Design of system for parking and repositioning of bikes in a public bike-sharing system by Siong, Jun Wei

“…In the case study of this report, the proposed model is shown to be able to determine a bike reallocation plan that incurs the least cost. Also, the model provides information of the quantity of bikes to reallocate and when to reallocate to incur the least cost. …”
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Performance in the wartime archive : Michio Ito at the Alien Enemy Hearing Board by Riordan, Kevin

“…The day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the recently formed Federal Bureau of Investigation ordered the incarceration of 770 Japanese and Japanese American “alien enemies.”1 These arrests came two months before Executive Order 9066, which infamously called for the mass incarceration of 110,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast of the United States.2 Among these initial 770 alien enemies was the modernist dancer and choreographer Michio Ito. …”
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Inverse and pseudo-inverse prefixes in Kiranti languages: evidence from Belhare, Athpare, and Dungmali by Ebert, Karen H.

“…Belhare, Athpare and Dungmali are small Rai languages located in the area between l3antawa to the West and Limbu to the East. Athpare is spoken in a few villages to the East and Southeast of Dhankuta. …”
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[Maritime] The impact of port disruptions on supply chains by Lin, Jason Jiesheng.

“…A drastic contrast of the East Asian’s relatively conservative culture as to that of the West, it is unexpected but nevertheless explainable. …”
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Implementation of a novel distributed traffic light scheduling strategy in a large scale urban traffic network simulated by VISSIM by Yeo, Terence Zhen Hong

“…This report presents a large scale urban traffic simulation model that was based on Jurong East and Jurong West areas of the Jurong Lake District. PTV VISSIM, a microscopic, time-step oriented and behaviour-based simulation program, was the chosen simulation program in which the traffic simulation model was created. …”
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Satellite image fusion for land cover classification by Tsan, Li Ling

“…Therefore, this study explored the different pre-processing techniques using wiener filtering and morphological filtering and segmentation techniques including Chan-Vese and K-means clustering to produce the land cover classification of a SAR image taken from the southern west of Singapore, covering partial Malaysia. Lastly, the segmented SAR images were fused with the optical image at the same area. …”
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South and East Asian cinemas across borders: critical trends in transnational cinema by Clini, Clelia, Yangling, Yang, Dasgupta, Rohit K.

“…Indeed, notwithstanding the aforementioned tendency to implement border policing and the revival of nationalist sentiments, South and East Asian cinemas retain a strong transnational character, as not only genres and themes are borrowed and exchanged across borders, but also the popularity of the Indian, Chinese and Korean film industries extend well beyond their national borders – within Asia as well as in the West. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Transnational Screens.…”

Sacred rubble and humble shelters: German church building after the Second World War by Betts, PR

“…This article centres on the cultural politics behind the feverish construction of new houses of worship in West Germany, as well as the restoration of damaged cathedrals and churches, in the first two decades after 1945. …”

Ebola disease: bridging scientific discoveries and clinical application by Rojek, A, Fieggen, J, Apiyo, P, Caluwaerts, S, Fowler, RA, Kaleebu, P, Kojan, R, Lado, M, Lambe, T, Dunning, J, Horby, P

“…The west Africa Ebola disease epidemic (2014–16) marked a historic change of course for patient care during emerging infectious disease outbreaks. …”

Putting distance through cleansing : the mediating role of temporal distancing on the embodiment of moral purity by Nurul Mira Fatin Abdulkahar

“…More specifically, it is hypothesized that compared to individuals who do not clean their hands, those who do so after recalling a past immoral act would be more likely to temporally distance their present selves away from their past immoral selves so as to preserve favorable self-view, and hence are more likely to perceive their past moral transgressions as less severe than they would have normally believed. …”
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Contraceptive experience and factors associated with desire for postpartum family planning among pregnant women of the nkongsamba health district, Littoral Region, Cameroon by Ajong, AB, Yakum, MN, Mangala, FN, Bekolo, CE, Agbor, VN, Waffo, LM, Kenfack, B

“…This study aimed to evaluate past contraceptive experience and identify factors associated with the desire for postpartum family planning among women in late pregnancy. …”

Globalization and environmental quality : insights from 128 countries by Le, Ha Chi

“…Fixed Effects (FE) is employed as the main estimation technique while panel Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) and Driscoll-Kraay (D-K) standard errors estimations are employed as robustness check. …”
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Understanding single-protein fouling in micro- and ultrafiltration systems via machine-learning-based models by Tanudjaja, Henry Jonathan, Ng, Angie Qi Qi, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Membrane pore size is the most dominant influence on fouling followed by transmembrane pressure (TMP), while membrane configuration (i.e., flat-sheet, hollow fiber, or tubular) is the least dominant. The NN model gives modest predictive capability despite inconsistencies and variabilities of the experimental setups and protocols, which invariably affects the important parameters in the database compiled from past publications. …”
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Soundfield control using loudspeaker array by Li, Renshi

“…Control of loudspeaker arrays have been studied in the past few years for a wide variety of applications. …”
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Modeling downward counterfactual events : unrealized disasters and why they matter by Lin, Yolanda C., Jenkins, Susanna F., Chow, Jun Rui, Biass, Sébastien, Woo, Gordon, Lallemant, David

“…Disaster risk research’s reliance on past events has proved inadequate when it comes to extreme events. …”
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100 news @ wall projection by Sun, Zhongyinan

“…Then a word frequency analysis scheme was incorporated to interpret the top 100 keywords for the past hour and retrieve the related pictures and news stories for each keyword. …”
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Preliminary environmental risk consideration for small UAV ground risk mapping by Chung, Han Jie, Mohd Hasrizam Che Man, Sivakumar, Anush Kumar, Low, Kin Huat

“…The site of Chinese Garden in West Singapore reported the highest bird population of 432 birds per site. …”
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A comparative study on parameter recovery of three approaches to structural equation modeling by Malhotra, Naresh K., Tomiuk, Marc A., Hwang, Heungsun, Kim, Youngchan, Hong, Sungjin

“…Traditionally, two approaches have been employed for structural equation modeling: covariance structure analysis and partial least squares. A third alternative, generalized structured component analysis, was introduced recently in the psychometric literature. …”
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Home sweet homo : transnational connections in a Singaporean queer activist movement by Phua, Theng Hui

“…Thus, this paper first argues that in retaining S377A as a tool to distance itself from the idea of a sexually liberal “West” and keep the “threat” of homosexuality at bay, the Singaporean government has constructed a social norm that discriminates against anyone outside of the heteronormative. …”
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Erotica in Australian libraries : are we negligent collection managers? by Crook, Edgar

“…Later in the Christian west, writers of erotica were to became subject to the Church, censorship and the law, and whilst there was never a period when there was not production of erotic books, their writings were often driven underground. …”
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