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Spike in use of online communication apps among Singapore residents could be driven by feelings of isolation during COVID-19, finds
Nationwide study also looked at attitudes and behaviours during the pandemic
The use of online messaging and social media apps among Singapore residents has spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, a Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) study has found.
Three in four respondents (75%) said that their use of WhatsApp during the pandemic increased. This was followed by Telegram (60.3%), Facebook (60.2%) and Instagram (59.7%).
Accompanying this spike is videoconferencing fatigue, found the NTU Singapore study, which surveyed 1,606 Singapore residents from 17 to 31 December last year. Nearly one in two Singapore residents (44%) said they felt drained from videoconferencing activities, which became more frequent during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Monday, 25 January 2021, 8:21 pm | Australian Government The Hon Greg Hunt MP Minister for Health and Aged Care On 24 January 2021, the New
Zealand Government announced a case of COVID-19 detected in the community. This morning,
New Zealand authorities advised that the case detected is a variant of concern. The . More
Tuesday, 27 August 2019, 4:06 pm | Australian Government
The Government is very concerned and disappointed to learn that Australian citizen
and academic Dr Yang Hengjun (Dr Yang Jun) was formally arrested in China on suspicion
of espionage on 23 August and will continue to be criminally detained. Our thoughts . More
Tuesday, 21 August 2018, 5:28 pm | Australian Government
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Researchers observe decision making in brain – and influence outcomes
A team of neuroscientists and engineers have developed a system that can show the neural process of decision making in real time, including the mental process of flipping between options before expressing a final choice. By Taylor Kubota
In the course of deciding whether to keep reading this article, you may change your mind several times. While your final choice will be obvious to an observer – you’ll continue to scroll and read, or you’ll click on another article – any internal deliberations you had along the way will most likely be inscrutable to anyone but you. That clandestine hesitation is the focus of research, published Jan. 20 in Nature, by Stanford University researchers who study how cognitive deliberations are reflected in neural activity.
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NTU Singapore launches new strategic plan, remaking learning, innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) today unveiled its NTU 2025 strategic plan which details the University’s education, research and innovation ambitions and goals for the next five years and offers a roadmap to achieve them.
At the top of its ambitious agenda for NTU 2025, the university will introduce new paradigms that respond to the changes brought about by the accelerating pace of technology, and to the challenges facing humanity in the post-COVID world. To transform learning at NTU, undergraduates will be offered new interdisciplinary degree programmes, core curricula and internships to enrich their disciplinary training. NTU will also establish a new Institute for Pedagogical Innovation, Research and Excellence (InsPIRE).