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. …”

Secularization versus religious revival in Eastern Europe: Church institutional resilience, state repression and divergent paths by Northmore-Ball, K, Evans, G

“…We argue that the current literature has thus taken a mistakenly general approach, and that the post-Communist region consists of at least two distinct groups of societies with different trends in religiosity.…”

Executive Summary by Burns, Daniel R.

“…Apply multi-physics approaches to query the subsurface. Our work during the past year, which is summarized in this report, reflects these themes and points towards our vision for the future. …”
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Carbonated beverage consumption of young adults in Singapore by Cai, Tingting, Christy Tania Angwidjaja, Ho, Wen Ya

“…Although there has been much controversy about how unhealthy carbonated drinks are and after all the 'healthy living' campaigns by the government in different countries, carbonated drinks still rank as the No. 1 selling soft drink in the market. There has been past research attempts on consumption of beverages, however none has focused on carbonated drinks alone. …”
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Schizophrenia in Singapore : the invisible illness. by How, Kay Lii., Lin, Xinyi., Tan, Melody Huizhen., Teo, Xuanwei.

“…After spending months interviewing several schizophrenia patients, each with their own unique stories and problems, the group have learnt that they can show readers a little about these people’s background, their past and maybe their present — but not their lives.…”
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Implementation of peer coaching in a secondary school to enhance teacher development by Yeoh, Joan Pek Neo.

“…To Fullan and Hargreaves, (1992: 5) developing the teacher means developing the whole person -his or her life experiences, past reflections, beliefs and culture, which affect his or her interest in and response to change and motivation to seek improvement.…”
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Visualization of natural phenomenon : generation of photo-realistic images of fire, flames and combustion effects by Loke, Teng See.

“…In the past decade, there have been some very exciting advancements in the computer graphics community. …”
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Determination of an optimal level of spending on television advertising by the credit card industry in Singapore by Lo, Hedrick Wing Keung, Tang, Yew Quan, Ng, Dennis Wee Han

“…Advertising is a tool that companies use to direct persuasive communications relating to its products, services, or the organization itself to target consumers with an aim to build brand preference. In the past, advertising has been viewed as a cost. Like other type of expenses, management has subjected this function to the rigours of cost containment exercises. …”
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Individuation in the novels of Toni Morrison : a Jungian perspective by Braema Mathiaparanam.

“…Recovery begins at an individual level and Morrison asserts that African-Americans need to address the past and relate to this history and their African-American heritage. …”
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Credit card fraud detection system using computational intelligence by Sriganesh Maniganahalli Srihari.

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