Animus: human-embodied animals by Savulescu, J, Sawai, T

“…We argue that this raises issues of moral status that will imminently arise and must be addressed through functional studies of these new life forms. We situate this research in the broader context of the biological revolution, arguing we already have the technological power to create fully human embodied animals. …”

Human resource practices in the Singapore Civil Service. by Lee, Wai Yin., Ng, Yen Ling., Sim, Siew Lan.

“…Our project covers a wide spectrum and explores issues like the recruitment and selection of employees, the performance appraisal system, transfer and promotion procedures, compensation packages, training and development programmes, control, monitory and audit practices, retirement and layoffs procedures and lastly, one of the most talked about topics, their productivity improvement programs.…”
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Analysis of alternative energy sources and their impact on shipping by Chia, Ting Ting., Wee, Jun Xiang., Munira P. A Abdulla Kunhi.

“…This paper explores how alternate sources of energy like Biofuels, LNG and CNG will affect the shipping industry by looking at current market trends, various cost analyses as well as their impact on the marine environment when used as fuel in vessels and the effects of various governmental efforts.…”
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An autonomous ultrasonic fastener holes inspection system of an aircraft lower wing skin by Lim, Chee Wei.

“…An aircraft structure is subjected to stress and fatigue during flying. Fasteners like rivets and bolts bear a large part of the stress and thus require frequent inspection for cracks around the fastener's holes. …”
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The state of the UMNO-PH union by Hamdan, Shahril

“…With the passage of time, Malaysia’s post-election coalition looks like it is being normalised by all key parties in government. …”
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Evie. by Chong, Ren Rong.

“…This animation focuses on conceptual themes and symbolism, seeking at the same time to bring together things of contrast, much like the disparate mediums used together in this work. …”
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Real-time control of activated sludge process by Chen, Chung-Yuan.

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Carbon footprint and energy used in mega underwater reinforced concrete structure by Phua, Yee Hwee.

“…With Singapore’s increasing population, a demand of land space for housing development raises. Several of methods like building HDB flats higher, were being looked into for better use of the land space we have. …”
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Implementation of reinforcement learning using neural networks by Tan, Keng Hui

“…Reinforcement Learning is a unique machine learning paradigm that has the ability to mimic behaviors and learn like what human do. Reinforcement learning can be used to train machine to do our daily job such as cleaning the house, driving the car and may even one day breach into the manufacturing world.…”
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Overseas listing of China's companies : causes and consequences by Wu, Yujun

“…Examines the causes and consequences of the overseas listing decisions and explains why these firms would like to list on the overseas market, through a study of 72 Chinese firms listed in the Hong Kong Exchange and 663 domestically listed Chinese firms.…”
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Historic development of regional economic integration and its impact on Singapore. by Lim, Wee Lee., Woo, Yam Yam.

“…This paper attempts to trace the historical development of regional economic integration and whether bilateral agreements like Free Trade Agreements will really help to accelerate and maintain Singapore’s growth momentum and review the pros and cons in the regional integration process, the economic impact of the FTAs to Singapore, and the challenges that Singapore is facing in her endeavor of this pursue.…”
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Individualism, collectivism and innovation. by Chan, Yin San., Lee, Yann Mei., Ng, Hui Yee.

“…Research results has also identified factors such like decision-making and problem solving to influence innovation within the firms.…”
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Wrapped branes and punctured horizons by Bobev, N, Bomans, P, Gautason, FF

“…We show that some singular solutions of the Liouville equation have a physical interpretation as explicit point-like brane sources on the Riemann surface. We uncover the details of this picture by focusing on $\mathcal{N}$ = 1 theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ arising from M5-branes on a punctured Riemann surface. …”

Wrapped branes and punctured horizons by Bobev, N, Bomans, P, Gautason, FF

“…We show that some singular solutions of the Liouville equation have a physical interpretation as explicit point-like brane sources on the Riemann surface. We uncover the details of this picture by focusing on $\mathcal{N}$ = 1 theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ arising from M5-branes on a punctured Riemann surface. …”

Neutrophil‐mediated enhancement of angiogenesis and osteogenesis in a novel triple cell co‐culture model with endothelial cells and osteoblasts by Herath, Thanuja D. K., Larbi, Anis, Teoh, Swee Hin, Kirkpatrick, C. James, Goh, Bee Tin

“…Neutrophils significantly increased angiogenesis in the tissue construct, evidenced by the formation of microvessel‐like structures with an extensive lattice‐like, stable tubular network in the co‐culture model. …”
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Ethics roundtable: choice and autonomy in obstetrics by Wilkinson, D, Teli, S, Litchfield, C, Madeley, A, Kelly, B, Impey, L, Brown, R, Kingma, E, Turnham, H

“…In this clinical ethics roundtable, service users, midwives, obstetricians, philosophers and ethicists respond to two hypothetical cases drawn from real-life scenarios. …”

Insurgency in Southern Thailand: More Unrest Ahead? by Rajakumar, Vikram

“…These trends portend more unrest in the coming months and render the region vulnerable to exploitation by groups like ISIL/ISIS.…”
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Wage premium in Singapore. by Tan, Ruo Hui., Tan, Yan Yu., Lee, Wai Meng.

“…In a broader picture, wage-risk premiums could also be used to derive the value of a statistical life, which till today is widely debated and is a highly controversial topic. …”
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A Tensor Compiler with Automatic Data Packing for Simple and Efficient Fully Homomorphic Encryption by Krastev, Aleksandar, Samardzic, Nikola, Langowski, Simon, Devadas, Srinivas, Sanchez, Daniel

“…We evaluate on both a state-of-the-art FHE accelerator and a CPU. is the first compiler that matches or exceeds the performance of large hand-optimized FHE applications, like deep neural networks, and outperforms a state-of-the-art FHE compiler by gmean 18.5. …”
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Multi-stage generative adversarial networks for generating pavement crack images by Han, Chengjia, Ma, Tao, Huyan, Ju, Tong, Zheng, Yang, Handuo, Yang, Yaowen

“…Both versions, v1 and v2, consist of multiple sequentially connected generation units, with each unit utilizing the Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network-Gradient Penalty (WGAN-GP). …”
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