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Evidence For Penguin-Diagram Decays: First Observation Of B→K*(892)Γ, R. Ammar, M. Thulasidas Jan 1993

Evidence For Penguin-Diagram Decays: First Observation Of B→K*(892)Γ, R. Ammar, M. Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We have observed the decays B0→K*(892)0γ and B−→K*(892)−γ, which are evidence for the quark-level process b→sγ. The average branching fraction is (4.5±1.5±0.9)×10−5. This value is consistent with standard model predictions from electromagnetic penguin diagrams.

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Convergence And Divergence – A Preliminary Comparative Analysis Of The Singapore And Hong Kong Legal Systems, Andrew B.L. Phang Jan 1993

Convergence And Divergence – A Preliminary Comparative Analysis Of The Singapore And Hong Kong Legal Systems, Andrew B.L. Phang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Both Singapore and Hong Kong are similar in very many respects: both are city states, although the former is now independent; both have legal systems that derive from English law; and both are devoid of natural resources, dependent upon the industry of their people for economic survival.

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Repository Evaluation Of Software Reuse: An Empirical Study, R. D. Banker, Robert J. Kauffman, D. Zweig Jan 1993

Repository Evaluation Of Software Reuse: An Empirical Study, R. D. Banker, Robert J. Kauffman, D. Zweig

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The use and benefits of repository evaluation of software reuse are illustrated through an analysis of the evolving repositories of two large firms that recently implemented integrated CASE development tools. The analysis shows that these tools have supported high levels of software reuse, but it also suggests that there remains considerable unexploited reuse potential. The findings indicate that organizational changes will be required before the full potential of the new technology can be realized.

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Utility, Rights And Relativity: A Preliminary Look At Lawyers In Hard Cases, Andrew B.L. Phang Jan 1993

Utility, Rights And Relativity: A Preliminary Look At Lawyers In Hard Cases, Andrew B.L. Phang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The following article was written several years ago; its objective (as the opening paragraphs suggest) was to set forth, in as simple a form as possible, the basic philosophical as well as ethical dilemmas and issues confronting lawyers. The audience initially targeted comprised practitioners. The manuscript has, however, stayed on the shelf, gathering dust. I can think of no clear reason for this. Perhaps it was because of the preachiness inherent within the purpose. Perhaps it was because it did not really add anything remarkably new to the literature on the subject - a great stumbling block to writers, despite …

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Cementing The Foundations: The Singapore Application Of English Law Act 1993, Andrew B.L. Phang Jan 1993

Cementing The Foundations: The Singapore Application Of English Law Act 1993, Andrew B.L. Phang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

After almost one hundred and seventy-five years since the founding of modern Singapore in 1819,' the Singapore Legislature2 has finally passed the Application ofEnglish LawAct i9933 to clarify the application of English law in the island republic. Prior to the AELA, there were numerous areas of uncertainty with regard to both the general as well as the specific reception of English law that led to a plethora of literature but little else.

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Hong Kong's International Status, Tuck Hong James Tang Jan 1993

Hong Kong's International Status, Tuck Hong James Tang

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Characterizing Hong Kong's international status can be a hazardous endeavour.As a British colony and not a sovereign state, the territory has not been seen asan independent actor on the international stage. Attempts to identify theterritory's status have been further complicated by the 1984 Sino-British agreementto transfer Hong Kong's sovereignty from Britain to China in 1997. WhenHong Kong becomes a Special Administrative Region (SAR) with a 'highdegree of autonomy' under Chinese sovereignty after 1997, it will continue to bea non-sovereign territorial entity in international terms. Nonetheless, under the'one country; two systems' formula it has been granted extensive authority andpower in its …

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Gender, Ideology, Nation: Judou In The Cultural Politics Of China, William A. Callahan Jan 1993

Gender, Ideology, Nation: Judou In The Cultural Politics Of China, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

ONE DAY IN February 1991 a Chinese film previously noted mostly for its radical use of color - Ju Dou - became an international political event. Politics and culture (once again) became intimately intertwined as China was honored with its first Oscar nomination at the same time that China was castigated for trying to censor this film, and hence control representations of "China."

