Dynamic range of camera in photography by Oon, Nicole Xin Jie

“…This is due to the dynamic range of the camera resulting in a difference in the image captured and what the human eye sees. Dynamic range is a measure of the ratio of the maximum and minimum measurable light intensity, which is also the total amount of light captured in a scene. …”
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Singapore premiere. by Ong, Shannon.

“…Once in a while, the box office sees hits from local film director, Jack Neo. …”
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Drafting ‘Anon’ and killing anon: Virginia Woolf and the genesis of English literary language by Phillips, J

“…The moment of English literature’s birth is the moment of Anon’s death: Woolf’s genetic narrative sees her figuration for the pre-literate oral tradition, Anon killed at the moment William Caxton begins to print books with authorial signatures. …”

Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement by Vickers, P, Adamo, L, Alfano, M, Clark, C, Cresto, E, Cui, H, Dang, H, Dellsén, F, Dupin, N, Gradowski, L, Graf, S, Guevara, A, Hallap, M, Hamilton, J, Hardey, M, Helm, P, Landrum, A, Levy, N, Machery, E, Mills, S, Muller, S, Sheppard, J, N. K., S, Slater, M

“…The novel methodology employed sees local coordinators, at each institution in the network, sending survey invitation emails internally to scientists at their home institution. …”

Investigating Social Presence and Communication with Embodied Avatars in Room-Scale Virtual Reality by Greenwald, Scott W., Wang, Zhangyuan, Funk, Markus, Maes, Pattie

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Online game for Chinese chess by Lee, Jia Woei.

“…Most of the board games and card games have been converted to online games for players around the world to spar online. …”
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An experimental investigation on the noise emission and fuel consumption of diesel engine by Foo, Jin Yuan

“…Road traffic has always been a source of noise pollution owing to the rapid advancement in technology and growing population. …”
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The thermodynamics of multicomponent high-entropy materials by Cantor, B

“…Human development has been based for millennia on manufacturing materials using a conventional alloying strategy of selecting a principal component for the primary property requirement of the material and then adding one or two minor alloying components at relatively low concentrations, either to enhance the primary property or to provide additional secondary properties. …”

Madrasah education in Singapore : the struggle to survive by Raihan Mohamed Yusoff

“…Discussion on madrasah education in Singapore seems to be circumscribed by the state’s perception of the attendant problems of madrasah education, the community’s negative reactions to the state’s policies regarding madrasah education, and parents’ perceptions of these madrasahs. …”
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Not a Religious War: Reacting to Killing of French Catholic Priest by Hedges, Paul

“…The killing of a French priest in a church in France seems to mark an escalation of ISIS/Daesh’s campaign in the West. …”
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Poincaré inequality for one forms on four manifolds with bounded Ricci curvature by Honda, S, Mondino, A

“…In this short note, we provide a quantitative global Poincar´e inequality for one forms on a closed Riemannian four manifold, in terms of an upper bound on the diameter, a positive lower bound on the volume, and a two-sided bound on Ricci curvature. This seems to be the first non-trivial result giving such an inequality without any higher curvature assumptions. …”

How economic crises affect alcohol consumption and alcohol-related health problems: A realist systematic review by de Goeij, MCM, Suhrcke, M, Toffolutti, V, van de Mheen, D, Schoenmakers, TM, Kunst, AE

“…The tighter budget constraints mechanism seems to play a role in all population subgroups across all countries. …”

Thermophilic biohydrogen production from optimized enzymatic pretreatment of palm oil mill effluent via box-behnken design by Izzi, A.Z., Wan Ishak, W.M.F., Yusuf, N.N.A.N., Alenezi, Raslan.A., Alias, N.A.

“…Palm oil mill effluent (POME) seems to be a good carbon feedstock for hydrogen generation in fermentation processes. …”
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Developing Skills in Information System Control and Audit among Future Audit Professionals: A Practical use of Computer-Assisted Audit Tools and Techniques (CAATTS) (S/O 13885) by Rosli, Khairina, Ku Bahador, Ku Maisurah, Rusly, Fariza Hanim

“…While the importance of CAATTs is evident, however, there seems to be a gap between the need for CAATTs and its acceptance. …”
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The association between the housing structure and continued breastfeeding in two Southern African countries by Khanyile, Ntuthuko, McLaren, Shawn, Fairbrother, Una

“…There are many factors associated with shorter breastfeeding duration, housing structure has been associated with shorter breastfeeding duration in Kenya(Reference Kimani-Murage, Wekesah and Wanjohi3), a LMIC. …”
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Tibetan wa-zur and Laufer’s law by Jacques, Guillaume

“…However, Hill (2006) pointed out that this law seems to be contradicted by the existence of a genuine -wa rhyme in Old Tibetan: unless Old Tibetan -wa has a distinct origin, the sound law *-wa > -o cannot be valid. …”
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The sailor's tale by Hopkin, D

“…The style and content of sailors’ tales seems remarkably consistent both over time and space, with ancient, medieval, and modern stories of cannibals, whale islands, magnetic mountains, giant ships (ATU 1960H), among other repeated themes. …”

Why Brussels? Neruda’s ‘título absolutamente enigmático’ by Moran, D

“…<p>The primary purpose of this article is to propose a solution to longstanding literary mystery, namely, why Neruda&rsquo;s disconcertingly enigmatic poem &lsquo;Bruselas&rsquo; (from&nbsp;<em>Tercera residencia</em>&nbsp;[1947]) has a title which seems to bear little if any relation either to the city of Brussels itself or to its sometimes bewilderingly obscure content and imagery. …”

A novel design of power-efficient reconfigurable multiplier targeting at increasing the throughput of the CGRA by Li, Jiaxu

“…And after implementing the array multiplications application on the optimized CGRA, the throughput sees an improvement of 98% and 296% for 4-bit multiplications and 2-bit multiplications respectively. …”
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Leveraging the Sensitivity of Plants with Deep Learning to Recognize Human Emotions by Kruse, Jakob Adrian, Ciechanowski, Leon, Dupuis, Ambre, Vazquez, Ignacio, Gloor, Peter A.

“…However, these data sources are expensive, intrusive, and regulated, unlike plants, which have been shown to be sensitive to human steps and sounds. …”
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