Rethinking the role that the “step” in the load–displacement curves can play in measurement of fracture toughness for hard coatings by Zhang, Xiaomin, Zhang, Sam

“…This paper scrutinizes the “step” and finds that the “step” is a gap artificially bridged up with a straight line and that the “step” size corresponds with the thickness of the coating in testing. …”
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The dynamic effect of information privacy law

“…Under the standard law & economics account, as long as property rights are defined and transaction costs are low, initial right allocations should be irrelevant for social welfare. …”

Mitigating Undercutting Attacks: A Study on Mining and Transaction Fee Behavior by Bao, Claire

“…These attacks could cause repeated forking of the blockchain, thereby rendering Bitcoin unstable and less secure long-term. The original paper by Carlsten et. al. proposing these attacks made assumptions about the future mining environment. …”
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On the commute travel pattern with compressed work schedule by Su, Qida, Wang, David Zhi Wei

“…On top of that, the effects of CW on firms’ productivity are incorporated into our long-run analysis. At long-run equilibrium, no employers and employees can benefit by unilaterally switching their schedule type or changing their schedule design. …”
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A sketch grammar of Singapore Foochow by Thang, Marcus Guo Ping

“…This is a sketch grammar of Foochow, specifically, the variety that is spoken in Singapore. Foochow is an Eastern Min (or East Fujian) language, which is also widely known as a dialect, both in China and in Singapore. …”
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Dimensions of perfectionism and contingencies of self-worth in differential outcomes related to perfectionism. by Lee, Kit Ying.

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Chiral secondary amine catalyzed asymmetric cascade reactions by Dai, Lu

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Build-A-Bae : interrogating female stereotypes in Singapore by Ming Rui, Lee

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Thermal stability of trypsin inhibitor activity in winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) by Tan, Nget Hong, Wong, Kai Choo

“…Prolonged cooking (45–60 min) of the whole bean was required to reduce the TIA substantially. …”

A web system for map-matching trajectories on road networks by Tan, Fiora Bei Lun

“…It is expected that by 2050, more than 2.5 billion people will reside in cities. With the proliferation of location sensing devices, the generation of large urban mobility data such as Global Positioning System (GPS) data points has exploded. …”
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Some fractional integral inequalities of type Hermite–Hadamard through convexity by Farooq Ahmad, Muhammad Iqbal, Qaisar, Shahid, Nasir, Jamshed, Butt, Saad Ihsan, Asma, Asma, Hussain, Sajjad

“…In the present article, the authors have established some Hermite–Hadamard type integral inequalities via Riemann–Liouville fractional integrals that generalize Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities and a few other results (Dragomir and Agarwal in Appl. Math. Lett. 11(5):91–95,1998; Dragomir, Chob and Kimc in J. Math. …”
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The Effects of Spending Rules and Asset Allocation on Non-Profit Endowments by Halem, Zachery M., Lo, Andrew W, Matveyev, Egor, Quraishi, Sarah

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Improving electrochemical hybridization assays with restriction enzymes by Zhou, Xingcheng, Zamani, Marjon, Austin, Katherine, De Bock, Marieke, Ullola, Joshua Chaj, Rikia, Smah, Furst, Ariel L.

“…Thus, we have further established guidelines for REH design to serve as a generalizable platform for robust electrochemical detection of long nucleic acids.…”
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Real-time electricity price prediction by Tan, Alvin Wei Song

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Point cloud based loop detection and localization by Chen, Yihuang

“…SLAM is an important technique for lots of localization methods, while most of the SLAM methods would suffer from drift in long-time processing. Loop closure detection is an effective method to correct the long-time drift and improve the result of SLAM. …”
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Sustainable and smart trip planner for reducing carbon footprint of transportation by Kim, Heonjung

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A study of inflation in China by Hu, Xiaoli, Xu, Jiajia, Yang, Wanyu

“…We remark that in the long run, the primary source of inflation in China is growth of money supply or bank loans. …”
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Novel modulo multipliers for moduli 2^n-1, 2^n and 2^n+1. by Ramya Muralidharan

“…Long word-length integer multiplication is widely acknowledged as the bottleneck operation in public key cryptographic and signal processing algorithms. …”
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Artisitck A : a new, convenient way of light painting by Ng, Su Hui

“…Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand- held light source while taking a long exposure photograph. The conventional method for light painting is limited to a single light source and is relatively difficult to adopt. …”
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CoTracker: it is better to track together by Karaev, N, Rocco, I, Graham, B, Neverova, N, Vedaldi, A, Rupprecht, C

“…We introduce CoTracker, a transformer-based model that tracks a large number of 2D points in long video sequences. Differently from most existing approaches that track points independently, CoTracker tracks them jointly, accounting for their dependencies. …”