Low power CMOS parallel prefix adders by Yang, Shaochen

“…As the fastest adder, parallel prefix adder is of most interest for many circuit designers. For the past few decades, supply voltage and the size of transistors have been reduced tremendously. …”
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Regionalisation : an economic analysis of outward foreign direct investment from Singapore by Teo, Thiam Hoe, Goh, Mien Zo, See, Bee Lin

“…The objectives of this study are to give an idea of the economic development of Singapore over the past thirty years; the key factors that motivated Singapore firms to undertake foreign direct investment (FDI); and their responses towards FDI. …”
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Enhancement of speech signal in adverse environments by exploiting harmonicity by Duraisamy Santhiya

“…Enhancement of speech signal has been an important research field over the past years because of its wide range of applications in the field of medicine, security, aerospace and communication. …”
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Development of database management system for underground cavern construction by Tan, Shao

“…This report analyses the rock parameters collected from various research papers on past cavern project history, compares afew database management systems (DBMS) and state the instructions to build query using DBMS with the data collected.…”
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Competition of opinions in multiple correlated social systems by Guo, Qiheng

“…Over the past few decades, Internet has become worldwide known and easily accessible by anyone. …”
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New moon by Chen, Danning

“…While on the magical maze of the planet, your goal is to get past obstacles and navigate back home to Earth. Jump through portals and work your way through this unique geometric landscape by utilizing your head and body movements. …”
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Beijing’s leadership transition : testing times for China by Ho, Benjamin Tze Ern, Oh, Ei Sun, Liu, Liu

“…The political scandal over the Bo Xilai affair has led to concerns over China’s internal stability. Over the past two decades, the centrality of the Party’s dominance has been maintained by the Chinese Communist Party’s skilful maneuvering around disturbing domestic issues and careful projection of an image of stability abroad. …”
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Court cuts risk shredding muscle, not just fat: some cases are so rushed that defendants can’t follow what is going on by Yates, Shaun S.

“…Government-sponsored reports over the past 30 years have continuously called for greater efficiency to deal with case backlogs and the view that the cost of running the courts is too high. …”
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Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality by Alexander, James

“…The text discusses how youth violence and attempts to tackle it have changed over the past decade, through an 11 year ethnographic study of a South London housing estate. …”
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Brazil: pre-salt outlook by Chauhan, V

“…This ranks alongside Kashagan as one of the largest and most significant oil discoveries of the past few decades. However, as has often been the case in recent history of the oil markets, a number of project delays and cost overruns have since taken the shine off the initial optimism.…”

Percy Manning’s archaeological survey of Oxfordshire by Roberts, A

“…Thurlow Leeds, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.’.1 The article consisted of a concise topographically organized index of archaeological finds from the county together with a short introduction that stated (p. 227) that the work ‘is almost entirely based on the material in the Manning Collections and stands therefore as a monument to one whose knowledge of Oxfordshire’s past has had few rivals’. The article was published in Archaeologia, the original journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, which was appropriate not just as both Leeds and Manning were Fellows of the Society but also because Leeds stated that the Society had provided the model for Manning’s work.…”

Recent studies on common ownership, firm behavior, and market outcomes by Schmalz, MC

“…The literature on competitive effects of common ownership has grown at a fast rate in the past two years. Anticompetitive effects have been confirmed with alternative reduced-form and structural estimation methods, in different industries, geographies, and jurisdictions. …”

Entangled entitlements and Shuar tsantsa (shrunken heads) by Van Broekhoven, LNK

“…Newly installed interpretation replaced the original case display, to allow visitors to consider the problematic past academic practices of physical anthropology, its relationship to race science and how those are linked to racist ideas about superiority and inferiority that shape our present today. …”

Globalization and the shifting centers of gravity of world's human dynamics: Implications for sustainability by Balsa-Barreiro, Jose, Li, Yingcheng, Morales, Alfredo, Pentland, Alex

“…The spatial locations of the respective centers of gravity (one per year) draw some traces that explain, at least partially, relevant changes on different world's human dynamics at a global level. …”
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Globalization and the shifting centers of gravity of world's human dynamics: Implications for sustainability by Balsa-Barreiro, José, Li, Yingcheng, Morales, Alfredo, Pentland, Alex

“…The spatial locations of the respective centers of gravity (one per year) draw some traces that explain, at least partially, relevant changes on different world's human dynamics at a global level. …”
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Minimum variance benchmark for performance assessment of decentralized controllers by Sendjaja, Antonius Yudi, Kariwala, Vinay

“…In this paper, we present a method for computing a lower bound on the least output variance achievable using decentralized controllers, where the nonconvexity of the optimization problem is handled using sums of squares programming. …”
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New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) : Day-of-the-week effect and bid-ask spreads by Guo, Lisa Xiuhui, Ernest Julian Sutanto, Quek, Benny Shiwei

“…We find that the technology sector is associated with higher transaction cost. Last but not least, our results in the last section present the absence of DOW effect in all three types of classifications by trading volume.…”
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Assessing racism in Singapore : replacing Singapore's customary focus on intentionality with a focus on impacts by Lee, Lavelle Wen Ning

“…As such, instances of covert racism (racism that does not initially appear to be racist) often escape detection—or at the very least, face much smaller consequences. Even as Singapore continues to promote racial harmony and regard multiculturalism as a major characteristic of its national identity, the reality is that racism continues to thrive in Singapore, mainly because of its inability to acknowledge more subtle instances of racism. …”
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The language preservation problem is undecidable for parametric event-recording automata by André, Étienne, Lin, Shang-Wei

“…The (untimed) language preservation problem ("given a parameter valuation, can we find at least one other valuation with the same untimed language?") …”
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Biofuel : impact on global economy. by Ho, Sarah Shu Ching., Seah, Patricia Kai Ling.

“…The key determinants of biofuel production used in our analysis are Gross National Income (GNI), agricultural land, share of renewable energy (SRE) out of total primary energy supply, CO2 emissions, and poverty rate. By using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression to examine these factors, we have found that all but SRE contribute significantly to production of biofuel.…”
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