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Liberty, Chandran Kukathas Jan 1993

Liberty, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Such is the rhetorical appeal of the idea of liberty that a variety of political philosophiesclaim to honour it. Republicans and Marxists, no less than libertarians and liberals,maintain that they and they alone are the true defenders of freedom. The literature ofcontemporary political theory is thus replete with rival analyses of the meaning ofliberty, and disputes about its measurement, distribution and institutional requirements. Our aim here is to gain some understanding of the meaning and the conditionsof liberty by working through the thicket of contemporary argument, though we mayhave to rest content with a better knowledge of the terrain.

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Negotiating Conceptions Of 'Sacred Space': A Case Study Of Religious Buildings In Singapore, Lily Kong Jan 1993

Negotiating Conceptions Of 'Sacred Space': A Case Study Of Religious Buildings In Singapore, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In this paper, I approach the study of religious place from a re-theorized cultural geographical stance. Using multi-religious Singapore as a case study, I examine the tensions which arise over the meanings and values associated with religious buildings because of the conflict between state hegemony on the one hand and the oppositional meanings and values of religious groups and individuals on the other. I also examine the ways in which individuals negotiate their conceptions of sacred space in order to cope with changes imposed on their religious places by the state. Primarily, my argument is that conflict is avoided because …

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Sales Of Goods Issues: Introduction, Howard Hunter Jan 1993

Sales Of Goods Issues: Introduction, Howard Hunter

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

No abstract provided.

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The Duty Of Good Faith And The Security Of Performance, Howard Hunter Jan 1993

The Duty Of Good Faith And The Security Of Performance, Howard Hunter

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

John Carter's paper provides a good discussion of many fundamental problems associated with the satisfactory enforcement of contractual obligations. In reviewing the various subtopics of the conference, he posits a scale of 'security' for performance that runs from simple reliance on the promisor's word to that of the chattel or real property mortgage with maximum rights of self-help in the promisee. In this commentary on his paper, I will argue that the greatest security for any promisee remains the word of the promisor and that this is so for reasons beyond those of honour. First, the duty of good faith …

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The Ambiguity Of Accountability: Relationships Of Corruption And Control, Mark Findlay Jan 1993

The Ambiguity Of Accountability: Relationships Of Corruption And Control, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Corruption is a relationship of power and influence, existing within, and taking its form from specific environments of opportunity. Opportunity is, in turn, designated by the aspirations for such a relationship, and structures and processes at work towards its regulation. Both the creation and blocking of corruption opportunities are consequences of corruption control. Corruption regulation does not progress from prevention ideology to operational strategies in terms of total control, and therefore the regulatory space within which corruption and control interact becomes a construction of dependence.

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Managing Across Borders: An Empirical Assessment Of The Bartett And Ghoshal (1989) Organizational Typology, Siew Meng Leong, Chin Tiong Tan Jan 1993

Managing Across Borders: An Empirical Assessment Of The Bartett And Ghoshal (1989) Organizational Typology, Siew Meng Leong, Chin Tiong Tan

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

An empirical test of the Bartlett and Ghoshal (1989) organizational typology is presented. One hundred thirty-one senior executives of corporations with worldwide operations classified their operations, using the Bartlett and Ghoshal typology, as being one of the following: 1. a multinational corporation, 2. a global corporation, 3. an international corporation, or 4. a transnational corporation. The executives also evaluated their organizations' configuration of assets and capabilities, role of overseas operations, and development and diffusion of knowledge. Transnational corporations, those characterized as seeking to be globally competitive through multinational flexibility and worldwide learning capability, were least frequently reported by the respondents. …

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Tau Decays With One Charged Particle Plus Multiple Π0'S, M. Procario, Manoj Thulasidas Jan 1993

Tau Decays With One Charged Particle Plus Multiple Π0'S, M. Procario, Manoj Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

With the CLEO-II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, we have measured branching fractions for tau lepton decay into one-prong final states with multiple π0’s B0hnπ, normalized to the branching fraction for tau decay into one charged particle and a single π0. We find B0h2π/B0hπ=0.345±0.006±0.016, B0h3π/B0hπ=0.041 ±0.003±0.005, and B0h4π/B0hπ=0.006±0.002±0.002.

