Tracing Our Roots by Yeo, Cassandra Wei Shan, Chan, Cheryl Shi Hui, Lim, Daniel Yong En, Lee, Velyn Hui Min

“…Tracing Our Roots is a communications campaign by four final-year undergraduates from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, targeted at promoting natural heritage to Singaporean youths aged 19 to 25. …”
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Comparison of text messaging data collection vs face-to-face interviews for public health surveys : a cluster randomized crossover study of care-seeking for childhood pneumonia and... by van Velthoven, Michelle Helena, Wang, Wei, Wu, Qiong, Li, Ye, Scherpbier, Robert W, Du, Xiaozhen, Chen, Li, Zhang, Yanfeng, Car, Josip, Rudan, Igor

“…Background: To compare text messaging and face-to-face interviews to conduct a survey on childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia. …”
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Co-located face-to-face social interaction using multiple smartphones by Tee, Yu Chao

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The effect of rare-earth nanoparticles on drug delivery by Li, Linda Shi Wen

“…This project aims to explore and develop a rare-earth based nanoparticle as a drug delivery vehicle. …”
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The trembling-hand problem for LTLf planning by Yu, P, Zhu, S, De Giacomo, G, Vardi, M

“…We study the trembling-hand problem in the context of reasoning about actions and planning for temporally extended goals expressed in Linear Temporal Logic on finite traces (LTLf), where we want to synthesize a strategy (aka plan) that maximizes the probability of satisfying the LTLf goal in spite of the trembling hand. …”

Study of face detection and tracking by Khew, Zong Jie.

“…During the last decades, there had been numerous proposition and research on methods for face detection and face tracking. …”
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Ray tracing and channel modelling for slant communication links by Lin, Jin De.

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Comparing the effectiveness of online and face-to-face teaching and learning methods in an engineering course during and after the COVID-19 pandemic by Diana Che Lat, Doris Asmani Mat Yusof, Nurul Ainain Mohd Salim, Roslizayati Razali

“…Overall, there was a drastic decrease in assessment grades for semesters that experienced a change in the teaching and learning process from online to face-to-face.…”
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An experimental setup for physiological evaluation of face mask by Joseph, Frank Gerard

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has increased public awareness on the importance of using face masks to control the spread of diseases. This had resulted in increased public interest in face mask construction and effectiveness to prevent the spread of airborne pathogens. …”
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Tunnel face stability in non-homogeneous soil by Khezri, Nima

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The effectiveness of different types of monetary incentives to download the TraceTogether application by Lim, Mei Hui, Liu, Lingshan, Ng, Shu Min

“…The main findings of this study were (i) Participants were more willing to download the TraceTogether application with monetary incentives compared to no monetary incentives, (ii) All participants in the “choice” group chose to receive direct payment, (iii) Most participants believed that direct payment would result in the highest number of people downloading a contact tracing application, (iv) “Direct payment”, “gift card” and “choice” had statistically lower minimum WTA than “charity donation” and (v) There is no statistically significant difference between the minimum WTA of “choice” and “direct payment”, “direct payment” and “gift card”, as well as “gift card” and “choice”.…”
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Hand gesture-based interactive musical and visual experiential system by Chua, Kok Liang

“…The Leap Motion device in particular is a sensor device that supports extremely accurate hand and finger motions as input and has been used in the areas of science and the medical field. …”
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Deep self-supervised representation learning for free-hand sketch by Xu, Peng, Song, Zeyu, Yin, Qiyue, Song, Yi-Zhe, Wang, Liang

“…In this paper, we tackle for the first time, the problem of self-supervised representation learning for free-hand sketches. This importantly addresses a common problem faced by the sketch community - that annotated supervisory data are difficult to obtain. …”
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A high-performance electric motor without rare-earth magnets for automated ground vehicles by Goh, Jun wei

“…The majority of electric vehicle motors now employ rare-earth elements, which are in short supply. Hence, the objective of this report is to investigate the use of non-rare-earth materials in achieving high-performance levels for AGV applications. …”
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Cerium oxide for L-band Q-switched pulse laser generation by Mansor, M., Zainol Abidin, N.H., Ng, E.K., Garg, A.K., Liew, J.Y.C., Alresheedi, M.T., Mahdi, M.A.

“…Cerium oxide (CeO2), a rare earth metal oxide belonging to the lanthanide group is a mature engineered nanoparticle that has been developed for various industry applications. …”
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Band-gap engineering for multi-colored perovskite solar cell windows by Tay, Yu Xian

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Simultaneous ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared continuous-wave lasing in a rare-earth-doped microcavity by Jiang, Bo, Zhu, Song, Ren, Linhao, Shi, Lei, Zhang, Xinliang

“…The thresholds of all the lasing bands are estimated to be at the submilliwatt level, where both the ultraviolet and violet continuous wave upconversion lasing from rare earth elements has not been separately demonstrated under room temperature until this work. …”
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Preserving Mojiang Hani hand weaving techniques: understanding complexity for culture and sustainable development by Mingquan, Liu, Yahaya, Siti Rohaya, Chunli, Guo, Yan, Huang

“…Beyond immediate preservation efforts, these suggestions form a solid foundation for future research endeavors and the sustainable development of Mojiang Hani hand weaving techniques, fostering a continuum of cultural heritage in the face of contemporary challenges…”
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Negative density dependence promotes persistence of a globally rare yet locally abundant plant species Oenothera coloradensis by Stears, AE, Heidel, B, Paniw, M, Salguero-Gómez, R, Laughlin, DC

“…The five mechanisms of persistence explored in our study have been demonstrated as effective strategies in other species, and the fact that only one of them had strong support here supports the idea that globally rare species can employ distinct persistence strategies. …”

Contribution of rare chromosome 22q11.2 copy number variants to non-syndromic bicuspid aortic valve by DiGregorio, H, Mansoorshahi, S, Carlisle, SG, Tovar Pensa, C, Watts, A, McNeely, C, Sabate-Rotes, A, Yetman, A, Michelena, HI, De Backer, JFA, Mosquera, LM, Bissell, MM, Andreassi, MG, Foffa, I, Hui, DS, Caffarelli, A, Kim, YY, Citro, R, De Marco, M, Tretter, JT, McBride, KL, Body, SC, Milewicz, DM, Prakash, SK

“…These CNVs were significantly enriched compared with the general population and segregated with BAV in families. Individuals carrying rare 22q11.2 CNVs had a higher prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses and learning difficulties, although they did not exhibit the typical features of 22q11.2DS. …”