The spreadsheet : is it an asset in an accountants balance sheet? by Heng, Stefanie Gek Hiong, Ng, Jane Sook Yin, Sia, Valerie Puay Khim

“…Hence, plans to increase/maintain market share should perhaps take into account strategic factors like: -building market share quickly, -enticing upgraders to switch, and -preventing existing customers from switching. To cap it all, this project has confirmed the role spreadsheets play in contributing to work performances within the accounting arena and dispelled the "myth" (belief) that Lotus is the leading spreadsheet.…”
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Essays on the measurement of leverage and risk of banking institutions by Yong, Vincent Gan Beng

“…The index is aptly named the Capital Leverage Index or CapLev. It is also further shown how we can apply the methodology in constructing a new systemic risk measure, the Systemic Marginal Leverage Index or SysLev. …”
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Injection moulding of micro droplet generation thermoplastics devices by Goh, Qing Wen

“…The thermal bonding process is a bonding method commonly used in microfluidics, however, the heat from the bonding process causes deformation to the microchannels due to the residual stresses trapped in the microchannels that was induced during the injection moulding process. …”
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Machine learning based cybersecurity analytics by Tang, Yan Shuo

“…Disgruntled employees, honey-trapped employees, “cash-for-data” greedy employees and similar categories of employees can deliberately transfer information out of the organization while many regular employees may not practice good cyber hygiene during transfer of information out of the organization without noticing associated risks. …”
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Regression analysis ofr characterization of materials for photovoltaic cells by Vundavalli, Bala Satya Manikanta

“…In this project the main optoelectronic property considered is effect of oxygen induced traps on charge mobility in bulk hetero junction solar cells. …”
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A multi-scale, multivariate habitat selection model demonstrates high potential for the reintroduction of the clouded leopard (neofelis nebulosa) to Taiwan by Wang, Y-F, Kaszta, Ż, Cushman, S, Chiang, P-J, Macdonald, D, Hearn, A

“…We employed a multi-scale multivariate habitat selection model based on clouded leopard presence-absence data from extensive camera trap surveys across its current range, and extrapolated the result to predict suitable habitats in Taiwan. …”

Optimal probes for global quantum thermometry by Mok, Wai-Keong, Bharti, Kishor, Kwek, Leong Chuan, Bayat, Abolfazl

“…In addition, we show how the best approximation of optimal global probes can be realized in spin chains, implementable in ion traps and quantum dots.…”
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Superfluid fountain effect in a Bose-Einstein condensate by Karpiuk, Tomasz, Grémaud, Benoît, Miniatura, Christian, Gajda, Mariusz

“…We consider a simple experimental setup, based on a harmonic confinement, where a Bose-Einstein condensate and a thermal cloud of weakly interacting alkali-metal atoms are trapped in two different vessels connected by a narrow channel. …”
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Antiferromagnetic half-skyrmions and bimerons at room temperature by Jani, H, Lin, J-C, Chen, J, Harrison, J, Maccherozzi, F, Schad, J, Prakash, S, Eom, C-B, Ariando, A, Venkatesan, T, Radaelli, PG

“…Here we realize a family of topological antiferromagnetic spin textures in α-Fe2O3—an Earth-abundant oxide insulator—capped with a platinum overlayer. By exploiting a first-order analogue of the Kibble–Zurek mechanism20,21, we stabilize exotic merons and antimerons (half-skyrmions)8 and their pairs (bimerons)16,22, which can be erased by magnetic fields and regenerated by temperature cycling. …”

Population study on the freshwater crabs in Nee Soon swamp forest, Singapore. by Woo, Chia Mun.

“…Study was performed by hand and trap sampling in eight sites for four cycles. All four species were encountered in this study, with Parathelphusa maculata (P. maculata) as the most abundant species appearing at most sites, followed by Parathelphusa reticulata (P. reticulata), Irmengardia johnsoni (I. johnsoni) and Geosesarma peraccae (G. peraccae). …”
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Neural-network-based control of discrete-phase concentration in a gas-particle corner flow with optimal energy consumption by Zhang, Xingyu, Li, Hua

“…A recirculation zone determined by the inlet flow rate traps particles partially with one or more vortices around the corner. …”
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Systems medicine disease : disease classification and scalability beyond networks and boundary conditions by Berlin, Richard, Gruen, Russell, Best, James

“…Traditional classification methods remain trapped by history; to provide the descriptive features that are required for a comprehensive description of disease, systems science, which realizes dynamic processes, adaptive response, and asynchronous communication channels, must be applied (Wolkenhauer et al., 2013). …”
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Farm-Scale Water Storage in Morocco: Low-Carbon Design with Parametric FEA Optimization by Trézarieu, Raphaël

“…Rising temperatures have resulted in drier and denser soil, causing water to be trapped on the surface and evaporate. One solution is to shift water management from large-scale to farm-scale. …”
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Organic transistors-based backplane for flat panel displays by Wang, Victor Bo Chuan.

“…Electrical parameters such as mobility, threshold voltage, subthreshold slope and interfacial trap densities are probed to investigate the impact of different dielectrics and surface treatments on OTFT performance. …”
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Finding meaning behind immortality of Anne Rice’s vampires. by Nurhayati Zakaria.

“…This paper investigates the alluring appeal of immortality through the exploration of humans’ instinctive anxieties against death; it shows how experience in life shapes an individual’s personality and character which in turn is fossilized and magnified during his or her immortal existence; and finally illustrates how the very nature of being trapped in a state of arrested development renders the disenchanted vampire’s perspective of immortality as one that is more limiting rather than liberating.…”
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Electrical charge transport and optical properties of iron pyrite by Shukla, Sudhanshu

“…Charge carrier dynamics in nanocube thin film revealed fast carrier localization and long-lived trap states in the pure pyrite. Temperature dependent electrical and magnetic behaviors supported the existence of intrinsic localized gap states. …”
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Microfluidic chip for blood sample processing by Chalapathy Raja Shobana

“…The aluminum coating on the surface of filter paper traps the parasites, which is later observed under Raman Spectroscopy for detection of disease. …”
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New derivatives of polyglutamic acid as drug carrier systems by Hoste, K, Schacht, E, Seymour, L

“…Dynamic light-scattering measurements and surface tension measurements indicated that phase separation of dextran/PHEG and PEG occurs on a molecular level in the conjugates and results in the formation of aggregates with a PEG core in which free PEG can be trapped. Blood clearance and body distribution studies were performed on female BALB/c mice. …”

Alignment of rod-shaped single-photon emitters driven by line defects in liquid crystals by Pelliser, Laurent, Manceau, Mathieu, Lethiec, Clotilde, Coursault, Delphine, Vezzoli, Stefano, Leménager, Godefroy, Coolen, Laurent, DeVittorio, Massimo, Pisanello, Ferruccio, Carbone, Luigi, Maitre, Agnes, Bramati, Alberto, Lacaze, Emmanuelle

“…Arrays of liquid crystal defects—linear smectic dislocations—are used to trap semiconductor CdSe/CdS dot-in-rods which behave as single-photon emitters. …”
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Doping and switchable photovoltaic effect in lead-free perovskites enabled by metal cation transmutation by Harikesh, Padinhare Cholakkal, Wu, Bo, Ghosh, Biplab, John, Rohit Abraham, Lie, Stener, Thirumal, Krishnamoorthy, Wong, Lydia Helena, Sum, Tze Chien, Mhaisalkar, Subodh, Mathews, Nripan

“…It is also shown that this material possesses a direct-indirect bandgap enabling high absorption coefficient, extended carrier lifetimes >100 ns, and low trap densities similar to lead halide perovskites. …”
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