“Why do people kill each other?” (Tolstoy and empire) by Zorin, A

“…Tolstoy always believed that the resistance to invaders and the defence of land where humans were born, by which products they are fed and where they are going to life after death is natural, but considered this instinct as pre-moral and pre-Christian contradicting the personal moral conscience that unconditionally rejects all sorts of violence.…”

Mobile app for virtual study room by Ng, Yu Zhe

“…The application is designed with the mindset that students may not have access to a laptop or home computer, but does have a smart phone, and that because of that, having a mobile application that helps with learning, would be more convenient for them than to have to go to a website that might not scale well with their phones. …”
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Activity recognition from inertial sensors on a smartphone by Chee, Kok Hao

“…In this project, unobtrusive finding of a person’s activities is implemented through a smart phone. Decision of using android-based smart phone is chosen to monitor and derive recognition over the activities performed. …”
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My garden of you by Chen, Zhi Lin

“…When my youngest brother was born, my paternal grandmother from Taiwan flew exactly 3,231 kilometres from home to be with my family to look after him when my parents were at work. …”
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Machine learning driven synthesis of two-dimensional materials by Chia, Jia Jun

“…No humans are born perfect and as such people tend to make mistakes or have limited capabilities in certain aspect as compared to machines. …”
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Soft cells and the geometry of seashells by Domokos, G, Goriely, A, Horváth, ÁG, Regős, K

“…Remarkably, these ideal soft shapes, born out of geometry, are found abundantly in nature, from cells to shells.…”

Negotiating time in British Malaya : colonial Singapore’s role in time legislature, 1895 – 1933 by Teo, Grace Jie Ying

“…This paper argues that the various time changes in Singapore and British Malaya between 1895 to 1933 were products borne of influence from international agreements, yet more strongly bear the marks of local negotiation. …”
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High-resolution synthetic population mapping for quantifying disparities in disaster impacts: an application in the Bangladesh Coastal Zone by Rubinyi, S, Verschuur, J, Goldblatt, R, Gussenbauer, J, Kowarik, A, Mannix, J, Bottoms, B, Hall, J

“…The impacts of natural disasters are often disproportionally borne by poor or otherwise marginalized groups. However, while disaster risk modelling studies have made progress in quantifying the exposure of populations, limited advances have been made in determining the socioeconomic characteristics of these exposed populations. …”

Mobile apps development for NTU canteens by Chua, Joy Yun Hui

“…Nearly two-fifths of all mobile phone users—close to one-quarter of the worldwide population—will use a Smartphone at least monthly in 2014. …”
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Mobile visual product search by Yang, Zhongxiu

“…With the rapid development of mobile visual search technology, image recognition becomes a hot topic for development and research. Nowadays, mobile phone is an indispensable gadget in people’s life. …”
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Performance of photogrammetry-based makeshift 3D scanning system for geometrical object in reverse engineering by Muhammad Nur Farhan, Saniman, Hariz Syahmi, Zulkifli, Muhammad Izhar, Ishak, Khairul Anuar, Abd Wahid, Amzari, Zhahir, Wan Mansor, Wan Muhamad

“…Thus, this research aims to investigate the feasibility of a low-cost makeshift 3D scanner using a mobile phone and the photogrammetry method in reconstructing digital 3D models of geometrical objects. …”
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Task oriented feature extraction for complex human activity recognition by Mohammed Mobark Salem Wahdeen

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The rise and fall of Britain’s golden cohort: how the remarkable generation of 1925-1934 had their lives cut short by austerity by Hiam, L, Dorling, D

“…The British born between 1925 and 1934 experienced exceptional improvements in their annual mortality; earning them the title ‘the Golden Cohort’. …”

Constructions of Japan and the Japanese : war, memory and foreign policy in Singapore by Liu, Joseph Woon Keong

“…The collaborative mode of memory was born of the political and economic engagements with Japan since Singapore’s independence. …”
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Moral cultivation, meritocracy and the origin of petty people: a hypothesis by Lee, Sheng Yue

“…Specifically, one of the main problems in accounting for petty people is that everyone is born as a petty person and petty people are defined to be people who freely express their dispositions and do not pursue moral cultivation, but some are able to undergo ethical transformation and some remain as petty people. …”
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Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. <i>Rule Britannia</i> is a powerful call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our society and embracing our true strengths.…”

Unraveling the association between socioeconomic diversity and consumer price index in a tourism country by Leng, Yan, Babwany, Nakash Ali, Pentland, Alex

“…In this paper, we explore the relationship between diversity measures extracted from large-scale and high-resolution mobile phone data, and the CPIs in different sectors in a tourism country. …”
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Wi-Fi based occupancy estimation in indoor environment by Lee, Seng Ngee

“…Due to the growth of mobile phone usage and the technological advancement of Wi-Fi, all age groups have since stated to use their mobile phone more often to surf the internet compared to a decade ago. …”
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Virtual piano by Tan, Alan Lai Chian

“…Smartphones are small but powerful devices, providing humans with countless uses, from making phone calls and taking photos, to accessing the Internet from almost anywhere. …”
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Review of the aetiologies of central nervous system infections in Vietnam by Brindle, HE, Choisy, M, Christley, R, French, N, Griffiths, M, Thai, PQ, van Doorn, HR, Nadjm, B

“…In particular, we focus on the most common pathogens in adults and children including Streptococcus suis which is associated with the consumption of raw pig products, and Japanese encephalitis virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen. We also discuss pathogens less commonly known to cause CNS infections in Vietnam but have been detected in neighbouring countries such as Orientia tsutsugamushi, Rickettsia typhi and Leptospira species and how these may contribute to the unknown causes in Vietnam. …”