Subprime crisis : the impact of different types of debt on corporate performance. by Lim, Chee Hau., Neo, Wei Ling., Lim, Brandon Weilong.

“…For pre-crisis to crisis period, result indicates that firms possessing pre-existing Undrawn Credit Lines during the pre-crisis period would not perform significantly better than firms which did not have access to Undrawn Credit Lines. …”
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Robot perception for object handling by Seah, Brian Yee Chuen

“…The second phase will be to create a computer vision system based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to detect objects for picking and sorting. The third and final phase will see the completion of the system by interfacing both the motion controller system with the computer vision system.…”
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Characterization of hippocampal CA1 place cells. by Lau, Hwee Hui.

“…Most of the neurons had stable firing across sessions recorded in both familiar and novel environments, while some showing selective discharged of spikes in either one of the environments tested. The data recorded had provided spatial-temporal pattern for study of neuronal activities of physiologically identified place cells residing in the hippocampal CA1 pyramidal layer.…”
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Improving gene therapy by Wang, Eliza Lisha

“…Existing PT67 and Amphotropic-Phoenix retroviral packaging cell lines can be made more efficient to produce higher retroviral titers, giving rise to more efficient gene transfer. …”
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Progressive collapse of reinforced concrete building structures by Dat, Pham Xuan

“…The associated rotationally-restrained but laterally-unrestrained boundary condition of the test specimens was effected by a set of pinned-end supporting columns. Uniformly distributed loads were simulated by a twelve-point loading system. …”
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Automatic vanishing points detection for single view reconstruction by Potcharaphol, Chat Anan

“…The algorithm is found to be fast and effective for an image with clear feature lines but struggles with an image with few feature lines. …”
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Disturbance detection in the MV and the LV distribution networks using time-domain method by Ukil, Abhisek

“…These are typically reflected in the time-domain as spikes in the square wave, without requiring any frequency analysis. …”
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Application of FTIR spectroscopy in determining sesamol in sesame seed oil by Mirghani, M. E. S., Che Man, Y. B., Jinap, S., Baharin, B. S., Bakar, J.

“…A new analytical method was developed for determining sesamol in sesame seed oil by FTIR spectroscopy. Sesamol was also spiked at 0 to 1000 mg/kg in freshly refined, bleached, and deodorized palm olein (RBDPOo) and groundnut (peanut) oil. …”
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Human centric sensing by Android phones - II by Teo, Calvin Min.

“…Android programming as well as Android platform and its components such as sensors have been picked up and studied in order to implement and improve the application. …”
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Perceptual watermarking and data concealment in audio signals by Tio, Cedric Meng Meng.

“…This project aims to hide data in audio streams by direct substitution of the FFT spectral lines with the hidden data. The spectral lines to be replaced are carefully chosen with the help of a psychoacoustic model. …”
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Heterogeneous dataflow architectures for FPGA-based sparse LU factorization by Siddhartha, Kapre, Nachiket

“…We customize the dataflow architecture by picking the right mixture of addition and multiplication processing elements to match the observed balance in the dataflow graphs. …”
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Stability of peptide nucleic acid influenced by peptoid-like sidechains : MD simulation study. by Yeo, Sven Hwea Jie.

“…Solvent accessible surface of the modified base-pair experienced spikes in values during the 40ns simulations and solvation shells of the base-pair situated close to APS were disrupted up to 33%. …”
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POPX2 and its role in breast cancer. by Susila, Agatha.

“…We found that POPX2 is highly expressed in cancer cell lines compared to non-cancer cell lines.…”
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Development of interactive software (shear force and bending moment) by Wong, Jun Yan

“…The software’s capability includes the usage of pins, rollers, fixed supports, point loads, moments / torques and distributed loads. …”
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Comparative study of composite scarf and strap joints for equivalent repair signature under uniaxial tension by Srinivasan, Dharun Vadugappatty, Padma, S. Ravisankar, Idapalapati, Sridhar

“…Herein, different repair designs based on 8.6° scarf, thin CFRP strap (0.5 mm and 1.1 mm), 0.5 mm thin Ti-6Al-4V straps (with and without pins) are used in bonding CFRP composites, their repair strength is measured through tensile testing. …”
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Hodgkin–huxley artificial synaptic membrane based on protonic/electronic hybrid neuromorphic transistors by Fu, Yang Ming, Wan, Chang Jin, Zhu, Li Qiang, Xiao, Hui, Chen, Xiao Dong, Wan, Qing

“…By using protonic/electronic hybrid oxide transistor configuration, dynamic synaptic membrane potential responses are triggered with gate current spikes. Typical resting potential, excitatory/inhibitory postsynaptic potential behaviors, and membrane depolarization/activation behaviors are mimicked on the proposed Hodgkin–Huxley artificial synaptic membrane. …”
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Study on the regulation of focal adesions and cortical actin by matrix nanotopography in 3D environment by Han, Jingjing, Lin, Keng-Hui, Chew, Lock Yue

“…After culturing rat embryonic fibroblast cells in two kinds of scaffold, one with smooth surface and the other with numerous nano-spikes, we observed that cells in the smooth scaffold have more anchoring sites and more focal adhesions than in the etched scaffold. …”
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A bi-functional three-terminal memristor applicable as an artificial synapse and neuron by Liu, Lingli, Dananjaya, Putu Andhita, Ang, Calvin Ching Ian, Koh, Eng Kang, Lim, Gerard Joseph, Poh, Han Yin, Chee, Mun Yin, Lee, Calvin Xiu Xian, Lew, Wen Siang

“…Due to their significant resemblance to the biological brain, spiking neural networks (SNNs) show promise in handling spatiotemporal information with high time and energy efficiency. …”
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Amplified spontaneous emission from single CdS nanoribbon with low symmetric cross sections by Zou, Bing Suo, Fan, Hai Ming, Olivo, Malini, Xu, Xin Long, Wang, Jian Xiong, Jing, Guang Yin, Shen, Zexiang

“…Morphology dependent micro-region photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy is employed to show Purcell effect along different low symmetry cross sections. Spikes on the PL spectra reveal that local density of optical modes increases when the mode match happens between optical cavity and spontaneous emission. …”
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Fabrication of hollow fiber membranes using amphiphilic block copolymers as pore-forming additives by Loh, Chun Heng

“…Therefore, a second additive, which is either LiCl or water, has been added together with Pluronic in the spinning dope to examine the synergetic effects of mixed additives on macrovoid formation. …”
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