Essays on commodities and international macroeconomic interactions by Kim, M

“…<p>This thesis introduces commodities into otherwise standard closed economy or open economy macro models. Chapter 1 sheds light on the fact that as trading in commodity derivatives tied to commodity prices has increased massively since the 2000s, they have begun to act as an asset class in recent years. …”

IS activity in Southeast Asia by Liow, Joseph Chinyong, Liow Chin Yong, Joseph

“…The increasing number of recruits from Indonesia and Malaysia to Islamic State reflects the evolving security threat to Southeast Asia. The emerging pattern bears lessons for countries in the region.…”
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#Hooked? Extending the social cognitive model in examining the antecedents of problematic social network sites use among Singaporean adolescents and adults by Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…Chapter Four contains the second study in this thesis, which tests the viability of the social cognitive model in explaining problematic SNSs use on a sample of 293 secondary students aged 13 to 17 years in Singapore using covariance structure modeling. …”
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Organocatalytic asymmetric mannich, formal [4+1] and [4+2] annulation reactions by Shi, Zugui

“…In this doctoral thesis, the research work that was carried out during the last four years will be divided into 5 chapters. Firstly, an introduction to the field of organocatalysis will be described in chapter 1. …”
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Evaluating geospatial accuracy for equity analyses: a case study of the U.S. National Bridge Inventory by Gandy, CA, Kang, X, Ritsch, N, Armanios, DE

“…Phase 3 assesses the feasibility of enhancing location granularity through a hand-checked case study. We find that for coarser geospatial levels (state and county), equity-based analyses may be possible, but for more granular geospatial levels (place and census tract), which is where equity-based analyses are often conducted, the data may need greater buffering and hand checks to ensure accuracy. …”

Design and development of an android application “Bus NTU” by Yin, Bangqi.

“…Since the past few years, smartphones have been playing increasingly important role in daily life. …”
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Mobile application for optical character recognition (OCR) of digits by Luah, Yee Teng

“…Technology has progressed tremendously throughout the years and humans have benefitted from this through its convenience and pervasiveness. …”
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WHAT A MUSHROOM LIVES FOR : Matsutake and the Worlds They Make / by Hathaway, Michael J., author 656068

“…"When Michael Hathaway embarked on the fieldwork that led to this book years ago, he thought he would be writing a conventional ethnography, centered on the lives of people engaged in the foraging and circulation of an exotic type of mushroom known as the matsutake, which sells for a thousand dollars a kilogram in Japan. …”
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Learning automations in game engine by Ju, Peng

“…This report describes author’s efforts and achievements during his one-year Final Year Project. There are two main objectives for this project. …”
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Optimal network charge for peer-to-peer energy trading: a grid perspective by Yang, Yu, Chen, Yue, Hu, Guoqiang, Spanos, Costas J.

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Predicting bank failures : a comparison of the Cox proportional hazards model and time-varying covariates model. by Cheng, Philip Yim Kwong.

“…As a contribution to bank regulation by improving the accuracy of predicting failed banks, I first illustrate the use of martingale and other residuals as diagnostic checks for Cox’s proportional hazards model. Second, I discuss and substantiate the claim that a time-varying covariates model is superior to the Cox model as a bank failure model.…”
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Peroxytungstate anions in asymmetric ion pair catalyzed oxidations by Ye, Xinyi

“…In each case, the essence of chemistry was studied mechanistically. The first two chapters introduced the background from two aspects, which included the history of ion pair catalysis (Chapter 1) and application of tungstate salts in oxidation (Chapter 2). …”
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Essays on the market for corporate bonds by Levonmaa, A

“…<p>This thesis contains three empirical studies on the US corporate bond market; each chapter is self-contained and can be read independently. …”

Writing Hong Kong Sinophonicity : history, gender and ethnicity in Hong Kong fiction by Long, Chao

“…Collectively, the conceptualization of Sinophonicity in the three chapters attests to the medium of literary fiction as an effective site for producing decolonizing impetus, in order to better position Hong Kong in post-handover years.…”
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Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata” by de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex

“…The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” bears no resemblance to modern high-dimensional data sets on which their methods fail. …”
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Comparative legal history: methodology for morphology by Dyson, M

“…Whatever the direction of the research on comparative legal history is, it can be made easier by a handful of methodological steps drawn from both comparative law and legal history. This chapter discusses the boundaries, terminology and purpose of methodology and a collection of five methodological steps that can assist in doing comparative legal history, drawing on examples from a range of legal systems in the last 200 years.…”

Design and implementation of a synthesizable test-bench for testing the LDPC decoder IP by Yang, Shi

“…The simulation environment is mainly used for preliminary and functional checks, and the emulation environment is chosen for further verification due to its much higher run speed compared to simulation.…”
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Nation in action : making Chinese in the rural borderland between China and North Korea by Chen, Shiwei

“…Part I includes three chapters, a historical overview of ethnogenesis and ethnic classification in China from top-down perspectives (Chapter 1), a review on the sociological studies of ethnicity and nationalism in everyday life (Chapter 2), methodology and a description of the main fieldsite, a village about 10 km from the North Korean-Chinese border (Chapter 3). …”
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Experiences, perceptions and ethical considerations of the malaria infection study in Thailand by Naemiratch, B, Kulpijit, N, Ruangkajorn, S, Day, NPJ, Prachumsri, J, Cheah, PY

“…However, due to cross-border movements over the past 5 years, reported malaria cases in Thailand have risen. …”

Multidimensional profiling of the Toxoplasma gondii proteome by Herneisen, Alice Lydia

“…Signaling pathways communicate to orchestrate complex cellular processes, yet in apicomplexan parasites they are often studied in isolation. In Chapter 4, I identify a node linking three key second messenger pathways in T. gondii: calcium, cyclic GMP, and cyclic AMP. …”
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