Using insurance to gain more mileage out of CPF funds by Lye, Fook Kong, Tan, Mark Seow Hwa, Tan, Audrey Joo Leng

“…Two other issues were also explored in this paper namely, the current provision of old age needs and medical care under the CPF. …”
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Beyond “make” or “buy”: evaluating value‐for‐money in public service delivery by Shiva, M, FitzGerald, C, Carter, E, Airoldi, M

“…The naivety of this request dramatically overlooks the subtlety and challenge faced by public managers. In this paper we connect a range of differently configured contractual agreements to underlying components of “value for money”, namely, the pursuit of economy, efficiency and effectiveness. …”

Maqasid Syariah in Islamic Consumption by Ahmad Musadik, Siti Hajar Salwa, Yusuff, Noraini, Abd Aziz, Noriza, Abdul Ghani Azmi, Ilhaamie

“…Therefore, the objective of this conceptual paper is to review the concept of Islamic consumption from Maqasid Syariah perspective which consists of three major classifications of maqasid shariah namely; daruriyyah (necessities), hajiyah (needs), and tahsiniyyah (luxuries), and the five fundamentals of necessities namely; preserving of religion (al-Din), preserving of life (al-Haya), preserving of wealth (al-Mal), preserving of mind (al-Aql), and preserving of lineage (nasab). …”
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"中华胶不胶?" ：从媒体留言分析探讨马来西亚华人的对中立场 = Sinophobia or Sinophilia? Discussing the identity confusion among Malaysian Chinese : based on the comments analysis... by 李政辉 Lee, Chan Hui

“…In order to expand the research layout of identity studies on Malaysian Chinese, this paper will aim to answer how this identity turn is formed. …”
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Sustainable shipping: a critical review for a unified framework and future research agenda by Zhou, Yusheng, Li, Xue, Yuen, Kum Fai

“…However, the concept of sustainable shipping remains ambiguous. This paper investigates the motives, drivers, and benefits of sustainable shipping, as well as the critical success factors, antecedents, barriers and solutions. …”
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Investigating cross-linguistic influence on relative clause structures in Indian English through a corpus-based approach by Anil, Akshay

“…In this paper, I explore the effects of language background on English spoken in India, in order to distinguish regional varieties of Indian English through morphological patterns. …”
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Area ratio effects to the performance of air-cooled ejector refrigeration cycle with R134a refrigerant by Jia, Yan, Cai, Wenjian

“…In this paper, the key ejector geometry parameters for an air-cooled ejector cycle using R134a with cooling capacity of 2 kW are designed by 1D analysis. …”
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Investigation of operational characteristics of vanadium redox flow batteries by Rajagopalan Badrinarayanan

“…This thesis focuses on the two important issues in batteries, namely capacity decay and charging methodology. The former is essential in the longevity and latter in short term efficiency and the rate of ageing. …”
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Visualising violence : art and remembrance of mass killings in Cold War Southeast Asia by Shahira Banu

“…Using visual analysis along with the histories and memories surrounding the events of mass killings, this paper attempts to place Southeast Asian artworks created with regards to the discussed events in conversation with one another. …”
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Development of a mobile application for items exchange by Ramanathan Rajaraj

“…The application has been named WExchange. With the increasing concern about environmental issues, being environmentally friendly and sustainable has gained importance around the world. …”
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Market outlook of VLCCs in the next 5 years by Cheah, Peifang.

“…This paper aims to analyze the Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) market and make recommendations as to whether potential investors should invest in the market over the next 5 years. …”
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Co-operation and competition : the role of identity and social preferences by Chen, Hongyu, Zhang, Ruike, Zhang, Shaoyu

“…This paper presents an experiment of Tullock Rent-seeking Model with two layers of information available to participants, namely Intra-Group Information and Inter-Group Information. …”
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Modeling and control for generator in aerospace applications by Yeo, Alex Beng Keong

“…However, the driving of the electrical machines using a two-level inverter would create undesirable consequences namely high current ripple, EMI problems and also high power losses. …”
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Maxwell-type models for the effective thermal conductivity of a porous material with radiative transfer in the voids by Kiradjiev, KB, Halvorsen, SA, Van Gorder, RA, Howison, SD

“…There are several models for the effective thermal conductivity of two-phase composite materials in terms of the conductivity of the solid and the disperse material. In this paper, we generalise three models of Maxwell type (namely, the classical Maxwell model and two generalisations of it obtained from effective medium theory and differential effective medium theory) so that the resulting effective thermal conductivity accounts for radiative heat transfer within gas voids. …”

‘Swirling' around translanguaging spaces of nature of science in multilingual classrooms by Cheung, KKC, Erduran, S, Oancea, A

“…Our findings indicate that the teacher and students discussed a network of NOS ideas using gestures, different named languages as well as visual resources within the NOS-negotiation space. …”

Green gross domestic product: a bibliometric analysis by Karunanithi, Kriskkumar, Bui, Wency Kher Thinng, Tan, Houng Chien

“…Green gross domestic product (GGDP) is a measure of economic performance that takes into account environmental aspects. This paper analyses the bibliographic data of 1321 articles retrieved from the Scopus database to shed some light on the GGDP literature for the past 47 years (1976–2022). …”

Cytotoxicity of phosphorus allotropes (black, violet, red) by Naziah Mohamad Latiff, Mayorga-Martinez Carmen C., Sofer, Zdenek, Fisher, Adrian C., Pumera, Martin

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Sociospatial reframing of walking through inclusive streets and urban heritage by Wang, Yongcheng

“…The meta-narrative review identified six research traditions, namely the ecological model, the new mobilities paradigm, heritage discourse, public life, rhythmanalysis and space syntax. …”
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Light management in nanostructures for solar cell application by Du, Qingguo

“…Transparent electrodes are essential part of the solar cell device. Indium tin oxides (ITOs) are the most widely used transparent electrodes for solar cell nowadays. …”
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Development of reconstructed intestinal micronucleus cytome (RICyt) assay in 3D human gut model for genotoxicity assessment of orally ingested substances by Lim, Hui Kheng, Hughes, Christopher Owen, Lim, Michelle Jing Sin, Li, Jia'En Jasmine, Rakshit, Moumita, Yeo, Calvin, Chng, Kern Rei, Li, Angela, Chan, Joanne Sheot Harn, Ng, Kee Woei, Leavesley, David Ian, Smith, Benjamin Paul Chapman

“…The micronucleus (MN) assay is widely used as part of a battery of tests applied to evaluate the genotoxic potential of chemicals, including new food additives and novel food ingredients. …”
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