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Measurement Of Charmless Semileptonic Decays Of B Mesons, Bartelt; J.; Et Al., M. Thulasidas Jan 1993

Measurement Of Charmless Semileptonic Decays Of B Mesons, Bartelt; J.; Et Al., M. Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

No abstract provided.

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Observation Of The Charmed Baryon C+ And Measurement Of The Isospin Mass Splittings Of The C, Crawford, G.; Et Al., M. Thulasidas Jan 1993

Observation Of The Charmed Baryon C+ And Measurement Of The Isospin Mass Splittings Of The C, Crawford, G.; Et Al., M. Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

No abstract provided.

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Search For Τ-→Γμ-: A Test Of Lepton Number Conservation, A. Bean, M. Thulasidas Jan 1993

Search For Τ-→Γμ-: A Test Of Lepton Number Conservation, A. Bean, M. Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A search for the lepton mumber violating decay of the τ lepton to the γμ final state has been performed with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell e+e− storage ring CESR. In a data sample that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.55 fb−1, we observe no candidates in the signal region. We thus determine an upper limit of B(τ−→γμ−)

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Study Of D0 Decays Into K̄0 And K̄*0, M. Procario, M. Thulasidas Jan 1993

Study Of D0 Decays Into K̄0 And K̄*0, M. Procario, M. Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Using the CLEO II detector at CESR we have studied D0 decays into final states with a ¯K0 or ¯K*0, and have measured branching ratios for the decay modes D0→(¯K0¯K*0)π0, η, η′. These results are compared with predictions of various charm decay models, and contributions of final-state interactions are discussed.

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A Case Tool For Conceptual Database Design, Keng Siau, Kok Phuang Tan, Hock Chuan Chan Dec 1992

A Case Tool For Conceptual Database Design, Keng Siau, Kok Phuang Tan, Hock Chuan Chan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The paper describes a Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool to support conceptual database modelling. One popular approach for conceptual database modelling is use of the Entity-Relationship (ER) model. The paper proposes the use of an Enhanced Entity-Relationship (EER) model for conceptual database modelling. This Enhanced Entity-Relationship model extends the Entity-Relationship model by incorporating the generalization/specialization, aggregation and categorization abstractions. The CASE tool, which is based on the Enhanced Entity-Relationship model, is known as the Enhanced Entity-Relationship Diagrammer (EERD). In addition, the CASE tool supports direct visual query and update based on the EERM.

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Cultural Rights Again: A Rejoinder To Kymlicka, Chandran Kukathas Nov 1992

Cultural Rights Again: A Rejoinder To Kymlicka, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

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A Model Of The Link Between The Fiscal System And Singapore's Central Provident Fund In General Equilibrium, Hian Teck Hoon, Kai Lin Teo Oct 1992

A Model Of The Link Between The Fiscal System And Singapore's Central Provident Fund In General Equilibrium, Hian Teck Hoon, Kai Lin Teo

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper demonstrates a channel through which the fiscal system interacts with the choice of CPF contribution rates to affect total savings, and hence, capital accumulation and the current account. It is shown that in the presence of a wage income tax, raising either the employee's or employer's contribution rates raises the total private earnings. On the other hand, in the presence of a capital income tax, raising the employee's or employer's contribution rates lowers total private savings. However, when we introduce a productive role for government spending, we show that an increase in CPF contribution rates under a balances …

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A Participants' Dss For A Management Game With A Dss Generator, G. K. Yeo, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah Sep 1992

A Participants' Dss For A Management Game With A Dss Generator, G. K. Yeo, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A decision support system for a management game has been built with emphasis on total model integration, easy database access, and efficient model building by participants themselves. A decision-support-system generator has been used to provide a wide range of modeling capabilities. This article describes its design principles and major features.

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Belief-In And Belief In God, John N. Williams Sep 1992

Belief-In And Belief In God, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Of all the examples of ‘belief-in’, belief in God is both the most mysterious and the most challenging. Indeed whether and how an apologist can make a case for the intellectual respectability of theistic belief, depends upon the nature of this ‘belief-in’. I shall attempt to elucidate this matter by an analysis of the relation of ‘belief-in’ to ‘belief-that’ and by treating belief in God as a special case of ‘belief-in’.

