EN-14 evaluation of green mark rating on sustainable development and/or existing operation of office buildings by Ang, Ming Jun

“…This is particularly of importance as every year, the general consensus amongst construction/building professionals may change in accordance to new changes in the green building benchmarking scheme. Past studies revolve around the comparison of Green Mark to other green building rating benchmark in other parts of the world. …”
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Investigation of electrical and colorimetric sensing properties of polymer-nanomaterial composites by Tu, Meng-Che

“…Over the past few decades several biosensor and chemosensor technologies have been investigated for environmental monitoring and diagnostic applications. …”
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The art of 'none' to 'nur' : meditating loss in relation to Islamic aesthetics and spirituality within mosque spaces in contemporary Singapore by Muhammad Noor Iskandar Othman

“…Where sentient experience of the researcher is central, the research oscillates between a two-track exploration —a hermeneutic analysis of past scholarship as well as a heuristic visual exploration as autoethnographical approach; in an attempt to reclaim beauty in losing. …”
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Exploring students' hypertext reading behaviour and social media use in their learning by Sharifah Maisharah Mohamed

“…This study offers insights on how information literacy standards are realised amidst social media use for academic purpose. While past studies have looked at students as mere consumers of information, this time, this study focuses on students as contributors of information on a wiki page to see how this associates with the process of hypertext reading. …”
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Portfolio management system by Hemang, Hitesh Shah

“…Every investment is a trade-off between risk and reward and portfolio management is the art and science of balancing the two. In the past, there have been several attempts at designing optimum portfolios across the world. …”
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Design of ultra low power 1-bit full adder cell for logic devices by Kumar, Abhishek

“…Technology has been continuously changing and semiconductors industry has been constantly evolving for past few decades [2]. We have been scaling down the sizes of the transistors in order to accommodate the maximum number of them onto a single chip. …”
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How and Why Users Use Social TV Systems? A Systematic Review of User Studies by Bautista, John Robert, Theng, Yin-Leng, Lin, Trisha Tsui-Chuan

“…The development of social TV systems has gained momentum in the past decade. However, it is unclear how and why users use social TV. …”
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Cylinder-wall interference effects on finite-length wavy cylinders at subcritical Reynolds number flows by New, T. H., Shi, Shengxian., Liu, Yingzheng.

“…Time-resolved particle-image velocimetry measurements and proper orthogonal decomposition analyses show that for the present large wavelength wavy cylinders, vortex-shedding behaviour of high aspect-ratio wavy cylinders observed in past studies can be altered through variations in the aspect-ratio, exact geometric node and saddle locations, as well as the presence of end-walls. …”
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Strategies of colour and lighting design in the cinematography of Christopher Doyle by Peh, Colin Jin Wei

“…The main findings will show the relationships between colour and space, colour and character motion, colour and mood throughout Christopher Doyle’s consistent visual style and his wide variety of works over the past twenty-five years. The study of these 5 feature films by renowned Directors Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yi Mou, Tan Bee Thiam and Phillip Noyce will also showcase a detailed visual analysis of various narrative styles. …”
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Feeling disconnected from others : The effects of ambient darkness on hedonic choice by Huang, Irene Xun, Dong, Ping, Labroo, Aparna A.

“…As a result, consumers become more authentic in their choices and they choose hedonic over utilitarian options because these choices reflect what they truly want (Study 1). Past research had suggested darkness increases hedonic choice by making choice less observable, but we find this effect emerges even when the choice is already anonymous and darkness cannot further increase anonymity. …”
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China and the “Singapore Model” : perspectives from mid-level cadres and implications for transnational knowledge transfer by Liu, Hong, Wang, Tingyan

“…Over the past three decades, China has shown tremendous interest in the “Singapore model” through its sending of tens of thousands of cadres to Singapore for executive training and graduate education. …”
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Gender and the motivation to lead : what we know from studies of entrepreneurial, professional and leadership in the 21st century by Li, Yimeng, Chan, Kim Yin, Chernyshenko, Olexander, Ma, Jian, Low, Kin-Yew, Ho, Moon-Ho Ringo

“…Gatzka, Elprana, Stiehl, & Felfe (2009) noted that past attempts to explain the under-representation of women in leadership positions worldwide have neglected the motivational aspects of leadership. …”
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A hybrid model for assessing the quality performance of demolition contractors by Mohammadali Kazerooni

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Predicting wealth score from remote sensing satellite images and household survey data using deep learning by Shekhar, Shashank, Singh, Pratibha, Mishra, Rashmi, Kumar, Sunil

“…The most exigent call of the United Nations’ 17 sustainable goals is to end poverty everywhere by 2030. Unlike in the past, when poverty was measured based on data collected through ground-level surveys, the new technology adopted by many developing and developed countries is to estimate the poverty index using remote sensing satellite images with the help of machine learning techniques. …”
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Very small effects of an imagery-based randomised trial to promote adherence to wearing face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic and identification of future intervention target... by Conroy, Dom, Smith, Debbie M., Armitage, Christopher J.

“…Our findings suggest that interventions should target men and disrupt habitual past behaviour.…”
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A renewal-equation approach to estimating Rt and infectious disease case counts in the presence of reporting delays by Bajaj, S, Thompson, R, Lambert, B

“…This means that real-time estimates of the time-varying reproduction number, <i>R_t</i>, are often made using a time series of cases only up until a time period sufficiently far in the past that there is some confidence in the case counts. …”

Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semi-arid woodland by Sultaire, SM, Montgomery, RA, Jackson, PJ, Millspaugh, JJ

“…Western gray squirrels (Sciurus griseus) are native to the west coast of North America, principally California and western Oregon. Over the past several decades, Western Gray Squirrel populations have declined in human-dominated areas, with increased competition from introduced congeneric species native to eastern North America cited as a primary driver. …”

The Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Pillar 1: diagnostics and transmission by Conly, J, Plüddemann, A, Jefferson, T, Rosca, C, Heneghan, C

“…Despite the learnings from the recent pandemic, significant gaps remain in our understanding of the diagnosis of acute respiratory viral infections and their sequelae, the modes of transmission, and how to effectively synthesise the existing evidence from the past 70 years of research on respiratory viruses. …”

Multidecadal Morphodynamic evolution of shorelines and coral reefs along the Arabian Sea Coast of Oman: Bar Al Hikman Peninsula by Teillet, T, Bois, P, Homewood, P, Mettraux, M, Samimi-Namin, K, Vahrenkamp, V

“…This study examines the morphodynamic evolution of the shoreline and coral reef coverage along the Arabian Sea coast of Oman over the past five decades (1972–2022). The Peninsula of Bar Al Hikman, the largest low-lying coastal area in Oman (550 km2; elevations &lt; 10 m), hosts unique, monospecific coral reefs developing under a monsoon climate. …”

Wannier-function software ecosystem for materials simulations by Marrazzo, A, Beck, S, Margine, ER, Marzari, N, Mostofi, AA, Qiao, J, Souza, I, Tsirkin, SS, Yates, JR, Pizzi, G

“…Over the past two decades, following the early developments on maximally localized Wannier functions, an ecosystem of electronic-structure simulation techniques and software packages leveraging the Wannier representation has flourished. …”