Competition in rig building by Toh, Jermaine Yahui.

“…This paper sets out to evaluate the competitiveness of Singapore relative to her two biggest rivals, South Korea and China, in the global rig-building industry with special focus on the three main MODU types, namely jack-up rigs, semi-submersible rigs and drillships. …”
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Profiling heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease using white-matter impairment factors by Sui, Xiuchao, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…For each participant, LDA estimates his/her composition profile of latent impairment factors, which indicates disease subtype. …”
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Factors influencing intent-oriented behaviour of transport-energy saving measures among personnel of Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur by Chan, Shiau Cin

“…To reduce the negative effects of climate change, one should first reduce his or her energy consumption. Energy conservation can be achieved through adoption of technological and behavioural changes. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigations of press-braked stainless steel channel section beam-columns by Zhang, Lulu, Li, Shuai, Tan, Kang Hai, Zhao, Ou

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Muslim Women in Britain, 1850-1950 : 100 Years of Hidden History / by Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya, editor 655989, Gilham, Jamie, editor 655990

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Ocular delivery of predatory bacteria with cryomicroneedles against eye infection by Cui, Mingyue, Zheng, Mengjia, Wiraja, Christian, Chew, Sharon Wan Ting, Mishra, Arti, Mayandi, Venkatesh, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Xu, Chenjie

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The association between patterns of weight change, diabetes status and glycaemia among adults with overweight and obesity by Yin, Ruoyu, Ahern, Amy L., Lafortune, Louise, Griffin, Simon J., Strelitz, Jean M., Mueller, Julia

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性格特征、代际差异与职场冲突 ：中国90后研究 = Personality traits, generation gaps and challenges in the workplace : a study of China’s post-90s generation by 魏妙凌 Ngai, Jasmine Miao Ling

“…This caused most Post-90s to enjoy the benefits from the China Economic Reform on his or her own. Under these conditions, the Post-90s grew up developing distinct characteristics and personality traits. …”
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Metal sulfides for electrochemical energy storage and conversion by Wang, Jin

“…As the in-depth understanding of electrochemical reaction mechanisms is significant for advancing different energy storage and conversion devices, this thesis also performs the fundamental investigation of the lithium/sodium storage mechanisms, and the mechanisms of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The cause for enhanced performance has been also carefully explored. …”
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Worst-Case Mechanism Design via Bayesian Analysis by Bei, Xiaohui, Chen, Ning, Gravin, Nick, Lu, Pinyan

“…Budget feasible mechanism design is the study of procurement combinatorial auctions in which the sellers have private costs to produce items, and the buyer (auctioneer) aims to maximize her valuation function on a subset of purchased items under the budget constraint on the total payment. …”
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Human agency and instrumental rationality: applying human capital to gender inequalities and intergenerational stratification by Luo, H

“…This phenomenon is strongly influenced by traditional gender ideologies, and notably, these ideologies become reinforced when a wife's underutilization of her education aligns with a growth in family income.…”

Fictions of youth: childness in selected West African novels, 1991-2009 by Moellenberg, T

“…The child is drained of a convincing sense of an individuality and agency of his or her own.</p> <p>Chapter 3 continues to explore the figure of the child as a complex and multivalent symbol. …”

Understanding Drivers of Deforestation using Games on Spatial Networks by Seby, Jean-Baptiste

“…Firstly, we conduct equilibrium analysis of a game in which each agent decides the production levels of her coupled activities in the presence of network effects. …”
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Estrogenic post-menopausal anti-osteoporotic mechanism of Achyranthes aspera L.: Phytochemicals and network pharmacology approaches by Huq, AKM Moyeenul, Stanslas, Johnson, Nizhum, Nisarat, Uddin, Md. Nazim, Maulidiani, Maulidiani, Roney, Miah, Abas, Faridah, Jamal, Jamia Azdina

“…Molecular docking analysis of the compounds revealed potential interactions with hERα receptor for 3-O-(6′-O-(9Z,12Z-octadecadienoyl)-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-stigmast-5,22E-dien-3β-ol and kaempferol-3-O-glucoside (astragalin) (docking scores of −9.3 and −10.1 kcal/mol, respectively) as compared to 17β-estradiol (−9.3 kcal/mol). …”
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Towards sustainable socially-aware mobile crowdsensing : leveraging hierarchical game for incentive mechanisms by Nie, Jiangtian

“…For example, in health-related crowdsensing applications, a mobile user benefits from information regarding food, exercise, medicine and medical treatment collected and shared by her socially-connected friends and family members. …”
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Synthesis of metal nanomaterials with unconventional crystal phases and their applications in electrocatalysis by Liu, Jiawei

“…Besides, taking advantage of the 1D/2D hierarchical structure, the 1D/2D Rh-Au heterostructure shows promising electrocatalytic performance toward the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in acidic media. On the other hand, phase-controlled synthesis of bimetallic Pd3Sn nanorods, including the ordered L12 phase and the disordered fcc phase, is achieved via wet-chemical methods. …”
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Waffle-inspired hydrogel-based macrodevice for spatially controlled distribution of encapsulated therapeutic microtissues and pro-angiogenic endothelial cells by Pham, Chi H. L., Zuo, Yicong, Chen, Yang, Tran, Nam M., Nguyen, Dang T., Dang, Tram T.

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Electrospun carbon-silica composite nanofibers for selective removal of oil and water by Tai, Ming Hang

“…The microstructure of CNF is turbostratic with the carbon atomic sheets stacked together randomly. Despite non-crystalline structure, the CNFs could withstand a temperature as high as 500°C. …”
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Multi-colony coral skeletal Ba/Ca from Singapore’s turbid urban reefs : relationship with contemporaneous in-situ seawater parameters by Tanzil, Jani Thuaibah Isa, Goodkin, Nathalie Fairbank, Sin, T. M., Chen, Mengli, Fabbro, Gareth Nicholas, Boyle, E. A., Lee, A. C., Toh, K. B.

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Conditional prosociality in development: deconstructing social and materialistic factors that modulate early prosocial behavior by Lee, Kristy Jia Jin

“…Children witnessed the transgressor destroy the victim's tower of blocks, responded to the victim's pleas for help in rebuilding her tower, and shared resources with both actresses. …”
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