Multilateral security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region : prospects and possibilities by Ball, Desmond

“…This paper seeks to (i) describe the achievements with respect to the institutionalisation of multilateralism in the Asia-Pacific since 1992; (ii) provide a critical assessment of this progress; (iii) consider some of the principal problems affecting the process; (iv) provide some net assessment of the achievements to date and what this suggests for the future; and (v) outline and agenda for action. It acknowledges the extraordinary progress of the institutionalisation of multilateral security cooperation between 1992-97 but also sees this process and institutionalising a region-wide confidence-building process were fundamentally important achievements of the first five-year period, but they were relatively easy undertakings when compared to mroe substantive activites such as preventive diplomacy, conflict resolution or arms control.…”
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Ultimate displacement of reinforced concrete columns with light transverse reinforcement by Tran, Cao Thanh Ngoc., Li, Bing.

“…A series of experiments is conducted on five RC columns with light transverse reinforcement to validate the applicability and accuracy of the developed model. …”
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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

“…Evaluation of the factors leading to the competitive relationship is carried out using Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model, while the analysis of the competition is done using Just-In-Time (JIT) concept and perishable cargoes. …”
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Infant learning platform using Arduino (project 2) by Xie, Shiqi

“…This report is comprised of five chapters, which starts with an overview of color and shape understanding of early childhood education and final year project introduction. …”
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Construction and classification of group invariant Butson Hadamard matrices by Wong, Dai Quan

“…The main areas of study we have identified are: • The existence and the construction of group invariant Butson Hadamard matrices • The non-existence and the necessary conditions for their existence • The classification of group invariant Butson Hadamard matrices Our contribution to this study is the outline of five types of constructions of group invariant Butson Hadamard matrices, a new necessary condition for existence under the self-conjugacy assumption and the classification of Butson Hadamard matrices which are invariant under the groups ℤₚ × ℤₚ and ℤₚ₂ × ℤₚ × ℤₚ.…”
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Indonesia’s mass killings of 1965–1966 : retrospective and requiem by Faizah Zakaria

“…Since the kidnapping and murder of six generals in the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, during an abortive coup attempt that the Indonesian Army alleged was masterminded by the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) – an event which served as a pretext for the mass violence that swiftly followed – academics and observers, within and outside Indonesia, have sought to uncover and explain its murky history in studies that now span five decades.…”
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Multigrid computation of high-speed turbulent flows in ducts by Ding, Zhongman

“…The numerical method used is based on an explicit five-stage Runge-Kutta time-stepping scheme. Multigrid technique and implicit residual smoothing strategy are employed to ensure a high computing efficiency and convergent rate. …”
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Pricing Nikkei index put warrants under fixed and floating exchange rate. by Solihin, Norman., Ryanto, Rudy.

“…Our study uses the BAW model to estimate the theoretical price of five Nikkei Index Put Warrants under fixed exchange rate and one warrant under floating exchange rate, during 1992, the most recent period for those warrants. …”
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Multiscale corner detection based on wavelet transform and scale-space theory by Gao, Xinting

“…In this thesis, we focus our research on the contour based corner detection (CCD) methods and direct intensity computation based corner detection (DICD) methods. Five algorithms are proposed, which partially or wholly solve three problems, i.e., (1) incomplete information; (2) delocalization; and (3) multiple responses to higher order structures. …”
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Emotikon : audio production of the interpretation of human emotion through soundscape and music by De Cotta, Timothy Alexander, Long, Lyndsey Liting

“…We wanted to appeal to the various feelings of the listener in five songs that spanned a range of musical genres, and more ambitiously, try to manipulate how the listener was feeling in a short period of time.…”
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The four mini dragons by Ding, See Yue, Leo, Cher Ling, Seah, Boon Hock

“…This period is in turn split into two five-year periods: 1985-1989 and 1990- 1994. This is to assist the comparison of the four dragons’ economies between the 80s and the 90s. …”
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Antecedents and outcomes of employee engagement. by Hor, Guoyong.

“…Personality was measured using the five 16PF global factors (Cattell, 1946). Employee engagement was measured in terms of one's psychological state (state engagement) and behaviors (behavioral engagement; Kahn, 1990). …”
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Human metapneumovirus in Singapore : epidemiology, fusion-attachment protein interaction and virus-like particle assembly by Loo, Liat Hui

“…There was also no existing data on the presence of HBoV, HCoV and HRV in hospitalized children in Singapore. …”
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Asynchronous logic quasi delay insensitive (QDI) static/dynamic/pass logic transistor-level implementation half/full buffer realization approaches for robust VLSI system by Tsui, Yun Kan

“…Asynchronous logic should be the future direction of logic design that have the potential to overcome this issue. In this project, five types of asynchronous design technique, which included Static/Dynamic/Pass Logic Transistor-level Implementation, Pre-Charged Half-Buffer and Weak-Conditioned Half- Buffer and four key parameters, which included Delay, Power consumption, Energy consumption and Number of transistor used were experimented. …”
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Thermal phase-change storage for power regeneartion by Toh, Jeremy Wei Hong

“…In this study, an experimental study is conducted to investigate the efficiency of the designed thermal energy storage (TES) unit and also to test how the designed TES unit performs under different working conditions. The five chambers of the TES unit were filled with paraffin wax which is the phase change material (PCM). …”
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K Wizdom Pte Ltd (Optimate) by Loo, Preston Nam Kuen

“…Chapter Four of this report is the summary to give an overview of what the author has learnt and what was accomplished during the author’s Final Year Project. Finally, Chapter Five and Chapter Six of this report document the key learning and the references to the materials that the author has used.…”
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Ultrasonic guided wave inspection in large composite plate by Sakthivel Tamilarasam

“…The excitation signal is five cycle hanning windowed tone burst and based on the vibration signal captured in Laser vibrometer, the interactions between lamb waves and the composite plate are studied. …”
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Exchange rate prediction based on machine learning methods by Hong, Yuyue

“…In this paper, we use machine learning methods mentioned above to forecast the exchange rate between five different currencies and the United States dollar. …”
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Impact of plant practices on operational performance : a statistical analysis of data from a Canadian manufacturing survey. by Huang, Yun Bo.

“…The results also indicate that while usage of many practices can significantly distinguish MS groups from LS groups, there is a difference as to how every practice factor and individual practices contribute to plant performance improvement on the five dimensions. It was found that the quality-related practices are the most important ones for improving quality performance, manufacturing technologies are the most effective practices for improving cost & productivity performance. …”
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Can we please have some honesty about drugs by Saad ul Hassan Hashmi

“…Finally, in section four, I will discuss contemporary research on drugs. In section five, I consider more objections to the arguments I have made and draw a final conclusion: that policy should be framed based on evidence.…”
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