Negotiation of the Singapore auntie identity by Chew, Rachel Si Wei

“…The Singaporean Auntie identity can be seen as doubly problematized because of the stigmatized stereotypes associated with Singaporean Aunties and the stigmatization of old age. To find out how the concepts of social stigma and age old identity are associated with each other, this paper aims to study how Singaporean Aunties negotiate their identities amidst the existing notions of a negative stigmatization placed on them. …”
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Do higher politician salaries reduce corruption and improve governance? by Chin, Hong Xiang, Low, Guo Quan, Wang, Yiwei

“…We propose that our findings can be explained by: electoral pressure, peer pressure, and mutual monitoring effects.…”
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An auction approach for resource allocation in cognitive radio networks by Liu, Chenglong

“…This experiment adopts a Hackner utility function [3] and Matlab programming tools to find the demands for the radio spectrum from each SU. …”
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Negotiating time in British Malaya : colonial Singapore’s role in time legislature, 1895 – 1933 by Teo, Grace Jie Ying

“…By paying attention to the state of events on the ground – in other words the colonial realities, we find that decisions involving time legislature were mediated by logistical and political difficulties and concerns, the participating intermediaries of whom were a diverse group of human actors with varied interests. …”
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Spectrum sensing using energy detection by Ng, Yong Wei

“…Researches and experiments had been conducted over the years to find the solution to utilize the spectrum space. …”
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Competitive spreading of multiple ideas in multiplex networks by Luo, Jingyuan

“…In this dissertation, I am trying to find out how two competitive ideas spread in multiplex networks. …”
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The effect of religiosity on climate change policies by Lim, Sue Qin, Ng, Jia Hui, Tew, Ying Sian

“…Using data from the World Values Survey (WVS) from 1981-2014, we examine how religiosity is related to the Climate Laws, Institutions and Measures Index (CLIMI) from 2005-2011. We find that religious countries tend to have less extensive and stringent climate change policies, where a 0.1 increase in religiosity is associated with a 5.30 points decrease in CLIMI score. …”
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Weighted discounting, time inconsistent stopping and their applications by Wei, W

“…Therefore, all results in this thesis find a correspondence in a single agent setting with non-standard, behavioral time preferences. …”

Incorporating elicited preferences for equality into electricity system planning modeling by Van-Hein Sackey, C, Nock, D, Cao, C, Armanios, D, Davis, A

“…Our novel contribution is proposing a framework in the form of a discrete choice experiment and a statistical estimation model to determine decision makers’ preferences for equality. In our study, we find that higher preferences for equality result in an increased deployment of solar diesel mini-grids. …”

Visual bias by Caprini, G

“…Moreover, as readers react more to images aligned with the ideology of their political affiliation group, the news’ visual bias causes polarization to increase. Finally, I find that media can effectively influence readers by pairing neutral text with partisan images. …”

Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps by Morris, JW, Prey, R, Nieborg, DB

“…We are particularly interested in how content creators find novel ways to work within, around, and even against platform politics and policies by manipulating algorithms, business models, and guidelines, or otherwise readying their content for optimal circulation on multiple platforms. …”

Legitimate power, illegitimate automation: the problem of ignoring legitimacy in automated decision systems by Stone, J, Mittelstadt, BD

“…This analysis reveals that these theories require careful consideration before being applied to legitimate ADS. Specifically, we find that consent and public reason theories can legitimate some automated decision systems, but encounter serious difficulties which limit their applicability. …”

British Muslim youth and religious fundamentalism: a quantitative investigation by Kashyap, R, Lewis, VA

“…We use new survey data to empirically examine how Muslim youth differ from older Muslims and non-Muslim British peers on religiosity, Islam-specific and broader social attitudes. We find that young Muslims attribute a greater salience to Islam for their personal identity, even though they pray and read scripture less, and support plural interpretations of Islam more than their elders. …”

Modelling cerebrovascular pathology and the spread of amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease by Ahern, A, Thompson, TB, Oliveri, H, Lorthois, S, Goriely, A

“…Here, we develop a brain-wide model that combines protein-capillary interactions with the prion-like dynamics of amyloid beta in the structural connectome. We find that a bistable dynamics emerges from the amyloid betahypoperfusion feedback loop giving rise to nontrivial spatio-temporal dynamics. …”

Neuroimaging meta regression for coordinate based meta analysis data with a spatial model by Yu, Y, Pintos Lobo, R, Riedel, MC, Bottenhorn, K, Laird, AR, Nichols, T

“…In such analyses, a key practical challenge is to find a computationally efficient approach with good statistical interpretability to model the locations of activation foci. …”

Seasonal density-dependence can select for partial migrants in migratory species by Liu, J, Zhang, Z, Coulson, T

“…Our theoretical models were motivated by empirical data identified via a systematic literature review. We find that the equilibrium density in the season with the strongest density-dependence of a strategy predicts whether the strategy will become dominant within the population. …”

Frontier rule and conflict by Malik, M, Mirza, RA, Rehman, FU

“…Using the arbitrarily defined historical border between frontier and non-frontier regions in northwestern Pakistan and 10km-by-10km grid-level conflict data in a spatial regression discontinuity design, we find that areas historically under frontier rule experienced significantly higher violence against the state after 9/11. …”

The London money market and non-British bank lending during the first globalisation: evidence from Brazil by Kisling, W, Molteni, M

“…Using monthly data between 1889 and 1913, we find a positive relationship between the amount of credit authorised by the German Brasilianische Bank für Deutschland in Brazil and the spread between the London market and floating rate. …”

Toxic speech and limited demand for content moderation on social media by Pradel, F, Zilinsky, J, Kosmidis, S, Theocharis, Y

“…We present results from two studies with pre-registered randomized experiments (Study 1, N = 5,130; Study 2, N = 3,734) to examine how these variants causally affect users’ content moderation preferences. We find that while both the severity of toxicity and the target of the attack matter, the demand for content moderation of toxic speech is limited. …”

Allee effects: empirical analyses of wild British butterfly populations and theoretical implications for population synchrony by Dooley, C

“…In chapter 2 I investigate the spatial variation in influential density-dependent processes and density-independent weather factors for the large skipper butterfly <em>Ochlodes sylvanus</em> across its British range. I find both qualitative and quantitative spatial variation in these processes and factors driving population dynamics. …”