Hardware-efficient systolic-like modular design for two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform by Meher, Pramod Kumar, Mohanty, Basant Kumar, Patra, Jagdish Chandra

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Ultra-high bit rate optical soliton communication by Shum, Ping, Gong, Yandong, Dong, Hui, Tang, Ming, Yu, Xia, Lai, Wenn Jing, Ning, Guoxiang

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The development of automatic flexible endoscopes for gastrointestinal inspection or surgery by Phee, Louis Soo Jay.

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Design of optical building blocks for photonic integration by Chin, Mee Koy.

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Automatic trajectory generation for free-form pocket machining in skull base surgery by Lo, Charles Vui Hong.

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A study of optimization methods for 3D reconstruction from 2D sketches by Kotlanka Ramakrishna.

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Business study mission to Mexico culture and market entry strategies by Hasegawa, Kinya, Tun Mra Gyaw, Lai, Derrick Kun Lim

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Thermal spraying of bioceramic (Hydroxyapatite) coatings by Kweh, Sidney Wei Kheong.

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Introduction — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable) by Sinanan, Kerry

“…Instead we have a concluding dialogue in which the fictional editor tells “a friend” that the purpose of the novel is to show how “virtue, like Olivia Fairfield’s, may truly be said to be its own reward.”1 And so The Woman of Col-our explicitly resituates eighteenth-century female virtue in an independent, legally unmar-ried woman—a woman of color, who leaves England for her home in Jamaica to pursue a better life. …”
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Masdar City: ‘City of Possibilities’ by Griffiths, S

“…Partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008 and partly due to experience gained from continued assessments of the original concept, Masdar has scaled back the initial ambitions for the city’s carbon and waste targets, as well as the development approach and time-line for the entire city. …”

Adoption, usage and impact of Family Folder Collector (FFC) on a mobile Android tablet device in rural Thailand. by Chong, Vanessa Wan Ting., Lim, Michelle Huimin., Rodricks, Regina Marian.

“…Managerial factors like finance and partners played a bigger role than regulations in its impact on FFC. …”
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Ant, spider and DNA: letting mindless generative mechanisms speak by Bråten, E

“…ANT and SPIDER share a blindness with respect to invisible beings like itself, DNA argues. Their privileging of spatiotemporal immediacy entails a one-dimensional (flat) ontology that tends to push mindless generative mechanisms out of view. …”

新加坡华语句末语气词 ：在语料库基础上与普通话的对比统计 = Statistical comparison of Singaporean and Mainland Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study on sentence final particles... by 白欣彦 Pak, Xin Yan

“…Han et al. 2013, Appre 2008, Lau 2013) 对这些标注信息进行分析。统计结果表明: 1. 本文提出的六个因素能有效区分五个句末语气词在单一汉语变体的差异 2. …”
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Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in North India: collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change by Tang, Bo

“… (2) The Quarry Classrooms Project initiated in 2008 deals with amenity buildings in quarry worker settlements in Navi Mumbai. …”
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Time to fill up India’s strategic oil reserves by Narula, K

“…In recognition of the risk of interruption to physical supplies, India began working towards a Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in 2008. The first phase of its oil storage facilities, with a capacity of 5.3 million tonnes (Mt) (38.85 million barrels) is likely to be ready for commissioning in the first half of 2015; construction on the second phase, with a capacity of 12.5 Mt (roughly 90 million barrels) has been approved by the government. …”

Childhood bullying and mental health: understanding risk, resilience, and the role of anti-bullying interventions by Guzman Holst, C

“…While most children and young people experience low and stable trajectories of bulling victimisation and/or perpetration throughout the school years, a few experience chronic and increasing levels of victimisation and/or perpetration (Barker et al., 2008). Children and young people in these latter groups are more likely to have elevated levels of mental health problems (Singham et al., 2017). …”

How balanced are you? Bilingualism and the development of attentional control in English-Mandarin preschool children by Chan, Clara Gek Hoon

“…Taken together, the studies suggest that more-balanced bilingual children (as compared to less-balanced ones) exhibit better attentional control, and this difference may be due to the differences in exposure to their languages between these two groups; the less-balanced bilinguals are exposed mostly to their dominant language, and since that context does not require as much cognitive demands, they are less likely to practice attentional control, as compared to being in a highly bilingual environment, which is more common in more-balanced bilinguals. …”
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