Easing the “second-shift” burden : grandparental childcare and the subjective wellbeing of working mothers in Singapore by Cheo, Rachel Ka Yang

“…However, it is still common for working mothers to bear the brunt of both domestic and paid work. In the present study, I explored the role of grandparents as providers of childcare for their grandchildren in contemporary Singapore. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. …”

Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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Crushing of braced tubes by Ho, Teng Chye.

“…Another part of the project was to determine energy absorption behavior of origami tubes fabricated using polypropylene sheets. The crushing test revealed a difference in the trend of the force vs displacement curves as the test was repeated. …”
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Bottom up electro deposition and flat surface finishing in micro-trench metal filling process by Guan, Aaron Zhi Xiong.

“…The electroplated sample were embedded in acrylic cold mounting resin, then cut and polished using Minitom with EXTEC diamond wafer blade (4") and variable speed grinder-polisher (ECOMET 6, BUEHLER) with abrasive sheets (EXTEC) of grit range from 400 to 4000.…”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…In the aerospace engineering, many metal parts produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique often bear cyclic loadings, so the fatigue failures of AM alloy parts become very common phenomena. …”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The principle requires those responsible for environmental damage or imminent threats of damage to bear the necessary costs of remediation and prevention. …”
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Electronic and optoelectronic devices using chemical vapour deposited 2D materials by Fan, Y

“…<p>Two dimensional (2D) materials bear a lot of expectations on playing important role in next generation electronics and optoelectronics. …”

Structure of mushy layers grown from perfectly and imperfectly conducting boundaries. Part 1. Diffusive solidification by Hitchen, JR, Wells, AJ

“…Low concentration ratio leads to low porosity throughout most of the mushy layer, except for a high-porosity boundary layer localised near the mush–liquid interface. …”

Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Findings from this study have shown that alginate-encapsulated probiotic beads, produced via extrusion method, can exhibit a protective effect in an acidic/bactericidal environment and resulted in a significant improvement in viability as compared to unencapsulated ones in commercialized carbonated sodas/beers. …”
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Adventures in low-valent germanium chemistry by Mangan, R

“…For instance, oxidative addition of certain cations with ammonia leads to a subsequent elimination. Attempts towards the synthesis of multiple bonds is described, and the novel compounds this leads to discussed; for instance, reaction of a boryl-substituted cation with trimethylsilylazide leads to the formation of the first germylium azide. …”

Microfluidic plasma extraction from blood using wash-free pneumatic system by Lin, Yun Jia

“…The development of an automated wash-free pneumatic system for plasma extraction is beneficial for POC as it enables healthcare providers to obtain high quality plasma samples for diagnostic testing, improving the accuracy of blood test results and reducing the need for repeated tests. This can lead to better patient outcomes, faster diagnosis, and more efficient use of healthcare resources.…”
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Scalable optical manufacture of dynamic structural colour in stretchable materials by Miller, Benjamin Harvey, Liu, Helen, Kolle, Mathias

“…Here, by adapting Lippmann photography5, we report an approach for producing large-area, structurally coloured sheets with a rich and easily controlled design space of colour patterns, spectral properties, angular scattering characteristics and responses to mechanical stimuli. …”
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Leveraging Multi-Stage Machine Learning Pipelines for Extracting Structured Key-Value Pairs from Documents by Pyo, Bryan

“…This thesis discusses several pipelines that have been developed to extract data in the form of key-value pairs from specification sheets describing mechanical parts achieving accuracies ranging from 80% to 100% depending on the pipeline and the target documents and key-value pairs.…”
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Three-dimensional structure of human β-defensin 28 via homology modelling and molecular dynamics by Kwak, Sang Kyu, Chen, Wenwen, Tay, Derrick Kok Sing, Leong, Susanna Su Jan

“…In comparison with circular dichroism experimental data as well as stabilities of β-sheets and α-helix, HBD-28 with a reliable 3D structure was found.…”
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Fabrication and characterization of flexible-conductive nanocomposites by Lau, Jun Jie

“…The active electrodes were fabricated from 3D porous MnO2 assembled from cross-walled and interconnected sheet-architectural MnO2 on CNF based paper substrates. …”
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Influence of nanoclay on the morphology of polypropylene foam by Chan, Weng Wan

“…Extrusion allows for high volume production of various items such as sheets, tubes and films. The thermoplastic foams are lightweight, have a high strength to weight ratios and good thermal and acoustic insulation. …”
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Experimental determination of dust cloud deflagration parameters of selected hydrogen storage materials: Complex metal hydrides, chemical hydrides, and adsorbents by Khalil, YF

“…These insights are also critical for designing adequate safety features such as explosion relief venting and isolation devices and for supplementing missing data in materials safety data sheets.…”

Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Another antibody, Avastin®, indicated for bowel cancer, accounted for $6.7 billion among these top-selling drugs, while Herceptin®, used to treat breast cancer, had sales of $6.6 billion. These numbers bear eloquent testimony to the increasing demand for protein therapeutics. …”
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Removal of calcium and magnesium ions by biochar adsorption by Yaw, Hwee Sin

“…The rapid growth of the economy leads to problems caused by urbanisation, industrialization, and agricultural practices. …”
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