Contemporary Somali piracy : evaluating the effectiveness of counter-piracy measures by Tan, Cherlyn Shuyi.

“…The industry efforts refer mainly to the Best Management Practices (BMP) and the usage of private armed guards. On the other hand, the international efforts looks at the measures that the governments and the international community has come up with, which includes the international conventions and laws and the deployment of naval forces. …”
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Techniques for intelligent novelty mining by Tsai, Flora S.

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Best switching angles of multilevel DC/AC inverters by Ye, Jian.

“…Most importantly, Multi-level DC/AC Inverters can achieve lower THD value. On the other hand, Diode-clamped DC/AC Inverters have simple structure and easy operation.For multilevel inverter, higher quality output voltage can be achieved by increasing the number of level and selecting the appropriate switching angles. …”
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Battery lifetime prediction by Toh, Wang Yun.

“…With the proposed method and sufficient data on hand, the impact of different types of charger on the lifetime of lead-acid battery has been validated.…”
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Development of indexing clamper mechanism for wire bonder by Zhang, Yue.

“…For wire bonding integrated circuits, the state-of-art is 30 u.m fine pitch, and the position accuracy of material transmission for wire bonder is required to be 3.5 urn or less. On the other hand, for horizontal LED (light emitting diode), like TO-92, the market price is as cheap as only US 1 cent due to the intensive commercial competition. …”
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Elephant in the room by Muhammad Iskandar Thani BMB, Ng, Qin Ching

“…Cho figures that he should get a head start since he has a lot of free time on his hand and decides to make a machine that could 'fix' his predicament.…”
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Design and development of a 3D printed breathable cast for fracture by Loo, Wan Ting

“…With these information acquired, the design of the 3D breathable cast was designed with the consideration of the factors, whereby how it would support the fracture and how it could be applied onto the hand. Rhino software together with additional plug-ins and tool components are used in designing of the cast and the choice of Selective Laser Sintering is made to print out the cast. …”
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Soft actuators and their fabrication for bio-inspired mobile robots by Lau, Gih-Keong, Low, Sze-Shien, Chin, Yao-Wei, Heng, Kim-Rui

“…The pre-strained membrane of dielectric elastomer was found capable of generating a large rotation. On the other hand, the folded and rolled ones with either no or little pre-strain performed modestly in this flapping-wing application. …”
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Volunteer service motivations in eldercare : an explorative study of meaningful inputs from existing volunteers, with the purpose of devising strategies for increased volunteer par... by Lim, Russell Fang Yu

“…Attention is placed on Eldercare VWOs, where the nation’s aging population situation has given rise to concerns over its ability to cope with increased demand. On the other hand, there is a sense that volunteer participation, can be much improved; with active volunteers still in the minority. …”
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Foreign students and implications of their social networking sites usage by Tan, Yi Ting

“…Past research examining how foreign students utilise Social Networking Sites (SNS) to settle into their host countries are overly Western-centric in their discussions of the issue at hand. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to determine how foreigners or immigrants make use of SNS as a tool to establish their place within Singapore, whether their sense of collective identity influences their SNS usage patterns and whether their usage of SNS has any impact on their ability to integrate into the local context. …”
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Engineering education with virtual reality (Drill press machinary) by Tan, Yong Liang

“…Virtual Reality had becoming very common as the technology advances, with more devices invented to detect hand gesture for user to interact with the Virtual World, making this project possible. …”
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Finding meaning in the meaningless : the language of faith surrounding pentecostal glossolalia in Singapore by Mah, Benjamin Ye-Zhong

“…Presbyterians, on the other hand, believe that it must be a natural language foreign to the speaker. …”
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The musician chair by Yin, Jiayi

“…This is especially so for performers when they are already holding their instruments in hand. For off-stage crews dealing with storage and transportation, it is difficult as well when the items are in large quantity. …”
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Super lubrication bottlebrush polymer particles synthesis using core cross-linking by Garnadi, Jovanca Kartika

“…Cross-linked bottlebrush polymer particles are not easily entangled and interpenetrated among each other due to the steric repulsion. On the other hand, linear polymers are more easily entangled among each other. …”
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An exposition of the Zhuangzi’s zhiyan (至言) by Koo, Hao Wei

“…In chapter 12, zhiyan is antithetical to suyan (俗言) or “customary sayings”. On the other hand, zhiyan is prima facie an expression employed for heart-mind cultivation in chapter 21. …”
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Impactful theory: pathways to mattering by Reinecke, J, Boxenbaum, E, Gehman, J

“…In this editorial, we question the implicit dichotomy between theory, on the one hand, and impact, on the other, and critically explore the notion of <em>impactful theory</em>. …”

Editors’ introduction: Cynthia Ozick and the art of nonfiction by Mendelssohn, M, Tyson, C

“…A 2016 New York Times profile of Cynthia Ozick summarized her career in the following terms: <br> This special issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature focuses on Ozick’s essays, criticism, reviews, memoiristic pieces, and certain unclassifiable hybrids, fragments, and thought experiments—the productions, as it were, of the other hand. It aims to take the measure of this ambidextrous author through her nonfiction, while keeping in mind the awkwardness of this category for a writer whose essays frequently display a defiant blurring of the fictive and the factual. …”

A linguistic feature vector for the visual interpretation of sign language by Bowden, R, Windridge, D, Kadir, T, Zisserman, A, Brady, M

“…Key to this approach is a 2 stage classification procedure where an initial classification stage extracts a high level description of hand shape and motion. This high level description is based upon sign linguistics and describes actions at a conceptual level easily understood by humans. …”

Retro-digitised Enggano-German dictionary derived from Kähler’s (1987) “Enggano-Deutsches Wörterbuch” by Rajeg, GPW, Pramartha, CRA, Sarasvananda, IBG, Widiatmika, PW, Segara, IBMA, Pita, YFR, Koemba, F, Putra, IGSD, Kartini, PDI, Lestari, NPW, Burleigh, B

“…This is a hand-digitised Enggano-German Dictionary derived from Hans Kähler's (1987) “Enggano-Deutsches Wörterbuch”. …”

VHS to VRML: 3D graphical models from video sequences by Zisserman, A, Fitzgibbon, A, Cross, G

“…The method can be applied to a large class of scenes and motions, and is demonstrated for sequences of interior and exterior scenes using both controlled-motion and hand-held cameras. We demonstrate two applications of this technology. …”