Perceptions of females participating in a perceived ‘masculine sport’ : dragon boat by Vijaikumar Rangabashayam

“…Nevertheless, stereotyping of women, particularly in areas such as Sport, still exists today. Therefore, the perceptions of female athletes participating in a perceived ‘masculine’ sport - Dragon Boat, will be examined by determining the effects of gender (male vs. female) and athletic identity (athlete vs. non-athlete) on these perceptions. …”
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“雍正西服伏虎图” 与 “雍正伴身西服图” 研究 = A study of Emperor’s Yongzheng western costume portraits by 曾琬瑜 Ching, Elis Wan Yee

“…Moreover the source of whom and when these two portrays were drawn still remains unknown. This article aims to speculate the origins of Emperor Yongzheng’s western portrays and the reason behind these paintings.…”
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China and the “Singapore Model” : perspectives from mid-level cadres and implications for transnational knowledge transfer by Liu, Hong, Wang, Tingyan

“…Although this phenomenon has been studied, no attention has been drawn to the perspectives of those mid-level cadres who took part in the training and what those perspectives might imply. …”
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Investigation of wavelength-tunable supercontinuum light sources by Shao, Qikang.

“…The supercontinuum phenomenon has drawn great research attention since its discovery. …”
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Optimization of Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Charging and Performance by Misic, Aleksandar

“…The goal of this project is to efficiently and safely charge a 5kWh battery pack in 15 minutes. Since the project is still in progress, this report describes experiments on a 56Wh battery. …”
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Design and development of energy saver electrical plug by Lee, Hong Eng

“…However, the power consumption of the energy plug is still considered high. Therefore, further improvement could be carried out to reduce the power required. …”
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Beans to Bytes: Grey-Box Nonlinear System Identification Using Hybrid Physics-Neural Network Models by Pronk, Morgen

“…However, the applicability to system identification and modelling dynamical systems still has a great amount of room for exploration. …”
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3-way tug-of-war configurable arena by Kang, Leland Hoe Jae

“…At the end of the report, conclusions and summary will be drawn based on the results and problems identified during the entire process. …”
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Rapid and stable plasma transformation of polyester fabrics for highly efficient oil-water separation by Sun, Ye, Ouyang, Bo, Rawat, Rajdeep Singh, Chen, Zhong

“…Fabrics with special wettability have drawn growing attention in recent years in the area of oil-water separation due to their low cost, good flexibility, and ease of handling. …”
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Electrospinning pure protein solutions in core-shell fibers by Tiwari, Sandeep Kumar, Venkatraman, Subbu S.

“…However, the limitation of loading capacity still remains due the prerequisite of using an additional polymer as additive to achieve the minimum viscosity of the core solution required for viscous drag by the shell solution being drawn by the electrostatic force. …”
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Signature methods in machine learning by Lyons, T, McLeod, AD

“…Signatures remove the exponential amount of noise that arises from sampling irregularity, but an exponential amount of information still remain. This survey aims to stay in the domain where that exponential scaling can be managed directly. …”

Engineering a surface to enhance endothelial cell adhesion towards creating a 'roll-up' blood vessel prosthesis by Chua, Hui Yee.

“…The optimized gelatin “ink” allowed extended viability for the entrapped HUVECs and the drawn scaffold lines to retain their integrity whilst in growth media. …”
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Building the semiotic meaning of critical thinking from the Prophet Ibrahim's discourses in the scene of da'wah to his father in the Qur'anic story by Mhd Ramli, Mhd Faizal, Othman, Mohd Sukki, Hajimaming, Pabiyah, Wan Sulong, Wan Muhammad

“…The most important indications drawn by the researchers is that apreacher or ateacher must use various methods and means in his teachingto achieve his goal.Emotional and rational aspects are the two most important components in educating people. …”
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Stress analysis and stress intensity factor computation of DNV X65 pipes subjected to four point bending by Lee, Shaun Raphael Kwok Yuen

“…In spite of the high standards and regulations in place to ensure safe and secure pipelines, oil pipeline spills still amount to about a gallon per million barrel-miles, a figure drawn from the USA Association of Oil pipelines. …”
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From Waste to Structure: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Circular Design by Sørensen, Karl-Johan I.

“…The design-to-construction process of buildings predominantly follows a top-down linear workflow, where a design is drawn and subsequently refined to determine the required materials and components. …”
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Controlling hot electrons via plasmon coupling to enhance catalytic reactions in plasmonic Au@SiO2-Pt structures by Yuan, Xu

“…Recently, photocatalysis utilizing the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of plasmonic metal materials has drawn significant interest. Localized surface plasmon can decay non-radiatively by excitation of hot electrons. …”
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Near-infrared light for phototherapy : photothermal induced drug release and tumor ablation by Li, Menghuan

“…Though the eventual outcome is not satisfactory, it still provided some inspirations for my follow-up research. …”
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An innovative design of household civil defence shelters by Khong, Zhi Cong.

“…Two aspects related to the hollow steel section filled with RCA design were further studied. The effects of RCA size and the presents of grout were studied with respect to their penetration resistance. …”
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Design and analysis of high torque density machines for aerospace applications by Shen, Fawen

“…By reviewing the development of three representative PM field-modulated machines, it is concluded that further torque enhancement is still restricted by existing machine topologies. …”
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Nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Yusheng

“…Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter with vanishing long-range fluctuations in many-particle systems, which have recently drawn attention from researchers in various fields such as mathematics, physics, materials sciences, etc., due to their unusual structural properties. …”
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