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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StudentGO web application by Xie, Zijian

“…As a final year project, I propose to develop a web application for students in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to find and manage their groups in their registered modules. …”
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Risk perception and attitude of Singaporeans : online shopping in Singapore by Er, Mildred Mei Le, Wan, Shu Ting, Wong, Tai Yee

“…There has been an increase in the number of online purchases made by Singaporeans as compared to the past decade despite the increasing number of various risks involved. This paper aims to find the perceived risks and risk attitudes of Singaporeans by looking into their attitudes and behaviors towards online shopping. …”
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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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Design of the physical layer security algorithms for the cellular networks by Lee, Ting Yi

“…From the introduction of the first wireless security standard in WEP to the current standard now of WPA2, adversaries seem to be always able to find a way to break into these wireless networks. …”
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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. …”

Elucidating the role of dust concentrations and initial turbulence on rice flour explosion by Wan Zaiton, Wan Sulaiman, Mohd Fadzil, Mohd Idris, Jolius, Gimbun

“…Contrary to the explosibility, the maximum explosion overpressure (Pmax) of dried rice flour is the highest at the tv of 20 ms compared to those obtained at 60 and 100 ms, owing to the densely packed dust at the centre of the chamber. …”
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Intelligent Seat: Tactile Signal-Based 3D Sitting Pose Inference by Seong, Minwoo, Kim, Gwangbin, Lee, Jaehee, DelPreto, Joseph, Matusik, Wojciech, Rus, Daniela, Kim, SeungJun

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Enhanced charge transport and increased active sites on α-Fe2O3 (110) nanorod surface containing oxygen vacancies for improved solar water oxidation performance by Hu, Jun, Zhao, Xin, Chen, Wei, Chen, Zhong

“…The reduced charge-transfer resistance is owing to the greatly increased number of active sites. …”
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Femtosecond laser-induced graphene for flexible electronics by Le, Truong-Son Dinh

“…Graphene is a single layer of sp2-carbon atoms bonded by covalent bonds and organized in a 2D honeycomb lattice. Owing to this arrangement, graphene exhibits extraordinary properties such as excellent mechanical strength, large specific surface area, high electron mobility, great optical transmittance, excellent thermal conductivity, good chemical stability, biocompatibility, and many other supreme properties. …”
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Carbon quantum dot implanted graphite carbon nitride nanotubes : excellent charge separation and enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution by Wang, Yang, Liu, Xueqin, Liu, Jia, Han, Bo, Hu, Xiaoqin, Yang, Fan, Xu, Zuwei, Li, Yinchang, Jia, Songru, Li, Zhen, Zhao, Yanli

“…Graphite carbon nitride (g‐C3N4) is a promising candidate for photocatalytic hydrogen production, but only shows moderate activity owing to sluggish photocarrier transfer and insufficient light absorption. …”
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Metal-organic-framework-based catalysts for photoreduction of Co2 by Li, Rui, Zhang, Wang, Zhou, Kun

“…Recently, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted much attention as CO2 photoreduction-related catalysts, owing to their unique electronic band structures, excellent CO2 adsorption capacities, and tailorable light-absorption abilities. …”
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Graphene layers‐wrapped Fe/Fe5C2 nanoparticles supported on n‐doped graphene nanosheets for highly efficient oxygen reduction by Hu, Enlai, Yu, Xin-Yao, Chen, Fang, Wu, Yadan, Hu, Yong, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…An interesting exfoliation–denitrogen mechanism underlying the conversion of bulk g-C3N4 into N-doped graphene nanosheets is revealed. Owing to the high graphitic degree, optimum N-doping level and sufficient active sites from the graphene layers-wrapped Fe/Fe5C2 nanoparticles, the as-prepared GL-Fe/Fe5C2/NG electrocatalyst obtained at 800 °C exhibits outstanding ORR activity with a 20 mV more positive half-wave potential than the commercial Pt/C catalyst in 0.1 m KOH solution and a comparable onset potential of 0.98 V. …”
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Few-layer NiPS3 nanosheets as bifunctional materials for Li-ion storage and oxygen evolution reaction by Dangol, Raksha, Dai, Zhengfei, Chaturvedi, Apoorva, Zheng, Yun, Zhang, Yu, Dinh, Khang Ngoc, Li, Bing, Zong, Yun, Yan, Qingyu

“…The construction of two-dimensional (2D) ultrathin nanosheets is considered as a promising strategy for enhancing electrochemical performance, owing to their large surface area and fast electron transport. …”
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The new "rare metal age" : new challenges and implications of critical raw materials supply security in the 21st century by Umbach, Frank

“…In the past few years, the worldwide attention cast on the future supply security of rare earths and other critical raw materials has increased in the United States, the European Union, Japan and other countries owing to the global expansion of “green technologies” (including renewable energy sources, electric vehicles and batteries, and smart grids) and digitalisation as well as equipment and devices embedded with artificial intelligence. …”
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General methods for large-scale production of nanostructured V2O5 with controlled morphologies by Wang, Shenghan, Yu, Ting, Li, Yeqiu, Fu, Haoyang, Sun, Chenglin

“…The morphologies and crystalline phases were characterized by scanning electrical microscopy, X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. Owing to the advantages of low-cost and high reproducibility, these methods can be potentially applied in large-scale production of nanostructured V2O5 material for practical application.…”
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