Mexico: positioning for a transformational upstream opening in 2015 by Sandrea, I, Taylor, R

“…Mexico’s proven base of resources is quite unique and within the top 10 on a world scale relative to other international emerging areas that have received high investment interest over the last five years, such as Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Morocco. …”

Responding to global competition : SIA as a case study by Ang, Juliana Hiok Lian

“…SIA was chosen for this study, as it is the only international carrier for Singapore, without domestic routes and has performed consistently well over the last 28 years.…”
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On the Complexity of Neural Computation in Superposition by Adler, Micah, Shavit, Nir

“…This implies that any “lottery ticket” sparse sub-network must have at least Ω(m′ log m′ ) parameters no matter what the initial dense network size. …”
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Robust parameter estimation for one-inflated positive Poisson Lindley distribution under the presence and absence of outliers with applications to crime data by Mohd Tajuddin, Razik Ridzuan, Mohd Safari, Muhammad Aslam, Ismail, Noriszura

“…Hence, several estimators: maximum likelihood, method of moments, ordinary least squares, weighted least squares, Cramér-Von Mises, modified Cramér-Von Mises (MCVM) and maximum product of spacing (MPS); for the parameters of the model are also proposed and investigated in terms of unbiasedness, consistency and joint efficiency under the presence and absence of outliers. …”
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Motor insurance : an analysis with comparison by Cheong, Siew Hong, Sim, Poh Joo, Tan, Chin Kwang

“…The rapid expansion of car ownership in Singapore in the last two decades, despite efforts by the government to curb car usage has led to a significant increase in the number of people killed or injured in automobile accidents.…”
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Samuel Johnson: Pembroke's angry young man by Mugglestone, L

“…This article re-examines the history of Samuel Johnson's links to Pembroke College in Oxford from his undergraduate years to his last visit shortly before his death.…”

A Short History of South East Asia / by Church, Peter, editor 435931

“…Founded upon a deeply perceptive observation of the late founding Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, this book brings shape to the idea that 'to understand the present and to anticipate the future, one must know enough of the past, enough to have a sense of the history of a people.' …”

Estimating consumptive water use of rice in lowland paddy fields of Tanjung Karang, Malaysia by Abdullahi, Abubakar Sadiq

“…For the main season (August to February 2011) the mean evapotranspiration obtained were 5.1 mm/day, 6.0 mm/day and 5.1 mm/day for the initial, mid and last stages of the growing season, respectively. …”
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Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music : 14th International Symposium, CMMR 2019, Marseille, France, October 14-18, 2019, Revised Selected Papers / by CMMR (Symposium) (14th : 2019 : Marseille, France), organiser 643215, Kronland-Martinet, Richard, editor 643219, Ystad, Sølvi, editor 643220, Aramaki, Mitsuko, editor 643221

“…The fifth section concerns auditory perception and cognition, while the three following sections are related to sound design and sonic and musical interactions. The last section contains contributions that relate to Jean-Claude Risset's research.…”

Driving Miss Norma : AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS AT THE END OF LIFE / by Bauerschmidt, Tim, author 655967, Liddle,Ramie, author 655968

“…But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma - newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage - rose to her full height of five feet and told the doctor, "I'm ninety years old. …”

Another decade of photoacoustic imaging by Das, Dhiman, Sharma, Arunima, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Pramanik, Manojit

“…Although the photoacoustic phenomenon was known more than a century back, only in the last two decades it has been widely researched and used for biomedical imaging applications. …”
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An algorithm for a dynamically reconstituting portfolio of U.S. equity mutual funds to outperform the S&P 500 by Anthony, Fernandes Victor

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Experimental archaeology and the study of early medieval farming by Hamerow, H, Kropp, C, Bogaard, A

“…A group of archaeologists and archaeological scientists, in a collaboration with the Lauresham Open Air Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology in Lorsch, Germany, are conducting a series of farming experiments to establish what was, and was not, possible using replicas of tools and technologies used in the past. While it is not possible exactly to replicate past conditions, such experiments allow us to test the feasibility of certain interpretations through cultivation trials in which variables such as manuring, tillage methods, soil types, labour inputs, etc. are carefully measured and controlled to establish impact on soil fertility, yields, etc.…”

Tidal corrections from and for SWOT using a spatially coherent variational Bayesian harmonic analysis by Monahan, T, Tang, T, Roberts, S, Adcock, T

“…The approach demonstrates superior robustness to different types of noise contamination in comparison to conventional least-squares approaches while providing full uncertainty estimation. …”

Report on industrial attachmeny with Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd 2002 by Kwan, Hon Fai.

“…The purpose of the report is to find out and improve upon the design and manufacturing process weaknesses by applying accelerated stresses in the least amount of time and corrects the source of the weaknesses before the production of the product begins.…”
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Design of low-power analog filters in WBAN receiver front-ends for hyper/hypothyroidism patients by Wang, Xiaoying

“…A figure-of-merit (FoM) was also introduced to compare the power efficiency and the linearity performance together with the noise performance. Last but not least, the conclusion is drawn in the end of this thesis with future work which may include the flipped-source-follower cell to deal with the trade-off between the noise performance and the in-band linearity.…”
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Export competitiveness in the context of Singapore by Chew, Kheng Lee, Phua, Chin Tiong, Yau, Puay Hiang

“…This dictum probably exists only in the Singapore context. Last but not least, we must bear in mind that Singapore is only a small economy. …”
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Petrogenesis of the Deccan high-Mg basalts and picrites by Chatterjee, Nilanjan

“…Their primary magmas were last equilibrated with spinel lherzolite at 10–13 kbar/1289–1333 °C. …”
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Salt to Scale: The Seasoning of Buildings by Battikha, Christina

“…I explore ancient salt cycles shaping the last human activities remaining on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean, in Anfeh, Lebanon. …”
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Forest warrior : a virtual reality application to enhance climate change awareness by Sankar, Ahkshara

“…Virtual Reality (VR) has been gaining prominence over the last decade. This technology has seeped its way into the various realms of day-to-day life colonising the education, business, aviation and the games sector, among many others. …”
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