Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…Brazil has proved up its massive pre-salt trend boasting tens of billions of barrels of potential. …”

Drone localisation with machine learning by Toh, Isaac

“…With the upward trend in sales and ownership of recreational drones to the public consumers in both the global and local context. …”
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Surviving the economic crisis in distribution and warehousing business by Chia, Tow Fong.

“…Survey findings revealed that almost half of the surveyed companies did not show improvement in terms of sales volume in 2009. Specifically, the reduction in business volume was rated as the main reason for causing the poor performance of the company. …”
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The perception of life insurance agents by the public by Chan, Mike Hong Keong, Kong, Yew Wah, Lee, Jiunn Woei

“…Based on the conclusion, the team recommends to place more importance on after sale service, participation in community activities and active promotion of life insurance products.…”
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New supermarket for Jurong West by Mohammed Effendi Basri, Tan, Shok Keng, Yong, Sheue Horng

“…With a market to tap, the marketing strategies for the achievement of the expected sales level were outlined. Two operating years' projected financial statements were also drawn to show the feasibility and viability of the project. …”
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A tight polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membrane fabricated via polyion complex assisted phase inversion for dye desalination by Zhao, Yali, Liao, Yuan, Lai, Gwo Sung, Yin, Yurong, Wang, Rong

“…In this work, a tight polyethersulfone (PES) -based ultrafiltration (UF) membrane was fabricated to separate dye and salt of textile wastewater via a novel polyion complex assisted phase inversion method in one step. …”
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Linguistic distance and market integration in India by Fenske, J, Kala, N

“…A one-standard-deviation increase in linguistic distance predicts a reduction in the price correlation between two markets of 0.121 standard deviations for wheat, 0.181 for salt, and 0.088 for rice. While factors like genetic distance, literacy gaps, and railway connections are correlated with linguistic distance, they do not fully explain the correlation between linguistic distance and market integration.…”

Experimental investigation on working of PCR chip by Ahluwalia Kunal

“…Experiments were carried out both with the ink only, and also with ink, sealed with oil. The purpose of oil to prevent evaporation was also studied in detail. …”
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Immersion two-phase liquid cooling of data cards by Lioewanta, Sebastian Markus

“…The PCB is immersed in the commercial engineering liquid Novec 7100 inside a sealed chamber with a condenser unit. Various PCB component temperatures are taken under different conditions such as varying levels of CPU utilization and number of cores being ran. …”
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Minoan Linguistic Resources: The Linear A Digital Corpus by Petrolito, Tommaso, Petrolito, Ruggero, Winterstein, Grégoire, Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco

“…Secondly we list and describe some of the existing resources about Linear A: Linear A documents (seals, statuettes, vessels etc.), the traditional encoding systems (standard code numbers referring to distinct symbols), a Linear A font, and the newest (released on June 16th 2014) Unicode Standard Characters set for Linear A. …”
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Crystallization of molecular binary compounds made from organic acceptors and organic donators by Yu, Chu Huan.

“…Various weak charge transfer salts such as (tetracene, anthracene, and rubrene)-TCNQ compounds have been synthesized and extensively studied and they are promising in the aspect of electrochromic display, electronic devices, sensors and semiconductors. …”
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Simple and rapid electroless metallization on glass using catecholic-based chemistry by Sim, Pei Hui

“…An optimized parameter have been achieved for the process where the substrate undergoes 24 hours of polydopamine coating and 24 hours of metallization in metal salt solution. The coated substrates are visually inspected and tested using Ellipsometry. …”
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The devil is in the detail? Investors’ mispricing of proxy voting outcomes on M&A deals by Li, Lingwei, Zhang, Huai

“…What's more, the association between the voting outcome and post-merger stock returns is stronger when investors’ attention to the voting outcome is distracted by same-day earnings announcements, when the marginal investor is less likely to be sophisticated, and when investors have greater pre-merger disagreement. Short sale constraints do not seem to explain our findings. …”
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The contemporary approach to a low cost carrier’s business model : through a value network. by Chong, Sue Lin., Ong, Jia Yun., Tan, Kenneth Wei Jie.

“…Consistent with changing consumer sentiments, ancillaries are slowly but surely becoming a significant source of revenue for airlines; as compared to ticket sales. With the shift in focus of revenue source, it is also time for low cost airlines to consider an alternative business model that is more suited to their requirements. …”
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The ultimate socialite - a satirical commentary on the reliance of social media to interact in the digital age. by Thng, Tracy Wan Ying.

“…Aiming to provoke thinking about how we interact through social media, this project focuses on the discrepancy between our online and offline identities.In addition, it also promotes sale of mock products which allows one to easily train themselves to become the “Ultimate Socialite”. …”
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Managerial biases and their differential impacts on marketing behaviour under different situations : a study using strategy simulation data. by Goh, May San., Le, Thi Lan Huong., Zhuo, Jiepeng.

“…Specifically, we investigate five major biases (namely, Wrong Shoe, Sales Volume Illusion, Price Cutting Momentum, Magnified Expectation of Loss, and Risk Aversion) and three marketing behaviours (namely, Market Aggressiveness, Price Reactivity, and Firm Innovation) in four different situations - high and low revenue market conditions as well as market leader and market follower positions. …”
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At your service! The role of tax havens in international trade with services by Hebous, S, Johannesen, N

“…In these service categories, trade with affiliates in tax havens is skewed towards imports and the internal service providers in tax havens earn significant excess profits that vary strongly with the value of their internal service sales. These patterns are suggestive that multinational firms operate tax haven entities that sell overpriced services to affiliates in order to erode their taxable profits and reduce the global tax bill. …”

“双城” 新加坡与香港 ： “一带一路”的策略及其反应 = “Twin Cities” Singapore and Hong Kong : belt road initiative strategies and responses by Tham, Kok Yung

“…Hence, analysis will show that during the course of interaction, both cities halted at the political and business level, shortcoming of involving in the integration of the social level and these highlightened their limitations and perspectives on the initiative.…”
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As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow / by Katouh, Zoulfa, 1994-, author 656134, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

“…Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Salt to the Sea. Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. …”
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Unravelling the degradation pathways and charging mechanism in the Li-O2 battery: the role of singlet oxygen by Zor, C

“…</p> <p>Secondly, due to the discrepancy in ¹O<sub2</sub> and electrolyte degradation amounts, the stability of the common LOB salts and solvents towards ¹O₂ were tested. …”