How resource revenues can halve global poverty by Segal, P

“…The bitter struggles for oil nationalisation through the twentieth century bear witness to the sensitivity of this question. …”

Influence of nanoclay on the morphology of polypropylene foam by Chan, Weng Wan

“…The lowering of screw speeds was an effective means to reduce the cell size of the foams.…”
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Amplified : promotion of a music web site by Jiang, Genevieve Hui Mei, Ng, Hwee Koon, Tan, Xui Fen

“…This project seeks to gain an understanding of online marketing and how it can be applied to a web site on local music. …”
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A stochastic thunderstorm model for dynamic response assessment by School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

“…Thunderstorm winds have been known to be highly non-stationary as compared to other large scale winds like monsoons. …”
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The effect of inter-municipal cooperation on social assistance programs: evidence from housing allowances in England by Elston, T, Bel, G, Wang, H

“…Decentralized implementation of means-tested social assistance programs requires significant organizational capacity among local governments. …”

Performance and flight dynamics characteristics of a variable sweep wing aircraft by Chong, Zi Wei.

“…On top of that, the effects of four different altitudes and cruise speeds are also highlighted for the optimal performance and stability achievable by the UAV. …”
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Determining the motivational factors for participation in team sports in Nanyang Technological University Students by Chang, Han Yun

“…The Singapore government has been constantly encouraging people to participate in sports and physical activities to stay healthy. …”
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Environmental audit in Singapore by Chua, Boon Hua

“…In addition, neither the public nor firms are willing to bear the costs of environmental audit.…”
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Applicability of behavioural finance by Chong, Chee Wah, Low, Ji Teng, Paik, Jek Yin

“…In order to identify the most statistically significant gauges of investors’ behaviors, a few prominent methodologies and its resulting economic indices have been analysed. Specifically, they were the (i) Volatility Index (VIX), (ii) Consumer Sentiment Index (CSI), (iii) Bull-Bear Spread Index (BBS) and the (iv) Investor Sentiment Index (ISI). …”
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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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Wind characteristics of thunderstorms and their effects on wind loading design in Singapore by Choi, Edmund Cheong Chuen., Brownjohn, James Mark William., Chan, Weng Kong.

“…On the other hand, equatorial regions have frequent tropical thunderstorms. Wind speeds of the gust fronts of these thunderstorms can be relatively high. …”
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A new addition formula for elliptic curves over GF(2/sup n/) by Al-Daoud, E., Mahmod, R., Rushdan, M., Kilicman, A.

“…In this paper, we propose a new addition formula in projective coordinates for elliptic curves over GF(2n). The new formula speeds up the elliptic curve scalar multiplication by reducing the number of field multiplications. …”

Multiple centers based fuzzy clustering for imbalanced data by Liao, Hongda

“…Clustering for data mining is a useful technique in terms of identifying interesting distributions and discovering groups in the underlying data. K-means is a particular clustering technique that is world-renowned and widely spread for its low computational cost, which mainly includes the hard k-means clustering algorithms and the fuzzy k-means clustering algorithms. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Finally, the third essay exploits supply chain datasets to assess each side’s ability to bring AI-enabled autonomous weapons to bear in future conventional conflicts. I find that control over the production of advanced AI chips by the United States and allies almost certainly means the United States would better exploit such weapons, if they emerged as decisive in modern warfare, within at least the next ten years. …”
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Design of anti-spoofing system for face recognition by Ang, Alexandrea Shiying

“…The advancement of technology means that threats and the ways one can attack is increasing. …”
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Insect inspired two-wing flapping wing micro air vehicle by Ma, Jiacheng

“…The manufacturing of a prototype has also been initiated at the time of submission of this report.…”
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Green bonds : an introduction to a new market based approach in solving the regional haze crisis by Chew, John Han Hui, Chin, Yin Chai, Han, Kai Jie

“…However, the extent of success of these measures has been limited as evidenced from the recurrence of the haze problem over the years; most recently in 2013. …”
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Influence of machining parameters and tool geometry on tool wear during cobalt chromium-molybdenum micro drilling by Abdul Patar, Mohd. Affifudin, Suhaimi, Mohd. Azlan, Sharif, Safian, Amrifan S. Mohruni, Amrifan S. Mohruni, Hisam, Muhammad Juzaili, Shaharum, Mohd. Sallehuddin

“…In this study, a series of experiments was conducted to investigate the influence of different cutting speeds and tool geometry on tool wear during micro drilling of CoCrMo. …”
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An autonomous ultrasonic fastener holes inspection system of an aircraft lower wing skin by Lim, Chee Wei.

“…Fasteners like rivets and bolts bear a large part of the stress and thus require frequent inspection for cracks around the fastener's holes. …”
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China's collaboration with IndoChina countries in hydropower development in the Mekong region - how far can it go? by Phua, Pei Pei.

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