Analysis of bull and bear phases of the Singapore stock market by Wang, Tiantian, Yang, Na

“…Random walk model is rejected since it cannot capture the asymmetric features of the observed bull and bear durations. …”
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Why do the outward FDI patterns of China's state-owned enterprises differ from those of private companies? by Zhi, Li.

“…Since China's implementation of the "opening up and reform" in 1979 led by Deng Xiaoping, and the establishment of the first SEZ (Special Economic Zone) - Shenzhen in the early 19807s, huge foreign capital inflows and the active operations of foreign-invested firms have greatly affected China's institutional environment, and intensified market competition. …”
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Synchronization in cooperative communication by Hong, Chao.

“…Through cooperation, diversity of the communication system is improved, which increases throughput or reliability of the network. Since different users are distributed in different locations and usually there is no central controller, synchronization of them becomes extremely difficult. …”
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Ray tracing and channel modelling for slant communication links by Lin, Jin De.

“…He improvised on Hertz‟s design and developed a wirelessly telegraphy system. Since then, wireless communication has evolved rapidly to provide us with the current technology that we enjoy today. …”
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Poetry as postmodern by Zhang, Jieqiang

“…It will undertake a study of Denis Donoghue’s On Eloquence, and attempt to show how Donoghue’s description of literary eloquence correlates with postmodernism, in its yearning for non-referentiality, its impulse for anarchy, its desire for play, its devotion to pleasure, its creation of textual worlds, and its gesture toward language’s metaphoric nature. Since poetry is the textual art that exemplifies literary eloquence the most, it follows that poetry exhibits these postmodern tendencies most clearly, particularly postmodernism's interest in limits, its preoccupation with the metaphysics of absence. …”
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Curing kinetics of epoxies by thermal and alternative radiation in the application of fibre-reinforced composites by Ng, Feng Lin.

“…Additional advantage of radiation curing in fibre-reinforced composites is the absence of gel time since cross-linking in a resin formulated with photo-initiator will only commence upon exposure to UV light. …”
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Is East Asia decoupled from the US? by Huynh, Nha Khanh, Nong, Duc Chinh, Zeng, Yubing

“…Since the Asian Financial Crisis, there have been a lot of restructurings and reforms implemented in the East Asian countries. …”
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Combating China’s corruption through learning from Taobao’s business model. by Tan, Winifred Guan Xin., Soh, Rachel Mei Hui., Choo, Amelene Isabel.

“…Corruption in China is prevalent since the early centuries and in recent years, Chinese citizens are increasingly demanding for a less corrupted government. …”
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Design and development of extreme learning machine symposium web portal by Chiang, Yu Hui.

“…Within a short period of time since their inception, conference organizers worldwide have already received these web based conference management systems with open arms. …”
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The Arabisation of Islam the observation of Arab culture as authoritative Islamic norms amongst Muslims in Singapore & its implications. by Muhammad Ridzwan Bin Rahmat

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The structure of coal market in China : pricing mechanism and market efficiency by Goh, Emilyn Shi Min, Chong, Phoi Yee, Tan, Jessica Shi Han

“…Since the reform and opening up in 1978, the coal industry in China has been developing rapidly. …”
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Performing feminism : the evolution of the female in the legend of Robin Hood by Ess, Aubrey Gabrelyn

“…Since the formulation of its earliest fourteenth-century ballads through twenty-first century films, the legend of Robin Hood presents an evolution of feminism even before the first, second and third waves of feminism. …”
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The dynamics of crude oil price movements : from price expectation perspectives by Lucy Kusnadi, Mirza Muhammad Hanif, Soon, Shang Jyi

“…The movement of crude oil price that was once relatively stable has exhibited huge volatility since the 2000s. Recently, crude oil price fluctuates sharply more than did it in the past whenever there are positive or negative economic shocks. …”
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Variation of address terms in Malay : case study of Malay families in Singapore by Siti Nadiah Mohd Shafie Maskon

“…Shifts in address terms are also observed in the conversations. Since the age difference, power status and social distance between speaker and addressee are constants in the family domain, these variations in address terms are attributed to factors that arise during the interaction, such as the content of the conversation, stance taken and changes in the relationship between interlocutors. …”
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Dual-channel vendor-buyer system with minimum purchase commitment and price-sensitive demand by Li, Bo

“…Expected profit of the supply chain system is defined as the target function; MPC coefficient (z) and retail price (p) are selected as the variables since they determine the profit and its components. …”
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Web application for pharmacy information system by Chew, Chee Hau

“…Version one of the project is able to perform all basic function for operating a pharmacy, however the system is not stable due to the lack of opportunity for mass system testing from pharmacies all over Singapore, therefore there are a lot of many unforeseen incident, such as connection time out during data transmission, declining in system performance when the database get larger overtime, bugs that may discovered over time, vulnerability against cyber-attack since the only security now is password encryption. …”
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Cloud-assisted rendering support for mobile online gaming by Quek, Tommy Teck Soon

“…Computer games have been rather popular for the past decades ever since personal computers came about. The increasing interactivity and graphics of the game often requires an upgrade on the current computer. …”
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Intelligent data dissemination system by Zhao, Ziping

“…As information technology has been booming since a few decades ago, information explosion issue has caused people’s attention. …”
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Resilience against early-life stress in female rodents is captured in dendritic morphology of basolateral amygdala by Lee, Yan Jun

“…The increasing prevalence of early-life stress (ELS) in recent years and the fact that it has been shown to increase the susceptibility to develop psychopathologies in adulthood have spurred numerous studies to investigate the relations between ELS and emotional regulation. Since basolateral amygdala (BLA) is crucial for mood regulation and involved in the neural circuitry mediating stress responses, BLA disruption is a potential underlying mechanism for the emergence of these neuropsychiatric disorders. …”
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Touch interaction based on 3D air traffic visualization system by Zhong, Xin

“…Therefore, the 3-Dimensional(3D) visualization is suggested to be applied in the ATCS. Since the 3D control system has not been developed maturely, the objective of this project is to research and prototype a possible model of touch interaction based 3D control system. …”
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