Institutions and agricultural transformation: a study of induced innovation in the Philippine rice sector by Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P.

“…The analysis also traced the persistence of these policies back to the state’s premature turn to industrialisation (Post-World War II era) even before the country’s rice sector could be made competitive: historical industrialisation policies 1) created initial conditions for currency overvaluation, and 2) set the stage for the outflow of financial resources from agriculture, leading to capitalisation challenges of farmers; 3) currency overvaluation in turn necessitated policies to protect the market share of farmers from trade (import) competition. …”
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Conditional knock out of N-WASP in keratinocytes causes skin barrier defects and atopic dermatitis-like inflammation by Kalailingam, Pazhanichamy, Tan, Hui Bing, Jain, Neeraj, Sng, Ming Keat, Chan, Jeremy Soon Kiat, Tan, Nguan Soon, Thanabalu, Thirumaran

“…N-WASPK14KO (N-WASP fl/fl ; CK14-Cre) mice were born following Mendelian genetics suggesting that N-WASP expression in keratinocytes is not essential during embryogenesis. …”
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Verifying Correctness of the Number Theoretic Transform and Fast Number Theoretic Transform in F⋆ by Ono, Rick R.

“…Because cryptographic algorithms often secure sensitive information, their correctness, and in turn their security is a top priority. The Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) is an algorithm that enables efficient polynomial multiplication and has recently gained importance in post-quantum cryptography. …”
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Trust in prescription drug brand websites : website trust cues, attitude toward the website, and behavioral intentions by Huh, Jisu, Shin, Wonsun

“…Perceived DTC website trust, in turn, was found to be significantly associated with consumers' attitude toward the DTC website and behavioral intention.…”
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Singlet fission materials for improved solar cells by Heng, Zhi Yin

“…This project report focuses on the chemical synthesis and characterization of organic compounds to determine its capability in exhibiting singlet fission phenomenon, which will in turn lead to an enhancement of solar cell efficiency when used in organic photovoltaic cells. …”
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AR card game design & implementation by Emmanuelle Vania

“…The purpose of this project is to develop an Android AR game application that implements AR functionality on a Collectible Card Game (CCG), a type of turn-based game originally set in a physical tabletop format. …”
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Autism narratives in Singapore by Ho, Melissa Yun Ling

“…Given that these narratives have, in turn, the potential to shape cultural discourses, and having shown through close literary analysis some effects of existing stereotypes and discourses, I argue for the urgency and importance of attending to narrative ethics in the production of autism narratives in Singapore.…”
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Involuntary transnationalism and regulated precarity: lived experiences of skilled Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore by Zhan, Shaohua, Zhou, Min

“…Based on analysis of survey data and in-depth interviews of skilled Chinese and Indian migrants in Singapore, we find that skilled foreign migrants face employment insecurity and other vulnerabilities largely due to visa regulations and that they have to turn to transnationalism as a coping strategy to mitigate precarity and temporality.…”
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Multiplexed model predictive control by Wu, Bing Fang

“…This reduction in computational complexity allows Multiplexed MPC to be executed at higher sampling rate, which in turn reacts faster to disturbances and thus can lead to improved performance in some cases, despite finding sub-optimal solutions to the original problem. …”
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Impact of Singapore’s ageing population on the macroeconomy. by Park, Sun Jung., Tan, Yi Jun.

“…An ageing population has severe implications on labour productivity which could in turn affect the competitiveness of the economy. Furthermore, the reduction in mandatory savings also makes exchange rate management difficult in Singapore. …”
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Sita and Surpanakha : blurring the distinction between good and evil women in Valmiki’s Ramayana by Chandrika Mohan

“…In this paper, I argue that Sita and Surpanakha, characters who despite being portrayed as foils, turn out to mirror more so than oppose each other, and through them, the text holds a certain anxiety about women and what they represent. …”
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Effective and efficient bunker operations, logistics, procurement, developments in the maritime industry. Part 2 : Effective and efficient management of bunker quality in the pers... by Wong, Jyun Yir

“…This report sheds light on how issues such as the addition of water and sludge by some bunker blenders to increase profit margins and how cat fines size and calorific value affect the quality of bunkers which in turn results in costs for the owners and operators. …”
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Semi-autonomous control of an unmanned aerial vehicle by Huang, Zhen

“…Radio Control Transmitter have been used to transmit video back to the ground station and remotely control the UAV of change flight mode, drop ball as well as turn on LED. In total, 4 scoring factors Smart (10 points), Aerial Platform (25 points), Mission Accomplished (65 points) and Presentation (10 points) are taken into consideration for the championship award, and our team has successfully won 2 medals: Bronze Medal in Championship Award and Silver Medal in Best Platform Award in the Semi- autonomous Category.…”
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Home automation system using Raspberry Pi by Wang, Yangyang

“…User can use web browser to control home appliances, such as to turn on the light, heating system, coffee machine… From anywhere in the world. …”
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Design and fabrication of voltage and current sensor boards for the medium voltage converter by Wee, Zhi Yuan

“…In this report, we have discussed AC/DC converters, Cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter, several high-power electronics components like power diode, thyristor (SCR), gate turn-off thyristor (GTO) and the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) used in the power converters. …”
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The potential impact of the Singapore-Malaysia high speed rail operation on the passenger demand for the low-cost carriers by Ong, Tuan Hock

“…It has been discovered: (i) travelers turn out to be less sensitive to the frequency of the HSR(ii) the fare price is the significant aspect influencing the HSR market share and thus decreasing LCC market share(iii) LCC and HSR might engage in a robust competition to attain the majority in the corridor.…”
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Environmental data collection from sensor infrastructure for smart nation project by Tan, Wen Hui

“…These solutions allow for the monitoring of environmental deprivations, which in turn, improve the quality of life and services for the citizens. …”
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The Southern Insurgency: Rethinking Thailand’s Military Strategy by Parameswaran, Prashanth

“…The southern region is approaching the precipice of civil war, insurgents are gaining increasing support and violence has continued unabated. In order to turn its foundering military campaign around, Thailand must address a number of critical issues relating to resources, capacities, conceptual frameworks and policies that plague its counterinsurgency effort.…”
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The effect of similarity measures on the quality of query clusters by Fu, Lin, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Foo, Schubert

“…Harnessing such search experiences facilitates collaborative querying that in turn may help users of digital libraries and other information systems to better meet their information needs. …”
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Obfuscating the topical intention in enterprise text search by Pang, Hwee Hwa, Xiao, Xiaokui, Shen, Jiali

“…The text search queries in an enterprise can reveal the users' topic of interest, and in turn confidential staff or business information. …”
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