Effect of gap resonance between moored ships by Tay, Kenny Zhi Xian

“…Mooring operations accident is the most common and dangerous operation onboard ship. It is essential to find ways to minimize it to reduce the number of fatality and injuries onboard ship. …”
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Heterogeneities in landed costs of traded grains and oilseeds contribute to unequal access to food by Verschuur, J, Vittis, Y, Obersteiner, M, Hall, JW

“…Here we quantify the landed cost for six grain commodities across 3,500 administrative regions, capturing regional cost differences to produce grain and transport it across international borders. We find large heterogeneities in the costs of imported grain, which are highest in Oceania, Central America and landlocked Africa. …”

Modelling familiarity : towards age-friendly exergame design by Zhang, Hao

“…Based on all the research findings, familiarity can contribute to age-friendly exergame design and older adults' game experience can be enhanced with the help of this research.…”
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High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters by Brennan, Mark, Srini, Tanaya, Steil, Justin

“…How, if at all, do disasters affect rents? We find that severe floods are associated with significant increases in rents for households renting units priced at the bottom of the rent distribution, but not the middle or the top. …”
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New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) : Day-of-the-week effect and bid-ask spreads by Guo, Lisa Xiuhui, Ernest Julian Sutanto, Quek, Benny Shiwei

“…We find that the technology sector is associated with higher transaction cost. …”
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Research firm reputation and investors' reaction to research reports by Lei, Thi Quynh Giang, Le, Thao Nguyen, Nguyen, Viet Anh

“…Contrary to our expectation, we do not find any significant relationship between research firms’ ownership in the listed companies and abnormal returns. …”
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Build your own Android App by Kyaw, Thu Zin

“…In a developed country like Singapore, finding a car park can be difficult during peak hours. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Si, Fangbo

“…Using the 2003 mutual fund scandal as a shock to institutions’ risk-shifting incentives, we find that lenders charge higher loan spreads and impose more covenants after the scandal. …”
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Does cultural similarity between CFOs and auditors impact audit quality? by Xiong, Xi

“…Using last names to infer cultural values, I find that the cultural similarity between the CFO and the engagement partner is associated with high audit quality. …”
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StudentGO web application by Xie, Zijian

“…As a final year project, I propose to develop a web application for students in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to find and manage their groups in their registered modules. …”
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PCA based feature extraction for cell image retrieval by Ananthagunan Muthukumaran

“…The Euclidian Distance method is adapted to find out the position of the new image in the subspace After Calculating the Euclidian Distance the images, which are stored, are retrieved back in the order of closeness with that of the test image. …”
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Risk perception and attitude of Singaporeans : online shopping in Singapore by Er, Mildred Mei Le, Wan, Shu Ting, Wong, Tai Yee

“…There has been an increase in the number of online purchases made by Singaporeans as compared to the past decade despite the increasing number of various risks involved. This paper aims to find the perceived risks and risk attitudes of Singaporeans by looking into their attitudes and behaviors towards online shopping. …”
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Design of an indoor intelligent navigation system for visual disabilities by Wang, Ziliang

“…This RFID system is an indoor route-guide system for blind people to clearly find the way in a building without others' help. …”
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Design of the physical layer security algorithms for the cellular networks by Lee, Ting Yi

“…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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Scratch based graphical programming online guide/exam system by Chan, Bryan Hong Ming

“…In this project, comparison of various block-based applications are performed to find the most suitable application for students who may or may not have prior programming background to learn programming. …”
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Interactive E-learning environment for maximum power transfer in RFIC by Ratna

“…When the source and load impedance in RFIC are known, an impedance matching is required to be carried out to find a matching network to be added into the circuit. …”
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Annual budgets and rolling budgets use in UK and Australian firms by Bhimani, A, Sivabalan, P, Soonawalla, K, Wakefield, J

“…We find that of the firms using annual and rolling budgets, 75 percent indicated they are equally important, with both budgeting forms used jointly rather than as substitutes. …”

Financial optimization problems by Law, SL

“…Then we study the equivalent problem based on a market model with transaction costs. We find that there is a relationship between these two solutions. …”

Exploring dependence structures among European electricity markets: static and dynamic copula-GARCH and dynamic state-space approaches by Ly, Sel, Sriboonchitta, Songsak, Tang, Jiechen, Wong, Wing-Keung

“…Based on the results of the ARMA-GJR-GARCH model, we first find that there are spillover effects in the returns of both base and peak spot prices in the five European electricity markets, and there are heteroskedastic, asymmetric, and leverage effects with negative and positive shocks, including spikes and drops during both base and peak load periods. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Koh, Jee Youn

“…In Chapter 1, we examine externalities of tunneling carried out by business group firms. We find that acquirers belonging to Korean business groups (i.e., chaebols) and their targets in intragroup M&As realize negative and positive returns around the M&A announcement dates, respectively. …”
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