CPF: is it meeting its original objective? by Chua, Jeniffer Swee Lian, Goh, Puay San, Kaur, Ravindar

“…CPF is a major part of Singapore’s social security system based on savings and insurance. Over the years, it has taken care of not only a member’s retirement, home-ownership and health care needs but also provided financial protection to CPF members and their families through its insurance schemes. …”
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A sociology of comfort food in Singapore by Tan, Gee Kit

“…With there being limited research on the topic of comfort food in Singapore from the sociological perspective, this exploratory study aims to understand the type of comfort food Singapore Chinese youth aged between 21 years old and 34 years old consume amidst the evolving global food landscape. …”
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Predictive accuracy of the RSI in the shipping freight market (dry bulk sector) by Tee, Sandrina Jie Yi

“…Shipping has been known to be one of the most volatile industries, with the ability to wipe out a few years of earnings in just a few short months. Hence, ship owners would have to act prudently in their investment decisions in order to thrive in this competitive market. …”
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15.571 Generating Business Value from Information Technology, Spring 2007 by Weill, Peter

“…The familiar components of the place: cash, checks, paper reports and documents, store fronts, and face to face meetings remain important, but less so. …”
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Thermal-mechanical design of sandwich SiC power module with micro-channel cooling by Yin, Shan, Tseng, King Jet, Zhao, Jiyun

“…Finite element analysis of thermal stress was further carried out to check that the CTE mismatch in the packaging has been minimized.…”
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Multi-objectives firefly algorithm for task offloading in the edge-fog-cloud computing by A. Saif, Faten, Latip, Rohaya, Mohd Hanapi, Zurina, Kamarudin, Shafinah, Senthil Kumar, A.V., Salem Bajaher, Awadh

“…Additionally, it verifies the status of the server (on/off) before offloading; if the server is unavailable, the algorithm proceeds to check the next layer. In the second stage, the strategy employs a Multi-objective Firefly (MFA) algorithm to assign the optimal computational device within the selected layer. …”
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Characterizing 4-string contact interaction using machine learning by Erbin, Harold, Fırat, Atakan Hilmi

“…We also train a neural network distinguishing vertex from Feynman region. As a check, 4-tachyon contact term in the tachyon potential is computed and a good agreement with the results in the literature is observed. …”
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Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Glob... by Naghavi, M, Ong, KL, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, R, Dolecek, C, Lacey, BWH

“…<p><b>Methods</b></p> The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 cause-of-death analysis estimated mortality and years of life lost (YLLs) from 288 causes of death by age-sex-location-year in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations for each year from 1990 until 2021. …”

Understanding the development of young children in Singapore : insights from the analysis of Singapore Health Booklet items from the IED-III norming sample by Kan, Delia Dang Dang

“…Purpose: Norms stated in the Singapore Health Booklet were established almost 30 years ago using Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) Singapore. …”
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kboolnet: a toolkit for the verification, validation, and visualization of reaction-contingency (rxncon) models by Carretero Chavez, Willow, Krantz, Marcus, Klipp, Edda, Kufareva, Irina

“…The verification script VerifyModel.R checks for responsiveness to repeated stimulations as well as consistency of steady state behavior. …”
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Cooperative collision avoidance in multirobot systems using fuzzy rules and velocity obstacles by Tang, Wenbing, Zhou, Yuan, Zhang, Tianwei, Liu, Yang, Liu, Jing, Ding, Zuohua

“…In detail, at any time instant, a robot checks the robots that it may collide with and retrieves the most dangerous robot in each sector based on the predicted collision time; then, the robot generates its velocity in real-time via fuzzy inference and VO-based fine-tuning. …”
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Our weapons, our problem: arms exports, democracy and civil society in Brazil and the UK by de Moraes, RF

“…The causal mechanism is in part explained by activities conducted by norm entrepreneurs, whose emergence is facilitated by the existence of institutions commonly found in democratic countries, especially a system of checks and balances, contested elections, and political and civil liberties. …”

Fintech renaissance: powering efficiency in Asian banking through country competitiveness by Mozaffar Alam Chowdhury, Soh, Wei Ni, Norhuda Abdul Rahim, Jalila Johari

“…The panel data regression utilized a fixed-effect model, which was run after a diagnostic check. The validated data satisfied the criteria for stationary, serial autocorrelation, heteroscedasticity, homogeneity, and multicollinearity. …”
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HFP303E - Asian Thought: Indian, Chinese and Japanese (Pemikiran Asia: India, Cina dan Jepun) June 2019 by PPIK, Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan

“…Second Semester Examination 2018/2019 Academic Session June 2019 HFP303E -Asian Thought: Indian, Chinese and Japanese (Pemikiran Asia: India, Cina dan Jepun) Duration : 3 hours (Masa : 3 jam) Please check that this examination paper consists of FOUR (4) pages of printed material before you begin the examination. …”
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HPA201 E - Major Themes in Selected World Religions [Tema Utama da/am Agama Dunia Terpilih] June 2019 by PPIK, Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan

“…Second Semester Examination 2018/2019 Academic Session June 2019 HPA201 E - Major Themes in Selected World Religions [Tema Utama da/am Agama Dunia Terpilih] Duration : 3 hours [Masa : 3 jam] Please check that this examination paper consists of THREE (3) pages of printed material before you begin the examination. …”
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The association between patterns of weight change, diabetes status and glycaemia among adults with overweight and obesity by Yin, Ruoyu, Ahern, Amy L., Lafortune, Louise, Griffin, Simon J., Strelitz, Jean M., Mueller, Julia

“…Aims: To investigate the associations between weight change patterns and 5-year incident non-diabetic hyperglycaemia (NDH), and glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels among individuals who had overweight or obesity. …”
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Promoting strategic internal communication in governance to enhance employee creativity in organization by Nur Hidayah, Shamsul Azhar, Fadzida, Ismail, Noor Akma, Abu Bakar

“…The results indicate that when internal communication and leadership communication in governance are symmetrical, individuals are more likely to receive feedback from a variety of interpersonal sources, including supervisors, colleagues, and peers from different departments. This enhances creativity. …”
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Secure and secret cooperation in robotic swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex 'Sandy', Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate towards mission completion, have to "prove" their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex, Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate toward mission completion, have to “prove” their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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The Importance of Bystanders in Threat Assessment and Management by Borum, Randy, Rowe, Mary

“…Numerous studies of targeted violence (e.g., mass shootings and school shootings), have demonstrated that peers and bystanders often have knowledge of an attacker’s intentions, concerning communication, and troubling behavior before the attack occurs. …”
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