The battle for Asia in crude oil markets: an easier road ahead for India? by Sen, A

“…Even though the drop in prices is unlikely to last (given the high cost on the supply side) and prices are likely to pick back up to at least the US$80–100 per barrel range in the coming years, India will remain in a privileged position compared to a few years ago, as the continued growth of US tight oil means producers from all around the world will still focus on Asia to sell their crude. …”

Learning to detect partially overlapping instances by Arteta, C, Lempitsky, V, Noble, JA, Zisserman, A

“…For example, our detector can pick a region containing two or three object instances, while assigning such region an appropriate label. …”

Effective surface modification of 2D MXene toward thermal energy conversion and management by Bark, Hyunwoo, Thangavel, Gurunathan, Liu, Rui Jun, Chua, Daniel H. C., Lee, Pooi See

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Curing through questioning? A cross-cultural analysis of Pyrrhonism, Madhyamaka, and their potential as philosophical therapy by Brons, R

“…For example, it is demonstrated that Madhyamaka can shine a new light on one of the, if not the most vexed question regarding Pyrrhonism: what is the scope of suspension of judgment?…”

Quantitative measurement of displacement in photopolymer layers during holographic recording using phase shifting electronic speckle pattern interferometry by Moothanchery, Mohesh, Bavigadda, Viswanath, Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Pramanik, Manojit, Toal, Vincent, Naydenova, Izabela

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Enhanced piezoelectric nanogenerator based on tridoped graphene and Ti3CNTx MXene Quasi-3D heterostructure by Kou, Lijie, Haque, Rawhan, Sadri, Rad, Auliya, Rahmat Zaki, Kaur, Manpreet, Roberts, Edward P. L., Gan, Wee Chen, Mohammad Haniff, Muhammad Aniq Shazni, Dee, Chang Fu, Ooi, Poh Choon

“…Energy-harvesting technologies, especially piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs), which convert mechanical energy to electrical energy, hold promise for harvesting human motion energy. …”

Strengthening, exhaustification, and rational inference by Asherov, Daniel, Fox, Danny, Katzir, Roni

“…By varying the scenarios in which an expression such as “Pick the crate with a banana” is evaluated, we show that the strengthening of “crate with a banana” within the scope of the definite article parallels the entailments of “crate with only a banana” (with an overt exhaustivity operator, ‘only’). …”
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Classification on big data set using data analytics techniques by Chung, Ka Wai

“…Existing word dictionaries are based on old literature text and documents and are unable to pick up slang used by users of the internet, as well as languages that are an amalgamation of different dialects and languages such as Singlish. …”
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Web-based development for serious game in education by Tan, Zarn Yao

“…However, it can be a tedious process for beginners to pick up this topic as the concepts are mostly abstract. …”
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Study and analysis of soft grippers for assembly tasks by Tan, Hong Wei

“…Through rigorous testing and evaluation, the gripper not only demonstrated proficiency in handling clothing in thin and flexible packaging, but it also managed to pick up tightly stacked items and grasp a wide variety of objects with diverse geometries. …”
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Application of COLD-PCR for improved detection of EGFR mutations in clinical samples. by Zhang, Zhi Xuan.

“…As such, this project was carried out to find out whether COLD-PCR would pick up low level mutant alleles that were missed by regular PCR. …”
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Final year project by Feng, Xiang

“…The idea in this project is to pick a musical performance from a musical recording, and convert it into a symbolic representation. …”
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Scratch based graphical programming online guide/exam system by Chan, Bryan Hong Ming

“…As such, more and more students from different background are trying to pick up Computer Science. Some students may have no issue picking up programming while others may have difficulty and lose interest in programming. …”
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Developing a tongue coating index for Traditional Chinese Medicine by Choy, Meng Xuan

“…Approach 1, where L-a-b values of each tongue region were compared with those of the tongue tip, and Approach 2, where L-a-b values of each tongue region were compared with those of the ideal tongue color (Pink). Results obtained show that Approach 1 was more consistent with visual perception of post-corrected tongue images in the database. …”
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Assessing the financial performance of container shipping companies by Shen, Wanling.

“…In addition, it was noted that there appeared to be a link between the size of the company and the number of years it took for financial performance to pick up – in general, larger companies experienced improvements within a shorter time period after vertical integration. …”
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For the love of books! campaign by Lestarini Saraswati Hapsoro, Sneha Gururaj, Wong, Chooi Sean, Zhou, Zhuangyu

“…Targeting young adults aged 18 to 30, this campaign aims to broaden the reading scope of these individuals by reconceptualising leisure reading as an entertaining activity and by increasing the accessibility of reading to incentivise more individuals to pick up the habit. The campaign is broken down into three key aspects, which includes a social media engagement plan, outreach efforts in tertiary institutions and café establishments as well as a grand event finale. …”
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Stronger dielectric-elastomer grippers using spine-like bending structure by Heng, Kim Rui

“…Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA) based soft grippers are usually too flimsy to perform the task of pick and place on an object and their payload capacities are rather low. …”
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Character-aware audio-visual subtitling in context by Huh, J, Zisserman, A

“…Our approach brings improvements on two fronts: first, we show that audio-visual synchronisation can be used to pick out the talking face amongst others present in a video clip, and assign an identity to the corresponding speech segment. …”

Induction sintering of silver nanoparticle inks on polyimide substrates by Tan, Hong Wei, Saengchairat, Nitipon, Goh, Guo Liang, An, Jia, Chua, Chee Kai, Tran, Tuan

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Blood-based biomarkers are associated with different ischemic stroke mechanisms and enable rapid classification between cardioembolic and atherosclerosis etiologies by Harpaz, Dorin, Seet, Raymond C. S., Marks, Robert S., Tok, Alfred Iing Yoong

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