Effect of horizontal mergers and acquisitions on industry composition : a study of U.S. listed firms. by He, Yuxuan., Lee, Wee Leng., Ong, Kwan Siang.

“…The results further reveal that the relationship is stronger during times of recession. We find that there is no difference in the relationship between horizontal mergers and acquisitions and the number of net entrants regardless of whether there is deregulation or the industry is highly competitive.…”
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Facebook : a study of power relations. by Wong, Liwen.

“…This exploratory study attempts to find out how power dynamics are shaped in social relationships through the use of Facebook. …”
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Natural resources and income inequality in Africa. by Charasz, Pawel.

“…Using a panel dataset for 53 African countries over the period 1960-2010 I empirically test my prediction and indeed find natural resources to be a significant factor affecting the level of income inequality. …”
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The rates of return to education and effectiveness of training programmes for Singaporean workers by Ho Yuet Yen

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NTU smart audio tour by Tan, Chan Wei

“…These visitors can easily be overwhelmed by the huge and complex campus, making it difficult for them to find their way around. Furthermore, ambassadors are often required to guide and introduce the rich history, diverse functions and various achievements of NTU to these distinguished visitors. …”
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Development of an online forum for mental health related topics by Tan, Jia Lin

“…This makes it difficult to find relevant information and target the right audiences. …”
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The Aircraft Carrier: An Idea That Refuses to Die by Bitzinger, Richard A.

“…The aircraft carrier, denigrated by some as obsolete and a “cruise missile magnet,” continues to find new users and new uses. Consequently, over the next decades expect the number of aircraft carriers and the number of countries in the Asia-Pacific operating carriers, to expand, not decline.…”
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The mediating role of halal supply chain integrity in enhancing performance for halal herbal-based food SMEs by Rajendran, Salini Devi, Kamarulzaman, Nitty Hirawaty, Abd Rahman, Azmawani

“…Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. Findings – The findings showed that supply chain integration (SCI), Islamic human capital and HSCI have a significant relationship with SMEs’ performance. …”
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Examining twitter discourse on electronic cigarette and tobacco consumption during national cancer prevention month in 2018: topic modeling and geospatial analysis by Lu, Jiahui, Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…Background: Examining public perception of tobacco products is critical for effective tobacco policy making and public education outreach. While the link between traditional tobacco products and lung cancer is well established, it is not known how the public perceives the association between electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and lung cancer. …”
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A generalized solution to verify authorship and detect style change in multi-authored documents by Leekha, Rohan, Vandam, Courtland

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Dual-phase microporous polymer nanofilms by interfacial polymerization for ultrafast molecular separation by Lee, Tae Hoon, Balcik, Marcel, Wu, Wan-Ni, Pinnau, Ingo, Smith, Zachary P

“…Fine-tuning microporosity in polymers with a scalable method has great potential for energy-efficient molecular separations. …”
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A multiplicative Nakagami speckle reduction algorithm for ultrasound images by Yu, Chengpu, Zheng, Cishen, Xie, Lihua

“…A 2D total variation regularized Nakagami speckle reduction algorithm is derived based on the maximum a posteriori estimation framework, which performs well in restoring piecewise-smooth reflectivity and preserving fine details of the image. The proposed algorithm is verified by a series of computer-simulated and real ultrasound image data. …”
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A communal furniture informed by the deprivation of Mauritian beach by Fok Kow, Fok-Chi-Seng

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Life and dyeing : floral escapes by Teng, Yu Qing

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Beyond the beautiful garden city by Koh, Kevin Jing Sen

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A 9-bit, 1.08ps resolution two-step time-to-digital converter in 65 nm CMOS for time-mode ADC by Kong, Junjie, Henzler, Stephan, Schmitt-Landsiedel, Doris, Siek, Liter

“…The proposed TDC uses body-biasing in the fine TDC to obtain the resolution of the entire TDC, which is simulated to be 1.08 ps. …”
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Of dreams and reality : chance on graphic design. by Chu, Tracey Shao Han.

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Hierarchical document representation for summarization by Tey, Rui Jie

“…HIWESTSUM is very light in weight with parameter size over 10 times smaller than current existing models that fine-tune BERT for summarization. Moreover, the proposed model is faster than SOTA models with shorter training and inference time. …”
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End of the line by Chia, Wei Ting

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Soil-water characteristic curves of sands by evaporation method by Lee, Yong Wei

“…The comparison shows that low-cost resistive moisture sensors are more reliable than low-cost capacitive sensors. The SWCCs of fine and coarse sands determined from the evaporation method are comparable to the SWCCs determined from the Tempe cell method.…”
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