Development of a safety monitoring system in building construction by Yeni Susanti

“…Long term impact from sustaining back injury is expected. …”
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China's engagement with the liberal international order by Chua, Ze Ping

“…The paper argues that China avoids radically challenging the order’s rules by challenging them in a calibrated way to avoid being regarded as a ‘rule breaker’. In the long run, China desires to amend the order’s rules in its favour while also seeking to reduce the impact of US dominance through achieving technological independence and closer ties with neighbouring states.…”
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Erotica in Australian libraries : are we negligent collection managers? by Crook, Edgar

“…Literary erotica has existed alongside erotic art and sculpture for as long as there has been the capacity to publish or otherwise transmit the written word. …”
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Topological data analysis for fake news detection by Deng, Ran

“…For this task, three individual models have been used: least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) using 0th Dimensional Persistent Image (PI) vectors, Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM), and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). …”
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Design and economic analysis of water treatment system for remote underserved communities in Asia by Tan, Li Ling

“…Progressively, given the advanced development in technology, ceramic membranes have proven to be advantageous such as high chemical resistance, high flux, durability, and long lifespan. However, ceramic membranes require a high initial capital cost compared to polymeric membranes when used for water treatment processes. …”
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Injectable transplantation system for anticancer in-situ cell therapy by Sheng, Nan.

“…Followed by biochemical activation, the construct is able to constantly release therapeutic agent. In a long observation period, the cells inside the capsule gradually die in a spontaneous manner, which is regarded as an advantage of controllability. …”
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Development of boom-free deployment mechanisms for solar sail spacecraft by Baey, Yi Quan

“…A boom-free solar sail deployment is especially useful for long space exploration missions as compared to the use of conventional rockets or rigid boom as it can bring about advantages such as saving more space and lesser limitation to the size of the solar sail. …”
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A still small voice by Yeow, Siobhan Ying Hong

“…Having been silenced for so long due to familial circumstances, she does not know who she is, what she wants to do in life nor how to live. …”
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Device simulation study of lateral Schottky collector phototransistor (SCPT) by Xiao, Yang

“…The characteristics of the lateral SCPT were explored using two-dimensional simulation with Medici. Due to relatively long base width (2.4μm), the proposed SCPT only achieves a current gain of 9.9. …”
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Macroeconomic perspective on global imbalances. by Lee, Pei Hua., Su, Zhixiang., Teoh, Shi Ying.

“…Econometric results show that in the long run, the US current account position is negatively correlated with the real exchange rate and domestic GDP, and positively correlated with world GDP, as postulated by the elasticity approach. …”
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Why do the outward FDI patterns of China's state-owned enterprises differ from those of private companies? by Zhi, Li.

“…The key reason accounting for the differences of outward FDI patterns is that the state-owned companies, controlled or backed by the central government directly or indirectly, are influenced by political interests and policies enforced by Beijing government to achieve the long-term national goal, while the private-owned companies are primarily profit-oriented when they invest abroad.…”
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Neutron emission studies from miniature and medium size plasma focus device by Singh, Rajdeep Raweet.

“…Since the low energy MPF devices are compact, inexpensive, long lasting and easier to maintain; these distinctive features sets them apart from other sources as a prime candidate for compact pulsed neutron source. …”
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Curing kinetics of epoxies by thermal and alternative radiation in the application of fibre-reinforced composites by Ng, Feng Lin.

“…A major challenge faced by the fibre-reinforced composites industry is the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in hardener and solvent and the time taken for thermal curing is considerably long. Radiation curing offers an increased in speed of curing yet eliminates or reduces the VOCs. …”
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The art of an emotional past; memory and lament in the Singaporean novel. by Ng, Apple Keng Ee.

“…Firstly, I will begin by exploring how Suchen Christine Lim establishes a sense of loss and lament in Fistful of Colours, followed by how Phillip Jeyaratnam invokes a mode of regret in Abraham’s Promise, and finally how Goh Poh Seng creates a position of disappointment and helplessness in If We Dream Too Long"…”
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High-performance asymmetric supercapacitor based on CNT-graphene hybrid gel and MnO2-graphene hybrid gel by Bay, Alvin Koon Teck

“…Literatures have shown supercapacitors to possess excellent power and energy densities, high rate capability, long shelf live, and high cycling stability. In this report, the performance of supercapacitors, in particular asymmetric supercapacitors, will be evaluated. …”
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Role of scatter-hoarding rodents in the seed dispersal of large-seeded plants. by Low, Gerard Hongkai.

“…Also, our study shows that seeds are able to withstand considerable amount of damage to the endosperm and cotyledons, and still retain viability as long as the embryo is still intact.…”
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Population study on the freshwater crabs in Nee Soon swamp forest, Singapore. by Woo, Chia Mun.

“…Therefore, study was carried out on these freshwater crabs to provide a baseline data, so as to develop a long-term monitoring system for future conservation effort of these species. …”
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Cost-benefit-analysis of VRB-ESS for building applications by Wang, Fan

“…As VRB have many advantages, such as high efficiency, long lifespan, short response time and high recovery of its components, it is widely used as energy storage, the peak shaving and spinning reserve. …”
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The dynamics of crude oil price movements : from price expectation perspectives by Lucy Kusnadi, Mirza Muhammad Hanif, Soon, Shang Jyi

“…By employing VECM, a cointegrating equation is constructed which exhibits the long-run positive correlation between spot and futures prices over the years in review. …”
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State anger changes upon cathartic status updating on Facebook : moderation by perceived Facebook social support by Lee, Lina

“…Catharsis has long been believed to be effective in reducing state anger. …”
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