A joint inventory and sourcing strategy to balance efficiency versus risk by Huang, Wan-Yu, M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Liu, Jierui

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Feature selection for demand forecasting incorporating external covariates by Mantri, Raghav

“…In this paper, we forecast the demand for medical products using historical in-market-sales data for a multinational medical company. We utilise machine learning methods for this purpose and perform feature selection to use only relevant features. …”
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Cruise ship industry in Singapore – after COVID and beyond impulsive buying behaviour and influential factors in the cruise package industry by Lee, Min Young

“…The promotional strategies identified includes advertisement and sales promotion. Factor analysis was applied to identify seven constructs – Self-confidence, Connection, Pricing, Advertisement, Impulsive buying tendencies, Negative outcome and Positive Outcome. …”
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A study of crowd-shipping as a last-mile delivery option in Singapore: business-to-consumer perspective by Lim, Sean Jun Hao

“…These identified factors include consumer behavior within the industry, the volume of a business's sales, and the scale at which the business operates. …”
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Surviving the economic crisis in distribution and warehousing business by Chai, Guan Sheng

“…In order to minimize losses from sales drop, manufacturers have to decrease productions following the significant fall in demand from consumer, the demand for storage and distributions decreased as the result of the impact. …”
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An experimental investigation of ultrasonic anti-fouling technology by Goh, Jun Xian

“…Recent research has pointed to the effectiveness of ultrasound in reducing the attachment rate of various microorganisms, leading to the development and sale of ultrasonic anti-fouling solutions for small vessels such as yachts. …”
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Stock selection via FA and TA in the semiconductor industry SGX by Ho, Andrea

“…The stock exchange SGX offers many different industry stocks that are for sale to the public. The main issue is how do we decide what kind and which stocks will rake in the highest returns for the investors. …”
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An Analysis of the Effect of Price and Quality on Customer Buying Patterns: An Empirical Study of iPhone Buyers by Hamizan, Maisarah, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Zaidi, Mohd Azian

“…Apple is the most valuable firm in the world, the fourth-largest vendor of personal computers by unit sales, and the second-largest producer of mobile phones as of May 2022. …”
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Barnacle cement protein as an efficient bioinspired corrosion inhibitor by Bui, My Hanh, Hiew, Shu Hui, Salim, Teddy, Saw, Wan Geok, Webster, Richard David, Grüber, Gerhard, Mu, Yuguang, Miserez, Ali

“…Here, we present an alternative green inhibitor, the recombinant protein rMrCP20 derived from the adhesive cement of the barnacle Megabalanus rosa and show that it efficiently protects mild steel against corrosion under high salt conditions mimicking the marine environment. …”
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Toughening of epoxies by covalently anchoring triazole-functionalized stacked-cup carbon nanofibers by Ding, Guoqiang, Huang, Shu, Dong, Yuliang, Lu, Xuehong, Liu, Wanshuang, Kong, Junhua, Toh, Eric Weilong, Zhou, Rui

“…Novel triazole-functionalized carbon nanofibers (m-CNFs) were prepared by one-step arylation with diazonium salts generated in situ. Microscopic observations indicate that m-CNFs exhibit significantly improved dispersibility in a high-performance epoxy resin compared with pristine CNFs (p-CNFs). …”
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Control of microstructure architecture of polycaprolactone electrospun scaffolds by Rajendran, R., Ham, W. J., Low, C. Y., Alexander, C. H. C., Koh, C. T.

“…The beads formation was reduced by adding PBS salt solution and increasing the distance of the collector plate from the needle tip. …”
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Minimising Operational Costs During COVID-19 Pandemic: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Business Model For Enhancing Smes’ Performance by Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Abdul Halim, Hasliza, Ahmad, Noor Hazlina, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Khairuddin, Khairun Nisa

“…This rampant situation creates ‘rubbing salt into the wound’ for many enterprises in order to survival and sustain in the market. …”
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Study of bioactivity of complexed DNA in biodegradable polymer films by Debasish Mondal

“…The polymeric system consists of a biodegradable semi crystalline polymer such as PCL blended with a hydrophilic polymer such as gelatin, hyaluronic acid (HA), PEG, PVP, or the sodium salt of poly acrylic acid (PAA). Release studies of pDNA and complexed DNA from different polymeric films were performed by quantifying the amount of DNA released at specific time points over a period of month, utilizing the fluorescence of ethidium bromide complexed to DNA. …”
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Noise detection and removal for highly degraded images by Guo, Huan.

“…User can add noise through three types: Salt and Pepper, Gaussian and Speckle. Image restoration methods usually model the degradation process and apply an approximately inverse process to the degraded image to recover the original image. …”
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Release retardation of model protein on polyelectrolyte-coated PLGA nano- and microparticles by Nugraha, Chandra, Bora, Meghali, Venkatraman, Subbu S.

“…PEM capsules have been proposed for vehicles of drug microencapsulation, with the release triggered by pH, salt, magnetic field, or light. When built on another carrier encapsulating drugs, such as nanoparticles, it could provide additional release barrier to the releasing drug, providing further control to drug release. …”
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The utilization of chitin and chitosan as green modifiers in nanocomposite membrane for water treatment by Mamah, Stanley Chinedu, Goh, Pei Sean, Ng, Be Cheer, Abdullah, Mohamad Sohaimi, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Samavati, Zahra, Ahmad, Nor Akalili, Raji, Yusuf Olabode

“…When compared to unmodified membranes, the chitin and chitosan modified membranes showed a notable improvement in water flux, salt rejection, and anti-fouling characteristics. …”

Coacervates derived from mussel foot proteins by Guo, Qi

“…Repeated three times within the Mfp-5 sequence, enzymatically modified GK-16* could undergo LLPS triggered by certain ionic strength at pH 3, in which the mechanical properties of coacervate droplets would be adjusted by salt concentration and urea concentration. CD and FTIR spectra also characterized the formation of localized β-sheet structures with the addition of salts. …”
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Strategic adaptabilty and firm performance : an empirical study of the miles and show typology by Boey, Stephanie Lai Fong, Leong, Ngai Fong, Tan, Bee Bee

“…Further analyses show that most organisations emphasise profitability as a key performance measure with Prospector, Analysers and Reactors ranking net profit to sales as the most important performance indicator. …”
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Enhanced Approach of Decision Making in Determining Contemporary Critical Preferential Factors and Location Decisions for Residential Project using MCDM Technique (S/O 13903) by Lamsali, Hendrik, Mad Lazim, Halim, Abdul Rahim, Mohd Kamarul Irwan, Osman, Wan Nadzri, Salleh, Mohamed Najib

“…Analysis on overall sub-criterion ranks safety as the highest priority/preference followed by property's sales price, physical structure of the property (size and type), and warranty offered by the developer. …”
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Optimizing frontal polymerization of different epoxy resins for magnetocuring by Tay, Jerry Rong Yao

“…In this study a structure relationship study of three epoxy monomers, two onium salts and five thermal initiators will be explored, aiming to optimize the curing temperature required for frontal polymerization. …”
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