Poetry as postmodern by Zhang, Jieqiang

“…The paper will then make a case for how the poetic form is intimately concerned with silence, and thus, is inherently geared toward an exploration of the limits of language: how the poem’s visual shape can be seen as a metaphor for silence, how the poem is actually made of ruins—of the “ruined” poetic verse—and finally, how poetry’s near-condition of music is its desire to detach itself from the real world, into an imaginative textual reality.…”
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Transformation by-product identification from oxidation processes of waters containing model organic micropollutants (Nonylphenol) by Toh, Jewell Zi Le

“…Due to the time constraint, the toxicology comparison of DBPs formed was not carried out and it is recommended to be done in the near future.…”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…In the aerospace engineering, many metal parts produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique often bear cyclic loadings, so the fatigue failures of AM alloy parts become very common phenomena. …”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The principle requires those responsible for environmental damage or imminent threats of damage to bear the necessary costs of remediation and prevention. …”
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WIRA ISLAM SEBENAR DISEBALIK PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN / by Shafie Abdul Rahman, 1960-, author 644636

“…Penulis memperincikan kisah hidup kedua-dua wira Islam itu serta sumbangan dan jasa besar mereka terhadap perjuangan umat Islam ketika itu. …”

Finite element analysis of a free-standing concrete sea-wall as alternative to traditional land reclamation by Harris, Raymond

“…With the increase in embedment depth, higher normal stress is experienced by the walls near the base. Lateral and vertical displacements of the seawall are analyzed. …”
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Protection of cyclists by Xiao, Shunyu

“…However, statistics from Singapore Traffic Police Headquarters revealed that road traffic accidents involving cyclists has increased exponentially over the years and this trend is expected to continue with a larger cyclist population in the near future. …”
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Molecular basis of converting proteases to ligases by Chang, Hong Yi

“…To date, residues in two areas near the active site are proposed to dictate ligation activity and have been named ligase-activity determinants (LADs). …”
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Electrical characterization of Si Nanowire based devices – transistors and SONOS memory by Xiong, Tian Zhong.

“…Results has shown that the SONOS memory has much enhanced P/E speed, which can be explained by the augment of electric-field across the tunneling dielectrics near the silicon core-channel due to the scaled dimension as well as the smaller radius of curvatures at the four corners of the wire with highly scaled squarish SiNW channel. …”
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Battery-less piezoelectric RF remote control system by Sim, Darius

“…Global fossil fuel reserves are near depletion and the continual production and use of such hydrocarbon products give rise to environmental issues. …”
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Operation and control of PEM fuel cell system by Tan, Chun Xu.

“…Hence, the use of the fuel cell based power system for residential or industrial application is expected to be more prevalent in the near future due to improved power quality, reliability, portability and sustainability of the ecology system. …”
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Mobile apps development for NTU canteens by Chua, Joy Yun Hui

“…The global Smartphone audience surpassed the 1 billion mark in 2012 and will total 1.75 billion in 2014. Nearly two-fifths of all mobile phone users—close to one-quarter of the worldwide population—will use a Smartphone at least monthly in 2014. …”
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Renewable energy using fuel cell technology by Mohamed Danial Mohamed Johar

“…This increases the likelihood for fuel cell technology to be fully embraced in the near future.…”
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Crack-inclusion interaction in composite materials with aerospace and offshore engineering application by Koh, Way Keat

“…Numerical method was used to acquire the stress intensity factor (SIF) of various model of crack near a circular inclusion by means of finite element software. …”
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Theoretical study of fermi arc plasmons in Weyl semimetals by Xiong, Ying

“…In Weyl semimetals, the conduction band and the valence band cross at a single point in reciprocal space called the Weyl point. Quasiparticles near this point can be described by the Weyl equation. …”
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Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Another antibody, Avastin®, indicated for bowel cancer, accounted for $6.7 billion among these top-selling drugs, while Herceptin®, used to treat breast cancer, had sales of $6.6 billion. These numbers bear eloquent testimony to the increasing demand for protein therapeutics. …”
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Pose buddy : workout platform with PoseNet by Ong, Jia Ying

“…Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, exercising outdoors has been made near impossible. Some have started working out at home in hopes of keeping fit. …”
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Electricity load forecasting for smart home by Lin, James Rizhong

“…The dataset collected was of the average daily power consumption of a single residential home near France, Paris. Exogenous variables that affect energy usage, such as air temperature and humidity have also been added to the dataset. …”
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A communal furniture informed by the deprivation of Mauritian beach by Fok Kow, Fok-Chi-Seng

“…Having lived near to a beach and creating childhood memories of the place, to later witness its deterioration due to erosion is something unbearable, especially when climate change is one of the major reasons. …”
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Design and development of stabilized control systems for space application by Chia, Jie Xiang

“…As launching a satellite to space is more challenging than a High-Altitude Balloon (HAB), in this case, Near Space will be the main highlight in the design of this project. …”
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