Unit-linked policies in Singapore by Ong, Yee Chen, Poh, Chee Chung

“…In recent years, unit-linked products have gained popularity in the life industry. It is amazing that such a product can create such excitement and generate high volume sales in just a short time. …”
Get full text

Evaporation and crystallisation of saline droplet with surfactant on smooth surfaces by Wong, Dennis Kin Wai

“…On the other hand, concentric rings were observed at a high concentration of 0.8 mM CTAB with concentration of SDS below 6.4 mM SDS. …”
Get full text

On self-dual cyclic codes and generalized self-dual cyclic codes over finite fields by Yan, Jia

“…We decompose a QT code to a direct sum of component codes – linear codes over rings. Furthermore, given the decomposition of a QT code, we can describe the decomposition of its dual code. …”
Get full text

Dynamic behaviour of biomaterial reinforcements in composite systems by Tang, Seow Mun.

“…The HA morphology also influences the fatigue life of the biocomposite, with the SDHA-PEEK composites exhibiting a shorter fatigue life than the SHA-PEEK composites.…”
Get full text

Evolutionary and ecological insights from Cytinus: a plant within a plant by de Vega, C, Thorogood, CJ, Albaladejo, RG, Rakotonasolo, F, Hobbhahn, N, Martos, F, Burgoyne, PM, Johnson, SD

“…Cytinus is a group of plants that grow within other plants: a parasitic life cycle that has evolved just four times in the plant kingdom. …”

Inequality and the 1% by Dorling, D

“…Even before birth, being born outside the 1% will have dramatic impact on the rest of your life: it will reduce your life expectancy, educational and work prospects, as well as your mental health. …”

Driving home by Ulfahzatul Tysha Sher Zaman

“…Driving Home is a short film about Salleh, a simple man who finds that his life does not seem so simple anymore. Father to a son he no longer understands, he avoids the complications in life by burying himself in work. …”
Get full text

Breaking up rationally by Villiger, D, de Vries, B

“…The end of a long-term romantic relationship ranks among the most stressful and momentous events in life. Thus, the decision of whether to break up with someone whom one has been with for many years should generally be made very carefully. …”

Conformable ultrasound breast patch for deep tissue scanning and imaging by Du, Wenya, Zhang, Lin, Suh, Emma, Lin, Dabin, Marcus, Colin, Ozkan, Lara, Ahuja, Avani, Fernandez, Sara, Shuvo, Ikra Iftekhar, Sadat, David, Liu, Weiguo, Li, Fei, Chandrakasan, Anantha P., Ozmen, Tolga, Dagdeviren, Canan

“…The in vitro studies and clinical trials reveal that the array using a piezoelectric crystal [Yb/Bi-Pb(In <jats:sub>1</jats:sub> <jats:sub>/2</jats:sub> Nb <jats:sub>1/2</jats:sub> )O <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> -Pb(Mg <jats:sub>1/</jats:sub> <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> Nb <jats:sub>2/3</jats:sub> )O <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> -PbTiO <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> ] (Yb/Bi-PIN-PMN-PT) exhibits a sufficient contrast resolution (~3 dB) and axial/lateral resolutions of 0.25/1.0 mm at 30 mm depth, allowing the observation of small cysts (~0.3 cm) in the breast. …”
Get full text

Piezoelectric single crystal based one-dimensional phased array for breast tissue imaging by Du, Wenya

“…In this thesis, I propose a conformable ultrasound breast patch (cUSBr-Patch) consisting of a one-dimensional (1D) phased array and a nature-inspired patch design, which offers large-area, deep tissue scanning and multi-angle, repeatable breast imaging while avoiding the drawbacks of conventional ultrasound imaging technologies. I used a Yb/Bi-doped PIN-PMN-PT single crystal as the active element due to its superior piezoelectric properties (d33 = 2,800 pC/N, εr = 7,000, k33 = 0.93). …”
Get full text

Two-phase immersion cooling for power dense printed circuit board converters by Ristic-Smith, A

“…A theoretical model and numerical solution method for boiling on pin fins is developed and used to design heat spreaders to increase the power dissipation per unit semiconductor area with minimal penalty on the converter volume. …”

The Design Inference : Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities / by Dembski, William A., author 655238, Cambridge University Press (Online service) 655240

“…Design inferences can be found in a range of scientific pursuits from forensic science to research into the origins of life to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Plateau by Png, Hui Min, Goh Timothy Wei Wen

“…Nothing changes drastically, life is still stable and flat like how a plateau is.…”
Get full text

Platform architecture for sustainable product family design by Tan, Melvin Joseph Hong Thye

“…Platform architectures require design factors and processes which contribute to the sustainability of the product family over an entire life cycle. Product life cycles are increasingly overlapping with one another as part commonality becomes a design objective for greater re use. …”
Get full text

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Vollset, SE, Ababneh, HS, Abate, YH, Lacey, BWH, GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

“…At the super-region level, forecasted healthy life expectancy patterns were similar to those of life expectancies. …”

Self-organized canals enable long-range directed material transport in bacterial communities by Li, Ye, Liu, Shiqi, Zhang, Yingdan, Seng, Zi Jing, Xu, Haoran, Yang, Liang, Wu, Yilin

“…Our findings demonstrate that mechanochemical coupling between interfacial force and biosurfactant kinetics can coordinate large-scale material transport in primitive life forms, suggesting a new principle to engineer self-organized microbial communities.…”
Get full text

One more minute by Liew, Ming Jia

“…Each minute gives breath to a new one, and alludes to time as a beginning and an end, where life can appear and vanish just as suddenly. The inherent quality of a bubble echoes many of life’s characteristics which gives it the ability to reach out to people. …”
Get full text

新谣 ：我们的心声 = Xinyao : our voice by Low, Charlotte Qian Hui

“…Inspired by my past encounters with Xinyao, 新谣: 我们的心声 (Xinyao: Our Voice) is a semi-bilingual memory-cum-lyric book project that highlights the main aspects of Xinyao: The songs reflecting the everyday life, candid feelings and experiences about friendship, love, family, life and more of college youths who wrote them primarily in the 1980s. …”
Get full text

Mobile dependency by Lee, Siau Li, Zhou, Shiya

“…As we praise smartphone for the convenience it brings to daily life, some people’s growing reliance and emotional attachment to such gadgets start to become worrisome. …”
Get full text

Euthanasia among quadriplegics: a containment of autonomy in disability cinema by Cheang, Wai Yee

“…Conversely, he chooses to prematurely end his life via euthanasia. Why then is the disabled body made to seem less worthy of living as compared to the able-bodied individual? …”
Get full text