What We Learned from PISA
Description About the Author The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) i...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author The main focus of this year's Proceedings of the 53rd Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics is ...
View full detailsDescription The monumental discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC marked the beginning of a new era in the high energy physics. Although the p...
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View full detailsDescription ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters are a family of integral membrane proteins present in all cells of all species of archaea, ...
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View full detailsDescription Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers submitted by students from the National University of S...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author This book collects my scholarly research on the behavior of foreign exchange rates conducted over the past twenty-...
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View full detailsDescription About the Authors This is the first book to specify the type of economic system that has arisen in Central Asia, replacing the simp...
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View full detailsDescription About the Authors The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and ...
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View full detailsDescription About the Authors Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in th...
View full detailsDescription This new volume of the Mathematical Olympiad Series focuses on the topic of geometry. Basic and advanced theorems commonly seen in ...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a var...
View full detailsDescription The conventional understanding of Singapore’s foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Written by Emeritus Professor LIM Chong-Yah, Founding Chairman of the tripartite National Wages Council (NWC), thi...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors Singapore reaches an important milestone in its national development in 2015 when it celebrates its 50th year of ...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor This volume is conceptualised around the notion by Raymond Williams, a cultural theorist, that any cultural system...
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