Rethinking how development assistance for health can catalyse progress on primary health care by Kasper, T, Yamey, G, Dwyer, S, McDade, KK, Lidén, J, Lüdemann, C, Diab, MM, Ogbuoji, O, Poodla, P, Schrade, C, Thoumi, A, Zimmerman, A, Assefa, Y, Allen, LN, Basinga, P, Garcia, PJ, Jackson, D, Mwanyika, H, Nugent, R, Ofosu, A, Rawaf, S, Reddy, KS, Settle, D, Tritter, B, Benn, C

“…Global campaigns to control HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and vaccine-preventable illnesses showed that large-scale impact can be achieved by using additional international financing to support selected, evidence-based, high-impact investment areas and to catalyse domestic resource mobilisation. …”

Disaster Risk Management Strategies Among SMEs in Malaysia (S/O 14702) by Auzzir, Zairol Azhar, Abu Bakar, Arpah, Suhadah, Mohd Taipor

“…Regarding the DRR resources, DRR finance instruments, reference materials and types of insurance, most of them are not aware of the existing guidelines/frameworks/strategies/concepts that are currently in-use for common reference in many countries. …”
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Political corruption and accounting choices by Zhang, Huai, Zhang, Jin

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Report on business attachment with CS First Boston. by Chiang, Waipeng.

“…CS First Boston provides comprehensive financial advisory and capital raising services and develops innovative financing for a broad range of clients. Its decentralized structure and proven global network has given it a strong competitive edge. …”
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Healthcare affordability in Singapore. by Goh, Pei Shan., Loo, Xue Mei., Tan, Yali.

“…This paper attempts to investigate the affordability of healthcare in Singapore by estimating the cost of treatment for heart attack in Singapore and comparing it with a representative household’s available sources of financing the treatment- discretionary savings and 3Ms. …”
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Improving gene therapy by Wang, Eliza Lisha

“…Existing PT67 and Amphotropic-Phoenix retroviral packaging cell lines can be made more efficient to produce higher retroviral titers, giving rise to more efficient gene transfer. …”
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International trade and letters of credit: a double-edged sword in times of crises by Crozet, M, Demir, B, Javorcik, B

“…Risk mitigation can be achieved through letters of credit (LCs), trade finance instruments providing guarantees to trading partners. …”

Automatic vanishing points detection for single view reconstruction by Potcharaphol, Chat Anan

“…The algorithm is found to be fast and effective for an image with clear feature lines but struggles with an image with few feature lines. …”
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中国国有企业资本结构管理探讨 = A study on the capital structure of China's state-owned enterprises by 吴宝川 Wu, Baochuan

“…This distorted capital structure has led to a vicious circle: the state-owned enterprises have a heavy burden in paying interest rate for debt, have limited ability to accumulate equity capital, have to rely upon more and more on debt financing, have the capital structure distortion even more biased towards debt-financing. …”
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Accelerating NetZero: introducing a novel financial approach and new narratives for retrofit by Topouzi, M, Mallaburn, P, Bobrova, Y

“…The paper contributes to policy design and implementation, allowing the adaptation of the Retrofit Salary Finance scheme to different contexts or countries.…”

Unifying statistical texture classification frameworks by Varma, M, Zisserman, A

“…First, we show that there is a correspondence between the two common representations of filter outputs—textons and binned histograms. Second, we show that two classification methodologies, nearest neighbour matching and Bayesian classification, are equivalent for particular choices of the distance measure. …”

Perceptual watermarking and data concealment in audio signals by Tio, Cedric Meng Meng.

“…This project aims to hide data in audio streams by direct substitution of the FFT spectral lines with the hidden data. The spectral lines to be replaced are carefully chosen with the help of a psychoacoustic model. …”
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Herding in equity crowdfunding by Åstebro, T, Fernández, M, Lovo, S, Vulkan, N

“…The AoN crowdfunding mechanism might therefore fail to finance a nonnegligible percentage of positive NPV projects.…”

Policy reform to deliver safely managed drinking water services for schools in rural Bangladesh by Fischer, A, Hope, R, Thomson, P, Hoque, S, Alam, M, Charles, K, Achi, N, Nowicki, S, Hakim, S, Islam, M, Salehin, M, Bradley, D, Ibrahim, M, Chowdhury, M

“…The SafePani model aims to provide safe drinking water services for all in rural Bangladesh through reforms in three areas – institutional design, information systems and sustainable finance. Institutional reform can aim to clarify roles and responsibilities allocated from national to local levels.…”

Nonlinear adjustment of exchange rate and exchange rate policy : lessons from Singapore by Yan, Fangli, Yip, Paul Sau Leung

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POPX2 and its role in breast cancer. by Susila, Agatha.

“…We found that POPX2 is highly expressed in cancer cell lines compared to non-cancer cell lines.…”
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Predictability of exchange rates with taylor rule fundamentals : evidence from inflation-targeting emerging countries by Alba, Joseph Dennis, Park, Donghyun, Xie, Taojun

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A feasibility study of computer-integrated manufacturing implementation in a printed circuit board manufacturing environment by Ho, Lip Tse.

“…The study has found that the level of computerization for the business support functions is higher than for the other functions of the company. In particular, the Finance, Accounts, Purchasing and Store Systems are using the present Dataflex database system very effectively. …”
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Investment in China : reform and policy by Bai, Wenyang

“…The focus is on the determination of investment with a view to identifying its specific financing sources, mechanism, and links with monetary and fiscal policies. …”
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Accounting application by Ong, Zhi Yuan

“…The objective of this Application is to provide an affordable software to simplify corporate finance and accounting procedures for the SMEs. Not only will the Application provide accounts keeping as a basis, incorporation of value-added features such as customer/supplier management, automation of financial services, along with the potential of linking up with others SMEs make it beneficial for the SMEs. …”
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