From kiasu to kiasi : the workings of a social habitus in post-independence Singapore by Tan, Josiah Zhi Xian

“…Today, bring up the terms “kiasu” and “kiasi” and it can be said that no Singaporeans could deny association or affiliations to this said mentality. …”
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Commentary is free: issue management and gaining capital with thought leadership by Prahl, Andrew, Duffy, Andrew, Lim, Clara Hui Min

“…We analyse expert commentaries in the Singapore news media and surveys their authors to investigate what prompted them to contribute their articles. We bring together (organisational) thinking on issue management and (individual) thinking on self-promotion as reflected in expert commentaries and suggest lessons for issue management through expert commentary.…”
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Fish diversity along streams in Ulu Muda Forest Reserve, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia by Khaironizam, Md Zain, Abdullah Halim, Muhammad Rasul, Fahmi-Ahmad, Muhammad, Aqmal-Naser, M., Faraha, Intan, A Zakaria, Zahar, Norhakim Lokman, Mohd Ilham, Amal Azmai, Mohammad Noor, B Ahmad, Amiruddin

“…Forty-nine species from 24 fish families, including 10 new records for the area were recorded bringing the total number of fish species identified known to date to 63 species. …”

Assessing the financial performance of container shipping companies by Cai, Kewei

“…Despite the expected financial benefits that the vertical integration will bring, there is a lack of literature on this area to support the statement. …”
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Governance in professional service firms. by Brennwald, Alex Willy.

“…This paper aims to deliver new insights into the field of governance in professional service firms by bringing together and comparing the latest theoretical as well as practical findings and furthermore to provide recommendations for both practitioners and scholars. …”
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Ideal houses : a visual research case study on factors that define a house. by Loh, Li Ying.

“…To what extent can the creative mind bring about new notions on the urban living environment or cast light upon current circumstances? …”
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The optimal debt structure : economic experimental analysis on the impact of liquidation policy and credit history by Zhang, Yaping, Chen, Feng, Li, Li

“…With this study, we hope to provide supplement to the existing theoretical studies in Optimal Debt Structure and bring out possible deviations arising from human behavioural considerations in real life applications.…”
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Protein-protein interactions: past, present and future. by Khua, Genevieve Shujuan.

“…Better recognition of the applicability of emerging in vivo approaches in the detection of protein-protein interactions will bring us a step closer to achieving complete understanding of the human protein interaction network.…”
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A closer look at fertility decline in Singapore : state ideologies as the prime influence in fertility decision making. by Bok, Catherine Ke Xin.

“…It strives to examine individuals' fertility decision making process and contend that state ideologies have a vital role to play. It then serves to bring awareness and help policy makers make better policies for pronatalist coverage and stem perpetual fertility decline.…”
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Testing of metallic specimens using "C" scan ultrasonic procedures to locate, size and determine shape of defects by Loke, Zhen Dong

“…This is due to the “C” scan being more complex to operate and less portable to bring to the test site. One of the main concerns during the inspection of materials is the reliability of the results obtained. …”
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Euthanasia. What is the genuine problem? by Giubilini, A

“…Considering documents by physicians, philosophers and the Roman Catholic Church, I will show that (a) ‘euthanasia’ is defined by the intention to bring about a patient’s death, and (b) the distinction between what is intentional and what is not does not represent the morally problematic reason against euthanasia. …”

Psychedelics, meaningfulness, and the “proper scope” of medicine: continuing the conversation by Cheung, K, Patch, K, Earp, BD, Yaden, DB

“…However, it is currently unclear whether the aforementioned acute subjective effects are necessary to bring about the observed therapeutic effects of psilocybin and other psychedelics. …”

How to make psychedelic-assisted therapy safer by Villiger, D

“…Finally, the paper presents a safety measure that has been overlooked in the literature but could be highly effective and feasible: bringing a close person to the psychedelic session.…”

Particle self-assembly in sessile droplet on patterned substrate by Lim, Si Xian

“…This indicates that the particle is the pinning force that prevents contact line withdrawal. …”
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Influence of the exchange symmetry beyond the exclusion principle by Tennie, F

“…In particular, we <em>analytically</em> study the (quasi-)pinning effect which corresponds to a saturation of the GPCs and imposes structural simplifications on the <em>N</em>-fermion state. …”

Somatosensory and clinical profiles of patients with spine-related and clinical framework-based neck–arm pain by Kapitza, C, Ballenberger, N, Luedtke, K, Schmid, AB, Tampin, B

“…Symptom descriptors, such as burning (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.031), tingling (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.018), pins and needles (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.031), numbness (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.016), spontaneous pain (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.001), and electric pain/shock (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.026) were more common in the radicular/radiculopathy groups compared with the somatic/mechanosensitivity groups. …”

When Cities Go Nuclear: Exploring the Applications of Nuclear Batteries Toward Energy Transformation by Paul, Sanjana, Klimenka, Mikita, Duarte, Fabio, Crawford, Carmen, Gorman, Claire, Ratti, Carlo, Buongiorno, Jacopo

“…To evaluate situations in which SMRs bring value to urban energy mixes, this paper focuses on Nuclear Batteries (NBs), a specific class of SMRs, that can fit in standard shipping containers. …”
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AR card game design & implementation by Emmanuelle Vania

“…With the growing market of digital games over the recent decade, Augmented Reality (AR) technology has the potential to bring new light to traditionally non-digital games. …”
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Performance optimization strategies of halide perovskite-based mechanical energy harvesters by Jiang, Feng, Lee, Pooi See

“…In this review, we systematically introduce the recent research progress of halide perovskite-based mechanical energy harvesters and summarize the different optimization strategies for improving both the piezoelectric and triboelectric output of the devices, bringing some inspiration to guide future material and structure design for halide perovskite-based energy devices. …”
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Ghost factors in Gauss-sum factorization with transmon qubits by Zaw, Lin Htoo, Tan, Paul Yuanzheng, Nguyen, Long Hoang, Budoyo, Rangga P., Park, Kun Hee, Koh, Zhi Yang, Landra, Alessandro, Hufnagel, Christoph, Yap, Yung Szen, Koh, Teck Seng, Dumke, Rainer

“…We introduce preprocessing as a strategy to increase the discernability of a system, and demonstrate the technique with a transmon qubit. This can bring the total experiment time of the system closer to its decoherence limit, and increase the largest factorizable number.…”
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