Shifting Paradigms: Data-Centric Approach for Marine Statics Correction using Symmetric Autoencoding by Kanniah, Brindha

“…This notable precision improvement using SymAE highlights how a streamlined data-centric paradigm outperforms the traditional model-centric paradigm of marine statics correction. This finding is pivotal as it is the foundation that lays the groundwork and opens the path towards the real-world deployment of SymAE for statics correction in challenging deepwater environments.…”
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Design, fabrication and characterization of organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells by Ahmed Ali Said Ahmed

“…Moreover, the literature review provides the information about different types of lead-free solar cells and their advantages and their drawbacks. The achieved findings in this thesis include the following: (1) Six NDI-based molecules have been designed and synthesized as electron transporting layers in inverted perovskite solar cells; (2) Two pyrene-based molecules were designed and synthesized as electron transporting layers; (3) The effect of sulfur position in pyrene-based molecules was investigated (4) Three N-type conjugated polymers were explored as electron transporting layer (5) The effect of embedded sp2-nitrogen in donor and acceptors of conjugated polymer was explored and (6) Tellurium tetraiodide was explored as a promising light absorber in solar cells. …”
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Creative ageing in Singapore : a population study on participatory arts engagement and wellbeing among adults aged 50 and above by Ma, Stephanie Hilary Xinyi

“…Respondents expressed that their greatest interest lies within the genre of culture and heritage arts, with a strong preference to engage in arts activities within the community, and to attend such activities with their family or friends. Findings from propensity score matching with t-test analyses revealed that respondents who passively engaged in the arts experienced better quality of life t(728) = 3.35, p = .0008, d = .25, self-perceived health t(728) = 2.21, p = .028, d = 0.16, and sense of belonging t(728) = 2.17, p = .028, d = 0.16, as compared to those who did not. …”
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Scaffold-mediated sustained, non-viral delivery of miR-219/miR-338 promotes CNS remyelination by Milbreta, Ulla, Lin, Junquan, Pinese, Coline, Ong, William, Chin, Jiah Shin, Shirahama, Hitomi, Mi, Ruifa, Williams, Anna, Bechler, Marie E., Wang, Jun, ffrench-Constant, Charles, Hoke, Ahmet, Chew, Sing Yian

“…Similarly within the scaffolds, miR-219/miR-338 samples contained significantly more myelin basic protein (MBP) signals (p < 0.01) and higher myelination index (p < 0.05) than Neg miR samples. These findings highlight the potential of this platform to promote remyelination within the CNS.…”
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TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR4 Interacts with WRINKLED1 to mediate seed oil biosynthesis by Kong, Que, Singh, Sanjay K., Mantyla, Jenny J., Pattanaik, Sitakanta, Guo, Liang, Yuan, Ling, Benning, Christoph, Ma, Wei

“…In addition, TCP4 repressed the AtWRI1-mediated transactivation of the promoters of fatty acid biosynthetic genes. Collectively, our findings suggest that TCP4 represses fatty acid biosynthetic gene expression through interaction with AtWRI1, leading to a reduction of AtWRI1-mediated seed oil accumulation.…”
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Multi-path region mining for weakly supervised 3D semantic segmentation on point clouds by Wei, Jiacheng, Lin, Guosheng, Yap, Kim-Hui, Hung, Tzu-Yi, Xie, Lihua

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Three essays on behavioral and experimental economics by Li, Yupeng

“…We explain this difference on the basis of the Singaporean senders’ beliefs about trustworthiness: they believed that people with a Mainland Chinese accent would return more money to them than their in-group Singaporean counterparts. To bolster our findings, we confirmed in a separate experiment that the difference in response to the accents was not due to the speed of speech or vocal pitch. …”
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Cytomegalovirus infection is associated with an increase in aortic stiffness in older men which may be mediated in part by CD4 memory T-cells by Kirkham, Frances, Pera, Alejandra, Simanek, Amanda M., Bano, Aalia, Morrow, George, Reus, Bernhard, Caserta, Stefano, Smith, Helen Elizabeth, Davies, Kevin A., Rajkumar, Chakravarthi, Kern, Florian

“…Given the high prevalence of CMV worldwide, our findings point to a significant global health issue. …”
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A materials science framework for connecting protein stability with surface adsorption and coating applications by Ma, Gamaliel Junren

“…Finally, the experimentally observed differences in conformational properties and adsorption behavior of certain types of BSA proteins were correlated with their surface passivation performance. In summary, the findings in this thesis presented how materials science concepts can be used to rationalize the relationship between protein conformational stability and adsorption behavior and offer a broadly applicable approach to engineer protein coatings for various useful applications.…”
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Prediction of stable perovskite quantum dots (QDs) using machine learning (ML) algorithms by Cheong, Ivan

“…Falling back to literature of known understanding of the photoluminescence property, suggested that the nanocrystal’s surface ligands interface has a substantial impact on optical properties. Hence finding a method to incorporate the string data type of synthesis methods and passivation agents to machine learning models who typically prefer numerical data types could improve the prediction abilities.…”
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Understanding lay conceptions of workplace criers: a prototype analysis by Tan, Terri Su-May

