“Is delulu the solulu?”: Understanding parasocial relationships and fan participatory behaviour in K-pop by Yeo, Jocelin Zhi Ling

“…The need to belong was also found to be a mediator of the relationship between parasocial relationship and the motivation to learn. The findings of this study broadened the scope of studies surrounding parasocial relationships as it explores the motivation to acquire skills, extending it beyond understanding consumer behaviour and well-being. …”
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Human face recognition using line edge information by Gao, Yong Sheng.

“…It is a very encouraging finding that the proposed face recognition technique has performed consistently superior to (or equally well as) the Eigenface method in all the comparison experiments. …”
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A study on social network in Singapore by Wang, Hao

“…From the analysis it is also implied that participants come in contacts with more people in transportation vehicles on weekdays than on weekends probably due to more crowed public transportations. The findings on the gender influence shows that gender makes no significant differences in deciding the number of days people put off taking actions or the time frame people continue going to work/school after they have flu symptom. …”
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Enterprise content management solutions in the context of information lifecycle management (ILM). by Parameswari G. M.

“…This study has investigated whether ECM adopters have a tactical or strategic roadmap for the management of their information, whether their organisations have established new information management policies to cater to information stored in their ECM systems, whether various stakeholders from their organisations participate in decisions pertaining to management of the information in their ECM system, whether information is classified according to its financial value and the roles and responsibilities of those who manage information. Key findings of this study indicate that ECM solutions are largely implemented to cater to specific business needs and not necessarily with the intent to converge enterprise content into a single solution. …”
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中国汽车工业的产业结构及其调整战略 = The industrial structure of China's automobile industry and its reform by 王舜 Wang, Shun

“…The focus of this study is the comparison between the Chinese automobile industry and the world automobile industry in terms of production concentration and marketing strategies. The finding is that the Chinese automobile industry is featured as too many firms, too fragmented geographically, too isolated between firms in production corporation. …”
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Functional roles of transforming growth factor activated Kinase-1 (TAK1) in skin wound healing by Tan, Siew Hwey

“…TAK1-deficient keratinocytes displayed lamellipodia formation with distinct microspikes protrusions, which was associated with an elevated expression of integrins beta1 and beta5, and sustained activation of cdc42, Rac1 and RhoA. Our findings provide evidence for a novel homeostatic control of keratinocyte proliferation and migration, mediated via TAK1 regulation of pVHL. …”
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Detection of earnings manipulation in S-share firms listed on the Singapore stock exchange by Chen, Edison Haoyang, Danaraj Matthew Kumar, Lim, Jeffrey Liang Jun

“…A total of 102 S-share firms with four year of complete data were analyzed using the calculated M-Score values from 2007 to 2009 as shown in Appendix 1.The results suggest that the phenomenon of high earnings manipulation probability is systematic across S-share firms. The findings suggest that investors to be cautious about pricing S-share firms without taking into account the systematic risk of earnings manipulation. …”
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Influences of social tags choices on academic papers over time : a user centric approach. by Khasfariyati Razikin.

“…Additionally, there are significant differences in the influence of the individual themes over time. The findings in this study have brought forward the factors that influence the users’ choice of tags for academic papers over time that have both research and practical implications.…”
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Studies of DNA-interacting properties of certain topological enzymes by Lee, Jasmine Yiqin

“…The DNA-interacting properties of the two enzymes, Topoisomerase II and DNA gyrase were explored. These studies and findings have increased our knowledge between the topological properties of DNA and these enzymes. …”
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Ontology alignment for knowledge representation and integration : applications to biomedical text by Chua, Watson Wei Khong.

“…Ontology alignment refers to the task of finding correspondences between entities in different ontologies. …”
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Optimisation of stamp compliance for nanoimprint lithography : an experimental and simulation investigation of deformation of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and Ultraviolet Curable Po... by Ong, Zongjue

“…The true stress–strain curve is also tabulated by finding the Poisson’s ratio of each material and converting the engineering stress–strain curve to take into account for the reduction of cross-­‐sectional area during stretching. …”
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Financial assistance schemes for small & medium enterprises : an end-user perspective by Yeong, Kong, Ng, Tee Huat, Koh, Cheng Kiat

“…It may thus be inferred that there are other reasons to explain this phenomenon of low approval rate. Despite these findings, the report also attempts to provide recommendations to further improve the awareness and the effectiveness of the schemes. …”
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Predicting health conditions with palm prints by Kwek, Jerome Jia Long

“…This report intents to provide the research process, analysis and findings as well as to serve as a development guide for future developers working on the continuation of this project.…”
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Relationship between gestalt processing and affect recognition : comparing youths with and without autism by Khoo, Ser Wee

“…Both groups did not differ on their local processing as they had similar figure ground and scrambled stimuli scores. The findings did not fully support the weak central coherence theory, suggesting that the relationship between gestalt processing and affect recognition is less straightforward. …”
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Seek Singapore : stop the eye epidemic in kids by Ong, Evonne Hui Hoon, Lim, Jermaine Zhen Min, Conceicao, Joshua Francis, Tang, Suzanna Farid Shu Ling

“…Based on the research findings, key messages, the big idea of “Visualising Myopia” which formed the backbone of the campaign’s branding, creative tactics and campaign strategies of “education”, “engagement” and “empowerment” were conceived. …”
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Safety at road junctions by Han, Jia Min

“…Most of them were male drivers and do not possess a clean driving history. Both findings have pointed out that motorcyclists were the most culpable yet vulnerable group of road users. …”
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Study of construction productivity & conduct of literature review, design of survey questionnaire, analyse technology application to improve productivity for optimum performance in... by Ang, Pei Wen

“…The author hoped that the findings will assist the different project stakeholders as well as related organizations in the building and construction industry in making informed decisions on improving construction productivity in their projects and in Singapore.…”
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Familism and depression among Singaporeans with coronary heart disease: The mediating role of social support and self-perceived burden by Ma, Stephanie Hilary Xinyi

“…Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed that familism was not predictive of depressive symptoms, self-perceived burden and social support. …”
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The impact of "Maritime Silk Road" on trade between China and Obor countries : China’s container throughput forecast based on quantitative analysis by Xu, Junjie

“…This experiment results show service industry of China shares the most similar patterns with the gang of container throughput and export value of refined petrol products are the most influential cargo related to the overall China’s container throughput. This finding provides a basis for the prediction of future China’s container throughput when referring to China’s 13th five-year plan.…”
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Fragment screening for stabilizers and binders to human DJ-1 by Oh, Xu Xuan

“…This project focuses on finding ligands to increase the stability of DJ1 where its anti-oxidant properties help to reduce the rate of dopaminergic neurons degeneration, delaying onset of PD. …”
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