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Frustration In English Law – A Reappraisal, Andrew B.L. Phang Jan 1992

Frustration In English Law – A Reappraisal, Andrew B.L. Phang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

There are few doctrines in the English common law of contract that have raised as much theoretical discussion as the doctrine of frustration. The present article attempts a reappraisal of the doctrine, its central thesis being that many of the major controversies centring on the doctrine have been unnecessary as they stem from an omission to view the doctrine in a holistic fashion. Indeed, it is submitted that a more coherent view must proceed from a theoretical reappraisal, which reappraisal would, ironically, lead to a more cogent practical application of the doctrine itself. That theory lies at the core of …

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The Law Of Guarantees In Singapore And Malaysia, Kee Yang Low Jan 1992

The Law Of Guarantees In Singapore And Malaysia, Kee Yang Low

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

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Auditing Practices In Singapore, See Liang Foo Jan 1992

Auditing Practices In Singapore, See Liang Foo

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

The accounting profession in Singapore plays an important part in the country's economy because it ensures foreign investors' confidence that their investments are audited by competent, independent, and credible auditors. The emergence of joint stock companies in Singapore was made possible by the Indian Joint Stock Companies Act of 1857. The Act requires every company to maintain proper accounting and other records which will explain sufficiently the transactions and financial position of the company and to enable true and fair profit and loss account and balance-sheet and any documents required to be attached thereto to be prepared from time to …

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Some Improvements On An Algorithm For Controlled Selection, Ting Kwong Lin Jan 1992

Some Improvements On An Algorithm For Controlled Selection, Ting Kwong Lin

Research Collection School Of Economics

The sampling technique called controlled selection was f'irst described by Goodman and Kish (1950). It was found to be a very useful sampling technique among practicing survey samplers, especially in selecting first-stage units in multi-stage sampling. Hess, Riedel and Fitzpatrick (1961, 1975) have given a simple illustration on how it can be implemented in the sampling of hospitals in the state of Michigan. In this paper, we show how the Groves-Hess algorithm can be improved and how further controls which are useful to survey practitioners can be built into the algorithm. Problems the old algorithm could not solve can now …

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Measurement Of Τ Decays Involving Η Mesons, M. Artuso, M. Thulasidas Jan 1992

Measurement Of Τ Decays Involving Η Mesons, M. Artuso, M. Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

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Foreword, Chandran Kukathas Jan 1992

Foreword, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

What is the conservative committed to? According to some, the answer is quite simply nothing. Certainly, the argument goes, they are not committed to individual freedom: they defend only order, morality, religion and virtue - all 'traditionally' conceived. So it seemed to many classical liberals, libertarians and 'Old Whigs' in the early 1960s when they denounced traditionalists in the name of individual liberty, private property and reason. And so it also seems to many classical liberals and libertarians today.

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Foreword, Chandran Kukathas Jan 1992

Foreword, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Hayek's essay 'Why I am not a Concervative' first appeared in 1960 as the final chapter of his treatise, The Constitution of Liberty. Strictly speaking, it was not really a concluding chapter; it was presented as a 'postscript' to the main text-a text whose concern was to articulate and elaborate upon the fundamental principles of classical liberalism. In this postscript Hayek attempted a task which the main treatise did not take up: to explain how the principles of classical liberalism set it apart from the conservatism with which it seemed to have so much in common.

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Measurement Of The Tau Lepton Electronic Branching Fraction, D. Akerib, M. Thulasidas Jan 1992

Measurement Of The Tau Lepton Electronic Branching Fraction, D. Akerib, M. Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The tau lepton electron branching fraction has been measured with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring as Be=0.1749±0.0014±0.0022, with the first error statistical and the second systematic. The measurement involves counting electron-positron annihilation events in which both taus decay to electrons, and normalizing to the number of tau-pair decays expected from the measured luminosity. Detected photons in these events constitute a definitive observation of tau decay radiation.

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Electronic Branching Ratio Of The Lepton, R. Ammar, Manoj Thulasidas Jan 1992

Electronic Branching Ratio Of The Lepton, R. Ammar, Manoj Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Using data accumulated by the CLEO I detector operating at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have measured the ratio R=Γ(τ→eν¯eντ)Γ1 where Γ1 is the τ decay rate to final states with one charged particle. We find R=0.2231±0.0044±0.0073 where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. Together with the measured topological one-charged-particle branching fraction, this yields the branching fraction of the τ lepton to electrons, Be=0.192±0.004±0.006.

