Factors influencing junior managers' poor decisions in new market entry by Adela, Josephine, Chen, Lionel Yingren, Yeo, Marianna Xue Na

“…We found that firms that have made the wrong decision to enter a new market (hence resulting in poor financial performance) tend to have: • Entered the market hastily without a track record of success in prior markets; • Entered the market due to competitive pressure; • Justified their market entry decisions mostly based on competitive reasons; • Sunk in substantial R&Ds expenditures without commensurate marketing expenditures when launching new products in the new market. …”
Get full text

Impact of innovation on performance of shipping companies in Singapore by Nah, Laura Yan Ling

“…The companies would also tend to focus on more than one type of innovation based on the costs of implementation. …”
Get full text

Interpretable vector language models by Siow, Zi Hao

“…Our findings revealed that the l1-norm method achieved the highest level of interpretability among the three methods, because its solutions tend to have a higher proportion of matrix elements that are close to zero by promoting sparsity. …”
Get full text

Crosslingual comparison of linguistic phenomenon in English, Japanese and Chinese by Gao, Eshley Huini

“…Recent trend in computational linguistics tend to focus on how to represent meaning. …”
Get full text

Motivational factors' relationships with sports and exercise participation of students at a Singapore University by Guo, Deborah Weixian

“…Motivational factors for sports participation tend to be more automated than exercise participation, which may better promote long-term adherence for physical activity. …”
Get full text

Transmission loss analysis of a parallel-coupled Helmholtz resonator network by Zhao, Dan

“…To suppress combustion instabilities, Helmholtz resonators are typically used as acoustic dampers to dissipate acoustic waves. However, they tend to be effective over a narrow-frequency bandwidth. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Kinetic derivation of an inviscid compressible Leslie-Ericksen equation for rarified calamitic gases by Farrell, P, Russo, G, Zerbinati, U

“…Nematic ordering describes the phenomenon where anisotropic molecules tend to locally align, like matches in a matchbox. …”

Normative and informational confidence matching by Friedemann, M, Bang, D, Yeung, N

“…When performing tasks in a social context, individuals tend to report confidence judgments that increasingly align with those of others over time. …”

Framing responsibility for depression in news media: a content analysis of depression coverage on Sina Weibo by Ma, Xiaoxia, binti Mahamed, Mastura, Alwie, Aryaty

“…Meanwhile, attribution of responsibility for causes was tended to be at the individual, while solutions were on society. …”
Get full text

Empowering software startups with agile methods and practices: a design science research by Javdani Gandomani, Taghi, Zulzalil, Hazura, Bahsoon, Rami

“…Startups, for example, tend to focus on producing minimum viable product, which challenge the use of these methods and calls for bespoke adaptation of these practices to suit startups. …”

UMPSA welcomes its first female vice-chancellor by T.N., Alagesh

“…PEKAN: Professor Dr Yatimah Alias has made history as the first woman appointed as vice-chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), succeeding Professor Datuk Ts Dr Yuserrie Zainuddin, whose term ended on Oct 31 last year.…”
Get full text

Content Moderation and the Formation of Online Communities: A Theoretical Framework by Dwork, Cynthia, Hays, Chris, Kleinberg, Jon, Raghavan, Manish

Get full text

Defining Native American by Schiappa, Edward

“…Then, is that specific tribe acknowledged by a relevant governmental unit? Though both seem simple questions, this paper illustrates that the question “Is Person X a Native American?” …”
Get full text

Television as a site of social and ideological contestation : an analysis of the producer-audience dynamic, and the interpretation and reproduction of meanings associated with tele... by Tan, Mildred Lin

“…Such may result in making television viewing less relevant, and with new foreign content sprouting, Singapore drama series seem less appealing. However, viewing of Singapore drama series on the television played an important role in the lives of average Singaporeans before the advent and prevalent use of the Internet. …”
Get full text

An investigation of the electrodeposition of nickel-iron for a novel electrochemical stripping and recovery process by Lam, Kelven Jian Xiong

“…The addition of 2g/L of phosphorous significantly decreased the anomalous behaviour by increasing Ni selectivity but also seem to enhance h.e.r which led to poor current efficiency for metal deposition. …”
Get full text

Mobility and community at Mesolithic Lake Onega, Karelia, north-west Russia: insights from strontium isotope analysis by Eckelmann, R, Arppe, L, Tarasov, A, Pospieszny, Ł, Ackerman, L, Heyd, V, Gerasimov, D, Moiseyev, V, Fairbanks, V, Hyland, C, Mannermaa, K

“…These results suggest that the YOO cemetery predominantly served as a burial place for those with semi-permanent residence in this area, with no significant evidence for gender-based relocation patterns indicative of patri- or matrilocal residency. However, materials seem to have travelled towards Lake Onega even over great distances and the presence of the two outlier individuals suggests these exchanges also involved long-distance travel of people. …”

Revealing the role of fluoride-rich battery electrode interphases by operando transmission electron microscopy by Gong, C, Pu, S, Gao, X, Yang, S, Liu, J, Ning, Z, Rees, G, Capone, I, Pi, L, Liu, B, Hartley, G, Fawdon, J, Pasta, M, Grovenor, C, Bruce, P, Robertson, A

“…While fluoride-rich interphases in particular seem beneficial, how they alter the structural dynamics of lithium plating and stripping to promote efficiency remains only partly understood. …”

Archetypes of Buyer-Supplier-Supplier Relationship in Triad Supply Network in the Automotive Industry (S/O12831) by Abdul Kadir, Kadzrina, Hj Ahmad Arshad, Darwina, Johari, Johanim

“…However, the case participants seem to be able to handle this control and deal with them. …”
Get full text

An invertible crystallographic representation for general inverse design of inorganic crystals with targeted properties by Ren, Zekun, Tian, Isaac Parker Siyu, Noh, Juhwan, Oviedo, Felipe, Xing, Guangzong, Li, Jiali, Liang, Qiaohao, Zhu, Ruiming, Aberle, Armin G., Sun, Shijing, Wang, Xiaonan, Liu, Yi, Li, Qianxiao, Jayavelu, Senthilnath, Hippalgaonkar, Kedar, Jung, Yousung, Buonassisi, Tonio

“…However, state-of-the-art generative models tend to be limited to a specific composition or crystal structure. …”
Get full text

Induced transtensional earthquakes after the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in the compressional collision belt of western Taiwan by Lee, Timothy Ting-Yu, Chan, Chung-Han, Shyu, J. Bruce H., Wu, Yih-Min, Huang, Hsin-Hua

“…Aftershock sequences, for example, tend to occur in areas with an increase in Coulomb stress with similar mechanisms to the main shock. …”
Get full text
Get full text