Does Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings? A Reexamination of the Effect of Fitch’s Market Share on Credit Ratings in the Corporate Bond Market by Bae, Kee-Hong, Kang, Jun-Koo, Wang, Jin

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Hedging interest rate risk using simple, covariance-adjusted and volatility-adjusted immunization strategies : Japanese government bonds : April 1989 to December 2000 by Lim, Ming Siang, Wee, Hans Hang Leong, Poh, Leong Poh

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The impacts of US Fed interest rate liftoff on Southwest Asia stock markets, sovereign bond and currencies by Ooi, Teik Khim

“…This paper aims to examine the impact of US interest rate lift-off on the performance of ASEAN equities, currencies and sovereign bond during that period. …”
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Tracing Our Roots by Yeo, Cassandra Wei Shan, Chan, Cheryl Shi Hui, Lim, Daniel Yong En, Lee, Velyn Hui Min

“…Tracing Our Roots is a communications campaign by four final-year undergraduates from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, targeted at promoting natural heritage to Singaporean youths aged 19 to 25. …”
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Essays on the market for corporate bonds by Levonmaa, A

“…Chapter 1 studies the impact of credit rating changes on corporate bond returns. This study uses a large dataset of corporate bond transactions from the TRACE database for the US corporate bond market, combined with credit rating changes from Fitch, Moody's and Standard and Poor's (S&P), to analyse over 22,000 bonds, coupled with approximately 28,400 rating events over nearly six years. …”

Ray tracing and channel modelling for slant communication links by Lin, Jin De.

“…Wireless communication was discovered during the late 1890s, early 1900s period. James Clerk Maxwell had originally predicted the presence of electromagnetic (EM) waves. …”
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Determination of had kifayah zakat among pre-graduate students at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) by Ismail, Abdul Manan, Hasbullah, Mushaddad, Zakaria, Mohamad Zaharuddin, Salleh, Ahmad Zaki, Abdul Majid, Mohd. Nasir, Abdullah Thaidi, Hussein'Azeemi, Ab. Jalil, Mohd. Afiq, Rosman, Arieff Salleh, Khan, Aqeel

“…Had Kifayah refers to a minimum basic necessity rate set based on the current cost of living. …”

Development of the bond markets in Singapore and Malaysia. by Chan, Wei Lun.

“…The study also explores avenues for increasing the demand for corporate bonds such as increasing provident fund investments in bonds; changes to the commission rate structure for bond trading, and reduction or abolition of tax for interest received and stamp duty transferances. …”
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The effectiveness of different types of monetary incentives to download the TraceTogether application by Lim, Mei Hui, Liu, Lingshan, Ng, Shu Min

“…The main findings of this study were (i) Participants were more willing to download the TraceTogether application with monetary incentives compared to no monetary incentives, (ii) All participants in the “choice” group chose to receive direct payment, (iii) Most participants believed that direct payment would result in the highest number of people downloading a contact tracing application, (iv) “Direct payment”, “gift card” and “choice” had statistically lower minimum WTA than “charity donation” and (v) There is no statistically significant difference between the minimum WTA of “choice” and “direct payment”, “direct payment” and “gift card”, as well as “gift card” and “choice”.…”
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Social bonds and community support are vital to prison reform by Newson, M, Whitehouse, H

“…This research highlights the importance of fostering positive group bonds and community support to enhance reintegration efforts and reduce reoffending rates.…”

Finite rate Innovation and its applications in electrocardiography by Amrish Nair

“…This allowed for many clinical applications such as heart rate determination, fetal heart rate calculation and P and T wave detection. …”
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Social bonding among children in joint physically active play by Jefferies, M

“…PA levels were also measured indirectly via heart rate monitors (HRM). We found that observed-PA was associated with frequency of smiling/laughing between pairs. …”

Bond strength and tension stiffening of fly ash geopolymer concrete by Salem, Hamdi Abdulrahman Saif

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Hydrogen-bond memory and water-skin supersolidity resolving the Mpemba paradox by Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Ma, Zengsheng, Zhou, Yichun, Zhou, Ji, Zheng, Weitao, Jiang, Qing, Sun, Changqing

“…Analysis of experimental database reveals that the hydrogen bond (O:H–O) possesses memory to emit energy at a rate depending on its initial storage. …”
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The inert online citizen : online political spaces in Singapore by Rachna Raghupathi

“…It is difficult to believe that as recently as 40 years ago, as academics began to delve into the ways in which countries could democratise, most of them had not even dreamed of what would be an eventual gamechanger: the internet. …”
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Flip chip joint-in-via architecture on flexible substrates with Au-Sn interdiffusion bonding by Lee, Teck Kheng

“…A new joint-in-via architecture has been developed with an instantaneous fluxless bonding know as SLICF (solid-liquid interdiffusion bonding by compressive force) for fine pitch microelectronic packaging. …”
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Acute effect of foam rolling on rate of force development in the vertical jump by Wee, Jericho Faliang

“…Purpose: To investigate the effects of foam rolling on the rate of force development (RFD) in the countermovement vertical jump. …”
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The association between the proportion of Brexiters and COVID-19 death rates in England by Phalippou, L, Wu, B

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Districts where people voted most heavily in favor of remaining in the EU (top quintile) had nearly half the death rate of districts in the bottom quintile. …”

Inadequate social housing and health: the case of Oliver Bond House, in inner-city Dublin by Manzo, LKC, Grove, H

The role of free volume, hydrogen bonding, and crosslinks on physical aging in polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) by Joo, Taigyu, Rodriguez, Katherine Mizrahi, Lee, Hyunhee, Acharya, Durga, Doherty, Cara M., Smith, Zachary P.

“…The results suggest that higher initial fractional free volume is the primary factor contributing to higher rates of physical aging and that the introduction of hydrogen bonds and crosslinks reduces the initial free volume of PIM-1. …”
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