National University of Singapore

Unpacking the state-private nexus in China’s AI development path

The Chinese AI regulatory model has been described as state-driven, where the Chinese government seeks technological supremacy by deploying AI to entrench power through surveillance, control, and cooptation of public and private sectors. It is portrayed as a comprehensive, top-do...

Emotion ( Jeong / Qing 情) as form in the tale of Chunhyang: contemporizing changgeuk and Yue Opera

This essay examines how emotion functions as form in the transformation of a classical character across different Asian traditional theatres. It compares the staging of a contemporary Chunhyang, the virtuous heroine of the well-known Korean folk tale, in two Asian traditional the...

FHL3 Regulates Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotypic Switching Through the MRTFB-SRF Signaling Axis

Genome-wide association studies have uncovered many coronary artery disease (CAD) loci, but mechanisms linking risk variants to vascular biology remain unclear. We screen candidate causal CAD genes for regulators of the vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) contractile phenotype usi...

Engineering Hidden Ferroelectric‐Like Distortion for Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Polar van der Waals Tetradymite

ABSTRACT Ferroelectric‐like polar structures enable diverse functionalities through coupling with charge and phonon transport. Although effective in modulating thermal conductivity, the rational design of novel polar materials with intrinsically low thermal conductivity via ferro...

DUSP4 promotes anti-tumor CD8+ T cell function and boosts CAR-T cell efficacy in mouse colorectal cancer

The activation and function of CD8+ T cells, which are central for anti-tumor immunity, are tightly regulated by extracellular and intracellular signaling pathways. Dual-specificity phosphatases (DUSP), including DUSP4, dephosphorylate serine/threonine and tyrosine residues of pr...

Association between prior ICU admission for drug overdose and ICU readmission: A retrospective registry-based study

Objective We aimed to investigate patients discharged alive from hospital following an ICU admission for drug overdose and whether exposure of prior overdose-related ICU admission was associated with a future ICU readmission. Design, setting, participants This multicentre registr...

Gemfibrozil promotes longevity and health by restricting amino acid uptake through the Dipeptide transporter, PEPT1

The FDA-approved fibrate, gemfibrozil, has been used clinically to treat hyperlipidaemia, showing efficacy both in lowering triglycerides and increasing high-density lipoproteins. However, in recent years, the drug has been increasingly investigated for potential clinical use in...

ConjugatedCoordination Polymer Aerogels with UnsaturatedSingle-Atom Metal Sites for Efficient Neutral Oxygen Evolution

Abstract Designing high-performance single-atom catalysts with a precisely designed configuration is important in extensive energy-conversion technologies, which presents enormous potentials to be extensively applied. Defect-enriched conjugated coordination polymer aerogels (d-CC...

Toward federated large language models in medicine: a parameter-efficient framework for privacy-preserving, multi-institutional adaptation

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adapted for medical applications, but most are trained using data from a single institution because privacy and governance constraints prevent multi-institutional data sharing. As a result, these models often generalize poorly across...

Cooperative and collective quantum light emission from perovskite superball superstructures

Superfluorescence (SF), the coherent light burst from synchronized quantum emitters, has been demonstrated in perovskite quantum dot superlattices. However, limited control over self-assembly, heterogeneity and emitter properties has hindered systematic exploration of cooperative...

Benchmarking Quantum Solvers in Noisy Digital Simulations for Financial Portfolio Optimization

In this work, we benchmark two prominent quantum algorithms: Quantum Imaginary-Time Evolution (QITE) and the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for obtaining the ground state of Ising-type Hamiltonians. Specifically, we apply them to the Markowitz portfolio optimiz...

Sitting with wickedness: negative capability and the practice of despair in and beyond university

Higher education often treats negative emotions as problems to be managed or removed. This paper argues that a wicked problems approach to teaching evokes a distinct emotion, which I term despair, and develops an alternative framework for understanding it. Despair, I argue, is th...

Building a Physics-Aware AI Ecosystem for Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Materials

Abstract Hydrogen storage remains a central bottleneck for scalable hydrogen energy systems due to the multiscale and coupled nature of the thermodynamics, kinetics, and microstructural evolution of hydrogen storage materials (HSMs). Although artificial intelligence (AI) has acce...

Sacralizing, Materializing, Normalizing China: Monarchy, Merchants, and Media in Contemporary Thailand

Thailand’s relations with China have expanded in recent decades through diplomacy, cultural exchange, and economic integration. Scholars have explained such expansion through economic interdependence and geopolitical alignment. This article suggests that the durability of Thailan...

Amino‐Modified Dual Support for Synergistic Stabilization of Ultrafine NiPd Nanoparticles as a Superior Dehydrogenation Catalyst

ABSTRACT The development of low‐cost and highly active heterogeneous catalysts is crucial for promoting formic acid (FA) as a practical hydrogen carrier for fuel cells. Herein, we report a novel strategy for the synthesis of ultrafine NiPd bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) supported...

Separation of xylene isomers in an adaptable metal-organic framework

Efficient separation of xylene isomers by adsorption remains challenging due to insufficient selectivity arising from their molecular similarity. We report an adaptable metal-organic framework, Ni(BIC) 2 [1- H -benzimidazole-5-carboxylic acid (HBIC)], that exhibits high selectivi...

Popular crossings: Lin Chen and his bifurcated editorial practice in 1950s Singapore and Malaya

This article reframes the Singapore Chinese dramatist Lin Chen’s cultural practice by explicating discrepant modes of popular cultural production and circulation in 1950s Singapore and Malaya through commercial printing. Today, Lin Chen (1919–2004) is remembered primarily as the...

Delivering building demand flexibility for grid-interactive operation: from perception and cognition to decision, execution, and verification

As both buildings and power systems undergo rapid decarbonization, demand flexibility (DF) in buildings has emerged as a key enabler for renewable energy integration, grid reliability, energy resilience, and efficient and low carbon operation. By dynamically adjusting building en...

Empowering PolymericMaterials Discovery by ArtificialIntelligence

Abstract Polymeric materials underpin modern technologies spanning energy storage, microelectronics, healthcare and sustainable manufacturing. Yet their rational design remains exceptionally challenging because material performance emerges from complex interactions among molecula...

Modeling driver cognitive states for shared-control vehicles in intelligent transportation systems

This study aims to model driver cognitive states for shared-control vehicles operating within intelligent transportation systems. We introduce driving activity level as an interpretable state variable that combines attention allocation, steering behavior, and perceived situationa...