Desalination : discharging brine into coastal waters by Cher, Leo Wei Kwang.

“…Both concentration and velocity profiles exhibit the Gaussian-like distribution at the upper layer but due to the buoyancy-induced instabilities, the lower layer tends to deviate away from the centerline trajectory. …”
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Non-equilibrium fluctuations for a spatial logistic branching process with weak competition by Tendron, T

“…We consider the weak competition regime where <em>c</em> tends to zero, corresponding to a local carrying capacity tending to infinity like 1/<em>c</em> as <em>c</em> vanishes.…”

Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Of the ten top-selling drugs in 2013, the first three (Humira®, Enbrel®, Remicade®) were all monoclonal antibodies for treating autoimmune diseases; together these three accounted for approximately $28 billion in sales. …”
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Export competitiveness in the context of Singapore by Chew, Kheng Lee, Phua, Chin Tiong, Yau, Puay Hiang

“…Last but not least, we must bear in mind that Singapore is only a small economy. …”
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Social movements and democratization in Malaysia by Khoo, Ying Hooi

“…The mixture model of democracy and authoritarian political system of Malaysia has long been said to hinder the social movements to expand their influence. …”
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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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Writing news features by Masterton, Murray.

“…That is not what a feature is, and that is why feature writing seems to be confined to a few people on every staff. …”
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P2P energy trading among isolated microgrids in the remote area by Huang, Rui

“…Based on these analyses, this dissertation tends to use the Nash Bargaining model to build the relationship among MGs during the P2P trading process. …”
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Russian Turkestan and the First World War by Morrison, A

“…This article explores the direct links between Turkestan and the front, the conscription of soldiers and labourers from the region and its hosting of tens of thousands of Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war. …”

Stomach tissue classification using autofluorescence spectroscopy and machine learning by Lim, Soo Y., Yoon, Hong M., Kook, Myeong-Cherl, Jang, Jin I., So, Peter T. C., Kang, Jeon W., Kim, Hyung M.

“…Abstract Background and objectives Determination of stomach tumor location and invasion depth requires delineation of gastric histological structure, which has hitherto been widely accomplished by histochemical staining. …”
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Adaptive modulation and subcarrier allocation for multiuser OFDM/CDMA systems by Zhang, Hua

“…For multi-service (Voice and Data) transmissions, voice and data services have different priorities, BER requirements, transmission rates and power consumption. …”
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Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem by Somin, Shahar, Altshuler, Yaniv, Gordon, Goren, Pentland, Alex, Shmueli, Erez

“…Consequently, in recent years research efforts have been directed towards modeling the structure and dynamics of the underlying networks of financial ecosystems. …”
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Structured warrant pricing in Singapore. by Koh, Jessica Mun Yee., Tan, Cai Zhi., Tan, Pei Yih.

“…Prior studies have mentioned that warrants were found to be overpriced in the respective markets included in those studies but it seems that no previous research has been done on Singapore’s warrants market. …”
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A tymovirus from Calopogonium mucunoides in Malaysia is not clitoria yellow vein tymovirus: brief report by Gibbs, A.J., Mackenzie, A.M., Abdul-Samad, N.

“…A tymovirus isolated from Malaysian crops of Calopogonium mucunoides has been shown to have virions that are serologically indistinguishable from those of clitoria yellow vein tymovirus. …”

The acquisition of English and Mandarin by a Singaporean child in a trilingual home by Teo, Jennifer Lay Heong.

“…Results indicate that: (1)the absence of tense and number markers in the English data was due to the variety of Singapore Colloquial English the child was exposed to in his environment; (2)the use of pragmatic particles and the lack of clear developmental pattern in the English interrogatives were linked to the Singapore Colloquial English usage in the input; (3)the English-language acquisition pattern shows a similar pattern as those in other comparable studies done in Singapore; (4)the order of the grammatical morphemes in the Mandarin data follows the similar pattern as other monolingual children reported on; (5)code-switching and code-mixing were directly affected by social factors: interlocutor, norm of the speech situation and his language dominance; (6)code-switching also occurs for many reasons related to language use; and (7)the child language development has been affected by the varying amount of input. …”
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Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination by Dong, Xiaowen, Jahani, Eaman, Morales, Alfredo J., Bozkaya, Burçin, Lepri, Bruno, Pentland, Alex

“…This paper analyzes millions of credit card transaction records during several months for tens of thousands of individuals from two different countries. …”
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Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…For states seeking to catch up, the acquisition and assimilation of frontier technology has always been paramount (Abramovitz, 1986).</p> <p>Multinational firms based in industrialized countries have long been seen as sources of technology (Evans, 1979). …”

A novel approach to designing a guitar distortion effects pedal by Zheng, Luka

“…Guitar distortion has been an integral part of modern music since the 1960s. …”
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Effects of surface texture on wetting by Kee, Yong How

“…Wetting is a phenomena which occurs when a droplet tends to spread out on a surface. The extreme behaviour of wetting, also known as superhydrophilicity, is found to be useful in many real life applications and has been receiving considerable attention. …”
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Protein spatiotemporal dynamics in gene regulation and disease pathology by Zheng, Ming

“…Over the decades, this field has been evolving by integrating advances in microscopy, biochemistry, and molecular biology to unravel the intricate mechanisms governing protein spatiotemporal dynamics as well as the functional consequences. …”
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