“I’m cantonese but I speak hokkien” : a case study of a Chinese Singaporean family. by Ng, Li Yan.

“…It was found that one of the main language ideologies determining language use within this family was the belief that language is a tool used for purely pragmatic purposes. While acknowledging that dialects constitute part of their ethnic identity, cultural roots and ancestry, participants highlighted the useful aspects of (some) dialects and acknowledged that Mandarin is a practical language to be proficient in. …”
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Pushing the limits of relaxation and modulated-bath AC calorimetry. by Song, Zhibo.

“…The simulation will be conducted using 3 milligram pure copper for the temperature range from 2K to 10K based on the modulated-bath AC method. …”
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In vitro reconstitution of telomeric mono-nucleosomes by Tiu, Charles Kevin Dee

“…However, the telomeric mono-nucleosome formed is heterogeneous implying that reconstitution requires further fine-tuning to achieve sufficient homogeneity. The production of pure and homogenous telomeric mono-nucleosomes will pave the way for biophysical and structural studies which would enable researchers to better comprehend telomere structure.…”
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Self-poisoning with paracetamol in England: short report of characteristics of individuals and their overdoses according to source of tablets by Brand, F, Bale, E, Tsiachristas, A, Hawton, K

“…Psychosocial assessments were conducted by mental health clinicians with 127 consecutive individuals who presented with pure paracetamol overdoses to a large general hospital over 8 months, including asking about the source of the tablets and scoring the patients’ acts on the Beck Suicide Intent scale (BSI). …”

Towards ILP-based LTLf passive learning by Ielo, A, Law, M, Fionda, V, Ricca, F, De Giacomo, G, De Giacomo, G, Russo, A

“…It compares it to both pure SAT-based techniques and the exhaustive search method. …”

Oil discoveries and protectionism: role of news effects by Perez-Sebastian, F, Raveh, O, van der Ploeg, F

“…Our baseline estimates indicate that a giant oil field discovery induces a rise of approximately 13% in the average tariff over the course of 10 years; this increase is approximately 2.5 times larger during the pre-production period when the oil discovery represents a pure news shock.…”

Sustainability, safety, biocompatibility and benefits of laser ablated gold, silver and copper nanoparticles: a comprehensive review by Alhajj, Mahmood, Ghoshal, Sib Krishna

“…Pulse laser ablation in liquid (PLAL) technique became versatile for the production of diverse surface functionalized stable and pure organic/inorganic nanostructures including various noble metal nanoparticles (NMNPs) required for high performance applications in a sustainable way. …”

Nitrogen-doped TiO2 nanotube array films with enhanced photocatalytic activity under various light sources by Lai, Yue-Kun, Huang, Jianying, Zhang, Hui-Fang, Subramaniam, Vishnu-Priya, Tang, Yuxin, Gong, Dangguo, Sundar, Latha, Sun, Lan, Chen, Zhong, Lin, Changjian

“…The experimental results showed that there were four primary intermediates existing in the photocatalytic reaction. Compared with the pure TiO2 nanotube array film, the N-doped TiO2 nanotubes exhibited higher photocatalytic activity in degradating methyl orange into non-toxic inorganic products under both UV and simulated sunlight irradiation.…”
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Multimode entanglement in coupled cavity arrays by Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Savona, V.

“…This entanglement is shown to survive realistic rates of pure dephasing and opens up a new perspective for the realization of quantum simulators or entangled photon sources without the challenging requirement of strong optical nonlinearities.…”
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Dissipative solitons with extreme spikes in the normal and anomalous dispersion regimes by Akhmediev, N., Soto-Crespo, J. M., Vouzas, Peter, Devine, N., Chang, Wonkeun

“…These ideas allowed the notion of solitons to be extended from purely integrable cases to the concept of dissipative solitons. …”
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Optimal gain sensing of quantum-limited phase-insensitive amplifiers by Nair, Ranjith, Tham, Guo Yao, Gu, Mile

“…In stark contrast to the sensing of loss parameters, the average photon number N and number of input modes M of the probe are found to be equivalent and interchangeable resources for optimal gain sensing. All pure-state probes whose reduced state on the input modes to the amplifier is diagonal in the multimode number basis are proven to be quantum optimal under the same gain-independent measurement. …”
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High strength Hadfield steel produced using laser powder bed fusion of mixed powders by Cheng, Baisong, Wei, Fengxia, Teh, Wei Hock, Cheong, Kok Heng, Lee, Jing Jun, Chew, Li Tian, Lau, Kwang Boon, Ma, Tang Hieu Binh, Ng, Chee Koon, Wang, Pei, Ramamurty, Upadrasta, Tan, Cheng Cheh

