“Following according to a rule is FUNDAMENTAL to our language-game.” Rules and meaning in Wittgenstein by Child, W

“…There is widespread agreement that, in his later philosophy, Wittgenstein sees the meaning of a word as a matter of the rules for its use; to grasp its meaning is to grasp the rules for its use; and using the word with that meaning is a matter of following those rules. …”

Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters by Rose, G

“…The paper argues that, while both the technological affordances and the cultural imaginary of CDTs perform the kind of powerful white masculinity that sees space as transparent and actionable, discussions of CDTs also persistently generate an excessive form of human life which is understood as untwinn-able. …”

Analysing the importance of drill artists’ offline environment in the creation of violent online identities by Alexander, James

“…Within this study, young people’s violent online personas are a response to inhabiting a social space that developed due to a nexus of factors, including social deprivation, a lack of informal guardianship and the rules of the online attention economy. This digital dynamic sees artists competing for viewers’ limited attention by producing exaggerated violent depictions to show cultural competence and embodied street capital as they vie for attention in an antagonistic continuum with other groups. …”
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A public relations campaign to promote arts and culture in Singapore in collaboration with Nerf Creative. by Zhang, Yunxi., Tsen, Audrey Si Jia., Tee, Hui Sheng., Cheng, Xin Yi.

“…This paper presents the promotional campaign for art and design collective “Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee” (FLABSLAB), an initiative between four final year students from Nanyang Technological University Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information and advertising agency Nerf Creative Pte Ltd, in Singapore. …”
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Application of smartphone-based biophotonic instrumentation for glucose sensing using colorimetric method by Azlan, Nur Ainin Sofhia Nurul

“…The calibration curves consistently confirm that the proposed method aligns with the Beer-Lambert law, in accordance with expectations with previous studies. …”
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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. …”

Design and implementation of a web based platform for EEE students internship/job experience sharing by Fang, Meiheng

“…The three main focuses of this application are providing space for sharing latest reviews, exploring different interest fields with peers, and presenting helpful resources from both the campus and external sources in an organized and user-friendly manner.…”
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Mobile app for virtual study room by Ng, Yu Zhe

“…The hope is that students who are from less well-off families, who only have access to a smart phone in Singapore today, would not be disadvantaged as compared to their peers due to how online education systems are being built around computers rather than mobile devices.…”
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StudentGO web application by Xie, Zijian

“…StudentGo web application will provide a platform for students to communicate with their peers, find new friends and cultivate a community of like-minded students striving for excellence. …”
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Comparative analysis of undergraduate life science education at NTU, Singapore and Kyutech, Japan : commonalities and differences in preparing students for employment or graduate s... by Lee, Kok Sang.

“…Students in Singapore were found to spend more time to study and less time for entertainment compared to their peers in Japan. Differences in government policies of Japan and Singapore are believed to cause most of the differences observed. …”
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The leap of faith : lived experiences of madrasah students negotiating the transition from a religiously-homogeneous environment to a secular environment by Shaik Muhammad Khairun Nabil, Nur Syahirah Mohamed Salim

“…The findings point to four main transition outcomes which is shaped by (i) their motivations to align their habitus with that of their new peers and (ii) their commitment to maintain their previously-conditioned habitus and ties with the Madrasah community. …”
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Student poster conferences as a formative, authentic, inclusive and sustainable assessment practice by Sims, D, Aitken, D, Swales, C

“…Of primary importance, the poster conference is a safe-to-fail formative experiential learning opportunity, with opportunities for feedback from peers and key stakeholders. It is a form of authentic assessment that replicates a ‘real world’ conference experience and aspects of public scholarship and peer review. …”

Exploring career realities: elevating graduate employability through job shadowing by Hanaliza Kamis, Phan, Jasmine Ah Kiaw, Sheela Karunaharan Thanaraj, Jen, Ling Gan

“…Overall, the performance of program participants surpassed that of their non-participating peers, underscoring the program’s impact on bridging the gap between academic theory and practical application.…”
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Academic achievement inspired machine learning methods for student grade prediction and at-risk detection by Wei, Qiu

“…To this end, sustained efforts have been focused on leveraging prior grades attained in consecutive (past) semesters to predict grades of pilot courses that have been registered in the upcoming or current semester. …”
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Global borders : power, fragility, and ‘a kind of fiction’ (Editorial introduction) by Cahill, Samara

“…With the gentlest wafting of pollen from a summer breeze or a bee’s wing, the fixed categories borders inscribe can blossom into hybridities.…”
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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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“I really need your help with this work..”: A System for Navigating the Tricky Terrain of Managing Up by Leveraging One’s Motivation to Get Things Done by Park, Soya, Vishwabhan, Stuti, Muller, Michael, Karger, David R.

“…When people need help from their supervisors or peers, they often have to manage up to get things done. …”
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