running away, running towards: a collection of sestinas by Zhu, Alan Y.

“…The final, “running towards,” pushes us to keep running towards life in spite of it all, and to choose to become our full, individual selves…”
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ESG reporting in Singapore by Sim, Chai Ying, Jiang, Weiying, Lim, Daryl Ming Wei

“…At present, there is a global proliferation of demand by various stakeholders for sustainability reporting. In spite of this, reports have demonstrated that predominantly, organizations are bereft in their efforts. …”
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A study on the extent of Singaporeans' knowledge of their history by Chan Lai Yin Ivy Hannah, Ong Siok Lay Jessie, Tay Siang Ling Hannah

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Women in transition : exploring the debate of female empowerment in India by Lim, Shervon Yee Hui

“…Specifically, the coming and going of the imperialists has left its mark in India in the minds of people and in the form of changes to the conditions of women’s lives, as well as in feminists and feminist movements. In spite of the unmistakable progression made towards lives of both urban and rural Indian women, the answer to the debate about the extent of such a development remains ambivalent. …”
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Hybrid biometric authentication for automatic teller machine by Arokiasamy, Steven R., Tomal, Md Raihanul Islam, Moorthy, Kohbalan, Mohd Daud, Kauthar

“…Unlike traditional password or PIN-based methods, biometric authentication uses unique physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, to verify identity. …”
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Bio-mimicking acellular wet electrospun scaffolds promote accelerated integration and re-epithelialization of full-thickness dermal wounds by Chin, Jiah Shin, Madden, Leigh, Phillips, Anthony R. J., Chew, Sing Yian, Becker, David Lawrence

“…Scaffolds can promote the healing of burns and chronic skin wounds but to date have suffered from issues with achieving full skin integration. …”
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Non-Hermitian extension of the Haldane model induced by non-reciprocal hopping by Law, Yi Khing

“…In the presence of non-Hermiticity however, there is a failure of the correspon- dence between the bulk and the boundary which is attributed to the non-Hermitian skin effect. The report concludes with a depiction of the non-Hermitian skin effect in the form of a square geometry under open boundary conditions.…”
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Study of mechanical strength and release profile of microneedles made of polymer nanocomposites by Zhou, Meixin

“…These new methods showed dramatically improvement in mechanical strength for penetration of flat skin model and irregular surface model, which are very promising for drug delivery for skin diseases in further study.…”
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Microneedle‐mediated Delivery of Immunomodulators Restores Immune Privilege in Hair Follicles and Reverses Immune‐Mediated Alopecia by Younis, Nour, Puigmal, Núria, Kurdi, Abdallah El, Badaoui, Andrew, Zhang, Dongliang, Morales, Claudia, Saad, Anis, Cruz, Diane, Rahy, Nadim Al, Daccache, Andrea, Huerta, Triana, Deban, Christa, Halawi, Ahmad, Choi, John, Dosta, Pere, Lian, Christine, Artzi, Natalie, Azzi, Jamil R.

“…The accessibility of the skin provides an opportunity for local rather than systemic intervention to avoid broad immunosuppression. …”
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Mobile Robotic Platform for Contactless Vital Sign Monitoring by Huang, Hen-Wei, Chen, Jack, Chai, Peter R., Ehmke, Claas, Rupp, Philipp, Dadabhoy, Farah Z., Feng, Annie, Li, Canchen, Thomas, Akhil J., da Silva, Marco, Boyer, Edward W., Traverso, Giovanni

“…Without compensation, the skin temperature MAE is 1.3°C. Using the proposed compensation method, the skin temperature MAE is reduced to 0.3°C. …”
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A C-terminal peptide of TFPI-1 facilitates cytosolic delivery of nucleic acid cargo into mammalian cells by Fazil, Mobashar Hussain Urf Turabe, Chalasani, Madhavi Latha Somaraju, Choong, Yeu Khai, Schmidtchen, Artur, Verma, Navin Kumar, Saravanan, Rathi

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Design of a dual band planar inverted-F antenna for GMS/DCS mobile handset by Fang, Jun

“…This project involved the study of size miniaturization of microstrip antenna techniques: shorting pin and shorting wall, loading, shorted spiral printed antenna and stacked shorted patch antenna are fully discussed.…”
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Study on the wear characteristics of aluminium metal matrix composite with 15% Al2O3 and 20% Al2O3 by Chua, Swu Chun.

“…The objective of this dissertation was to study the wear characteristics and behaviour of aluminium metal matrix composite materials (MMCs), namely Duralcan 286 and Duralcan 284 as a pin material when mated against three types of dics materials.…”
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Crosslinked microneedle patch to extract interstitial fluid for diagnosis by Kang, Rong Jie

“…In this study, we have successfully developed a hydrogel microneedle based on hyaluronic acid derivative (methylcrylate modified hyaluronic acid, MeHA) and demonstrated its superior mechanical strength; having approximate 8 times the strength required for penetration into the skin. It was successfully penetrated into porcine cadaver skin, as well as the skin of a live mouse. …”
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Develop a mobile-first educational tool for university students by Koh, Swee Sen

“…Students today spent a lot of their time on their smartphones for a wide variety of purposes including entertainment and work. In spite of the popularity of smartphones, many educational tools in the market for tertiary education focus on providing good user experience on the desktop browser and are not optimized for mobile learning. …”
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Automated detection and segmentation of vertebral bodies in volumetric abdominal magnetic resonance images by Lin, Dehui.

“…Accuracy rates of 98.6% in detection and 93.7% in segmentation are achieved. In spite of different resolutions, equally good performance of the algorithm is observed. …”
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Automatic retrieval of visual continuity errors in movies by Pickup, L, Zisserman, A

“…<p>Continuity errors occur in many movies and television series, in spite of careful checking by those employed to minimise them. …”

Smooth object retrieval using a bag of boundaries by Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A

“…It is demonstrated that recognition can proceed successfully de- spite changes in viewpoint, illumination and partial occlusion, and also that instances of the same shape can be retrieved even though they may be made of different materials.…”

Single antenna power measurements based direction finding : an FRI solution by Zhang, Song Bai

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A two-stage automatic color thresholding technique by Pootheri, Shamna, Ellam, Daniel, Grübl, Thomas, Liu, Yang

“…The segmentation of skin cancer lesions will help doctors to automate skin cancer detection. …”
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