Mental health treatments and the influence of culture: portrayals of hypnotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy in Singaporean television dramas by Matthews, Graham John, Ho, Melissa

“…Our research indicates that popular television shows are currently understudied vectors for narratives that alternately reify or debunk assumptions and stereotypes about people with mental health conditions. …”
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Effects of individual research practices on fNIRS signal quality and latent characteristics by Bizzego, Andrea, Carollo, Alessandro, Lim, Mengyu, Esposito, Gianluca

“…Each dataset was divided into train and test partitions, which were used to train and evaluate the performance of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model in classifying the cohorts from signal quality features. …”
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Essays on oil price fluctuations, financial markets and international trade by Le, Thai Ha

“…The first essay investigates the impact of oil price fluctuations on gold market returns using monthly data from May 1994 to April 2011. A structural vector autoregressive approach is employed to examine the dynamics between oil price shocks and gold returns. …”
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Indefinite metamaterials for optical applications by Bisht, Ankit

“…The hyperlens generates a band of flat hyperbolic dispersions in spherical coordinates, which in turn supports the propagation of high wave-vector spatial harmonics leading to far-field super-resolution imaging. …”
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Respiratory quality indices for automated monitoring of respiration from sensor data by Birrenkott, D

“…The three individual RQIs are used to derive three fusion RQIs based on two supervised learning algorithms: linear regression and support vector regression (SVR) and one unsupervised learning algorithm: principal component analysis (PCA). …”

The analysis of teaching quality evaluation for the college sports dance by Convolutional Neural Network model and Deep Learning by Guo, Shuqing, Yang, Xiaoming, Farizan, Noor Hamzani, Samsudin, Shamsulariffin

“…This TQE model processes one-dimensional evaluation data by extracting local features through convolutional layers, reducing dimensions via pooling layers, and feeding feature vectors into a classifier through fully connected layers to achieve an overall assessment of teaching quality. …”
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An improved deep neural network algorithm for the prediction of limited proteolysis in native protein by Hashim, Haslina, Hong, Lim Lip, A. Samah, Azurah, Abdul Majid, Hairudin, Ali Shah, Zuraini, Azman, Nuraina Syaza, Azmi, Nur Sabrina

“…The classification in this study is compared with other machine learning algorithms such as Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Deep Neural Network (DNN). …”
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The causes of delay in construction project in Kuantan by Nur Azuwa, Ghazali

“…The questionnaire survey was distributed to the target respondent in sector government and private that involved in construction project in Kuantan. …”
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Low-Cost Masonry for the Design of Barrel-Vaulted Flooring Systems by Haile, Nebyu Samuel

“…Compounding this issue, in LEDCs, the construction sector contributes significantly to their annual carbon emissions, sometimes doubling the global average and exacerbating the climate crisis (Yokoo et al., 2016). …”
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Accelerating Urban Building Energy Modeling by Le Hong, Zoe, Wolk, Samuel

“…Enabling data-driven decision-making in the built environment is critical to achieving ambitious and urgent decarbonization goals. In the building sector, urban building energy models (UBEMs) have become a valuable tool for jurisdictions to develop evidence-based retrofitting policies, but dynamically exploring solutions is hampered by the computational expense and organizational overhead of physics-based building energy models. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Potential Chinese policy responses, such as cannibalizing its civilian sector or substituting with older chips, would likely fail for technical reasons.…”
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Africa Digest : Trends and issues in business Vol. 18 by Burger, Johan

“…While its original origin was in Kenya with the launch of M-Pesa by Safaricom, the trend has since expanded into a number of other African countries all around the continent. Sector players are developing new products. However, fintechs are also experiencing challenges from regulators and competitors. 3. …”
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation : epidemiological and molecular characteristics in an acute-care tertiary hospital in Singapore by Htun, Htet Lin, Kyaw, Win Mar, de Sessions, Paola Flórez, Low, Louie, Hibberd, Martin Lloyd, Chow, Angela, Leo, Yee Sin

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Development of a 3D vehicle driving simulator (cross platform simulation of CAV) by Feng, Zhen

“…The future of this technology could have ripple effects in a variety of sectors and situations. Radar, lidar, sonar, GPS, odometry, and inertial measurement units are among the sensors used by AVs to sense their environment. …”
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Superglues with high adhesion strength and easy detachment ability by Mohammad Fadhli Rohani

“…From households to the industrial sector, adhesives are widely used daily. Yet, there are still common issues in the usage of adhesives. …”
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Developing a taxonomy of consumer preferences for enhancing B2C e-commerce last-mile delivery: delivered food by Teo, Ee Lin

“…These insights contribute to research in the OFD sector since an enhanced understanding of customer preferences will allow OFD platforms to gain insights on how to better encourage their users to opt for self pick-up. …”
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Affective-cognitive design of product ecosystems for user experience by Zhou, Feng

“…As industry sectors mature, a critical challenge confronting many companies is how to provide users with engaging experiences within a product ecosystem (e.g., a subway station ecosystem). …”
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Unveiling the future of budget hotels in Singapore by Chua, Hwee Lian, Kew, Wong Yip, Soh, Wee Li

“…In response, this project aims to uncover the underlying reasons behind this phenomenon and to provide an in-depth analysis of the forces of demand and supply behind the budget sector of the local hotel scene. The latter involves the use of factors like visitor arrivals, their lengths of stay and the room-sharing ratios to anticipate the future level of demand. …”
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Framework of key success criteria for high performance and sustainable ports - port management perspective by Lee, Nicole Jia Ying

“…Secondly, a preliminary framework is proposed to propel further research in the port sector. Additionally, PSA’s management can use the rankings to make appropriate revisions to their strategies in order to ensure continual success and sustainability. …”
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The sustainability of nuclear energy in Southeast Asia: opportunities and challenges by Cook, Alistair David Blair, Caballero-Anthony, Mely, Trajano, Julius Cesar I., Sembiring, Margareth

“…Second, the region’s fast-growing economies can be easily jeopardised by a nuclear accident as the operations of key economic sectors, including the supply chain, would be disrupted. …”
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