The dynamics of crude oil price movements : from price expectation perspectives by Lucy Kusnadi, Mirza Muhammad Hanif, Soon, Shang Jyi

“…By employing VECM, a cointegrating equation is constructed which exhibits the long-run positive correlation between spot and futures prices over the years in review. …”
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State anger changes upon cathartic status updating on Facebook : moderation by perceived Facebook social support by Lee, Lina

“…Catharsis has long been believed to be effective in reducing state anger. …”
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Competitive strategies for small business in optical pick-up manufacturing by Ge, Guo Zheng, Zhang, Jing

“…The goal of this project is to evaluate the current state of the technology of the company (HongGuan Technologies (S) Pte Ltd), and to propose competitive strategies for the company to gain advantages and sustain its long-term growth. We started our project with analysis in two aspects: supply chain and technology chain. …”
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Implementation of a stochastic routing service by Yang, Wanqing

“…Performance testing is conducted to compare the response time of each solution, and improvement is made on the MATLAB-LP solution to finally make stochastic routing feasible on long distance meanwhile satisfy the performance requirement. …”
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Effects of engine oil additives on engine performance and temperature by Law, Zheng Yi

“…However, fuel consumption rate may be increased as a result of a long-term running and bad performance engine. Besides, the engine may keep running at a very high temperature that is over its operating temperature, this may cause the breakdown of the engine oil and thus increase the frequencies of changing engine oil. …”
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Laser scanning imaging system for underwater robotics vehicle by Xu, Lin

“…The model is verified with experimental measurements in a 0.6 meter long water tank. Various illumination volume settings of a laser beam are tested and their output images are evaluated by the MTF (modulation transfer function) assessment. …”
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Automatic writing assessment for ESL students by Gong, Mingyi

“…Multiple assessment tools and techniques are studied and implemented in the system, in order to generate both short-term and long-term writing feedbacks based on five metrics, syntactic complexity, lexical richness, semantic correlation, grammar and spelling correctness. …”
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Design of the physical layer security algorithms for the cellular networks by Lee, Ting Yi

“…The security of wireless networks has long been a topic of discussion. From the introduction of the first wireless security standard in WEP to the current standard now of WPA2, adversaries seem to be always able to find a way to break into these wireless networks. …”
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Understanding megathrust behaviour over the earthquake cycle through inversion of geodetic data and dynamic modelling by Qiu, Qiang

“…Lastly, I examine the spatial and temporal afterslip of the 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias-Simeulue earthquake, using joint inversion of long GPS time series for both afterslip and viscoelastic processes. …”
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Explanatory power of financial ratios on excess returns in the Malaysian stock market by Choong, Jia Wen, Toh, Jin Leng, Wang, Winnie Kai Li

“…At the same time, this arbitrage action will allow Bursa Malaysia to become more efficient in the long-run.…”
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Effects of accuracy of incentive weights when rewarding non-financial value drivers. by Khim, Kelly.

“…Conversely, when non-financial value drivers are inaccurately-weighted, managerial performance in the long run is better rewarding both the non-financial value drivers and the summary financial measure than rewarding only the non-financial value drivers. …”
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Twitter vs Facebook : analysis of Australian open tennis fan page by Ferozd Raisyad Razhif Roshein

“…The Australian Open (AO) is an international professional tennis tournament that is held annually in the month of January. It is a two-week long event and the first of four grand slam tennis tournaments of the season. …”
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A paper-based glucose sensoring microneedle patch by Zheng, Shu

“…However, the current most methods of clinical analysis of the glucose level need to pierce skin to take blood sample or takes a long time to analyze which will cause skin infection and uncomfortable of patients. …”
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The potential impact of the Singapore-Malaysia high speed rail operation on the passenger demand for the low-cost carriers by Ong, Tuan Hock

“…The aim of this paper is to forecast the passenger demand and market share of the Low-Cost Carriers (LCC) when the High-Speed Rail (HSR) commence operation in 2026 along the 350 km long Kuala Lumpur-Singapore (KL-SG) route with the possibility that the two-different transport mode will complement with each other. …”
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Vibratory finishing on SLM-printed hip stem implant by Goh, Joo Hao

“…SLM printed parts are able to customize an implant best suited to the patient to be printed, heaping various long-term benefits. However, parts will have to be post-processed after fabrication due to the inherent unsuitable surface roughness characteristics of the parts. …”
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Role of vegetation on beach run-up due to regular and cnoidal waves by Noarayanan, L., Murali, K., Sundar, V.

“…Although, several formulae have been derived in the past for estimation of run-up in laboratory studies for a variety of wave front structures, certain uncertainties still remain pertaining to flat slopes and long waves. To understand the performance characteristics of vegetation in attenuating run-up, a comprehensive experimental investigation was taken up. …”
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A statistical fat-tail test of predicting regulatory regions in the Drosophila genome by Shu, Jian Jun, Li, Yajing

“…As compared with the existing fluffy-tail test, the first fatness coefficient is designed to reduce computational time, making the novel fat-tail test very suitable for long sequences and large database analysis in the post-genome time and the second one to improve separation accuracy between CRMs and non-CRMs. …”
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Positive bias-induced Vth instability in graphene field effect transistors by Liu, W. J., Fang, Z., Wang, Z. R., Wang, F., Wu, L., Zhang, J. F., Wei, J., Zhu, H. L., Sun, Xiaowei, Tran, Xuan Anh, Ng, Geok Ing, Yu, Hongyu

“…The ΔVth of GFETs increases as stressing time and voltage increases, and tends to saturate after long stressing time. In the meanwhile, it does not show much dependence on gate length, width, and the number of graphene layers. …”
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The application of graphene oxide in drug delivery by Pan, Yongzheng, Sahoo, Nanda Gopal, Li, Lin

“…Expert opinion: GO and its derivatives are highly attractive for the application to drug delivery due to their exceptional physiochemical properties and unique planar structure in spite of some existing challenges, such as the reproducibly smart functionalization of GO and the investigation of its long-term toxicology.…”
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“Virtual encounters: the making and manifestations of Deleuze’s Bergsonism” by Lundy, Craig

“…From this one might surmise that Deleuze’s encounter with Bergson happens after and is influenced by his reading of Nietzsche (and Kant and Proust), and that this encounter happened not long before the creation of Difference and Repetition. …”
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