Price reform in Kuwait’s electricity and water: assessing the benefits by Fattouh, B, Mahadeva, L

“…Kuwait’s electricity and water sector has been in disarray for several years, struggling with several decades of fast-rising demand resulting from industrialization, rapid population growth, rising living standards amongst its citizens, as well as the artificially low consumer prices set by the government. …”

Flow and deformation due to periodic loading in a soft porous material by Fiori, M, Pramanik, S, Macminn, CW

“…We identify two distinct mechanical regimes, distinguished by whether the loading period is slow or fast relative to the characteristic poroelastic timescale. …”

Gigantic floating leaves occupy a large surface area at an economical material cost by Box, F, Erlich, A, Guan, JH, Thorogood, C

“…Leaf gigantism in waterlilies may have been driven by selection pressures favoring a large surface area at an economical material cost, for outcompeting other plants in fast-drying ephemeral pools.</p>…”

An Improved Interaction Model for Non-Visual Overviews of Complex Data Table Using Touch Screen Display with Audio Feedback (S/O 13066) by Zainal Abidin, Ahmad Hisham, Abdul Mutalib, Ariffin, Zaibon, Syamsul Bahrin

“…This is important for the blind user to read a complex data table and get the required data as fast as possible. The study so far revealed that using touch screen with audio feedback, the blind people achieved more accurate orientation. …”
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The Phight for Phage: Understanding Bacteriophage Therapy in Aquaculture and Human Health by Cornman, Eva

“…Scientists have known about phage for over a century, but renewed interest over the past few decades has spurred a wide variety of research into the biology and applications of these viruses. …”
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Text recognition from images mobile application by Phua, Melvin

“…It became especially popular in the past decade and has been widely used in applications such as Google Translate. …”
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Driver fatigue detection from facial features by Tee, Hui Qian

“…The increase in demand for private cars has resulted in the rising number of cars on the road over the past 10 years. Reasonably, the increase number of cars on the road means higher probability of road accident. …”
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Particle accelerators technologies by Chew, Tau Khoon

“…Including a study of the optimization of accelerators both past and present. Finally, the prospect of miniaturizing particle accelerators will be explored.…”
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Development of a word segmentation algorithm for Myanmar language by U Tun Thura Thet

“…The Unicode standard for Myanmar character set had not been very stable in the past and the recent version 5.1 is now included with some significant changes in order to address the major issues faced in the previous versions. …”
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The roots of Islamic radicalism in Indonesia : study of Kartosuwirjo and Iman Samudra cases. by Suhud Alynudin.

“…The ideological roots of the radicalism in Indonesia in the past symbolized by SM Kartosuwirjo and in the present day symbolized by Imam Samudra are analyzed in this dissertation. …”
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Economic value added (EVA tm) : an emprical examination of its application to publicly listed companies in Singapore during a period of economic crisis by Lim, Chi Chi, Neo, Han Seng, Lim, Jeffery Chuan

“…It is also the aim of this study to evaluate the performance of EVA, in light of the recent Asian financial crisis (1995-1997), which has not been attempted in the past in Singapore.…”
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National identification as a mediator of mortality salience and culturally characteristic consumer behaviour. by Pooh, Karen Chuan Ling.

“…Past studies have addressed the impact of mortality salience (MS) on in-group identification (Castano, Yzerbyt, Paladino, & Sacchi, 2002) and materialism (Kasser & Sheldon, 2000) respectively. …”
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System identification and control system design for a model helicopter in hover by Paw, Yew Chai

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Maybe baby : a study on fertility in Singapore. by Teo, Lin Na., Tia, Li Jun., Chua, Wilson Peng Heng.

“…This paper explores the procreation policies implemented in influencing fertility rates in Singapore for the past 30 years. The increasing concern over an aging population due to higher life expectancy and lower fertility is the key motivation of this paper. …”
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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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