What makes you beautiful? A multimodal discourse analysis of female beauty ideals in print advertisements in Singapore shopping centres by Ong, Fonda Zheng Jing

“…Adopting a discourse analysis type of approach, similar to Fairclough’s (1989) framework, this study looks at the features the advertisers used to get women to create particular meanings when they view the advertisements, such as the choice of lexical items, language(s), colloquialisms, and images used. …”
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Noise cancellation algorithm for respiratory sound classification by Soh, Marianne Hui Ying

“…This project will present on the development and implementation of the LMS algorithm on MATLAB to remove undesired noises to get a clearer and cleaner signal. The results and findings will also be discussed. …”
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Medical tablets identification : mobile phone application development by Pang, Michelle Hui Qi

“…From pills with similar names, to pills with similar physical appearance, as well as pills that have the same usage but are of different dosages, it is very easy for patients to get confused (Health Behaviour News Service, 2013). …”
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Nanyang venture formula 1: testing and performance evaluation of formula vehicle under FSAE on-track regime by Yip, Seng Han

“…Work was put into these systems to remedy certain flaws and to get them to fulfil the competition rules. Vehicle dynamics study was done to better understand the effect of steering geometry and suspension setup for vehicle optimization. …”
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Toughening of polymers using blending by Li, Daniel Dahao.

“…The many applications of polymer means that polymer is seldom used in its virgin form today; instead, a polymer is blended with another polymer to get the desired mechanical, chemical or even aesthetic properties. …”
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Haze removal from an image via generative adversarial networks by Cheng, Mun Chew

“…The performance of computer vision applications like autonomous vehicles, satellite imaging can get affected by real-world conditions such as haze, smoke and rain particles. …”
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How are you, really? Let's talk by Tan, Yi Ting

“…The intention with this final year project was to help me get a better understanding of the perspectives involved in mental health services in Singapore, especially from those who have used them. …”
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Polyoxometalates crystal growth, crystal structure, characterization and photocatalytic activities by Ren, Jie

“…The phenol solution is taken out at 25 minutes interval for 100 minutes and using the centrifuge procedure to get the oxide solution respectively. The UV spectra is applied to measure the amount of phenol reacted and hence calculated the efficiency of synthesized POMs as a catalyzer in phenol oxidation reaction.…”
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Banking behaviour of expatriate lecturers in Singapore. by Goh, Amy., Phua, Nai Hsin., Poh, Siok Peng.

“…The main objective of this study is to establish the bank selection criteria of expatriate lecturers and to get them to make comparison between their main banks in their home country and in Singapore. …”
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Modeling renography data and formulating indices for quantitative means in differentiating kidney obstruction by Suriyanto

“…The kidney has a main role in the blood filtration process to get rid of waste materials and maintain homeostatic functions, such as regulation of electrolytes, maintenance of acid-base balance and regulation of blood pressure. …”
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Face recognition in color space by Zhao, Tiansi

“…So after the grey level research and get familiar with this technology, the main objective of this project is investigate the face recognition of various color spaces and compare its performance with that based on the grey level images to find the better way of face recognize processing.…”
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Machine translation of software-specific documentations by Tee, Li Yin

“…Lastly, we evaluate our test sets with BLEU (bilingual evaluation understudy) and WER (word error rate) to get the translation quality and find out how this model and what is the problem and what can be improved.…”
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Development of an app for Android phones by Poh, Jonathan Shengliang

“…To provide students with a medium to learn and get exposed to engineering topics, electrical and electronics engineering in particular, an edutainment android application is being developed. …”
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Spalling detection via deep transfer network by Wu, Ruida

“…These IPTs are able to extract flaw parts such as cracks from images, but face challenges while analyzing images under various environmental factors (e.g. lightening, shadow). In order to get a better performance in detecting civil infrastructure problem, a method based on deep learning for spalling detection could be developed. …”
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Design and construction of a machine-tractable Malay-English lexicon by Bond, Francis, Yamazaki, Takefumi., Quah, Chiew Kin.

“…Secondly, to use a well-developed semantic ontology, in our case the semantic classes from the 2,710 classes used in the machine-tractable Japanese-English Goi-Taikei ontology. Thirdly, to get as wide cover as possible. The lexicon currently contains around 91,000 Malay-English pairs. …”
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Materiality of common good objects by Khonsari, Torange

“…This chapter uses one specific project from the commons organisation the author co-founded entitled Public Works in a neighbourhood in East London (Bow) where she initiated the project in 2014 after being asked to get involved by local residents. Methods in this chapter are framed as forms of common good production and practices within case studies and projects conducted directly by the author. …”
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Migrant maths teachers: deficit, translanguaging, and growing authority by Benson, Alan

“…It shows how the ideology of Standard English can create an uncomfortable sense of different deficits amongst multilingual professionals and evidences how these can be addressed through a model of authority in which teachers get the right mix of mathematical subject knowledge (epistemic authority), the use of school practices and expectations (practical authority), and individual biography (personal authority). …”
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Mechanical problem solving by plush-crested jays: are tools special after all? by Lois-Milevicich, J, Rat-Fischer, L, de la Colina, MA, Gómez, RO, Reboreda, JC, Kacelnik, A

“…In the NT task birds had to open a box with a transparent lid blocked by a latch to get a reward, whereas in the T task, they had to use a rake to pull out the reward from the box. …”

The do's and don'ts of quantum memory in cryptanalysis by Jaques, S

“…<p>This thesis refines the estimates of the costs to attack three different cryptographic problems. To get there, I first survey some fundamental issues in quantum computing. …”

Experimental and numerical studies on the cyclic performance of structural frames equipped with bar dampers by Ghaedi, Khaled, Javanmardi, Ahad, Ibrahim, Zainah, Gordan, Meisam, S. M. Rashid, Raizal, Khatibi, Hamed, Vaghei, Ramin

“…To evaluate the BD effectiveness, a preliminary pushover analysis was performed on a semi-rigid frame equipped with BD devices and compared to bare rigid and semi-rigid frames to get a perception of the BD effect on stress distributions of the frames. …”