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Publication THE EFFECT OF PARENTING FACTORS ON SHAME AND GUILT IN SINGAPOREAN PRE-SCHOOLERS(2019-11-01) CARMEN CHEW HOOI LING; PSYCHOLOGY; MATTHEW LIM SHENG MIANShame and guilt are self-conscious emotions developed through an understanding of moral contracts, moral reasoning and fairness (Kegan, 1982; Selman, 1980). These emotions emerge early in life and are associated with various forms of psychopathology (Luby et al., 2009). Recent evidence suggests that parental psychopathology and parenting style can predict shame and guilt in young children. This study explored the relationships between the aforementioned parental factors and shame and guilt in a community sample of 80 Singaporean pre-schoolers and their parents via online questionnaires. This study examined different aspects of children’s shame and guilt by distinguishing between maladaptive shame/guilt feelings and adaptive guilt reparations. It was hypothesised that authoritarian and permissive parenting, as well as parental depression and anxiety would predict shame/guilt feelings in pre-schoolers. It was also hypothesised that authoritative parenting would predict pre-schoolers guilt reparations. Further, parental psychopathology was hypothesised to moderate the relationship between parenting styles and children’s shame/guilt feelings and guilt reparations. Results indicated that mothers’ permissive parenting led to a decrease in children’s guilt reparations. Father’s depression was also found to amplify the negative impact of permissive parenting on children’s guilt reparations. The empirical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed. To our knowledge, this study is the first to include both mothers and fathers in examining the relationship between multiple parental factors and shame and guilt in Singaporean pre-schoolers.Publication CONDUCTING POLYMER NANOPARTICLES WITH PENDANT OXYETHYLENE BRANCHES AND THEIR COLLOIDAL BEHAVIOUR(2001) PAN YONG; CHEMICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HONG LIANGPublication DIRECT TORQUE CONTROL OF INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE(2001) MEI CHENGGANG; ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING; SANJIB K. PANDAPublication A FAMILY OF ADAPTIVE DESIGNS FOR MULTI-ARM CLINICAL TRIALS(2000) HU JINJIN; STATISTICS & APPLIED PROBABILITY; HU FEIFANGPublication HITS AND MISSES : GARDENS BY THE BAY(2014-09-19) GAN XIU PING SELENE; ARCHITECTURE; RAFFAELLA SINIOn 11 January 2005, Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Lim Hng Kiang, unveiled the Singapore Tourism Board’s (STB) targets to ensure that tourism remains as a key economic pillar. Within the plans of Tourism 2015, Singapore aims to be a destination of choice, a powerful tourism hub attracting visitors, businesses and talents from across the world by 2015. As such, the S$2 Billion Tourism Development Fund has been deployed to catalyze future initiatives and catapult growth in the tourism industry, out of which S$795 million to over S$1 billion were dedicated to the construction of Gardens by the Bay, which was opened on 29 June 2012. On 1 November 2010, Minister for National Development, Mr Mah Bow Tan, further disclosed the key roles of Gardens by the Bay, putting forth its strategic role in realizing the City in a Garden vision, and cementing the objectives and aspirations as penned in Tourism 2015. Though the Gardens by the Bay is a valid continuation of the governments’ efforts in securing a competitive edge amongst countries, the question lies whether it being such a hit, has also truly been a miss in the overall scheme of things, especially in attaining its acclaimed national identity. As such, the essay hopes to uncover the ‘misses’ that might have been overlooked, and how these ‘misses’ could better inform and enrich the existing scheme, perhaps even provide an alternative concept on how Gardens of the Bay can be envisioned. The essay is centred on uncovering the significance of this acclaimed national identity at Marina Bay, and whether the reasons for constructing this identity are necessarily compelling.Publication THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DIGITAL IN-LINE HOLOGRAPHY SYSTEM FOR THE APPLICATION IN HOLOGRAPHIC PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY(2009) LIU XIAOGANG; SINGAPORE-MIT ALLIANCE; GEORGE BARBASTATHIS; GAN CHEE LIPHolographic Particle Image Velocimetry (HPIV) is one of the techniques used in studying the fluid flow speed, by tracking the motions of seeded particles in the fluid. Integrated with digital holography, HPIV allows the recording of particles™ 3D coordinate information onto a 2D image (hologram). By reconstructing these particles™ 3D locations from their holograms taken at consecutive time, we are able to derive their velocities and thus calculate the flow speed assuming these particles faithfully follow the flow dynamics. The aim of this project is to construct a digital inline holography system as a primitive model for underwater HPIV application. During this project, a high resolution digital camera system with Kodak™s image sensor KAI-11002 is developed; relevant camera