How can small satellites improve the weather forecast in Southeast Asia and Singapore in a context of climate change? by Toh, Xin Yi

“…Southeast Asia is the world’s largest archipelago, accounting for 30% of tropical cyclones. As a result, it brings about severe impacts like torrential rains and storm surges, affecting various sectors, including agriculture and maritime industries. …”
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Experimental and analytical study of exterior beam-column joint for progressive collapse by Yap, Sim Lim.

“…For many urban settings, the proximity to unregulated traffic brings the terrorist threat to or within the perimeter of the building. …”
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Societal factors and the inescapability of Chinese female oppression by Wang, Carmen Onggo Jiawen

“…They would rather align themselves with men from the same class than women from different classes, unwilling to give up the comfort that being from a higher class brings. It therefore remains questionable whether the problem of female emancipation can ever be solved even up till the present, as the issues that the authors from that time bring to light are still issues that affect the present day.…”
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Dialogism and monologism : a study of modernity and postcolonialism in Jean Marie Gustave Clézio's Oeuvre. by Kwa, Brennan Yiew Khoon.

“…Le Clézio demonstrates, however, that colonialism brings with it ruin and desolation instead of the promised peace and civilization. …”
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Multi-stable configurations for vibration-based energy harvester by Wileen Kristanto

“…Therefore, this study proposes to introduce multi-stable configurations with the use of magnets, to induce non-linearity. Non-linearity brings about more stable equilibrium states in the system, resulting in a broadened bandwidth of operation for the energy harvester. …”
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Various factors affecting human performance in a computerised environment by Ang, Kah Eng, Neo, Aik Keong, Pang, Soh Chui

“…This project report brings the reader through a field study conducted to examine the various factors affecting human performance in an office work station. …”
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The impact of rooftop photovoltaic system and energy storage system on load profile by Han, Ying

“…Rising energy consumption is a global concern. It brings increasing all kinds of pollutions like air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution etc. to our environment. …”
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Social network analytics : trend analysis in Twitter by Soh, Jophia Yi Wen

“…However, with many news, sources and topics discussed on Twitter, it brings about huge drawbacks on the efficient acquisition of important information. …”
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The role of emotional tears in intergroup bias by Pang, James, Zhen Yao

“…Furthermore, in today’s globalised world, the unprecedented ease of travelling brings about influx of foreigners in many countries. …”
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Organic solar cells : simulations and optimization by Zhu, Zhenjie

“…Due to the high throughput, cheap manufacturing cost and large volume, it brings up the attention in photovoltaic applications. …”
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Modelling, design and control of the virtual synchronous machine in the smart grid application by Chen, Yidan

“…However, the increasing amount of renewable power resources brings new challenges to the power grid, such as dynamic issues, the lower stability operation, etc. …”
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Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom by Giuliani, LM, Warner, E, Campbell, GA, Lynch, J, Smith, AC, Smith, P

“…However, standardisation brings key challenges including the complexity and local variability of soil systems and the diverse priorities, skills and resources of stakeholders. …”

‘Des mémoires sur la vie de cet illustre philosophe’: George Leman Tuthill’s unwritten biography of Diderot by Warman, C

“…Tuthill later trained as a doctor and became renowned as a physician to various asylums; he therefore boasts an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, but nothing appears there about his earlier ambitions with respect to Diderot, and Diderot scholarship has known nothing about his existence. This piece brings together these two worlds, supplementing the portrait with further information from his correspondence with the famed Sinologist Thomas Manning (1772–1840) and from their mutual friend the writer Charles Lamb (1775–1834). …”

Strategic communication and effectiveness analysis of non-profit organizations in the new media era by Liu, Fengjiao, Kasimon, Diyana Nawar

“…The new media era enables people to obtain information conveniently, and also brings a wider publicity platform to non-profit organizations. …”
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Predictors of depression among trainee counselors: the role of coping styles and resilience by Ying, Ng Jia, Engku Kamarudin, Engku Mardiah, Afdal, Shafie, Amin Al Haadi

“…Remarkably, within this study, 46.2% of trainee counselors were found to be grappling with moderate to severe depressive symptoms. The study brings to light significant associations among trainee counselors between coping mechanisms, such as emotion-focused and avoidant coping, resilience, and depression. …”
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Fabrication and packaging of piezoresistive MEMS pressure sensor array for passive fish-like underwater sensing by Chia, Mark Sebastian Xiong Wei.

“…The inspiration was to develop a MEMS artificial lateral-line sensory system, mimicking the structural features of the biological lateral-line of the blind cave fish. …”
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Rotation Inside Convex Kakeya Sets by Janzer, B

“…We also show that in three dimensions the answer is negative, even for the case when S is a line segment – but that in any dimension the first question has a positive answer when S is a line segment. …”

Cell-based assays in flowing and sessile drops by Prastowo, A

“…The impact of this arrangement on cells, and the alternation of the pinning line/interface by Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) is examined in some details. …”

Cavitation-induced microjets tuned by channels with alternating wettability patterns by Schoppink, Jelle J., Mohan, Keerthana, Quetzeri-Santiago, Miguel A., McKinley, Gareth, Rivas, David Fernandez, Dickerson, Andrew K.

“…The hydrophobic strips also influence the advancing contact line and receding contact line as the vapor bubble expands and collapses. …”
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Machine-Learning-Assisted Analysis of Visible Spectroscopy in Pulsed-Power-Driven Plasmas by Datta, Rishabh, Ahmed, Faez, Hare, Jack D.

“…Radiation transport simulations, which use spectral emissivity and opacity values generated using the collisional-radiative code PrismSPECT, are used to determine the spectral intensity generated by the plasma along the spectrometer’s line of sight (LOS). The spectra exhibit Al-II and Al-III lines, whose line ratios and line widths vary with the density and temperature of the plasma. …”
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