Measuring Outsourcing Performance of Malaysian Economic Transformation Program by Hassan, Mohamad Ghozali, Abdullah, Rohani, Razalli, Mohd. Rizal

“…The focus of this research is to find out the strategic relationship among the environmental dynamism, outsourcing success, and the performance of the relationship. …”
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Demand for higher education in Singapore. by Chia, Wilson., Yap, Si Guan., Teo, Bee Cheng.

“…This is a survey done on NUS and NTU undergraduates to elicit their response for the need for higher education after the undergraduate level. Factors like choice of pursuit, locality of pursuit and reasons for these options were compiled and analysed.…”
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Housing policy and price effects on housing wealth distribution in Singapore. by Chan, Joy Yuen Yee.

“…The change in prices could have result the housing wealth distribution in Singapore to change too. Social problems like inequality might have resulted.…”
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Novel material composites for dielectric elastomer actuators by Ankit

“…There are different ways by which these soft materials can be actuated and include techniques like applying pneumatic and hydraulic pressure, applying heat, making use of a chemical process like combustion, applying varying magnetic fields and applying electric fields. …”
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The (lack of) distortionary effects of proxy-means tests: Results from a nationwide experiment in Indonesia by Banerjee, Abhijit, Hanna, Rema, Olken, Benjamin A., Sumarto, Sudarno

“…In a separate survey six months later, households in treated provinces report fewer televisions, though the effect dissipates thereafter. We find no change in actual television sales, or reported or actual SIM card ownership, suggesting that consumption distortions are likely small.…”
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Cold-formed light gauge steel for rapid deployable shelters by Wu, Hongjun.

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Use of bamboo in construction by Quek, Ming Hui.

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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…We study this latter problem in depth, referred to as the middle-curse, on the task of abstractive summarization, and find that it affects performance sharply.…”
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Leveraging nanocrystal HKUST-1 in mixed-matrix membranes for ethylene/ethane separation by Chuah, Chong Yang, Samarasinghe, Samarasinghe Arachchige Sulashi Chathushka, Li, Wen, Goh, Kunli, Bae, Tae-Hyun

“…Then, polyimide-based polymers, ODPA-TMPDA and 6FDA-TMPDA, were chosen as the matrices. Our findings revealed that 20 wt% loading of HKUST-1 was capable of improving C₂H₄ permeability (155% for ODPA-TMPDA and 69% for 6FDA-TMPDA) without excessively sacrificing the C₂H₄/C₂H₆ selectivity. …”
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The effect of China's weak institutional environment on the quality of Big 4 audits by Ke, Bin, Lennox, Clive S., Xin, Qingquan

“…The Big 4 are less likely to issue modified audit reports, and they charge lower audit fees for clients that are listed only in China. …”
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Matlab® for Engineers / by Moore, Holly, author 389527, Pearson Education Limited (Online service) 647098

“…When the text covers new subjects, like statistics and matrix algebra, brief background information is used to support your success. …”
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Wavefront control in space with MEMS deformable mirrors for exoplanet direct imaging by Cahoy, K. L., Marinan, A. D., Novak, B., Kerr, C., Nguyen, T., Webber, M., Falkenburg, G., Barg, A.

“…To meet the high contrast requirement of 1 x 10(-10) to image an Earth-like planet around a sun-like star, space telescopes equipped with coronagraphs require wavefront control systems. …”
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An analog of double electromagnetically induced transparency with extremely high group indexes by Yang, An, Yan, Changchun, Tian, Jiebing, Wang, Cheng, Li, Guiming, Zhang, Dao Hua

“…Our simulations demonstrate that both maximum group indexes are extremely high at the two EIT-like positions. The group index reaches about thrice the currently reported maximum value at the high-frequency EIT-like position. …”
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Internet-of-things gateway for augmented/virtual reality application using light fidelity transmission by Leong, Zhi Cheng

“…This study explores the development and use of an IoT gateway using hardware boards like the Raspberry Pi 4. The IoT gateway will be able to enable communication between hardware devices with different operating systems like Windows and Linux, through the use of Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) communication. …”
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Surface wave interaction with a vertical viscoelastic barrier by Bi, Cheng, Wu, Mao See, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

“…As the regime changes from plate-like to membrane-like, the wave transmission diminishes and the sheet boundary displacement together with the flexural strain and shear force reduce, while the corresponding resonating wavenumber increases instead. …”
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Impact and semi-static performance of thermoplastic composites by Chia, Justin Jun Hao

“…The failure modes of the specimens are also investigated using the optical microscope. Parameters like the thickness of the laminate, which can vary due to manufacturing, can affect the performance of the material. …”
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Polydopamine@carbon nanotube reinforced and calcium sulphoaluminate coated hydrogels encapsulating bacterial spores for self-healing cementitious composites by Feng, Jianhang, Rohaizat, Radhiah Elyssa Binte, Qian, Shunzhi

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Catalytic efficiency of ZIF-67 MXene and PMS in organic pollutant degradation by Eng, Bo Xuan

“…Therefore, doping MXene with materials like ZIF-67 further improves its properties for treating organic pollutants in water. …”
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黄展鸣《天界无限》的女英雄形象 = Heroine images in Wee Tian Beng’s celestial zone by 谢文良 Chia, Boon Liang

“…Next, I will analyze the signs and symbols surrounding the heroines, like the hair and sword. Lastly, I will compare the heroines from Celestial zone with some existing heroine images like Mulan, Mu Gui Ying, Fan Li Hua, Huang Rong etc, and point out how the heroines from Celestial zone improved from the feminism point of view.…”
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Self-evolving Takagi-Sugeno-Kangfuzzy neural network with self-evolving forgetting factor by Manpreet, Singh.

“…The results of these studies have lead to the development of a new branch of intelligent systems, systems that behave more so like humans. This new breed of systems exploit the tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty to achieve tractability, robustness and low solution cost. …”
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