Determination of an optimal level of spending on television advertising by the credit card industry in Singapore by Lo, Hedrick Wing Keung, Tang, Yew Quan, Ng, Dennis Wee Han

“…Like other type of expenses, management has subjected this function to the rigours of cost containment exercises. On the other hand, recent advertising research has advocated that advertising is an investment and as such there is a level of media spending that will maximise the return on investment.…”
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A robust optimization model for urban solid waste management by Tsen, Yi Sing.

“…In addition, increasing community support in recycling campaign and raising awareness about environmental risk associated with the waste management facilities favors an alternative for landfill. On the other hand, many parameters and their interrelationships may appear uncertain which increase the complexity in designing a MSW management system.…”
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Venture capital in the Philippines : a business plan by Chong Mei Ling, Swee Li Shalena, Tai Siew Mei

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Dated by Ho, Jia Fen

“…Dated is a 2D hand drawn animation film done by Tan Ping Hao, Melissa Sing, Wang Jia Ying and myself. …”
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Developing Agility and Quickness / by Dawes, Jay, editor 522947, National Strength & Conditioning Association (U.S.) 422, Human Kinetics (Online service) 656055

“…Developing Agility and Quickness helps athletes blow past those barriers thanks to the top sport conditioning authority in the world, the National Strength and Conditioning Association. NSCA hand-picked its top experts to present the best training advice, drills, and programs for optimizing athletes’ linear and lateral movements. …”
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Block pilot based channel estimation and high-accuracy signal detection for GSM-OFDM systems on high-speed railways by Gong, Bo, Gui, Lin, Luo, Sheng, Guan, Yong Liang, Liu, Zilong, Fan, Pingzhi

“…There are two main challenges to be tackled. On the one hand, channel estimation is difficult as small number of subcarriers are activated; on the other hand, as both the dimensions of the channel matrix and the number of nonzero elements of the unknown signals are large, the matching based and the compressive sensing based signal detectors may not work effectively. …”
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A faster chemical bath deposition method for SnO2 ETLs in perovskite solar cells by Wong, Zi Sheng

“…Hence, the experiment suggests that the best possible coverage may not necessarily go hand in hand with improving device data. Overall, results obtained gave a better understanding in ways to speed up CBD and improve coverage as well as yield. …”
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FPGA-based multi-rate system design : Avalon Interface vs.Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous approach by Zou, You.

“…The SOPC Builder has now been widely adopted for fast prototyping of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) systems. On the other hand, Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous (GALS) architecture is another design method for building MCD systems. …”
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Orchestration and value co-creation in ecosystems : a mixed methods investigation by Agarwal, Neha

“…However, sustainability of such ecosystems has been an ongoing concern. On the one hand, there are challenges during ecosystem evolution which need to be addressed by the keystone organization and on the other hand, members have limited perspective on how their engagement in value co-creational exchanges with the keystone organization can result in continued value for them from the ecosystems. …”
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Motor adaptation with passive machines: A first study on the effect of real and virtual stiffness by Tommasino, Paolo, Melendez-Calderon, A., Burdet, E., Campolo, Domenico

“…Recent studies showed how motor adaptation to novel force fields can be induced also via virtual environments, whereas the effects of the force are projected onto a virtual hand, while the real hand remains constrained within a channel. …”
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A New Variational Method for Bias Correction and Its Applications to Rodent Brain Extraction by Chang, Huibin, Huang, Weimin, Wu, Chunlin, Huang, Su, Guan, Cuntai, Sekar, Sakthivel, Bhakoo, Kishore Kumar, Duan, Yuping

“…On the other hand, the results of brain extraction are compared against manually segmented gold standards, BET, BSE and 3-D PCNN based on a number of metrics. …”
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ART: Adaptive fRequency-Temporal Co-Existing of ZigBee and WiFi by Li, Feng, Luo, Jun, Shi, Gaotao, He, Ying

“…This allows ART to fully exploit the “frequency white space” left out by WiFi. On the other hand, ART employs P-CSMA to opportunistically tune the use of CSMA for leveraging the “temporal white space” of WiFi interference, according to real-time assessment of transmission quality. …”
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A study on the prospects of Singapore investments in Shandong. by Aw, Helen Seow Yen, Chia, Maureen Leng Yin, Lim, Hui Gek

“…Recognizing this, the government has not spared China in its aggressive drive to promote globalization of Singapore investments. On the other hand, China has also provided attractive incentives and developed special economic zones in some provinces to woo Singapore investors. …”
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Development of a smart projector system by Fang, Lina

“…The purpose of this project is to develop an interactive Smart Projector System that enables the user to control the computer using hand gesture instead of mouse and keyboard. The application utilizes the Kinect as a sensor and is implemented on Windows OS. …”
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Taiwan-Philippines diplomatic row : should Manila blink first? by Trajano, Julius Cesar I.

“…As the Philippines' key ineterests are at stake due to the intensity of the sanctions, Taiwan seems to have the upper hand in the current diplomatic row.…”
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Contemporary Somali piracy : evaluating the effectiveness of counter-piracy measures by Leong, Kuan Yee.

“…Analysis of international and regional efforts will focus on main governmental and joint industry’s efforts such as the deployment of naval forces and international conventions. On the other hand, industry’s efforts will concentrate on Best Management Practices (BMP) and the hiring of private armed guards.…”
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Wind characteristics of thunderstorms and their effects on wind loading design in Singapore by Choi, Edmund Cheong Chuen., Brownjohn, James Mark William., Chan, Weng Kong.

“…Thus, strong winds due to these weather systems are relatively less severe. On the other hand, equatorial regions have frequent tropical thunderstorms. …”
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Forster’s moral vision : an examination of the religious imagery in Edward Morgan Forster’s fiction. by Leong, Keith Yan-Hao.

“…It will argue that Forster has a conflicted view of religion because he sees on the one hand its moral restrictiveness and logical absurdity, and on the other its potential for moral emancipation, grounding, and linguistic transcendence.…”
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Development of mobile applications for housing services by Chen, Jieyu.

“…Hopefully this project can give some creative ideas for this kind of hand phone application.…”
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Trolled by Tao, KaiYuan

“…“Trolled” is a traditional 2D hand drawn animated short film. It tells the story of two nomadic siblings, Tabar and Gan and their encounter with a mountain troll on one of their hunting trips together. …”
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