Research firm reputation and investors' reaction to research reports by Lei, Thi Quynh Giang, Le, Thao Nguyen, Nguyen, Viet Anh

“…Contrary to our expectation, we do not find any significant relationship between research firms’ ownership in the listed companies and abnormal returns. …”
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Build your own Android App by Kyaw, Thu Zin

“…In a developed country like Singapore, finding a car park can be difficult during peak hours. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Si, Fangbo

“…Using the 2003 mutual fund scandal as a shock to institutions’ risk-shifting incentives, we find that lenders charge higher loan spreads and impose more covenants after the scandal. …”
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Does cultural similarity between CFOs and auditors impact audit quality? by Xiong, Xi

“…Using last names to infer cultural values, I find that the cultural similarity between the CFO and the engagement partner is associated with high audit quality. …”
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PCA based feature extraction for cell image retrieval by Ananthagunan Muthukumaran

“…The Euclidian Distance method is adapted to find out the position of the new image in the subspace After Calculating the Euclidian Distance the images, which are stored, are retrieved back in the order of closeness with that of the test image. …”
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Design of an indoor intelligent navigation system for visual disabilities by Wang, Ziliang

“…This RFID system is an indoor route-guide system for blind people to clearly find the way in a building without others' help. …”
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Scratch based graphical programming online guide/exam system by Chan, Bryan Hong Ming

“…In this project, comparison of various block-based applications are performed to find the most suitable application for students who may or may not have prior programming background to learn programming. …”
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Interactive E-learning environment for maximum power transfer in RFIC by Ratna

“…When the source and load impedance in RFIC are known, an impedance matching is required to be carried out to find a matching network to be added into the circuit. …”
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Annual budgets and rolling budgets use in UK and Australian firms by Bhimani, A, Sivabalan, P, Soonawalla, K, Wakefield, J

“…We find that of the firms using annual and rolling budgets, 75 percent indicated they are equally important, with both budgeting forms used jointly rather than as substitutes. …”

Financial optimization problems by Law, SL

“…Then we study the equivalent problem based on a market model with transaction costs. We find that there is a relationship between these two solutions. …”

Mapping the Cellular Landscape of the Brain: A Scalable Approach to Comprehensive Microscopy Data Analysis by Kim, Minyoung E.

“…A novel deep neural network (ALNet) was designed to capture the long-range contextual dependencies inherent in 3D training data during supervised learning. …”
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Spinel Co3O4 nanomaterials for efficient and stable large area carbon-based printed perovskite solar cells by Bashir, Amna, Shukla, Sudhanshu, Lew, Jia Haur, Shukla, Shashwat, Bruno, Annalisa, Gupta, Disha, Baikie, Tom, Patidar, Rahul, Akhter, Zareen, Priyadarshi, Anish, Mathews, Nripan, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam

“…Compared to standard carbon PSCs (PCE of 11.25%) an improved PCE of 13.27% with long-term stability, up to 2500 hours under ambient conditions, is achieved. …”
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Controllability robustness against cascading failure for complex logistics networks based on nonlinear load-capacity model by Yang, Yue`, Sun, Baofeng, Wang, Shaohua, Li, Yongxing, Li, Xiaoni

“…The research results show that the main influencing factors of the cascading failure of complex logistics networks for the controllability robustness Pi are the tolerance parameters β and γ. …”
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Transfer-recursive-ensemble learning for multi-day COVID-19 prediction in India using recurrent neural networks by Chakraborty, Debasrita, Goswami, Debayan, Ghosh, Susmita, Ghosh, Ashish, Chan, Jonathan H., Wang, Lipo

“…The proposed method uses gated recurrent unit networks as the main predicting model. A study is conducted by building four models pre-trained on COVID-19 data from four different countries (United States of America, Brazil, Spain, and Bangladesh) and fine-tuned on India's data. …”
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A simplified weak coupling dynamic analysis method for running safety evaluation of train on bridges under earthquake excitation by Zhu, Zhihui, Gong, Wei, Zhou, Gaoyang, Yang, Yaowen, Jiang, Lizhong

“…Taking a 10-span simply supported bridge and a long-span cable-stayed bridge as examples, the proposed method's assumptions are verified by comparing its results with those obtained from a complex TTBS model. …”
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Integrated plant/control design and implementation for high track density HDD servo systems by Gao, Tingting

“…This thesis presents our research works for HDD systems. The main idea lies with exploiting the plant and controller design for the positioning accuracy improvement. …”
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海外华人对于中国的贡献及影响 ：以闽南金三角“骑楼”为案例 = Influence of overseas Chinese in China : a study of Qilou in Xiamen, Quanzhou & Zhangzhou by 刘琦琦 Liu, Qiqi

“…However practical these contributions were, they are usually not long lasting and are unable to leave behind much concrete legacy. …”
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Securing reform? Post-election power sharing and security sector reform in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Togo, 2006-2013 by Noyes, A

“…</p> <p>The two-step integrated theoretical framework presented here forwards a structured contingency approach, positing that a combination of long- and short-term domestic and international factors will drive or stymie reform of the security sector under post-election power sharing in democratizing countries. …”

John Doe by Ng, Bliss TingHan

“…John Doe is a game where the main character has lost his memory and traverses through a surreal world in a bid to get his memories back. …”
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Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words by Holland, Amanda, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…However, after one week only the mappings for object labels were retained above chance levels. Our findings suggest that fast mapped object labels are retained long-term better than color, shape and texture words. …”
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