Building Children\u27s Assets in Singapore: The Post-Secondary Education Account Policy

Building Children\u27s Assets in Singapore: The Post-Secondary Education Account Polic

Building Children\u27s Assets in Singapore: The Beginning of a Lifelong Policy

Singapore has comprehensive lifelong asset-building policies for its citizens. Four programs specifically target children: (1) Children Development Accounts (CDAs) for children starting at birth to age 12; (2) the Edusave account for school children aged six to 17; (3) Postsecondary Education accounts (PSEAs) for children aged 13 years and older; and (4) the Medisave Account, which is opened for every newborn

Building Assets From Birth: A Global Comparison of Child Development Account Policies

Asset building is a growing theme in public policy, and building assets from birth in the form of Child Development Accounts is now occurring in several countries. This paper provides an overview of the Child Development Account policies in Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Korea, and the proposed policy in the United States. The key elements of inclusiveness, progressivity, coherence and integration, and development are explicated and discussed

Building Assets From Birth: A Comparison of the Policies and Proposals on Children Savings Accounts in Singapore, the United Kingdom, Canada, Korea, and the United States

Holding assets is increasingly acknowledged as yielding positive effects and enhancing opportunities. In Assets and the Poor, Sherraden proposed that Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) should be opened for every person from birth in order to provide them with the lifetime potential to accumulate assets and to experience the effects of assets from a young age. a few countries have recently implemented or are proposing policies that build assets for every child starting from birth. Among these countries are Singapore, the United Kingdom, Canada, Korea, and the United States. The purposes and strategies adopted by each country are distinctive. This paper provides an overview of the Children Savings Account policies and proposals in these five countries and explicates some of their key elements

KNEE JOINT LOADINGS OF ATHLETES PERFORMING THE SIDE-STEP CUTTING MANOEUVRES UNDER TWO DIFFERENT CONDITIONS

The purpose of this study was to determine differences in knee joint loading of athletes performing the side-step cutting manoeuvres under two different conditions (fatigued vs. non-fatigued). Lower limb joint kinematics and kinetics of 12 inter-varsity soccer players (6 males and 6 females) performing side-step tasks in two conditions were quantified using 10 optical cameras and Kistler™ force-platform. Fatigue conditions elicited significantly higher sagittal knee joint loadings (Mext, FPeak_GRF_Z, FPeak_AP_GRF and ?°GRF_Z_IC) then non-fatigued suggesting that athletes when fatigued adopted different strategies to compensate the changes to their environment

Design and analysis of electrical testing probe for semiconductor integrated circuit

In the field of Test and Measurement in Semiconductor industry, where measuring small resistances are necessary on Semiconductor IC (Integrated Circuit). Nowadays given the fact that electronics gadgets are evaluated become more advanced, the size of the gadgets is getting smaller and smaller, and getting cheaper in terms of price, this is a result of human kind is evaluating to advancement of electronics world. In this project, testing robe for Semiconductor IC was design to equip with self-sustaining scrubbing function, sustainable contact force and higher life span by Computer Aided Design (CAD). Then the most appropriate Testing Probe was selected by Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), which the pair-wise comparison matrix is constructed with the goal of Scrubbing function (SF), Contact force (CF), Low resistivity (LR), High current (HC), and Life span (LS). To analyze the designed Testing Probe for Semiconductor IC which fulfill the criteria, the test probe was undergo Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to determine the optimum Fatigue stress, Yield strength, maximum stress and displacement. Then the test probe was simulated under testing condition, data such as contact resistance CRES and displacement of test probe was collected until it reach its maximum life spend of 1.3 million touchdown. As result the most appropriate test probe was selected, which fulfilled all of the requirements

Gonadal Restructuring During Sex Transition in California Sheephead: a Reclassification Three Decades After Initial Studies

California Sheephead, Semicossyphus pulcher, is a monandric protogynous hermaphrodite and a commercially and recreationally valuable labrid. Gonadal functionality of Sheephead through sex change was reclassified into nine classes using current criteria for categorization. Female ovaries were classified as immature, early maturing, mature, and regressing/recovering classes. Transition from female to male and subsequent male development was divided into early, mid and late transitional, developing/active male and regressing/recovering male. Reproductive states in Sheephead were correlated with estradiol (E2) and 11-keto testosterone (11-KT) concentrations in the blood plasma. All sexes had low E2 concentrations in the fall /winter seasons; in transitional and male individuals, levels remained low throughout the year. In contrast, female E2 concentrations were elevated in spring and peaked in the summer. Concentrations of 11-KT were variable throughout the year; however, females had significantly lower levels in the summer. This study allows a better understanding of the current state of California Sheephead in a heavily fished area. Knowledge of a species’ reproductive characteristics is important in evaluating the sustainability of a population as it can set a baseline for reproductive potential. This research takes a critical step in gathering and organizing reproductive data such that it may be used in future studies for comparing reproductive potential across the range of the California sheephead

Research and Policy to Achieve Healthy Aging in Asia: Recommendations from an Expert Workshop

Open Longevity Science71-1

Extremely broadband ultralight thermally emissive metasurfaces

We report the design, fabrication and characterization of ultralight highly emissive metaphotonic structures with record-low mass/area that emit thermal radiation efficiently over a broad spectral (2 to 35 microns) and angular (0-60 degrees) range. The structures comprise one to three pairs of alternating nanometer-scale metallic and dielectric layers, and have measured effective 300 K hemispherical emissivities of 0.7 to 0.9. To our knowledge, these structures, which are all subwavelength in thickness are the lightest reported metasurfaces with comparable infrared emissivity. The superior optical properties, together with their mechanical flexibility, low outgassing, and low areal mass, suggest that these metasurfaces are candidates for thermal management in applications demanding of ultralight flexible structures, including aerospace applications, ultralight photovoltaics, lightweight flexible electronics, and textiles for thermal insulation