Monitoring of group discussion using Android apps by Hamdi Hamzah

“…Investigating these aspects is crucial for building intelligent robots that can participate in conversations in a natural way, or to fulfill certain social responsibilities in our life. As our ultimate goal is to improve the current computer systems and social robots that suffer from a lack of social skills, we will explore the social signals and social behaviors, including social interactions (like turn taking), social attitude (like alliance), and social relations/ roles to build more socially intelligent model for robots. …”
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The psychological and social consequences of social media use : a review by Juan, Serene Wenqi, Nur Azeemah Kadir, Poh, Shu Yun

“…The review then explores 4 negative consequences of social media use: heightened feelings of jealousy and lowered life satisfaction, increased negative body image, negative impact on romantic relationships, and increased potential for cyberbullying. …”
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Something other than the absence of sound by Tay, Audrey Aik Ling

“…“Something Other Than The Absence Of Sound” is a three-part moving image installation derived from a desire to seek for silence amidst the overwhelming and chaotic rhythm of a modern city life. The need to survive in this developing world calls for constant movement and activity. …”
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Cheatsheet : the right way to learn by Loh, Wan Teng

“…Many believed that having a good education would eventually lead to a good job and a better life. As such, many students and parents try all ways and means to game the system and gain a competitive edge. …”
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"Kemunting : a journey" - Malay identity in pre- and post- independence Singapore by Muhammad Hidhir Md Razak

“…A hardy species, it is often treated as an invasive plant capable of altering ecosystems of foreign habitats but for the village children of Padang Kemunting where the plant is native, its bright flowers and soft, sweet fruit makes it a beloved part of their everyday life. As a novel, Kemunting fills a void in Singapore literature in English, being one of the few works written by a Malay writer to represent the Malay experience of the 1950s and 1960s in the English language. …”
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The software development of a glass-free 3D display system by Gu, Xiaofan

“…Three-dimensional (3D) display, which can greatly improve the visual effects of many electronic products and offer people more realistic viewing experience, is a very promising technique for our future life. The conversion from traditional Two-dimensional (2D) display to the Three-dimensional display is the trend of modern society. …”
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Design and development of a bottle cap opening device by Kok, Yane Jun Yan

“…Next stage is to refine the design using SolidWorks and come out with dimensions and parts needed to bring the idea to life. The idea consists of an upper movable system, a rotation system and a gripping system. …”
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Mobile visual product search by Yang, Zhongxiu

“…Nowadays, mobile phone is an indispensable gadget in people’s life. This encourages mobile app developer to create apps for users to obtain information from internet immediately and easily. …”
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Spatio temporal traffic pediction for a large-scale road network by Krishnamoorthy, Nardana

“…The potentials of deep neural networks for real-life applications of various domains can be viewed in the recent years. …”
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Modelling of Solitary Wave Run-up on an Onshore Coastal Cliff by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method by Jian, Wei, Sim, Shawn Yisheng, Huang, Zhenhua, Lo, Edmond Yat-Man

“…A composite topography made of a steep slope, a gentle beach and a steep coastal cliff was used in the experimental and numerical studies to represent real life scenarios. Comparison with laboratory measurements shows that the SPH model is able to capture the evolution and run-up of solitary waves for both non-breaking and slight breaking cases with reasonable accuracy.…”
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Experimental and numerical evaluation of FRP-retrofitted RC structure behavior under blast loading by Yi, Na-Hyun, Tan, Kang Hai, Kim, Jang-Ho Jay

“…However, some existing concrete structures require retrofitting during their service life to improve their resistance against impact and blast loads. …”
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On being religious : patterns of religious commitment in Muslim societies by Riaz Hassan

“…The first part of the paper will report the findings and the analysis by gender, life cycle, education and social position. The second part of the paper will discuss the findings using analytical insights from Emile Durkheim and Mary Douglas' sociology of religion. …”
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Correlation-based estimation of cutting force coefficients for ball-end milling by Dhupia, Jaspreet Singh, Girsang, Irving P.

“…Besides being useful for predictive evaluation of forces, such estimation of cutting force coefficients of the cutting force model can be useful for understanding variations in cutting process over the tool life and can assist in online monitoring and process optimization.…”
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An analytical formulation for the fatigue damage skewness relating to a narrowband process by Low, Ying Min.

“…In spectral fatigue analysis, the expected fatigue damage is customarily used to ascertain the design fatigue life. The uncertainty of the damage induced by the underlying stochastic process is typically disregarded in both theory and practice. …”
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Macroporous and monolithic anode based on polyaniline hybridized three-dimensional graphene for high-performance microbial fuel cells by Chan-Park, Mary B., Yong, Yang-Chun, Dong, Xiaochen, Song, Hao, Chen, Peng

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Cluster based power efficient cooperative spectrum sensing under reduced bandwidth using location information by Smitha, Kavallur Gopi, Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad

“…The reduction in the number of sensing bits using proposed method in turn reduces the total transmission power of the secondary users in the cognitive network thus improving its battery life.…”
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'I am afraid to fly there': informal care in Polish migrants' families immobilised by COVID-19 by Kloc-Nowak, Weronika, Ryan, Louise

“…This paper discusses the COVID-19 pandemic as a new external challenge to transnational family life that can undermine the care arrangements and intentions developed by the families of Polish migrants following the 2004 EU enlargement. …”
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'You would never pick up the thread from where you left off’: older Irish women migrants' narratives of non‐return, post‐retirement by Ryan, Louise, Doshi, Neha

“…However, using the embedding framework, through a life course lens, we argue that non‐return may reflect complex processes of disembedding and non‐belonging in the origin country – which are less easy to articulate.…”
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Modelling futility in the setting of fertility treatment by Polyakov, A, Gyngel, C, Savulescu, J

“…We draw on the commonly used metric, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), to attach a monetary value to new lives created through IVF. …”

Death and the doctor: the museum as a tool for understanding the needs of the dying by Harris, J, Moyse, A, Hadley, G, Frampton, S, Dempsey, A, Hordern, J, Saunders, K, Lane, R, De Luca, G

“…Bringing together museum professionals, Expert Patient Tutors and doctors in curriculum planning and delivery, the work has been delivered online, using images from the museum’s collections, and live, using the Ashmolean galleries as spaces for the consideration of issues around death, dying and end-of-life care. This article and its preface reflect broadly on a decade of medical collaboration at the Ashmolean and specifically on the processes of both making and delivering teaching on dealing with death, in a cross-disciplinary, non-medical context, asking not only what the Museum can do for medical education but why medical education needs the museum.…”