合(Hé) Harmony : emblematic furniture informed by broken home and perseverant heart by Yang, Tongchen

“…Having grown up in a broken family, I longed for seeking the sense of harmony and togetherness. Having learned various technical joints, I found that wooden joinery and lamination have a significant characteristic to imply the metaphor of comforting and reviving fragmented spirit. …”
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A comparative research on social styles and social contact and interaction behaviors in Celebes crested macaques (Macaca nigra) and Lion tailed macaques (Macaca silenus). by Muhammad Ashraf Mohd Salleh.

“…We studied 8 Lion Tailed and 7 Celebes Crested macaques, both representing the third and fourth grades respectively to seek whether 1) there will be a relation between social styles grading, and social contact and interaction behaviors and 2) there are significant differences in those behaviors between the Celebes Crested and Lion Tailed macaques since the fourth grade manifest higher tolerance level and higher tolerance level should reflect longer duration or more frequencies in social contact and interactions among individuals. …”
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Law relating to virtual worlds. by Chew, Queenie Wan Xiu., Soon, Jeanne Hui Min., King, Angelia.

“…Drawing on journals, articles and case studies, this paper serves as a starting point for legislators seeking to understand the issues relating to virtual property and may aid in the formulation of laws concerning virtual property in future.…”
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'Spiritual facts of being' : the medical discourse of Christian science healing in Singapore. by Lee, Qiu Ling.

“…Christian Science healers seek to differentiate Christian Science from other healing systems by drawing upon the holistic and mentalistic-spiritual appeal of complementary and alternative medicine while pitting it against the reductionism of biomedicine. …”
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A mid-life health crisis : supplements for good health. by Toh, Hwee Ling.

“…An important finding is the challenges to their doctors’ opinions by seeking second opinions from friends and the Internet, as well as the link between gender and the propensity to consume health supplements, where men are more likely to reject supplements and women to consume them and encourage others to consume them regardless of their ethnicity.…”
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Export strategy competitive advantage in alliance by Loh, Fook Meng, San San Maw, Vo Anh Dung

“…With the current recession in Asia, many Asian companies are seeking to expand their exports to the highly lucrative markets. …”
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Demographic factors and their correlations with loss aversion and framing effects. by Huang, Wei., Ng, Qunkai., Lee, Candice Li Fen.

“…The purpose of this study was to understand more about the correlations between five demographic factors (i.e. level of income, level of education, age, race and gender) and individuals’ level of financial loss aversion. Furthermore, we also seek to ascertain if framing interacts with demographic factors to affect loss aversion. …”
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Financing of residential properties by Ang, Agnes Ming Li, Poh, Geok Tin, Lim, Jye Lih

“…To fulfill this dream, most people would have to seek external financing in addition to using one's savings and borrowings from close family members. …”
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Empowerment or Reinforcement of Gender Regime: Rethinking Social Enterprises’ Intentions and Impact through Gender Lens by Tymosiewicz, Natalia Elizabeth

“…This study uses a qualitative approach, sampling 12 leaders and volunteers from the social sector, focusing on motivational intents to start a social enterprise, and the impact they seek to create. The entrepreneurs interviewed are found to embark on social ventures for various reasons, with the increased use of androgynous attributes to describe their motives. …”
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The friendly muse : ADM student wellbeing by Low, Eudora Yu Lin

“…NTU’s Student Wellbeing Centre (SWC) is thus set up for students to pick up resources or seek counselling to cope with everyday life issues. …”
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A sociology of comfort food in Singapore by Tan, Gee Kit

“…The findings suggest that Singaporean Chinese youth lean towards non-local food as their comfort food to seek the cosmopolitan identity. However, this is an ideal as they still face neophobia in the reluctance of accepting fusion food.…”
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Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan by Laporte, J

“…Why do rentier states seek out hosting rights for major international events? …”

Modelling the evolution of an ice sheet’s weathering crust by Woods, T, Hewitt, IJ

“…To understand this behaviour, we seek time-dependent solutions to a continuum, thermodynamic model for the porosity, temperature and thickness of the weathering crust, and the internal and surface melt rates. …”

Blocking of counter-partisan accounts drives political assortment on Twitter by Martel, Cameron, Mosleh, Mohsen, Yang, Qi, Zaman, Tauhid, Rand, David G

“…We then replicated these findings in a survey experiment and found evidence of a key motivation for blocking: wanting to avoid seeing any content posted by the blocked user. Additionally, we found that Democrats preferentially blocked counter-partisans more than Republicans, and that this asymmetry was likely due to blocking accounts who post low-quality or politically slanted content (rather than an asymmetry in identity-based blocking). …”
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Singles' reasons for being single : empirical evidence from an evolutionary perspective by Apostolou, Menelaos, O, Jiaqing, Esposito, Gianluca

“…Younger people were more likely to indicate that they were single because they had poor flirting skills, because they did not see themselves as desirable mates, and because they did not like commitment; whereas older people were more likely to indicate that they were single in order to be free to do what they have wanted. …”
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The near wake of a sinusoidal wavy cylinder with a large spanwise wavelength using time-resolved particle image velocimetry by Bai, H. L., Zang, B., New, Tze How

“…Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]…”
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Using AI / machine learning to solve real world problems by Lok, Ignatius Zhengrong

“…With the development of technology, it is common to see machine learning methods used and adopted to help solve real-world problems of both individuals and well as large corporations. …”
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Vehicular localization using 5G V2X by Pan, Yongqi

“…Last, there will be investigations on relevant parameters to see their impact on the positioning accuracy.…”
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Virtual life in the virtual campus by Yeo, Helga Victoria.

“…As the real campus, daily activities can also be found in Virtual Campus. We can see students and lecturers walking around the campus area. …”
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Dynamical analysis of physiologic signals by Noraznita Ramli.

“…ApEn is a measurement designed to quantify the degree of regularity versus unpredictability in a given dataset. [5] DFA is a fractal-related method that provides for estimation of scaling exponents. [6, 7] The purpose of applying these methods is to see whether such techniques based on dynamical analysis add information to conventional statistics.…”
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