Between parental practices and values: children’s free will beliefs are associated with their parents' autonomy granting but not authoritarian values by Lee, Clyde Jing Yi

“…When including both predicters and control variables in a regression model, parental autonomy granting was also found to uniquely contribute to children’s free will beliefs after controlling for children’s age, children’s gender, and parents’ gender. These findings underscore the importance of autonomy granting in fostering children’s understanding of choice and whether they can choose to do something that they do not like or something that is hard for them within the socio-cultural context of Singapore. …”
Get full text

Grid-connected current source inverter with instantaneous power control by Nor Amsyar Bin Zainuddin

“…This was done by designing the perfect inverter circuit, incorporating the appropriate control algorithms and analyzing the performance of the developed inverter under varied load cases to create a grid. The key findings indicate the development of the Current Source Inverter, which can instantly adjust its power output. …”
Get full text

Load forecasting for distribution network and electric vehicle charging optimisation to mitigate load fluctuations by Ng, Xin Yi

“…In response to these findings, this project proposes EV charging strategies aimed to optimise load fluctuations by minimizing peak-to-valley differences and enhance grid stability, with a focus on the distribution network in Singapore. …”
Get full text

In-vitro validation of potential modulators of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) by Tang, Daryl Woon Tat

“…On the other hand, the downregulation of Target01 had no significant effect on cell proliferation and migration. These findings suggest that Target02 may offer a therapeutic pathway to improve liver regeneration in NAFLD, though further assays are necessary to confirm its potential.…”
Get full text

Human face recognition using line edge information by Gao, Yong Sheng.

“…It is a very encouraging finding that the proposed face recognition technique has performed consistently superior to (or equally well as) the Eigenface method in all the comparison experiments. …”
Get full text

A study on social network in Singapore by Wang, Hao

“…From the analysis it is also implied that participants come in contacts with more people in transportation vehicles on weekdays than on weekends probably due to more crowed public transportations. The findings on the gender influence shows that gender makes no significant differences in deciding the number of days people put off taking actions or the time frame people continue going to work/school after they have flu symptom. …”
Get full text

Enterprise content management solutions in the context of information lifecycle management (ILM). by Parameswari G. M.

“…This study has investigated whether ECM adopters have a tactical or strategic roadmap for the management of their information, whether their organisations have established new information management policies to cater to information stored in their ECM systems, whether various stakeholders from their organisations participate in decisions pertaining to management of the information in their ECM system, whether information is classified according to its financial value and the roles and responsibilities of those who manage information. Key findings of this study indicate that ECM solutions are largely implemented to cater to specific business needs and not necessarily with the intent to converge enterprise content into a single solution. …”
Get full text

中国汽车工业的产业结构及其调整战略 = The industrial structure of China's automobile industry and its reform by 王舜 Wang, Shun

“…The focus of this study is the comparison between the Chinese automobile industry and the world automobile industry in terms of production concentration and marketing strategies. The finding is that the Chinese automobile industry is featured as too many firms, too fragmented geographically, too isolated between firms in production corporation. …”
Get full text

Functional roles of transforming growth factor activated Kinase-1 (TAK1) in skin wound healing by Tan, Siew Hwey

“…TAK1-deficient keratinocytes displayed lamellipodia formation with distinct microspikes protrusions, which was associated with an elevated expression of integrins beta1 and beta5, and sustained activation of cdc42, Rac1 and RhoA. Our findings provide evidence for a novel homeostatic control of keratinocyte proliferation and migration, mediated via TAK1 regulation of pVHL. …”
Get full text

Detection of earnings manipulation in S-share firms listed on the Singapore stock exchange by Chen, Edison Haoyang, Danaraj Matthew Kumar, Lim, Jeffrey Liang Jun

“…A total of 102 S-share firms with four year of complete data were analyzed using the calculated M-Score values from 2007 to 2009 as shown in Appendix 1.The results suggest that the phenomenon of high earnings manipulation probability is systematic across S-share firms. The findings suggest that investors to be cautious about pricing S-share firms without taking into account the systematic risk of earnings manipulation. …”
Get full text

Influences of social tags choices on academic papers over time : a user centric approach. by Khasfariyati Razikin.

“…Additionally, there are significant differences in the influence of the individual themes over time. The findings in this study have brought forward the factors that influence the users’ choice of tags for academic papers over time that have both research and practical implications.…”
Get full text

Studies of DNA-interacting properties of certain topological enzymes by Lee, Jasmine Yiqin

“…The DNA-interacting properties of the two enzymes, Topoisomerase II and DNA gyrase were explored. These studies and findings have increased our knowledge between the topological properties of DNA and these enzymes. …”
Get full text

Analyzing the roles of human U1 snRNA variants in pre-mRNA processing. by Goh, Eling.

“…However, consistent with previous findings, knocking down of endogenous U1 variants had resulted in a surge of intron-retained products indicative of IPA. …”
Get full text

Ontology alignment for knowledge representation and integration : applications to biomedical text by Chua, Watson Wei Khong.

“…Ontology alignment refers to the task of finding correspondences between entities in different ontologies. …”
Get full text

Optimisation of stamp compliance for nanoimprint lithography : an experimental and simulation investigation of deformation of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and Ultraviolet Curable Po... by Ong, Zongjue

“…The true stress–strain curve is also tabulated by finding the Poisson’s ratio of each material and converting the engineering stress–strain curve to take into account for the reduction of cross-­‐sectional area during stretching. …”
Get full text

Financial assistance schemes for small & medium enterprises : an end-user perspective by Yeong, Kong, Ng, Tee Huat, Koh, Cheng Kiat

“…It may thus be inferred that there are other reasons to explain this phenomenon of low approval rate. Despite these findings, the report also attempts to provide recommendations to further improve the awareness and the effectiveness of the schemes. …”
Get full text

Predicting health conditions with palm prints by Kwek, Jerome Jia Long

“…This report intents to provide the research process, analysis and findings as well as to serve as a development guide for future developers working on the continuation of this project.…”
Get full text

Relationship between gestalt processing and affect recognition : comparing youths with and without autism by Khoo, Ser Wee

“…Both groups did not differ on their local processing as they had similar figure ground and scrambled stimuli scores. The findings did not fully support the weak central coherence theory, suggesting that the relationship between gestalt processing and affect recognition is less straightforward. …”
Get full text

Safety at road junctions by Han, Jia Min

“…Most of them were male drivers and do not possess a clean driving history. Both findings have pointed out that motorcyclists were the most culpable yet vulnerable group of road users. …”
Get full text

Study of construction productivity & conduct of literature review, design of survey questionnaire, analyse technology application to improve productivity for optimum performance in... by Ang, Pei Wen

“…The author hoped that the findings will assist the different project stakeholders as well as related organizations in the building and construction industry in making informed decisions on improving construction productivity in their projects and in Singapore.…”
Get full text