A hand-targeted auxiliary personal protective equipment for intervention of fomite transmission of viruses by Tan, Justin Kok Soon, Song, Shang Wei, Zeng, Jialiu, Lo, Chih Hung

“…In COVID-19, fomite transmission has been shown to be a major route for the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus due to its ability to remain on surfaces for extended durations. …”
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Carrier localization on the nanometer-scale limits transport in metal oxide photoabsorbers by Schleuning, Markus, Kölbach, Moritz, Ahmet, Ibbi, Präg, Raphael, Gottesman, Ronen, Gunder, Rene, Zhang, Mengyuan, Wargulski, Dan Ralf, Abou-Ras, Daniel, Grave, Daniel A., Abdi, Fatwa F., van de Krol, Roel, Schwarzburg, Klaus, Eichberger, Rainer, Friedrich, Dennis, Hempel, Hannes

“…However, their power conversion efficiencies usually suffer from poor transport of photogenerated charge carriers, which has been attributed previously to a variety of effects occurring on different time and length scales. …”
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Janus particles with tunable patch symmetry and their assembly into chiral colloidal clusters by Zhang, Tianran, Lyu, Dengping, Xu, Wei, Feng, Xuan, Ni, Ran, Wang, Yufeng

“…Janus particles, which have an attractive patch on the otherwise repulsive surface, have been commonly employed for anisotropic colloidal assembly. …”
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Efficiency enhancement and doping type inversion in Cu₂CdSnS₄ solar cells by Ag substitution by Ibrahim, Ahmad, Lie, Stener, Tan, Joel Ming Rui, Swope, Ryan, Medaille, Axel Gon, Hadke, Shreyash, Saucedo, Edgardo, Agrawal, Rakesh, Wong, Lydia Helena

“…The main limiting factor of kesterite-related solar cells is the low open-circuit voltage (Voc) relative to their bandgap. This drawback has been correlated with the easily formed anti-site defects caused by similar ionic radii and/or chemical valence. …”
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Securing federated learning: a covert communication-based approach by Xie, Yuan-Ai, Kang, Jiawen, Niyato, Dusit, Nguyen, Thi Thanh Van, Nguyen, Cong Luong, Liu, Zhixin, Yu, Han

“…Federated Learning Networks (FLNs) have been envisaged as a promising paradigm to collaboratively train models among mobile devices without exposing their local privacy data. …”
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Surface reconstruction on spinel oxides for oxygen evolution reaction by Luo, Songzhu

“…Surface reconstruction has been proposed as an efficacious strategy to promote the OER performance of spinel oxides. …”
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High-efficiency magnetophoretic labelling of adoptively-transferred T cells for longitudinal in vivo magnetic particle imaging by Tay, Rong En, Lokamitra, P., Pang, Shun Toll, Low, Kay En, Tay, Hui Chien, Ho, Charmaine Min, Malleret, Benoit, Rötzschke, Olaf, Olivo, Malini, Tay, Zhi Wei

“…While adoptive cell therapies (ACT) have been successful as therapies for blood cancers, they have limited efficacy in treating solid tumours, where the tumour microenvironment excludes and suppresses adoptively transferred tumour-specific immune cells. …”
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On self-dual cyclic codes and generalized self-dual cyclic codes over finite fields by Yan, Jia

“…Cyclic codes over finite fields form an important class of codes which has been extensively studied, for their interesting algebraic structure, and many “good” codes are cyclic. …”
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Tools for multi-agent crowd simulation : redesigning and extending the COSMOS crowd simulation suite by Nasri Othman

“…By breaking down the system into modular components, the cyclometric complexity and average method length had also been reduced by over half. Due to the modular design, simulation models made in COSMOS can be readily executed on a variety of simulation platforms, including our own Prototyping Simulator, Repast Simphony and MASON, without any code modifications in the models. …”
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A medical image-based computer-aided diagnosis system for musculoskeletal disease and disorder. by Chuah, Tong Kuan

“…Using the cartilage visualization framework developed, it is possible to effectively display damaged cartilage. A metric has also been studied for its ability to correlate with the percentage of damaged cartilage. …”
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新加坡华族移民家庭学前儿童汉语语言习得个案分析 = A case study on a Chinese immigrant pre-school child’s language acquisition in Singapore by 方静 Fang, Jing

“…Pre-school children's language acquisition has been a concern in the field of linguistic study. …”
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新加坡华语中的双宾结构 = Double object constructions in Singapore Mandarin by 蔡宝仪 Choi, Bao Yi

“…此外，新加坡英语的水平尚未达到正规的英文水平。 All along, there has been a difference between Singapore Mandarin and Mainland China Mandarin, and the reason behind is very much due to Singapore‟s history and its linguistics situation. …”
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Performance analysis of impulse-radio ultra-wideband techniques for low-rate communications by Cui, Shan

“…Various suppression schemes have been investigated for all these types of interference. …”
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Thermodynamic modelling of adsorption isotherms and kinetics for gas storage and cooling applications by Sun, Baichuan

“…With an effect of low or negligible carbon footprint, it is capable of performing gas storage and adsorptive chilling. Extensive works have been done in the literature to establish the knowledge of adsorption isotherms, kinetics, isosteric heat of adsorption and adsorbent + adsorbate thermodynamic properties. …”
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Human detection and tracking in surveillance videos by Wang, Bing

“…Extensive evaluations following state-of-the-art practices have been conducted and the results from these evaluations show the improvements by the proposed method over some existing state-of-the-art methods. …”
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Biological characterization of RNA polymerase proteins from human 2009 pandemic H1N1 and low pathogenic avian H5N2 and H9N2 influenza viruses by Myaing, Myint Zu

“…For the functional analysis of viral polymerase complex, NP and three polymerase subunits of four influenza virus strains have been successfully cloned using a mammalian expression system. …”
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When mobile phone use becomes problematic : the influence of self, parents and peers on adolescents' mobile phone behavior in Singapore and Malaysia by Chuah, Soo Fei

“…As mobile phones become prevalent in our daily lives, studies have been conducted to investigate the reasons behind the popularity of mobile phones. …”
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Sanctions with Chinese characteristics : the effects of China's sanctions rhetoric on its behaviour by Poh, Angela Ming Yan

“…China’s increasing military assertiveness over maritime and territorial disputes has been a cause for concern for many countries. However, China’s use of coercive economic measures does not appear to be as clear-cut, particularly since economic relations have continued to grow between China and countries with which it has political and territorial disputes. …”
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End point detection of weld seam removal in robotic abrasive belt grinding process based on computer vision and deep learning by Murugan, Pushparaja

“…However, the determination of end point detection in abrasive belt grinding process has been a non-trivial process in the implementation of robots. …”
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中华传统文化在新加坡奄奄一息的危机 ：电视剧《红白囍事》案例研究 = The imminent crisis of Chinese traditional culture in Singapore : a case study of drama series “New Beginnings”... by 詹韻璇 Cham, Vanessa Yunn Shyuan

“…Over the years, the governments’ efforts has not been fully successful in promoting Chinese traditional cultures to the younger generations and preventing the decline and even loss of Chinese traditional culture in Singapore. …”
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