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Good Faith In English Law, Howard Hunter Jan 1992

Good Faith In English Law, Howard Hunter

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

'Good faith' is a term often used but rarely defined or analysed with care. In this short volume O'Connor has undertaken a formidable task: the development of a general principle of good faith that is applicable throughout English law. He begins with a proposed definition and then proceeds through brief analyses of the good faith concept in six areas of the law (administrative law, contracts, company law, criminal law, torts, trusts and property). He makes a quick excursion across the Channel to consider the civil law approach to the principle of good faith and then concludes with a chapter devoted …

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Knowledge-Based Systems Approach For Offshore Safety Training, B. S. Lee, Venky Shankararaman Dec 1991

Knowledge-Based Systems Approach For Offshore Safety Training, B. S. Lee, Venky Shankararaman

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A number of training methods has been used within the offshore industry to impart safety knowledge and safe operating skills. In this paper a Knowledge-Based Safety Training architecture is proposed. The architecture uses both expert system and hypertext methods and is also applicable to plants other than offshore platforms. Special attention is given to the types of knowledge dealt with in safety training and how to represent this knowledge and teach it using various teaching strategies.

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Event-Study Methodology Under Conditions Of Event-Induced Variance, Ekkehart Boehmer, Jim Masumeci, Annette B. Poulsen Dec 1991

Event-Study Methodology Under Conditions Of Event-Induced Variance, Ekkehart Boehmer, Jim Masumeci, Annette B. Poulsen

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Many authors have identified the hazards of ignoring event-induced variance in event studies. To determine the practical extent of the problem, we simulate an event with stochastic effects. We find that when an event causes even minor increases in variance, the most commonly-used methods reject the null hypothesis of zero average abnormal return too frequently when it is true, although they are reasonably powerful when it is false. We demonstrate that a simple adjustment to the cross-sectional techniques produces appropriate rejection rates when the null is true and equally powerful tests when it is false.

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Representation Requirements For Supporting Knowledge-Based Construction Of Decision-Models In Medicine, Tze-Yun Leong Nov 1991

Representation Requirements For Supporting Knowledge-Based Construction Of Decision-Models In Medicine, Tze-Yun Leong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper analyzes the medical knowledge required for formulating decision models in the domain of pulmonary infectious diseases (PIDs) with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Aiming to support dynamic decision-modeling, the knowledge characterization focuses on the ontology of the clinical decision problem. Relevant inference patterns and knowledge types are identified.

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Comparative Advantage And The Equilibrium Rate Of Unemployment, Hian Teck Hoon Nov 1991

Comparative Advantage And The Equilibrium Rate Of Unemployment, Hian Teck Hoon

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper develops a two-country Heckscher-Ohlin model with endogenous equilibrium involuntary unemployment to examine the question: What is the effect of free trade on the equilibrium rates of unemployment in the labor abundant and labor-scarce countries? It is shown that free trade leads to a decline in the equilibrium rate of unemployment in the labor-abundant country but to a rise in unemployment in the labor-scarce country.

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Implementing Corruption Prevention Strategies Through Codes Of Conduct, Mark Findlay, Andrew Stewart Nov 1991

Implementing Corruption Prevention Strategies Through Codes Of Conduct, Mark Findlay, Andrew Stewart

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The concept of a code of conduct, as it appears in corruption prevention strategies, could be viewed as rather misleading. While dealing with conduct in some preferred or preemptive sense, these frameworks for "guidelines" bear little resemblance to prescriptive legal codes.

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The Manufacturing Contribution To Innovation, Arnoud De Meyer Oct 1991

The Manufacturing Contribution To Innovation, Arnoud De Meyer

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The description of the contribution of manufacturing to the innovation process is often limited to the task of providing the necessary information to enable the development function to create a design which is easy to manufacture, and to be instrumental in the fast ramp-up of the production process. Though these are important tasks, it is argued in this paper that there is a third aspect of manufacturing’s contribution to innovation, namely the creation of a manufacturing system which is favorable to product innovation. This goes far beyond the design of an appropriate production process, but requires the creation of a …

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Notes: Termination Of Employment Contracts And Taking Advantage Of One's Wrong, Andrew B.L. Phang Sep 1991

Notes: Termination Of Employment Contracts And Taking Advantage Of One's Wrong, Andrew B.L. Phang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The recent decision by Mr John Mowbray QC in Micklefield v SAC Technology Ltd brings into focus the thorny problems inherent within, first, the continuing uncertainty surrounding termination of employment contracts and, secondly, the much more general issue as to the status as well as application of the proposition that a contracting party ought not to be allowed to take advantage of his own wrong. There was a third issue taken in the case with regard to the applicability of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 which will be briefly commented upon.

