新加坡华语中的倒置双宾结构 = Inverted double object construction in Singapore Mandarin by 林届霓 Lim, Jie Ni

“…The data of this project is mainly collected from recent Singapore variety shows and public surveys. …”
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Mediating effects of satisfaction in the relationship between motivation factors and continuous viewing intentions towards Chinese documentary programs by Mengyu, Li

“…Although the government, television stations and video websites have invested a lot of energy and services in terms of policies, funds and creative talents to support Chinese documentary programs, the dilemma still cannot be solved. Prior studies have mainly analysed the content and narrative of Chinese documentary programs. …”
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Towards the Realization of National Automotive Policy (NAP): Modelling the Malaysian Consumers’ Purchase Behavioral Intention towards Energy Efficient Vehicles (EEVs) (S/O 14165) by Mohd Noor, Nor Azila, Mohd Fadhil, Faudziah Hanim, Md Isa, Filzah, Salleh, Hayatul Safrah, Muhammad, Azli

“…Research on green purchase behaviour have mainly based on Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). …”
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A computational fluid dynamics analysis of cryo-CO2 flow and thermal behaviour in high-speed milling process by Nur Fatini, Mohamad Fauzee, Nurul Hayati, Abdul Halim, Zainoor Hailmee, Solihin, Izdihar, Tharazi, Irnie Azlin, Zakaria, Musfirah, Abdul Hadi

“…Cryogenic CO2 machining performance is mainly dependent on how well heat generated during cutting is dissipated from the cutting zone. …”
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Counterfactual explanations for machine learning models on heterogeneous data by Wang, Yongjie

“…Existing research has mainly focused on two areas: incorporating practical constraints and introducing various solving methods. …”
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Learning-based robot navigation in dynamic environments: from indoor scenes to human crowd scenes by Jiang, Haoge

“…To counter more dynamic indoor situations, our improved work named iTD3-CLN was proposed, which is a DRL-based low-level motion controller, that mainly focuses on map-less autonomous navigation in indoor dynamic scenes. …”
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A medical image-based computer-aided diagnosis system for musculoskeletal disease and disorder. by Chuah, Tong Kuan

“…This thesis makes several advancements in the research and development of an image-based CAD system for musculoskeletal diseases, mainly focusing on OA and various aspects of the CAD system. …”
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Stock prediction using support vector regression by Manasa, Abburu.

“…SVMs can be used for both classification and regression purposes and for our research we mainly focus on regression. Support Vector Machine for Regression (SVM-R) has been proven to be more advantageous than BP when it comes to handling financial data. …”
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Synthesis and electrochemical performance of aluminum antimonide alloy anode prepared by melt spinning by Kharistal, Daniel Julian

“…We propose that the battery performance of the melt spun Al-Sb alloy is mainly influenced by the amount of AlSb phase in the structure and the ability of AlSb phase to reform itself after cycling. …”
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Performance analysis of impulse-radio ultra-wideband techniques for low-rate communications by Cui, Shan

“…After studying the systems’ characteristics, we observe that the system performance suffers mainly from two types of interference. They are narrowband interference (NBI) from existing in-band wireless services, and multiple access interference (MAI). …”
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Effects of geometrical parameters on performance of miniature centrifugal pump by Liu, Guiqin

“…For the same impeller operating at the same rotational speed, the difference between them is negligible, because the energy losses are mainly due to the volute length. For the same volute height and outlet width, the difference in the volute length is only 1% for the two methods. …”
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新加坡国庆歌曲的双语现象与国家认同建构 ：以《家》为例 = Bilingual National Day songs in Singapore and its construction of national identity : a case study on “Home”... by 郑回芯 Tay, Hui Xin

“…This study writes about the ten bilingual National Day songs from 1998 to 2009. The paper mainly dwells on the role of these ten bilingual National Day songs in the forging of national identity among netizens. …”
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Unsupervised bayesian generative methods by Li, Shaohua

“…This finding bridges the two very different lines of model selection methods. The third task is about Word Embedding, a technique that maps words in a natural language to continuous vectors which encode the semantic/syntactic regularities among the words. …”
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Increased consumption of unsaturated fatty acids improves body composition in a hypercholesterolemic Chinese population by Haldar, Sumanto, Ponnalagu, Shalini, Osman, Farhana, Tay, Shia Lyn, Wong, Long Hui, Jiang, Yuan Rong, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Henry, Christiani Jeyakumar

“…While total body weight increased slightly (0.36 ± 0.12 kg, p = 0.005) in women during intervention, this was mainly due to gain in lean mass (0.38 ± 0.081 kg, p < 0.0001). …”
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How to learn Chinese characters? Exploring the effectiveness of different learning methods in young Singaporean children by Toh, Wendy Hwee Bin

“…Past research on early Chinese word reading and instruction has mainly focused on children in Mandarin-speaking societies or adult foreign/second language learners. …”
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Changes in cerebrospinal fluid balance of TNF and TNF receptors in naïve multiple sclerosis patients : early involvement in compartmentalised intrathecal inflammation by Magliozzi, Roberta, Pezzini, Francesco, Pucci, Mairi, Rossi, Stefania, Facchiano, Francesco, Marastoni, Damiano, Montagnana, Martina, Lippi, Giuseppe, Reynolds, Richard, Calabrese, Massimiliano

“…The CSF sTNF-R1-associated pattern (encompassing high levels of CXCL13, TWEAK, LIGHT, IL-35, osteopontin, pentraxin-3, sCD163 and chitinase-3-L1) was mainly related to altered T cell and B cell signalling. …”
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Inclusions in calcite phantom crystals suggest role of clay minerals in dolomite formation by Farsang, Stefan, Pekker, Péter, Lampronti, Giulio I., Molnár, Zsombor, Milovský, Rastislav, Pósfai, Mihály, Ozdín, Daniel, Raub, Timothy D., Redfern, Simon Anthony Turner

“…Whereas the outer, colorless part of the phantom crystal is relatively homogeneous and cavity and inclusion-free, the inner terracotta-colored part contains abundant cavities, dolomite, hematite, goethite, titanite, phyllosilicates (mainly kaolinite and illite), and apatite inclusions and nanostructures that have formed on the walls of cavities. …”
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Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…In this thesis, the author will describe what he have done in the past two years of his studentship. He will mainly focus on the topic of laser cooling of cadmium sulfur (CdS) single crystals. …”
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Occurrence, human exposure and dynamics of phthalates in ACMV indoor environments : method development and field studies by Chen, Ailu

“…In the development of sampling and extraction method, works mainly focus on testing homemade two-bed sorbent tubes with silanized glass wool and Tenax TA as sorbents for airborne phthalate sampling. …”
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Thermodynamic study of isosteric heat at zero coverage : applications to adsorption cooling and desalination by Fan, Wu

“…Vapor compression cooling and desalination systems are mainly driven by electricity, produced by burning fossil fuels, which contributes to the global warming (GW) because of the encountered direct CO2-emissions. …”
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