“…Hadfield steel (HS) containing ∼0.83 wt% Carbon has been manufactured using the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of mixed Fe-Mn, pure-Fe and Fe-C powders. Results show that the as-fabricated alloy is fully austenitic with the absence of carbides—a typical feature in the cast alloy that necessitates its solutionizing and quenching. …”
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Observation of an acoustic non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulator by Gu, Zhongming, Gao, He, Xue, Haoran, Wang, Di, Guo, Jiamin, Su, Zhongqing, Zhang, Baile, Zhu, Jie

“…In this study, we investigate the effect of purely non-Hermitian disorders on topological systems using a one-dimensional acoustic lattice with coupled resonators. …”
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Electronic Properties of Fluoride and Half–fluoride Superlattices KZnF3/KAgF3 and SrTiO3/KAgF3 by Yang, Xiaoping, Su, Haibin

“…Strong antiferromagnetic coupling found in bulk KAgF3 is held in purely–fluoride KZnF3/KAgF3. Under 4% in–plane compression strain, its Fermi surface shape breaks away from the edge of electron pocket and resembles that of La2CuO4. …”
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Multimode-pumped Raman amplification of a higher order mode in a large mode area fiber by Zhu, Sheng, Pidishety, Shankar, Feng, Yutong, Hong, Soonki, Demas, Jeff, Sidharthan, Raghuraman, Yoo, Seongwoo, Ramachandran, Siddharth, Srinivasan, Balaji, Nilsson, Johan

“…We amplify the LP08-mode with a 559-µm2 effective mode area at a signal wavelength of 1115 nm in a pure-silica-core step-index fiber. A maximum of 18 dB average power gain is achieved in a 9-m long gain fiber, with output pulse energy of 115 µJ. …”
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Theoretical Modelling and Facile Synthesis of a Highly Active Boron-Doped Palladium Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction by Vo Doan, Tat Thang, Wang, Jingbo, Poon, Kee Chun, Tan, Desmond Chun Long, Khezri, Bahareh, Webster, Richard David, Su, Haibin, Sato, Hirotaka

“…In fact, Pd-B, facile synthesized by an electroless deposition process, exhibits 2.2 times and 8.8 times higher specific activity and 14 times and 35 times less costly than commercial pure Pd and Pt catalysts, respectively. Another computational result is that the surface core level of Pd is negatively shifted by B doping, as confirmed by XPS, and implies that filling the density of states related to the anti-bonding of oxygen to Pd surfaces with excess electrons from B doping, weakens the O bonding to Pd and boosts the catalytic activity.…”
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A new energy-efficient local metric for Channel-Aware Geographic-Informed Forwarding (CAGIF) in wireless sensor networks by Soong, Boon Hee, Zhang, Lili

“…The proposed metric considers not only the forward distance but also the packet successful probability under a certain channel condition, rather than purely maximizing the forward distance, to choose the most energy-efficient relay node in the geographic- informed routing protocol in a CDMA-based wireless sensor network. …”
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LAACAD : load balancing k-area coverage through autonomous deployment in wireless sensor networks by Li, Feng, Luo, Jun, Xin, Shi-Qing, Wang, Wen-Ping, He, Ying

“…In this paper, we present a practical algorithm LAACAD (Load balancing k-Area Coverage through Autonomous Deployment) to move sensor nodes toward k-area coverage, aiming at minimizing the maximum sensing range required by the nodes. LAACAD enables purely autonomous node deployment as it only entails localized computations. …”
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Project Management in the Construction Industry : From Concept to Completion / by Mubarak, Saleh A., author 451381, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Written by a longtime professional and author with diversified and international experience in academia and industry, Project Management in the Construction Industry covers sample topics such as: Project life cycle and organization, covering why and how projects are initiated and pure project versus functional management; Scope management, covering the decision making process, scope creep versus progressive elaboration, and cost of change versus time; The planning phase, covering delivery methods and contract types, priorities, feasibility studies, and the “go” decision; Project budgeting, financing, and cost management, covering direct versus indirect cost, classes and purposes of estimates, bonds and insurance, and the CSI MasterFormat. …”
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TiO2 inverse opals by atomic layer deposition for solar cell by Chong, Kai Shing.

“…PS opal templates are used and are infiltrated using 99.999% pure TiCl4 and deionised water. Based on the photonic properties shown by the TiO2 infiltrated opals, conventional pulse/purge ALD is compared to a self-made Close Vacuum Atomic Layer Deposition (CVALD). …”
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