“It’s complicated” : cognitive dissonance and the evolving relationship between editorial and advertising in US newsrooms by Duffy, Andrew, Cheng, Lydia

“…This study assesses what happens when senior editors encounter cognitive dissonance as they reconstruct the editorial-commercial relationship. It finds reluctance to embrace this evolving relationship, revealed in the fragmented and contradictory syntax editors use to talk about it as they are torn between the old (ethically driven) norm of how things should be, and the emerging (economically driven) norm of how things are. …”
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The role of selective exposure in preserving decision diversity and group performance by Peh, Jia Wang

“…A series of numerical experiments reveal that (1) social influence decreases the diversity of decisions and thereby reduces group performance, and (2) selective exposure mitigates the negative effects of social influence on decision diversity and group performance. These findings account for the high group performances in real-world contexts despite social influence and highlight the usefulness of selective exposure amidst negative portrayals in extant literature. …”
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Rail (real) safety issues: predictive maintenance for Singapore railway by Khoo, Alyna Yi Jie

“…The focus is on the observable trends in the Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) and Corrective Maintenance Data (CMD) records, with findings supported by the F&D Daily Report, Workorder (WO), and Fault & Delay (F&D) data. …”
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Manufacturing of polymer composites using automated fiber placement and tape layup processes by Wan, Wysley Kin Yu

“…Mechanical load tests, which were the tensile tests and 3-point bending tests, were performed on the specimens to analyse the relationship between roller pressures and the quality of composite panels. Findings were obtained and discussed in this report, and recommendation on which is the best setting of roller pressure was included.…”
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Artefacts detection and removal in remote optical imageries using artificial intelligence by You, Zongtao

“…Images are a combination of pixels with different values, and finding a suitable pixel value threshold will improve the ability to detect artefacts. …”
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Composite fabrication using slip casting by Ng, Zheng Hao

“…A compression test was performed on samples with step features of varying sizes, and their mechanical performance was compared. The findings reveal that a sufficiently prominent step feature improves the stiffness of the material while retaining other mechanical characteristics such as strength, and ductility. …”
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Futureproofing and stress in students: a longitudinal study by Tam, Bryan Wei Hoe

“…The implications of these findings are discussed.…”
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Characteristics and trend of distribution of rainfall in Singapore by Ong, Zhiwei.

“…Implications on water resources quality attributable to the increasing rainfall trend were discussed. The finding indicates that a tendency beyond the variation expected from natural climatic cycles is happening. …”
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HAMLET particles in medium : protein fibrils or something else? by Ng, Nicholas Kwok Hing.

“…This is consistent with known high affinity interactions between HAMLET and tumour cells components such as histones. Findings should pose no hurdles to HAMLET clinical testing…”
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Biopolymeric fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering. by Chen, Jasmine Shuwen.

“…Mechanical strengths measured by Instron tensile tester showed that a higher crosslinker concentration could produce scaffolds with higher elastic modulus. These findings would be useful in optimization of a scaffold from the polymer blend of Pullulan and Dextran through electrospinning.…”
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Finite volume method for one-dimensional heat conduction in functionally graded materials by Soh, Nicholas

“…The finite volume method (FVM), which is used to study a functionally graded one-dimensional study on a material, is considered by the theoretical framework. To ensure reliable findings, manual calculations was performed on the material along with MATLAB tests to ensure robust results.…”
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Detecting hazardous events from online news and social media by Liu, Zinan

“…The scope of the report is limited to the detection of hazardous events using online news and social media data, and does not cover response and mitigation strategies for these events. The findings of this report can be useful for emergency responders, risk managers, and organizations involved in hazard detection and response. …”
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Jubiland: rework happiness by Yu, Esther Kern Hui

“…The project intends to address the challenges of finding happiness, raising awareness in the value of qualitative relationships, the importance of pursuing meaningful goals, as well as re-evaluate how to consistently nurture and sustain happiness.…”
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Cellular response to synthetic drugs : a metabolomics approach by Chen, William Wei Ning.

“…Significantly, the increase in the anabolic activity associated with the higher level of metabolic enzymes was also supported by the higher intracellular concentration of the metabolic cofactor NAD+ which was a result of an increased oxidation of NADH. Our findings therefore provide molecular evidence on metabolic effect associated with propranolol treatment. …”
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Adversarial example construction against autonomous vehicle (part 2) by Cheong, Benjamin Yii Leung

“…We have found that the FGSM attack successfully causes misclassification at epsilon values of 0.15 to 0.25. Other key findings include that variations in Time of Day, Rain and Fog conditions generally do not affect the attack’s performance in misclassification. …”
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Provenance graph generation for intrusion detection by Lim, Janesse Ziyi

“…In this study, we aim to validate these findings by generating our own benign and malicious user scenarios. …”
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Interpretable vector language models by Siow, Zi Hao

“…We associated the interpretability of a word embedding with the optimisation of various loss functions, namely Varimax, Quartimax and the l1-norm, defined on the Lie group SO(d). Our findings revealed that the l1-norm method achieved the highest level of interpretability among the three methods, because its solutions tend to have a higher proportion of matrix elements that are close to zero by promoting sparsity. …”
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Public spaces as the “centre of social struggle”: how do low-wage, unemployed Bangladeshi migrant workers perceive and use public spaces in Singapore? by See, Marilyn

“…This study seeks to analyse how public spaces are sites of social struggle for low-wage, unemployed migrant workers who face significant financial and job insecurity. Three main findings pertaining to the perceptions and utilisation of public spaces will be discussed: (1) migrant workers’ precarious position in society and their agency to seek belonging within public spaces, (2) Singapore’s attractiveness as a destination country, (3) the segregation between migrant workers and the wider population in public spaces.…”
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How can small satellites improve the weather forecast in Southeast Asia and Singapore in a context of climate change? by Toh, Xin Yi

“…Potential improvement to their coverage is proposed for data continuity in the tropical regions. The findings suggest that integrating targeted satellite missions could reduce weather gaps and improve weather forecasting reliability in Southeast Asia.…”
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Building wireless sensor network: prototype datalogging enhancement & development as a real-time modelling device by Tay, Owen Jia Hao

“…Key performance metrics, including R2, Cross Validation Score Mean (CVSM), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Error (MAE), are employed to evaluate accuracy and stability over time. The findings underscore the consistent and superior performance of the KNN model in contrast to OLS & PR. …”
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