Factors affecting the extent of retirement planning in Singapore. by Law, Boon Huey., Kwek, Jenny Chiew Ling., Sim, Sei Lin.

“…Findings show that people tend to focus on financial planning and often neglect health and psychological planning. …”
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Multi-source cooperative networks by Pwint, Phyu Thein

“…Bandwidth efficient xor-based network coding seems to solve the problems of spectral inefficiency in cooperative communication. …”
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Experimental study of zooplankton behaviour by Ho, Wei How

“…They are commonly used as experimental organism to investigate the effects of external stimuli on the aquamarine ecosystem. There has been a myriad of studies showcasing the effects of different stimuli and its impact on Daphnia mortality, and these studies tend to be over a long period of time or use complicated parameters. …”
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"They are just 2D pixels" understanding the motivation behind gacha gamers by Tan, Yi Hong

“…Considerable research has been done on the gambling aspect of gacha mechanisms, with some criticising it as exploitative. …”
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Firm Entry Modes and Chinese Business Networks: Malaysian Investments in Vietnam by Lim, Guanie

“…To this end, these firms tend to rely on informal ties and nonmarket institutions in the form of the ethnic Chinese business networks. …”
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Are Europeans ready for a more democratic European Union? New evidence on preference heterogeneity, polarisation and crosscuttingness by Hale, T, Koenig-Archibugi, M

“…According to the consociational interpretation of the EU, the near absence of competitive and majoritarian elements has been a necessary condition for the stability of the EU political system given its highly diverse population. …”

Digital image forensics by Chong, Alvin Sheng Yuan.

“…The basic principle for the method was tested with ten images and the effect was found to be consistent. …”
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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? …”

Tibetan wa-zur and Laufer’s law by Jacques, Guillaume

“…However, Hill (2006) pointed out that this law seems to be contradicted by the existence of a genuine -wa rhyme in Old Tibetan: unless Old Tibetan -wa has a distinct origin, the sound law *-wa > -o cannot be valid. …”
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The sailor's tale by Hopkin, D

“…The style and content of sailors’ tales seems remarkably consistent both over time and space, with ancient, medieval, and modern stories of cannibals, whale islands, magnetic mountains, giant ships (ATU 1960H), among other repeated themes. …”

Why Brussels? Neruda’s ‘título absolutamente enigmático’ by Moran, D

“…<p>The primary purpose of this article is to propose a solution to longstanding literary mystery, namely, why Neruda&rsquo;s disconcertingly enigmatic poem &lsquo;Bruselas&rsquo; (from&nbsp;<em>Tercera residencia</em>&nbsp;[1947]) has a title which seems to bear little if any relation either to the city of Brussels itself or to its sometimes bewilderingly obscure content and imagery. …”

Leveraging the Sensitivity of Plants with Deep Learning to Recognize Human Emotions by Kruse, Jakob Adrian, Ciechanowski, Leon, Dupuis, Ambre, Vazquez, Ignacio, Gloor, Peter A.

“…However, these data sources are expensive, intrusive, and regulated, unlike plants, which have been shown to be sensitive to human steps and sounds. …”
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Optoelectronic memristive devices for retinomorphic application - 1 by Tun, Thaw Tint Te

“…Optoelectronic memristive devices can be used to achieve that goal because of their property: coalescing sensing, memorizing, and computing in a single space. Many studies have been conducted toward this research direction, however, the complete and fully functioning retinomorphic system is not well realized yet. …”
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Female “Firsts” : performing in the marriage market and on the political stage in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Hillary Clinton’s what happened by Wan Nur Riny

“…While much progress has been made in improving women’s rights since the eighteenth century, many societies still unofficially evaluate women according to their relationships with men. …”
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The competing use of perfect and aorist tenses in Old Church Slavonic by MacRobert, C

“…It has sometimes been suggested that in the second and third persons singular, which coincide formally in the aorist tense, variation between aorist and perfect forms may to some extent be correlated with explicitly marked distinctions of person in Greek, and may therefore be a side effect of translation; but such correlations are not regular, and the frequency of second person singular perfect forms is higher in some types of text than in others. …”

Mising morphophonemics by Taid, Tabu

“…In Mising, as in other languages, sounds tend to get modified in different phonetic environments. …”
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A review of extended-range operations by transport aircraft by Simpson, R. W., Ausrotas, Raymond A.

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1-octanol-water partitioning as a classifier of water soluble organic matters: Implication for solubility distribution by Kuwata, Mikinori, Lee, Wen-Chien

“…These processes are dependent on water solubility as well as distribution of this property in a particle, yet no method has been available to quantify such characteristics. …”
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India’s ‘gas renaissance’ - rhetoric versus reality by Sen, A

“…Government forecasts carried out within a central planning framework tend to be overly optimistic, whereas projections by multilateral organizations tend to be cautious, but confused. …”

Utilizing open-source hardware and software to construct a mesh of environmental sensors for microclimate studies by Chan, Cun Bin

“…A network of 3 Router sensors and Coordinator is prototyped using Arduino microcontroller, Raspberry Pi single-board computer, and ZigBee and Wi-Fi communication protocols. The wireless sensor network is deployed within Crest Secondary School as a test bed. …”
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