Biocementation of sand filled geotextile tubes by Yong, Hoi Zett

“…The use of geotextile tubes is one of the most important development in coastal engineering in recent years. Nonetheless, the strength and durability of geotextile tubes that filled with sand or clay slurry still need to be improved. …”
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Finite element analysis of dental aligners by Tan, Daniel Jing Quan

“…In recent years, it is increasingly common to see more people undergoing orthodontic treatments for aesthetic reasons. …”
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Controlling light emission of CDSE nanoplatelets with metal nanoparticles by Sermsrisuwan, Tony

“…Fluorescence quenching, as a way to lower the emission intensity and control its output wavelength and lifetime, is receiving a great amount of interest in the recent years. Although many researches have been done of such systems in solid substrates, few have analyzed the interactions between the a fluorescent NPLs and colloidal metal nanoparticles, and none, as far as it is concerned, between CdSe NPLs and gold or silver nanoparticles. …”
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Reimagining the Singaporean dream : the rise of entrepreneurial pursuits amongst young adults by Chiang, Alicia Chor Hong, Ong, Chu Wen

“…As entrepreneurial scholars have traditionally analyzed the dearth of local entrepreneurship, this paper seeks to fill the research gap in light of the rising trend of startups and entrepreneurial intents among Singaporeans in recent years. While seeking to identify favorable structural conditions that may have spurred this growth, socio-political and ideological factors were also considered in determining the overarching entrepreneurial climate in Singapore. …”
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Singapore's reaction to rising China : deep engagement and strategic adjustment by Goh, Evelyn

“…This paper examines how Singapore has reacted to the rise of China in the last fifteen years. Arguing that Singapore's perspective on strategic security in the Asia-Pacific is shaped by its economic imperative, its search for strategic relevance and a preference for American preponderance, it identifies two prongs in Singapore's approach in dealing with China. …”
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Recent advances in pharmaceutical separations with supercritical fluid chromatography using chiral stationary phases by Wang, Ren-Qi, Ong, Teng-Teng, Tang, Weihua, Ng, Siu-Choon

“…Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) has developed rapidly in recent years, particularly in the area of enantioseparations. …”
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A review on the role of materials science in solar cells by Alghoul, M. A., Zaidi, Saleem H., Asim, Nilofar, Sopian, Kamaruzzaman, Ahmadi, Shideh, Saeedfar, Kasra, Saadatian, Omidreza

“…Indeed, it has experienced rapid growth over the last few years. It is expected to become truly main stream when the breakeven of high performance is achieved and its cost becomes comparable with other energy sources. …”
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Investigating effects of avatars on primary school children’s affective responses to learning by Theng, Yin-Leng, Aung, Paye

“…The paper describes a follow-up study applying the OCC, a well-referenced, cognitive theory of emotions, to investigate learners’ emotional experiences and motivations while using a learning package designed for primary school children (6–8 years old). Specifically, the study aims to examine whether the expressions of avatars have an influence on these young children’s emotional responses and motivation towards learning. …”
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The application of graphene oxide in drug delivery by Pan, Yongzheng, Sahoo, Nanda Gopal, Li, Lin

“…Among them, the application of GO to drug delivery has attracted ever-increasing interest in the past few years. Areas covered: In this article, the authors summarize the latest progress of utilizing GO in the field of drug delivery. …”
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The impact of family of origin on attachment relationships and emotional regulation ability by Peng, Xin

“…It depicts how family structure, parenting styles, and emotional climate impose on psychological growth throughout the years of life. First, the focus of the study is to indicate that attachment and emotional regulation are intertwined, as established by the demonstration of how a secure attachment enhances emotion regulation. …”
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Validating predictive sequence analysis in polyketide stereochemical determination though the synthesis of stambomycin D by Lim, J

“…<p>In recent years, predictive gene sequence analysis of biosynthetic enzymes has emerged as a powerful tool for the stereochemical determination of natural products. …”

Harry Potter and the SPELL against bullying by McKeown Jones, S

“…Participants were middle-school students (N = 343, Mage = 12.18 years), who engaged in four sessions designed to raise awareness about bullying, including its forms, roles of the different bullying actors, its consequences, and ways to address it. …”

TeachText: CrossModal text-video retrieval through generalized distillation by Croitoru, I, Bogolin, S-V, Leordeanu, M, Jin, H, Zisserman, A, Liu, Y, Albanie, S

“…In recent years, considerable progress on the task of text-video retrieval has been achieved by leveraging large-scale pretraining on visual and audio datasets to construct powerful video encoders. …”

Treating the symptoms or the disease? Analysing the UK Online Safety Act's approach to digital regulation by Nash, V, Felton, L

“…In recent years, the pace of Internet regulation around the world has quickened, with states increasingly confident that they can and should hold major platform companies to account. …”

Standard forms: modernism, market research, and “Howl” by Steel, C

“…He stopped only when he managed to persuade his employer to automate his job out of existence (using one of the commercial computers that had first become available four years earlier); the resultant unemployment benefits enabled him to write “Howl.” …”

Self-poisoning with paracetamol in England: short report of characteristics of individuals and their overdoses according to source of tablets by Brand, F, Bale, E, Tsiachristas, A, Hawton, K

“…Patients were predominantly female (86%) and young (79% aged 12–24 years). Most had used paracetamol which was available in the home (77%). …”

Will Latin America join petroleum’s new world order? by Pugliaresi, L

“…US production growth has been driven by long-term improvements in the application of both the art and science of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.</p> <p>In the years just prior to the emergence of the US petroleum renaissance, Canada achieved substantial improvements in both mining and steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) extraction techniques from the McMurray Formation in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. …”

Perceived climate risk and stock prices: an empirical analysis of pricing effects by Ameur, HB, Dao, D, Ftiti, Z, Louhichi, W

“…The perceived climate risk is measured based on the climate change sentiment of the Twitter dataset with 16 million unique tweets in the years 2010-2019. One of the main advantages of our proxy is that it allows us to capture both physical and transition climate risks. …”

Annual budgets and rolling budgets use in UK and Australian firms by Bhimani, A, Sivabalan, P, Soonawalla, K, Wakefield, J

“…The metareporting and analysis of operational budget trends outside North America have been sparse and academically under-reported in the past 20 years. Innovations such as the rolling budget have challenged and/or supplemented traditional annual budgets, while organisations increasingly demand more flexible budgeting approaches. …”

Predicting graft and patient outcomes following kidney transplantation using interpretable machine learning models by Salaun, A, Knight, S, Wingfield, L, Zhu, T

“…This project uses interpretable methods to predict both graft failure and patient death using data from previously accepted kidney transplant offers. Using more than 25 years of transplant outcome data, we train and compare several survival analysis models in single risk settings. …”