Easing the “second-shift” burden : grandparental childcare and the subjective wellbeing of working mothers in Singapore by Cheo, Rachel Ka Yang

“…However, it is still common for working mothers to bear the brunt of both domestic and paid work. In the present study, I explored the role of grandparents as providers of childcare for their grandchildren in contemporary Singapore. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. …”

Loss analysis of a mix-flow turbine with nozzled twin-entry volute at different admissions by Xue, Yingxian, Yang, Mingyang, Martinez-Botas, Ricardo F., Romagnoli, Alessandro, Deng, Kangyao

“…Loss breakdown of turbine shows that loss is higher in nozzle but lower in rotor when the majority of flow is fed from upper part of the component (near shroud). Opposite phenomenon happens when the majority is fed from lower part (near hub). …”
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Enhancing circular dichroism by super chiral hot spots from a chiral metasurface with apexes by Wang, Zeng, Teh, Bing Hong, Wang, Yue, Adamo, Giorgio, Teng, Jinghua, Sun, Handong

“…However, current planar chiral metasurface structures suffer from either fabrication challenge, especially from near-infrared to visible spectrum, or insufficient circular dichroism. …”
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Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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Renewable energy using fuel cell technology by Mohamed Danial Mohamed Johar

“…Energy is one of the most valuable commodities in the world’s market today. Fossil fuels have been primarily used to support the society’s energy needs. …”
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Accounting for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Sustainability Goal: Developing an Integrated Reporting Model Through Integrated Thinking Among Malaysian Corporations (S/O 13596) by Abdul Hamid, Fathilatul Zakimi, Othman, Zaleha

“…Its sister concept has been suggested as "vaccine for any crisis"by the CEO of the Largest Pension Fund in Malaysia.…”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…In the aerospace engineering, many metal parts produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique often bear cyclic loadings, so the fatigue failures of AM alloy parts become very common phenomena. …”
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Safety analysis of active mobility mode by Ho, Siu Joon

“…Logistical regression model was chosen as it can be used as future predictor for near misses or crashes at a particular location. …”
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Noise tagging and perceptually-informed unsupervised clustering by Cai, HongLing

“…However, the persistent issue of aircraft noise had long been a concern for residents living near the air base. …”
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Art house : an Avant-garde business plan tapping the burgeoning art market in Singapore and the region. by See, Samuel Yong Yaw., Tan, Meng Kwang.

“…Albeit the current economic turmoil in the region, the authors foresee a burgeoning art market in Singapore and the region in the near term. Hence, an art gallery business is conceptualised to tap this market. …”
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Effects of lateral soil movements on piles by Socheat, Iv.

“…In developed countries like Singapore, where the land is scarce, many tall buildings have been built very close to each other. Moreover, deep excavation is commonly done near the existing buildings such as construction of basement of new buildings and construction of underground MRT or tunneling. …”
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Red blood cell adhesion to artificial surfaces in the presence of non-adsorbing macromolecules. by Zhang, Zhengwen

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Map-based property search on mobile devices by Tan, Jia Hao

“…Placed-based Search: Search for properties near a specific location 4. Theme-based Search: Search for properties near multiple types of amenities 5. …”
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Poetry as postmodern by Zhang, Jieqiang

“…According to Brian McHale, “Poetry from certain points of view had been postmodern before the postmodern, or had always already been postmodern.” …”
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Development of an alternative rework process for ceramic ball grid array 256 (CBGA256) assembly by Chua, Kai Meng.

“…Examination of the samples after 500 temperature cycles revealed that cracks were initiated at the outer rows of the array of solder joints in the packages. The cracks occurring near the interface between the solder and the ceramic had been identified as the main cause of final package failure. …”
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Bubble translation at low-frequency actuation in a resonator-shaped microfluidic chamber by Shang, Xiaopeng, Huang, Xiaoyang, Yang, Chun

“…Bubble dynamics in bulk flow has been widely investigated at high-frequency actuation (normally above 20 kHz, up to several MHz); however, bubble translation in microfluidics has seldom been investigated, especially at low frequencies (below 10 kHz). …”
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Coherent Terahertz Control and Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Layered Antiferromagnets by Ilyas, Batyr

“…Critical fluctuations near the phase transition are found to enhance both the magnitude and the lifetime of this new state. …”
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Towards a Single Bio-molecule Detector Based on CMOS Nanofluidic Platform by Zikrallah, Ahmed S.

“…A silicon Single Photon Avalanche Detectors (SPADs) was also implemented and placed near the nanochannels to utilize fluorescence labeling imaging techniques. …”
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Full threshold change range of threshold changeable secret sharing by Ding, Jian, Lin, Changlu, Lin, Fuchun, Wang, Huaxiong

“…Moreover, we construct some near optimal TCSS schemes to show that the full threshold change range of TCSS schemes (without requiring optimality) is completely covered by the threshold change regimes of our near optimal TCSS schemes together with the full threshold change range of optimal TCSS schemes.…”
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