Demand response of lighting and air conditioner in AC/DC micro grid by Zhong, Yang.

“…In the past decades, electricity consumption increases quickly in Singapore. …”
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The perception of life insurance agents by the public by Chan, Mike Hong Keong, Kong, Yew Wah, Lee, Jiunn Woei

“…Many studies on how the general public view life insurance agents have initiated in the past. However, no research has been conducted on why individuals perceive life insurance agents as they do. …”
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Variation of stiffness of two magnetically coupled beams for broadband energy harvesting by Xiao, Jincheng

“…Smart structural health monitoring through wireless sensors is gaining significant importance over the past few decades. Consequently, many researchers are trying to power such sensors by harvesting energy from ambient energy sources. …”
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Does death penalty have a deterrent effect on homicides? by Du, Shangzhu, Sheng, Chao, Wen, Shaoyi

“…Death penalty has been practiced by most societies in the past but a growing number of countries have abolished this sanction. …”
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CHEWTOPIA : a visual communication exploration of positioning Teochew culture for a contemporary audience by Quek, Amanda Wei Yi

“…The slow death of Chinese dialects over the past decades, largely attributed to language policies put in place by the Singapore government, has resulted in many of the younger generations losing the ability to speak their own cultural dialect and consequently the understanding of their own cultural heritage. …”
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Motivation & family caregivers of elderly individuals : exploring the relevance of filial piety & autonomy by Nur 'Atiqah Mohd Farhan

“…Individuals who provide care for their sick or frail family members are reported to be at risk of developing depression and other psychosomatic symptoms due to the burden of caregiving. As past research has found that health is an outcome linked to motivation, the current study explores the underlying motivations of these family caregivers, specifically focusing on the concepts of filial piety and autonomy. …”
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Nanoarchitectural design of semiconductor materials for sustainable energy applications by Miao, Jianwei

“…Artificial conversion of the solar energy into chemical fuels, mimicking what the Mother Nature does, has attracted tremendous attentions over the past few decades. Among the many systems that have been proposed, solar water splitting for hydrogen production is the most attractive one. …”
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On language attrition : lexical access in Singaporean English-Chinese bilinguals by Toh, Xiao Xuan

“…However, there has yet been a consensus as to whether lexical access during reception and production are affected to the same extent. Further, past studies primarily involved migrants who simultaneously experience the loss of their native language and acquisition of a new language, which presents difficulty in disentangling the effects of language attrition and language acquisition on the decline of language skills. …”
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Speech enhancement via adaptive beamforming by Shen, Huizhi

“…Applications of the technique include direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation of signal sources and directional signal enhancement. In the past decades, several beamforming approaches have been proposed. …”
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Power management unit for smartphone applications by Kok, Chiang Liang

“…This is supported by the fact that its energy density has only doubled over the past few decades from 300 to merely 600Whr/liter. …”
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Effect of contextual information in human action recognition in videos by Koh, Hong Wei

“…Human action recognition has been in the spotlight for the past few years due to its wide variety of capabilities such as gestures-based and surveillance applications. …”
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Small range localization using wireless ultrasound sensor network by Tan, Eric Wee Shan

“…In the past few years, technological advances in electronics have led to cost effective, power efficient and small Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). …”
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CFD on marine propellers by Tong, Chang Yi

“…The results obtained will then be compared and validated with experimental results taken from past references. The CFD simulations show that there are clear distinctions in the open water characteristics when the fluent undergoes different advance velocities. …”
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Why am I racist? A study on the prediction of race categorization performance on implicit racial biases among Singapore Chinese preschoolers by Koh, Jin Yi

“…Stronger implicit racial biases were also found to be related to higher accuracy in categorizing own-race Chinese faces rather than other-race Indian faces, which is posited to be due to early childhood experience that consists of predominantly own-race Chinese individuals. Past research suggests that by altering this exposure and providing training during early childhood are effective methods in reducing implicit bias. …”
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Effect of a circular tunnel in the foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Yeong, Siang Phong

“…The seismic inputs adopted for the simulation study involved an actual past earthquake acceleration data, using the SMC data of an earthquake (Upland, 1990). …”
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Development of wireless vibration sensor for condition monitoring of electrical machines by Chua, Wang An

“…The application of wireless sensor was explored for testing of new applications in the field of wireless process automation, which in the past were limited by economic and technological barriers. …”
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Robotic manipulation of microscopic objects using multiple laser-driven fingertips by Quang, Minh Ta

“…Rapid advances in the research and development of robotic and automation technologies have completely revolutionized the manufacturing industries in the past years. Though much progress has been obtained in the research and development of robotic manipulation recently, it is still difficult to reproduce such achievement in the micro-world as the study of micro-manipulation opens up new research and technological issues which diverge from traditional robotic manipulation. …”
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Grouting in rock cavern - a case study by Chew, Wei Kwang

“…At the first step, based on past studies and existing relationship, we determined the parameters to be used in this study to be water ingress rate, water ingress pressure, drill hole depth, w/c ratio of grout, rock quality designation, Q-value, rock mass rating, cohesion, friction angle, deformation modulus, tensile strength and hydraulic conductivity. …”
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Development of encrypted communication over the NTU nanosatellite by Liu, Wen Sheng

“…In the past, intercepting satellite communication was deemed as impractical due to the need for the precise location of the satellite and powerful antenna receivers, hence encryption for satellite communication were usually not implemented. …”
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Calibration of the basic reinforced concrete design provision (Calibration of bond stress-slip models for unconfined reinforced concrete) by Cheah, Yi Ning

“…This project aims to provide a comprehensive comparison among the seven deterministic bond stress-slip models developed in the past researches, and thus, further enhance their applicability by establishing the bond-slip statistical cloud models. …”
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