When east meets west: beauty standards and ideals in Singapore by Dhillon, Sasha Kaur

“…Through my interviews, I discovered that Singapore constructs along unique lines – intertwining both Eastern and Western cultures with heavy emphasis on themes like skin colour, gender and race. In fact, to a certain extent my data also showcases palpable state influence in the construction of these ideals. …”
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Development of database management system for underground cavern construction by Lim, Li Wei

“…In recent years, there is an increasing trend in the development of underground spaces, and is one development with great potential especially for a land scarce city like Singapore. There is no lack of projects done worldwide and further development can be done based on the various underground cavern constructions. …”
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Machine learning driven synthesis of two-dimensional materials by Chia, Jia Jun

“…With the aid of machine learning, certain tasks like finding algorithm or pattern and calculations were made faster to achieve as compared humans doing so. …”
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Web-based interactive graph visualization by Ng, Chin Teck

“…By the end of the project, a prototype of the website will be developed with basic analysis functions implemented and continuation of this project is to be expected therefore, the website will be built with extensibility in mind. Improvements, like additional clustering methods, ways to differentiate data through colour coding and further optimizing the algorithm can be implemented in the near future.…”
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Liddat oso can by Tng, Adeline Wen Ting

“…“Liddat oso Can”, or in Standard English, “Like that also can”, is a commonly used Singlish phrase to express either sarcasm, scepticism or a tinge of awe in response to almost impossible or unexpected feats of achievement or actions (Yoong, Standard English and Singlish: The Clash of Language Values in Contemporary Singapore, 2010). …”
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Development of infrared radiation light source for integrated gas sensor by Tok, Jian Sheng

“…Over the years, miniature sensor based on Miro-electro-mechanical systems(MEMS) technology has evolved to a necessary item in places like hospitals, offices, security areas, power plants, etc. …”
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A software system for business by Tan, Joel Jun Rong

“…When people think about payment , the first thought would be payment from consumer to merchant. I would like to make my payment software , a payment management software. …”
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Distributed machine learning on public clouds by Lim, Ernest Woon Teng

“…Conventional ML systems like Caffe could have acceptable model training time on a single machine when dealing with a moderate amount of data. …”
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QR-code based real-time interactive learning in iOS by Teng, Shi Xuan

“…Interactive functions will includes functionalities like interactive whiteboard, polling question, open-ended question, submission of tutorial and assignments. …”
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Human activity recognition based on smartphone sensors by Rajendran, Abinaya

“…The basic human activities like walking, sitting, walking upstairs, downstairs and running are classified using the combination of the sensor data collected from the Smart-phone.…”
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Protea / Extraction by Arkomanis, Ektoras, Shummo, Mae, Medina Uriarte, Lucia

“…Central to the installation is a trophy-like bronze relief of the outline of Protea Village, an area adjacent to Kirstenbosch, the National Botanical Garden of South Africa, located in Western Cape. …”
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Social constructs and how not to ground them by Baysan, E

“…According to a current trend in social ontology, by articulating claims of social construction in terms of metaphysical grounding, we can shed light on the metaphysics of social construction and understand deep truths about social identities like race and gender. Focusing on two recent accounts, I argue that this move from social construction to grounding has limitations. …”

Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2025 by Newman, N, Cherubini, F

“…Publishers are also worried about a significant fall in referrals from search as big tech companies integrate AI overviews and other ‘story-like’ responses to news queries.</p> <br> <p>There will be more focus this year on video platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, where publisher content often struggles to compete with alternative sources such as personalities and influencers.…”

Bubble-beam accelerators: breaking the paradigm by Malyzhenkov, A, Dyks, LA, Corsini, R, Farabolini, W, Latina, A, Burrows, PN, Korysko, P, Tranchedone, L, Aksoy, A

“…In this work, by enhancing the space-charge forces in the photo-cathode injector of the Compact Linear Electron Accelerator for Research (CLEAR) at CERN, we produce electron bunches with a “bubble-like” shape, with a charge density mostly concentrated on the outside shell. …”

Deep neural networks have an inbuilt Occam’s razor by Mingard, C, Rees, H, Valle-Pérez, G, Louis, AA

“…This analysis shows that structured data, together with a specific Occam’s razor-like inductive bias towards (Kolmogorov) simple functions that exactly counteracts the exponential growth of the number of functions with complexity, is a key to the success of DNNs.…”

Diplomatic training and spaces of anticolonial worldmaking by Craggs, R, Harris, J, McConnell, F

“…Whilst many accounts of anticolonial and subaltern geopolitical projects focus on grassroots activism beyond and against the state, we argue we also need to attend to the contributions of those – like African diplomats in training - who critiqued Eurocentric and colonial international relations from subaltern positions whilst remaining privileged within the context of the postcolonial state.…”

Dynamic placement in refugee resettlement by Ahani, N, Gölz, P, Procaccia, AD, Teytelboym, A, Trapp, AC

“…Our algorithm is based on two-stage stochastic programming and achieves over 98% of the hindsight-optimal employment, compared with under 90% of current greedy-like approaches. This dramatic improvement persists even when we incorporate a vast array of practical features of the refugee resettlement process including inseparable families, batching, and uncertainty with respect to the number of future arrivals. …”

Spontaneous symmetry breaking of an optical polarization state in a polarization-selective nonlinear reson by Manannikov, K, Mironova, E, Poliakov, A, Mikhaylov, A, Ulanov, A, Lvovsky, A

“…We propose utilizing this mechanism to simulate an Ising-like interaction between multiple spatial modes and as a basis for a fully optical coherent Ising machine (CIM).…”

Towards the understanding of heavy quarks hadronization: from leptonic to heavy-ion collisions by Altmann, J, Dubla, A, Greco, V, Rossi, A, Skands, P

“…As several recent findings demonstrate, with e+e- collisions as a “vacuum-like” reference at one extreme, and central nucleus–nucleus as a dense, extended size system characterized by flow and local equilibrium at the opposite extreme, different collision systems offer a lever arm that can be exploited to probe with a range of heavy-flavour hadron species the onset of various hadronization processes. …”

How in-person conversations shape political polarization: quasi-experimental evidence from a nationwide initiative by Fang, X, Heuser, S, Stötzer, LS

“…We find asymmetric effects: conversations with like-minded individuals caused political views to become more extreme (ideological polarization); by contrast, conversations with contrary-minded individuals did not lead to a convergence of political views, but significantly reduced negative beliefs and attitudes toward ideological out-group members (affective polarization), while also improving perceived social cohesion more generally. …”