Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions

“…This yielding transition was the main theme of a workshop held from January 9 to 13, 2023 at the Lorentz Center in Leiden. …”
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Self-Assembly of a Biologically Plausible Learning Circuit by Liao, Qianli, Ziyin, Liu, Gan, Yulu, Cheung, Brian, Harnett, Mark, Poggio, Tomaso

“…Over the last four decades, the amazing success of deep learning has been driven by the use of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as the main optimization technique. The default implementation for the computation of the gradient for SGD is backpropagation, which, with its variations, is used to this day in almost all computer implementations. …”
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Existence and stability of periodic solution to delayed nonlinear differential equations by Gu, Xiang, Wang, Huicheng, Wong, P. J. Y., Xia, Yonghui

“…The main purpose of this paper is to study the periodicity and global asymptotic stability of a generalized Lotka-Volterra’s competition system with delays. …”
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Study of risk management adoption on firm value as effected by board's independence. by Chen, Kaiyu., Hwee, Andrew Ji-Feng., Toh, Han Boon.

“…Given the lack of prior empirical studies done with regards to the relationship between the varying degree of risk management adoption and firm value, we build upon our studies based on the postulations of Meulbroek (2002) and also other prior discussions of risk management and corporate governance with firm value. The main implication of our research is that the emergence and growing importance of risk management is not unfounded. …”
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Effects of cultural diversity on learning styles and performance development methods : a study of business professionals in Singapore. by Nur Syahirah Basheer., Nurashikin Asan., Poh, Ai Ni.

“…The main objectives of this research are to identify the nature of effects existing: (a) among sub-cultural groups and managers’ learning styles; (b) among sub-cultural groups and their performance development methods; (c) in the nature of the relationship between learning styles and performance development methods. …”
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Structured warrant pricing in Singapore. by Koh, Jessica Mun Yee., Tan, Cai Zhi., Tan, Pei Yih.

“…Prior studies have mentioned that warrants were found to be overpriced in the respective markets included in those studies but it seems that no previous research has been done on Singapore’s warrants market. The main objective of this paper is to explore whether the issue of overpricing applies to Singapore as well. …”
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On efficient solution of large-size wire-grid structures in a complex environment by Lee, Yee Hui.

“…In the MoM, solving the impedance ma-trix equation becomes extremely computational time and memory intensive when the problem is large. Therefore, the main purpose of using these techniques is to break the bottle-neck existing in the MoM by either reducing the density or the order of the impedance matrix. …”
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Semantic mapping for articulated objects by Luar, Shui Song

“…As an extension of semantic segmentation problem, there is still an unexplored field of identifying joints of an articulated object within an image. In this project, our main contributions are to re-train a semantic segmentation network on a smaller subset of items which can be considered prismatic or revolute. …”
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Contexts and reasons for emoji usage of Chinese Singaporean university students by Lai, Priscilla Zi Ga

“…Nine reasons for emoji usage, and six main reasons and seven sub-reasons for emoji avoidance are found. …”
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新谣 ：我们的心声 = Xinyao : our voice by Low, Charlotte Qian Hui

“…Inspired by my past encounters with Xinyao, 新谣: 我们的心声 (Xinyao: Our Voice) is a semi-bilingual memory-cum-lyric book project that highlights the main aspects of Xinyao: The songs reflecting the everyday life, candid feelings and experiences about friendship, love, family, life and more of college youths who wrote them primarily in the 1980s. …”
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Probabilistic prediction of solar PV power output by Ang, Sherman Jun Xiong

“…However, due to its stochastic and highly uncertain nature, the integration of solar energy faced quite a significant amount of challenges in its integration to the modern power grids, especially in the aspect of operation and control where it did not have much significant impact on the power control system. The main reason was that a proper forecasting method to control the variability and uncertainty of the power output was not in place. …”
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Xpress Bowl by Chang, Nikki

“…The Xpress Bowl aims to provide a good alternative for disposable takeaway meal packaging in bid to reduce Singapore's plastic consumption and hence extend the lifespan of the Pulau Semakau Landfill. By tackling the main drawbacks of current lunchboxes found by survey and research, the Xpress Bowl encourages a lifestyle switch to using reusable lunchboxes for takeaway meals by meeting the needs of busy Singaporeans. …”
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Improvements of FDK-type helical cone-beam CT imaging by Liang, Hong Zhu

“…The modern FDK-type algorithms suffer from two main limitations of the data collection: the cone-shaped projection volume and the helical scanning pitch. …”
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Mobile app for crowdsourcing by Tan, Jesse Yin Xuan

“…It run with mobile operating system (OS) that allow third-party app to be installed and run. The main mobile operating systems are Android and IOS. …”
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Construction and classification of group invariant Butson Hadamard matrices by Wong, Dai Quan

“…Our focus is on abelian p-groups since one can obtain group invariant Butson Hadamard matrices for larger groups by using Kronecker products. The main areas of study we have identified are: • The existence and the construction of group invariant Butson Hadamard matrices • The non-existence and the necessary conditions for their existence • The classification of group invariant Butson Hadamard matrices Our contribution to this study is the outline of five types of constructions of group invariant Butson Hadamard matrices, a new necessary condition for existence under the self-conjugacy assumption and the classification of Butson Hadamard matrices which are invariant under the groups ℤₚ × ℤₚ and ℤₚ₂ × ℤₚ × ℤₚ.…”
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A literature review on the concept of value in virtual worlds by Wen, Wen, Dong, Zilun, Tan, Junyan

“…Next we identified the utilitarian value and hedonic value as the two main components of consumer value. In addition, we recognized the cost and risk as the negative value created when consumers interacting with virtual world. …”
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Graphene-based terahertz sensor by Chong, Bei En

“…The main objective of this work is to test the sensitivity of a graphene-based Terahertz sensor, to determine whether it can be used to effectively detect various substances. …”
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Effects of vegetation on open channel flow by Zhang, Qian

“…In the flume experiments, six kinds of simulated vegetation models were tested with a fixed flume bed slope. By analyzing four main parameters including flow discharge, hydraulic roughness, velocity distribution and turbulence structure, the effects of vegetation on uniform flows are identified and a number of conclusions are finally drawn.…”
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Research and comparison of deepfake audio detection algorithms by Mo, Fei

“…Therefore, how to efficiently and accurately identify deepfake audio is very important. The main research work of this dissertation is as follows: (1) The basic process of deepfake audio detection is summarized, including preprocessing, feature extraction, classification detection (2) Two traditional models and three deep learning models are reproduced and the results are compared.…”
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Cyber security in supply chain management (cyber security processes) by Wong, Daphne Li Yann

“…There are a few recommendations in place, and the main practical result is a call on the government to provide support and implement mandatory frameworks from an end-to-end cyber supply chain risk management approach with collaboration at various levels (organisational, sectoral, national) to achieve cyber resilience.…”
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