15.665B Power and Negotiation, Fall 2002 by Williams, Michele

“…You will work with training materials on leadership and relationship building that have been used with over 200 principals and partners in international professional service firms (40% were non-US nationals), and a social capital assessment tool used by these executives to receive feedback from senior partners and over 2000 clients. …”
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Understanding Indonesia-China strategic relations : an Indonesian perspective. by Ronny Ariuly Hutahayan.

“…The main contention of this paper is that Indonesia's foreign policy and behavior has been primarily geared towards fulfilling domestic requirements rather than anticipating or responding to external or structural changes. …”
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The hesitation of SMEs in using real-time accounting software. by Chew Siow Li, Chiam Chye Heng, Lau Min San

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Study of warm mix technologies for asphalt concrete by Sim, Joey Xin Yi

“…However, the move to expand road infrastructure underground sees its own shortcomings. Road construction in tunnels has been notoriously worrisome. …”
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Milk and mothercraft : infant feeding trends in Singapore from 1900 to the 1970s by Lum, Jasmine Syn Mun

“…The most prominent discourse in infant feeding has been the conflict between breastfeeding and bottle-feeding. …”
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The application of prospect theory in travel choice behavioral analysis by Hariharan Subramaniam.

“…In areas of research such as marketing, urban planning and transportation, majority of the studies on choice creation and choice behaviour have been concerned with riskless choice. However, through the administration of questionnaires to the commuters, this study seeks to determine the extent to which the application of the Prospect Theory could be used to model the travel behaviour of commuters.…”
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Rational design and synthesis of degradable poly(imidazolium ester) antibiotics by Xu, Xiaofei

“…While antimicrobial polymers have been explored as promising substitutes for antibiotics in academic scenarios, a majority of these polymers feature non-degradable backbones. …”
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Shared spaces & identity, culture and meaning: a study on the role of integrated community hubs on social interaction, meaning-making & identity creation in neighbourhoods by Haikal Afiq Bin Mohd Rizal, Ng, Patrick Wei Sheng

“…Integrated Community Hubs (ICHs) have increasingly been a notable infrastructure project that seeks to maximise social impact with minimal land use. …”
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A postfeminist reading of Chick Lit : Sex and the City. by Low, Carmen Kar Mun.

“…The former waves of feminism often denied the relevance of traditional representations of “femininity” in order to amplify their political demands but such demands have now been met and modern women have the luxury to choose to indulge in acts that were once been linked to female subjugation, such as being a stay-at-home wife/mother. …”
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Dramatizing and governing the Chinese : representations and re-interpretations of the Singaporean-Chinese history in local Chinese period dramas, 1980s - 1990s by Chee, Yee Chan

“…Since its inception, television has constantly been used by the Singapore government in facilitating its nation-building efforts. …”
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Cheerleading : how males negotiate their masculinity. by Heng, Daniel Gin Kiat.

“…Cheerleading has always been seen as a feminine activity, due to its portrayal in the media. …”
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Rummage my heart : exploring grief surrounding the passing of a loved one by Ang, Jane Jia Ying

“…The passing of a loved one, shaking the stillness of the everyday stirs us to relook our inward parts, to ponder a relationship that might have never been reflected upon. Rummage My Heart, a mixed media installation seeks to reconcile the internal emotional conflicts that only surfaced following the passing of my grandfather on 4 June 2012. …”
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Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy by Holman, Christopher

“…Democracy is tragic to the extent that it must be a regime of self-limitation, there existing no ethical standard external to society that may intervene so as to guide our political self-activity, and yet the structure of deliberation in democratic assemblies tends to render such self-limitation impossible. Hence what Hobbes sees as the inherent tendency of democratic activity to descend into excess and madness. …”
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Without passage by Chee, En Cui

“…They change across perspectives. I see a girl exploring her psyche. Maybe you see a witch trying to escape a prison? …”
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Stiffness of RC columns with hollow section by Teng, Ganyu

“…In particular, an accurate and reliable OpenSees model was proposed and validated against experimental data. …”
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Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…A 'naive' view of identity sees it as straightforwardly and deterministically causative, but if so the 2011 Pearl Uprising in Bahrain appears a paradox - a primarily secular episode of political contestation in a country with a Shi'a majority, against a Sunni dominated regime, in a political realm with a Shi'a Islamist-dominated opposition. …”
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Ant, spider and DNA: letting mindless generative mechanisms speak by Bråten, E

“…They are especially concerned with questions about agency and the character of relations. Where ant sees ‘networks’, spider insists that we deal with ‘meshworks’. …”

Self-employment for autonomous robots using smart contracts by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Berman, Ivan, Kapitonov, Aleksandr, Manaenko, Vadim, Chernyaev, Makar, Tarasov, Pavel, Wilson, Bryan, Greenwood, Dazza, Walters, Ed

“…Using the blockchain-based smart contract, the robot then uses its income from sales to autonomously order more materials from an online shop, pay for its consumables such as network fees, and remunerate human assistance for support tasks. …”
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Building agents for power trading agent competition (TAC) by Nguyen Le Hoang

“…We price our tariffs at cost and encourages other brokers to price their tariffs lower, we then deliberately give away customers, earning early contract cancellation fees and only maintain a strict profitable market share. …”
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Application of smartphone-based biophotonic instrumentation for glucose sensing using colorimetric method by Azlan, Nur Ainin Sofhia Nurul

“…The calibration curves consistently confirm that the proposed method aligns with the Beer-Lambert law, in accordance with expectations with previous studies. …”
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