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Visual Knowledge Query Language As A Front-End To Relational Systems, Keng Siau, Kok Phuang Tan, Hock Chuan Chan Sep 1991

Visual Knowledge Query Language As A Front-End To Relational Systems, Keng Siau, Kok Phuang Tan, Hock Chuan Chan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Relational query languages like SQL and QUEL require the users to understand the complex database structure. This is a burden on end users, especially novice end users who access the database on a casual and infrequent basis. To alleviate the need to know the logical database organization, this paper proposes the use of a semantic data model, known as the Enhanced Entity-Relationship (EER) model, as a front-end to the relational systems. A formal, high-level Visual Knowledge Query Language (VKQL) has also been designed for this interface. This language provides for knowledge abstraction as the user communicates only domain knowledge with …

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Individual Differences In Response To Consumer Promotions, Gwen Ortmeyer, James M. Lattin, David B. Montgomery Sep 1991

Individual Differences In Response To Consumer Promotions, Gwen Ortmeyer, James M. Lattin, David B. Montgomery

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This research hypothesizes important individual differences in response to promotions and tests for them using a cross-sectional multinomial logit choice model. Our hypotheses suggest interactions between individual brand preference and the effects of current promotion and past promotional purchase. To test for these interactions, we introduce a new method of measuring brand preference from past purchase data. The new method seeks to incorporate competitive purchase conditions as modifiers to observed brand purchase behavior in estimating consumer brand preference. We account for heterogeneity in the cross-sectional model by using two measures of loyalty: one to capture differences across individuals and one …

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Reuse And Productivity In Integrated Computer-Aided Software Engineering: An Empirical Study, Rajiv D. Banker, Robert J. Kauffman Sep 1991

Reuse And Productivity In Integrated Computer-Aided Software Engineering: An Empirical Study, Rajiv D. Banker, Robert J. Kauffman

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Growing competition in the investment banking industry has given rise to increasing demand for high functionality software applications that can be developed in a short period of time. Yet delivering such applications creates a bottleneck in software development activities. This dilemma can be addressed when firms shift to development methods that emphasize software reusability. This article examines the productivity implications of object and repository-based integrated computer-aided software engineering (ICASE) software development in the context of a major investment bank's information systems strategy. The strategy emphasizes software reusability. Our empirical results, based on data from 20 projects that delivered software for …

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The Law Of Assembly In The People's Republic Of China: Implications Of The Retreat To Formal Legalism For The Legislative Process In China, Mark Findlay, Thomas Chor-Wing Chiu Sep 1991

The Law Of Assembly In The People's Republic Of China: Implications Of The Retreat To Formal Legalism For The Legislative Process In China, Mark Findlay, Thomas Chor-Wing Chiu

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Under the most current constitution, written in 1982, the citizens of the PRC are guaranteed freedom of the press, speech, assembly, association, procession, and demonstration; furthermore, all citizens enjoy the rights and assume the responsibilities prescribed by the constitution and the law. In 1989, following the student democracy demonstrations in the PRC, the government circulated a draft of the law concerning assemblies, processions, and demonstrations for public comment. While the 24 articles of the draft legislation effectively removed the right to free public protest by interposing a variety of administrative procedures governing proscription of venue, application, approval, and review, the …

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Visual Knowledge Query Language As A Front-End To Relational Systems, Keng Siau, Kok Phuang Tan, Hock Chuan Chan Sep 1991

Visual Knowledge Query Language As A Front-End To Relational Systems, Keng Siau, Kok Phuang Tan, Hock Chuan Chan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Relational query languages like SQL and QUEL require the users to understand the complex database structure. This is a burden on end users, especially novice end users who access the database on a casual and infrequent basis. To alleviate the need to know the logical database organization, this paper proposes the use of a semantic data model, known as the Enhanced Entity-Relationship (EER) model, as a front-end to the relational systems. A formal, high-level Visual Knowledge Query Language (VKQL) has also been designed for this interface. This language provides for knowledge abstraction as the user communicates only domain knowledge with …

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Representation Requirements For Supporting Decision-Model Formulation, Tze-Yun Leong Jul 1991

Representation Requirements For Supporting Decision-Model Formulation, Tze-Yun Leong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper outlines a methodology for analyzing the representational support for knowledge-based decision-modeling in a broad domain. A relevant set of inference patterns and knowledge types are identified. By comparing the analysis results to existing representations, some insights are gained into a design approach for integrating categorical and uncertain knowledge in a context sensitive manner.

