Intelligent database design for microgrids in low voltage distribution systems-I GUI and database design by Ng, Pei Fen

“…Unlike biomass, these renewable resources do not emit air pollutants since combustion is not required. Solar power has its own limitations, for instance, inconsistent input generating rate by reason of weather conditions or shading of cloud.With the increasing application of renewable resources in low voltage distribution systems, microgrid is being introduced. [49] Microgrid is located in areas close to customers so that power supplied is of desired frequency and voltage level. [13] In terms of generators capacity, conventional power plants are a lot larger than microgrid. …”
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Intelligent microgrid management and EV control under uncertainties in smart grid by Wang, Ran

“…In this charging scheme, EV owners can either assign the charging tasks to system controller or individually choose the charging profiles based on their own preferences. In addition, the stochastic characteristics of EVs such as the arrival and departure times and charging demands are taken into account. …”
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Sanctions with Chinese characteristics : the effects of China's sanctions rhetoric on its behaviour by Poh, Angela Ming Yan

“…China remains keen to credibly redefine understandings outside its own borders regarding the conditions under which sanctions can legitimately be employed. …”
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中华传统文化在新加坡奄奄一息的危机 ：电视剧《红白囍事》案例研究 = The imminent crisis of Chinese traditional culture in Singapore : a case study of drama series “New Beginnings”... by 詹韻璇 Cham, Vanessa Yunn Shyuan

“…Every scene from New Beginnings, for example the discrimination suffered by the funeral industry in society, the pursue of fame and wealth, blindly worshipping foreign powers leading to the abandonment of their own identity and culture. In spite of the simple plot, New Beginnings was thought-provoking and accurately depicts the aftermath of Chinese traditional culture due to modernisation.…”
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Negative auto-regulation of myostatin expression is mediated by SMAD3 and microRNA-27 by Ge, XiaoJia, McFarlane, Craig, Vajjala, Anuradha, Arigela, Harikumar, Lokireddy, Sudarsanareddy, Bonala, Sabeera, Manickam, Ravikumar, Kambadur, Ravi, Sharma, Mridula

“…These data highlight a novel auto-regulatory mechanism in which Mstn, via Smad3 signaling, regulates miR-27a/b and in turn its own expression. In support, Mstn-mediated inhibition of Mstn 3′ UTR reporter activity was reversed upon miR-27a/b-specific AntagomiR transfection. …”
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Student teachers learning to use Assessment for Learning in schools by Tan Chia Chun, D

“…Key findings from the final analyses were as follows: there was considerable variation in how the geography specialist teacher mentors interpreted and used AfL; some mentors were strongly mediating the AfL/AoL expectations evident in the school inspection system in England; there was evidence of some strong and challenging mentoring, but it was not consistent across the experiences of the students; the students' own sense of the kind of teacher they wanted to become could be tracked in ways which revealed how they coped with the different school demands and what they saw as university expectations; the transition between placement schools was significant for the student teachers in ways that had not been anticipated by the design of the programme.…”

Members’ participation, empowerment and sustainability of self-help groups in Kano City, Nigeria by Ibrahim, Abdul-Aziz

“…Therefore, SGHs are playing important role through which people participate in community development activities and making sure that various communities develop their own initiatives by themselves. Despite the potential of SHGs, there are certain factors that restrained the sustainability of these groups. …”
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Preparation for and performance of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm experiment on board the International Space Station by Flores, Pamela, Schauer, Rylee, McBride, Samantha A., Luo, Jiaqi, Hoehn, Carla, Doraisingam, Shankini, Widhalm, Dean, Chadha, Jasmin, Selman, Leah, Mueller, Daniel Wyn, Floyd, Shannon, Rupert, Mark, Gorti, Sridahr, Reagan, Shawn, Varanasi, Kripa K., Koch, Christina, Meir, Jessica U., Muecklich, Frank, Moeller, Ralf, Stodieck, Louis, Countryman, Stefanie, Zea, Luis

“…The processes discussed here may serve as a guideline to teams planning their own gravitational microbiology experiments. This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. 80NSSC17K0036.…”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Zou, Kunru

“…The connections to top political leaders (i.e., Central Committee of the Communist Party of China) make local politicians engage more in rent-seeking by selling state-owned enterprises (SOEs) at substantial discounts. …”
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Leakage-resilient secret sharing with constant share size by Tjuawinata, Ivan, Xing, Chaoping

