Singapore Shipping Trust. by Goh, Wei Qin., Lee, Suat Cheng., Tan, Li Ping.

“…With the current Subprime crisis and downturn in the shipping industry, we analyse some of the real risks and impact facing each shipping trust, for instance, counterparty risks and financing issues. We also explore the shipping trusts’ financial performance through comparison with the Singapore market, as well as with Singapore REITs, Singapore shipping stocks and their foreign peers. …”
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Impact of China's OBOR strategy - The impact of China’s belt and road initiative – impacts on dry bulk industry by Sng, Jerry Guan Kiat

“…Hailed as “The Project of the Century”, it involved large amount of finances for building of infrastructure in many countries. …”
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Droplet wetting and evaporation on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces by Phonkrit, Boonchuaysream

“…The droplets also experience contact line pinning-depinning during the CCA and mixed modes on patterned substrates. …”
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Regionalisation of food & beverage industry to Southeast Asia by Lim Siew Ping, Lim Inng Mae, Yap Soon Lan

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A novel grid-based clustering algorithm by Starczewski, Artur, Scherer, Magdalena M., Ksiek, Wojciech, Dȩbski, Maciej, Wang, Lipo

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Saturated pool boiling of FC-72 from enhanced surfaces produced by Selective Laser Melting by Ho, Jin Yao, Wong, Kin Keong, Leong, Kai Choong

“…A plain surface and intrinsic micro-cavity and micro-fin surfaces of different configurations were produced from AlSi10Mg base powder using a Gaussian distributed Yb:YAG laser and the surfaces were tested in a water-cooled thermosyphon with FC-72 as the coolant fluid. …”
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Catastrophic risk analysis and management for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure systems by Qian, Qiyu

“…Such strategy is developed based on an in-depth understanding of the project’s risk exposure derived from catastrophe model, layered risk financing portfolio setup decided by concession agreement, cost and benefit analysis between different risk financing instruments and mitigation efforts, and last but not least, a good understanding of dynamic financial demand.…”
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Rethinking relief, reconstruction and development : evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of post-disaster livelihood aid by Daly, Patrick, Mahdi, Saiful, McCaughey, Jamie, Mundzir, Ibnu, Halim, Agus, Nizamuddin, Ardiansyah, Srimulyani, Eka

“…Our results show that livelihood assistance helped people stabilize their household finances and partially restore their pre-disaster livelihoods. …”
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Gaps In Primary Care And Health System Performance In Six Latin American And Caribbean Countries by Macinko, James, Guanais, Frederico C., Mullachery, Pricila, Jimenez, Geronimo

“…Respondents reported considerable gaps in the ways in which primary care is organized, financed, and delivered. Nearly half reported using the emergency department for a condition they considered treatable in a primary care setting. …”
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Islamic donations-based crowdfunding platforms in Malaysia: an evaluation of regulatory and shariah issues by Mat Radzi, Rafisah, Muhamed, Nurul Aini, Kamaruddin, Muhammad Iqmal Hisham, Wan Mohamad Nazarie, Wan Nur Faznie, Kamarubahrin, Aimi Fadzirul

“…Crowdfunding has recently gained worldwide attention as an alternative financing mechanism to the traditional fundraising methods for business ventures or social projects. …”
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Developing a lightscape application (using a raspberry PI) by Ong, Wenchuan

“…The project aims to develop a web application, which will be hosted within the Raspberry Pi, for controlling the brightness of constant light source from the high power LED via the Raspberry Pi’s General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins and gather optimal settings for projecting images with the Light Blaster. …”
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Additive friction stir processing by Lin, Longyi

“…The continuous dynamic recrystalisation during FSP also gave finer grains, which was further enhanced with the addition of CNTs through Zener pinning effect. The improvement in tensile strengths due to finer grains through the Hall-Petch mechanism was insufficient to compensate for the drop in Orowan strengthening. …”
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Perceived climate risk and stock prices: an empirical analysis of pricing effects by Ameur, HB, Dao, D, Ftiti, Z, Louhichi, W

“…Our findings have implications for market participants, as understanding the relationship between perceived climate risk and asset prices is crucial for investors seeking to navigate the financial implications of climate change and for policymakers aiming to promote sustainable financing and mitigate the potential damaging effects of climate risk on financial markets, and a pricing model that accurately incorporates perceived climate risk can facilitate this understanding.…”

Determinants factor of Islamic Mortgage Inclination by Abdul Hadi, Lina Nadhirah, Osman, Amirul Faiz

“…Thus, this research provides useful information to community and the bank managers by increasing their level of confidence towards Islamic mortgage financing. From this study, the researchers also suggest Islamic bank managers to give greater emphasis in marketing, operational and customer service to ensure employees provide the best services to their customers and achieve customer satisfaction…”
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Tax Incentives, Common Institutional Ownership, and Corporate ESG Performance by Huang, Chengjie, Zhou, Hang, Wan Ahmad, Wan Norhayati, Saad, Ram Al Jaffri, Zhang, Xinrui

“…Our analysis of the financial mechanism and the Research and Development (R&D) mechanism reveals that tax incentives are instrumental in alleviating the financing constraints faced by corporations, thereby augmenting their financial performance. …”
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Investigating customers' continuous trust towards mobile banking apps by Che, Maohao, Say, Ashley Sze Yee, Yu, Han, Zhou, Qingji, Shu, Jared, Sun, Wen, Luo, Xi, Xu, Hong

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A burden shared: the financial, psychological, and health-related consequences borne by family members and caregivers of people with cancer in India by Ranganathan, Sruthi, Tomar, Vivek, Chino, Fumiko, Jain, Bhav, Patel, Tej A., Dee, Edward C., Mathew, Aju

“…Effects on family caregivers’ financial resources are particularly prevalent in India given the increased dependency on out-of-pocket financing for healthcare, disparate access to insurance coverage, and limitations in public expenditure on healthcare. …”
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A Case Study in Marketing a Real Estate Debt Fund through the Design and Preparation of a Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) and Investor Presentation by Poirier, Richard Scott

“…Private equity-backed real estate debt funds play a crucial role in providing capital to borrowers seeking financing for construction projects. These funds raise capital from investors, deploy it strategically, and actively manage debt investments to generate returns for their limited partners. …”
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Demolition after decline: Understanding and explaining demolition patterns in US and German shrinking cities by Gao, Shuqi, Jansen, Hendrik, Ryan, Brent D.

“…Dessau's demolition is financed by federal policy with explicit spatial intentions, whereas Flint's demolition is complaint-driven without substantial spatial consideration. …”
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Time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control in continuous time by Song, Wan Jing

“…The portfolio consists of only risky assets and assumes a self-financing constraint. The objective function considers a mean-variance problem with state dependent risk aversion.…”
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