A Learning Community of Reflective Teachers : From Whispers to Resonance / by Raghavan, Neeraja, translator 656168

“…A unique story of community building and teacher education, this book also contains key outcomes and insights which take us through their action research projects and showcases a model of teacher development that can be adopted by interested readers. Above all, it brings out the crying need for a teacher's voice to be heard - for far too long, teachers have been mere implementers of decisions taken by policy makers or managements of schools. …”
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Give your money and lose your friend : the roles of social exclusion and money anthropomorphism in charitable giving by Kho, Mandon Jin Cheng

“…Lastly, we predicted that socially excluded people would be less likely to donate money compared to socially included people, but only when money is anthropomorphized. …”
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Personal Food Computer: A new device for controlled-environment agriculture by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Rye, Jake, Brander, Gordon, Savas, Tim, Chambers, Douglas, England, Hildreth, Harper, Caleb

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RES.TLL-008 Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC), Fall 2022 by Shah, Julie, Kaiser, David

“…This site is a resource for SERC pedagogical materials developed for use in MIT courses. SERC brings together cross-disciplinary teams of faculty, researchers, and students to develop original pedagogical materials that meet our goal of training students to practice responsible technology development through incorporation of insights and methods from the humanities and social sciences, including an emphasis on social responsibility. …”
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Development of android apps for matrix operations by Tea, Mi Wen

“…This project aims to develop an Android application that brings matrix operations to the forefront of educational tools. …”
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Experimental and analytical study of exterior beam-column joint for progressive collapse by Yap, Sim Lim.

“…For many urban settings, the proximity to unregulated traffic brings the terrorist threat to or within the perimeter of the building. …”
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Dialogism and monologism : a study of modernity and postcolonialism in Jean Marie Gustave Clézio's Oeuvre. by Kwa, Brennan Yiew Khoon.

“…Le Clézio demonstrates, however, that colonialism brings with it ruin and desolation instead of the promised peace and civilization. …”
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Multi-stable configurations for vibration-based energy harvester by Wileen Kristanto

“…Therefore, this study proposes to introduce multi-stable configurations with the use of magnets, to induce non-linearity. Non-linearity brings about more stable equilibrium states in the system, resulting in a broadened bandwidth of operation for the energy harvester. …”
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Various factors affecting human performance in a computerised environment by Ang, Kah Eng, Neo, Aik Keong, Pang, Soh Chui

“…This project report brings the reader through a field study conducted to examine the various factors affecting human performance in an office work station. …”
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Social network analytics : trend analysis in Twitter by Soh, Jophia Yi Wen

“…However, with many news, sources and topics discussed on Twitter, it brings about huge drawbacks on the efficient acquisition of important information. …”
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The inert online citizen : online political spaces in Singapore by Rachna Raghupathi

“…While assessing the obstacles that Singapore must deal with in bringing about political change, I also aim to assess the internet as a medium, as a supposed tool for political destabilisation, to understand if claims of its potential were warranted- again, in the context of Singapore.…”
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The role of emotional tears in intergroup bias by Pang, James, Zhen Yao

“…Furthermore, in today’s globalised world, the unprecedented ease of travelling brings about influx of foreigners in many countries. …”
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Organic solar cells : simulations and optimization by Zhu, Zhenjie

“…Due to the high throughput, cheap manufacturing cost and large volume, it brings up the attention in photovoltaic applications. …”
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Modelling, design and control of the virtual synchronous machine in the smart grid application by Chen, Yidan

“…However, the increasing amount of renewable power resources brings new challenges to the power grid, such as dynamic issues, the lower stability operation, etc. …”
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Everyday streets: inclusive approaches to understanding and designing streets by Clossick, Jane, Hausleitner, Birgit, Martire, Agustina

“…They are places of social aggregation, bringing together those belonging to different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities and nationalities. …”
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'She loved this place': memorial benches as death writing, life writing and life siting by Karpf, Anne

“…So this paper also reflects on the benches as a celebration of seemingly undistinguished lives, as a mode of bringing the private into the public and for its performative aspects. …”
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Marino's spiritual poems in music: a study of early modern sources by Kobayashi, T

“…Music is considered in broader contexts of the early-seventeenth literature and devotional practices by bringing together scholarship from literature, musicology, theology, and cultural studies. …”

Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom by Giuliani, LM, Warner, E, Campbell, GA, Lynch, J, Smith, AC, Smith, P

“…However, standardisation brings key challenges including the complexity and local variability of soil systems and the diverse priorities, skills and resources of stakeholders. …”

‘Des mémoires sur la vie de cet illustre philosophe’: George Leman Tuthill’s unwritten biography of Diderot by Warman, C

“…Tuthill later trained as a doctor and became renowned as a physician to various asylums; he therefore boasts an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, but nothing appears there about his earlier ambitions with respect to Diderot, and Diderot scholarship has known nothing about his existence. This piece brings together these two worlds, supplementing the portrait with further information from his correspondence with the famed Sinologist Thomas Manning (1772–1840) and from their mutual friend the writer Charles Lamb (1775–1834). …”

Strategic communication and effectiveness analysis of non-profit organizations in the new media era by Liu, Fengjiao, Kasimon, Diyana Nawar

“…The new media era enables people to obtain information conveniently, and also brings a wider publicity platform to non-profit organizations. …”
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