Decentralization : the China and Indonesia experiences. by Quan, Quan.

“…In this paper, we would like to attempt to address the puzzle that if decentralization has been widely regarded as a tool to promote the democratization process in non-democratic countries and improve welfare at local level, why some of the decentralization experiences in China and Indonesia do not seem to confirm that. …”
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Women in AI: is there a Singapore model? by Nair, Tamara

“…While AI technologies like Alexa and Siri have female names and voices, there are very few women involved in developing AI products and services. …”
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Anatomy of gloom. by Lim, Gwen Yuan Wen.

“…The Puppet wakes up in a gloomy world. Like a new born baby, she is amused her existence. …”
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Direct foreign investment in Singapore. by Ang, Cheow Leng, Lee, Kwok Lan, Lim, Chong Huat

“…This is a very significant figure for a small country like Singapore. It is thus interesting to discuss various issues with regard to DFI which are of major concern to Singapore.…”
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Cinema industry in Singapore by Ng Ee San, Shang Pei Lin, Yue Lai Ping Sherry

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Hydrogels in applications for tissue engineering by Chng, Siaw Wei

“…Cell encapsulation technology has advantages of offering tissue-like environment for cell/tissue growths and enhances cell differentiation and proliferation, and biodegradable. …”
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Up in smoke : peatland fires in Russia and Indonesia by Sofiah Jamil

“…Russia’s peatland fires, like those in Indonesia, have been triggered by high global temperatures. …”
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PrimeNet: a framework for commonsense knowledge representation and reasoning based on conceptual primitives by Liu, Qian, Han, Sooji, Cambria, Erik, Li, Yang, Kwok, Kenneth

“…Commonsense knowledge acquisition and representation is a core topic in artificial intelligence (AI), which is crucial for building more sophisticated and human-like AI systems. However, existing commonsense knowledge bases organize facts in an isolated manner like bag of facts, lacking the cognitive-level connections that humans commonly possess. …”
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Innovation, Strategy, and Transformation Frameworks for the Modern Enterprise / by Correia, Anacleto, 1961-, editor 651890, Agua, Pedro B., 1968-, editor 656382, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…The book delves into business process management frameworks like BPMN and Lean Six Sigma, empowering organizations to maximize resources, adapt to market conditions, and drive process enhancements. …”
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Correlation between hardness and SEM-EDS characterization of palm oil waste based biocoke by Asri, Gani, Erdiwansyah, ., Hera, Desvita, Saisa, ., Mahidin, ., Rizalman, Mamat, Zulhaini, Sartika, Ratna Eko, Sarjono

“…Biocoke hardness is a quality indicator of physical and chemical qualities; the vital link between biocoke hardness, structural features, and elemental composition supports this idea.…”
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Investigating Social Presence and Communication with Embodied Avatars in Room-Scale Virtual Reality by Greenwald, Scott W., Wang, Zhangyuan, Funk, Markus, Maes, Pattie

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Pedestrian-oriented development in Beirut: A framework for estimating urban design impacts on pedestrian flows through modeling, participatory design, and scenario analysis by Sevtsuk, Andres, Kollar, Justin, Pratama, Daniel, Basu, Rounaq, Haddad, Jawad, Alhassan, Abdulaziz, Chancey, Bahij, Halabi, Mohamad, Makhlouf, Rawad, Abou-Zeid, Maya

“…In this article, we update the Urban Network Analysis pedestrian modeling framework designed to link land use and urban development changes with pedestrian mobility outcomes by introducing new methods for capturing the effects of street properties on pedestrian travel demand and adjusting pedestrian trip generation rates with k-nearest accessibility scores based on destination availability in each context. …”
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Leveraging natural language processing to curate the tmCAT, tmPHOTO, tmBIO, and tmSCO datasets of functional transition metal complexes by Kevlishvili, Ilia, St. Michel, Roland G, Garrison, Aaron G, Toney, Jacob W, Adamji, Husain, Jia, Haojun, Román-Leshkov, Yuriy, Kulik, Heather J

“…Here, we employ both supervised and unsupervised natural language processing (NLP) techniques to link experimentally synthesized compounds in the tmQM database to their respective applications. …”
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Exploiting Temporal Vulnerabilities for Unauthorized Access in Intent-based Networking by Weintraub, Ben, Kim, Jiwon, Tao, Ran, Nita-Rotaru, Cristina, Okhravi, Hamed, Tian, Dave (Jing), Ujcich, Benjamin

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Development of smart semiconductor manufacturing : operations research and data science perspectives by Khakifirooz, Marzieh, Fathi, Mahdi, Wu, Kan

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Strengthening economic linkages between South Asia and East Asia : the case for a second round of "look east" policies by Rana, Pradumna B., Chia, Wai-Mun

“…This paper argues that South Asian countries need to embark on a second round of “Look East” Policies (LEP2) to (i) link themselves to production networks in East Asia and (ii) develop production networks in manufacturing and services within their region. …”
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Coherent superposition of current flows in an atomtronic quantum interference device by Aghamalyan, Davit, Cominotti, Marco, Rizzi, Matteo, Rossini, Davide, Hekking, Frank, Minguzzi, Anna, Kwek, Leong-Chuan, Amico, Luigi

“…We consider a correlated Bose gas tightly confined into a ring shaped lattice, in the presence of an artificial gauge potential inducing a persistent current through it. A weak link painted on the ring acts as a source of coherent back-scattering for the propagating gas, interfering with the forward scattered current. …”
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Re-understanding the mechanisms of action of the anti-mycobacterial drug bedaquiline by Sarathy, Jickky Palmae, Gruber, Gerhard, Dick, Thomas

“…In a recently uncovered second direct mechanism, BDQ binds to the enzyme’s ε-subunit to disrupt its ability to link c-ring rotation to ATP synthesis at the α3β3-headpiece. …”
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Congestion estimation and turning ratio prediction based on machine learning with applications in urban traffic light control by Chen, Qixing

“…The first pre-work is urban traffic network congestion region identification and prediction with two case studies at NTU campus and Jurong area, which utilizes the vehicle data (average speed, GPS-based location, heading direction) via V2X to analyse the traffic condition of each link. Links with similar congestion levels will be clustered together into a region. …”
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Design of AM self-capacitive transparent touch panel based on a-IGZO thin-film transistors by Wu, Kejun, Zhang, Jun, Li, Yuanbo, Wang, Xiangzhan, Liu, Yang, Yu, Qi, Chen, Tupei

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