Factors influencing junior managers' poor decisions in new market entry by Adela, Josephine, Chen, Lionel Yingren, Yeo, Marianna Xue Na

“…We found that firms that have made the wrong decision to enter a new market (hence resulting in poor financial performance) tend to have: • Entered the market hastily without a track record of success in prior markets; • Entered the market due to competitive pressure; • Justified their market entry decisions mostly based on competitive reasons; • Sunk in substantial R&Ds expenditures without commensurate marketing expenditures when launching new products in the new market. This study’s findings offer insights into the phenomenon of poor decision making. …”
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"Partisan or party-shun?" : When fact-checking meets partisanship by Goh, Bryan Wei Ming

“…Further implications of such findings and recommendations for future studies are also discussed.…”
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“This Will Blow Your Mind”: examining the urge to click clickbaits by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Pal, Anjan, Banerjee, Snehasish

“…Design/methodology/approach: The hypotheses in the proposed framework were tested using a between-participants experimental design (N = 204) that manipulated information richness (text-only vs. thumbnail clickbaits). Findings: Curiosity, perceived enjoyment and surveillance were significant predictors of the urge to click. …”
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“It’s complicated” : cognitive dissonance and the evolving relationship between editorial and advertising in US newsrooms by Duffy, Andrew, Cheng, Lydia

“…This study assesses what happens when senior editors encounter cognitive dissonance as they reconstruct the editorial-commercial relationship. It finds reluctance to embrace this evolving relationship, revealed in the fragmented and contradictory syntax editors use to talk about it as they are torn between the old (ethically driven) norm of how things should be, and the emerging (economically driven) norm of how things are. …”
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Rail (real) safety issues: predictive maintenance for Singapore railway by Khoo, Alyna Yi Jie

“…The focus is on the observable trends in the Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) and Corrective Maintenance Data (CMD) records, with findings supported by the F&D Daily Report, Workorder (WO), and Fault & Delay (F&D) data. …”
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Manufacturing of polymer composites using automated fiber placement and tape layup processes by Wan, Wysley Kin Yu

“…Mechanical load tests, which were the tensile tests and 3-point bending tests, were performed on the specimens to analyse the relationship between roller pressures and the quality of composite panels. Findings were obtained and discussed in this report, and recommendation on which is the best setting of roller pressure was included.…”
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Artefacts detection and removal in remote optical imageries using artificial intelligence by You, Zongtao

“…Images are a combination of pixels with different values, and finding a suitable pixel value threshold will improve the ability to detect artefacts. …”
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Composite fabrication using slip casting by Ng, Zheng Hao

“…A compression test was performed on samples with step features of varying sizes, and their mechanical performance was compared. The findings reveal that a sufficiently prominent step feature improves the stiffness of the material while retaining other mechanical characteristics such as strength, and ductility. …”
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Futureproofing and stress in students: a longitudinal study by Tam, Bryan Wei Hoe

“…The implications of these findings are discussed.…”
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Characteristics and trend of distribution of rainfall in Singapore by Ong, Zhiwei.

“…Implications on water resources quality attributable to the increasing rainfall trend were discussed. The finding indicates that a tendency beyond the variation expected from natural climatic cycles is happening. …”
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Sunlight and Culture by Fredriksson, Per G., Mohanty, Aatishya

“…We provide individual level evidence using data from the World Values Survey, evidence from pre-industrial societies using data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, and cross-country findings. We propose that the mechanism works via the eye disease cataract. …”
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HAMLET particles in medium : protein fibrils or something else? by Ng, Nicholas Kwok Hing.

“…This is consistent with known high affinity interactions between HAMLET and tumour cells components such as histones. Findings should pose no hurdles to HAMLET clinical testing…”
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Biopolymeric fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering. by Chen, Jasmine Shuwen.

“…Mechanical strengths measured by Instron tensile tester showed that a higher crosslinker concentration could produce scaffolds with higher elastic modulus. These findings would be useful in optimization of a scaffold from the polymer blend of Pullulan and Dextran through electrospinning.…”
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Finite volume method for one-dimensional heat conduction in functionally graded materials by Soh, Nicholas

“…The finite volume method (FVM), which is used to study a functionally graded one-dimensional study on a material, is considered by the theoretical framework. To ensure reliable findings, manual calculations was performed on the material along with MATLAB tests to ensure robust results.…”
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Detecting hazardous events from online news and social media by Liu, Zinan

“…The scope of the report is limited to the detection of hazardous events using online news and social media data, and does not cover response and mitigation strategies for these events. The findings of this report can be useful for emergency responders, risk managers, and organizations involved in hazard detection and response. …”
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Cellular response to synthetic drugs : a metabolomics approach by Chen, William Wei Ning.

“…Significantly, the increase in the anabolic activity associated with the higher level of metabolic enzymes was also supported by the higher intracellular concentration of the metabolic cofactor NAD+ which was a result of an increased oxidation of NADH. Our findings therefore provide molecular evidence on metabolic effect associated with propranolol treatment. …”
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Adversarial example construction against autonomous vehicle (part 2) by Cheong, Benjamin Yii Leung

“…We have found that the FGSM attack successfully causes misclassification at epsilon values of 0.15 to 0.25. Other key findings include that variations in Time of Day, Rain and Fog conditions generally do not affect the attack’s performance in misclassification. …”
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Experimental study on cache-performance optimization for graph storage by Foo, Wei Ling

“…In this extension, I have collected ten types of large graph datasets to measure the execution time using five graph ordering algorithms and five graph traversal algorithms as benchmarks from Fabrice Lecuyer et al. [2]. My findings show that Gorder results in the overall fastest execution time among the other graph-ordering algorithms, which validates the two initial results but highlights that Gorder is not the best performer on some types of graph datasets.…”
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Provenance graph generation for intrusion detection by Lim, Janesse Ziyi

“…In this study, we aim to validate these findings by generating our own benign and malicious user scenarios. …”
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Interpretable vector language models by Siow, Zi Hao

“…We associated the interpretability of a word embedding with the optimisation of various loss functions, namely Varimax, Quartimax and the l1-norm, defined on the Lie group SO(d). Our findings revealed that the l1-norm method achieved the highest level of interpretability among the three methods, because its solutions tend to have a higher proportion of matrix elements that are close to zero by promoting sparsity. …”
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