Improving organic light- emitting devices by modifying indium tin oxide anode with an ultrathin tetrahedral amorphous carbon film by Wu, Dong.

“…With standard devices, hole current can far exceed electron current resulting in significant energy wastage since the excess holes cannot combine with electrons within the emissive layer to generate light, which is one of the most important factors that limit the efficiency in OLEDs. …”
Get full text

Sanctions with Chinese characteristics : the effects of China's sanctions rhetoric on its behaviour by Poh, Angela Ming Yan

“…To test my theory empirically, I examine the factors affecting China’s voting behaviour at the UNSC with respect to proposed UN sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2006-2016); Syria (2011-2016); and Guinea-Bissau (2012); as well as its use and non-use of unilateral economic sanctions against eight potential targets from 2008 to 2017: France (2008); United States (2010); Japan (2010); Norway (2010); the Philippines (2012); Vietnam (2014); Taiwan (2016) and the Republic of Korea (2017).…”
Get full text

Hox gene expression in early zebrafish embryo by Stephanie

“…Embryogenesis is a tightly controlled process which involves a plethora of transcription factors to ensure proper development. One group of genes involved in embryogenesis is Hox genes which encode for transcription factors and help in anterior-posterior patterning at post-gastrulation time. …”
Get full text

Can social adversity and mental, physical and oral multimorbidity form a syndemic? A concept and protocol paper by Joury, E, Nakhleh, E, Beveridge, E, Tracy, D, Heidari, E, Shiers, D, Vereeken, S, Peckham, E, Gilbody, S, Das-Munshi, J, Fortune, F, Aggarwal, VR, Mishu, M, Firth, J, Bhui, K

“…These conditions are precipitated and perpetuated by adverse social, economic, environmental, political and healthcare contextual factors, and sustained through bidirectional interactions forming potentially a ‘syndemic’. …”

Singapore hotels : an environmental profile by Choo Tze Wei, Ng Ai Ling, Wee Yik Keong

“…The hospitality industry, being one of the largest industries in the world, is not immune to environmental problems. …”
Get full text

Leaving your homeland if goals are not supported by the society. by Tan, Crystal Xueling.

“…This paper examined the issue of brain drain phenomenon from a psychological perspective by exploring the relationship between the intention to leave the country and several factors – national identification, a mismatch of personal goals, the type of personal goals (i.e. career and interpersonal) and the importance of personal goals. …”
Get full text

Busyness and its impact on speed of work. by Soon, Yi Zhen.

“…Findings indicate that making one feel busy do indeed result in faster task completion.…”
Get full text

(Re)creating myself : negotiations of Singaporean transsexuals. by Kang, Roxanne Hwee Kun.

“…By extrapolating data obtained through in-depth interviews, I argue that reflexivity requires other complementary factors such as acquisition of capital and social status to mitigate the tensions between individual autonomy and social structures. …”
Get full text

Linguistic distance and market integration in India by Fenske, J, Kala, N

“…While factors like genetic distance, literacy gaps, and railway connections are correlated with linguistic distance, they do not fully explain the correlation between linguistic distance and market integration.…”

Object level grouping for video shots by Sivic, J, Schaffalitzky, F, Zisserman, A

“…Third, we develop an affine factorization method that copes with motion degeneracy. …”

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting and missing (M) scores in the Industry 5.0 era: broadening firms’ and investors’ decisions to achieve sustainable development... by Yadav, Sanjeev, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil, Pandey, Krishan Kumar

“…Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are gradually being utilized to assess organizations' long-term success, drive capital, and inform company decision-making toward sustainable growth. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Integrate Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) into cognitive behavioural therapy to treat postpartum depression in Chinese culture contexts. by Han, Shuyu.

“…In nowadays, postpartum depression (PPD) has become one of the most typical complications after childbirth. …”
Get full text

Inertia measurement unit based sensing module for CPT training kit by Lee, Gabriel Wei Jian

“…Cardiac arrest has always been one of the major causes of deaths. Ventricular Tachycardia is one of the many factors which may lead to the occurrence of Sudden Cardiac Death to a person. …”
Get full text

Personality traits bias the perceived quality of sonic environments by Lindborg, PerMagnus, Friberg, Anders

“…The present study included the Big Five traits and noise sensitivity as personality factors in two listening experiments (n = 43, n = 45). …”
Get full text
Get full text

Acquisition of musical skills and abilities in older adults—results of 12 months of music training by Losch, H, Altenmüller, E, Marie, D, Passarotto, E, Kretschmer, CR, Scholz, DS, Kliegel, M, Krüger, THC, Sinke, C, Jünemann, K, James, CE, Worschech, F

“…This study aims to assess musical skill acquisition in musically naïve older adults over one year of practice, focusing on individual factors influencing this process and the relations between musical skills. …”

Investigating the inner controls on explosive eruptions using textural analyses and petrology by Bernard, Olivier

“…I find that slight changes in the pre-eruptive state of the magma such as phenocryst-content and exsolved volatile contents influenced magma ascent rates and subsequent eruption styles. …”
Get full text

Cell charactetization in differnet regions of the native annulus fibrous in a porcine intervetebral disc model through cell sorting and molecular analysis by Teo, Tong

“…Current treatments include conservative ones such as the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for short term relief and surgical ones such as spinal fusion to alleviate pain caused by IVD degeneration. …”
Get full text

Towards in-situ texture analysis during LPBF: optical microscopy and texture control by Wang, Xiaogang

“…Laser-powder bed fusion (L-PBF) is one of the most popular metal additive manufacturing technologies owing to its high production rate and high dimensional accuracy. …”
Get full text

China's syndrome : Chinese military modernization and the rearming of Southeast Asia by Bitzinger, Richard A.

“…In fact, other external and internal factors - such as new regional security requirements, changing military doctrines, lingering regional suspicions, domestic politics, and supply-side economics in the international arms trade - have played much more important roles as drivers of this process. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Design a charging station for electric vehicles in Singapore by Wang, Xiao.

“…This report focuses on the one of the limiting factors known as contracted capacity. …”
Get full text