Tournaments of financial analysts by Yin, Huifang, Zhang, Huai

“…This finding survives several robustness checks and is more pronounced when the interim assessment date is closer to the end of the tournament period, when analysts are inexperienced, and when the market activity is high. …”
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Does CEO power affect audit's report lag in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies? the curtailing role of corporate governance by Khan, Faisal, Abdul-Hamid, Mohamad Ali, Saidin, Saidatunur Fauzi

“…Further, the impact of CEO power on ARL remains unchanged when there is a gender-diverse board. However, gender diversity curtails the positive impact of CEO power (CEO-tenure and CEO duality) on ARL only when female representation is two or more on the corporate board. …”

Correlates of self-concept of primary four and primary six Malay pupils in Singapore by Gan, Guat Ching

“…The two levels were selected for study as they constituted critical points in the pupils' school life, being either the year when streaming occurs or when pupils take a national examination (Modified Primary School Leaving Examination) at the end of their primary school education.…”
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Media-based security policy for information on a multimedia network by Chan, Wai Keong.

“…It was noted that information is most vulnerable when being transmitted on the Internet.…”
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Implementing Walrasian equilibrium: the languages of product-mix auctions by Baldwin, E, Klemperer, P, Lock, E

“…They implement competitive-equilibrium allocations when these exist, based on the bids that participants make in a simple geometric language. …”

On self-dual cyclic codes and generalized self-dual cyclic codes over finite fields by Yan, Jia

“…We therefore classify the existence of self-dual cyclic codes, for given n and q, into two cases: when only the trivial one exists and when two or more such codes exist. …”
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Intelligent database design for microgrids in low voltage distribution systems-I GUI and database design by Ng, Pei Fen

“…This capability is introduced to reduce the consumption of non-critical loads when there is a disruption of energy supplied by the main grid. …”
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Investigation on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with index modulation by Fan, Rui

“…In addition, OFDM-IM's spectral efficiency superiority over classical OFDM is evident only when Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) is adopted. …”
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A novel torchlight data association strategy for surface registration by Ying, Ying, Wang, Han

“…Secondly, the performance of ICP is poor when the overlapped area between two sets is not sufficiently large. …”
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Transition metal oxide-based resistive switching memory for high density non-volatile memory by Ng, Hui Ting.

“…There is always a consistent increasing demand in the market for a flash memory that is more scalable in term of size and has a higher performance in term of speed, storage capacity, Non-Volatile Memory (NVM), low power consumption and durable when comes to data storing. However, short channel effects, cross-talks between cells, lithography and other challenges arise when comes to fabricating the scaled down traditional non-volatile FLASH memory. …”
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Learning to forget in an online fuzzy neural network using dynamic forgetting window by Tan, Benjamin Kok Loong.

“…When handling such large market, drifts and shifts in inevitable and the system require the ability to have self-reorganizing abilities. …”
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Invisible Women : Data Bias in a World Design for Men / by Perez, Caroline Criado, author 656102, Abrams (Online Service) 656103

“…Product designers use a 'one-size-fits-all' approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. …”
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Round-Trip Time Ranging to Wi-Fi Access Points Beats GNSS Localization by Horn, Berthold K. P.

“…Here, it is shown to be useful outdoors as well—and more accurate than smartphone code-based GNSS when used near buildings with Wi-Fi access points (APs). …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Koh, Jee Youn

“…The spillover effects are more pronounced when acquirers perform well or undertake rescue M&As and when acquirers’ controlling shareholders have greater control-ownership divergence or larger ownership in targets. …”
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Design of slender reinforced concrete column using Indian design code and Chinese design code (dual project) by Tan, Xesman Zhong Hong

“…The 4 parametric studies in this research paper have shown that the column load carrying capacity increases when higher strength concrete and/or higher percentage of steel reinforcement is used. …”
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Influence of family management in corporate boards on firm value by Cheng, Ming Qi, Wu, Huiping, Ong, Jovin Shi Qi

“…This paper aims to investigate whether family members in the board will negatively influence firm value when there is evidence of wealth expropriation from minority shareholders. …”
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Experimental investigation into load settlement characteristics of piled rafts in sand by Leong, Hazel Xueling.

“…When the loads of buildings were not excessively large, shallow foundations such as rafts were preferred. …”
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Knowing China in crisis : an analysis of news sources on SARS in China. by Ngoh, Seng Keong.

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Development of demand response management system for smart grids by Li, Deric Zhengye

“…This project aims to create a Demand Response Management System (DRMS) for smart grid operators to manage load control and perform temporary load reduction at consumer side during peak period when the cost of generation from the grid is high. …”
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Obstacle detection by fusing image and depth information by Liu, Yufeng

“…Based on the results, it could be said that the object detector provides better performance when both RGB-D information are applied.…”
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