Mobile app-aided design thinking approach to promote upcycling in Singapore by Shan, Xin, Neo, Vienna Zhi Yu, Yang, En-Hua, Jin, Mingzhou

“…The yearly amount of waste getting disposed of in Singapore is rising, which poses a waste management issue to be tackled and overcome. …”
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A systematic review of brand transgression, service failure recovery and product-harm crisis: integration and guiding insights by Khamitov, Mansur, Grégoire, Yany, Suri, Anshu

“…In response, this review synthesizes the growing BT, SFR, and PHC literatures by systematically reviewing 236 articles across 21 years using an integrative conceptual framework. …”
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NTU VIRAL: a visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint by Nguyen, Thien-Minh, Yuan, Shenghai, Cao, Muqing, Lyu, Yang, Nguyen, Thien Hoang, Xie, Lihua

“…In recent years, autonomous robots have become ubiquitous in research and daily life. …”
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Parental involvement in developmental disabilities across cultures by Gianluca Esposito

“…Background: Parents play a critical role in the early intervention/early childhood special education (EI/ECSE) services provided to young children (birth-6 years) with developmental disabilities. Aim: The aim of this systematic review was to explore parental involvement in developmental disabilities across three cultures: Mainland China, Taiwan, and Turkey. …”
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Garment mesh reconstruction and animation by Ju, Chuang

“…With great potential in online garment shopping and game animation, recent years research in garment virtual try-on becomes more and more popular. …”
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Alteration of hippocampal CA2 plasticity and social memory in adult rats impacted by juvenile stress by Raghuraman, Radha, Navakkode, Sheeja, Sajikumar, Sreedharan

“…The hippocampal CA2 region has received greater attention in recent years due to its fundamental role in social memory and hippocampus-dependent memory processing. …”
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Language attitudes of the T’rung by Perlin, Ross

“…Women and those over 50 years old feel particular ambivalence about T’rung, instead valorizing Lisu, a regional lingua franca. …”
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Layer-wise learning framework for deep networks by Yu, Haoyao

“…With the increasingly extensive application of deep learning, research based on experiential results has made significant progress in the field of machine learning over the past few years. However, deep learning is very difficult to understand due to its use of artificial neural networks and a black-box approach. …”
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Improved video quality for low bit rate video conferencing by Kittisak Intharaphithak.

“…Video telephony has gained wider commercial interest within the recent years, especially with the greater availability of high speed public IP network. …”
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A study on the correlation between financial ratios and earnings per share in South Korean banking by Li, Wei Jie, Zhang, Xi Liang, Liu, Lei

“…These determinants include Earnings, Asset, Growth, Liquidity, Equity, and Strategic Response Quotient, that is, the components of EAGLES model which is propounded by Vong (1994) of Nanyang Technological University in recent years. The measurements of bank performance, expressed in Earnings Per Share (EPS) and Earnings Per Share Growth (EPSG), are evaluated in this study. …”
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Fullwave modeling of coplanar-waveguide discontinuities for applications in filter design and metamaterial characterization by Gao, Jing

“…In this way, several commercial MoM simulators have been explored in the recent years for direct simulation and optimization of a large number of CPW circuit blocks with complicated configurations. …”
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Catalysis and regulation of cyclic dinucleotide specific phosphodiesterases by Rao, Feng

“…In recent years, cyclic-di-GMP (c-di-GMP) has been firmly established as a major bacterial second messenger; whereas the structurally similar c-di-AMP has also emerged as another previously hidden messenger in prokaryotes. …”
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Competitive spreading of multiple ideas in multiplex networks by Luo, Jingyuan

“…Opinion dynamics is one of the interesting thesises in recent years. Competition of multiple ideas in multiplex networks also aroused people’s interest. …”
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A Review on the Use of Robots in Education and Young Children by Toh, Lai Poh Emily, Causo, Albert, Tzuo, Pei-Wen, Chen, I-Ming, Yeo, Song Huat

“…The paper synthesizes the findings of research studies carried out in the last ten years and looks at the influence of robots on children and education. …”
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Possible mechanisms of control of Fusarium wilt of cut chrysanthemum by Phanerochaete chrysosporium in continuous cropping fields : a case study by Li, Ping, Chen, Jingchao, Li, Yi, Zhang, Kun, Wang, Hailei

“…In this study, Phanerochaete chrysosporium was inoculated into the field in which cut chrysanthemum had already been continuously cropped for five years to control wilt disease. After 120 days of cultivation, the addition of P. chrysosporium significantly improved the physiological status of plants and changed the bacterial and fungal community structure in the soil. …”
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ANRIL promoter DNA methylation : a perinatal marker for later adiposity by Lillycrop, Karen, Murray, Robert, Cheong, Clara, Teh, Ai Ling, Clarke-Harris, Rebecca, Barton, Sheila, Costello, Paula, Garratt, Emma, Cook, Eloise, Titcombe, Philip, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Liew, Samantha J., Chua, Yong-Cai, Lin, Xinyi, Wu, Yonghui, Burdge, Graham C., Cooper, Cyrus, Inskip, Hazel M., Karnani, Neerja, Hopkins, James C., Childs, Caroline E., Chavez, Carolina Paras, Calder, Philip C., Yap, Fabian, Lee, Yung Seng, Chong, Yap Seng, Melton, Philip E., Beilin, Lawrie, Huang, Rae-Chi, Gluckman, Peter D., Harvey, Nick, Hanson, Mark A., Holbrook, Joanna D., Godfrey, Keith M.

“…We identified a novel association between the level of CpG methylation at birth within the promoter of the long non-coding RNA ANRIL (encoded at CDKN2A) and childhood adiposity at age 6-years. An association between ANRIL methylation and adiposity was also observed in three additional populations; in birth tissues from ethnically diverse neonates, in peripheral blood from adolescents, and in adipose tissue from adults. …”
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Signatures of a time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal with only four Weyl points by Belopolski, Ilya, Yu, Peng, Sanchez, Daniel S., Ishida, Yukiaki, Chang, Tay-Rong, Zhang, Songtian S., Xu, Su-Yang, Zheng, Hao, Chang, Guoqing, Bian, Guang, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Kondo, Takeshi, Lin, Hsin, Liu, Zheng, Shin, Shik, Hasan, M. Zahid

“…Through intense research on Weyl semimetals during the past few years, we have come to appreciate that typical Weyl semimetals host many Weyl points. …”
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Indonesia's direct local elections : background and institutional framework by Choi, Nankyung

“…Despite the historical meaning of such elections, experiences of holding direct local elections over the last two years suggest that systemic issues related to the elections' institutional framework have tarnished the electoral processes and outcomes in many cases. …”
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Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs by Xia, Yang, Yeo, Chai Kiat

“…Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) has been an active research area in the past few years. It is observed that as the mobility of nodes increases, the performance of existing cluster based routing protocols tends to deteriorate rapidly. …”
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Performance comparisons between lightpath and light-tree schemes in dynamic multicast traffic grooming process by Yu, Xiaojun, Xiao, Gaoxi, Cheng, Tee Hiang

“…To support multicast applications while improving wavelength capacity utilization in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks, dynamic multicast traffic grooming problem has been extensively studied in recent years, and various algorithms using either lightpath or light-tree schemes have been proposed. …”
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