Curiosity Opens Relationships of the World and with Others: Narratives from Doing Teaching and Learning Through Curiosity by Cavicchi, Elizabeth

“…What potentials does curiosity bear for education? Some characterizations portray curiosity as self-motivated search for answers, a drive conformable with conventional education’s imperative for correct answers. …”
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Structural behavior of tubular frame under elevated temperature by Tan, Peng Hoe.

“…In this study, a two-bay-two-floor steel tubular frame, separated as four individual compartments, was modeled to investigate the behaviour of tubular frame under transient elevated temperature. To bear a resemblance to real fire condition, transient elevated temperature analysis was run to provide a more realistic solution. …”
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PLATON: top-down R-tree packing with learned partition policy by Yang, Jingyi, Cong, Gao

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Land reclamation without using soil-fills by Yeo, Eng Swee

“…The retaining wall structure constructed must be able to bear the lateral loading of 10 m to 20 m of seawater level. …”
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Intelligent database design for microgrids in low voltage distribution systems-I GUI and database design by Ng, Pei Fen

“…Climatic change can lead to consequences such as increasing cases of heat-related illness, endangering wildlife like polar bears and rising of sea level that would trigger natural disasters leading to individual losing their homes. [51] Due to extensively use of electricity in this contemporary society, there arises a need to seek for alternative energy sources, if at all possible renewable resources such as wind and solar. …”
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从流传和演变角度探析民间童话故事《虎姑婆》的教育意义 = An investigation of the transmission and educational implication of the folk tale “Aunt Tiger” by 黄思蓉 Wong, Sirong

“…The story was circulated to different areas in China and Taiwan, and as time went by, the title of the story took different forms such as “Grandma Fox”, “Grandma Bear”, “Grandma Tiger”, and “Mother Tiger”. My main goal in this thesis is to compare the story patterns of the same story that appeared in China and Taiwan. …”
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Community health workers: efficacy, taxonomy, and performance by Ballard, M

“…</p> <p><b>Conclusion:</b> In bringing the tools of evidence based practice to bear on community health worker interventions, this dissertation has contributed to the theoretical, methodological, and empirical evidence base from which the field can continue to advance.…”

Enhancing early warning: A DNA biosensor with polyaniline/graphene nanocomposite for label-free voltammetric detection of saxitoxin-producing harmful algae by Chwan Chuong Chin, Jeremy Jason, Akbar, Muhamad Afiq, Mohd Yusof, Nurul Yuziana, Pike, Andrew, Goh, Choo Ta, Mustapha, Shuhadah, Tan, Ling Ling

“…Yearly reports of detrimental effects resulting from harmful algal blooms (HAB) are still received in Malaysia and other countries, particularly concerning fish mortality and seafood contamination, both of which bear consequences for the fisheries industry. The underlying reason is the absence of a dependable early warning system. …”
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N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed atroposelective annulation for access to thiazine derivatives with C-N axial chirality by Li, Tingting, Mou, Chengli, Qi, Puying, Peng, Xiaolin, Jiang, Shichun, Hao, Gefei, Xue, Wei, Yang, Song, Hao, Lin, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Jin, Zhichao

“…The obtained axially chiral thiazine derivative products bear multiple functional groups and are feasible for further transformations.…”
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Inorganic nanoparticles–driven self–assembly of natural small molecules in water for constructing multifunctional nanocapsules against plant diseases by Liu, Li-Wei, Ding, Zheng-Hao, Ren, Gang-Gang, Wang, Guang-Di, Pan, Xin, Wei, Guo-Hai, Zhou, Xiang, Wu, Zhi-Bing, Jin, Zhi-Chao, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Yang, Song

“…Additionally, both the inner cavities and outer surfaces of nanocapsules bear abundant sites and spaces that can be further tuned for loading other pesticide molecules or flexible construct complex multifunctional nanoparticles. …”
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Investigating the role of self-sacrificing prosociality in intragroup and intergroup contexts by Katna, Dashalini P.

“…Parochial cooperation theories assume that strongly self-sacrificing members primarily desire and seek to achieve ingroup-favouring outcomes, and consequently become prepared to bear extreme costs to themselves. This altruism to help, however, does not always extend into intergroup contexts. …”
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论李世民音乐政治观对儒家礼乐思想的继承和转化 = A study on Li Shimin music-politics: inheritance and transformation of Confucian ritual and music thought by 许惠佳 Koh, Hwee Kay

“…To a certain extent, he had inherited Yueji, Confucian ritual and Music thought - which extensively covers the social influence and educational function of music to society – while at the same time, his Music-politics thought bears much resemblance to those of Ji Kang. This article hopes to explore in detail Li Shimin’s Music-politics thought, and by using Yueji as a comparison, analyses how his inheritance and transformation of Confucian Ritual and Music thought played an important role in shaping the Tang Culture.…”
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Modelling and characterization of membrane fouling in osmotically-driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Lai, Li

“…Performance of neural networks bears strong relationship with learning rate, number of hidden layers and number of nodes in hidden layer. …”
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新加坡华人对中国的贡献 ：新加坡城市规划之父刘太格个案研究 = Contributions of Singaporean Chinese to China : a case study on Singapore’s father of city planning Liu Thai Ker... by 冯时辉 Phang, Shi Hwee

“…However, in the fields of urban planning and development which bears the origins to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries was left unexplored by the academic circles. …”
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Patient-Centered Clinical Trial Design for Heart Failure Devices via Bayesian Decision Analysis by Chaudhuri, Shomesh E., Adamson, Phillip, Bruhn-Ding, Dean, Ben Chaouch, Zied, Gebben, David, Rincon-Gonzalez, Liliana, Liden, Barry, Reed, Shelby D., Saha, Anindita, Schaber, Daniel, Stein, Kenneth, Tarver, Michelle E., Lo, Andrew W.

“…This result reflects the willingness of heart failure patients to bear additional risks of the investigational device in exchange for its probable benefits. …”
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Towards Synergistic Understanding of Language Processing in Biological and Artificial Systems by Hosseini Asl, Eghbal

“…Over the past five years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have achieved capabilities in the comprehension and production of language that are indistinguishable from those of humans, and their internal representations bear similarity to activity within the language network. …”
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Brewers’ spent grains as potential novel functional food ingredients for food security by Tan, Yong Xing

“…BSG are residues generated as side streams from beer production. Currently, BSG are used as animal feed or disposed in landfills and these massive amount of BSG generated annually are causing significant environmental, economic, and climatic issues. …”
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Comparison of transport methodologies on near-field pollutant dispersion in urban environments using CFD by Tee, Clarence Wei Tat

“…The two methodologies are validated by simulating the dispersion phenomena for two test cases which largely bear resemblance to urban settings: a three-dimensional street canyon setup and the Mock Urban Setting Test (MUST) field experiment. …”
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Export competitiveness in the context of Singapore by Chew, Kheng Lee, Phua, Chin Tiong, Yau, Puay Hiang

“…Last but not least, we must bear in mind that Singapore is only a small economy. …”
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Multi-carrier M-ary DCSK system with code index modulation : an efficient solution for chaotic communications by Cai, Guofa, Fang, Yi, Wen, Jinming, Mumtaz, Shahid, Song, Yang, Frascolla, Valerio

“…In the proposed CIMMC-M-DCSK system, the reference and information-bearing signals for each subcarrier can be transmitted simultaneously by using the orthogonal sinusoidal carriers, where the information bearing signal adopts the M-DCSK modulation to further increase the data rate. …”
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