Mobile application based social platform to encourage outdoor activities by Wu, Yu

“…Without emoticons and pictures, people do not know how to express their feelings and emotions when face-to-face. In this context, this mobile application based social platform provide an opportunity to encourage and help people connect with strangers and participate activities outside. …”
Get full text

Crack-inclusion interaction in composite materials with aerospace and offshore engineering application by Koh, Way Keat

“…However, the case was only shown to be true when the inclusion has a higher Young’s modulus compared to the matrix material. …”
Get full text

Dynamics of housing markets by Tay, Darrell Jiajie

“…Lastly, we present correction formulas to improve parameter estimation and statistical significance when dealing with noisy and finite (housing) data.…”
Get full text

Where ‘peripheral’ becomes central : examining the transnational life and activism of shirin fozdar in the early twentieth century asia by Chua, Yi Lin

“…Studying Fozdar’s life reveals the inherent intricacies, subtle and discursive strategies that women’s rights activists in Asia have adopted to lobby for their cause, which are otherwise obscured when an institutional-level analysis was adopted.…”
Get full text

Kim Young-Gil - The mastermind behind the success of scientific creationism in Korea by Rohininaikar Renganatha

“…He also achieved this by leading important institutions such as KACR and Handong Global University which were crucial tools when it came to driving Kim’s movement. This study proves that despite the flaws in his argument and the weaknesses in his strategies, his role in positioning scientific creationism in Korean Christianity is undeniably crucial.…”
Get full text

SOCIAL MASKING: The act of comfortable personalities by Yar, Lionel Jun Cheng

“…With a growing culture of distrust amongst people, how guarded should one be when meeting strangers for the first time? What levels of vulnerability should one adopt in any given relationship? …”
Get full text

Linear elastic fracture mechanics analysis of bi-material using boundary element methods by Goh, Terry Jun Jie

“…The crack inclusion interaction effect on the stress intensity factors along the front crack tips diminishes when the inclusion is located further away from the crack tip. …”
Get full text

Analysis of strategies in translating idiomatic expressions from English into Malay by Farah Syazana Suhaimi

“…The principal purpose of this study is to shed light on the various translation strategies used by translators when faced with an idiomatic expression. Specifically, this paper analyzes idioms found in three English novels and its Malay translation; namely, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet, J.K. …”
Get full text

How clicktivism enables moral licensing : the effects of social observability and impression management on subsequent prosocial behaviour by Tan, Si Jin, Wang, Kelvin Wen Hsing, Ong, Kheng Hian

“…However, it is unclear when and why individuals perform less prosocial behaviour after engaging in Clicktivism. …”
Get full text

Design and implementation of responsive registration and feedback system using unity3D by Liu, Hao

“…Science and technology are born to benefit humanity, especially in the era when the new industrial revolution commences. People view more on spiritual fulfillment than things themselves. …”
Get full text

Mobile visual product search by Yang, Zhongxiu

“…And the performance will be improved when extend the reference image database of this project. …”
Get full text

Smart sensor-based pillbox for polypharmacy management by Kum, Brandon Zhi Wei

“…The inability to conform to regular medication regime has always been the main issue when it comes to increased hospitality and mortality rate in the world, especially to patients with long term illness such hypertension, dementia, cardiovascular disease and mental disorders. …”
Get full text

Black Phosphorus Nanoparticle Labels for Immunoassays via Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Mediation by Mayorga-Martinez, Carmen Clotilde, Mohamad Latiff, Naziah, Eng, Alex Yong Sheng, Sofer, Zdeněk, Pumera, Martin

“…Its nanoparticles show an increased bandgap when compared to bulk materials and they are typically fabricated by ultrasonication of macroscopic black phosphorus crystals. …”
Get full text
Get full text

A modified feasibility-based rule for solving constrained optimization problems using probability collectives by Kulkarni, Anand J., Patankar, N.S., Sandupatla, Amani., Tai, K.

“…The problem becomes harder when the constraints are involved. This paper proposes the approach of Probability Collectives (PC) in the Collective Intelligence (COIN) framework for modeling and controlling the distributed MAS. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Socioeconomic status, frailty, and subjective well-being : a moderated mediation analysis in elderly Chinese by Yang, Fang, Pang, Joyce Shumin

“…Results show that frailty mediated the relationship between socioeconomic status and subjective well-being, and social activities moderated the model, such that the mediation effect of frailty was significant only when social activities were lower. Moreover, the moderated mediation model was significant only for women, not for men. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: a conceptual framework by Tandoc, Edson C., Ling, Richard, Westlund, Oscar, Duffy, Andrew, Goh, Debbie, Zheng Wei, Lim

“…In broad strokes, we find that individuals rely on both their own judgment of the source and the message, and when this does not adequately provide a definitive answer, they turn to external resources to authenticate news items.…”
Get full text
Get full text

Category reporting in charitable giving : an experimental analysis by Li, Jingping, Riyanto, Yohanes Eko

“…The category setting anchors donations toward the category threshold and increased the average donations when the threshold was modestly set. The public reporting, on the other hand, only worked at the highest category level. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Best of both worlds : hybrid identities of mixed-race individuals in Singapore by Lim, Tricia Anna.

“…The major themes of this study are (a) the centrality of race as part of their constructions of self-identity, (b) their constant need to take positions vis-à-vis inquiries about “what they are”, due to their ambiguous phenotype, (c) the cultural capital that mixed-race individuals construct to make choices when navigating various social situations, and (d) the strategies that these individuals employ to resist being placed in defined racial categories. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Progress in indentation study of materials via both experimental and numerical methods by Zhou, Kun, Koseki, Toshihiko, Liu, Mao, Lin, Jhe-yu, Lu, Cheng, Tieu, Kiet Anh

“…It is demonstrated that indentation is an effective and efficient method to identify mechanical properties, such as hardness, Young’s modulus, etc., of materials at smaller scale, when the traditional tensile tests could not be applied. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Safety assessment framework of desktop 3D printers by Peh, Zhen Kai, Yeong, Wai Yee

“…These would help to determine the important criteria to consider when adopting 3D printing technologies.…”
Get full text
Get full text