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. …”

High-performance deep red colloidal quantum well light-emitting diodes enabled by the understanding of charge dynamics by Hu, Sujuan, Shabani, Farzan, Liu, Baiquan, Zhang, Lingjiao, Guo, Min, Lu, Guanhua, Zhou, Zhisheng, Wang, Jing, Huang, Jacob C., Min, Yonggang, Xue, Qifan, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Liu, Chuan

“…Furthermore, an active-matrix CQW-LED pixel circuit is demonstrated. The findings imply that the understanding of charge dynamics not only enables high-performance CQW-LEDs and can be further applied to other kinds of nanocrystal LEDs but also is beneficial to the development of CQW-LEDs-based display technology and related integrated optoelectronics.…”
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Structural and biochemical mechanisms of NLRP1 inhibition by DPP9 by Huang, Menghang, Zhang, Xiaoxiao, Toh, Gee Ann, Gong, Qin, Wang, Jia, Han, Zhifu, Wu, Bin, Zhong, Franklin, Chai, Jijie

“…Activation of the NLR protein NLRP1 requires autocleavage within its function-to-find domain (FIIND)1-7. In resting cells, the dipeptidyl peptidases DPP8 and DPP9 interact with the FIIND of NLRP1 and suppress spontaneous NLRP1 activation8,9; however, the mechanisms through which this occurs remain unknown. …”
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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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Sliding on Manifolds: Geometric Attitude Control with Quaternions by Lopez, Brett T., Slotine, Jean-Jacques E.

“…2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 30 May 2021 - 05 June Xi'an, China…”
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COVID-19 - where do we go from here? by Lee, Pei Hua, Vasoo, Shawn

“…The cluster of viral pneumonia cases that first began in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December 2019 has rapidly spread within China and globally. …”
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Numerical study of an oscillating smaller cylinder in the wake of an upstream larger cylinder by Gao, Yangyang, Yu, Dingyong, Wang, Xikun, Tan, Soon Keat

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Intensity of stress singularity for the circumferential V-shape corner front of a three-dimensional diamond-like defect by Ping, X. ., Zhang, Y. X., Guo, Y. B., Xiao, Z. M., Jalde, J., Chen, M. C.

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Carbene-catalyzed activation of formyl-phenylacetic esters for access to chiral dihydroisoquinolinones by Wu, Shuquan, Xu, Jun, Deng, Rui, Wang, Hongling, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Zheng, Pengcheng

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Handling constrained many-objective optimization problems via problem transformation by Jiao, Ruwang, Zeng, Sanyou, Li, Changhe, Yang, Shengxiang, Ong, Yew-Soon

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