National Day parades : we the citizens of Singapore by Low, Annabel Hui Xin

“…This will be done through the examination of how three segments of the National Day parade – the military showcase, performances and National Day songs – have been used and adapted over the years to further the government’s nation building efforts in Singapore.…”
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Fine-scale population structure and widespread conservation of genetic effect sizes between human groups across traits by Hu, S, Ferreira, LAF, Shi, S, Hellenthal, G, Marchini, J, Lawson, DJ, Myers, SR

“…To estimate the similarity of genetic effect sizes between groups, we developed ANCHOR, which estimates changes in the predictive power of an existing PGS in distinct local ancestry segments. ANCHOR infers highly similar (estimated correlation 0.98 ± 0.07) effect sizes between UK Biobank participants of African and European ancestry for 47 of 53 quantitative phenotypes, suggesting that gene–environment and gene–gene interactions do not play major roles in poor cross-ancestry PGS transferability for these traits in the United Kingdom, and providing optimism that shared causal mutations operate similarly in different populations.…”

Instabilities in tidal turbine wakes by Smyth, ASM, Nishino, T, Young, AM

“…Unsteady inflow causes the turbine blades to shed vorticity of time-varying strength into the wake, which in turn leads to a spatial variation in wake vortex strength, such that the vorticity of adjacent returning wake segments can differ. This spatial variation triggers the instability of tip vortices, the characteristics of which are shown to be governed by the ’frequency ratio’ ω/ΩNB (where ω is harmonic inflow frequency, Ω is turbine rotational frequency and NB is the number of blades). …”

A new method of N to C sequential ligation using thioacid capture ligation and native chemical ligation by Hou, Wen, Liu, Lei, Zhang, Xiaohong, Liu, Chuanfa

“…Herein, we developed an alternative method which could perform the sequential peptide ligation of several segments from N to C direction based on the combined use of thioacid capture ligation and native chemical ligation. …”
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An unusual arrangement of accessory fissures observed in left lung by Pandiaraja, Madhumitha, Mogali, Sreenivasulu Reddy

“…A left minor fissure courses obliquely across the upper lobe, distin-guishing the lingula from the rest of the upper lobe while an inferior accessory fissure demarcates the antero-medial basal segment from the other bron-chopulmonary segments of the lower lobe . …”
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Unearthing roots by Lim, Ling Ern

“…The installation consists of three main segments:The first is an interactive physical display of a range of selected herbs and common kitchen ingredients widely available and affordable in Singapore. …”
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Operational efficiency and productivity in container terminals part (II) : service quality and port pricing by Chan, Sek Yeong.

“…This paper shows the top 5 segments of “Importance”, “Satisfaction” and “Possible Improvements” in service quality according to the customers‟ demands of PSA Singapore Container Terminals by using Quality Attribute Ranking (QAR), which provides an evaluation of the priority levels of consumer requirement attributes. …”
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Banking behaviour of expatriate lecturers in Singapore. by Goh, Amy., Phua, Nai Hsin., Poh, Siok Peng.

“…The competitive banking environment today forces banking institutions to continuously seek out profitable market segments. With the regionalisation of the Singapore’s economy, the growing number of expatriates forms a ready market for these institutions. …”
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Investigation on the mechanism of amyloid beta peptides oligomerization and the process for its inhibition by Zhao, Li Na

“…We have chosen the full-length Abeta peptides as well as the most representative short segments of Abeta and employed the classical molecular dynamics and the sampling-enhanced replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations, to investigate the aggregation and atomic detailed interaction among Abeta, lipids, small molecules and macromolecules.…”
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Biomechanics of Muay Thai : science behind the low kick by Zeng, Ezra Yueyi

“…The main motions involved in the execution of the low kick is the 3-dimensional rotations of the leg segments and the body. In Muay Thai, little attention is given to the kinematic, kinetic and the dynamic concepts and principles involved that form the techniques that are now used today. …”
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An investigation on the role of tarsal flexibility in insect walking by Tjuatja, Johan

