"Kemunting : a journey" - Malay identity in pre- and post- independence Singapore by Muhammad Hidhir Md Razak

“…A hardy species, it is often treated as an invasive plant capable of altering ecosystems of foreign habitats but for the village children of Padang Kemunting where the plant is native, its bright flowers and soft, sweet fruit makes it a beloved part of their everyday life. As a novel, Kemunting fills a void in Singapore literature in English, being one of the few works written by a Malay writer to represent the Malay experience of the 1950s and 1960s in the English language. …”
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The software development of a glass-free 3D display system by Gu, Xiaofan

“…Three-dimensional (3D) display, which can greatly improve the visual effects of many electronic products and offer people more realistic viewing experience, is a very promising technique for our future life. The conversion from traditional Two-dimensional (2D) display to the Three-dimensional display is the trend of modern society. …”
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Design and development of a bottle cap opening device by Kok, Yane Jun Yan

“…Next stage is to refine the design using SolidWorks and come out with dimensions and parts needed to bring the idea to life. The idea consists of an upper movable system, a rotation system and a gripping system. …”
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Design and implementation of responsive registration and feedback system using unity3D by Liu, Hao

“…Graphical processing enabled devices start appearing in our daily life. Thus, the visual appeal becomes one of the indicators of a software product’s quality. …”
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Mobile visual product search by Yang, Zhongxiu

“…Nowadays, mobile phone is an indispensable gadget in people’s life. This encourages mobile app developer to create apps for users to obtain information from internet immediately and easily. …”
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Spatio temporal traffic pediction for a large-scale road network by Krishnamoorthy, Nardana

“…The potentials of deep neural networks for real-life applications of various domains can be viewed in the recent years. …”
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Modelling of Solitary Wave Run-up on an Onshore Coastal Cliff by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method by Jian, Wei, Sim, Shawn Yisheng, Huang, Zhenhua, Lo, Edmond Yat-Man

“…A composite topography made of a steep slope, a gentle beach and a steep coastal cliff was used in the experimental and numerical studies to represent real life scenarios. Comparison with laboratory measurements shows that the SPH model is able to capture the evolution and run-up of solitary waves for both non-breaking and slight breaking cases with reasonable accuracy.…”
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Experimental and numerical evaluation of FRP-retrofitted RC structure behavior under blast loading by Yi, Na-Hyun, Tan, Kang Hai, Kim, Jang-Ho Jay

“…However, some existing concrete structures require retrofitting during their service life to improve their resistance against impact and blast loads. …”
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On being religious : patterns of religious commitment in Muslim societies by Riaz Hassan

“…The first part of the paper will report the findings and the analysis by gender, life cycle, education and social position. The second part of the paper will discuss the findings using analytical insights from Emile Durkheim and Mary Douglas' sociology of religion. …”
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Correlation-based estimation of cutting force coefficients for ball-end milling by Dhupia, Jaspreet Singh, Girsang, Irving P.

“…Besides being useful for predictive evaluation of forces, such estimation of cutting force coefficients of the cutting force model can be useful for understanding variations in cutting process over the tool life and can assist in online monitoring and process optimization.…”
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An analytical formulation for the fatigue damage skewness relating to a narrowband process by Low, Ying Min.

“…In spectral fatigue analysis, the expected fatigue damage is customarily used to ascertain the design fatigue life. The uncertainty of the damage induced by the underlying stochastic process is typically disregarded in both theory and practice. …”
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Cluster based power efficient cooperative spectrum sensing under reduced bandwidth using location information by Smitha, Kavallur Gopi, Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad

“…The reduction in the number of sensing bits using proposed method in turn reduces the total transmission power of the secondary users in the cognitive network thus improving its battery life.…”
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'I am afraid to fly there': informal care in Polish migrants' families immobilised by COVID-19 by Kloc-Nowak, Weronika, Ryan, Louise

“…This paper discusses the COVID-19 pandemic as a new external challenge to transnational family life that can undermine the care arrangements and intentions developed by the families of Polish migrants following the 2004 EU enlargement. …”
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'You would never pick up the thread from where you left off’: older Irish women migrants' narratives of non‐return, post‐retirement by Ryan, Louise, Doshi, Neha

“…However, using the embedding framework, through a life course lens, we argue that non‐return may reflect complex processes of disembedding and non‐belonging in the origin country – which are less easy to articulate.…”
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Social networks and migration: relocations, relationships and resources by Ryan, Louise

“…Moreover, using mixed methods, including visualisation, as well longitudinal methods from follow-up interviews, I employment methodological innovations to understand how networks of relationships evolve and change over time and through the life course, especially in the ageing process.…”

Modelling futility in the setting of fertility treatment by Polyakov, A, Gyngel, C, Savulescu, J

“…We draw on the commonly used metric, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), to attach a monetary value to new lives created through IVF. …”

Death and the doctor: the museum as a tool for understanding the needs of the dying by Harris, J, Moyse, A, Hadley, G, Frampton, S, Dempsey, A, Hordern, J, Saunders, K, Lane, R, De Luca, G

“…Bringing together museum professionals, Expert Patient Tutors and doctors in curriculum planning and delivery, the work has been delivered online, using images from the museum’s collections, and live, using the Ashmolean galleries as spaces for the consideration of issues around death, dying and end-of-life care. This article and its preface reflect broadly on a decade of medical collaboration at the Ashmolean and specifically on the processes of both making and delivering teaching on dealing with death, in a cross-disciplinary, non-medical context, asking not only what the Museum can do for medical education but why medical education needs the museum.…”

Toward an Asian-based bodily movement database for emotional communication by Cheng, M, Tseng, C, Fujiwara, K, Higashiyama, S, Weng, A, Kitamura, Y

“…For each emotion, actors performed three self-created scenarios that covered a broad range of real-life events to elicit the target emotion within 2–5 seconds. …”

Predicting future fallers in Parkinson’s disease using kinematic data over a period of 5 years by Sotirakis, C, Brzezicki, MA, Patel, S, Conway, N, FitzGerald, JJ, Antoniades, CA

“…Parkinson’s disease (PD) increases fall risk, leading to injuries and reduced quality of life. Accurate fall risk assessment is crucial for effective care planning. …”

Advancing the chemotherapy of tuberculous meningitis: a consensus view by Wasserman, S, Donovan, J, Kestelyn, E, Watson, JA, Aarnoutse, RE, Barnacle, JR, Boulware, DR, Chow, FC, Cresswell, FV, Davis, AG, Dooley, KE, Figaji, AA, Gibb, DM, Huynh, J, Imran, D, Marais, S, Meya, DB, Misra, UK, Modi, M, Raberahona, M, Ganiem, AR, Rohlwink, UK, Ruslami, R, Seddon, JA, Skolimowska, KH, Solomons, RS, Stek, CJ, Thuong, NTT, van Crevel, R, Whitaker, C, Thwaites, GE, Wilkinson, RJ

“…In this Personal View, a global consortium of tuberculous meningitis researchers articulate a coordinated, definitive way ahead via globally conducted clinical trials of novel drugs and regimens to advance treatment and improve outcomes for this life-threatening infection.…”