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A Latency Effect For Mobile Phone Investments By Micro-Entrepreneurs, Han Ei Chew, Vigneswara P. Ilavarasan, Mark Levy Jan 2012

A Latency Effect For Mobile Phone Investments By Micro-Entrepreneurs, Han Ei Chew, Vigneswara P. Ilavarasan, Mark Levy

Research Collection Office of Impact

As the fastest diffusing ICT in history, the mobile has attracted substantial scholarly interest. However, the historic penetration rate of the mobile phone in the developing world seems discordant with the paucity of evidence linking mobiles to productivity gains in micro-enterprises. In this study, we address the dilemma. We are seeing mobile phones everywhere but in the productivity statistics. We believe that there is a disconnect between mobile phone penetration rates and productivity statistics because businesses take time to learn how to exploit the technology for productivity gains. Findings from our study indicate there is latency between the time of …

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A Household-Level Decomposition Of The White-Black Homeownership Gap, Eric Fesselmeyer, Kien T. Le, Kiat Ying Seah Jan 2012

A Household-Level Decomposition Of The White-Black Homeownership Gap, Eric Fesselmeyer, Kien T. Le, Kiat Ying Seah

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

This paper uses a semiparametric homeownership model to estimate and to decompose the household-level white-black homeownership gap into an endowment component and a residual component across the distribution of homeownership rates. We find that the racial gap differs across homeownership rates and that studies that examine the gap only at the mean may be misleading. We also find that although household characteristics explain the homeownership gap for most households, there is a substantial portion of the gap that remains unexplained for households with a very low propensity to own homes. A comparison of the estimates from the semiparametric model and …

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Multi-Party Multi-Period Supply Chain Coordination, Thin Yin Leong, Michelle Lee Fong Cheong Jan 2012

Multi-Party Multi-Period Supply Chain Coordination, Thin Yin Leong, Michelle Lee Fong Cheong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We apply combinatorial auction as a coordination mechanism to smooth demands placed on suppliers' limited production capacities, allowing several manufacturers to share common suppliers effectively. Products are bidders bidding for parts from suppliers, consuming their capacities in different time periods. The fourth party logistic (4PL) provider acts as the auctioneer to coordinate bids and perform price iterations. We leverage on the strong links between the Lagrangian relaxation method and combinatorial auction, where the Lagrange multipliers serve as the supply capacity reserve prices, to balance the demand and supply of capacities. To prevent cyclic behaviour and to increase convergence speed, we …

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Travels Of The Criminal Question: Cultural Embeddedness And Diffusion [Book Review], Mark Findlay Jan 2012

Travels Of The Criminal Question: Cultural Embeddedness And Diffusion [Book Review], Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

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A Sentiment Analysis Of Singapore Presidential Election 2011 Using Twitter Data With Census Correction, Murphy Junyu Choy, Michelle Lee Fong Cheong, Nang Laik Ma, Ping Shung Koo Jan 2012

A Sentiment Analysis Of Singapore Presidential Election 2011 Using Twitter Data With Census Correction, Murphy Junyu Choy, Michelle Lee Fong Cheong, Nang Laik Ma, Ping Shung Koo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Sentiment analysis is a new area in text analytics where it focuses on the analysis and understanding of the human emotions from the text patterns. This new form of analysis has been widely adopted in customer relationship management especially in the context of complaint management. However, sentiment analysis using Twitter data has remained extremely difficult to manage due to sampling biasness. In this paper, we will discuss about the application of reweighting techniques in conjunction with online sentiment divisions to predict the vote percentage that individual presidential candidate in Singapore will receive in the Presidential Election 2011. There will be …

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Robust Local Search For Solving Rcpsp/Max With Durational Uncertainty, Na Fu, Hoong Chuin Lau, Pradeep Varakantham, Fei Xiao Jan 2012

Robust Local Search For Solving Rcpsp/Max With Durational Uncertainty, Na Fu, Hoong Chuin Lau, Pradeep Varakantham, Fei Xiao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Scheduling problems in manufacturing, logistics and project management have frequently been modeled using the framework of Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problems with minimum and maximum time lags (RCPSP/max). Due to the importance of these problems, providing scalable solution schedules for RCPSP/max problems is a topic of extensive research. However, all existing methods for solving RCPSP/max assume that durations of activities are known with certainty, an assumption that does not hold in real world scheduling problems where unexpected external events such as manpower availability, weather changes, etc. lead to delays or advances in completion of activities. Thus, in this paper, our …

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Who Is Retweeting The Tweeters? Modeling, Originating, And Promoting Behaviors In The Twitter Network, Achananuparp Palakorn, Ee Peng Lim, Jing Jiang, Tuan Anh Hoang Jan 2012

