A Fifty Million Dollar Piece of Dirt: Somerville as a Case Study in Development by Aizman, Asya

“…Through interviews with residents, activists, and senior city officials, I present a story of a city attempting to rectify its progressive values with the forces of neoliberalism, which it seems unable—and unwilling—to stop.…”
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Tweens' online privacy risks and the role of parental mediation by Faber, Ronald J., Shin, Wonsun, Huh, Jisu

“…A survey conducted with 381 parent-tween dyads in Korea revealed that, while parental mediation was not directly associated with tweens' information disclosing behaviors, parent-tween disagreement on restrictive mediation was: tweens' inaccurate perception of what parents do to limit their access to commercial Web sites seems to be positively related to tweens' information disclosure on the Web.…”
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Visualisation of a ship's behaviour in seaways by Tan, Ee Hua

“…Additionally, with further development, the Unreal Engine seems to have the ability to produce better simulations. …”
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Underpricing of initial public offerings in Singapore. by Lee, Wah Seng., Tay, Lim Hock.

“…However, there is no observed trend on the amount of underpricing for each year between 1987 to 1994, except that the amount of underpricing at the 1st and 90th trading days seems to have a downward trend from 1992 to 1994.…”
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Investigation of the effects of commensurability on friction between concentric carbon nanotubes by Zhu, Chunzhang, Shenai, Prathamesh Mahesh, Zhao, Yang

“…However, this perception seems paradoxical as commensurability is found to have negligible effect on the energy dissipation in double-walled carbon nanotube (DWNT) based oscillators. …”
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Biofuel : impact on global economy. by Ho, Sarah Shu Ching., Seah, Patricia Kai Ling.

“…Fossil fuels have been our main source of energy. However, they are non-renewable, meaning they will deplete one day. …”
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Role of scatter-hoarding rodents in the seed dispersal of large-seeded plants. by Low, Gerard Hongkai.

“…With the deforestation that usually accompanies agriculture and urbanization, habitats for large animals have been significantly reduced or lost, leading to the eventual disappearance of such animals. …”
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An investigation on the role of tarsal flexibility in insect walking by Tjuatja, Johan

“…Insect leg is a field that has been widely studied by scientists. 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. …”
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Analysis and design of RSSI in the RF receiver chain by Bhaskar Yashaswini

“…This dissertation presents the CMOS design of such a RSSI block implemented in the RF receiver chain, which is used in low-power applications such as BLE or ZigBee. IFA and rectifiers form the basic building blocks of RSSI that are constructed with much care in this design. …”
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Genes for carnivory : a comparative study on the local duplication of papain-like cysteine proteases in carnivorous plants by Tan, Qiao Wen

“…Mechanisms for carnivory in carnivorous plants have been proposed to arise from defence related mechanisms and several genes have been identified from proteomic analyses thus far. …”
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That's Not How We Do It Here! : A Story About How Organizations Rise, Fall - and Can Rise Again / by Kotter, John P., 1947-, author 368412, Rathgeber, Holger, author 507836

“…But not everything in this small clan is as perfect as it seems at first. Can Nadia figure out how to combine the best of both worlds--a large, disciplined, well-managed clan and a small, informal, inspiring clan--before it's too late? …”

21W.745 / SP.576J / WGS.576J Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2005 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

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Rock the house : nationalism and queer bodies in Singapore cinema by Zhang, Helaine Huiling

“…Nationalism seeks to control order by ensuring what seems to be a “clear” regulating of its citizen’s heterosexuality. …”
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Frail Line by Er, Kia Hui, Ong, Grace Xi Wei, Ho, Baofei, Tan, Jit Quan, Boithar, Faizal

“…It also explores the disenchantment with interpersonal relationships that youths face and what they do the stem the pain when relief seems elusive……”
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The future trend of LAN-based accounting and its critical success factors by Liaw, Chun Huan, Cheong, Eddy Jee Meng, Lim, Judy Hui Ling

“…With the advantages that LAN has over the other alternative computer architectures, it seems likely that the business world will embrace it as their future computing platform for accounting applications. …”
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A study of deep learning on many-core processors by Chen, Peng

“…With big data, training time is one of the major concerns to design a deep network. Parallel processing seems to be a solution to reduce training time tremendously. …”
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Irradiance data analysis by Kwok, Ervin

“…It indicates that module optimizer seems to be really effective against variability.…”
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Reimagining the Singaporean dream : the rise of entrepreneurial pursuits amongst young adults by Chiang, Alicia Chor Hong, Ong, Chu Wen

“…This paper positions ‘Ideology’ as a key mechanism in influencing the pursuit of entrepreneurship in Singapore given its power to influence its desirability, and the findings suggest that social environment for one to start a business venture in Singapore is not as conducive as it seems at face value given the dynamics of ‘ideological state apparatuses’ at play.…”
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Automated teller machines in Singapore by Soh, Yong Chee, Phua, Alice Loo Huay, Tan,Yang Leng

“…One of the banks' current aims seems to be to substitute a number of traditional branches with ATMs, in other words, automating their branches. …”
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Cheatsheet : the right way to learn by Loh, Wan Teng

“…The pursuit of higher educational level and better grades has been ingrain in many, perpetrated by the “kiasu-ness” (fear of losing) of Singaporeans. …”
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