Understanding the environmental and social risks from the international trade in ornamental plants by Hinsley, A, Hughes, AC, van Valkenburg, J, Stark, T, van Delft, J, Sutherland, W, Petrovan, SO

“…We show global increases in ornamental plant trade, with supply expansions in East Africa and South America, and highlight risks and impacts including biodiversity loss, aquifer depletion, pollution, undermined access and benefit sharing, and food security. …”

Investment outlook for the medium range tanker segment from the perspective of a ship financier from 2011 to 2015 by Han, Peinan.

“…This research aims to provide the freight market outlook for MR product tanker in the East of Suez from 2011 to 2015 and determine whether investors should invest in MR tanker shipping equities. …”
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Marketing of "Do-It-Yourself" tour package for Destinations Holidays Pte Ltd by Chang, Ei Leen, Teo, Ivy Mun Li, Wong, Teck Wee

“…Due to the ease in entry into the travel industry, many travel agencies are being set up in Singapore to tap into this "Travel Boom". For the past few years, the travel industry has been a fast growing and competitive industry in Singapore. …”
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15 years of Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AAD) in finance by Capriotti, L, Giles, M

“…Following the seminal ‘Smoking Adjoint’ paper by Giles and Glasserman [Smoking adjoints: Fast monte carlo greeks. Risk, 2006, <strong>19</strong>, 88–92], the development of Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AAD) has revolutionized the way risk is computed in the financial industry. …”

Study of power flow control by unified power flow controller by Yam, Chien Meng

“…In the past, power systems were relatively simple and self-sufficient; power exportation and importation were rare and few. …”
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Recent studies on common ownership, firm behavior, and market outcomes by Schmalz, MC

“…The literature on competitive effects of common ownership has grown at a fast rate in the past two years. Anticompetitive effects have been confirmed with alternative reduced-form and structural estimation methods, in different industries, geographies, and jurisdictions. …”

The Accident / by Pavone, Chris, author 656312

“…In Copenhagen, Hayden Gray, a veteran station chief, wary of the CIA's obsession with the Middle East, has been steadfastly monitoring the dangers that abound in Europe. …”

Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 96

“…This reflects the GCC states’ continuing pivotal role on global energy markets as a key centre of world energy supply. The fast-track economic growth and development experienced by the GCC economies since the mid-20th century in particular, however, has also left its toll on the region’s energy profile. …”

Arbitration : a new era of dispute resolution by Ang, Eng Kiat, Chong, Siew Ann, Tay, Eddie Liang Wee

“…The paper concludes that arbitration is fast gaining ground in the last three to four years in the area of dispute resolution. …”
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Design of a localization and navigation system for multi-mobile robot coordination by Tan, Jiue Lin

“…With the fast-paced development of the technology, robots like unmanned aerial vehicle or automated guided vehicle are made more human-like to reduce human labour. …”
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Flexure-based electromagnetic parallel-kinematics manipulator system by Teo, Tat Joo

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Design of wireless charging systems for electric vehicles by Yang, Weng Chiun

“…Wireless charging technology has since evolved tremendously over the past decades due to its convenience and its safe function compared to the wired charging. …”
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Linear controller for the NXT ballbot with parameter variations using linear matrix inequalities by Wang, Yu

“…Robotics, a classical but still burgeoning field buttressed by the fast innovating computer science and hardware industries revolution is still at the top area of the engineering academia. …”
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Dynamic response of senegal mahogany in the transverse direction under wind loading by Yiek, Mildred Feng Yee

“…The number of trees in Singapore has been increasing significantly for the past few years. As a highly populated island nation, the event of tree failure can be rather catastrophic. …”
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Local rainfall is more likely than distant thunderstorms to affect movement behaviour in Northern Kenyan elephants by Mulder, T, Mortimer, B, Ferwerda, J, Vollrath, F

“…Specifically, elephants were generally in a slow-moving state during the day through wet periods, and in a fast-moving state during the day through dry periods. …”

An immunoinformatic approach for identifying and designing conserved multi-epitope vaccines for coronaviruses by Ong, Yu Chuan, Tejo, Bimo Ario, Yap, Wei Boon

“…Results: A total of 132 epitopes were identified, with the majority of them found to be conserved across the bat CoVs, pangolin CoVs, endemic coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). …”
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Time for a coordinated ASEAN–UN response to Myanmar's coup by Cook, Alistair David Blair

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Bu ren 不忍 (Cannot bear to harm) in the Mencius by Sung, Winnie

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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…In women, in nearly all countries in the Americas, north Africa, and the Middle East, and in many other high-income countries, high BMI is the leading risk factor, with high systolic blood pressure as the leading risk in most of Central and Eastern Europe and south and east Asia. …”

Genomic insights into Vibrio cholerae O1 responsible for cholera epidemics in Tanzania between 1993 and 2017 by Hounmanou, Yaovi Mahuton Gildas, Leekitcharoenphon, Pimlapas, Kudirkiene, Egle, Mdegela, Robinson H., Hendriksen, Rene S., Olsen, John Elmerdahl, Dalsgaard, Anders

“…We studied the evolution of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolated in Tanzania during the past three decades. Methodology / Principal findings: Genome-wide analysis was performed to characterize V. cholerae O1 responsible for the Tanzanian 2015-2017 outbreak along with strains causing outbreaks in the country for the past three decades. …”
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