Synthesis of vinyl iodide chain-end polymers via organocatalyzed chain-end transformation by Chang, Jun Jie, Pan, Matthew Houwen, Goto, Atsushi

“…Interestingly, under selected conditions, this organocatalysis also offered block-like copolymers containing a conjugated oligo-alkyne segment and a non-conjugated polyacrylate segment. …”
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Shape memory polyurethane with polydopamine-coated nanosheets: Simultaneous enhancement of recovery stress and strain recovery ratio and the underlying mechanisms by Phua, Si Lei, Yang, Liping, Huang, Shu, Ding, Guoqiang, Zhou, Rui, Lew, Jun Heng, Lau, Soo Khim, Yuan, Xiaowen, Lu, Xuehong

“…The results show that D-LDH interacts strongly with hard segments and hence enhancing phase separation between hard and soft segments. …”
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Predicting traffic congestion evolution : a deep meta learning approach by Sun, Yidan, Jiang, Guiyuan, Lam, Siew-Kei, He, Peilan

“…We propose a Deep Meta Learning Model (DMLM) for learning representations of road segments which support accurate prediction of congestion evolution. …”
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Novel approaches for imaging-based diagnosis of ocular surface disease by Schmidl, Doreen, Schlatter, Andreas, Chua, Jacqueline, Tan, Bingyao, Garhöfer, Gerhard, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…In recent years, imaging techniques for the anterior segment are also gaining importance and are nowadays routinely used in clinical practice. …”
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ECG signal generation and heart rate variability signal extraction : signal processing, features detection, and their correlation with cardiac diseases by Swapna, Goutham, Martis, Roshan Joy, Sree, Subbhuraam Vinitha, Ghista, Dhanjoo N., Ang, Alvin P. C.

“…In order to extract the important features of the ECG signal, the detection of the P wave, QRS complex, and ST segment is essential. Therefore, abnormalities of these ECG parameters are associated with cardiac disorders. …”
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A size and position invariant event-based human posture recognition algorithm by Chen, Shoushun, Folowosele, Fopefolu, Kim, Dongsoo, Vogelstein, R. Jacob, Etienne-Cummings, Ralph, Culurciello, Eugenio

“…The algorithm employs a simplified line segment Hausdorff distance classification and uses projection histograms to achieve size and position invariance. …”
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Takaful Business Model and Business Performance: A Comparative Evidence from the Global Takaful Industry by Muhammad Zuki, Mohd Faizuddin, Ishak, Muhammad Arif Fadilah, Halim Roja, Muhammad Izzuddin

“…This paper bids its originality by narrowing down the segment of the takaful industry and focusing only on the family takaful segment…”
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Marketing products and services in the dynamic environment. by Chan, Cindy Li Xia., Chye, Nyit Fhen., Poh, Hui Ting.

“…In its endeavour to enjoy a slice of this burgeoning profit pie, Quirky, the retail of Ark Industries, has enlisted the team to recommend strategies that can boost the performance of its green apparel segment. This paper serves to document the process by which we have employed sound research methods to garner a reasonably accurate appreciation of ground receptivity towards green apparel in general. …”
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Purchasing behaviour of the Japanese visitors, an application of the theory of planned behaviour. by Yong, Yoon Mei.

“…Japanese visitors are an important segment of visitors that have contributed significantly to Singapore's annual receipts of visitors' expenditures. …”
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Recognition of human actions by Xiao, Xu

“…Based on it, modification was implemented; instead of using whole MHI image to get Hu Moments, the MHI image of human body is segmented into 4 body parts – head, arm, torso and leg. …”
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Polymer folding through active processes recreates features of genome organization by Goychuk, Andriy, Kannan, Deepti, Chakraborty, Arup K, Kardar, Mehran

“…Moreover, segments of the polymer that show correlated active (sub)diffusion attract each other through effective long-ranged harmonic interactions, whereas anticorrelations lead to effective repulsions. …”
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COP24 and the Silesia Declaration : Impact on Palm Oil by Sembiring, Margareth

“…It exhorted relevant stakeholders to ensure a just transition for segments of populations affected by climate agenda.…”
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NTU students' traveling motivations and behaviors. by Nguyen, Dang Ngoc Duyen., Tan, Samantha Shu Yuan.

“…This paper intends to initiate research into this tourism segment in Singapore as a generating market.…”
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Values and lifestyles of expatriates in Singapore. by Kong, Poh Li., Shariffah Kassim., Yeong, Billy Peng Hong.

“…A survey research was conducted using clustering techniques in order to segment the respondents and to examine their values and lifestyles. …”
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The paradox of technology innovativeness and risk perceptions – a profile of Asian smartphone users by Wang, Xiaohui, Lee, Kwan Min

“…Results shows that Asian smartphone users can be segmented into four groups: innovators, conservatives, moderators, and laggards. …”
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GBGVD: growth-based geodesic Voronoi diagrams by Qi, Yunjia, Zong, Chen, Zhang, Yunxiao, Chen, Shuangmin, Xu, Minfeng, Ran, Lingqiang, Xu, Jian, Xin, Shiqing, He, Ying

“…We observe that it is easier to infer the branching points by stretching the ordinary segments than competing between wavefronts from different directions. …”
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CRUSH : The rise of female superathletes by Chow, Mindy

“…In each issue of CRUSH, the contents are categorised into various segments (i.e. local athletes features and interviews, international features, dictionary to unravel jargons within the sport, writings and ilustrations) This publication is an arena where sports meets editorial. …”
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A theory of zeugma by Yeo, Jia Qi

“…I then identify basic structures for the three subtypes of nominal, verbal and adjectival zeugma, and consolidate several disparate concepts previously mentioned in relation to zeugma, including homonymy, regular and irregular polysemy, and Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. I also consider the siting of elegant zeugma within its surrounding written discourse as a crucial complement to the usual approach of analysing word relations within the utterance. …”
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Structural characterization of the full-length Hantaan virus polymerase by Keown, JR, Carrique, L, Nilsson-Payant, BE, Fodor, E, Grimes, JM

“…Hantaviridae are a family of segmented negative-sense RNA viruses that contain important human and animal pathogens. …”

Last-Meter Delivery: Solving the Unattended Delivery Challenge from Streets to Doorsteps by Xiao, Wen-Xin

“…KEYWORDS: Last-Mile Delivery, last-meter Delivery, Large Language Models (LLM), Vision Language Models (VLM), Robotics, Segment Anything Model (SAM), Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVD).…”
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