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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Popular safe haven assets, do they really exist for stock markets? Analysis on gold, Japanese yen and Swiss franc. by Liu, Chang., Ho, Pauline., Xu, Qiong.

“…After further classifying the stock market data into bull and bear periods, then by looking at the days of extreme negative returns in each situation, we realize that the safe haven effect in these assets tends to be stronger in bearish stock markets. …”
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Evaluation of the synergistic effects of novel antimicrobial polymer 147-1 by Leong, Philemon Ye Chao

“…In recent years, antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria has been on the rise. …”
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Lesbian rights and recognition in Singapore : lesbian relationships should be accepted legally and socially. by Yu, Bertinelli Shasha.

“…Family, religion and politics can negatively affect one’s lesbian identity while the support from peers can be empowering to their lesbian identity. …”
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Alcohol Use and Its Relation with Demographic, Environmental, and Psychological Factors among Adolescents in Nabawan, Sabah by Jaimon, Selly, Deligannu, Pravina, Robinson, Fredie

“…Analysis revealed that older age adolescents 18 years and 19 years, respectively (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 3.93; P=0.021; aOR, 5.38; P=0.003), having parents (aOR, 4.11; P=0.001) and peers (aOR, 11.57; P<0.001) who consume alcohol were significantly associated with alcohol use. …”
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Come and tell mama : the socialization of anger through talk by Sharifah Adibah Binte Syed Zainal

“…Participants were middle class, educated Chinese Singaporean, with children aged 3-6 years old. Conducted in the home setting, the dyads were prompted to discuss anger-related events without restrictions to topic and time. …”
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Multi-source cooperative networks by Pwint, Phyu Thein

“…The analysis has proved that although network coding provides spectral gain, the compensation for this benefit is that the system will have higher BER compared to traditional cooperative network. …”
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Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata” by de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex

“…The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” bears no resemblance to modern high-dimensional data sets on which their methods fail. …”
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Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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Bit-error-rate analysis of UWB radio using BPSK modulation over inter-chip radio channels for wireless chip area networks by Chen, Zhiming, Zhang, Yue Ping, Hu, Ai Qun, Ng, Tung Sang

“…In this paper, we analyze bit-error rate (BER) of an ultra-wideband (UWB) radio with binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulation over an inter-chip wireless radio channel. …”
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Adaptive modulation and subcarrier allocation for multiuser OFDM/CDMA systems by Zhang, Hua

“…For multi-service (Voice and Data) transmissions, voice and data services have different priorities, BER requirements, transmission rates and power consumption. …”
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Mill before Liberalism (parts I and II) by Ghosh, P

Lane formation and aggregation spots in a model of ants by Bruna, M, Burger, M, de Wit, O

A low-power IoT platform based smart plug for smart home system by Yang, Huan

“…Presently, there are three most popular wireless communication technologies including Bluetooth, ZigBee, and Wi-Fi which are adopted in the intelligent home system. …”
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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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Offset-16QAM-based coherent WDM with multi-carrier group detection by Xiang, Meng, Fu, Songnian, Tang, M., Shum, P., Liu, Deming

“…Moreover, 0.5 dB required OSNR penalty at BER=10-3 is obtained given 18 GHz ADC bandwidth. …”
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Up in smoke : peatland fires in Russia and Indonesia by Sofiah Jamil

“…The heatwaves behind the current Russian fires bear similarities with the Indonesian experiences in 1998 and 2006, Indonesia and ASEAN could share their experiences in addressing peatland fires with Russia.…”
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De novo genome sequence assembly of the RNAi-tractable endosymbiosis model system Paramecium bursaria 186b reveals factors shaping intron repertoire by Leonard, G, Jenkins, BH, Savory, FR, Kilias, ES, Maguire, F, Varma, V, Milner, DS, Richards, TA

Quad's India problem : no different from Beijing by Gupta, Sourabh

“…Australia, Japan and the US should first get New Delhi to revise its UNCLOS-related rules and regulations, which bear far greater similarity with Beijing’s than that of its Quad partners.…”
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Design and development of a web-based platform for EEE MSc student orientation by Soo, Serena Keng Shuang

“…To better assist EEE MSc students transition into their life at NTU and Singapore – for international students, a web-based application is developed to create platforms for students to orientate themselves by connecting with their peers in the same matriculation year, thus effectively forming their own support system in this transitional phase. …”
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