“…Although there is a wealth of literature on various physical properties of insect leg, such as strength and inner structure, there seems to be a lack of knowledge on the functions or roles of the individual leg segments, such as the tarsus. While the tarsus has been long known to be flexible, there has currently been no study that explains what the purpose of this flexibility is in insect leg. …”
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Toward an Asian-based bodily movement database for emotional communication by Cheng, M, Tseng, C, Fujiwara, K, Higashiyama, S, Weng, A, Kitamura, Y

“…To address the obvious risk this bias poses to academic comprehension, we attempted to expand the current repertoire of human bodily emotions by recruiting Asian professional performers to wear whole-body suits with 57 retroreflective markers attached to major joints and body segments, and express seven basic emotions with whole-body movements in a motion-capture lab. …”

Exploring the therapeutic potential of 5-fluorouracil-loaded calcium carbonate nanoparticles combined with natural compound thymoquinone for colon cancer treatment by Deng, Xi, Yang, Zhongming, Chan, Kim Wei, Abu Bakar, Md Zuki

“…These results provide evidence for 5FU-CaCO3np as a novel regimen against colon cancer. Combining 5FU-CaCO3np and TQ may offer a new perspective for colon cancer therapy.…”
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A structural interpretation of the aftershock "cloud" of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake by Liu, Jing, Sieh, Kerry, Hauksson, Egill

“…Low b-values occur along segments that are simple, whereas higher b-values correlate with sections that are more complex. …”
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Efficient feedforward categorization of objects and human postures with address-event image sensors by Chen, Shoushun, Akselrod, Polina, Zhao, Bo, Carrasco, Jose Antonio Perez, Linares-Barranco, Bernabe, Culurciello, Eugenio

“…The detected line features are organized into vectorial segments. After feature extraction, a modified line segment Hausdorff-distance classifier combined with on-the-fly cluster-based size and position invariant categorization. …”
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离散、家国、女性 ： 韩素音的中国性论述 = Diaspora, home, feminism : the Chinese-ness in Han Suyin’s works by 梁依婷 Neo, Yi Ting

“…Han Suyin had once faced difficult choices in politics and livelihood, however she eventually chose to become the connection between different countries and willingly support the Chinese regimental changes. Her acknowledgement towards China and her awkward identity as a Chinese-European, is an interesting yet complicated case within China’s history, society and literature, and is of meaningful research value. …”
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An image processing approach to feature-preserving B-spline surface fairing by Kawasaki, Taro, Jayaraman, Pradeep Kumar, Shida, Kentaro, Zheng, Jianmin, Maekawa, Takashi

“…In particular, our approach adaptively partitions the B-spline surface into a set of segments such that each segment has approximately uniform parameterization, generates an image from each segment in the parameter space whose pixel values are the normal vectors of the surface, and then applies a bilateral filter in the parameter domain to fair the normal field. …”
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The effects of processing conditions on the morphology of single conjugated polymers. by Yeo, Hui Lin.

“…These emissive centers of the collapsed chain were proposed to be intrachain aggregates consisting of closely π-stacked segments, therefore possessing weak oscillator strength and an extended radiative lifetime. …”
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Design, synthesis, characterization and property study of topological structures of DNA by Li, Dawei

“…It is also shown unprecedentedly in our investigation that the size of DNA writhe could be accurately engineered by altering T-rich and A-rich segments in the target duplex DNAs. In addition, the results of our studies confirmed that the intrinsic curvatures of organismal DNAs alone could lead to the generation of duplex backbone self-crossings in their relaxed forms and the backbone self-crossings of those organismal DNAs could be readily confirmed through atomic force microscopic examination. …”
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The antecedents and consequences of a layered architecture of mobile handsets by Lee, Alvin Wei Ming

“…The industry is seen to be evolving into three distinct segments; Handset, Operating System and Content. This thesis will draw upon relevant literature that applies the theory of modularization to the mobile phone industry. …”
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