Sport volunteers' motivation and their life aspirations by Cheng, Rui Ting

“…This study suggested educators and policy makers to consider the important findings on the present study when grooming the future leaders of this society.…”
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Sensor-enabled crane lifting by Zhang, Tianci

“…Crane lifting is an important but common task in industrial plants. In order to find a safe and cost effective path of lifting, a Master–Slave Parallel Genetic Algorithm and implement the algorithm on Graphics Processing Units using CUDA programming is developed to calculate a lifting path plan. …”
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Cell charactetization in differnet regions of the native annulus fibrous in a porcine intervetebral disc model through cell sorting and molecular analysis by Teo, Tong

“…In this study, we will use cell sorting methods and carry out molecular analysis to find out more about the characteristics of the different regions of the native annulus fibrosus in the porcine intervertebral disc model.…”
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Machine translation of software-specific documentations by Tee, Li Yin

“…Lastly, we evaluate our test sets with BLEU (bilingual evaluation understudy) and WER (word error rate) to get the translation quality and find out how this model and what is the problem and what can be improved.…”
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《精武门》与《血指环》的对比 ：1970年代武打片的叙事风格 = From “Fist of Fury” to “Ring of Fury” ： the narrative style of martial arts films in 1970s... by 尹敏儿 Wan, Man Yi

“…This article aims to compare the directors, the actors, the storyline and find out how these factors would affect the result of the films, and whether Ring of Fury was imitating Fist of Fury.…”
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Examining the effects of narcissism and self-esteem on ephemeral online self-disclosure among adolescents by Lim, Andrew John Wee Tong, Kong, Tin Jun, Lim, Alicia Jiaqi, Chan, Nicole Min

“…However, no relationship was found between narcissism and the message factors of duration and depth. The study did not find any significant relationship between self-esteem and all message and audience factors.…”
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Assembling a desktop robotic arm based hydrogel extrusion system by Khadijah Mohamed Hussain

“…In hopes of increasing the range of motion of these bioprinters in order to construct functional 3D bioprinted structures spatially without any pre-fabricated scaffolds on more complex surfaces, an evaluation was done to find out the capabilities of integrating a desktop six axis robotic arm into the system. …”
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Removing sensitive part of a text by Architha, Gopinath

“…With the vast amount of medical information in the health records, medical researchers can synthesize and find new medicine for existing diseases. They can also try to gain a more significant understanding of the underlying causes of new diseases by comparing the information across relevant medical records. …”
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Biomechanics of Muay Thai : science behind the low kick by Zeng, Ezra Yueyi

“…This project applies the principal laws and concepts from kinematics, kinetics and dynamics in order to theoretically find out how kicking angle and kicking height affects the change in displacement of the target’s overall centre of gravity. …”
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Is it who you know or what you know? Evidence from ipo allocations and mutual fund performance by Hwang, Chuan-Yang, Titman, Sheridan, Wang, Yuxi

“…We show that the better performance of elite graduates is generated from their better connections with underwriters that facilitate allocations to underpriced initial public offerings (IPOs). Indeed, we find that the funds outperform only in months when they are connected to underwriters issuing IPOs. …”
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Organization capital and mergers and acquisitions by Li, Kai, Qiu, Buhui, Shen, Rui

“…Using a sample of completed U.S. acquisition deals over the period 1984–2014, we find that acquirer organization capital as measured by capitalized selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expenses is associated with superior deal performance. …”
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Dynamical blockade in a single-mode bosonic system by Ghosh, Sanjib, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin

“…We introduce a dynamical blockade phenomenon occurring in a nonlinear bosonic mode induced by a combination of continuous and pulsed excitations. We find that the underlying mechanism for the blockade is general, enhancing antibunching in the strongly nonlinear regime and inducing it in the weakly nonlinear regime, without fine-tuning the system parameters. …”
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Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: a conceptual framework by Tandoc, Edson C., Ling, Richard, Westlund, Oscar, Duffy, Andrew, Goh, Debbie, Zheng Wei, Lim

“…Through an analysis of relevant literature and open-ended survey responses from 2501 Singaporeans, this article proposes a conceptual framework to understand how individuals authenticate the information they encounter on social media. In broad strokes, we find that individuals rely on both their own judgment of the source and the message, and when this does not adequately provide a definitive answer, they turn to external resources to authenticate news items.…”
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The political economy of FDI location : why don't political checks and balances and treaty constraints matter? by Walter, Andrew

“…Utilizing a dataset on the level of foreign activity by majority-owned US manufacturing affiliates by country and industry over 1982-98. I find no evidence that either mechanism encourages inward FDI. …”
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Tournaments of financial analysts by Yin, Huifang, Zhang, Huai

“…Using data from 1991 to 2007, we find that interim losers are more likely to increase the boldness of their forecasts in the remainder of the tournament period than interim winners. …”
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A hybrid approach for image/video content representation and identification by Chaisorn, Lekha, Fu, Zixiang

“…However, if the process do not find a match, the query video is suspected to fall into more complicated cases such as picture-in-picture and cropped video. …”
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Highly uniform, self-compliance, and forming-free ALD HfO2-based RRAM with Ge doping by Wu, L., Wang, Zhongrui, Zhu, W. G., Du, A. Y., Fang, Z., Tran, Xuan Anh, Liu, W. J., Zhang, K. L., Yu, Hongyu

“…Through comparative experiments, we find that appropriate deposition techniques and annealing conditions lead to self-compliance. …”
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Designing and implementing an evaluation of a national work support program by Ng, Irene Y. H., Ho, Kong Weng., Nesamani, Tharmalingam., Lee, Alex., Liang, Ngiam Tee.

“…Insights include ways to focus on the essentials, find alternative experimental designs, collaborate effectively, and adapt instruments across cultures.…”
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Awkwardness in Marcel Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu' by Richardson, Y

“…The thesis explores the degrees of togetherness and separation Proust depicts, and compares well-known scenes and neglected moments to their mutual illumination. We find that awkwardness is essential to the novel’s depiction of society in a state of rapid flux – the consequence of accelerated social change is escalated awkwardness – and that uncomfortable encounters with other people develop the protagonist’s relation with his own mind.…”

To bail-out or to bail-in? Answers from an agent-based model by Klimek, P, Poledna, S, Farmer, JD, Thurner, S

“…The distressed institution can either be closed via a purchase and assumption transaction, it can be bailed-out using taxpayer money, or it may be bailed-in in a debt-to-equity conversion. We find that for an economy characterized by low unemployment and high productivity the optimal crisis resolution with respect to financial stability and economic productivity is to close the distressed institution. …”