Can Neighborhood Planning in Shrinking Cities Achieve Demolition Goals? A Conformance and Performance Evaluation of Neighborhood Action Plans in Youngstown, Ohio by Gao, Shuqi, Ryan, Brent D.

“…We find that NAPs are better implemented from performance than from conformance perspectives, but that nongovernmental organization (Land Bank) demolitions conformed more closely than local government. …”
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Towards quantum magnetism with ultracold atoms by Weld, David M., Ketterle, Wolfgang

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15.628 Patents, Copyrights, and the Law of Intellectual Property, Spring 2003

“…Half of the seats in the seminar are reserved for students from MIT departments other than Sloan.…”
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Weighted online sequential extreme learning machine for class imbalance learning by Lin, Zhiping, Mirza, Bilal., Toh, Kar-Ann.

“…Extensive empirical evaluations on 15 imbalanced datasets show that WOS-ELM obtains comparable or better classification performance than competing methods. The computational time of WOS-ELM is also found to be lower than that of the competing CIL methods.…”
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Towards graphane applications in security: the electrochemical detection of trinitrotoluene in seawater on hydrogenated graphene by Seah, Tzu Hui, Poh, Hwee Ling, Chua, Chun Kiang, Sofer, Zdeněk, Pumera, Martin

“…Graphene was found to display a higher sensitivity than hydrogenated graphene and could be an ideal material for the detection of TNT in seawater. …”
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Cultural construction of success and epistemic motives moderate American-Chinese differences in reward allocation biases by Leung, Angela K.-Y., Kim, Young-Hoon, Tam, Kim-Pong, Chiu, Chi-yue, Zhang, Zhixue

“…When the relative contribution of the self and the group to a group success is unclear, Americans tend to exhibit a self-serving bias (rewarding the self more than what the self deserves), whereas the Chinese tend to exhibit an other-serving bias (rewarding the group more than the group deserves). …”
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Racial discrimination against prospective tenants : evidence from the room rental market in Singapore by Chew, Ilynn Mei Xian, Goh, Pei Ying, Ng, Wan Zhyi

“…Our findings show that landlords have significant discrimination against minority races: On average, the Malay and Indian profiles are half as likely to receive positive responses for room availability than the Chinese profile. While discounts appear to be equal among different race profiles at the messaging stage, the Malay and Indian tenants are likely to have lower bargaining power for discounts than Chinese tenants at the viewing stage. …”
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The practical rationality of purchasing life insurance by Yeo, Jasper Bo Wen

“…I will argue that primarily through the use of expected utility value and the increasing marginal disutility of lost money, it is rational for agents, practically speaking, to purchase life insurance because they will be better-off with than without it. Whilst there may exist agents who, in their non-conformity to the increasing marginal disutility of lost money, may rationally be better-off without life insurance than with it, they are merely outliers. …”
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Employment equity and mental health conditions: what affects Singaporeans' willingness to work with people with schizophrenia and people with depression? by Cheang, Anna Xin Hui

“…These indicate that more resources need to be devoted to address the greater stigma borne by People with Schizophrenia, and that public education efforts should be focused on instilling beliefs of equity rather than increasing literacy.…”
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Chinese poem generation using natural language processing by Wang, Jihan

“…The outcome shows that the model which starts to generate poems from the commonly used words has a better performance than the other, illustrating the importance of character selection. …”
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Study of ocular surface temperature of normal subjects by textural parameters by Li, Min.

“…The data were separated into two controlled groups (normal subjects): the first group consisting of age group younger than 35 (14 to 34 years old) which is “below 35” and the other older than 35 (36 to 76 years old) which is “above 35”.…”
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Patterns of motivation, moral and civic development in young Singaporeans by Koh, Caroline

“…This study thus shows that at least in the context of Singapore, students understand the value of CME, but their moral development is more likely to be influences by other external factors rather than the CME curriculum per se.…”
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China's collaboration with IndoChina countries in hydropower development in the Mekong region - how far can it go? by Phua, Pei Pei.

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Design and analysis of nanostructured optical fiber and surface plasmon devices by Wang, Guanghui

“…The normal single mode optical fiber (SMF) with diameters much bigger than optical wavelength has presented lots of successful applications in optical communications. …”
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Vein matching enhancement by Song, Daphne Liting

“…If the palm colour appears either darker or lighter than normal, this may indicate that the person is unhealthy. …”
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Investigating the potential of axonopus compressus to phytoremediate molybdenum by Eng, Zhi Xian

“…Control AC and pots spiked with more than 20 ppm exhibited stunted growth two weeks after treatment. …”
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Women accountants in Singapore by Tng, Lay Leng, Gwee, Shuk Hong, Lau, Catherine Yue May

“…Due to their greater family commitments, married women have to perform better than men in order to succeed in their organisations. …”
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Unravelling genetic heterogeneity of hepatocellular carcinoma with driver genes and subclones by Ng, Ming Hwee

“…This is true for CTNNB1 and TP53, which had been mutated in more than 300 samples and for AXIN1, which had been mutated in 68 samples. …”
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Influence of competitive anxiety between different genders in racket sports by Woon, Yu Mei

“…Previous studies have found gender differences in anxiety levels but few have delved into how both genders interpreted anxiety (Perry & William, 1998) which may have a more influential impact on game outcome than intensity alone (Pimienta, Weissbrod, Carter & Colangelo, 2014). …”
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Why am I racist? A study on the prediction of race categorization performance on implicit racial biases among Singapore Chinese preschoolers by Koh, Jin Yi

“…As the literature suggests that racial biases are more malleable in young children than in adults, this research aimed to expand the current findings on the racial attitudes of young Chinese preschoolers in Singapore, as well as to examine potential predictors of implicit racial biases. …”
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