Mediation in a feuding society: an anthropological approach to the process of sasmos in contemporary Crete by Chereji, C, Tsantiropoulos, A

“…The corresponding verb is siazo which means ‘pulling to taut (e.g., a wire or a string) which has been wrapped’. …”

Perspectives of New York State residents on deer management, hunting, and predator reintroduction by Blossey, B, Brice, L, Dalaba, J, Hare, D

“…Reducing deer populations by lethal means and facilitating return of large predators are two potential, but controversial, management options. …”

An empirical bioethical examination of Norwegian and British doctors' views of responsibility and (de)prioritization in healthcare by Everett, JAC, Maslen, H, Nussberger, A-M, Bringedal, B, Wilkinson, D, Savulescu, J

“…In a world with limited resources, allocation of resources to certain individuals and conditions inevitably means fewer resources allocated to other individuals and conditions. …”

Design of conditioning unit for data transmission over power distribution lines by Tan, Ming Hui.

“…This Thesis will look in the ways and means of helping the Power Line achieves it second function, that is to transmit data.…”
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Geoinformatics in Support of Urban Politics and the Development of Civil Engineering / by Lousada, Sérgio António Neves 1981-, editor 656274, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

“…Thus, this work will seek to characterize the different academic areas of Civil Engineering, demonstrating its evolution. It will be a means to allow the dynamization of publications in the area of Civil Engineering"--…”
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Exploring sequential VAE to handle time-series data by Tan, Colin G-Hao

“…They emerged in 2013 when it was introduced as a means to learn latent representations of data in an unsupervised manner while providing a probabilistic framework for generation. …”
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Operation C.Z.A.R: corporate zombie active resistance — an alternate reality game campaign on undergraduate transition from school to work. by Poh, Wee Koon., Ooi, Eldon Zhi Yi., Sim, Walter Mao Xian., Tay, Hendric Poh Teck.

“…It succeeded in raising awareness of the means available for an undergraduate to manage school-to-work transition, evident from a pre-and-post campaign survey. …”
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The weak π − π interaction originated resonant tunneling and fast switching in the carbon based electronic devices by He, Jun, Chen, Ke-Qiu, Sun, Changqing

“…By means of the nonequilibrium Green's functions and the density functional theory, we have investigated the electronic transport properties of C60 based electronic device with different intermolecular interactions. …”
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A comparison of soil sampling procedures used to monitor soil fertility in permanent pastures by Friesen, DK, Blair, GJ

“…The number of grid samples required to estimate within 10% of the mean varied from 121 for Bray-1 P down to 1 for soil pH. …”

Non-alignment : cold war relic or enduring institution? by Liow, John Boon Peng.

“…Examination of the essence of non-alignment and proposes a refreshed view of what non-alignment means in the new post-Cold War and post-Sep 11 era for international relations.…”
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Using data mining techniques to cluster Singapore companies. by Chng, Loi Siang.

“…The study uses Kohonen Self-Organizing Map, k-means clustering and two-step clustering to cluster companies in Singapore based on the companies' financial results.…”
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Web-based SCADA system for distributed control by Arumugam Shanmuga Sundaram.

“…This project introduces a Java-based Graphical Use Interface application that can act as a Man Machine Interface (MMI) to provide an easy and low cost means to SCADA system access.…”
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Energy absorption of thin-walled structures by Syed Wasif Hossain.

“…A global growth in the demand for automobiles also means there is a constant need to improve the safety of our transportation systems. …”
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Corporate Crisis Recovery : Managing Organizational Deviance, Reputation, and Risk / by Gottschalk, Petter, 1950-, author 346858, Hamerton, Christopher, author 655481, SpringerLink (Online service) 666

“…The principal aim of Corporate Crisis Recovery: Managing Organizational Deviance, Reputation, and Risk is to complement and expand criminological discourse on the concept of the social license to operate as a means of influencing the behaviour of corporations. …”
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A benchmarking of operational efficiency in Asia Pacific International cargo airports by Chung, Tae-won, Ahn, Woo-chul, Jeon, Su-min, Van Thai, Vinh

“…The multi-dimensional scaling cluster analysis by R-square method was used as the benchmarking tool to provide airport management with a means to examine various aspects of their operational efficiency against those of other airports. …”
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Wireless Sensor Network for Internet of Things Facility Management (IoT-FM) environment sensing by Guan, Jun Liang

“…Also, PM2.5 had a better K-means clustering and silhouette coefficient of 0.627. …”
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Arbitration : a new era of dispute resolution by Ang, Eng Kiat, Chong, Siew Ann, Tay, Eddie Liang Wee

“…Lately, there has been a heightened awareness in the commercial world that arbitration can be a good alternative to litigation as a means of dispute resolution. This is evidenced not only by the jump in the number of newspaper reports that have been published in the past few years, but there was even a television programme in 1995 on the topic of whether arbitration is a good means of dispute resolution. …”
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A self-peeling vat for improved release capabilities during DLP materials processing by Pedersen, David Bue, Zhang, Yang, Nielsen, Jakob Skov, Hansen, Hans NØrgaard

“…Peeling has been qualified by means of a truncated inverted cone as test geometry. …”
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On SURE-Type Double Shrinkage Estimation by Jing, Bing-Yi, Li, Zhouping, Pan, Guangming, Zhou, Wang

“…By placing priors for both means and variances, we propose novel SURE-type double shrinkage estimators that shrink both means and variances. …”
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Fostering Online Learning Engagement Via Gamification: A Comparison Between Media and Non-Media Students in Universiti Utara Malaysia (S/O: 14764) by Mohmad Yazam, Siti Syamsul Nurin, Ibrahim, Marhaiza

“…This is due to lack of interaction between students and educators by means of accessing, discussing, and sharing associated information through online meeting. …”
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