPS, an increasing number of metabolic enzymes have been found to form cytoophidia in cells. However, the distribution and relationship among cytoophidia formed by different metabolic enzymes remain elusive. …”

Evaluation of three library automation systems : horizon, DRA and V-Lib by Chua, Seow Kie.

“…Despite the wealth of information on library automation systems, information on comprehensive functional and performance evaluation of library automation systems still seems lacking, particularly, in the context of local libraries' needs. …”
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The embodied, relational self: extending or rejecting the mind? by Gough, J

“…If they are correct, it initially seems damning for the view that the self is the mind. …”

Investigating Social Presence and Communication with Embodied Avatars in Room-Scale Virtual Reality by Greenwald, Scott W., Wang, Zhangyuan, Funk, Markus, Maes, Pattie

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Online game for Chinese chess by Lee, Jia Woei.

“…Most of the board games and card games have been converted to online games for players around the world to spar online. …”
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An experimental investigation on the noise emission and fuel consumption of diesel engine by Foo, Jin Yuan

“…Road traffic has always been a source of noise pollution owing to the rapid advancement in technology and growing population. …”
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Madrasah education in Singapore : the struggle to survive by Raihan Mohamed Yusoff

“…Discussion on madrasah education in Singapore seems to be circumscribed by the state’s perception of the attendant problems of madrasah education, the community’s negative reactions to the state’s policies regarding madrasah education, and parents’ perceptions of these madrasahs. …”
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Not a Religious War: Reacting to Killing of French Catholic Priest by Hedges, Paul

“…The killing of a French priest in a church in France seems to mark an escalation of ISIS/Daesh’s campaign in the West. …”
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Poincaré inequality for one forms on four manifolds with bounded Ricci curvature by Honda, S, Mondino, A

“…In this short note, we provide a quantitative global Poincar´e inequality for one forms on a closed Riemannian four manifold, in terms of an upper bound on the diameter, a positive lower bound on the volume, and a two-sided bound on Ricci curvature. This seems to be the first non-trivial result giving such an inequality without any higher curvature assumptions. …”

Factors affecting the extent of retirement planning in Singapore. by Law, Boon Huey., Kwek, Jenny Chiew Ling., Sim, Sei Lin.

“…Findings show that people tend to focus on financial planning and often neglect health and psychological planning. …”
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Topic extraction and sentiment analysis of subreddit - /r/Singapore by Lim, Shaun Wei Min

“…An essential part of understanding how humans interact with one another linked with their respective personalities has always been through finding out what they are thinking about. …”
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A multidomain relational framework to guide institutional AI research and adoption by Straub, VJ, Morgan, D, Hashem, Y, Francis, J, Esnaashari, S, Bright, J

“…Yet, most research and policy efforts aimed at understanding the implications of adopting AI tend to prioritize only a handful of ideas; they do not fully connect all the different perspectives and topics that are potentially relevant. …”

Multi-source cooperative networks by Pwint, Phyu Thein

“…Bandwidth efficient xor-based network coding seems to solve the problems of spectral inefficiency in cooperative communication. …”
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