A study on the correlation between financial ratios and earnings per share in South Korean banking by Li, Wei Jie, Zhang, Xi Liang, Liu, Lei

“…However, only a few studies have been completed on banks in East Asia region, and very few were on individual East Asian country. …”
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The Caliphate at War: Ideology, War Fighting and State-Formation by Hashim, Ahmed Salah

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Optical atompilz: propagation-invariant strongly longitudinally polarized toroidal pulses by Wang, Ren, Yang, Ding-Tao, Xin, Tao, Shi, Shuai, Wang, Bing-Zhong, Shen, Yijie

“…Here, we present strongly longitudinally polarized toroidal pulses (SLPTPs), which boast a longitudinal component amplitude exceeding that of the transverse component by over tenfold. …”
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Pareto Adaptive Robust Optimality via a Fourier–Motzkin Elimination lens by Bertsimas, Dimitris, ten Eikelder, Stefan C. M., den Hertog, Dick, Trichakis, Nikolaos

“…A worst-case optimal solution pair of here-and-now decisions and wait-and-see decisions is PARO if it cannot be Pareto dominated by another solution, i.e., there does not exist another worst-case optimal pair that performs at least as good in all scenarios in the uncertainty set and strictly better in at least one scenario. …”
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The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

“…The United States' rebalancing to Asia, initially depicted as a "pivot" to the Pacific, is less a swing away from the Middle East and West Asia than a shift of U.S. focus to East Asia, following the winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. …”
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Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…We find that DeCoRIC improves the power efficiency of the network by at least 70% and extends its life- time by at least 42% over existing solutions while making the network adaptable and resilient to faults. …”
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Investigation of indoor thermal comfort and energy demand in different locations along the sub-Himalayan belt - a simulation based study by Thapa, Samar, Zaki, Sheikh Ahmad

“…In this study, a pre-validated model of 3-storey concrete residential building was used to study the indoor performance and thermal comfort in the face of climate change in the 8 (eight) different hill towns (hill stations) located from west to the east. Rise in ambient and indoor conditions were evident as a part of climate change with colder locations being affected the most. …”

Quantitative determinants of bank profitability in Asean. by Tham, Kuo Chau.

“…The main focus of the study is an exploratory empirical investigation on quantitative determinants of bank profitability in South East Asia. The study examines the existence of any structural relationship between key financial ratios and bank profitability, which is measured by the return on assets. …”
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New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) : Day-of-the-week effect and bid-ask spreads by Guo, Lisa Xiuhui, Ernest Julian Sutanto, Quek, Benny Shiwei

“…We find that the technology sector is associated with higher transaction cost. Last but not least, our results in the last section present the absence of DOW effect in all three types of classifications by trading volume.…”
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Exploring post-divorce experiences : a case study on professional women in Singapore. by Chong, Wen Ee.

“…These themes include the cause of divorce due to infidelity on the part of their ex-husbands, the constant struggle over divorce settlements and maintenance for the children in the family court, the changing role of fathers after the divorce, the positive ramifications of social network support and last but not least, socio-economic status as a tool for the reconstruction of self-esteem after the divorce.…”
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Authentic culture : the missing piece in China's soft power puzzle. by Lo, Elaine.

“…This study seeks to answer the question of why China's soft power strategy in East Asia has not improved its image despite its deliberate effort to implement a more complete soft power strategy than other countries. …”
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Computational fluid dynamics simulation of jet in crossflow by Ahmad Anwar

“…It can be concluded that a higher drain mast height and smaller jet exit diameter would produce the least amount of stains on the aircraft belly. The configuration with the greater height of 60 mm and jet exit diameter of 2.5 mm produced the least amount of acetone mass on the ground of the test domain at a value of 7.451x10-6. …”
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Missing links in The China Model by Li, Chenyang

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Multiple-instance learning from unlabeled bags with pairwise similarity by Feng, Lei, Shu, Senlin, Cao, Yuzhou, Tao, Lue, Wei, Hongxin, Xiang, Tao, An, Bo, Niu, Gang

“…A training bag is either negative if it contains no positive instances or positive if it has at least one positive instance. Previous MIL methods generally assume that training bags are fully labeled. …”
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5G in Singapore : is the tide turning against Huawei? by Anuar, Amalina

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On language attrition : lexical access in Singaporean English-Chinese bilinguals by Toh, Xiao Xuan

“…The results also established grounds for attributing at least part of the language processing difficulties in migrants to language attrition, since lexical access difficulties were found in the early bilinguals whose language disuse did not coincide with the acquisition of a new language.…”
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Genes for carnivory : a comparative study on the local duplication of papain-like cysteine proteases in carnivorous plants by Tan, Qiao Wen

“…Through the comparison of Drosera PLCPs with carnivorous plants Utricularia gibba and Cephalotus follicularis, molecular mechanisms adopted for carnivory appear to be, at least in part, convergent in the former (which likely uses PLCPs) and an alternative mechanism (aspartic proteases) seems to be more probable in the latter.…”
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Chen Wen Hsi: more than Chinese painting by Lee, Ju-Lyn

“…These are followed by findings on his other involvements in exhibitionary activities, such as being part of selection panels for exhibitions, with focus on a 1976 exhibition he “organised” and “hosted”, and the two galleries he owned. …”
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'Women in an extraordinary time': the transnational network and educational spaces of the Canadian Eiwa Girls' mission schools in 1920s and 1930s Japan by Dugal, A

“…The students, graduates, missionaries, and Japanese educators of these three institutions were physically and intellectually part of a transnational network of Christian women and organizations in 1920s and 1930s Japan. …”

TraceTogether : pandemic response, democracy, and technology by Stevens, Hallam, Haines, Monamie Bhadra

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