Conditional conservatism and debt versus equity financing by Goh, Beng Wee, Lim, Chee Yeow, Lobo, Gerald J., Tong, Yen Hee

“…We also find that the reduction in cost of equity associated with conservatism is greater for equity issuers than for debt issuers, but find no such difference when we examine cost of debt. …”
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A Singapore perspective : impact of disclosure and board independence on firm performance. by Chua, Zi Qin., Low, Jason Wei Jie., Yee, Derrick Hock Huat.

“…Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that firms are rewarded with an increase in Tobin’s Q upon greater disclosure of board independence as recommended by the Code. …”
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Gamson going global? Cabinet proportionality in comparative perspective by Chaisty, P, Power, T

“…Among the constitutional predictors of cabinet proportionality, we find that pure presidentialism is a major outlier, with an exaggerated form of formateur advantage. …”

Carlibration parameters of social force model (SFM) for customized personal mobility devices (PMD) by Yuan, Liqiang

“…After getting the parameters of SFM for different PMDs, simulation can be done to find out the correlation between PMD speed and lateral distance for PMD rider when encountering a pedestrian. …”
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Profiling customers against characteristics of corporate responses to complaints. by Lim, Shing Yee., Tay, Julynn Chu Ling., Wu, Dominique Jiali.

“…This research attempts to draw a link between these two areas of study and find relationships between a number of variables and some aspects of corporate responses. …”
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Chasing the city that cannot stop: Exploring transportation and urban co-development in São Paulo’s history by Borges Costa, Adriano, Zegras, P Christopher, Biderman, Ciro

“…Over the entire 130 years, we find that urban expansion and road development pushed and pulled each other, in a somewhat “orderly” way. …”
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Retirement instruments and their distribution channels. by Ong, Cheow Chong., Poh, Choon Kiat., Ong, Joo Liang.

“…More has to be done to help people plan for retirement. First, we hope to find out about the relationship between demographics and instruments used by them. …”
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Multipoint sensing for energy efficient operation in buildings by Zhang, Han Wen

“…The first experiment is to find the effect of the multipoint sensing system due to the moving heat source. …”
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Analysis of underground excavation in rocks by Tang, Zhu Min

“…The purpose is to find out the factors which affect the instability and displacements of the underground excavations. …”
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Elastic-plastic fracture mechanics investigation on two interacting cracks by Lee, Jonathon Zhao Feng

“…The second step is to find the relationship between crack, inclusion and dislocation whereby the CTOD of the crack will also be affected by an additional dislocation. …”
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Governing in the face of a global crisis: when do voters punish and reward incumbent governments? by Duch, RM, Loewen, P, Robinson, TS, Zakharov, A

“…Using machine learning techniques, we find only muted heterogeneity in the magnitude and distribution of these treatment effects. …”

A mean field game between informed traders and a broker by Bergault, P, Sánchez-Betancourt, L

“…<p>We find the solution to the stochastic game between a broker and a mean-field of informed traders. …”

An open-ended approach to enhance critical thinking skill in mathematics among secondary five normal (academic) pupils by Seoh, Bee Hua.

“…The second aim is to find out whether the use of the open-ended problems that are related to the real life situations will generate active mathematical discussion.…”
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The study of target costing in Singapore. by Chia Wei Siang, Goh Sze Hwee, Tea Wei Li

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Corporate governance : an empirical study of Malaysian companies by Neo, Roslyn Hui Zhi, Lim, Alfred Yung Way, Koh, Xin Yi

“…Specifically, we find that firm performance is positively associated with equity ownership concentration.…”
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Organic donor-acceptor cocrystals for multiferroic applications by Wang, Zongrui, Zhang, Qichun

“…The cocrystallization strategy has provided an efficient route to fulfill room temperature magnetoelectricity in single phase owing to the long-range ordered π-π stacking (donor-acceptor assembled) network, long-lived excitons (with μs lifetime), spin orders (±1/2 s pin) and charge transfer (CT) dipoles in the assembled crystal lattice. …”
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The Portevin-Le Chatelier effect of Cu-2.0Be alloy during hot compression by Zhu, Daibo, Wu, Na, Liu, Yang, Liu, Xiaojin, Jiang, Chaohua, Jiang, Yanbin, Zhao, Hongyun, Cui, Shuhui, Xie, Guilan

“…As the strain rate increases, the dislocations outpace the diffusion speed of the solute atoms, limiting their ability to effectively pin the dislocations, resulting in lower dislocation density and serration amplitude. …”
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Compatability and equilibrium approach to slender concrete column design (dual project) by Toh, Yi Hui

“…This report evaluates and compares the proposed design method with the Australian code AS3600-2001 for slender concrete column. The failure loads of pin-end columns under short term loading and uniaxial bending are used as a pre-determined factor to analyse the data. …”
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Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB during the LIGO–Virgo Observing Run O3a

“…A targeted search for generic GW transients was conducted on 40 FRBs. We find no significant evidence for a GW association in either search. …”
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Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run by Gingrich, J, Giudici, A

“…We find this pattern for questions of spending and access. …”