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Related Data for: Lava flow impacts on the built environment: insights from a new global dataset
No full textLava flow impact event
Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss Exhibition
No full textNTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) presents the two-part research presentation Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss. First unfolding at TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space in Venice, Italy, the research inquiry later materialises in another configuration at ADM Gallery, a university gallery under the School of Art, Design, and Media (NTU ADM) at Nanyang Technological University Singapore.
This twofold exhibition marks the conclusion of the eponymous research project led by Principal Investigator Ute Meta Bauer at NTU ADM. The inquiry started by asking: how has the slow erosion of diverse, multicultural, and more-than-human ways of living over time impacted the environments in which we live, and what are the longer-term consequences on habitats? Can we begin again with culture, to induce a necessary paradigm shift in the way we think about and respond to the climate crisis? Extending connections and conversations seeded during the inaugural cycle of TBA21–Academy’s The Current fellowship programme led by Bauer from 2015 to 2018, Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss continues to build archipelagic networks across the Alliance of Small Island Developing States, deepening existing collaborations with Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture and Pacific Studies in Fiji, and developing new ones further in the South Pacific Ocean, through the art and media non-profit organisation Further Arts in Vanuatu.
Bridging conversations from the Pacific to Singapore in the Riau Archipelago, former fellows of TBA21–Academy’s The Current and current research collaborators artist Nabil Ahmed, social anthropologist Guigone Camus, artist Kristy H.A. Kang, legal scholar Hervé Raimana Lallemant-Moe, and artists Armin Linke and Lisa Rave, join Singapore-based researchers Co-Investigator Sang-Ho Yun and Denny Chee of the Earth Observatory of Singapore – Remote Sensing Lab (EOS–RS) and the Asian School of the Environment, NTU ADM research staff Soh Kay Min and Ng Mei Jia, historian Jonathan Galka, and community organiser Firdaus Sani, as they explore the impacts of extreme weather, rising seas, climate displacement, ocean resource extraction, and the disappearance of material cultural traditions, occurring across what the visionary Pacific thinker Epeli Hau’ofa has termed “our sea of islands.” Featuring interviews, data visualisations, documentation, writings, and artisanal crafts made in collaboration with or generously gifted to the research team by knowledge bearers, community leaders, scientists, scholars, and artists, including writer and curator Frances Vaka’uta, masi artist Igatolo Latu,human rights defender Anne Pakoa and anthropologist Cynthia Chou, the exhibitions present the rich, complex, and multi-layered research findings accumulated over three years, since the Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss project first started in 2021.
At TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space, the Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss research inquiry sits adjacent to the exhibition Restor(y)ing Oceania, comprising two new site-specific commissions by Latai Taumoepeau and Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta. Curated by Bougainville-born artist Taloi Havini, whose curatorial vision is guided by an ancestral call-and-response method, the exhibition materialises as a search for solidarity and kinship in uncertain times, in order to slow down the clock on extraction and counter it with reverence for the life of the Ocean.
At ADM Gallery, Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss is presented alongside the companion show Sensing Nature, curated by Gallery Director Michelle Ho. The exhibition showcases artists representing diverse disciplines, each offering their interpretation of the natural world and its intersection with urban life. Through reflection and experimentation, these works invite viewers to reassess our perceptions and behaviors toward the environment and phenomena beyond human influence. They advocate for a renewed understanding of society’s connection to nature and the land.
Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss is supported by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, under its Academic Research Fund Tier 2 grant. The research presentation at Ocean Space coincides with the 60th International Art Biennale in Venice, Italy, with public programmes taking place through the exhibition durations in both Venice and Singapore
Pre-registration for Systematic Review on Unintended Effects of Healthcare Nudges During the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textThe main objective is to review recent literature on health-related nudges that have resulted in negative outcomes, specifically in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This systematic review seeks to answer the following question: “What are the conditions that will cause a nudge to result in unintended or negative outcomes?”.
A nudge is a type of non-coercive intervention that alters people’s behaviours or choices in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives (Sunstein & Thaler, 2008). However, individuals may respond to nudges in an unintended manner, often resulting in negative outcomes. This review seeks to understand the conditions that would likely cultivate such effects, especially during high-stakes situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring healthcare nudges such as the use of floor stickers to increase social distancing behaviours or the use of various infographic designs to encourage hand washing and mask-wearing, would aid in the creation of the best policy when it comes to designing future nudges.
Project initiated as part of a final year project in Psychology at Nanyang Technological University in 2024
Behavioural data for: Adult-infant neural coupling mediates infants’ selection of socially-relevant stimuli for learning across cultures
No full textSummary: Contains anonymous behavioural data of infants' attention, CDI, and learning performance for the study. Demographical information are skipped to protect the participants' privacy.
Related code repository: https://github.com/Baby-Linc-Singapore/BABBLE_CODE/
Detailed file descriptions:
1. behavioural table_subject_level_shared.tab - Subject-level behavioral data containing aggregated performance metrics and CDI (Communicative Development Inventory) scores for each participant across all experimental blocks. This dataset provides participant-level summaries of attention, learning performance, and language development measures.
2. behavioural table_block_level_shared.tab - Block-level behavioral data capturing detailed performance metrics for each experimental block, as each subject completed three repetitions of the same experimental paradigm. This granular dataset allows for analysis of learning trajectories and attention patterns across repeated exposures to the experimental stimuli.
