Intraband and interband transitions in X2 MnSi(X=Fe,Co,Ni), Fe2 YSi(Y=V,Cr,Mn) and Fe2 MnZ(Z=Si,Ge,Sn) full-Heusler alloys: first principles calculations by Jalilian, Jaafar, Rezaei, Ghasem, Vaseghi, Behrooz, Kanjouri, Faramarz, Taghizadeh, Fardin, Ramazani, Ali

“…Meanwhile, intraband transition plays the main role in the infrared range of light. Our findings suggest that full-Heusler alloys can be promising candidates for optoelectronic applications.…”
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Heterogeneities in landed costs of traded grains and oilseeds contribute to unequal access to food by Verschuur, J, Vittis, Y, Obersteiner, M, Hall, JW

“…Despite the growing accessibility of international grain and oilseed markets, high production costs and trade frictions are still prevalent, contributing to regional heterogeneities in the landed cost of grain imports. …”

Multiple independent genetic code reassignments of the UAG stop codon in phyllopharyngean ciliates by McGowan, J, Richards, TA, Hall, N, Swarbreck, D

Small-area population forecasting in a segregated city using density-functional fluctuation theory by Chen, Yuchao, Kinkhabwala, Yunus A., Barron, Boris, Hall, Matthew, Arias, Tomás A., Cohen, Itai

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The neural correlates of response inhibition across the transition from infancy to toddlerhood: an fNIRS Study by Fiske, A, Collins-Jones, L, de Klerk, C, Lui, KYK, Hendry, A, Greenhalgh, I, Hall, A, Dvergsdal, H, Scerif, G, Holmboe, K

Water resources and extreme events in the Awash basin: economic effects and policy implications: report prepared for the Global Green Growth Institute by Smale, R, Walker, O, Vadheim, B, Hope, R, Hope, R, Charles, K, Hall, J, Dadson, S, Borgomeo, E, Kebede, S, Alamirew, T, Bekele, F, Mengistu, A, Beyene, S

IOT integration of a mobile application with a controller-based system: A by Pang, Bryan Seng Keong

“…However, due to limited space, most halls have limited laundry facilities which serve the student population at a ratio of approximately 1:70 [1]. …”
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Patterns of link reciprocity in directed, signed networks by Gallo, A, Saracco, F, Lambiotte, R, Garlaschelli, D, Squartini, T

“…As the reciprocity of signed networks is still poorly understood, we adopt a principled approach for its study, defining quantities and introducing models to consistently capture empirical patterns of the kind. …”

Crowdsourcing as Reflective Political Practice: Building a Location-based Tool for Civic Learning and Engagement by Graeff, Erhardt

“…They require that citizens leave the places they normally inhabit physically or virtually and commit to a separate space and set of processes. Town hall meetings are still a key point of engagement, occurring during specific times and in specific places. …”
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Attracting the right people in an IT labor-scarce economy : a study of Singapore and Philippine recruitment advertisements and strategies. by Guevarra, Monalou S.

“…Amidst increasing global IT labor shortage problems, organizations in Southeast Asia and the rest of the world are finding it more difficult to fill job vacancies for information technology (IT) related functions that require a new skills-set necessary for global competitiveness and growth. …”
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Legal politics in the Libyan constitution-making process by van Lier, F

“…As scholarly research in constitution-making has remained largely normative, there is still little detailed knowledge about why this is the case.…”

An empirical bioethical examination of Norwegian and British doctors' views of responsibility and (de)prioritization in healthcare by Everett, JAC, Maslen, H, Nussberger, A-M, Bringedal, B, Wilkinson, D, Savulescu, J

“…A large proportion of doctors in both countries supported including responsibility for illness in prioritization decisions. This finding was more prominent in zero-sum scenarios where allocation to one patient means that another patient is denied treatment. …”

Development of a vision-based gesture human-computer interface by Lim, Chun Ping.

“…Hence, VG HCI emerged to fill this discontinuity. Hand gesture combined with vision, being the most fundamental and universal form of communicative means, is ideal for being developed as an intuitive HCI. …”
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The role of p53 and ASPP2 in neurodegenerative disease by Turnquist, C

“…Δ133p53 functions as a dominant-negative regulator of full-length (FL)Lp53 and represses senescence, while p53β as a co-activator of FLLp53, promotes senescence. …”

At the frontiers between penal and psy discourses: judicial constructions of the mentally dis/ordered defendant in Hong Kong sentencing judgments by Chiu, TCU

“…In particular, ‘mental disorder’ is ill-defined in Hong Kong sentencing jurisprudence, and judicial determinations of what constitutes disorder and its effects on the final sentence remain unexamined in the limited research available. …”

Essays on blood supply management by Senga, Juan Ramon Liboro

“…The results show that more mature blood banks have more strategies available at their disposal when it comes to trying to maintain fill-rates. We also observe that the dynamic donation rate strategy results in lower fill-rates during disasters when the fill-rate is low despite being able to meet donation targets, and that multiple waves with short lead times exacerbate this effect. …”
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Security enhancements to prevent DNS cache poisoning attacks by Chong, Soon Seng

“…By comparing query time for DNSSEC enabled websites using RSA and ECDSA, we can find out which algorithm are more efficient. The results obtained agree with theory and justify ECDSA to be a more efficient algorithm for use in DNSSEC due to its small key sizes and still providing the level of security needed. …”
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Searching for a cultural identity in Singapore – the idea of home, belonging and not belonging through the individual and collective in Kuo Pao Kun’s The Spirits Play. by Ho, Ziting.

“…It is a place that they desire to return to, a place that contains the self and the family, a place where they can find peace and thus rest in peace. Being in “a world of flux”, characters are unable to find this peace as they still hold on to hope even “when life’s over, [where] there won’t be a ‘tomorrow’ any more” (Kuo 74). …”
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Use of DSRC and other sensor signals for vehicular localization by Gong, Yi Lin

“…This report, prepared for the full time Final Year Project, will describe the what the author has done and learnt from the project.…”
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Motion and shape recovery from image frame sequences by Sung, Eric.

“…The author's approach is different from the eight-point algorithm or other conventional non-linear optimization techniques. Full perspective projection is assumed in all the work. …”
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