Who Is Retweeting The Tweeters? Modeling, Originating, And Promoting Behaviors In The Twitter Network, Achananuparp Palakorn, Ee Peng Lim, Jing Jiang, Tuan Anh Hoang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Real-time microblogging systems such as Twitter offer users an easy and lightweight means to exchange information. Instead of writing formal and lengthy messages, microbloggers prefer to frequently broadcast several short messages to be read by other users. Only when messages are interesting, are they propagated further by the readers. In this article, we examine user behavior relevant to information propagation through microblogging. We specifically use retweeting activities among Twitter users to define and model originating and promoting behavior. We propose a basic model for measuring the two behaviors, a mutual dependency model, which considers the mutual relationships between the two …

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Agency And Partnership Law [2011], Pearlie M. C. Koh, Stephen Noel Henry Bull Jan 2012

Agency And Partnership Law [2011], Pearlie M. C. Koh, Stephen Noel Henry Bull

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The laws relating to the creation of an agency, implied authority, holding out and apparent authority, duties of the agent in relation to Agency law are discussed. The laws relating to partnership law and issues such as relationship of partners to third parties, relationships of partners between themselves and capacity to be a partner are highlighted.

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Singapore: Transitioning To A "New Normal" In A Post-Lee Kuan Yew Era, Eugene K. B. Tan Jan 2012

Singapore: Transitioning To A "New Normal" In A Post-Lee Kuan Yew Era, Eugene K. B. Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Politics in Singapore is generally marked by incremental change. When Singapore eventually becomes a two-party or multi-party democracy, the 2011 general election is likely to be regarded as the starting point of the epochal political transition. It was a boisterous year politically where political excitement and consciousness went up several notches due to the 7 May general elections and the 27 August presidential elections, both of which produced keenly contested hustings and outcomes. The aftermath of the general elections also saw the retirement of former Prime Ministers Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong from the Cabinet.

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Addressing Economic Violence In Times Of Transition: Toward A Positive-Peace Paradigm For Transitional Justice, Dustin N. Sharp Jan 2012

Addressing Economic Violence In Times Of Transition: Toward A Positive-Peace Paradigm For Transitional Justice, Dustin N. Sharp

Fordham International Law Journal

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When Corruption Is An Emergency: “Good Governance” Coups And Bangladesh, Nick Robinson, Nawreen Sattar Jan 2012

When Corruption Is An Emergency: “Good Governance” Coups And Bangladesh, Nick Robinson, Nawreen Sattar

Fordham International Law Journal

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Rethinking The Regulation Of Private Military And Security Companies Under International Humanitarian Law, Joseph C. Hansen Jan 2012

Rethinking The Regulation Of Private Military And Security Companies Under International Humanitarian Law, Joseph C. Hansen

Fordham International Law Journal

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International Law In The Gestational Surrogacy Debate, Kristiana Brugger Jan 2012

International Law In The Gestational Surrogacy Debate, Kristiana Brugger

Fordham International Law Journal

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Barriers To H-1b Visa Sponsorship In The It Consulting Industry: The Economic Incentive To Alter H-1b Policy, Karen Jensen Jan 2012

Barriers To H-1b Visa Sponsorship In The It Consulting Industry: The Economic Incentive To Alter H-1b Policy, Karen Jensen

Fordham International Law Journal

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The Center Cannot Hold: Assessing The Reach Of China's Labor Protections Of Migrant Workers In Africa, Tonya Rodgers Jan 2012

The Center Cannot Hold: Assessing The Reach Of China's Labor Protections Of Migrant Workers In Africa, Tonya Rodgers

Fordham International Law Journal

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Human Rights, The European Union, And The Treaty Route: From Maastricht To Lisbon, Elizabeth F. Defeis Jan 2012

Human Rights, The European Union, And The Treaty Route: From Maastricht To Lisbon, Elizabeth F. Defeis

Fordham International Law Journal

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Invisible Cities In Europe, Nicola Fernanda Jan 2012

Invisible Cities In Europe, Nicola Fernanda

Fordham International Law Journal

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The Growth Of Social Media Norms And The Governments' Attempts At Regulation, Alexandra Paslawsky Jan 2012

The Growth Of Social Media Norms And The Governments' Attempts At Regulation, Alexandra Paslawsky

Fordham International Law Journal

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A Critical Linkage The Role Of German Constitutional Law In The European Economic Crisis And The Future Of The Eurozone, Jared Curzan Jan 2012

A Critical Linkage The Role Of German Constitutional Law In The European Economic Crisis And The Future Of The Eurozone, Jared Curzan

Fordham International Law Journal

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A Step In The Wrong Direction- Increasing Restrictions On Foreign Rural Land And Acquisition In Brazil, Jessica Ball Jan 2012

A Step In The Wrong Direction- Increasing Restrictions On Foreign Rural Land And Acquisition In Brazil, Jessica Ball

Fordham International Law Journal

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Employment Discrimination Faced By The Immigrant Worker- A Lesson From The United States And South Africa, Sean M. Henegham Jan 2012

Employment Discrimination Faced By The Immigrant Worker- A Lesson From The United States And South Africa, Sean M. Henegham

Fordham International Law Journal

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Advancing Human Rights And Equality- Assessing The Role Of Commissions In The Uk And Ireland, Colin Harvey, Sarah Spencer Jan 2012

