Attracting foreign direct investment in southeast Asia : the impact of risk perceptions and trade openness. by Oliveros Jurise Athena Pulgo.

“…The long-term economic benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI) have prompted most countries in the Asian region to revamp their policies towards a more appealing environment for foreign investment. …”
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Option-based quantification and generic optimization of debt refinancing in public-private partnership infrastructure projects by Zheng, Sha

“…It is considered particularly suitable for long-term infrastructure projects where the construction has been completed and the successful operation has been demonstrated. …”
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Molecular dynamics simulations of mechanical and thermal properties of multi-layer graphene sheets by Poon, Darek Seet Keat

“…This is due to the hybridization of sp2 to sp3 bonds, resulting in long-range weaker bonds, thereby reducing the strain energy needed for breaking. …”
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Thermal management of 3D integrated circuits with microchannel-based liquid cooling by Qian, Hanhua

“…The emerging three dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) technology has offered promising solutions to problems faced by today’s 2D large-scale-integration (LSI) such as long propagation delay, high power consumption and limited I/O bandwidth. …”
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Hydrothermal synthesis of vanadium dioxide nanoparticles codoped with magnesium/tungsten by Tang, Kai Wen

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Identity matters ... even in maritime security : China, Japan and maritime cooperation in East Asia by Eva Pejsova

“…Cooperation in functional maritime domains should constitute a common ground for consensus, and even serve as a catalyst for enhancing broader security cooperation in the long run. However, given the specific, transnational character of maritime management in the twenty-first century, this would require States to rise above the traditional Westphalian understanding of sovereignty and beyond the Realist mind-sets.…”
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The contemporary development of netball in Singapore by Divyashree Balakrishnan

“…However, it was as early as 1962, when the body organizing the sport was officially recognized as an association. Despite its long maturation process and fruitful development as a major female team sport, few academic works have critically examined the place of netball in the development of sport in Singapore in the contemporary field. …”
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Gelatin-dopamine coating for improved biocompatibility on polydimethylsiloxane substrate surfaces by Quek, Kai Yun

“…This poses a major challenge in cell biology as the intrinsic high hydrophobicity property implicates incompatibility for long-term cell adhesion, proliferation and directed cell differentiation. …”
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Spin dynamics of two-dimensional systems in strong-coupling regime by Anastasiia Pervishko

“…For that reason, the study of the spin dynamics and the search for alternative particles, which can carry the information for relatively long time are the topics of high priority nowadays. …”
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Social inequality and democracy by Keh, Yi Ling, Leong, Kwong Chuin, Leong, Kwong Shuo

“…This relationship holds even after we control for other determinants of democracy and introduce alternative measures of democracy. Using a long-difference analysis, we also verify the relevance of the level of acceptance towards social inequality in explaining the differences in the democracy levels of countries between two time periods. …”
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Electrical charge transport and optical properties of iron pyrite by Shukla, Sudhanshu

“…Charge carrier dynamics in nanocube thin film revealed fast carrier localization and long-lived trap states in the pure pyrite. Temperature dependent electrical and magnetic behaviors supported the existence of intrinsic localized gap states. …”
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GUI development for power substation monitoring system by Lim, Sean Yang Wen

“…Graphical user interface (GUI) has been around for a long time and has come quite a far bit from the 1970s. …”
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A human-centered design framework for the development of product-service systems by Wong, Thomson Chi Shing

“…The goals of this framework were to serve as a starting point to guide the development of PSSs for improved user acceptance and satisfaction, and to assist existing businesses with product-oriented PSSs to identify areas of service improvement and strengthen the long-term relationship with their customers. The Fitbit, a wearable activity tracker, was chosen as an exploratory case study to investigate the significance of HCD in PSSs. …”
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Convective boiling and condensation in enhanced tubes produced by selective laser melting by Tan, Choon Yong

“…The design of the four tubes are five long circumferential pin fins, eight short circumferential pin fins, twisted pin fins and a metallic foam structure. …”
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Solid waste allocation management based on optimization techniques by Lim, Sean Heng Yu

“…An effective and sustainable MSW management plan goes a long way in keeping the public area clean. However there are many uncertainties involved and these unknown parameters make formulating a reliable MSW management plan hard. …”
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Effects of three-dimensional radar display on emotion and stress during continuous climb and descent in ATC operations by Edward, Mak

“…The world of aviation has come a long way from its humble beginnings of just satisfying human desire to fly to a massive network of intercontinental passenger flights. …”
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Finite element vibration analysis using bar and beam elements with a new method for lumping mass matrix by Tan, Jia Yi

“…By being able to develop a code for it, we would enable everyone to be able to solve complex problems regarding structures, as long as they have all the information required to solve the problem. …”
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An investigation on the role of tarsal flexibility in insect walking by Tjuatja, Johan

“…While the tarsus has been long known to be flexible, there has currently been no study that explains what the purpose of this flexibility is in insect leg. …”
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Smart sensor-based pillbox for polypharmacy management by Kum, Brandon Zhi Wei

“…The inability to conform to regular medication regime has always been the main issue when it comes to increased hospitality and mortality rate in the world, especially to patients with long term illness such hypertension, dementia, cardiovascular disease and mental disorders. …”
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A new method of N to C sequential ligation using thioacid capture ligation and native chemical ligation by Hou, Wen, Liu, Lei, Zhang, Xiaohong, Liu, Chuanfa

“…Sequential peptide ligation strategy becomes more and more important in large protein or long peptides chemical synthesis due to the limited peptide/protein size obtained by solid phase synthesis of individual peptides or even one-step peptide ligation. …”
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