Temporal variability in host availability alters the outcome of competition between two parasitoid species by Wang, H, Liu, T, Sun, S, Lewis, OT, Xi, X

“…The outcome of this interspecific competition depended on host temporal variability, with&nbsp;<em>T. drosophilae</em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>P. vindemiae</em>&nbsp;dominating in short and long host exposure treatments, respectively.</li> <li>These results can be explained by the combination of host availability and egg load of female adult parasitoids. …”

Egg development, hatching, and larval development of Marble Goby Oxyeleotris marmoratus under artificial rearing conditions by Senoo, Shigeharu, Kaneko, Masaharu, Cheah, Sin Hock, Ang, Kok Jee

“…Newly ovulated eggs from a female of 255 g in body weight were measured 0.94 and 0.62mm in the long and short axes, and weighed 1,669.6 eggs/g. …”
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Rules and Regulations Review on Micro-takaful Scheme Development in Malaysia by Sofi, Mohd Fikri, Mohamed Naim, Asmadi, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Maamor, Selamah, Ahmad, Shahrul Nizam, Shari, Wahidah, Muhamed, Nurul Aini

“…Although the features of the first micro-takaful are slightly different from the customary long-established takaful settings, the rules and regulations remain unchanged following the original guidelines of operating insurance and takaful. …”
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Rules and Regulations Review on Micro-takaful Scheme Development in Malaysia by Sofi, Mohd Fikri, Mohamed Naim, Asmadi, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Maamor, Selamah, Ahmad, Shahrul Nizam, Shari, Wahidah, Muhamed, Nurul Aini

“…Although the features of the first micro-takaful are slightly different from the customary long-established takaful settings, the rules and regulations remain unchanged following the original guidelines of operating insurance and takaful. …”
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The Effect of National Debt on Private Investment (S/O 14327) by Hassan, Sallahuddin

“…The specific objectives are to investigate the asymmetric effects of national debt on private investment; analyse the long-run effect of national debt on private investment; and evaluate the short-run effect of national debt on private investment. …”
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Human resource practices in the Singapore Civil Service. by Lee, Wai Yin., Ng, Yen Ling., Sim, Siew Lan.

“…Our project covers a wide spectrum and explores issues like the recruitment and selection of employees, the performance appraisal system, transfer and promotion procedures, compensation packages, training and development programmes, control, monitory and audit practices, retirement and layoffs procedures and lastly, one of the most talked about topics, their productivity improvement programs.…”
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Are Singaporeans saving enough to lead a comfortable life upon retirement? by Tan, Irene., Quek, Cindy., Toh, Hoon Choo.

“…To attain our objective, our report covers factors like medical expenses, housing trends and financial obligations. …”
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Analysis of alternative energy sources and their impact on shipping by Chia, Ting Ting., Wee, Jun Xiang., Munira P. A Abdulla Kunhi.

“…This paper explores how alternate sources of energy like Biofuels, LNG and CNG will affect the shipping industry by looking at current market trends, various cost analyses as well as their impact on the marine environment when used as fuel in vessels and the effects of various governmental efforts.…”
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An autonomous ultrasonic fastener holes inspection system of an aircraft lower wing skin by Lim, Chee Wei.

“…An aircraft structure is subjected to stress and fatigue during flying. Fasteners like rivets and bolts bear a large part of the stress and thus require frequent inspection for cracks around the fastener's holes. …”
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The state of the UMNO-PH union by Hamdan, Shahril

“…With the passage of time, Malaysia’s post-election coalition looks like it is being normalised by all key parties in government. …”
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Application of parabolic reflector to harness solar energy by Valliappan, Arunachalam

“…Concentrating on these factors like abundance, cost in terms of money, environment and efficiency, researches are being in progress to trap the maximum possible energy from this largest natural resource. …”
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Evie. by Chong, Ren Rong.

“…This animation focuses on conceptual themes and symbolism, seeking at the same time to bring together things of contrast, much like the disparate mediums used together in this work. …”
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Real-time control of activated sludge process by Chen, Chung-Yuan.

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Carbon footprint and energy used in mega underwater reinforced concrete structure by Phua, Yee Hwee.

“…With Singapore’s increasing population, a demand of land space for housing development raises. Several of methods like building HDB flats higher, were being looked into for better use of the land space we have. …”
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Design of perching mechanism for UAV by Lee, Wei Chong.

“…Research and development toward improving surveillance capabilities include extending mission life, by allowing the UAV to perch on locations such as tree branches, like birds.…”
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Implementation of reinforcement learning using neural networks by Tan, Keng Hui

“…Reinforcement Learning is a unique machine learning paradigm that has the ability to mimic behaviors and learn like what human do. Reinforcement learning can be used to train machine to do our daily job such as cleaning the house, driving the car and may even one day breach into the manufacturing world.…”
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Overseas listing of China's companies : causes and consequences by Wu, Yujun

“…Examines the causes and consequences of the overseas listing decisions and explains why these firms would like to list on the overseas market, through a study of 72 Chinese firms listed in the Hong Kong Exchange and 663 domestically listed Chinese firms.…”
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Historic development of regional economic integration and its impact on Singapore. by Lim, Wee Lee., Woo, Yam Yam.

“…This paper attempts to trace the historical development of regional economic integration and whether bilateral agreements like Free Trade Agreements will really help to accelerate and maintain Singapore’s growth momentum and review the pros and cons in the regional integration process, the economic impact of the FTAs to Singapore, and the challenges that Singapore is facing in her endeavor of this pursue.…”
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Individualism, collectivism and innovation. by Chan, Yin San., Lee, Yann Mei., Ng, Hui Yee.

“…Research results has also identified factors such like decision-making and problem solving to influence innovation within the firms.…”
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Essays on the dynamics of the U.S. real exchange rate by Li, Yingzhu

“…Subsequent structural form analysis shows that only relative productivity shock has a significant long-run impact on the U.S. real exchange rate. Forecast error variance decomposition also shows that while transitory shocks and relative fiscal policy shock account for more than two thirds of short-run movements in the U.S. real exchange rate, relative productivity shock dominates its long-run fluctuations. …”
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