Analysis of composite bonded joints by Chui, Christopher Shao Liang

“…This parametric study on adhesive bonded composite single lap joints aims to determine the optimum bondline thickness, bond length and dimensions of a hybrid single lap joint, which gives the highest ultimate shear strength under a lap shear test in accordance to ASTM D5868. …”
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Essays on the market for corporate bonds by Levonmaa, A

“…Chapter 1 studies the impact of credit rating changes on corporate bond returns. This study uses a large dataset of corporate bond transactions from the TRACE database for the US corporate bond market, combined with credit rating changes from Fitch, Moody's and Standard and Poor's (S&P), to analyse over 22,000 bonds, coupled with approximately 28,400 rating events over nearly six years. …”

Creating a Purgatory of my own: the struggle of keeping it short by Ng, Vanessa Ming Yan

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Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Ramapurath Chemmencheri, S

“…The occasional compromises reached with Adivasi leaders and land recipients’ own observation that they feel “disposed of” in the resettlement sites attest to this argument. …”

The limits of liberalization: WTO entry and Chinese state-owned firms by Tan, Y, Davis, CL

“…We examine the case of China, which is not only the largest exporting state but also lends active support to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that could distort global trade. …”

Occurrence of antibiotic resistant Salmonella spp. in stray and owned cats by Mohsin, Nur Farawahidah

“…The objectives of this study were to determine the occurrence of Salmonella spp. and to determine the antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella spp. in stray and owned cats. A total of 60 rectal swab samples were collected which consisted of 30 from owned cats at veterinary clinics and individual owners and the other 30 samples were taken from stray cats at residential areas and food stalls. …”
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Debonding of adhesively bonded composite joints by Murugesh, Sanjay Matthew

“…One of the most common joining techniques used in Design for Assembly to produce cutting-edge technical products with complicated geometries is Adhesive Bonding. In this study, tests were used to investigate the failure characteristics between different types of adhesives. …”
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Development of the bond markets in Singapore and Malaysia. by Chan, Wei Lun.

Subjects: “…DRNTU::Business::Finance::Fixed income::Bonds…”
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Binding and bonding characteristics of silica aerogels by Ong, Jingru.

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Ultrasonic bonding of thermoplastic microfluidic devices by Ngooi, Yaohe.

“…However, good quality micro features and bond strength was observed from the optimised microfluidic devices tested.…”
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Diffusion bonding of superalloys for aerospace applications by Chandel, Roop Singh., Seow, Hong Pheow.

“…The diffusion bonding of Inconel alloy 718 to itself and to 17-4 PH stainless steel has been studied. …”
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Design analysis of adhesively bonded structures by Wong, Ee-Hua, Liu, Johan

“…The existing analytical solutions for the peeling and shearing stresses in polymeric adhesively bonded structures are either too inaccurate or too complex for adoption by practicing engineers. …”
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Molecular dynamics and simulations study on the vibrational and electronic solvatochromism of benzophenone by Kumar, Venkatraman Ravi, Verma, Chandra, Umapathy, Siva

Subjects: “…Hydrogen Bonding…”
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BLIQUE-TMI : blind quality evaluator for tone-mapped images based on local and global feature analyses by Jiang, Qiuping, Shao, Feng, Lin, Weisi, Jiang, Gangyi

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Mobilising stone: investigating relations of materiality, movement and corporality in Holocene Saharan rock-art by Waldock, V

“…Augmented by input from specialists in geomorphology, pastoralism, stone sculpting and animal behaviour, this movement-driven focus has produced a more developed picture of the Messak herder lives, advancing our understanding of these particular non-text, somatic societies.…”

Are privately owned shipping companies more succesful than public listed ones? by Zhang, Allen Tongren

“…Public list companies need to have heathy motivation behind the listing and strong drive to make company successful. Privately owned or publicly owned may not play the fate determining role as the more important factors are the nature of the business and the person behind the business.…”
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Misconduct by voters' own representatives does not affect voters' generalized political trust by Kelly, E, Tilley, J

“…This is despite voters being aware of their MP's scandal implication, and this awareness affecting voters' support for their own MP. We conclude that voters' judgements about their constituency representatives are unlikely to affect their diffuse political trust. …”

Effects of music attrition on English-Mandarin Chinese bilinguals’ lexical tone perception and production in a foreign language by Toh, Xin Ru

“…To examine whether cognitive mechanisms for music and speech are domain-general or domain-specific, researchers have studied the effects of musical training on lexical tone pitch processing. However, few studies have studied the effects in the long-term and among tone language speakers. …”
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Performance study of FFH/BFSK system with product-combining receiver over multi-tone jamming and AWGN channels by Hong, Tse Min.

“…In this dissertation, the performance of a fast frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift keying (FFH/BFSK) spread spectrum (SS) communication system that employs a product-combining receiver in the presence of multi-tone jamming (MTJ) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) conditions over a non-fading channel is studied.…”
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Bond strength of 3D printed concrete by Panda, Biranchi, Tay, Daniel Yi Wei, Ting, Andrew Guan Heng, He, Lewei, Tan, Ming Jen

“…Four different time-gap on the bond strength of individual layer was studied and is found that the bond of a shorter time gap yields better strength. …”
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