Globalization and the shifting centers of gravity of world's human dynamics: Implications for sustainability by Balsa-Barreiro, Jose, Li, Yingcheng, Morales, Alfredo, Pentland, Alex

“…The spatial locations of the respective centers of gravity (one per year) draw some traces that explain, at least partially, relevant changes on different world's human dynamics at a global level. …”
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Globalization and the shifting centers of gravity of world's human dynamics: Implications for sustainability by Balsa-Barreiro, José, Li, Yingcheng, Morales, Alfredo, Pentland, Alex

“…The spatial locations of the respective centers of gravity (one per year) draw some traces that explain, at least partially, relevant changes on different world's human dynamics at a global level. …”
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Minimum variance benchmark for performance assessment of decentralized controllers by Sendjaja, Antonius Yudi, Kariwala, Vinay

“…In this paper, we present a method for computing a lower bound on the least output variance achievable using decentralized controllers, where the nonconvexity of the optimization problem is handled using sums of squares programming. …”
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New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) : Day-of-the-week effect and bid-ask spreads by Guo, Lisa Xiuhui, Ernest Julian Sutanto, Quek, Benny Shiwei

“…We find that the technology sector is associated with higher transaction cost. Last but not least, our results in the last section present the absence of DOW effect in all three types of classifications by trading volume.…”
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Assessing racism in Singapore : replacing Singapore's customary focus on intentionality with a focus on impacts by Lee, Lavelle Wen Ning

“…As such, instances of covert racism (racism that does not initially appear to be racist) often escape detection—or at the very least, face much smaller consequences. Even as Singapore continues to promote racial harmony and regard multiculturalism as a major characteristic of its national identity, the reality is that racism continues to thrive in Singapore, mainly because of its inability to acknowledge more subtle instances of racism. …”
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The language preservation problem is undecidable for parametric event-recording automata by André, Étienne, Lin, Shang-Wei

“…The (untimed) language preservation problem ("given a parameter valuation, can we find at least one other valuation with the same untimed language?") …”
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Biofuel : impact on global economy. by Ho, Sarah Shu Ching., Seah, Patricia Kai Ling.

“…The key determinants of biofuel production used in our analysis are Gross National Income (GNI), agricultural land, share of renewable energy (SRE) out of total primary energy supply, CO2 emissions, and poverty rate. By using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression to examine these factors, we have found that all but SRE contribute significantly to production of biofuel.…”
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Library cafes : next logical step by Pierce, William

“…And the bottom line, at least as far as public libraries are concerned, is getting more people to use the library.…”
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Topological data analysis for fake news detection by Deng, Ran

“…For this task, three individual models have been used: least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) using 0th Dimensional Persistent Image (PI) vectors, Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM), and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). …”
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'Raji': language of a vanishing Himalayan tribe by Rastogi, Kavita

“…It confers a sense of identity upon its native speakers. Today there are at least 6000 living languages across the world. Of them, 330 languages have more than one million speakers each and there are 51 languages that have only one speaker each. …”
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State estimator for microgrids by Peng, Xiao Yang.

“…In this project, PMUs were used in the Weighted Least Square (WLS) state estimation, and bad data detection and identification were discussed and enhanced. …”
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The effect of human activity on activity and movement pattern of long-tailed macaques on Big Sister’s island (Pulau Subar Laut) by Gooi, Wen Nee.

“…They spent most of their time in the forest, with at least one macaque out in the park more than 70% of the time. …”
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Exploring post-divorce experiences : a case study on professional women in Singapore. by Chong, Wen Ee.

“…These themes include the cause of divorce due to infidelity on the part of their ex-husbands, the constant struggle over divorce settlements and maintenance for the children in the family court, the changing role of fathers after the divorce, the positive ramifications of social network support and last but not least, socio-economic status as a tool for the reconstruction of self-esteem after the divorce.…”
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Optimization of SMART-based PCR for amplification from picogram amounts of RNA. by Lin, Zhaoting.

“…The number of genes which expressed at least three-fold change generally decreased with the amount of total RNA input used for amplification, suggesting that the relative abundance of differentially expressed genes is not as well maintained and becomes more variable when total RNA input approaches minute amounts.…”
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Protein interactions design. by Tay, Connie Gui Ching.

“…The suggested candidates were observed to retain at least half of the native hydrogen bonds. Therefore, we believe that, with further in-depth analysis, this computational design strategy would be a useful tool in designing protein interfaces.…”
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Co-operation and competition : the role of identity and social preferences by Chen, Hongyu, Zhang, Ruike, Zhang, Shaoyu

“…Moreover, while considering the interactive effects between gender and information, we observe that male subjects generally behave more aggressively than female and the impact of identity on them could be enhanced by unveiling both Intra-Group and Inter-Group Information. Last but not least, the experimental results suggest that a heterogeneous team composition leads to higher degree of rent dissipation.…”
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A simple design tool for the calculation of effective section area for class 4 closed section using ms-excel by Deng, Liang

“…Quantitatively, this program could provide extremely accurate results with precision more than 15 decimal places, and the efficiency is increased at least 700 times as compared to manual calculation.…”
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Impact of host gut microbiome on pathogen colonization by Low, Wai Leong

“…The human gastrointestinal tract is colonized by at least 400 different microbial species, known as the gut microbiota, which play vital roles in our health. …”
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Impact of extended trading hours in market microstructure: evidence from the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange by Gan, Seow Cheng, Lo, Sok Tsing, Lee, Seow Li

“…As for trading volume, it has shown a substantial increase of 2.72 times more after its extension of trading hours. Last but not least, the analysis on both autocorrelation coefficients and price adjustment show that the Kuala Lumpur stock market has not improved substantially on processing market-wide information despite the additional trading hours.…”
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Built heritage conservation, urban development and tourism : Singapore in the 21st Century by Henderson, Joan C.

“…Government policies are examined and reveal that heritage is seen by officials to serve multiple purposes, not least as a tourist resource. Its economic role is appreciated, but awareness of sociocultural and political value is also apparent. …”
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