Monitoring resident and relocated sunda colugos (Galeopterus variegatus) at the Singapore zoo. by Leroy Rocky Alphonso.

“…The Sunda colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) is a largely understudied arboreal and nocturnal mammal native to South-East Asia, including Singapore. A healthy population exists within the compounds of the Singapore Zoo and Night Safari which are adjacent to the Central Catchment Nature Reserves. …”
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A study on the impact of Panama Canal expansion on major stakeholders by Lee, Jin Yan

“…The outcome of this research revealed that the competition level between US West Coast (USWC) ports and US East Coast (USEC) ports will get more intense. USWC ports have to counter its associated problems, as well as increase their productivity and efficiency in order to stay competitive. …”
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Factors effecting the acoustic properties of date palm fiber by Abd. AlRahman Jawad, Lamyaa

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Shale oil in Russia – commercial catalyst required by Henderson, J

“…To this end, the Russian authorities have been encouraging the country’s major oil companies to explore new greenfield regions – such as East Siberia, the Black and Barents Seas, and the Arctic offshore – in the hope that major new production areas can be developed. …”

Redefining the phylogenetic relationships of European Angelica (Apiaceae) species by González-Toral, C, Estandía, A, Pérez, M, Holloway, TE, Nava, HS, Fernández Prieto, JA, Cires, E

“…Molecular evidences suggest that <i>A. heterocarpa</i> should be considered an estuary forma of <i>A. sylvestris</i>. The east and west <i>A. sylvestris</i> subclades support the subspecies <i>A. sylvestris</i> subsp. …”

Burnout among expatriate and local instructors in Oman by Mukundan, Jayakaran, Geng, Hui, Nimehchisalem, Vahid, Al-Busaidi, Saleh

“…This phenomenon has attracted considerable attention across diverse professional sectors. With the Middle East’s rapid expansion of tertiary education and reliance on both local and expatriate educators, a thorough understanding of burnout becomes essential. …”
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Land ase analysis for Surabaya metropolitan area urban transportation planning using spatial method by Abidin, Zainal, Prasetijo, Joewono, Mohd Masirin, Mohd Idrus

“…The East Java Province, which includes the city of Surbaya, is home to Indonesia's second-largest economic zone. …”
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The Usage of Islamic Financial Services in Zanzibar: The Influence of Accessibility, Relevancy and Expected Benefits by Moh’d Khamis, Fauz, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Yusuff, Noraini

“…In addition, the current study provides the evidence about usage of Islamic financial services in new environment; Zanzibar, the emerging Islamic financial market in East Africa…”
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Trend of temperature changes in Singapore by Wang, Qian.

“…Thus, the project focuses on data collection and analysis of the mean minimum temperature of the past three decades. By adopting general statistical approach and using the Zero-Crossing Method, the writer minimise the fluctuation of the data due to the cyclic components and establish a more definitive trend of the temperature distribution. …”
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Flood risk studies for Jakarta, Indonesia by Ang, Ying Ru

“…These included using the Green & Ampt Loss Model and Thiessen Polygons Meteorological Model. Lastly, imperviousness percentages from past reports were modeled to determine the change in peak flow rate over a period of 30 years due to rapid urbanization in Jakarta.…”
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Implementation of a boost power factor correction rectifier by Lim, Shi Quan

“…At the same time, the secondary goal is to achieve a fast response for the output of the rectifier. The diode rectifier-fed high voltage gain boost converter was able to function with the four controllers constructed. …”
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Neutron emission studies from miniature and medium size plasma focus device by Singh, Rajdeep Raweet.

“…Since the low energy MPF devices are compact, inexpensive, long lasting and easier to maintain; these distinctive features sets them apart from other sources as a prime candidate for compact pulsed neutron source. …”
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Learning to generalize to new tasks/domains with limited data by Peng, Danni

“…The key trait of human beings is the ability to generalize knowledge from past experience, achieving satisfactory performance on new tasks with minimal to no learning (i.e., limited data). …”
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Time series forecasting for tourism industry in Malaysia by Noratikah, Abu, Siti Aishah @Tsamienah, Taib, Nurul Amira, Zainal, Nor Azuana, Ramli, Go, Clark Kendrick

“…The findings show that SARIMA (2,1,1)(0,1,1)12 was considered as highly accurate forecasting model based on its least error produced.…”
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Informality, the Fourth Standard of Practice by Rowe, Mary

“…This happened relatively slowly, over at least fifteen years, after the first three pillars were widely adopted. …”
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New Resiliency in Truly Combinatorial Auctions (and Implementation in Surviving Strategies) by Chen, Jing, Micali, Silvio

“…To advance resilient mechanism design,We put forward a new meaningful benchmark for the COMBINED social welfare-revenue performance of any mechanism in truly combinatorial auctions.We put forward a NEW notion of implementation, much more general than the ones used so far, which we believe to be of independent interest.We put forward a new RESILIENT mechanism that, by leveraging the knowledge that the players have about each other, guarantees at least one half of our benchmark under a very general collusion model.…”
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The meaning of the auxiliary morpheme 'dug in the aspect systems of some Central Tibetan dialects by Volkart, Marianne

“…In the perfective aspect, on the other hand, 'dug appears in some dialects with a "minus evidential" (-EVID) meaning. In at least one case, namely Lhomi, these opposite meanings are even to be found within the same dialect.…”
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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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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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