Masdar City: ‘City of Possibilities’ by Griffiths, S

“…Partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008 and partly due to experience gained from continued assessments of the original concept, Masdar has scaled back the initial ambitions for the city’s carbon and waste targets, as well as the development approach and time-line for the entire city. This, however, may ultimately prove to be the best outcome for Masdar City if it is truly to become a model for sustainable cities of the future.…”

Recognising rotationally symmetric surfaces from their outlines by Forsyth, DA, Mundy, JL, Zisserman, A, Rothwell, CA

“…The results additionally yield techniques for identifying the line in the image plane corresponding to the axis of a rotationally symmetric surface, and for telling whether a surface is rotationally symmetric or not from its outline alone.…”

Swift: poetical repurposer by Cox, O

“…He did so ironically, however, by lifting a line from John Denham's On Mr Abraham Cowley and putting it into the mouth of a hypothetical, ignorant critic elegizing “Swift”: Denham's “what he wrote was all his own” becomes Swift's “what he writ was all his own” (1–2). …”

Single view metrology by Criminisi, A, Reid, I, Zisserman, A

“…This minimal information is typically the vanishing line of a reference plane and a vanishing point for a direction not parallel to the plane. …”

Dividend policy revisited : a Singapore perspective. by Chin, Shi Yin., Yeo, Chong Kiat., Ng, Yan Leng.

“…This paper aims to find the relationship between dividends and the market price of a company's share in the Singapore context. …”
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The development of automatic flexible endoscopes for gastrointestinal inspection or surgery by Phee, Louis Soo Jay.

“…Their common objective being to find a less traumatic and technically less demanding way to perform colonoscopy.…”
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Customers' perceptions on internet banking services in Singapore. by Chung, Xin Ni., Lee, Mei Li., Ng, Swee Moi.

“…Based on our results, we presented key findings and recommendations for enhancing the adoption of Internet banking.…”
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Explaining the decision-making process. by Tan, Veronica., Lee, Mabel Liying.

“…Our paper seeks to better understand human‘s decision-making behavior through conducting classroom experiments in Nanyang Technological University. We find that the behavior of mental accounting and prospect theory are not evident in our experiment. …”
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A study of extended minimal resource allocation network (EMRAN) alogrithm for multi-category classification problems by P. Karuppasami

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Effect of complexity of Chinese characters and their pinyin on recognition time by Zhao, Chunmei.

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Investigation of implementation of solar thermal energy on electric power system of Singapore by Ling, Gerald Chien-Ie.

“…There is a great reliance on imported fuel to supply our energy needs. We will need to find other ways to supplement our needs. The unlimited amount of sunshine in Singapore may be able to cover some of these needs. …”
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To enter or not : the effects of network intensity on real options and market entry. by Kwek, Chiaw Hong., Goh, Si Hui., Loh, Jun Yu.

“…This is then followed by a discussion of the limitations of our research and the implications of our findings  on  managers’  decision-making regarding market entry strategies.…”
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Stock trading and prediction using back-propagation neural network by Wang, Xiaogang

“…Then, variable input information including basic information, technical indicators and index indicators are investigated to find the most robust input combinations. The impact of neural network architecture is also covered. …”
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The role of investor relations firms in financial restatements by Li, Lingwei

“…This study examines the role of investor relations (IR) firms in the setting of financial restatements. I find that firms hiring an outside IR firm experience higher restatement announcement returns and they do not realize lower post-announcement stock returns than propensity-score matched control firms. …”
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Financial constraints and propagation of shocks in production networks by Demir, B, Javorcik, B, Michalski, TK, Ors, E

“…Using data on almost all Turkish supplier-customer links, we exploit the heterogeneous impact of an unexpected import-tax increase for identification. We find that this relatively minor shock had a nontrivial economic impact on exposed firms and propagated downstream through affected suppliers. …”

Monetary policy and inequality by Andersen, AL, Johannesen, N, Jørgensen, M, Peydró, J

“…We use administrative household-level data covering the entire population in Denmark over the period 1987 to 2014 and exploit a long-standing currency peg as a source of exogenous variation in monetary policy. We find that gains from softer monetary policy in terms of income, wealth, and consumption are monotonically increasing in ex ante income. …”

Exon skipping is correlated with exon circularization by Kelly, S, Greenman, C, Cook, PR, Papantonis, A

“…Here, we stimulated primary human endothelial cells with tumor necrosis factor α or tumor growth factor β, purified RNA, generated > 2.4 billion RNA-seq reads, and used a custom pipeline to characterize circular RNAs derived from coding exons. We find that circularization of exons is widespread and correlates with exon skipping, a feature that adds considerably to the regulatory complexity of the human transcriptome.…”

Policy complexity suppresses dopamine responses by Gershman, SJ, Lak, A

“…In support of this hypothesis, we find that policy complexity suppresses midbrain dopamine responses to reward outcomes. …”

Nietzsche and the significance of genealogy by Prescott-Couch, A

“…On this view, Nietzsche provides a ‘deconstructive genealogy’ that indicates whether and where we should expect to find unity in our current moral practices. Moreover, Nietzsche’s history contributes to a critique of contemporary morality because it reveals that morality is unlikely to have the kind of unity required by many of its defenders. …”

Should investors care where private equity managers went to school? by Fuchs, F, Füss, R, Jenkinson, T, Morkoetter, S

“…In particular, we explore three potential channels of how their educational background may influence fund performance: (i) institutional quality, (ii) individual performance, and (iii) academic variety. We find that a combination of top-tier education and work experience identifies individual performance in the management team. …”