A Singapore perspective : impact of disclosure and board independence on firm performance. by Chua, Zi Qin., Low, Jason Wei Jie., Yee, Derrick Hock Huat.

“…Consistent with the Code’s recommendation of at least 33% independent directors, we find that firms with board independence in the range of 33% to 50% have the best operating performance.…”
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Social resilience through pluralism as Singapore's centre of gravity against the impact of terrorism. by Lee, Wee Leong.

“…It is posited here that given the Singapore government’s emphasis on building the social resilience of its people, especially in promoting pluralism, this center of gravity (COG) would even have prevented, or at the very least, withstood another violent reaction between the races as intended by the JI, even if the plot had succeeded, as alluded to in the article at the beginning of this paper.…”
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Human detection and tracking in surveillance videos by Ren, Yi.

“…From the previous researches, four well-known detection methods have been analyzed, namely frame difference, OpenCV Gaussian mixture model, adaptive Gaussian mixture model and optical flow. At least one algorithm developed from each method has been implemented with the same dataset, in order to compare the performance of the methods. …”
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Detection of faults in machines using power signatures and assessment of faults on energy consumption by Lin, Ian Liyang.

“…The results of diagnosing a machine with unbalanced fault and a machine with bearing outer raceway fault with the proposed algorithm has a success rate of at least 99% and 69% respectively.…”
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A study on the extent of Singaporeans' knowledge of their history by Chan Lai Yin Ivy Hannah, Ong Siok Lay Jessie, Tay Siang Ling Hannah

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Age and productivity : a sector perspective by Gan, Geraldine Xinya, Shia, Lisong, Yang, Fan

“…We also find that high income countries and ageing countries tend to have a later peak in productivity compared to low and low middle income and non-ageing countries respectively. The least productive sector is also likely to have more influence on the overall productivity profile. …”
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Analysis of total factor productivity growth in marine and offshore industry by Chia, Cheryl Xin Yu, Lin, Joyce Shi Ying, Neo, Kai Min

“…The overall trend of estimated TFPG has been found to be declining gradually and there is a positive and significant relationship between output growth and TFPG in M&O industry from 1981 to 2013. Next, the Ordinary Least Square model was applied to analyse the variables that have an effect on the TFPG in M&O industry. …”
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Engineering education with virtual reality (Drill press machinary) by Tan, Yong Liang

“…But due to the space constraints and tide lesson schedules, not all students can get to interact with all the machineries at least before they start working in their relevant fields. …”
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Large sieve inequality with characters to square moduli by Zhao, Liangyi.

“…One expects that the result should be weaker than the classical inequality, but, conjecturally at least, not by much. The method is generalizable to higher power moduli.…”
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An on-nanoparticle rolling-circle amplification platform for ultrasensitive protein detection in biological fluids by Yan, Juan, Song, Shiping, Li, Bing, Zhang, Qingzhi, Huang, Qing, Zhang, Hua, Fan, Chunhai

“…An on-nanoparticle rolling-circle amplification (nanoRCA) strategy allows the visual detection of 30 molecules of carcinoembryonic antigen with at least 1010-fold selectivity over a range of noncognate proteins. …”
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On semidefinite programming relaxations of maximum k -section by Klerk, Etienne de., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V., Sotirov, Renata., Dobre, Cristian.

“…For k=2 (i.e. for maximum bisection), the new bound is at least as strong as a well-known bound by Poljak and Rendl (SIAM J Optim 5(3):467–487, 1995). …”
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Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan by Laporte, J

“…Focusing on the development of Azerbaijan’s events industry in the 2000s and 2010s, the article uses available evidence and process tracing techniques to develop the hypothesis that Azerbaijan’s elites sought out hosting rights, at least in part, to diversify their sources of private rents. …”

Why do rural migrant mothers in urban China digitally monitor their children? by Murphy, R, Wu, G

“…The discussion draws on our 22 face-to-face interviews with the rural migrant mothers of at least one child ages 7–14 years. Our analysis highlights the intersectionally constituted time pressures arising from these women’s need to balance their responsibilities in paid work and childcare. …”

Quasi-Biennial Oscillation by Wang, Y, Rao, J, Ju, Z, Osprey, SM

“…The QBO can affect the climate in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres through at least three dynamic pathways, including the stratospheric polar vortex pathway, the subtropical downward-arching zonal wind pathway, and the tropical convection pathway. …”

Life satisfaction and work-life balance: the complexities of gender patterning by Brooks, R, Fu, J, Maire, M

“…Conventionally, issues connected to work–life balance have been thought to concern women more than men – not least through the promotion of a strongly gendered discourse about the imperative to become a ‘balanced woman’. …”

Receiver design for the REACH global 21-cm signal experiment by Roque, ILV, Razavi-Ghods, N, Carey, SH, Ely, JA, Handley, W, Magro, A, Chiello, R, Huang, T, Alexander, P, Anstey, D, Bernardi, G, Bevins, HTJ, Cavillot, J, Croukamp, W, Cumner, J, de Lera Acedo, E, de Villiers, DIL, Fialkov, A, Gessey-Jones, T, Gueuning, Q, Josaitis, AT, Kulkarni, G, Leeney, SAK, Maiolino, R, Zarb-Adami, K

“…Following this, we share laboratory results based on the calculation of noise wave parameters utilising an over-constrained least squares approach. For five hours of integration on a custom-made source with comparable impedance to that of the antenna used in the field, we demonstrate a calibration RMSE of 80 mK. …”

Secularization versus religious revival in Eastern Europe: Church institutional resilience, state repression and divergent paths by Northmore-Ball, K, Evans, G

“…We argue that the current literature has thus taken a mistakenly general approach, and that the post-Communist region consists of at least two distinct groups of societies with different trends in religiosity.…”

Self-Assembly of a Biologically Plausible Learning Circuit by Liao, Qianli, Ziyin, Liu, Gan, Yulu, Cheung, Brian, Harnett, Mark, Poggio, Tomaso

“…Over the last four decades, the amazing success of deep learning has been driven by the use of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as the main optimization technique. …”
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Past, present and future relationship between air and sea freight services in Singapore : competition or complementarity by Choo, Cai Ling, Huang, Pauline Jierui, Oh, Adeline Ying Ling

“…The complementary relationship of air and sea freight transport is discussed using the sea-air freight mode as well as by looking at JIT concept from an alternative perspective. In the last section, the report touches on the future outlook on the size of aircrafts and containerships, new technology, fuel prices, and the future economic development which will affect the future relationship of both the freight transport modes in Singapore.…”
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Infant learning platform using Arduino (project 2) by Xie, Shiqi

“…The summary and future work are concluded in the last section of the report. The recorded FYP Demonstration video is presented in Appendix C.…”
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