Advancing Human Rights And Equality- Assessing The Role Of Commissions In The Uk And Ireland, Colin Harvey, Sarah Spencer

Fordham International Law Journal

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This Land Is My Land- Protecting The Security Of Tenure In Post-Earthquake Haiti, Rebecca Iwerks Jan 2012

This Land Is My Land- Protecting The Security Of Tenure In Post-Earthquake Haiti, Rebecca Iwerks

Fordham International Law Journal

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Mantle Flow And Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Coupling Beneath The Southwestern Edge Of The North American Craton: Constraints From Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements, Hesham A. Refayee Jan 2012

Mantle Flow And Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Coupling Beneath The Southwestern Edge Of The North American Craton: Constraints From Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements, Hesham A. Refayee

Doctoral Dissertations

"High-quality broadband seismic data recorded by the USArray and other stations in the southwestern United States provide a unique opportunity to test different models of anisotropy-forming mechanisms in the vicinity of a cratonic edge. Systematic spatial variations of anisotropic characteristics are revealed by 3027 pairs of splitting parameters measured at 547 broadband seismic stations. The western and southern edges of the North American craton show edge-parallel fast directions with larger-than-normal splitting times, and the continental interior is characterized by smaller splitting times spatially consistent fast directions that are mostly parallel to the absolute plate motion direction of North America. Except …

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Sustainability In The Plastics Industry: Concerns, Issues, And Strategies, Bonnie Bachman, Shristy Bashyal, Margaret Baumann Jan 2012

Sustainability In The Plastics Industry: Concerns, Issues, And Strategies, Bonnie Bachman, Shristy Bashyal, Margaret Baumann

Economics Faculty Research & Creative Works

An increased corporate emphasis on sustainability can be seen in such areas as: annual reports with published sustainability goals, sustainability management systems with balanced scorecards and dashboards, websites using increased screen area and space for sustainability communications, internal and external stakeholder opinion gathering, development of sustainable supply chain plans, and marketing strategies focusing on green or sustainable consumers. To address this ever increasing attention to sustainability, a research project to understand sustainability in the plastics industry was initiated with the membership of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). This paper focuses on the results of the research (global survey) and …

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Trans-Boundary Movement Of Hazardous Waste: Evidence From A New Micro Data In The European Union, Mahelet G. Fikru Jan 2012

Trans-Boundary Movement Of Hazardous Waste: Evidence From A New Micro Data In The European Union, Mahelet G. Fikru

Economics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The paper explores a new micro dataset on the export of hazardous waste generated in Europe. A total of 16 745 industrial facilities generated hazardous waste in 2009 out of which 1 272 exported some or all of the waste. A measure of the export intensity of facilities is introduced by using export of hazardous waste as a percentage of total hazardous waste generated. The study finds that 96% of the export stays within Europe and rarely goes to developing countries. The major driving force behind firms' decision to export hazardous waste may be the stringency of general environmental policies …

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International Trade Regulation And The Mitigation Of Climate Change: World Trade Forum, Edited By Thomas Cottier, Olga Nartova And Sadeq Z. Bigdeli, Henry S. Gao Jan 2012

International Trade Regulation And The Mitigation Of Climate Change: World Trade Forum, Edited By Thomas Cottier, Olga Nartova And Sadeq Z. Bigdeli, Henry S. Gao

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Now in its thirteenth year, the World Trade Forum (WTF) has firmly established itself as one of the leading events for the trade law community. Held annually in the quiet town of Bern, Switzerland, the Forum features presentations by leading trade lawyers, economists, diplomats, and political scientists from all around the globe.

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Agency In The Light Of Article 101 Tfeu. How To Chase A Rabbit Without Actually Catching It ?, Małgorzata Kozak Jan 2012

Agency In The Light Of Article 101 Tfeu. How To Chase A Rabbit Without Actually Catching It ?, Małgorzata Kozak

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Distribution systems have become more and more complex and tend to use different legal solutions to fulfill the aims of the producer. One of them can be agency. From the perspective of competition law, agency holds a special status, resulting from the fact that an agent is present in two distinct relevant markets. In one market an agent represents the principal in the conclusion of a contract, in the second market it offers its own services as an agent. This specific causes some practical difficulties and is interesting from a theoretical point of view. The erroneous qualification of a distributor …

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Bid Rigging Or Action Allowed By Law? The Interplay Between Competition Law And Public Procurement Law, Agata Zawłocka-Turno Jan 2012

Bid Rigging Or Action Allowed By Law? The Interplay Between Competition Law And Public Procurement Law, Agata Zawłocka-Turno

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The Article presents some problematic issues due to the interaction between competition law and public procurement law. The latter which aims at fostering competition within the specific tender may at the same time promote bid rigging among bidders. Therefore, problems analysed in this Article relate to joint bidding and possibility to file separate bids by undertakings belonging to the same capital group (multiple bidding). Moreover, the Article elaborates on the oversight competences as regards bid rigging.

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2012 Scholarly Productivity Report, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Jan 2012

2012 Scholarly Productivity Report, Missouri University Of Science And Technology

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Scholarly Productivity Reports

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