Rumor cleanup : how easy it is? by Xia, Ji

“…Rumor spreading can be considered as a process of “infection of mind” and shares similar spreading dynamics as epidemic. In order to find out the factors that may affect the efficiency of cleaning rumor, this project investigated both the steady state and the time-dependent behavior of cleaning process under different network models. …”
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Modelling a multi-commodity transportation system by Cheong, Ting Fong

“…In many of today organizations, everyone is trying to achieve more from the same amount of time or to find the minimum amount of time to complete the task.This project uses a simulation package, amulti-commoditytransport network simulatordeveloped bythe authorto implement the Discrete event system, Time optimal supervisoryand to displaythe simulation within anapplication on the windowsplatform. …”
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Examination of relationship between reported correlations between corporate environmental and financial performance ; and the review of impact of listing criteria and frameworks of... by Tan, Elizabeth Si En, Kwek, Xiang You, Lau, Catherine Xiao Ling

“…Extensive literature reviews however yield conflicting and often contradicting findings. Stock exchanges, otherwise known as sustainability indexes have spawned from the increased resources that companies channel toward environmental issues. …”
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Radar-guided robot by Wang, Jiajun

“…The main objective of this project is to utilize a small radar system using USRP to implement the guidance of the movement of an unmanned mobile robot to find an opened door in an indoor environment. …”
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Modelling power consumption of dual CPU server by Xue, Yuhai

“…A correct power consumption model is essential for providing guidelines to design such hardware and software. In this paper, we find that due to the CPU’s complex architecture, the power consumption is not monotonically increasing with the increasing CPU utilization, for some certain computational-intensive program. …”
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Marketing public health programmes : a diet perspective by Ang, Bee Choo, Chow, Pui Meng, Tan, Geok Hui

“…The objective of this study is to find out Singaporean 's dietary habits and attitude towards healthy diet. …”
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Negotiation of the Singapore auntie identity by Chew, Rachel Si Wei

“…The Singaporean Auntie identity can be seen as doubly problematized because of the stigmatized stereotypes associated with Singaporean Aunties and the stigmatization of old age. To find out how the concepts of social stigma and age old identity are associated with each other, this paper aims to study how Singaporean Aunties negotiate their identities amidst the existing notions of a negative stigmatization placed on them. …”
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Do higher politician salaries reduce corruption and improve governance? by Chin, Hong Xiang, Low, Guo Quan, Wang, Yiwei

“…We propose that our findings can be explained by: electoral pressure, peer pressure, and mutual monitoring effects.…”
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An auction approach for resource allocation in cognitive radio networks by Liu, Chenglong

“…This experiment adopts a Hackner utility function [3] and Matlab programming tools to find the demands for the radio spectrum from each SU. …”
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Negotiating time in British Malaya : colonial Singapore’s role in time legislature, 1895 – 1933 by Teo, Grace Jie Ying

“…By paying attention to the state of events on the ground – in other words the colonial realities, we find that decisions involving time legislature were mediated by logistical and political difficulties and concerns, the participating intermediaries of whom were a diverse group of human actors with varied interests. …”
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Spectrum sensing using energy detection by Ng, Yong Wei

“…Researches and experiments had been conducted over the years to find the solution to utilize the spectrum space. …”
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Solution for heat conduction in a solid with temperature dependent thermal conductivity by Png, Wei Quan

“…Comparisons will then be made among the results obtain to find out how heat conduction will vary with different thermal conductivity. …”
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Competitive spreading of multiple ideas in multiplex networks by Luo, Jingyuan

“…In this dissertation, I am trying to find out how two competitive ideas spread in multiplex networks. …”
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The effect of religiosity on climate change policies by Lim, Sue Qin, Ng, Jia Hui, Tew, Ying Sian

“…Using data from the World Values Survey (WVS) from 1981-2014, we examine how religiosity is related to the Climate Laws, Institutions and Measures Index (CLIMI) from 2005-2011. We find that religious countries tend to have less extensive and stringent climate change policies, where a 0.1 increase in religiosity is associated with a 5.30 points decrease in CLIMI score. …”
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Weighted discounting, time inconsistent stopping and their applications by Wei, W

“…Therefore, all results in this thesis find a correspondence in a single agent setting with non-standard, behavioral time preferences. …”

Incorporating elicited preferences for equality into electricity system planning modeling by Van-Hein Sackey, C, Nock, D, Cao, C, Armanios, D, Davis, A

“…Our novel contribution is proposing a framework in the form of a discrete choice experiment and a statistical estimation model to determine decision makers’ preferences for equality. In our study, we find that higher preferences for equality result in an increased deployment of solar diesel mini-grids. …”

Visual bias by Caprini, G

“…Moreover, as readers react more to images aligned with the ideology of their political affiliation group, the news’ visual bias causes polarization to increase. Finally, I find that media can effectively influence readers by pairing neutral text with partisan images. …”

Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps by Morris, JW, Prey, R, Nieborg, DB

“…We are particularly interested in how content creators find novel ways to work within, around, and even against platform politics and policies by manipulating algorithms, business models, and guidelines, or otherwise readying their content for optimal circulation on multiple platforms. …”

Legitimate power, illegitimate automation: the problem of ignoring legitimacy in automated decision systems by Stone, J, Mittelstadt, BD

“…This analysis reveals that these theories require careful consideration before being applied to legitimate ADS. Specifically, we find that consent and public reason theories can legitimate some automated decision systems, but encounter serious difficulties which limit their applicability. …”

British Muslim youth and religious fundamentalism: a quantitative investigation by Kashyap, R, Lewis, VA

“…We use new survey data to empirically examine how Muslim youth differ from older Muslims and non-Muslim British peers on religiosity, Islam-specific and broader social attitudes. We find that young Muslims attribute a greater salience to Islam for their personal identity, even though they pray and read scripture less, and support plural interpretations of Islam more than their elders. …”