Future of the MPP carrier market by Leong, Ernest Jiahe

“…Multipurpose (MPP) shipping is a niche sector, transporting project, floating, break-bulk and unitised cargoes. While MPP shipping remains differentiated from other shipping sectors, it is now easily affected by many unique influences, which were unobserved in the past. …”
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Two kinds of phase transition in photonic systems with application to optical isolation by Zhou, Xin

“…This reveals a correspondence between the boundary of asymptotic stability in the nonlinear regime, where gain saturation is present, and the P T - breaking transition in the underlying linear system. …”
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Behaviour of industrialised building system model in fluid-solid interaction by Farahmandpour, Omolbanin

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Opportunities and challenges in the sustainable integration of natural fibers and particles in friction materials for eco-friendly brake pads by Imran, Al Ichlas, Siregar, Januar Parlaungan, Mohd Ruzaimi, Mat Rejab, Cionita, Tezara, Hadi, Agung Efriyo, Jamiluddin, Jaafar, Fitriyana, Deni Fajar, Dewi, Rozanna

“…The high concentration of metallic components in the pad composite improves breaking ability at elevated temperatures and frequencies, bolstering the automobile's braking system. …”
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Site-specific protein modifications by an engineered asparaginyl endopeptidase from Viola canadensis by Chen, Yu, Zhang, Dingpeng, Zhang, Xiaohong, Wang, Zhen, Liu, Chuan-Fa, Tam, James P.

“…Asparaginyl endopeptidases (AEPs) or legumains are Asn/Asp (Asx)-specific proteases that break peptide bonds, but also function as peptide asparaginyl ligases (PALs) that make peptide bonds. …”
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Adder and multiplier design for computing-in-memory architecture based on ReRAM by Zheng, Buyun

“…On the other hand, it can break through the bottleneck of the "storage wall" in the current von Neumann architecture. …”
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Moris Mai : to be born by Cai, Yun, Har, Jiawei, Loh, Jing Ting, Toh, Yan Wei

“…Through the documentary, we hope to break new grounds and bring about emphasis and awareness on its current child and maternal situation. …”
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An investigation on correlation between linguistic features and personality traits : a case of Singapore Twitter users. by Yew, Chee Soon.

“…Thereafter, corpuses were generated from the six million tweets posted by 2,547 Singapore Twitter users from the public domain. Breaking down these corpuses into segments of 1,000 words, the usage of linguistic features by each subject was calculated. …”
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Financial forecasting using meta-cognitive fuzzy neural networks by Singh Akhand Pratap

“…With the levels of achievements made in the field of Machine Learning and predictive mechanisms, there is a hope to finally break down the mystery of the financial markets through such machine learning techniques. …”
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Anaerobic co digestion of biologically pretreated oil palm mesocarp fibre with cattle manure for biogas production by Mohammed Saidu

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Modal phase-matched bound states in the continuum for enhancing third harmonic generation of deep ultraviolet emission by Abdelraouf, Omar A. M., Anthur, Aravind P., Wang, Renshaw Xiao, Wang, Qi Jie, Liu, Hong

“…We experimentally achieved a Q-factor of ∼180 owing to the relatively large refractive index of the c-Si and the geometric symmetry breaking of the structure. We realized THG at a wavelength of 280 nm with a power of 14.5 nW by using a peak power density of 15 GW/cm2 excitation. …”
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Optical study of excitonic complexes in transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers by Bao, Di

“…The Fermi edge singularity may indicate a transition from a fermion-like charged state to a boson-like particle (exciton-plasmon).Due to the inversion symmetry breaking, there are two energy-degenerate but inequivalent valleys (K and K' ). …”
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Investigation of the recyclability of applications involving MgO cement by Lim, Chin Haow

“…Study to enhance the separation between MgO cement paste and aggregate in order to increase the amount of recycled MgO cement collected was done using preheating at 200oC – 400oC and mechanical separation method, without breaking the aggregate into powder form. MgO cement has the potential to be a more environmentally friendly alternative to OPC. …”
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Grid optimization and demand side mangement for electric vehicles penetration in remote area by Zhang, Yixiao, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Li, Ning

“…Compared with traditional gasoline pipelines and gas station construction for fossil fuel vehicles, the high demand of Electric Vehicles (EVs) will then consider breaking their products in the market of remote areas. …”
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Tools for multi-agent crowd simulation : redesigning and extending the COSMOS crowd simulation suite by Nasri Othman

“…Over 27% of the classes are abstract, and no cyclic dependencies exist among the packages. By breaking down the system into modular components, the cyclometric complexity and average method length had also been reduced by over half. …”
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Message from ICME'12 technical program chairs by Cai, Jianfei, Hanjalic, Alan, Magli, Enrico, Pickering, Mark, Friedland, Gerald, Hua, Xian-Sheng

“…Then, a research overview plenary session will run right after the afternoon tea break. We have designed the program in such a way that ICME audience will not miss the keynotes, overview talks and the plenary session, and can always find a high quality talk of interest at the parallel oral sessions. …”
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Institutions and agricultural transformation: a study of induced innovation in the Philippine rice sector by Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P.

“…The 2019 Rice Tariffication Law is highlighted as a key “path-breaking” event which contributed to addressing not only the rice trade protectionism problem but also in part the farmers’ capitalisation problems. …”
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君绍的散文研究 ：本土的观察、记忆与反思 = A study of Jun Shao’s prose: local observation, memory and reflection by 陈姿潔 Tan, Zi Jie

“…This thesis attempts to start off with understanding Jun Shao’s love for the nature and his nature writing, before further exploring the motivations and significances behind his prose creation. The thesis will break through the existing boundaries in the study of Jun Shao's prose, and further discussing the strong local consciousness or nativeness presented in his writings, through analysing the display of local characteristics and his deep concern for the society. …”
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Le cinéma d’Afrique noire contemporaine: une impossible décolonisation? by Fouhba, H

“…The advent of independence then created a break, with the birth of “African cinema”, carried by pioneers like Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Sembène Ousmane. …”

Reliability analysis and data driven modelling of railway component failure by Wang, Jinlong

“…Failure modes and mechanisms from five components were investigated which including: (1) Welded rail break failure; (2) Rotating bending fatigue test for welded rail material; (3) Train door failure; (4) Rail wear degradation failure; (5) Wheel flat degradation failure. …”
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