Public spaces as the “centre of social struggle”: how do low-wage, unemployed Bangladeshi migrant workers perceive and use public spaces in Singapore? by See, Marilyn

“…This study seeks to analyse how public spaces are sites of social struggle for low-wage, unemployed migrant workers who face significant financial and job insecurity. Three main findings pertaining to the perceptions and utilisation of public spaces will be discussed: (1) migrant workers’ precarious position in society and their agency to seek belonging within public spaces, (2) Singapore’s attractiveness as a destination country, (3) the segregation between migrant workers and the wider population in public spaces.…”
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Building wireless sensor network: prototype datalogging enhancement & development as a real-time modelling device by Tay, Owen Jia Hao

“…Key performance metrics, including R2, Cross Validation Score Mean (CVSM), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), and Mean Absolute Error (MAE), are employed to evaluate accuracy and stability over time. The findings underscore the consistent and superior performance of the KNN model in contrast to OLS & PR. …”
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Financial sentiment analysis: techniques and applications by Du, Kelvin, Xing, Frank, Mao, Rui, Cambria, Erik

“…This article defines a clearer scope for FSA studies and conceptualizes the FSA-investor sentiment-market sentiment relationship. Major findings, challenges, and future research directions for both FSA techniques and applications have also been summarized and discussed.…”
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Stratus cluster scheduler: enhancing cloud efficiency and reducing costs in VM deployment by Kho, Marcus Han Kiat

“…As obtained from the results, it was shown that Stratus consolidated the tasks into a small number of VMs, hence reducing the overall up-time of the VMs by about 99% as compared to the baseline, which improves resource utilization efficiency and reduces operational costs. These findings point to the potential of Stratus to address critical inefficiencies in managing resources on the cloud. …”
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A 1-bit 16×16 reconfigurable intelligent surfaces array for C-band by Zhang, Yucheng

“…Simulation results validate the effectiveness of this RIS array design in enhancing communication performance. The findings underscore the potential of RIS technology to achieve energy-efficient, high-performance wireless communication networks.…”
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AI-based limited data spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks by Liu, Jianqiao

“…By simulating the entire signal transmission process multiple times, characteristic values corresponding to energy, power and cycle stability are collected, combined for different frequency domain environments and used to train targeted AI models, which can improve the recognition accuracy of the idle frequency domain with limited data. The findings underscore the potential of deep learning to revolutionize spectrum management and utilization.…”
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Cross-cultural differences in the preference for brand prominence of luxury products. by Chen, Crystal Wanjing., Heng, Michelle Jia Xin., Koh, Yu Han.

“…A total of 140 useful survey responses were collected by the distribution of a self-administered survey through convenience sampling. Findings revealed that the motivations which influenced the preference for brand prominence were the need to be fashionable and the need for status. …”
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Simulation and visualisation of perching manoeuvres by Goo, Yik Wen.

“…Nevertheless, the versatility of DSix in accepting various modifications to the perching simulation was useful in finding the trends arising from different perching conditions. …”
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Selection and optimization of scaffold materials to facilitate cellular response of C2C12 myoblasts. by Chia, Shermain Theng Xin.

“…Results obtained for the fibrin gels supported the hypothesis that there is a direct correlation between increased proliferation and attachment, change in cell morphology and substrate stiffness. However, findings from Agarose gel-based substrate were less consistent. …”
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Testing and marketing commercial accounting software packages : the case of BMS financials. by Chua, Lionel., Lee, Fong Lay., Siong, Guan-Cheng.

“…In mid-1995, the company invited our student group to undertake these testing activities, as it was at the development phase where it required independent testers with accounting knowledge to perform objective testing on BMS Financials. Through a ‘finding and fixing’ process, our task was to establish confidence that the software was a quality product ready for market release. …”
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An empirical study on the effects of promotion of corporate social responsibility on employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors. by Huang, WanQing., Liew, Shi Min., Lee Ping, Joyce.

“…The research was conducted through a survey of 312 participants from five different organizations, based in Singapore. Our key findings are that the degree of promotion of CSR by the organization relates positively to employees’ perceptions of CSR. …”
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Predictive elements of the stock market in the foothball industry. by Seek, Kah Hoe., Tay, Henry Yong Qiang., Wong, Tracee Sze Wah.

“…Additionally, we categorized our data into different competitions namely; domestic league, domestic cups and international competitions. In our findings, we identified that results from the domestic league have the strongest influence on stock returns as its beta is approximately five times more than the other two independent variables. …”
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Sorptive properties of biofilm matrix for heavy metal sequestering by Elisa Tiaras

“…Despite polysaccharide quantification and protein quantification that did not indicate significant differences between the 4 strains, further findings from proteomics analysis may provide a greater insight to how Pel and Psl affect the biofilm.…”
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Predictors of weight loss in overweight Singaporean males in the Singapore Adult Metabolism Study (SAMS). by Tay, Yu Juan.

“…Baseline Disinhibition was also marginally associated with weight loss (p=0.06, B=-0.422). These findings suggest that by looking at the Disinhibition scores and gym session attendance, we can predict weight loss for overweight male participants in Singapore.…”
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Perceptions of females participating in a perceived ‘masculine sport’ : dragon boat by Vijaikumar Rangabashayam

“…Therefore, the Athletic Identity of an individual is a relevant factor in the perception of female athletes participating in Dragon Boat. These findings lead to the discussion of potential barriers posed by the perceptions on females participating in the sport of Dragon Boat. …”
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Design and development of indoor navigation system using RFID technology by Aye Myat May Thin

“…The implementation of the Indoor Navigation System includes finding the appropriate hardware, in this case, RFID tags and readers and android tablet. …”
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Quasi-uniform codes and information inequalities using group theory by Eldho Kuppamala Puthenpurayil Thomas

“…We then address the question of finding linear inequality violators for n = 5 and obtain the smallest group violators of two linear inequalities. …”
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Various factors affecting human performance in a computerised environment by Ang, Kah Eng, Neo, Aik Keong, Pang, Soh Chui

“…Chapter 6 summarises the survey findings, as well as analysing the results. From the analysis, majority of the results obtained is in consistent with the literature reviewed. …”
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Age-related functional compensation in novelty and relational encoding of scenes : a brain activation and functional connectivity study by Leow, Dayton Wei Yang

“…However, functional connectivity results generally revealed an age-related increase in IFG-hippocampus/parahippocampus functional connectivity for both novelty and relational encoding of scenes, which served a compensatory function for high performing older adults. The present findings pose theoretical contribution to the research in aging.…”
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Role of polyamines in biofilm - based water decontamination by Chan, Henry Chun Loong

“…In our study, the results obtained confirmed that the presence of putrescine and spermidine did indeed inhibit biofilm formation. However, this finding was only valid in mutants that were able to produce their own putrescine and spermidine. …”
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