3. gazesg.mat - MATLAB data file containing gaze tracking data collected from the Singapore site. The dataset includes onset duration, endpoint, startpoint, and number measurements used to calculate three distinct attention metrics. Data is structured across four dimensions: participant ID, gaze condition (full, partial, no), block number (1-3), and phrase number (1-3). Both PNo and participant_list serve as participant identifiers.
4. gazeuk.mat - MATLAB data file containing gaze tracking data collected from the UK site, with identical structure to the Singapore dataset. Contains the same attention-related measurements (onset duration, endpoint, startpoint, number) organized by participant, gaze condition (full, partial, no), block number (1-3), and phrase number (1-3) for cross-site comparison and validation
Replication Data for: Cost-Effective Synthesis of High-Performance p-Type LaCuOS Transparent Conductors via Composition-Tuned Spray Pyrolysis
No full textReplication Data for: Cost-Effective Synthesis of High-Performance p-Type LaCuOS Transparent Conductors via Composition-Tuned Spray Pyrolysi
Related Data for: Cities near volcanoes: Which cities are most exposed to volcanic hazards?
No full textThis dataset quantifies and ranks global cities located within 100 km of at least one Holocene volcano. Using 2020 urban polygons from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-UCDB) and volcano locations from the Global Volcanism Program, we calculated exposed populations within 10, 30, and 100 km buffers, the number of volcanoes affecting each city, the distance to nearest volcano, and composite exposure scores. A second tab ranks volcanoes by exposed population, number of exposed cities, and proximity to urban areas. The app to visualise this data is available here:
https://vharg.github.io/shiny_VolcCities/</a
Mild-photothermal and nanocatalytic therapy for obesity and associated diseases
No full textBackground: Current anti-obesity medications suffer from limited efficacy and side-effects because they act indirectly on either the central nervous system or gastrointestinal system. Herein, this work aims to introduce a transdermal photothermal and nanocatalytic therapy enabled by Prussian blue nanoparticles, which directly act on obese subcutaneous white adipose tissue (sWAT) to induce its beneficial remodeling including stimulation of browning, lipolysis, secretion of adiponectin, as well as reduction of oxidative stress, hypoxia, and inflammation.
Methods: Prussian blue nanoparticles were synthesized and incorporated into silk fibroin hydrogel for sustained retention. The efficacy of mild photothermal (808 nm, 0.4 W/cm2, 5 min) and nanocatalytic therapy (mPTT-NCT) was assessed both in vitro (3T3-L1 adipocytes) and in vivo (obese mice). The underlying signaling pathways are carefully revealed. Additionally, biosafety studies were conducted to further validate the potential of this therapy for practical application.
Results: On 3T3-L1 adipocytes, mPTT-NCT was able to induce browning, enhance lipolysis, and alleviate oxidative stress. On obese mice model, the synergistic treatment led to not only large mass reduction of the targeted sWAT (53.95%) but also significant improvement of whole-body metabolism as evidenced by the substantial decrease of visceral fat (65.37%), body weight (9.78%), hyperlipidemia, and systemic inflammation, as well as total relief of type 2 diabetes.
Conclusions: By directly targeting obese sWAT to induce its beneficial remodeling, this synergistic therapy leads to significant improvements in whole-body metabolism and the alleviation of obesity-related conditions, including type 2 diabetes. The elucidation of underlying signaling pathways provides fundamental insights and shall inspire new strategies to combat obesity and its associated diseases
Replication Data for: Tailoring propagation-invariant topology of optical skyrmions with dielectric metasurfaces
No full textExperimental data Stokes polarimetry and phase characterizatio
Preregistration documents for A systematic review on the effects of multilingual exposure on language and developmental outcomes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in different geographic and linguistic contexts
No full textIn the neurodevelopmental condition of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), language and cognitive abilities can differ widely, ranging from minimal verbal speech to fluent language and from intellectual disability to average or above-average cognition. Given these diverse profiles, children with ASD growing up in multilingual environments may face unique challenges and opportunities in language development, social interaction, and adaptive functioning.
Early interventions have consistently been shown to improve developmental outcomes in children with ASD, particularly in areas of communication and social skills (Dawson et al., 2010; Rogers and Vismara, 2008). Simultaneously, an increasing number of children diagnosed with ASD are growing up in multilingual environments, especially in Asian contexts where bilingualism or multilingualism are common (Qiu et al., 2019). Among typically developing children, multilingual exposure has been associated with cognitive advantages such as enhanced executive functioning and metalinguistic awareness (Bialystok, 2015). However, the effects of multilingual exposure on children with ASD remain less clear. Existing studies on language interventions for children with ASD have largely focused on Western contexts (Beauchamp et al., 2020), with participants predominantly drawn from monolingual language backgrounds. While some studies have explored bilingual or multilingual exposure, these remain largely situated within Western settings (Lim et al., 2025).
Given these gaps, a systematic review examining the effects of bilingual or multilingual interventions for children with ASD across different global regions, including Western, Asian and other multilingual contexts such as South America and Africa is warranted. Specifically, it will compare language, social and other developmental outcomes related to school/workplace readiness for ASD children who receive no multilingual interventions.
This dataset contains preregistration documents for the systematic review (under embargo until April 2026)
The microbial corrosion landscape: metabolites and lipids spatial heterogeneity in Desulfovibrio ferrophilus biofilm
No full textRaw data and R Markdown of the code used for the manuscrip