Surviving the economic crisis in distribution and warehousing business by Chia, Tow Fong.

“…Empirical evidence collected through surveys provides insights into the severity of economic crisis faced by warehousing and distribution business, as well as the strategies taken to overcome the crisis. Survey findings revealed that almost half of the surveyed companies did not show improvement in terms of sales volume in 2009. …”
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The role of PTEN in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells mediated tumor cells suppression. by Toh, Xin Yi.

“…With the observed 26.2% of cell enhancement in MSC/ ∆Gli36-shPTEN co-culture, findings from the loss- of- function assay had indicated that expression of PTEN could be correlated with MSC-mediated suppression. …”
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Android game for task-oriented productivity management by Khoo, Felicia Xin Yi

“…The idea was originated from the personal experience as being a student who finds it difficult to cope with list of tasks to be completed every day. …”
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Using podcasts to cultivate learner-teacher rapport in Higher Education settings by Conroy, Dom, Kidd, Warren

“…Textual feedback on two sample podcasts per student were subjected to content analysis. Findings underscored podcasts value as digital learning resources to help nurture teacher-student relations. …”
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Writing in Creole contexts: a study of Jamaican primary school students by Tucker, S-K, Chalmers, H, Murphy, VA

“…Findings are discussed in line with the Not-so-Simple View of Writing and recommendations for supporting the literacy development of Creole speaking learners in the Caribbean are outlined.…”

Posthospitalization COVID-19 cognitive deficits at 1 year are global and associated with elevated brain injury markers and gray matter volume reduction by Wood, GK, Sargent, BF, Ahmad, Z, Tharmaratnam, K, Dunai, C, Egbe, FN, Martin, NH, Facer, B, Pendered, SL, Rogers, HC, Hübel, C, van Wamelen, DJ, Bethlehem, RAI, Giunchiglia, V, Hellyer, PJ, Trender, W, Kalsi, G, Needham, E, Easton, A, Jackson, TA, Cunningham, C, Upthegrove, R, Pollak, TA, Hotopf, M, Miller, KL, Jezzard, P, Smith, SM, Husain, M, Vincent, A

“…We report the 1-year cognitive, serum biomarker and neuroimaging findings from a prospective, national study of cognition in 351 COVID-19 patients who required hospitalization, compared with 2,927 normative matched controls. …”

Beyond the office walls understanding security and shadow security behaviours in a remote work context by Alromaih, S, Flechais, I, Chalhoub, G

“…Using Grounded Theory, we interviewed 20 remote workers to explore security related practices within remote work. Our findings describe a model of personal security and how this interacts with an organisational security model in remote settings. …”

The longitudinal effects of intergroup contact on youth attitudes towards ethnic minorities and constructive societal engagement by Schaefer, D, McKeown, S, Ali, S, DuPont, P-L, Manley, D, Rao, S, Taylor, LK, McKeown Jones, S

“…No lagged effects were observed of intergroup contact on civic engagement. Findings highlight the potential longitudinal effects of intergroup contact on attitudes and behaviours towards ethnic minorities…”

Reading difficulties encountered by ESL tertiary learners of Pakistan by Abbas, Tarique, Elizabeth M Anthony

“…The findings further revealed that learners frequently employed the following reading strategies to tackle the reading problems: re-reading, translating, and referring to the dictionary. …”
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Exploring and evaluating differentiated assessment practices of in-service teachers for components of differentiation by Kaur, Amrita, Noman, Mohammad, Awang Hashim, Rosna

“…Data from the open-ended survey were analyzed using NVivo11 to develop codes for the analytic framework.The findings offer insights into teachers’ knowledge, application, and interpretation of differentiated assessment practices.The discussion explores teachers’ explanations of their own practices and, further, recommends ways to improve knowledge and application of differentiated assessment.The implications of the findings are discussed for assessment literacy-related professional development for teachers, school management and policies to facilitate implementation of differentiated assessment.…”
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Commitment in non-profit organisations in Singapore : examining the effects of leadership and communication on commitment in community centres and residents' committees. by Leong, Cherene Pei Wen., Ong, Doreen Hui Chen., Tan, Chieh Shih.

“…Community Centres and Residents' Committees are selected as the basis for our study. Through our findings, we hope to enhance the level of affective commitment in non-profit organisations.…”
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Analysis of stock option scheme. by Seow, Yee Leng., Yeo, Connie., Yong, Helen Li Shien.

“…We hope that this project can help by examining how the scheme works, finding out its level of acceptance by the employees as well as assessing the feasibility of this implementation in Singapore.…”
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Modeling risky asset prices with jump-diffusion processes by Jiang, Meiling, Yap, Ling Seang, Zhang, Grace Hui Ling

“…The EM method has been employed in finding parameters estimates of the Jump-Diffusion model.…”
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Advanced attack and defense techniques in machine learning systems by Zhao, Mengchen

“…For multiple-credential scenarios, we formulate it as a bilevel optimization problem for finding the optimal defense strategy and then reduce it to a single level optimization problem called PEMS using complementary slackness conditions. …”
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Body driven cognition : writing to the body to influence the mind by Jain, Abhinandan(Cognitive data scientist)

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Temporal Telepresence: Immersive Interfaces for TeleAbsence by Pillis, D.

“…The system dynamically links autobiographical memories with the environments where they took place, responding to text, photo, and object-based interactions. …”
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Processing and early age properties of 3D printed sustainable concrete by Ho, Garrick Sze Jian

“…Cohesion values and combined inter particle friction is said to be linked to the ‘green strength’ of fresh concrete that allows it to carry their own weight after mixing or compacting. …”
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Cloud removal in optical remote sensing imagery based on SAR-guided inpainting using deep learning by Dou, Kaijie

“…Clouds not only block the ground scene, but also change the spectral and texture information of the image to a certain extent, causing many disadvantages to many links in the production of remote sensing image products. …”
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Numerical simulation of titanium fibre metallic laminates under various impact loading by Selvadurai Shanmugasundram

“…This thesis is linked to the research project carried out for the development of multi-functionally hierarchical Fiber-Metal Laminates (FMLs) for impact protection. …”
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Detection of low frequency artemisinin resistance mutations, C469Y, P553L and A675V, and fixed antifolate resistance mutations in asymptomatic primary school children in Kenya by Osoti, V, Wamae, K, Ndwiga, L, Gichuki, PM, Okoyo, C, Kepha, S, Keitany, K, Kandie, R, Aricha, S, Kiplagat, R, Mwandawiro, C, Bejon, P, Snow, RW, Ochola-Oyier, LI

“…The Pfdhfr 51I and 108 N pyrimethamine-resistance mutations were at fixation (100% frequency), and the Pfmdr1 Y184F mutation, which is linked to reduced susceptibility to several antimalarial drugs, especially those used in combination therapies for malaria treatment, was detected in 97.5% of the samples as mixed-genotype infections. …”