Analysis of YouTube thumbnails : a deep neural decision forest implementation by Shankkar Magandran

“…Driven by people’s interest in creating and sharing information, this phenomenon has propelled social media platforms such as YouTube as a dominant force impacting everyday life. The explosion of content on YouTube in recent decades has spurred growing competition amongst content creators, jostling for the attention from users. …”
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Mechanically robust hydrophobic bio-based epoxy coatings for anti-corrosion application by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…Corrosion of aluminum and its alloys causes serious problems to our daily life. As a common method for corrosion protection, epoxy resin has been widely used as the coating material due to its easy processability and excellent properties. …”
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Spatial and temporal localization of cell wall associated pili in Enterococcus Faecalis by Choo, Pei Yi

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Fatigue investigations on steel pipeline containing 3D coplanar and non-coplanar cracks by Xiao, Zhongmin, Zhang, Wengang, Zhang, Yanmei, Fan, Mu

“…In spite of the availability of efficient techniques and high-power computers for solving crack problems, investigations on the fatigue life of offshore pipelines with 3D interacting cracks are still rarely found in open literature. …”
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Transfer learning application on snake classification by Tananda, Hans

“…This level of accuracy is comparable to that of human observers, and as such it is reasonable to say that this model is now ready for real-life usage. A simple mobile application is then developed to access the model for classifying snake images, thus possibly saving many lives in the process. …”
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Thermal and mechanical assessments of the 3D-printed conformal cooling channels : computational analysis and multi-objective optimization by Shen, Suping, Kanbur, Baris Burak, Zhou, Yi, Duan, Fei

“…The cooling and fatigue life performances of the elongated channel are analyzed for different channel pathways and cross section areas. …”
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Telacebec (Q203)-containing intermittent oral regimens sterilized mice infected with Mycobacterium ulcerans after only 16 doses by Chauffour, Aurélie, Robert, Jérôme, Veziris, Nicolas, Aubry, Alexandra, Pethe, Kevin, Jarlier, Vincent

“…Telacebec given twice a week in combination with a long-half-life compound, either rifapentine or bedaquiline, sterilized mouse footpads in 8 weeks, i.e. after a total of only 16 doses, and prevented relapse during a period of 20 weeks after the end of treatment. …”
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Design and development of an online platform for peer tutorial scheme by Heng, Nadine Nyi Zheng

“…Notably, NTU’s School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Student Life Development Unit SEENIORS Program, a relatively young peer tutoring scheme aimed at helping academically challenged students in school of EEE, currently only conducts its classes physically. …”
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Psychological predictors of short-term lower-limb orthotic device adherence : an exploratory study by Leong, Utek

“…We investigated if custom lower-limb orthotic device adherence in the initial 30 days of wear could be predicted by orthotic device satisfaction, the Big Five personality traits, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), illness denial, and body image disturbance measured at baseline. …”
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A gate of dragon's teeth : a decolonial approach to writing precolonial historical fiction in Singapore by Ng, Yi-Sheng

“…Beginning in the year 1025 with the conception of the divine prince Sang Nila Utama, it traces his life through the eyes of other mythical-historical characters, up till his founding of the kingdom of Singapura in 1299. …”
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Hi dad, welcome to Facebook : how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship is affected when both are users of Facebook. by Goh, Tiffany Shimin., Lee, Weiyi.

“…Facebook was found to be a useful tool for parents to keep in touch with their children’s life without intruding on their privacy. Overall, findings suggest that the internet has become a new way for families to connect with each other as well as spend time together. …”
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Re-thinking arts engagement in COVID-19: findings from a hybrid-delivered participatory arts intervention for Singapore's older adults by Yam, Jodie

“…Sixty-four older adults in Singapore, aged 60 to 80 years, were recruited to undergo the intervention and complete four rounds of quantitative assessments covering health condition, quality of life, and mental well-being over 12 weeks. Participants’ experiences in the intervention were also collected via a focus group discussion (N = 18). …”
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Crowd monitoring and detection by Li, Xin

“…Covid-19 has impacted our life a lot ever since the virus emerged in early 2020. …”
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Discounting from a distance: the effect of pronoun drop on intertemporal decisions by Chen, Josie I., He, Tai-Sen

“…Intertemporal decisions—trade-offs between immediate and delayed rewards—are ubiquitous in daily life, and the ability to resist the emotional temptation to choose immediate gratification predicts long-term economic outcomes. …”
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NTU VIRAL: a visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint by Nguyen, Thien-Minh, Yuan, Shenghai, Cao, Muqing, Lyu, Yang, Nguyen, Thien Hoang, Xie, Lihua

“…In recent years, autonomous robots have become ubiquitous in research and daily life. Among many factors, public datasets play an important role in the progress of this field, as they waive the tall order of initial investment in hardware and manpower. …”
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Flexible and resource-efficient multi-robot collaborative visual-inertial-range localization by Nguyen, Thien Hoang, Nguyen, Thien-Minh, Xie, Lihua

“…We propose a two-stage approach: 1) with a long sliding window, the relative transformation is refined based on range and odometry data, 2) onboard visual-inertial-range data are tightly fused in a short-term sliding window to provide more accurate local and global estimates. Simulation and real-life experiments with two quadrotors show that the system as a whole outperforms previous approaches as well as its individual parts.…”
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Reconfigurable origami transparent cellulose triboelectric paper for multi-modal energy harvesting by Xiong, Jiaqing, Li, Yi, Gao, Dace, Chen, Jian, Parida, Kaushik, Lee, Pooi See

“…CEP-TENG realizes the all-weather and multi-modality energy harvesting, promising for wearable and attachable power sources, self-powered applications such as outdoor displays, windows, decorative accessories, and life-saving appliances.…”
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Pilot-project comparison of microbial water quality changes within continuous water supply and intermittent water supply by Khoo, Jun Sean

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Towards better urban intelligence: representation learning techniques for geospatial data analytics by Chen, Yile

“…These data sources attached to geospatial entities provide us great opportunities to apply data-driven techniques to understand urban dynamics, thus enhancing the urban intelligence and improving the quality of every individual’s life. In this dissertation, we aim to conduct data analytics on two types of representative geospatial entities, i.e., points-of-interest (POI) and road network, with different data sources, to reveal their underlying properties and distill knowledge for various applications. …”
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Feature importance network reveals novel functional relationships between biological features in Arabidopsis thaliana by Ng, Jonathan Wei Xiong, Chua, Swee Kwang, Mutwil, Marek

“…Machine learning shows great potential in life sciences, as it can find novel relationships between biological features. …”
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