"But why was I bored?" : Virginia Woolf's treatment of boredom by Akankasha Dewan

“…Secondly, this thesis will reveal that the aestheticism of boredom in Woolf’s novels points to a vision of literature that remains exalted in its consideration of the value of individual, human desire. The three chapters of this paper are divided according to the nuanced experience and expression of Woolfian boredom. …”
Get full text

Nanyang Technological University events management web application by Ang, Kok Jian

“…All essential software development documents have been included to allow easy comprehension by the reader. …”
Get full text

Unfinished business: legalisation and implementation in business and human rights by Palmer, C

“…At the transnational level, the thesis discusses the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs), which have been selected as representative of the range of hybrid schemes increasingly developed by government and industry representatives to ameliorate the impact of TNCs on human rights.…”

Strength and Conditioning for Team Sports : Sport-Specific Physical Preparation for High Performance / by Gamble, Paul, author 459233, Taylor & Francis Group (Online service) 645650

“…This remains the only evidence-based study of sport-specific practice to focus on team sports and features all-new chapters covering neuromuscular training, injury prevention and specific injury risks for different team sports. …”
Get full text

Novel Polymeric Materials for Environmental Applications / by Das, Paramita, editor 655455, Das, Subhasis (Subhasis K.), editor 655456, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…Such information is valuable and accelerates technological progress. Each chapter further gives the current fabrication methodology, challenges, and future scope of these materials related to their environmental applications. …”
Get full text

A Short History of South East Asia / by Church, Peter, editor 435931

“…A Short History of South-East Asia with revised chapters for all of the countries in this geographic area, this interesting text paints a remarkable overview of the characters and events that have shaped this part of the world. …”

Towards in-situ texture analysis during LPBF: optical microscopy and texture control by Wang, Xiaogang

“…Finally, I present my attempts atix enabling optical microstructural analysis, in-line, during L-PBF processes (Chapter 4). To this end, I integrated special surface processing techniques as well as the optical characterization methods described in the previous chapters inside a custom-made L-PBF system. …”
Get full text

Further studies of extreme learning machine and compressed signal detection by Cao, Jiuwen

“…In part II of the thesis (Chapters 5 and 6), we study the signal detection in CS. …”
Get full text

Writing Hong Kong Sinophonicity : history, gender and ethnicity in Hong Kong fiction by Long, Chao

“…Chapter two expands the purview of the historical inquiry in chapter one with its discussion of the notion of gendered Sinophonicity that is constructed in Wong Bik-wan’s Portraits of Martyred Women (1999) and Children of Darkness (2013). …”
Get full text
Get full text

Opportunities and Limitations of Earth Observation Technology for Environmental Justice Advocacy: A Case Study of Toxic Prisons in the U.S. by Ovienmhada, Ufuoma

“…However the application of this technology in measuring EJ, or supporting EJ advocacy efforts has not been widely explored. Satellite EO systems also historically have not been designed with EJ end users in mind. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Electronic structure of paramagnetic transition metal complexes by Al-Ameed, K

“…Four distinct projects are described in chapters 3-6, all of which are based on systems that have been synthesised in the laboratories of our collaborators, Professor Raphael Raptis at the Florida International University and Professor Yiannis Sanakis at the Democritus Institute in Athens. …”

Silent invader by Loh, Wei Ting

“…Silent Invader is an immersive installation that underlines the entanglement of human and microplastics in everyday life. The three animated chapters highlight the microplastic impact on land, water, and air. …”
Get full text

Development of a smart LED lighting system for sleeping hours by Lim, Fa Yuan

“…The prototype will utilize an Arduino Uno Microcontroller and use various Sensors and LEDs for demonstration. The following chapters will discuss the research conducted and the components used in the prototype. …”
Get full text

Evaluation of the music collection at the National Institute of Education Library by Yu, Bee Lian.

“…It lacks coverage in its collection of core music materials, this as revealed in its low percentage of holdings when selected chapters from the Basic Music Library were checked against the Library's holdings. …”
Get full text

Application of hydroformylation for the stereoselective synthesis of piperidine alkaloids by Sivarajan Kasinathan

“…The fourth chapter explores the advantages of application of hydroformylation in flow chemistry. …”
Get full text

An exposition of the Zhuangzi’s zhiyan (至言) by Koo, Hao Wei

“…The meaning of zhiyan (至言) in the Zhuangzi varies. In chapter 12, zhiyan is antithetical to suyan (俗言) or “customary sayings”. …”
Get full text

South Asian diasporas and (imaginary) homelands: narratives, representations and mediated exchanges by Clini, Clelia

“…This book will interest students and scholars of media, communication, popular culture, cultural studies, Asian studies, politics and sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.…”

Ecological forces affecting microbial eukaryotes in the coastal ocean by Gomez, Annika L.

“…The combined conclusions of these chapters demonstrate novel mechanisms by which top-down and bottom-up forces shape marine protistan communities.…”
Get full text

Understanding Chromatin Organization and Dynamics with Coarse-Grained Modeling by Liu, Shuming

“…In Chapter 2, we present novel CG force fields trained with contrastive learning. …”
Get full text

Nation in action : making Chinese in the rural borderland between China and North Korea by Chen, Shiwei

“…Part I includes three chapters, a historical overview of ethnogenesis and ethnic classification in China from top-down perspectives (Chapter 1), a review on the sociological studies of ethnicity and nationalism in everyday life (Chapter 2), methodology and a description of the main fieldsite, a village about 10 km from the North Korean-Chinese border (Chapter 3). …”
Get full text
Get full text