Foreign students and implications of their social networking sites usage by Tan, Yi Ting

“…Past research examining how foreign students utilise Social Networking Sites (SNS) to settle into their host countries are overly Western-centric in their discussions of the issue at hand. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to determine how foreigners or immigrants make use of SNS as a tool to establish their place within Singapore, whether their sense of collective identity influences their SNS usage patterns and whether their usage of SNS has any impact on their ability to integrate into the local context. …”
Get full text

15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 by Locke, Richard M., 1959-, Loessberg, Shari

“…Enables teams of engineering, science, and management students to work with the top management of international high-tech start-ups and gain hands-on experience in starting and running a new enterprise outside the United States. …”
Get full text

牛车水的塑造：政治活动中华人的自主性和殖民管治 = The shaping of Chinatown: relationship of Chinese agency and colonial governance in political activities by 蔡晓欣 Choi, Irene Hiu Yan

“…Through these activities and shaping, Chinatown as a place and space was constructed. This demonstrated the Chinese had agency and Chinatown was beyond an settlement area, it had multiple meaning and was always in flux. …”
Get full text

Hybrid lasers and modulator on silicon in the near- and mid-infrared region by Hu, Xiaonan

“…In addition, the increased loss in SiO2 also limits the development of a high performance optical modulator. On the other hand, the graphene is already shown with excellent electronic and optical properties, which is potential for ultrafast and broadband optical modulator at MIR region. …”
Get full text

Salient keypoint detectors and compact feature descriptors for 3D perception by Prakhya, Sai Manoj

“…3D depth data acquisition has become extremely easy and affordable with the availability of hand-held depth sensors such as Microsoft Kinect, Intel RealSense Camera and Google Tango. …”
Get full text

MobiTest : an evaluation infrastructure for mobile distributed applications by Sivaraman Kaushalram, Anirudh

Get full text

Media regulation in Singapore : empirical study of the instruments of media policy and its efficiency with regard to the attainment of political objectives by Carsten, Gäbel

“…The empirical study at hand examines if Singapore's government is in fact achieving its objectives by taking advantage of the media. …”
Get full text

Image transformation for beautification by Lim, Christine Kia Min

“…As technology became more advanced, users can easily take a large number of digital photographs (image) of faces using their camera or hand phone. Sometimes, they wish to beautify a face photograph using image retouching tools. …”
Get full text

Geobarrier system for use in underground structure by Leong, Eng Choon, Zhai, Qian, Tan, Sze Tiong, Wang, Chien Looi, Lim, Vincent Han, Kew, Jernice Huiling, Seow, Wei Kiong, Wong, Johnny Liang Heng, Rahardjo, Harianto, Satyanaga, Alfrendo, Gofar, Nurly, Mohamed, Haneena

“…Retaining walls are important part of urban development related to the creation of new spaces for urban development where land space is very limited. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Discrete geodesic graphs by Fang, Zheng

“…It extends a method which approximates the intrinsic distance with the Euclidean distance in an offset band but allows user to control the error convergence rate and performs the geodesic computation in a Dijkstra-like sweep. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Energy management of microgrids by Ju, Chengquan

“…However, public concern has been raised due to progressive stability and reliability issues regarding different aspects related with fast developing system infrastructure and emerging electricity market. On the other hand, it might sometimes become a serious issue for microgrids on the trade-off between economy and reliability, since operating reserves are much incomparable to variations from both generation and consumption sides in most cases. …”
Get full text

A combined numerical and experimental approach to investigations of body-freedom flutter on flying wings by Ang, Elijah Hao Wei

“…Finally, the monolithic state-space formulation for the aeroelastic model allows for efficient control synthesis for active gust load alleviation strategies. …”
Get full text

Security enhancement of fingerprint authentication by Alias, Joe

“…Biometric recognition deals with the use of distinctive physiological and behavioral characteristics of an individual such as iris, fingerprint, hand geometry, face, signature, gait etc which are called biometrics or biometric identifiers to automatically recognize a person. …”
Get full text

Resolving the third Korean nuclear crisis : lessons from diplomatic engagement. by Koh, Swee Lean.

Get full text

Labour pains: mothers and motherhood on the British left in the twentieth century by Riley, CL, Jenkins, L, Baughan, E

“…In less radical circles, it has been understood as a crucial contribution to the functioning of society, often forming the basis of women’s claims to citizenship and maternalist forms of politics. On the other hand, motherhood has been seen as a ‘natural’ function of women and a private responsibility, rather than a public good or a collective act which needs comprehensive state support. …”

A mean field game between informed traders and a broker by Bergault, P, Sánchez-Betancourt, L

“…The broker, on the other hand, observes the trading speed of each of his clients and provides liquidity to the informed traders. …”

EEG-based emotional stress recognition using deep learning techniques by Lai, Michelle Wei Ting

“…In this fast-paced world, one must be able to multi-task with jobs in hand and this generates stress. …”
Get full text

Carbon nanotube fence-wall for radio frequency isolation by Tan, Dunlin

“…However, there are many challenges faced with the use of such emerging materials, such as difficulty in implementation and effective integration into electronics. …”
Get full text

High five: recognising human interactions in TV shows by Patron-Perez, A, Marszalek, M, Zisserman, AP, Reid, ID

“…Using head orientation mitigates camera view ambiguities, while the local context, comprised of histograms of gradients and motion, aims to capture cues such as hand and arm movement. We also employ structured learning to capture spatial relationships between interacting individuals. …”

The correlation between CEO remuneration and company performance : a Singapore-Hong Kong comparison. by Chui, Vanessa Jie Yi., Luo, Yijie., Low, Jeanne Yi Jun.

“…This paper recognizes the quintessential role that Chief Executive Officer (CEO) remuneration historically plays in aligning the interests of the CEOs with those of the stockholders by virtue of motivating them to improve company performance. On the other hand, such pay-for-performance schemes have been increasingly facing criticism for its seemingly growing ineffectiveness. …”
Get full text