“…Some of the schemes constructed without the use of concatenation also possesses strong multiplicative property (ii) via Fourier Analysis, we analyze the leakage-resilience of secret sharing schemes from codes over extension fields. This is of its own theoretical interest independent of its application to secret sharing schemes from algebraic geometric codes over extension fields.…”
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解析海峡华人领袖如何通过早期的《海峡华人杂志》塑造海峡华人独特与中间人的形象，并探讨其中的意义 = An analysis of how the Straits Chinese leaders shaped a distinct and intermediary image of Straits Chinese through the early Strai... by 朱碧瑜 Zhu, Bi Yu

“…This paper focuses on the Straits Chinese and aims to provide a fresh interpretation of them through their own perspectives. This paper analyses how the Straits Chinese leaders consciously shaped the distinct and intermediary images of Straits Chinese through the early issues of "The Straits Chinese Magazine." …”
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Competitive intrinsically motivated agents for resource allocation by Zhao, Guopeng

“…In particular, agent’s behaviors in the pursuit of needs address each of the three questions individually: The need of competence drives agents to adapt to the dynamically changing environment, by a constant pursuit of good performance and new skills; The need of relatedness enables agents to provide reliable solutions from unevenly distributed information, by advocating collaborations with other agents to collect and synthesize information; The need of autonomy steers agents in systematically integrating various strategies and behaviors by encouraging them to make their own decisions proactively. The contributions of this thesis are summarized as follows. …”
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Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…The author tried to grow his own crystals to remove the defects which he found in the commercial CdS single crystal. …”
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重新建构女性的自我认同 ： 以苏童“红粉”系列小说为例 = Re-constructing woman’s self identity : a case study of Su Tong’s “Hong Fen” series by 陈品秀 Tan, Ping Siew

“…Is it because female authors can understand women better, so they are able to explore the deep and genuine sentiment of women’s own inner world, and write a touching feminine literature work? …”
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渺小的伟大 ：以电视剧《大英雄》探讨新加坡小市民的邻里关系 = Building Singapore's neighbourhood relations : a case study of drama series Hero by 林殷如 Lim, Esther Yin Ru

“…Audiences yearn for heroic TV characters in their own neighbourhood. It is reflected that after watching just one drama of this genre, viewers may not take action to improve their neighbourly relations. …”
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Examining diabetes management apps recommended from a Google search : content analysis by Jimenez, Geronimo, Lum, Elaine, Car, Josip

“…Background: The availability of smartphone health apps empowers people to manage their own health. Currently, there are over 300,000 health apps available in the market targeting a variety of user needs from weight loss to management of chronic conditions, with diabetes being the most commonly targeted condition. …”
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南洋与没有历史的人民 : 苗秀小说中的底层华人= Nanyang and the people without history: a study of the lower-class Chinese people in Miao Xiu's novels by 李泓诺 Li, Hongnuo

“…During this period, literary works broke away from the traditional aestheticism writing and started to highlight a sense of locality within the context of Malaysia and Singapore, establishing their own uniqueness. As a realist writer in Singapore, Miao Xiu also shifted his creative direction to writing realist novels that focused on local characteristics. …”
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孟子与董仲舒论“圣人之善”的比较分析 = A comparative analysis between the "Sage's Goodness" as proposed by Mencius and Dong Zhong Shu by 范舒玲 Wan, Cassandra Sue-Lynn

“…However, although Dong Zhong Shu succeeded Confucius’ and Mencius’ (孟子, Mengzi) humanistic ideas, his own discourse regarding the human nature(人性, ren’xing) has undermined the moral authority which stems from an individual’s inherent and independent morality. …”
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色身与土地 ：台湾法鼓山「骨灰植存」之考察 = The physical body and land : observation from the ash burials of Taiwan Dharma drum mountain by 周佩镁 Chiew, Pui Mei

“…The Chinese have their own tradition for funeral matters to show that the family members are filial and respect the deceased, which is inhumation. …”
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Injectable and biomimetic poly (ethylene glycol) hydrogel systems for in situ therapeutic cell delivery by Cao, Ye

“…This work showed that covalently conjugating elastin to gelatin-PEG hydrogel is more effective in guiding fibroblast behavior by promoting the spreading and proliferation of NHDFs and finally to secret their-own ECM protein in 3-D. Results from NHDFs studies showed that proliferation rate of NHDFs in GEP45 (13.5%) and GEP30 (11.4%) were higher than that of control (7.3%) on day 9. …”
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