Narratives and tactile comfort for anxious children by Ang, Charmaine Hui Zhen

“…Through quantitative and qualitative methods administered to children aged 5 to 12 years of age, including parental feedback, findings were analysed to create a design outcome that can contribute to the current studies related to: (a) facilitating the treatment of childhood anxieties in cognitive behavioural therapy, (b) healthy emotional regulation and in (c) promoting children’s social wellbeing in general. …”
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A Review of Transmission Electron Microscopy of Quasicrystals—How Are Atoms Arranged? by Li, Ruitao, Li, Zhong, Dong, Zhili, Khor, Khiam Aik

“…In this review, we summarized the achievements of the study of QCs using TEM, providing intriguing structural details of QCs unveiled by TEM analyses. The main findings on the symmetry, local atomic arrangement and chemical order of QCs are illustrated.…”
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Self-consistent polaron states in the presence of simultaneous local and nonlocal exciton-phonon coupling by Brown, David W., Zhao, Yang, Lindenberg, Katja

“…Among the differences between our findings and those of the original work are polaron binding energies much larger and Debye Waller factors much smaller than originally anticipated.…”
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Detection of DNA hybridization on chemically modified graphene platforms by Giovanni, Marcella, Bonanni, Alessandra, Pumera, Martin

“…We believe that our findings may present a foundation for further research and development in graphene-based impedimetric biosensing.…”
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On-the-fly specific person retrieval by Parkhi, OM, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…We describe a method of visual search for finding people in large video datasets. The novelty is that the person of interest can be specified at run time by a text query, and a discriminative classifier for that person is then learnt on-the-fly using images downloaded from Google Image search. …”

Sexual behaviour and social relationships among gelada baboons by Dunbar, RIM

“…These results contrast with findings reported for other species of the baboon-macaque group, and the differences are discussed in relation to the contrasting social systems of these species.…”

Dysregulation of the Pdx1/Ovol2/Zeb2 axis in dedifferentiated β-cells triggers the induction of genes associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition in diabetes by de Jesus, Daniel S., Mak, Tracy C. S., Wang, Yi-Fang, von Ohlen, Yorrick, Bai, Ying, Kane, Eva, Chabosseau, Pauline, Chahrour, Catherine M., Distaso, Walter, Salem, Victoria, Tomas, Alejandra, Stoffel, Markus, Rutter, Guy A., Latreille, Mathieu

“…We carried out loss- and gain-of-function experiments in MIN6 and EndoC-bH1 cell lines. We analysed previously published mouse andhuman T2D data sets.Results:Bulk RNA-seq revealed thatb-cell dedifferentiation is associated with the induction of genes associated with epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in prediabetic (2-week-old) and diabetic (12-week-old) Tg7 mice. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…Firstly, D-clay was incorporated into polyether-based PU via solvent mixing and good filler dispersion was obtained. The results showed pronounced improvement in mechanical properties, such as stiffness, tensile strength and strain at break, at 3wt% clay loading. …”
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A correlational study between creative thinking ability and the performance of open-ended science investigations for secondary two female students by Md. Shahrin K.S. Moorthy.

“…The study was conducted with only secondary two female students as the researcher intended to use the findings in his current assignment in an all-girls Independent school.…”
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Doing business with and in Ireland : a case study of Accenture's challenges and strategies in Ireland by Ernie Widianty, Ng, Ying Thong, Puneet Narula, Tan, Sebastian Say Hwee

“…Contrary to our secondary research findings, our primary interviews in Ireland suggested that opportunities exist in times of crisis. …”
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Family dinner by Gan, Clara Li Juan

“…He is unable to control his children’s antics, and feels incompetent as a father and a husband. Finding a family recipe for fathers in a magazine, he prepares a dinner and cleans the house, hoping to create the illusion of the perfect family and to get reconnected with and impress his wife. …”
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Why is China in Africa? by Neo, Jackson Jie Sheng

“…This paper analyzes China's official financial flows to Africa by assessing 4 policies that could drive the financial flows. The paper finds that the Going Global Strategy is the primary determinant of official financial flows to Africa for the current phase of ChinaAfrica relations. …”
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Creative accounting "Are accountants in Singapore doing it?" by Yap, Kian Seng, Lim, Han Leng, Lee, Hock Lean

“…Based on the research findings, there is little evidence to support the view that creative accounting is widely used in Singapore. …”
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A study on traditional provision shops in Singapore : an evaluation of the attributes influencing business performance by Lim Wei Sh, Ong Lay Kiang Candy, Poh Bee Keow

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Market replacing family : liberal familialism and the decline of grandparental care in Singapore by Lee, Jing Ian

“…I interviewed eight Singaporean grandparents of different genders and races to garner their perspective on childcare arrangements. My findings suggest that although grandparents have become more individualistic, childcare arrangements are ultimately influenced by parents. …”
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Gaming and the hard use of performance measurement: a New Zealand study by Foo, Lionel

“…Using an empirical research method, which focus attention on the performance evaluation practices in the New Zealand government, this research finds that the hard use of performance measurement does indeed have a correlation with gaming. …”
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Detection and prevention of critical races in finite state machines driving glitch-sensitive receivers by Arunita Mukhopadhyay

“…Once detected, the report discusses an algorithm to prevent these critical transitions from occurring. This is done by finding a modified state encoding of the FSM so that its output logic is free from functional hazards. …”
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Town centre recovery report by Jamieson, Claire

“…A series of five case are then explored through interviews, exploring each local authority's approach to strategic planning, leadership and governance, funding, community engagement and delivery. The resulting findings, combined with the learnings from the literature review, have been synthesised into a series of eight recommendations, which can help local authorities to ensure better high street recovery and more resilient places.…”
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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict by United Nations Development Programme, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

“…The report examines some of the ways in which poverty and conflict intersect and reflects on what this means for poverty reduction. Overall, the findings clearly point to the urgent need for peace.…”

When money can’t buy political love: lab experiments on vote buying in Ghana and Uganda by Burbidge, D, Cheeseman, N, Panin, A

“…Respondents who have had positive experiences of elections were more likely to reward nonbribing candidates These findings suggest that the lab-in-the-field results are best explained by democratic values among some respondents. …”