Banking behaviour of expatriate lecturers in Singapore. by Goh, Amy., Phua, Nai Hsin., Poh, Siok Peng.

“…The competitive banking environment today forces banking institutions to continuously seek out profitable market segments. With the regionalisation of the Singapore’s economy, the growing number of expatriates forms a ready market for these institutions. …”
Get full text

Investigation on the mechanism of amyloid beta peptides oligomerization and the process for its inhibition by Zhao, Li Na

“…We have chosen the full-length Abeta peptides as well as the most representative short segments of Abeta and employed the classical molecular dynamics and the sampling-enhanced replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations, to investigate the aggregation and atomic detailed interaction among Abeta, lipids, small molecules and macromolecules.…”
Get full text

The stock price behaviour of Chinese markets : a preliminary study by Ang, Fui Siong, Neo, Chiw Ern, Tung, Puay Koon

“…By using daily data of these share indices from March 1993 to December 1994, the results show that weak form efficiency does not exist in the Bshare markets. Segmentation is found between the two B-share markets but not the A-share markets. …”
Get full text

Real-time human detection for surveillance applications by Hoe, Qi Xiang

“…The overall accuracy has improved with the enhancement of using additional feature of magnitude inclusive for the HOG computation and further enhanced with the aid of additional features of magnitude inclusive and limitation of magnitude for the HOG computation. Furthermore, segmentation has been performed on the head and body of the human figure for the purpose of system integration with the biometrics’ description. …”
Get full text

Analysis of air traffic controllers' mental workload and visual search efficiency to assess new air traffic control procedures by Ko, Kelvin Chi Kin

“…While this study highlights some of the concerns regarding dual orientation systems, it raises an area of focus for future research, where dual orientation systems could be leveraged on with the segmentation of tasks…”
Get full text

Biomechanics of Muay Thai : science behind the low kick by Zeng, Ezra Yueyi

“…The main motions involved in the execution of the low kick is the 3-dimensional rotations of the leg segments and the body. In Muay Thai, little attention is given to the kinematic, kinetic and the dynamic concepts and principles involved that form the techniques that are now used today. …”
Get full text

An investigation on the role of tarsal flexibility in insect walking by Tjuatja, Johan

“…Although there is a wealth of literature on various physical properties of insect leg, such as strength and inner structure, there seems to be a lack of knowledge on the functions or roles of the individual leg segments, such as the tarsus. While the tarsus has been long known to be flexible, there has currently been no study that explains what the purpose of this flexibility is in insect leg. …”
Get full text

Cats and dogs by Parkhi, OM, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A, lawahar, CV

“…Fitting the model involves automatically segmenting the animal in the image. Second, we compare two classification approaches: a hierarchical one, in which a pet is first assigned to the cat or dog family and then to a breed, and a flat one, in which the breed is obtained directly. …”

Automated location matching in movies by Schaffalitzky, F, Zisserman, A

“…The local spatial support of the features means that segmentation of the frame (e.g., into foreground/background) is not required, and partial occlusion is tolerated. …”

Toward an Asian-based bodily movement database for emotional communication by Cheng, M, Tseng, C, Fujiwara, K, Higashiyama, S, Weng, A, Kitamura, Y

“…To address the obvious risk this bias poses to academic comprehension, we attempted to expand the current repertoire of human bodily emotions by recruiting Asian professional performers to wear whole-body suits with 57 retroreflective markers attached to major joints and body segments, and express seven basic emotions with whole-body movements in a motion-capture lab. …”

Structural characterization of the full-length Hantaan virus polymerase by Keown, JR, Carrique, L, Nilsson-Payant, BE, Fodor, E, Grimes, JM

“…Hantaviridae are a family of segmented negative-sense RNA viruses that contain important human and animal pathogens. …”

A Sufficient Condition for k-Contraction of the Series Connection of Two Systems by Ofir, Ron, Margaliot, Michael, Levron, Yoash, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

“…The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnections of contracting sub-systems yield an overall contracting system. …”
Get full text

Effects of maze appearance on maze solving by Semizer, Yelda, Yu, Dian, Wan, Qianqian, Balas, Benjamin, Rosenholtz, Ruth

“…Our findings imply a role of both crowding and figure/ground segmentation in mental maze solving and suggest reformulating the growth cone models.…”
Get full text

Digital Anatomy : Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality / by Uhl, Jean-François, editor 643187, Jorge, J. A. (Joaquim Armando), editor 643188, Lopes, Daniel Simões, editor 643190, Campos, Pedro F., editor 643191

The dietetic practice of prescribing amino acid-based formulas in paediatrics patients without cow’s milk allergy: a single centre retrospective study by O’Connor, Graeme, Mansell, Melissa

“…Data were collected on demographics, anthropometrics, feed regimens, gastrointestinal symptoms, proton pump inhibitor use and serum phosphate concentration Results: 203 children were prescribed an AAF during the data collection period, of these, 154 of 203 (76%) patients had no allergies. …”
Get full text

Performance evaluation of SAFIS for benchmark problems by Sinara Vijayan.

“…Using two classification benchmark problems Image Segmentation and DNA, the selection of the optimal algorithm parameters is done and the performace of SAFIS for the classification problems is also studied with other algorithms. …”
Get full text

The effects of processing conditions on the morphology of single conjugated polymers. by Yeo, Hui Lin.

“…These emissive centers of the collapsed chain were proposed to be intrachain aggregates consisting of closely π-stacked segments, therefore possessing weak oscillator strength and an extended radiative lifetime. …”
Get full text

Design, synthesis, characterization and property study of topological structures of DNA by Li, Dawei

“…It is also shown unprecedentedly in our investigation that the size of DNA writhe could be accurately engineered by altering T-rich and A-rich segments in the target duplex DNAs. In addition, the results of our studies confirmed that the intrinsic curvatures of organismal DNAs alone could lead to the generation of duplex backbone self-crossings in their relaxed forms and the backbone self-crossings of those organismal DNAs could be readily confirmed through atomic force microscopic examination. …”
Get full text

iNEMO : a multi-sensor real-time human activity monitoring system by Mi, Ding.

“…The real-time indoor human behavior monitoring application performs above expectation. The image segmentation, objects detection, tracking and recognition process are successfully working on multiple objects application within certain effective range. …”
Get full text

The antecedents and consequences of a layered architecture of mobile handsets by Lee, Alvin Wei Ming

“…The industry is seen to be evolving into three distinct segments; Handset, Operating System and Content. This thesis will draw upon relevant literature that applies the theory of modularization to the mobile phone industry. …”
Get full text