Study on the effects of indoor air quality on the cognitive abilities of youths in Singapore by Chua, Elena Mei Yan

“…This highlights the importance of ensuring that indoor air quality is controlled to maintain a conducive work environment. Although there have been several studies on Indoor Air Quality, not much has been done on how other types of pollutants like Formaldehyde, VOC, Ground Level Ozone and PM affect cognitive abilities of youths in a tropical climate like Singapore. …”
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Traffic monitoring and analysis via street footage by Chew, Darren Wen Cong

“…This project implements the use of computer vision and machine learning technologies such as object detection and object segmentation. This component has been developed and designed to handle multiple challenges such as nighttime images, poor lighting, various camera angles, blurring due to car speeds and imbalanced data set. …”
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Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Another antibody, Avastin®, indicated for bowel cancer, accounted for $6.7 billion among these top-selling drugs, while Herceptin®, used to treat breast cancer, had sales of $6.6 billion. These numbers bear eloquent testimony to the increasing demand for protein therapeutics. …”
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Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…Carbon nanomaterials are unique in terms of structure, carbon nanotube (CNT) bears a hollow one-dimensional structure; and graphene is an one-atom-thick sheet and has extremely high specific surface area; both of them are presenting excellent charge transport capability. …”
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First nosocomial cluster of COVID-19 due to the Delta variant in a major acute care hospital in Singapore: investigations and outbreak response by Lim, Wei Yen, Tan, Glorijoy Shi En, Htun, Htet Lin, Phua, Hwee Pin, Kyaw, Win Mar, Guo, Huiling, Cui, Lin, Mak, Tze Minn, Poh, Bee Fong, Wong, Judith Chui Ching, Setoh, Yin Xiang, Ang, Brenda Sze Peng, Chow, Angela Li Ping

“…Ward air exhaust filters were tested for SARS-CoV-2. Results: In total, there were 47 cases, comprising 29 patients, nine staff, six visitors and three household contacts. …”
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Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19 by Aleta, Alberto, Martín-Corral, David, Pastore y Piontti, Ana, Ajelli, Marco, Litvinova, Maria, Chinazzi, Matteo, Dean, Natalie E., Halloran, M. Elizabeth, Longini Jr, Ira M., Merler, Stefano, Pentland, Alex, Vespignani, Alessandro, Moro, Esteban, Moreno, Yamir

“…Here we integrate anonymized, geolocalized mobility data with census and demographic data to build a detailed agent-based model of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission in the Boston metropolitan area. …”
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Relative deficiency in interferon-γ-secreting CD4+ T cells is strongly associated with poorer COVID-19 vaccination responses in older adults by Ho, Vanda W. T., Boon, Low Heng, Cui, Jianzhou, Juequn, Zhou, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Gupta, Rashi, Tan, Nikki Y. J., Qian, Xinlei, Purushotorman, Kiren, Fong, Siew-Wai, Renia, Laurent, Ng, Lisa F. P., Angeli, Veronique, Chen, Jinmiao, Kennedy, Brian K., Ong, Catherine W. M., Macary, Paul A.

“…Although the two-dose mRNA vaccination regime provides protection against SARS-CoV-2, older adults have been shown to exhibit poorer vaccination responses. …”
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Abui stories : seven children by Chew, Grace Min Hui

“…Thriving on an oral tradition, these stories, like the traditional Abui language, bear no written form and are at risk of extinction. …”
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Detection of simultaneous structural problems using multiple structural health monitoring techniques by Yang, Lu

“…After the construction, cracks, wear and tear, fatigue, creep, etc., will appear anytime during their life span, which significantly affects the capacity of the structure to bear loads. Hence structure health monitoring (SHM) technique came into existence to detect the structural problems and increase its life span. …”
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FPGA implementation of turbo decoders with various decoding algorithms by Lu, Shanguo.

“…This thesis is aimed to implement turbo decoder with various iteratie decoding algorithms, and to compare their hardware requirements, speeds achievable and error performances.…”
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Ozone reaction with interior building materials: Influence of diurnal ozone variation, temperature and humidity by Rim, Donghyun, Maddalena, Randy L., Nazaroff, William W., Gall, Elliott Tyler

“…Reactive uptake of ozone has been characterized for many building materials; however, scant information is available on how diurnal variation of ambient ozone influences ozone reaction with indoor surfaces. …”
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Land reclamation without using soil-fills by Yeo, Eng Swee

“…Singapore has been developing rapidly over the past decades. In order to sustain the fast-paced economic development and urbanisation, an increasing emphasis has been placed on land reclamation projects. …”
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Fragmentation of white phosphorus by a cyclic (alkyl)(amino)alumanyl anion by Koshino, Kota, Kinjo, Rei

“…Structural and electronic features of the latter were fully characterized by standard spectroscopic means, X-ray diffraction analysis, and computational studies, which revealed that 2 bears highly polarized Al (δ+) and P (δ-) and relatively short Al-P bonds, indicative of the σ-donating and π-accepting nature of CAAAl groups.…”
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From Sample to Answer: Innovations in sample processing and CRISPR-based diagnostics for enhanced clinical translation and field deployment by Arizti Sanz, Jon

“…Next, we made further improvements and thoroughly validated this platform to create SHINEv2, a further streamlined, equipment-free, and easily deployable technology with the ability to discriminate SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs). Given the excellent programmability of CRISPR-Dx, we expanded the use of SHINE beyond SARS-CoV-2 to other clinically relevant pathogens. …”
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Study on pedestrian and cyclist interactions at signalised pedestrian crossings by Liu, Jianye.

“…This area of study has been extensively researched in other Asian countries such as Japan (Alhajaseen & Nakamura, 2010) and Hong Kong (Lee & Lam, 2005). …”
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Synthetic shuttlecock dynamics by Muhammad Afiq Abdul Hamid

“…Synthetic shuttlecocks are able to last longer, however they do not have the ideal characteristics of feather shuttlecocks that most professional shuttlers prefer, such as their higher speeds upon impact and greater deceleration upon dropping. …”
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Fabrication of smart structures through selective laser melting (3D printing) (II) by Ong, Cindy

“…Samples will be manufactured using SLM with a range of laser powers and scanning speeds, and the number of samples narrowed down using visual dimensional analysis. …”
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Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles by Wells, Eliza

“…It also means that role-occupants are not off the moral hook. Ultimately, we each bear responsibility to create a more just social world.…”
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A study of Singapore pandemic by Muhammad Hafiz Abdul Rahim

“…It is considered as one of the main driving force having been recognised as a global world class aviation service provider. …”
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Covid-19 antibody discovery with topology-enhanced learning models by Wang, Zihong

“…The recent global spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been fueled by the appearance of various new variants of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), including Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omicron, etc. …”
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