Leveling the playing field: the selection and motivation effects of tournament prize spread information by Cardinaels, Eddy, Chen, Clara Xiaoling, Yin, Huaxiang

“…Thus, the availability of prize spread information produces a separation of employees based on ability. We also find that employees exert more effort when they can select into a tournament than when they are randomly assigned to one (which proxies for an environment where prize spread information is absent). …”
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Organizational complexity and audit report lag in GCC economies: the moderating role of audit quality by Khan, Faisal, Abdul-Hamid, Mohamad Ali, Fauzi Saidin, Saidatunur, Hussain, Shatha

“…Second, for robustness purposes, the study applies the propensity score matching technique. Findings This research study finds that the firms’ complexity increases ARL. …”
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Exploring dependence structures among European electricity markets: static and dynamic copula-GARCH and dynamic state-space approaches by Ly, Sel, Sriboonchitta, Songsak, Tang, Jiechen, Wong, Wing-Keung

“…Our findings provide useful information regarding the dependence, integration, risk management, and asset pricing for the European electricity markets.…”
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The teachers' perception of dialogue and its impact on the quality of relationship in a Singapore primary school by Seet, Caroline.

“…This is an action research to find out teachers’ perception of dialogue and how it impacts on the quality of relationship in a Singapore primary school. …”
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Knowledge portal requirements for nurses. by Liu, Fook Thim.

“…This project aims to find out what nurses want to know and need to know. …”
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Bank and finance company credit officers' information needs and sources by Pung, Jones Teck Huat.

“…This dissertation intends to find out more about Credit Officers from the perspectives of their information needs and the sources they use. …”
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A single year = 心的探索 by Ng, Yan Ying

“…This book is an individual project which describes the author’s personal experience and reflections of growing into an adult, the need to learn to be independent and live with oneself as siblings and friends started to find their lives partners or busy with their works.…”
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Earnings management : evidence from intial public offerings of equity carve-outs. by Chua, Elizabeth Cheng Lian., Koh, Cheryl Chea Lin., Lee, Lian Fen.

“…Using the Jones (1991) model, we find support for our hypothesis.…”
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Empirical analysis on the paradoxes of loyalty programs in the Singapore hotel industry. by Guo, Meixi., Lim, Gladys Gu Yan., Tan, Siew Teng.

“…The research aims to find out the effectiveness of generating loyalty amongst customers through the implementation of Loyalty Programs, particularly across different hotel grades in Singapore by empirically analyzing ten possible paradoxes. …”
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How to promote organic food better in Singapore. by Chen, Eunice Yijun., Hazlinda Mohd Nuron., Seah, Ailing.

“…This research seeks to find out about the various promotional methods that can be used to promote organic food better in Singapore. …”
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Auditor industry specialization and earnings quality around the world. by Low, Kai Ling., Poh, Ying Ying., Tan, Valerie Mei Yin.

“…Our research also highlights the importance of auditor industry specialization when the legal environment differs among countries and we seek to find possible reasons why auditor industry specialization is important when such differences are present.…”
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Brownian dynamics simulation of soft matter with hydrodynamics: methods for constrained systems and shear processing of 2D materials by Funkenbusch, William Tian

“…In particular, we compared PrCG and GMRES for rigid bodies, freely jointed chains, and immobile systems. We find that both methods exhibit the same linear computational complexity. …”
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Simultaneous Tactile Estimation and Control of Extrinsic Contact by Kim, Sangwoon, Jha, Devesh K., Romeres, Diego, Patre, Parag, Rodriguez, Alberto

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Hole transfer dynamics from dye molecules to p-type NiO nanoparticles : effects of processing conditions by Tan, Serena L. J., Wu, Xiangyang, Xing, Guichuan, Webster, Richard David, Sun, Tze Chien, Yeow, Edwin Kok Lee

“…Hole transfer dynamics of Atto647N sensitized p-type NiO nanoparticle (NP) thin films is investigated using both ensemble-averaged and single-molecule spectroscopy techniques. …”
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Novel on-demand bioadhesion to soft tissue in wet environments by Steele, Terry W. J., Mogal, Vishal, Papper, Vladislav, Chaurasia, Alok, Feng, Gao, Marks, Robert

“…The diazirine-modified PLGA thin films could be added on top of previously developed technologies for minimally invasive surgeries. …”
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Three dimension (3D) hierarchical electrode (Au/rGO/CoPt3) for electrooxidation of ethanol in fuel cells by Huang, Kang, Peng, Dongdong, Zhang, Bowei, Cao, Xun, Hao, Shiji, Yang, Guang, Dong, Yibing, Wu, Junsheng, Huang, Yizhong

“…The synergy effect of reduced GO and CoPt3 nanoparticle along with highly active gold thin layer forming 3D structure is responsible for the significant improvement of the catalysis.…”
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Development of advanced nanotechnology process for sensing materials by Tan, Ooi Kiang.

“…The ICP-CVD system has been described in terms of the design consideration involved and the implementation work that integrates the various functional modules into a fully working thin film deposition system. Flexibility has been the underlying design concept to make different configurations possible with the ICP-CVD system, hence enhancing its versatility in nanotechnology venture. …”
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Femtosecond laser-induced nonlinear absorption in thick polystyrene by Wang, Bing, Wang, Xincai, Zheng, Hongyu, Lam, Yee Cheong

“…By treating the thick polystyrene sample as a stack of thin layers, the effective nonlinear absorption coefficient was determined to be 0.000695 m/W with a standard deviation of 0.000026.…”
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Design of differentially-driven chip antenna by Tan, Heng Chuan.

“…When the driving points are located far from one another ξ/λ_0 >0.1 for an electrically thin substrate, resonance occurs. When the driving points are located near to each other ξ/λ_0 <0.1, there will be no resonance.…”
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Cloud-assisted rendering support for mobile online gaming by Teo, Lin Yan

“…The client application uses noVNC, a Virtual Networking Computing client application which is written in HTML5 and JavaScript, as the thin client to provide input to the server, while the server provide a live streaming of the gameplay back to the client browser. …”
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