Examining the usage of xiao and its role as vague language in the textual conversations of Singapore millennials by Hong, Amanda Yu Hua

“…Xiao is observed to serve three main social functions – a marker for solidarity, a mask for inadequacy in linguistic proficiency or knowledge about the subject matter, and a way to protect the face of interlocutors. …”
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Yes means yes : the sufficiency of consent as a justification for the moral acceptability of voluntary prostitution by Ang, Sherin Yue Quin

“…My discussion will focus on consent and the moral acceptability of prostitution, and address the main areas of contention of the sex worker’s right to her sexual autonomy and the legitimacy of prostitution as a labor market. …”
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The leap of faith : lived experiences of madrasah students negotiating the transition from a religiously-homogeneous environment to a secular environment by Shaik Muhammad Khairun Nabil, Nur Syahirah Mohamed Salim

“…The findings point to four main transition outcomes which is shaped by (i) their motivations to align their habitus with that of their new peers and (ii) their commitment to maintain their previously-conditioned habitus and ties with the Madrasah community. …”
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Autonomous bus in 3D simulation environments by Xiang, Zhou

“…In this dissertation, the main target was to build a 3D model in a virtual environment based on Gazebo for the target autonomous bus, where several simulated sensors such as Lidar, sonar, camera, Global Position System and Inertial Measurement Unit for sensing object's acceleration velocity will be added to the intended 3D bus model to capture real-time that are generated by simulated sensors. …”
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Data analytics on maps by Boey, Jackson Ming Hui

“…In additional, zoom in/ out and panning constraint would be satisfied to ensure a smooth interactive map experience. The four main areas mainly language component, indexing component, query processing component and visualization component would be served as guidelines in this project. …”
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Empirical comparison of the performance of popular vulnerability detection tools II by Yiu, Hong Sum

“…Software Composition Analysis tools were used to detect potential vulnerabilities that exist in these open-source components. The main problem was that there would always be a difference between different tools such as accuracy, efficiency, and ease of use. …”
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Control of microgrids by Seah, Justin Nan Zheng

“…A microgrid is a localized group of electricity sources and loads that operates synchronously with the main grid. Together with distributed generation and energy storage system, it improved the reliability of microgrid through power condition system during islanding operations. …”
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Raspberry Pi - based Alexa System by Nurul Khairiah Abdul Kadir

“…The system was implemented mainly using Javascript to enable extensibility for further development of the project. …”
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Development of a mobile application for pre-diabetic and diabetic patients (B) by Leong, Li Zhen

“…Diabetician has three main features, food recommendation, journal feature and game. …”
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Vision enhancement using artificial intelligence techniques by Yu, Xiaohan

“…In the former paper, their main idea was to create a method to achieve perfect frame alignment. …”
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Enhancing an English/Korean dictionary by Bond, Francis, Paik, Kyonghee.

“…This makes it easier to use the dictionary bidirectionally. Our main purpose is to develop and document clear syntactic and semantic features useful for NLP applications such as machine translation. …”
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A review on the role of materials science in solar cells by Alghoul, M. A., Zaidi, Saleem H., Asim, Nilofar, Sopian, Kamaruzzaman, Ahmadi, Shideh, Saeedfar, Kasra, Saadatian, Omidreza

“…It is expected to become truly main stream when the breakeven of high performance is achieved and its cost becomes comparable with other energy sources. …”
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A lean FPGA soft processor built using a DSP block by Fahmy, Suhaib A., Maskell, Douglas L., Cheah, Hui Yan, Kulkarni, Chidamber

“…In the last decade, signal processing has become one of the main driving applications for FPGA adoption, so FPGA vendors tailored their architectures to such applications. …”
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Area ratio effects to the performance of air-cooled ejector refrigeration cycle with R134a refrigerant by Jia, Yan, Cai, Wenjian

“…Through enlarging the designed area ratios by connecting the replaceable nozzles with a main body, optimum area ratios under air-conditioning working conditions are studied experimentally. …”
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Exploration of critical external partners of Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) firms for delivering green building projects in Singapore by Li, Yuanyuan, Chen, Po-Han, Teo, Chee Chong, Ding, Rong Gui, Chew, David Ah Seng

“…Green Building involves many parties and has attracted attention recently. In this paper, the main external actors for Green Building were explored based on literature review. …”
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Global convergence of online BP training with dynamic learning rate by Zhang, Rui, Xu, Zong-Ben, Huang, Guang-Bin, Wang, Dianhui

“…The online backpropagation (BP) training procedure has been extensively explored in scientific research and engineering applications. One of the main factors affecting the performance of the online BP training is the learning rate. …”
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Blind drawing: investigation into screen location tracking for computer aided interactive drawing by Fernando, Sandra

“…One of the main problems faced by blind learners is lack of drawing technologies that support images and diagram drawing without the help of a sighted support worker. …”
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Initiation, marketing and branding of smart city projects: a study of decision processes by Vijaygopal, Rohini, Bennett, Roger, Savani, Sharmila

“…Interviewees were asked to relate stories of how decisions had been reached, which stakeholders had been prioritised, the extent of citizen co-creation in project initiation and branding, and the main difficulties involved. An argumentative narrative discourse methodology was employed to analyse the interview transcripts, which revealed a number of disparities between the suggestions of extant place branding literature and current practice where smart city projects were concerned.…”
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The novel application of the lightning process to treat long COVID in primary care: case report by Finch, Fiona, Parker, Phil, Nollett, C., Burns, S.

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A comprehensive survey of fake review detection technology by Quyyam, Tayybaha, Qicheng, Yu

“…The survey also offers future research directions and an easy way to find datasets, carry out pre-processing, and extract multiple features. One of the main directions in the future is to combine review content with business, product, and reviewer behavior to improve the efficiency of FRD.…”
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