“…Moreover, they were quicker to disconfirm peripheral features as typical of workplace criers, compared to central features. These findings corroborated the prototype structure by demonstrating its impact on implicit cognition. …”
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Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry-sclerophyll forest by Bowd, Elle J., Egidi, Eleonora, Lindenmayer, David B., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Cary, Geoffrey J., Foster, Claire

“…Pathogenic fungi also increased in recently burnt forests that had a low fire frequency, mediated by a decline in litter carbon and an increase in soil pH in these sites. Synthesis. Our findings indicate that predicted increases in the frequency of fire may select for specific microbial communities directly and indirectly through ecological interactions, which may have functional implications for plants (increase in pathogens, decrease in symbionts), decomposition rates (declines in Actinobacteriota and Acidobacteriota) and carbon storage (decrease in ectomycorrhizal fungi). …”
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关中方言的体貌系统 = The aspect of the Guanzhong dialect by 许丹明 Xu, Danming

“…It found that the Guanzhong dialect has a more comprehensive aspectual system and more markers for aspect if compared with Standard Mandarin. The data and findings of this study will serve as important references for the studies of aspect in both Chinese dialects and languages in general.…”
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Application and control for virtual synchronous generators by Guo, Yian

“…Critical attributes such as the frequency-power droop characteristic, inertia response, and the generator's capability to support the grid frequency were closely examined. The findings from these simulation exercises provide compelling evidence of the VSG's value in maintaining grid stability, offering a promising solution to the challenges posed by the integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid. …”
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Study of circulation of traffic agents at the road-side bus-stops by Sim, Si Hui

“…Clear signage can further guide traffic agents, reducing potential conflicts and supporting Singapore's goal of becoming a "car-lite" nation. These findings have significant implications for improving bus-stop designs, ultimately enhancing the safety of pedestrians and bus commuters at bus-stops.…”
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Surface reconstruction on spinel oxides for oxygen evolution reaction by Luo, Songzhu

“…In the end, this thesis elucidates the impact of different electrochemical conditioning methods, namely CV and chronopotentiometry (CP), on surface reconstruction and resulting OER performance of CoFe0.25Cr1.75O4. Notably, the findings differ from prior reports on Ni-based OER catalysts, highlighting that CP conditioning potentially fosters a superior degree of surface reconstruction, thereby augmenting performance. …”
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NMR structure and activity relationship of defensin-analogous peptides by Bai, Yang

“…Despite inducing rapid aggregation of outer membrane lipopolysaccharides, AMPs remain highly mobile in the aggregated lattice. These findings suggest that AMPs possessing both enhanced mobility in the bacterial outer membrane and spatial structure facilitating its interactions with the membrane-water interface may provide excellent structural motifs for developing broad-spectrum new antimicrobials. …”
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When mobile phone use becomes problematic : the influence of self, parents and peers on adolescents' mobile phone behavior in Singapore and Malaysia by Chuah, Soo Fei

“…This study found that adolescents with higher neuroticism trait and lower levels of self-control are more likely to involve in problematic mobile phone use. Moreover, the findings show that authoritarian parenting, restrictive mediation, mobile monitoring, peer discussion, and injunctive norms are significantly associated with problematic mobile phone use. …”
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Comparison of diabetic and non-diabetic human leukocytic responses to different capsule types of klebsiella pneumoniae responsible for causing pyogenic liver abscess by Lee, I. Russel, Sng, Ethel, Lee, Kok-Onn, Molton, James S., Chan, Monica, Kalimuddin, Shirin, Izharuddin, Ezlyn, Lye, David C., Archuleta, Sophia, Gan, Yunn-Hwen

“…Ability of representative capsule types (K1, K2, and non-K1/K2 strains) to survive intra- and extra-cellular killing by type 2 DM and healthy neutrophils was subsequently examined. Key findings were: (1) type 2 DM and healthy neutrophils exhibited comparable total, phagocytic, and NETs killing against hvKP, (2) phagocytic and NETs killing were equally effective against hvKP, and (3) hypermucoviscous K1 and K2 strains were more resistant to total, phagocytic, and NETs killing compared to the non-mucoviscous, non-K1/K2 strain. …”
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Luteolin escape mutants of dengue virus map to prM and NS2B and reveal viral plasticity during maturation by Vasudevan, Subhash G., Peng, Minhua, Swarbrick, Crystall Marie Dawn, Chan, Kitti Wing-Ki, Luo, Dahai, Zhang, Wei, Lai, Xiaoping, Li, Geng

“…On the other hand the SM1 immature virus showed some cleavage while the DM immature virus revealed efficient furin cleavage of prM even in the presence of 50 μM luteolin. Our findings suggest that luteolin inhibition of furin may occur at host/pathogen interface that permits the virus to escape the suppression by mutating key residue that may lead to an altered interface.…”
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