Heterogeneities in landed costs of traded grains and oilseeds contribute to unequal access to food by Verschuur, J, Vittis, Y, Obersteiner, M, Hall, JW

“…Despite the growing accessibility of international grain and oilseed markets, high production costs and trade frictions are still prevalent, contributing to regional heterogeneities in the landed cost of grain imports. …”

The US–China Trade War: Quantify the Negative Shocks to Local Housing Markets and Land-Based Finance in Chinese Cities by Li, Boning, Liao, Wen-Chi, Sun, Weizeng, Zeng, Yongxuan, Zheng, Siqi

“…However, the trade war has severely struck the cities’ housing markets and land sales since 2018. …”
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Strategies to encourage women workers to sign up and remain in trade unions by Ismail, Fadillah, Abdul Kadir, Adibah, Mohamad Azmi, Nur Azia Hazida, Mohd Yusof, Halimah

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The trembling-hand problem for LTLf planning by Yu, P, Zhu, S, De Giacomo, G, Vardi, M

“…We study the trembling-hand problem in the context of reasoning about actions and planning for temporally extended goals expressed in Linear Temporal Logic on finite traces (LTLf), where we want to synthesize a strategy (aka plan) that maximizes the probability of satisfying the LTLf goal in spite of the trembling hand. …”

Machine learning and deep learning methods for exchange-traded fund trading by Jeremia, Alexander

“…Machine Learning and Deep Learning has been growing in the popularity in many fields in the past few years especially in the field of Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) due to its ability to analyse large amount of data and detect patterns that might not be oblivious to traders. …”
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The golden bull : is it coming? (current prospects of gold trading) by Lim, Wee Beng, Lim, Daniel Chih Ming, Leong, Kum Hoe

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Eric Bogle’s No Man’s Land and the grave of Willie McBride at the Somme by Walsh, Michael J. K.

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Unsupervised land-use change detection using multi-temporal POI embedding by Yao, Yao, Zhu, Qia, Guo, Zijin, Huang, Weiming, Zhang, Yatao, Yan, Xiaoqin, Dong, Anning, Jiang, Zhangwei, Liu, Hong, Guan, Qingfeng

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Brokers and informed traders: dealing with toxic flow and extracting trading signals by Cartea, A, Sánchez-Betancourt, L

“…On the other hand, the informed trader has privileged information about the trend in the price of the asset, so the broker trades with the informed trader at a loss, on average. …”

What the visual system can learn from the non-dominant hand: The effect of graphomotor engagement on visual discrimination by Ben-Ami, Shlomit, Buaron, Batel, Yaron, Ori, Keane, Kyle, Sun, Virginia H., Phillips, Flip, Friedman, Jason, Sinha, Pawan, Mukamel, Roy

“…Moreover, graphomotor training with the non-dominant hand resulted in visual discrimination improvements comparable to those of dominant hand training, despite the inherent differences between hands in motor performance and in the amount of improvement in shape tracing throughout training. …”
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Energy Management: A Case Study on the Malaysian Government Office Building by Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Baharum, Faizal, Rajemi, Mohamad Farizal, Ibrahim, Jafni Azhan, Tahir, Mohamad Zamhari

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Impact of BREXIT on key stakeholders of the maritime industry in UK by Ching, Claudia Loke Wei

“…The role of UK in the global maritime industry is essential and significant, given its prevalence in the establishment of shipping routes that connects Europe to major regions in the world. With the first trace of trade relations surfacing in 1973, UK also doubles as a connecting network for key economies in the world to conduct trade with the EU. …”
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Reconfigurable antennas for GSM and WLAN applications by IHD Mavidu Nipunath Iddagoda

“…Optimum number of switches and locations of the switches were determined through to obtain the best performance in GSM band with minimal trade-off for the performance in the WLAN band. …”
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Cooperation amidst competition : the role of rubber in shaping Japanese and Straits Chinese relations in Malaya, 1914-1941 by Cao, Mingmin

“…This thesis aims to highlight this unlikely cooperation between the two key players of the rubber trade in the interwar years.…”
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Low complexity spectrum sensing for cognitive radio enabled aeronautical communication systems by Koodathumkal Mathew Libin

“…A Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter bank is used to split the wideband to several narrow bands; then, the detection algorithm is applied to each narrow-bands individually. …”
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Regulasi dan Dasar Ekonomi Sebelah Penawaran: Langkah Alternatif untuk Mengurangkan Bebanan Ekonomi Peniaga dalam Majlis Perbandaran Kubang Pasu (MPKP) (S/O: 14674) by Abdullah, Muhammad Ridhuan Bos, Noor, Mohd Saifoul Zamzuri, Bakar, Normizan, Hasan Basri, Bakti, Fadzim, Wan Roshidah, Musa, Rusmani

“…Kajian penyelidikan gunaan ini menjelaskan bagaimana pandemik Covid-19 memberi impak kepada ekonomi pada masa kini dan berbeza kepada rakyat bergantung kepada kumpulan pendapatan mereka, bandar dengan luar bandar dan sektor pekerjaan formal atau informal. …”
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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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Institutions and agricultural transformation: a study of induced innovation in the Philippine rice sector by Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P.

“…Research findings supported the hypotheses that agricultural transformation was impeded by the three factors: 1) an industrialisation-inspired de-facto currency overvaluation regime removed farmers’ potential to capture export markets, the latter serving as a “carrot” for adopting innovation; 2) trade protectionist policies in the rice sector removed import competition as a “stick” for adopting innovation; and 3) industrialisation- and land reform-related capital scarcity among smallholder farmers hindered the dynamics of IIA from taking place. …”
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Actively mode-locked fiber lasers for high speed telecommunication systems by Lam, Quoc Huy

“…To overcome this, we propose and derive a set of mathematical series, which are easily calculated from the laser cavity parameters, to trace the evolution of the signal in the laser cavity. …”
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Venezia e il Peloponneso, 992-1718 : indagini storiche tra territorio, biblioteca e archivio by Nanetti, Andrea

“…The extraordinary wealth of archival documents, chronicles, travel reports, archaeological sites and monuments, still for the most part to be studied, makes the privileged relationship between Venice and the Peloponnese a key element for the study of Venetian society, with reference to choices made by Venetians in the search for an ethical relationship with the Other in the geopolitical pursuit of their constitutional aim, i.e. far la marchadantia pacifichamente (to trade peacefully). In an almost millenary chronology (992-1718), the Peloponnese – a land on the maritime border between the Ionian and the Aegean Seas, a cultural and commercial link between the Latin-Roman West and the Hellenistic East – is a privileged laboratory for the training of the next generation of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural historians, and for staunch supporters of peace among peoples.…”
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