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Review Of Judicial Decision-Making In The People's Republic Of China: An Overview Of Unique Developments, Mark Findlay Jul 1992

Review Of Judicial Decision-Making In The People's Republic Of China: An Overview Of Unique Developments, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

While the constitutional injunction to independence is general, specific legislative provisions do not directly preclude the overall governance of the Party. In fact, the initial articles of the 1982 Constitution celebrate the 'dignity of the socialist legal system' (Article 5), and as the preamble confirms, the construction and maintenance of Chinese socialism remains under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Therefore it might be argued that the protection of judicial power from the 'interference by administrative organs, public organisations or individuals' (Article 126) does not envisage the intervention of the Party.

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Ontological Disproof Of God's Existence, John N. Williams Jun 1992

Ontological Disproof Of God's Existence, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

An initial reading of Hume's Principle is that no necessary truth can be denied without contradiction, whereas all existential propositions can. Therefore it is self-contradictory to say,that any existential claim is necessarily true, since it follows that this claim both can and cannot be denied without self-contradiction. Thus any claim of the form 'X necessarily exists' is a self-contradiction, even if X is God.

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Assessing Reseller Performance From The Perspective Of The Supplier, Nirmalya Kumar, Louis W. Stern, Ravi S. Achrol May 1992

Assessing Reseller Performance From The Perspective Of The Supplier, Nirmalya Kumar, Louis W. Stern, Ravi S. Achrol

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The objective of the authors' study was to develop a reliable and valid scale to assess reseller performance from the perspective of the supplier. To specify the domain of reseller performance, four different conceptualizations of organizational effectiveness were explored, leading to the identification of eight facets of reseller performance. Using data collected on the resellers of two different suppliers, the authors investigated the reliability and validity of three different types of scales-facet, composite, and global. Results indicate that two composite scales, a 5-item global scale, and seven 3-item facet scales have acceptable levels of reliability, construct validity, and generalizability.

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Deterministic Approximations To Co-Production Problems With Service Constraints And Random Yields, Gabriel R. Bitran, Thin Yin Leong May 1992

Deterministic Approximations To Co-Production Problems With Service Constraints And Random Yields, Gabriel R. Bitran, Thin Yin Leong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Production planning problems where multiple item categories are produced simultaneously are examined. The items have random yields and are used to satisfy the demands of many products. These products have specification requirements that overlap. An item originally targeted to satisfy the demand of one product may be used to satisfy the demand of other products when it conforms to their specifications. Customers' demand must be satisfied from inventory. The problem is formulated with service constraints and a near-optimal solution is provided to the problem with a fixed planning horizon. Simple heuristics are proposed for the problem solved with a rolling …

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The Impact Of Criminal Justice Administration On The Penal Sanction, Mark Findlay Mar 1992

The Impact Of Criminal Justice Administration On The Penal Sanction, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

One of the central philosophies underlying the Report of the Royal Commission into NSW Prisons is revealed in the widely quoted aphorism, "A person is sent to prison as punishment, not for punishment". The conditions under which prisoners are contained feature crucially in assessing both the perceptions and reality of prison as a punishment. Expectations for the experience of imprisonment vary enormously. These expectations in many particular forms have been used to justify the expansion and diversification of the penal sanction. In their most modest representation, however, it is hoped that "by treating all prisoners humanely in a manner befitting …

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Are There Any Cultural Rights?, Chandran Kukathas Feb 1992

Are There Any Cultural Rights?, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

I shall advance the thesis that if there are any moral rights at all, it follows that there is at least one natural right, the equal right of all men to be free.

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Australian Academic Legal Information Centres: Issues For The Law Library Of 2001, Elizabeth Naumczyk Jan 1992

Australian Academic Legal Information Centres: Issues For The Law Library Of 2001, Elizabeth Naumczyk

Research Collection Library

By the year 2001, Australian academic law libraries will face different challenges than those of today, especially as an increase in library users and a growth in the volume of legal literature can be confidently predicted. The question is to identify these challenges and to define ways to deal with them. Already, academic libraries with limited and decreasing funds, and under-resourced law schools in Australia, are having difficulty coping with the costs of running law libraries in their present form. A central issue will be the availability of funds to cope with given changes, including how to redirect these funds …

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