files and control software are created with LabVIEW; the laser optics for digital inline holography is also set up. With these hardware setups, digital holograms are successfully captured. Software algorithms to reconstruct holograms and locate particles in a 3D space are also investigated. The convolution method is selected for hologram reconstruction. Furthermore, an algorithm based on the minimum intensity detection is used to focus particle coordinates in the 3D space. Based on experiment results, future work to further improve this algorithm is identified.Publication DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE ROBOTIC CONTROL SYSTEM(1999) GU DALEI; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; GE SHUZHIThis thesis presents an open architecture platform - OpenRob for robot control system development, which provides a one-stop solution for model building controller design and numerical simulation for the ease of real-time implementation. Based on the description of theoretical background on three main functional modules: robot kinematics/dynamics, trajectory planning and motion control, detailed implementation issues are provided with well-defined data structures an modulized functions. By taking advantage of Visual C++ Object Oriented programming styles, an interactive Graphic User Interface (GUI) with Multiple Document Interface (MDI) architecture has been designed in the system for ease of use Dynamic Link Library (DLL) technology is used as the main tool to implement the open architecture features of the system. It provides an open environment for encapsulating both the built-in and custom robot models, trajectory planning schemes and control algorithms into the system. In this system, eight conven tional robots such as Puma, Stanford, Planar (RR), Cylindrical (RPP), Spherical (RRP), SCARA (RRP), Articulated (RRR) and Cartesian (PPP) robots are built with individual kinematics and dynamics models. In the trajectory planning module, the stop-over motion trajectory planning schemes such as linear function wit parabolic/cubic/quartic blends, cubic polynomial and quintic polynomial scheme and the continuous go-through motion with cubic optimal trajectory planning are fully discussed and developed. This thesis also presents six motion control algorithms into the system: classical PID control, variant PID control, sliding mode control, computed torque control, adaptive neural network control and adaptive structural network control. Intensive case studies are carried out to demonstrate the functionalities of the platform system.Publication NATURAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING COLOR AND TEXTURE(1999) WANG BIN; KENT RIDGE DIGITAL LABS; WU JIANKANG; GARETH LOUDONPublication NATURE HEALTH RETREAT @ UBIN - HEALING WITH NATURE(2002) CHIA HWEE BOON REBECCA; ARCHITECTURE; TSE SWEE LINGPublication MRC DIVERSITY RECEPTION OF PI/4 QDPSK IN FREQUENCY SELECTIVE RICIAN FADING(1997) CHEW KIAN SENG; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; TJHUNG TJENG THIANGMobile radio communication is a fast-changing field and has undergone drastic changes over the last decade. Two major problems facing mobile radio communications are the limitation of the available frequency spectrum and the need of high capacity data transmission. Due to the large and rapid growth of subscribers, high capacity communication systems which need minimal bandwidth are required. The major restriction to high speed data transmission is the spread in delay times seen at the receiver, i.e., the frequency-selectivity of a propagation channel. These delays introduce intersymbol interference which brings severe distortions to the transmitted signal and in turn create an irreducible error floor. In this dissertation, bit error rate (BER) performance of ?/4 quaternary differential phase shift keying (?/4 QDPSK) on frequency selective, Rician fading channel with diversity reception in the presence of multiple independent co channel interferers, random FM noise, additive white Gaussian noise (A WGN) and intersymbol interference (ISI) induced by multipath propagation delay spread is theoretically analyzed for three different shapes of delay profile: Gaussian, one-side exponential and double spike profiles. The use of L-branch post detection maximal ratio combining (MRC) is considered to improve the system performance. The influences of various system and channel parameters such as delay spread, Rician factor, fading bandwidth, and diversity order are also examined in detail. Further, an analytical model has been used to evaluate the performance of a realistic microcellular mobile radio system with a dual path loss law. The numerical results show that the reuse distance, cluster size, traffic intensity (i.e., the blocking probability), turning point, and cell size all play a major role in the design of an efficient microcellular system. A proper compromise has to be achieved between bit error rate and spectrum efficiency. This study would be useful for the designers in developing any type of microcellular systems. Since Rician fading are present m picocells, the analytical model can also be used in indoor communications.