Hunting and the social lives of Southern Africa’s first farmers by Jones, M, Kapumha, R, Chirikure, S, Marshall, F

“…However, archaeological models emphasize cattle keeping and downplay the role of hunting among past farming groups. To address this discrepancy and investigate human–wild animal interactions over the last ~ 2000 years, we examined zooarchaeological data from 54 southern African Iron Age (first and second millennium AD) farming sites. …”

Comparative advertising in Singapore : proposed amendments to the 1999 Singapore code of advertising practice (2nd Edition). by Ong, Lynn Pei Shan., Tian, Yee Shin.

“…The use of comparative advertising as an advertising technique is old, and the fast growing literature on this subject is an indication of the interest advertising practitioners and researchers have in this technique. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…In the last five years, Latin America has re-emerged on the world stage of global upstream opportunities. …”

Marketing of "Do-It-Yourself" tour package for Destinations Holidays Pte Ltd by Chang, Ei Leen, Teo, Ivy Mun Li, Wong, Teck Wee

“…Due to the ease in entry into the travel industry, many travel agencies are being set up in Singapore to tap into this "Travel Boom". For the past few years, the travel industry has been a fast growing and competitive industry in Singapore. …”
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React based web-application for stock price forecasting with a novel stacking algorithm by Mittal, Madhav

“…The model performances are compared against a threshold performance of the “Last Value” algorithm. The “Last Value” algorithm is a naïve algorithm that assumes zero volatility in the data and thus sets all forecasts to be the value of the last observation. …”
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FPGA-based multi-rate system design : Avalon Interface vs.Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous approach by Zou, You.

“…Avalon Interfaces is developed by Altera and it allows fast and convenient interfacing between Altera IP cores, which are also called components. …”
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Historicity and the contemporary theatre of Kuo Pao Kun and Krishen Jit by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…Historicity for Kuo and Jit is not the modernist desire to reconstruct the fragments of the past into a whole, and is not centrally about the representation of the past (though that occurs), but is in the first instance the need to capture the past’s fragments in order to conceive a fuller sense of the present’s multicultural opportunities.…”
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15 years of Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AAD) in finance by Capriotti, L, Giles, M

“…Following the seminal ‘Smoking Adjoint’ paper by Giles and Glasserman [Smoking adjoints: Fast monte carlo greeks. Risk, 2006, <strong>19</strong>, 88–92], the development of Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AAD) has revolutionized the way risk is computed in the financial industry. …”

A Brief History of Blockchain Interoperability by Belchior, Rafael, S??enguth, Jan, Feng, Qi, Hardjono, Thomas, Vasconcelos, Andr?, Correia, Miguel

“…In this paper, we will dive into the rabbit hole of blockchain interoperability and explain why it is needed, what has work been done in the last decade (the past), how it is currently deployed and used in practice (the present), and likely paths of development (the future).…”
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Study of power flow control by unified power flow controller by Yam, Chien Meng

“…In the past, power systems were relatively simple and self-sufficient; power exportation and importation were rare and few. …”
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Recent studies on common ownership, firm behavior, and market outcomes by Schmalz, MC

“…The literature on competitive effects of common ownership has grown at a fast rate in the past two years. Anticompetitive effects have been confirmed with alternative reduced-form and structural estimation methods, in different industries, geographies, and jurisdictions. …”

Low voltage CMOS operational amplifier design towards maximum CMR by Tan, Chee Lam.

“…For the past few decades, there has been a ceaseless drive to reduce the minimum feature size of a MOS transistor. …”
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Design and development of an android application “Bus NTU” by Yin, Bangqi.

“…Since the past few years, smartphones have been playing increasingly important role in daily life. …”
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Well-posedness and stability of a stochastic neural field in the form of a partial differential equation by Carrillo de la Plata, JA, Roux, P, Solem, S

“…Last, we improve previous linear stability results by showing nonlinear asymptotic stability of stationary solutions under suitable assumptions.…”

The impact of anxiety and challenge on quiet eye in tenpin bowling by Lim, Bernice Hui Ying

“…It was hypothesized from past research that elite would demonstrate longer visual search duration compared to the sub-elite. …”
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Septic patients with cancer : do prehospital antibiotics improve survival? A sub-analysis of the PHANTASi trial by Panday, Rishi Nannan, Wang, S., Schermer, E. H., Cooksley, T., Alam, N., Nanayakkara, P. W. B.

“…Results: 357(13.4%) of the 2658 included patients had cancer in the past five years, of which, 209 (58.5%) were included in the intervention and 148 (41.5%) usual care groups; 28-day mortality was significantly higher in patients who were diagnosed with cancer in the past five years than those without cancer in the past five years: 15.2% vs. 7.1%, respectively (p < 0.001). …”
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Design of a localization and navigation system for multi-mobile robot coordination by Tan, Jiue Lin

“…With the fast-paced development of the technology, robots like unmanned aerial vehicle or automated guided vehicle are made more human-like to reduce human labour. …”
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Recent study on biodegradable hydrogels for agriculture application: A review by Wan Amirah Najwa, Wan Anuar, Ros Azlinawati, Ramli, El-Sayed, Marwa M., Warkar, Sudhir G.

“…However, using it alone results in poor mechanical properties and very fast degradation. Therefore, combining it with other materials as a composite is necessary. …”
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Multiplexed model predictive control by Wu, Bing Fang

“…During the last two decades, Model Predictive Control (MPC) has established itself as an important form of advanced control due to its ability to deal with constraints. …”
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The battle for Asia in crude oil markets: an easier road ahead for India? by Sen, A

“…This, together with the deregulation of product prices, will help boost Indian fiscal balances immensely, in a complete reversal of the trend seen over the past decade.…”