Facial spoofing indicator using deep learning by Lim, Eugen Wei Jie

“…Out of all the biometric verification, facial biometric verification is the most common. Facial biometric is linked with an increase in vulnerability to facial spoofing attacks as it is easy to acquire individuals’ photos from platforms such as social media or Google. …”
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Investment in China : reform and policy by Bai, Wenyang

“…The focus is on the determination of investment with a view to identifying its specific financing sources, mechanism, and links with monetary and fiscal policies. The analysis is mainly based on a modified version of the flexible accelerator theory of investment. …”
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Benefits of regionalisation by Chua, Kim Hee, Foo, Huey Huey, Lai, Kevin Wai Yuen

“…Results indicate that companies generally do not maintain _many links with Singapore but they do coordinate their subsidiaries' activities from their base here. …”
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Accounting application by Ong, Zhi Yuan

“…Not only will the Application provide accounts keeping as a basis, incorporation of value-added features such as customer/supplier management, automation of financial services, along with the potential of linking up with others SMEs make it beneficial for the SMEs. …”
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Hand in Hand – buddy up mobile application design to enable the visually disabled by Tan, Tiffanie Hsiang Yuin

“…Hand in Hand offers a buddy up system by linking potential assistants to low vision individuals through a mobile application. …”
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Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus by Sevtsuk, Andres, Chancey, Bahij, Basu, Rounaq, Mazzarello, Martina

“…Our findings suggest that (a) people whose offices are closer to each other by walking are more likely to exchange E-mails, (b) on the campus as a whole, people who are more likely to walk past each other’s offices on the way to or from work are more likely to exchange E-mails, and (c) people who share access to similar eating venues around their offices are more likely to exchange E-mails. …”
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7 daily objects. by Lin, Cheryl Jia Hui.

“…Each object tells stories and when the objects are linked together, they narrate the experience of a daily life in Singapore.…”
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Mechanisms of weight loss after obesity surgery by Akalestou, Elina, Miras, Alexander D., Rutter, Guy A., le Roux, Carel W.

“…Weight loss was initially attributed to decreased energy absorption from the gut but has since been linked to reduced appetitive behavior and potentially increased energy expenditure. …”
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Field-oriented control of induction motors using artificial neural networks by Miao, Hua Chun.

“…Its cost is low, maintenance is easy and the technology required to manufacture it is not advanced, but it lacks in precise controllability as the field-producing and torque-producing components of its stator current are linked. It was not until the advent of the field-oriented control that the dynamic performance of the AC drive could be made to match that of the DC drives. …”
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T计划 ：跨性别者的异托邦空间 = The T project : a transgender heterotopic space by 符弼钧 Foo, Pi Gin

“…Familial and societal discrimination are closely linked to the jeopardy of education, housing and financial difficulties. …”
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Distributed control of hybrid AC microgrids with dynamic active and reactive power capacity tuning by Nutkani, Inam Ullah, Loh, Poh Chiang, Blaabjerg, Frede

“…Tying them either to the mains grid or among themselves would certainly require some interlinking power converters, whose control should preferably be done autonomously without demanding communication links. This paper proposes distributed control for power management between two Microgrids interlinked through inverters. …”
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Cefalexin-immobilized multi-walled carbon nanotubes show strong antimicrobial and anti-adhesion properties by Qi, Xiaobao, Gunawan, Poernomo, Xu, Rong, Chang, Matthew Wook

“…In this report, we demonstrate that the covalent immobilization of the antibiotic cefalexin via poly(ethylene glycol) as a linking agent improves the antimicrobial and anti-adhesive properties of MWNTs against both Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis). …”
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Strategies for managing alcohol intake and refusing offers of alcoholic drinks by Conroy, Dom, de Visser, Richard O.

“…In this chapter we first consider psychological components linked to managing alcohol intake and to refusing alcoholic drinks. …”
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Bridging science and accessibility: a tactile journey from gluten through to coeliac disease by Henneken, LM, Loh, TJ, Ciacchi, L, Ciacchi, L, Lim, J-J, Reid, HH, Tye‐Din, JA

“…In contrast to the common misconception of coeliac disease as a food allergy, our exhibits revealed its closer association with autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, involving genetic susceptibility linked to specific human leukocyte antigens, crucial antigen-specific T- and B-cell responses and autoantibody production. …”

Community detection on directed networks with missing edges by Pedreschi, N, Lambiotte, R, Bovet, A

“…In this work, we extend the recently developed Flow Stability framework, originally designed for detecting communities in time-varying networks, to address the problem of community detection in weighted, directed networks with missing links. Our approach leverages known uncertainty levels in nodes' out-degrees to enhance the robustness of community detection. …”

Entangled entitlements and Shuar tsantsa (shrunken heads) by Van Broekhoven, LNK

“…Newly installed interpretation replaced the original case display, to allow visitors to consider the problematic past academic practices of physical anthropology, its relationship to race science and how those are linked to racist ideas about superiority and inferiority that shape our present today. …”

Assessing the Islamic State’s commitment to attacking the West by Hegghammer, T, Nesser, P

“…We examine IS statements and take stock of IS-related attack plots in Western Europe, North America, and Australia from January 2011 through June 2015 using a new dataset of jihadi plots and a new typology of links between organizations and attackers. IS appears to have had a decentralized attack strategy based on encouraging sympathiser attacks while not mounting centrally directed operations of their own. …”

Urban Big Data: City Management and Real Estate Markets by Barkham, Richard, Bokhari, Sheharyar, Saiz, Albert

“…Nevertheless, smaller scale interventions are likely to crop up everywhere, even in the short run. …”
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Effects of maze appearance on maze solving by Semizer, Yelda, Yu, Dian, Wan, Qianqian, Balas, Benjamin, Rosenholtz, Ruth

“…As mazes are typically complex, cluttered stimuli, solving them is likely limited by visual crowding. Thus, several aspects of the appearance of the maze – the thickness, spacing, and curvature of the paths, as well as the texture of both paths and walls – likely influence the performance. …”
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p53-sensitive epileptic behavior and inflammation in Ft1 hypomorphic mice by Vernì, Fiammetta, Saggio, Isabella, Burla, Romina, La Torre, Mattia, Zanetti, Giorgia, Bastianelli, Alex, Merigliano, Chiara, Del Giudice, Simona, Vercelli, Alessandro, Di Cunto, Ferdinando, Boido, Marina

“…Epilepsy is a complex clinical condition characterized by repeated spontaneous seizures. Seizures have been linked to multiple drivers including DNA damage accumulation. …”
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