A study on the impact of Panama Canal expansion on major stakeholders by Lee, Jin Yan

“…Surveys and interviews will then act as supplements to the secondary research, substantiating the findings and adding on to the current body of knowledge. …”
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Investigating the role of local angiotensin system in the browning of white adipocytes by Tan, Shi Wei

“…In our present study, we endeavored to find whether the RAS in adipose tissue could engender browning characteristics by looking at the effects of angiotensin II (Ang II) and angiotensin 1-7 (Ang 1-7) on WAT, and to bring about further understanding of the unique role of the RAS in adipose tissue. 3T3 L1 cells were treated with or without a. …”
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Outlook for the dry bulk shipping market in the next 5 years by Sam, Dave Perry, Chang, Yvonne, Yeo, Kai Hong

“…The solution for the recovery of the dry bulk market is to ensure that supply rapidly decreases in order to find a balance with the demand for dry bulk shipping services. …”
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Educational simulator for the MIPS processor by Neo, Gerald Wei Sheng

“…This report will examine some of these simulators and find out their advantages and drawbacks in the domain of pedagogical learning. …”
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Electrical characterization of three-dimensional graphene infused polymers by Ho, Roderick Zhan Feng

“…Multiple variations of the fabrication method will be experimented on to find the optimal production procedure. One variation example is the type of connection method in which the rectangular electrical contact with lesser surface area is compared to the ring-shaped electrical contact which has larger surface area. …”
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Soil improvement using ground granulated blastfurnace slag (GGBS) and reactive magnesia (MgO) by Sathesh M Tamil Selven

“…The study also seeks to find out the most optimum ratio of MgO/Binder content to benefit the use of this novel activator with GGBS on actual sites. …”
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Building AC/DC microgrid design by Li, ChengJing

“…So it is necessary to find some alternative source to keep a stable and sustainable development. …”
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Index learning style data processing application by Yew, Shao Jie

“…This led teachers to finding out suitable learning styles for their learners. …”
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Opto-mechatronics instrumentation of a specialty optical fiber based optogenetic probe by Gokulnath, Rajendran

“…The recent advancement in the research of optogenetics is considered to be of greater significance as it is a new path for researchers to understand the comprehensive function of the brain to find a therapy for neurodegenerative diseases. The discovery of light-gated proteins that can be expressed with neuronal cells for targeted stimulation made optogenetics a powerful tool. …”
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Development of a capacitive deionization (CDI) device for water desalination by Chia, Desmond Zhi Yong

“…The focus of this report is on Capacitive Deionization (CDI) technology to desalinate water. The reader will also find details on modern desalination technologies and how CDI compares to the rest. …”
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The use of mobile phones among trishaw operators in Myanmar by Ling, Rich, Aricat, Rajiv George, Oreglia, Elisa, Panchapakesan, Chitra, Lwin, May Oo

“…With commercialization, the price of a mobile subscription fell from over US$1,500 to US$1.50, making it affordable to groups that heretofore have not had access. We find that the trishaw sector is changing because of this. …”
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Dynamic Weakening by Acoustic Fluidization during Stick-Slip Motion by Giacco, F., Saggese, L., de Arcangelis, L., Lippiello, E., Pica Ciamarra, Massimo

“…Here we validate this mechanism via the numerical investigation of a granular fault model system. We find that the stick-slip dynamics is affected only by perturbations applied at a characteristic frequency corresponding to oscillations normal to the fault, leading to gradual dynamical weakening as failure is approaching. …”
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Does Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings? A Reexamination of the Effect of Fitch’s Market Share on Credit Ratings in the Corporate Bond Market by Bae, Kee-Hong, Kang, Jun-Koo, Wang, Jin

“…Using Fitch’s market share as a measure of competition among rating agencies and controlling for the endogeneity problem caused by unobservable industry effects, we find no relation between Fitch’s market share and ratings, suggesting that competition does not lead to rating inflation.…”
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The impact of the timing of a prior year's auditor concessions on financial officers' judgments by Cheng, Mandy M., Tan, Hun-Tong, Trotman, Ken T., Tse, Aileen

“…Overall, these results suggest that findings in earlier single-period settings (e.g., Tan and Trotman 2010) potentially reverse in a multi-period setting.…”
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Two superconducting transitions in single-crystal La 2 − x Ba x CuO 4 by Tee, Xian Yang, Ito, T., Ushiyama, T., Tomioka, Y., Martin, I., Panagopoulos, Christos

“…We use spatially-resolved transport techniques to investigate the superconducting properties of single crystals La2−xBax CuO4. We find a superconducting transition temperature Tcs associated with the ab-plane surface region which is considerably higher than the bulk Tc. …”
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Noise enhances information transfer in hierarchical networks by Czaplicka, Agnieszka, Holyst, Janusz A., Sloot, Peter M. A.

“…The second one originates from random changes in initial network topology. We find that the information transfer can be enhanced by the noise. …”
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Plasmon geometric phase and plasmon hall shift by Shi, Li-kun, Song, Justin Chien Wen

“…Here we unveil that beneath this familiar facade plasmons possess a hidden internal structure that fundamentally alters its dynamics. In particular, we find that metals with nonzero Hall conductivity host plasmons with an intricate current density configuration that sharply departs from that of ordinary zero Hall conductivity metals. …”
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Domain specific methods for procedural modeling of historical architecture by Johannes Edelsbrunner

“…This thesis investigates some of those parts and tries to find new answers on how to model them procedurally. …”
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Practical pseudo-collisions for hash functions ARIRANG-224/384 by Guo, Jian, Matusiewicz, Krystian, Knudsen, Lars R., Ling, San, Wang, Huaxiong

“…We use this approach to find near-collisions with Hamming weight 32 for the full compression function as well as collisions for the compression function of ARIRANG reduced to 26 rounds, both with complexity close to 20 and memory requirements of only a few words.We use near collisions for the compression function to construct pseudo-collisions for the complete hash functions ARIRANG-224 and ARIRANG-384 with complexity 223 and close to 20, respectively.We implemented the attacks and provide examples of appropriate pairs of H,M values. …”
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Postprocessing East African rainfall forecasts using a generative machine learning model by Antonio, RA, McRae, ATT, McLeod, D, Cooper, F, Marsham, J, Aitchison, L, Palmer, TN, Watson, PAG

“…We explore the potential for the cGAN to produce probabilistic forecasts and find that the spread of this ensemble broadly reflects the predictability of the observations, but is also characterised by a mixture of under- and overdispersion. …”