The leap of faith : lived experiences of madrasah students negotiating the transition from a religiously-homogeneous environment to a secular environment by Shaik Muhammad Khairun Nabil, Nur Syahirah Mohamed Salim

“…The findings point to four main transition outcomes which is shaped by (i) their motivations to align their habitus with that of their new peers and (ii) their commitment to maintain their previously-conditioned habitus and ties with the Madrasah community. …”
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Singapore Shipping Trust. by Goh, Wei Qin., Lee, Suat Cheng., Tan, Li Ping.

“…We also explore the shipping trusts’ financial performance through comparison with the Singapore market, as well as with Singapore REITs, Singapore shipping stocks and their foreign peers. Results from CAPM show presence of risk-adjusted returns for the equal-weighted shipping trust portfolio in the before-subprime period, indicating the attractiveness of shipping trusts during better economic conditions. …”
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Cognitive aspects of generalised anxiety disorder in adolescents: exploring intolerance of uncertainty, cognitive avoidance, and positive beliefs about worry by Shipp, LR, Leigh, E, Laverton, A, Percy, R, Waite, P

“…Adolescents with GAD reported significantly higher intolerance of uncertainty and positive beliefs about worry relative to their peers with other anxiety diagnoses, whilst levels of cognitive avoidance did not differ significantly. …”

Dynamic drug combination methods for suppressing bacterial antibiotics resistance adaptation by Bhone, Myint Kyaw

“…In this study, the effects of using conventional antibiotics in combination with phytochemicals were studied by using checker board methods and time-kill assays using 12 S. aureus strains. …”
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Universal resilience patterns in labor markets by Moro, Esteban, Frank, Morgan R., Pentland, Alex, Rutherford, Alex, Cebrian, Manuel, Rahwan, Iyad

“…Further, cities that increase their job connectivity see increasing wage bills, and workers of embedded occupations enjoy higher wages than their peers elsewhere. Finally, we show how job connectivity may clarify the augmenting and deleterious impact of automation in US cities. …”
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“I really need your help with this work..”: A System for Navigating the Tricky Terrain of Managing Up by Leveraging One’s Motivation to Get Things Done by Park, Soya, Vishwabhan, Stuti, Muller, Michael, Karger, David R.

“…When people need help from their supervisors or peers, they often have to manage up to get things done. …”
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Mobile app for virtual study room by Ng, Yu Zhe

“…The hope is that students who are from less well-off families, who only have access to a smart phone in Singapore today, would not be disadvantaged as compared to their peers due to how online education systems are being built around computers rather than mobile devices.…”
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StudentGO web application by Xie, Zijian

“…StudentGo web application will provide a platform for students to communicate with their peers, find new friends and cultivate a community of like-minded students striving for excellence. …”
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Comparative analysis of undergraduate life science education at NTU, Singapore and Kyutech, Japan : commonalities and differences in preparing students for employment or graduate s... by Lee, Kok Sang.

“…Students in Singapore were found to spend more time to study and less time for entertainment compared to their peers in Japan. Differences in government policies of Japan and Singapore are believed to cause most of the differences observed. …”
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British Muslim youth and religious fundamentalism: a quantitative investigation by Kashyap, R, Lewis, VA

“…We use new survey data to empirically examine how Muslim youth differ from older Muslims and non-Muslim British peers on religiosity, Islam-specific and broader social attitudes. …”

Normal People / by Rooney, Sally, author 631806, Faber (Online service) 656045

“…Well-off Marianne blossoms at university, becoming pretty and popular, while Connell struggles for the first time in his life to fit in properly with his peers. The two weave in and out of each other's lives during their university years, developing an intense bond that exposes their traumas and insecurities.…”
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Experiences of recreational running among persons with visual impairment (VI) in Singapore by Tay, Claire Marie En Xin

“…Among the limited research, it is known that people living with sensory impairments in Singapore were more likely to engage in insufficient PA than their peers. The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of recreational running as a form of PA among individuals with VI in Singapore. …”
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Android apps development for image/video processing - (B) by Chng, Jolene Li Jie

“…In addition, users can easily share their edited images with their peers on social media platforms at their fingertips. …”
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Dataset on genetic and physiological adults׳ responses to social distress by Bonassi, Andrea, Ghilardi, Tommaso, Truzzi, Anna, Cataldo, Ilaria, Azhari, Atiqah, Setoh, Peipei, Shinohara, Kazuyuki, Esposito, Gianluca

“…Self-reported questionnaires were used to evaluate participants’ interactional patterns towards peers (Attachment Style Questionnaire, Feeney et al., 1994[1]), and the quality of bond with intimate partners (Experiences in Close Relationships Scale, Fraley et al., 2000 [2]). …”
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Content routing and lookup schemes using global bloom filter for content-delivery-as-a-service by Jin, Yichao, Wen, Yonggang

“…The global CCBF adds our system with the capability to early check the existence of any specific content among all the peering surrogates, before any local checking on each cache node. …”
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Secure and secret cooperation in robotic swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex 'Sandy', Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate towards mission completion, have to "prove" their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex, Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate toward mission completion, have to “prove” their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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The Importance of Bystanders in Threat Assessment and Management by Borum, Randy, Rowe, Mary

“…Numerous studies of targeted violence (e.g., mass shootings and school shootings), have demonstrated that peers and bystanders often have knowledge of an attacker’s intentions, concerning communication, and troubling behavior before the attack occurs. …”
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Magical realism and representations of the cold war in Southeast Asia by Lye, Kit Ying

“…However, while there are acknowledgements by scholars that religious myths and pre-existing animistic beliefs continue to influence the way that the indigenous people understand their worlds, Southeast Asian authors (unlike many of their postcolonial peers), do not actively employ magical realism in their exploration of history and civil unrest in their writings, and when they do, are not employed to the same degree as postcolonial authors in other regions. …”
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Ideas of intelligence across development : a look into children's implicit attitudes of the male = brilliant stereotype by Ng, Sara Hui Xin

“…These results prompt for further exploration of other possible factors such as cultural influences and other socialising agents such as teachers and peers that could have a greater influence on children’s development of this gender stereotype.…”
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