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Description About the Editors Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation documents the transformation and development of the real esta...

Description How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but it...

Description The conventional understanding of Singapore’s foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by...

Description About the Author Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a var...

Description Singapore’s rapid evolution from a modest trading post under colonial rule into a prosperous, self-confident nation is one of the n...

Description About the Author Written by Emeritus Professor LIM Chong-Yah, Founding Chairman of the tripartite National Wages Council (NWC), thi...

Description About the Editors Singapore reaches an important milestone in its national development in 2015 when it celebrates its 50th year of ...

Description Singapore’s demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to ...

Description About the Editor This volume is conceptualised around the notion by Raymond Williams, a cultural theorist, that any cultural system...

Description About the Editors Showcasing the substantive and multi-faceted Singapore-China relationship, this book examines the political, econ...

Description The political, economic and social changes that have occurred over the past 60 years have shaped and transformed the childhood of c...

Description About the Authors This book is the definitive volume on the history of chess in Singapore. Covering 1945–1990, it covers the post-w...

Description About the Editors Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that t...

Description This book is a spin-off from a highly successful seminar series jointly organized by the Division of Economics of the Nanyang Techn...

Description This book is an annual effort by the economists at the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and in...

Description About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description About the Authors The book provides the background on simulating copulas and multivariate distributions in general. It unifies the ...

Description About the Author Shift register sequences cover a broad range of applications, from radar signal design, pseudo-random number gener...

Description The contents in this volume are based on the program Sets and Computations that was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences...

Description Cancer is fast becoming one of the main causes of death worldwide. Unfortunately many cases are diagnosed at an advanced incurable ...

Description As the first volume of World Scientific Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence, this volume is designed to l...

Description About the Author The Dean of Harvard Business School, Nithin Nohria, declared that, "The public has lost trust in business, and som...

Description The book helps scientists write papers for scientific journals. Using the key parts of typical scientific papers (Title, Abstract, ...

Description Given that scientific material can be hard to comprehend, sustained attention and memory retention become major reader challenges. ...

Description Coined as the third revolution in electronics is under way; Manufacturing is going digital, driven by computing revolution, powered...

Description About the Editor Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institut...

Description Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) as a form of radar to create images of objects, uses the motion of the radar antenna over a targeted...

Description About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...

Description About the Authors This book documents short stories of inspirational local runners who were involved in the creation of Sundown Mar...

Description Since its invention in the 1920s, particle accelerators have made tremendous progress in accelerator science, technology and applic...

Description About the Editors Sample Chapter(s)Introduction — Conflict Mediatization in the Middle East (217 KB) Numerous studies address the f...

Description About the Editors Remembering S R Nathan: A Mentor for All Seasons is a collection of essays commemorating the life of Singapore's ...

Description The development of Reliability and Maintenance theory and applications has become major concerns of engineers and managers engaged ...

Description Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's im...

Description This memorial volume is dedicated to physicist Gerald E Brown (1926–2013) or 'Gerry' as he was known to his many students, postdocs...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (55 KB)Chapter I.1: Schrödinger Equation (214 KB)Chapter II.1: Background on Heterostructures (214 KB)Cha...