Informality, the Fourth Standard of Practice by Rowe, Mary

“…This happened relatively slowly, over at least fifteen years, after the first three pillars were widely adopted. …”
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New Resiliency in Truly Combinatorial Auctions (and Implementation in Surviving Strategies) by Chen, Jing, Micali, Silvio

“…To advance resilient mechanism design,We put forward a new meaningful benchmark for the COMBINED social welfare-revenue performance of any mechanism in truly combinatorial auctions.We put forward a NEW notion of implementation, much more general than the ones used so far, which we believe to be of independent interest.We put forward a new RESILIENT mechanism that, by leveraging the knowledge that the players have about each other, guarantees at least one half of our benchmark under a very general collusion model.…”
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Power system transient stability enhancement by Keh, Soon Heng

“…To understand how it works we will need to first understand how a power system works with the help of a simplified power model known as the Single Machine to Infinite Bus and make used of the simulation software “MATLAB” to build and run the stimulation models. Last but not least, we will review and conclude our results from stimulation models and analyses by comparing results and suggest what could be done for future recommendations.…”
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The meaning of the auxiliary morpheme 'dug in the aspect systems of some Central Tibetan dialects by Volkart, Marianne

“…In the perfective aspect, on the other hand, 'dug appears in some dialects with a "minus evidential" (-EVID) meaning. In at least one case, namely Lhomi, these opposite meanings are even to be found within the same dialect.…”
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Implementation of AFS approach for web data analysis by Liu, Yuyang.

“…All the 25 MatLab AFS codes are documented using flowchart, and 9 out of them have been implemented using Java codes. Last but not least, future works are suggested.…”
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A Singapore perspective : impact of disclosure and board independence on firm performance. by Chua, Zi Qin., Low, Jason Wei Jie., Yee, Derrick Hock Huat.

“…Consistent with the Code’s recommendation of at least 33% independent directors, we find that firms with board independence in the range of 33% to 50% have the best operating performance.…”
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Primary type of trust required in the chinese workplace : a qualitative approach. by Chua, Li Ling.

“…This study used 10 Taiwanese participants each with at least 4.5 years of sales-related working experience. …”
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Social resilience through pluralism as Singapore's centre of gravity against the impact of terrorism. by Lee, Wee Leong.

“…It is posited here that given the Singapore government’s emphasis on building the social resilience of its people, especially in promoting pluralism, this center of gravity (COG) would even have prevented, or at the very least, withstood another violent reaction between the races as intended by the JI, even if the plot had succeeded, as alluded to in the article at the beginning of this paper.…”
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Age and productivity : a sector perspective by Gan, Geraldine Xinya, Shia, Lisong, Yang, Fan

“…We also find that high income countries and ageing countries tend to have a later peak in productivity compared to low and low middle income and non-ageing countries respectively. The least productive sector is also likely to have more influence on the overall productivity profile. …”
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Financing of residential properties by Ang, Agnes Ming Li, Poh, Geok Tin, Lim, Jye Lih

“…Next, it will also outline the loan application process, followed by a discussion on the general approach as to how bank officers evaluate their customer's credit standing. Last but not least, the legal aspects of housing loan, as well as the future prospects of housing finance in the financial service industry will also be discussed in this report.…”
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Analysis of total factor productivity growth in marine and offshore industry by Chia, Cheryl Xin Yu, Lin, Joyce Shi Ying, Neo, Kai Min

“…The overall trend of estimated TFPG has been found to be declining gradually and there is a positive and significant relationship between output growth and TFPG in M&O industry from 1981 to 2013. Next, the Ordinary Least Square model was applied to analyse the variables that have an effect on the TFPG in M&O industry. …”
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Engineering education with virtual reality (Drill press machinary) by Tan, Yong Liang

“…But due to the space constraints and tide lesson schedules, not all students can get to interact with all the machineries at least before they start working in their relevant fields. …”
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Large sieve inequality with characters to square moduli by Zhao, Liangyi.

“…One expects that the result should be weaker than the classical inequality, but, conjecturally at least, not by much. The method is generalizable to higher power moduli.…”
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An on-nanoparticle rolling-circle amplification platform for ultrasensitive protein detection in biological fluids by Yan, Juan, Song, Shiping, Li, Bing, Zhang, Qingzhi, Huang, Qing, Zhang, Hua, Fan, Chunhai

“…An on-nanoparticle rolling-circle amplification (nanoRCA) strategy allows the visual detection of 30 molecules of carcinoembryonic antigen with at least 1010-fold selectivity over a range of noncognate proteins. …”
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On semidefinite programming relaxations of maximum k -section by Klerk, Etienne de., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V., Sotirov, Renata., Dobre, Cristian.

“…For k=2 (i.e. for maximum bisection), the new bound is at least as strong as a well-known bound by Poljak and Rendl (SIAM J Optim 5(3):467–487, 1995). …”
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Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan by Laporte, J

“…Focusing on the development of Azerbaijan’s events industry in the 2000s and 2010s, the article uses available evidence and process tracing techniques to develop the hypothesis that Azerbaijan’s elites sought out hosting rights, at least in part, to diversify their sources of private rents. …”

Why do rural migrant mothers in urban China digitally monitor their children? by Murphy, R, Wu, G

“…The discussion draws on our 22 face-to-face interviews with the rural migrant mothers of at least one child ages 7–14 years. Our analysis highlights the intersectionally constituted time pressures arising from these women’s need to balance their responsibilities in paid work and childcare. …”

Quasi-Biennial Oscillation by Wang, Y, Rao, J, Ju, Z, Osprey, SM

“…The QBO can affect the climate in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres through at least three dynamic pathways, including the stratospheric polar vortex pathway, the subtropical downward-arching zonal wind pathway, and the tropical convection pathway. …”

Life satisfaction and work-life balance: the complexities of gender patterning by Brooks, R, Fu, J, Maire, M

“…Conventionally, issues connected to work–life balance have been thought to concern women more than men – not least through the promotion of a strongly gendered discourse about the imperative to become a ‘balanced woman’. …”

Receiver design for the REACH global 21-cm signal experiment by Roque, ILV, Razavi-Ghods, N, Carey, SH, Ely, JA, Handley, W, Magro, A, Chiello, R, Huang, T, Alexander, P, Anstey, D, Bernardi, G, Bevins, HTJ, Cavillot, J, Croukamp, W, Cumner, J, de Lera Acedo, E, de Villiers, DIL, Fialkov, A, Gessey-Jones, T, Gueuning, Q, Josaitis, AT, Kulkarni, G, Leeney, SAK, Maiolino, R, Zarb-Adami, K

“…Following this, we share laboratory results based on the calculation of noise wave parameters utilising an over-constrained least squares approach. For five hours of integration on a custom-made source with comparable impedance to that of the antenna used in the field, we demonstrate a calibration RMSE of 80 mK. …”