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Connectionist Expert System With Adaptive Learning Capability, B. T. Low, Hochung Lui, Ah-Hwee Tan, Hoonheng Teh Jun 1991

Connectionist Expert System With Adaptive Learning Capability, B. T. Low, Hochung Lui, Ah-Hwee Tan, Hoonheng Teh

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A neural network expert system called adaptive connectionist expert system (ACES) which will learn adaptively from past experience is described. ACES is based on the neural logic network, which is capable of doing both pattern processing and logical inferencing. The authors discuss two strategies, pattern matching ACES and rule inferencing ACES. The pattern matching ACES makes use of past examples to construct its neural logic network and fine-tunes itself adaptively during its use by further examples supplied. The rule inferencing ACES conceptualizes new rules based on the frequencies of use on the rule-based neural logic network. A new rule could …

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Interpreting And Responding To Strategic Issues: The Impact Of National Culture, Susan C. Schneider, Arnoud De Meyer May 1991

Interpreting And Responding To Strategic Issues: The Impact Of National Culture, Susan C. Schneider, Arnoud De Meyer

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Perceptions of environmental uncertainty and organizational control influence strategic behavior. As national culture influences these perceptions we expect to find cultural differences in interpretation and response to strategic issues. Given a case describing an issue concerning deregulation of the U.S. banking industry, managers completed questionnaires rating interpretations and responses to that issue. National culture was found to influence interpretation and responses. In particular, Latin European managers when compared with other managers were more likely to interpret the issue as a crisis and as a threat. Latin Europeans were also more likely to recommend proactive behavior. This study indicates that different …

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Technology Exports From A Small, Very Open Nic: The Case Of Singapore, Eng Fong Pang, Hal Hill May 1991

Technology Exports From A Small, Very Open Nic: The Case Of Singapore, Eng Fong Pang, Hal Hill

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper examines the nature, composition and determinants of Singapore's early stage technology exports. The pattern of these exports reflects the quite unique mix of policy and institutional features in Singapore's environment - remarkably high growth, very open economy, rapid structural change, particularly intense economic relations with neighboring Southeast Asian nations, and a pervasive and paternalistic state role. The bases of Singapore's comparative advantage in these service exports are identified, and some general implications from its experience are analyzed.

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An Efficient Semantic Query Optimization Algorithm, Hwee Hwa Pang, Hongjun Lu, Beng Chin Lu Apr 1991

An Efficient Semantic Query Optimization Algorithm, Hwee Hwa Pang, Hongjun Lu, Beng Chin Lu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

An efficient semantic query optimization algorithm is proposed, in which all possible transformations are tentatively applied to the query. Instead of physically modifying the query, the transformation process classifies the predicates into imperative, optional or redundant. At the end of the transformation process, all the imperative predicates are retained while the redundant predicates are eliminated. Optional predicates are retrained or discarded based on the estimated cost/benefit of retaining them. The issue of the grouping of semantic constraints to reduce the overhead of retrieving constraints and checking whether each constraint is relevant to the current query is also addressed. Based on …

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Term Structure Of Interest Rates In The Singapore Asian Dollar Market, Tom K. Y. Lee, Yiu Kuen Tse Apr 1991

Term Structure Of Interest Rates In The Singapore Asian Dollar Market, Tom K. Y. Lee, Yiu Kuen Tse

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper investigates empirically the term structure of interest rates in the Singapore Asian Dollar Market. We consider extended versions of the ARCH-M model of Engle, Lilien, and Robins (1987). The extended models permit autocorrelation, skewness and leptokurtosis in the residuals. The robustness of the empirical tests with respect to alternative specifications of the ARCH process is examined. It turns out that there is significant time-varying term premium, and this conclusion is independent of the hypothesized ARCH model.

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Corruption Control And Monstering: Government Agendas, Community Expectations And The Icac Solution, Mark Findlay Mar 1991

Corruption Control And Monstering: Government Agendas, Community Expectations And The Icac Solution, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

In 1818, the Governor of the Chinese province of Shansi reported the case of Chan Lin who, while gatekeeper for the district magistrate, maintained "external criminal connections". Using his position he endeavoured to get a money changer to accept for exchange more than 300 ounces of sub-standard silver. Upon being rebuffed he took steps to have the money changer locked up. The Board of Punishments (which was a senior court of appeal in China during that period) held that because the act differed in no way from extortion as practised by rapacious government underlings, it would be improper to show …

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Commentary On Pitfalls Of Force Majeure Clauses, Howard Hunter Jan 1991

Commentary On Pitfalls Of Force Majeure Clauses, Howard Hunter

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Professor Yates has covered in considerable detail the major problem areas in the use of force majeure clauses. His work is admirable in its technical details as well as in its use for the practitioner. I wish to add but a few brief comments about 2 chronic difficulties with the enforcement of force majeure clauses. To some extent these difficulties are common to all cases that involve excuse by way of frustration, impossibility, or commercial impracticability. The first has to do with foreseeability and the second has to do with post-excuse remedies. It has become a truism that a force …

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