Plateau by Png, Hui Min, Goh Timothy Wei Wen

“…Nothing changes drastically, life is still stable and flat like how a plateau is.…”
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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. …”
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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.…”
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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. …”
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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? …”
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Collective reflective equilibrium, algorithmic bioethics and complex ethics by Savulescu, J

“…Resources should be provided to ensure people have a fair innings—when Harris first wrote this, around 70 years of life, but perhaps now 80. Secondly, Harris famously advanced the egalitarian position in response to utilitarian approaches to allocation (such as maximizing Quality Adjusted Life Years [QALYs]) that what people want is the greatest chance of the longest, best quality life for themselves, and justice requires treating these claims equally. …”

Actively mode-locked fiber lasers for high speed telecommunication systems by Lam, Quoc Huy

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Design of differentially-driven chip antenna by Tan, Heng Chuan.

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A lightweight and high efficiency battery charger for electric vehicles by Yue, Xi Tong

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Optimization of capillary tube stacking by Liu, Qinghua

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Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy : an integrative account by Baillargeon, Renée, Stavans, Maayan, Wu, Di, Gertner, Yael, Setoh, Peipei, Kittredge, Audrey K., Bernard, Amélie

“…In this article, we argue that this confusing picture can be better understood by bringing to bear insights from a related subfield of infancy research, physical reasoning. …”
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Visual attention guided pixel-wise just noticeable difference model by Zeng, Zhipeng, Zeng, Huanqiang, Chen, Jing, Zhu, Jianqing, Zhang, Yun, Ma, Kai-Kuang

“…Experimental results indicate that compared with existing relevant JND profiles, the proposed JND model tolerates more distortion in the same perceptual quality, and brings better visual perception in the same level of the injected JND-noise energy.…”
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The effects of gradient running on lower limb skeletal muscle function parameters measured using TMG100 tensiomyography system by Sek, Qin Rui

“…Gradient running (GR) has become popular as a form of training, due to the benefits it brings. Tensiomyography (TMG) is a non-invasive method of assessing the contractile properties of a muscle, but has not been used to study the effects of an acute bout of GR. …”
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Orbital angular momentum transmission based on satellite formation relay in space communications by Zhao, Yufei, Ju, Gaohua, Yang, Zhaojie, Ge, Yao, Lu, Yilong, Guan, Yong Liang

“…However, the conical beam and the coaxial all-phase reception brings painful difficulties. As a promising solution to overcome this difficulty, an OAM multiplexing transmission method is proposed for use in a satellite formation relay scheme in this paper. …”
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The last flower: transforming inner feelings into innovative solutions by Yeo, Jesvin Puay-Hwa

“…This research project stimulates students’ inner feelings to a certain extent and brings higher-level learning from understanding external feelings to inner feelings, from observation and experimentation to application and innovation. …”
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Kansei evaluation and clustering in emotional design by Ng, Kassyn.

“…Design speaks a thousand words to the consumers and every design conveys a different message. Globalisation brings about an increasing number of affluent societies and more people want a product that suits their individual personality such as professional or sporty. …”
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Book review : The political economy of heaven and earth in Ghana / Charles Prempeh by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…He is a self-declared member of Ghana’s largest Protestant church, the Church of Pentecost. He brings to the topic of Christian nationalism both an academic’s sceptical eye and a believer’s focus.…”
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A separation-of-powers model for a trustworthy and open cloud computing ecosystem by Ruan, A

“…<em>Openness</em> further brings a flourishing market to the ecosystem. It encourages many more diverse Cloud Service Providers to equally participate in the cloud ecosystem, regardless of their scale or capabilities. …”

Τhe burial rite of Enchytrismos in Attica, Euboea and Boeotia during the Late Geometric and Archaic periods. Towards an understanding of its social significance by Vlanti, AD

“…Since the rite of enchytrismos concerned mainly the biologically youngest members of Attic, Euboean and Boeotian communities, the present study brings this—often largely neglected—age category to the foreground. …”