Overcoming cultural barriers to capture a market by Dominic Michael Stoeckler, Kishan Golyan, Miao, Xin, Samir Mowla

“…China has gone through an amazing growth spurt over the past 30 years, and with a population of 1.3 billion people, it represents a vast potential market for businesses the world over. …”
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Cold-formed light gauge steel for rapid deployable shelters by Wu, Hongjun.

“…In our design, self-tapping screws are also used as it is cheap, fast and easy to fix and less cost in incurred as no pre-drilled holes are needed. …”
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Effectiveness of a preventative multi-component training program for prospective memory performance among healthy older adults by Farzin, Azin

“…The training effects were also persistent after three months from the last intervention session.…”
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Filipino nursesʼ use of smartphones in clinical settings by Bautista, John Robert Razote

“…Results also showed that specific items reflecting the use of smartphones for communication purposes differed according to gender, age, hospital ownership, nursing area, number of patients handled in last shift, and presence of a hospital-provided mobile phone. …”
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Network steganography – an investigation of covert channels in network protocols by Tan, Soon Siang.

“…In particular, the program makes use of Jpcap, a Java library for capturing and sending network packets to create the customized TCP/IP packets used to transmit hidden information. The last part of the report explores the applications, detection and ethical concerns of Steganography. …”
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Mexico: positioning for a transformational upstream opening in 2015 by Sandrea, I, Taylor, R

“…Mexico’s proven base of resources is quite unique and within the top 10 on a world scale relative to other international emerging areas that have received high investment interest over the last five years, such as Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Morocco. …”

Responding to global competition : SIA as a case study by Ang, Juliana Hiok Lian

“…SIA was chosen for this study, as it is the only international carrier for Singapore, without domestic routes and has performed consistently well over the last 28 years.…”
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New algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of sign detection and magnitude comparison in residue number systems by Sachin Kumar

“…First and foremost, a new fast and area-efficient adder-based sign detector for RNS {2n−1, 2n, 2n+1} has been proposed. …”
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Machine Learning For Dummies / by Mueller, John Paul, author 321669, Massaron, Luca, author 617095, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Whether you want to learn for college or to enhance your business or career performance, this friendly beginner's guide is your best introduction to machine learning, allowing you to become quickly confident using this amazing and fast-developing technology that's impacting lives for the better all over the world…”
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Motor insurance : an analysis with comparison by Cheong, Siew Hong, Sim, Poh Joo, Tan, Chin Kwang

“…The rapid expansion of car ownership in Singapore in the last two decades, despite efforts by the government to curb car usage has led to a significant increase in the number of people killed or injured in automobile accidents.…”
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Samuel Johnson: Pembroke's angry young man by Mugglestone, L

“…This article re-examines the history of Samuel Johnson's links to Pembroke College in Oxford from his undergraduate years to his last visit shortly before his death.…”

A Short History of South East Asia / by Church, Peter, editor 435931

“…Founded upon a deeply perceptive observation of the late founding Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, this book brings shape to the idea that 'to understand the present and to anticipate the future, one must know enough of the past, enough to have a sense of the history of a people.' …”

Estimating consumptive water use of rice in lowland paddy fields of Tanjung Karang, Malaysia by Abdullahi, Abubakar Sadiq

“…For the main season (August to February 2011) the mean evapotranspiration obtained were 5.1 mm/day, 6.0 mm/day and 5.1 mm/day for the initial, mid and last stages of the growing season, respectively. …”
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Representation learning using deep random vector functional link networks for clustering by Hu, Minghui, Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam

“…Random Vector Functional Link (RVFL) Networks have received a lot of attention due to the fast training speed as the non-iterative solution characteristic. …”
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Online fortune-telling system using angle difference by Tan, Zhong Ming.

“…Keywords: palm print, biometric identification, indexing algorithms, time-efficiency, fast Fourier transform, DFT(discrete Fourier transform), FFTW[13], computational cost.…”
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Replacing current battery with wireless charging, disruptive technology by Teo, Ian Jia Hao

“…However, wireless charging is not always fast charging in electronic devices. Hence, for this final year project, there will be discussion on fast charging for wireless charging and various wireless charging techniques. …”
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Generalized RBF feature maps for efficient detection by Vempati, S, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A, Jawahar, CV

“…We evaluate this technique on the VOC 2007 detection challenge, showing when it can improve on fast additive kernels, and the trade-offs in complexity and accuracy.…”

Linear auto-calibration for ground plane motion by Knight, J, Zisserman, A, Reid, I

“…We demonstrate a number of useful applications, and show the algorithm to be simple, fast, and accurate.…”

Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis detection in beef cattle in Taman Pertanian Universiti, UPM by Ismail, Nur Farah Athirah

“…However, MAP is not the only acid fast organism; thus the determination of species of the organism should supported by faecal culture. …”
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Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (map) infection in dairy catlle in Taman Pertanian Universiti by Abu Bakar Hamzah, Nurul Asikin

“…Results from Ziehl-Neelsen acid fast stain technique revealed, 23 (17.8%) out of 129 samples were positive. …”
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