Mechanism of traffic jams at speed bottlenecks by Quek, Wei Liang, Chew, Lock Yue

“…In the past 20 years of complexity science, traffic has been studied as a complex system with a large amount of interacting agents. …”
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How resource revenues can halve global poverty by Segal, P

“…The bitter struggles for oil nationalisation through the twentieth century bear witness to the sensitivity of this question. …”

Solar vehicle to grid simulation model by Lim, Yihn Shin.

“…However, manufacturers are investing and researching into green vehicles, electric cars being one of the cleaner and more efficient options. …”
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Development of a wireless charging system for electric vehicles in Singapore by Ang, Jia Yu

“…The majority of the EVs in the market are currently using a plug-in charging port, and there are two types of design, one of which is the hybrid model. Hybrid cars have the advantage of a longer driving range as compared to conventional cars because they have a secondary source of energy. …”
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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

“…Moreover, they cannot deal with uncertain sensing data and linguistic requirements (e.g., the speed of a robot should not be large when it is near to other robots). Hence, to guarantee real-time collision avoidance and deal with linguistic requirements, a distributed and hybrid motion planning method, named Fuzzy-VO, is proposed for multirobot systems. …”
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Evaluating geospatial accuracy for equity analyses: a case study of the U.S. National Bridge Inventory by Gandy, CA, Kang, X, Ritsch, N, Armanios, DE

“…Phase 3 assesses the feasibility of enhancing location granularity through a hand-checked case study. We find that for coarser geospatial levels (state and county), equity-based analyses may be possible, but for more granular geospatial levels (place and census tract), which is where equity-based analyses are often conducted, the data may need greater buffering and hand checks to ensure accuracy. …”

NEGOTIATE your way to RICHES / by Wink, Peter, 1966-, author 655681

“…Peter's techniques can be used to buy cars and homes, from business partnerships, bargain with contractors, or anything else. …”

Applicability of behavioural finance by Chong, Chee Wah, Low, Ji Teng, Paik, Jek Yin

“…In order to identify the most statistically significant gauges of investors’ behaviors, a few prominent methodologies and its resulting economic indices have been analysed. Specifically, they were the (i) Volatility Index (VIX), (ii) Consumer Sentiment Index (CSI), (iii) Bull-Bear Spread Index (BBS) and the (iv) Investor Sentiment Index (ISI). …”
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Death and the doctor: the museum as a tool for understanding the needs of the dying by Harris, J, Moyse, A, Hadley, G, Frampton, S, Dempsey, A, Hordern, J, Saunders, K, Lane, R, De Luca, G

“…Over the past several years, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has been part of a multi- disciplinary team examining the question of how we train medical students to deal with those parts of their profession which are concerned primarily with the humanity of their patients. …”

Predicting bank failures : a comparison of the Cox proportional hazards model and time-varying covariates model. by Cheng, Philip Yim Kwong.

“…As a contribution to bank regulation by improving the accuracy of predicting failed banks, I first illustrate the use of martingale and other residuals as diagnostic checks for Cox’s proportional hazards model. Second, I discuss and substantiate the claim that a time-varying covariates model is superior to the Cox model as a bank failure model.…”
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An autonomous ultrasonic fastener holes inspection system of an aircraft lower wing skin by Lim, Chee Wei.

“…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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Tournaments of financial analysts by Yin, Huifang, Zhang, Huai

“…This finding survives several robustness checks and is more pronounced when the interim assessment date is closer to the end of the tournament period, when analysts are inexperienced, and when the market activity is high. …”
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A study of land transport management in Southeast Asia by Mohamad Nazreen Rozman

“…This study focuses primarily on land transport management and ownership of private vehicles such as cars and motorcycles in each respective capitals of the countries in Asia (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Jakarta).…”
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China's collaboration with IndoChina countries in hydropower development in the Mekong region - how far can it go? by Phua, Pei Pei.

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Celebrating creation : therapeutic use of art and design for the elderly. by Lim, Dorothy Ghim Woon.

“…In Philadelphia, this phenomenon has been likened to old cars being traded for new and becoming a scrap heap. …”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The ‘polluter pays’ principle has been implemented by several pieces of environmental legislation in China as a means to confront the issue of liability in the case of bankrupt polluters. …”
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Target detection and estimation using a stereo vision camera for autonomous navigation by Chow, Song Qian.

“…Currently, there are many different types of stereo vision cameras available. Such cameras have been used to aid in the navigation of autonomous vehicles like cars and kayaks. …”
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Application development on an Android smart-phone by Udit Batra

“…The application intercepts all incoming messages and checks them for a certain password which uniquely identifies the owner. …”
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The midlife crisis by Giuntella, Osea, McManus, Sally, Mujcic, Redzo, Oswald, Andrew J., Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Tohamy, Ahmed

“…We believe the seriousness of this societal problem has not been grasped by the affluent world’s policy-makers.…”
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Effective 5D BIM requirements for risk mitigation during pre-contract stage. by Nazirul Fariq, Nazirul Fariq, Ismail, Syuhaida, Ab. Rani, Nur Izzati

“…This paper also found twelve critical issues and challenges of 5D BIM implementation that had been analysed with the relative importance index (RII) analysis. …”
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