Microplastics in urban soils from different land use activities of Cyberjaya (Malaysia): exploring occurrence, relationships, sources and pollution level by Praveena, Sarva Mangala, Nik Mohd Zaidi, Nik Munirah, Nafisyah, Ayu Lana, Lingaraju, H.G.

“…As human activities continue to increase, the production and utilisation of plastics have become pervasive, leading to a surplus of plastic waste in the environment. This has turned the terrestrial ecosystem, encompassing soil, into a significant receptacle for the growing accumulation and discharge of plastic waste. …”
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Evaluation of growth patterns and maternal traits of Brakmas and Bali cows by Abd Wahab, Mohd. Hafiz

“…Evaluation of animals performance including growth and reproduction are very important to the animal breeders as it will be the turning point of gaining profit or loss in livestock enterprises. …”
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A finer-grain analysis of the leakage (non) resilience of OCB by Berti, Francesco, Bhasin, Shivam, Breier, Jakub, Hou, Xiaolu, Poussier, Romain, Standaert, François-Xavier, Udvarhelyi, Balasz

“…It allows trading a significantly reduced data complexity for a higher key guessing complexity and turns out to be the best attack vector in practical experiments performed against an implementation of OCB3 in an ARM Cortex-M0. …”
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Essays on attention and creative thought by Wang, Jocelyn Yuxing

“…I offer a conception of "diffuse attention" that generalizes from external to internal forms of attention and conceptualize mind wandering as an instance of it. Chapter 2 turns to provide an account of creative thinking, which is closely related to mind wandering. …”
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Best practices for ports and shipping companies to build resilience against pandemics by Tan, Hui En

“…Without seafarers, goods cannot flow across the SC. Instead of turning their backs on seafarers, ports should do more to protect seafarers during pandemics. …”
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Electronic structure of paramagnetic transition metal complexes by Al-Ameed, K

“…As a logical extension of this work, Chapter 4 turns to mixed-valence [Fe₈]^2– clusters which contain six ferric and two ferrous centres (Fe₆^IIIFe^II₂). …”

The biggest challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic on gender-related work from home in biomedical fields—world-wide qualitative survey analysis by Bezak, Eva, Carson-Chahhoud, Kristin V., Marcu, Loredana G., Stoeva, Magdalena, Lhotska, Lenka, Barabino, Gilda A., Ibrahim, Fatimah, Kaldoudi, Eleni, Lim, Sierin, Da Silva, Ana Maria Marques, Tan, Peck Ha, Tsapaki, Virginia, Frize, Monique

“…Mental stress and the feeling of inadequate work efficiency in women were caused by employers' expectations and lack of flexibility. Working from home turned out to be challenging, primarily due to a lack of preparedness, limited access to a dedicated home-office, and lack of previous experience in multi-layer/multi-scale environments.…”
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新加坡华语中的双宾结构 = Double object constructions in Singapore Mandarin by 蔡宝仪 Choi, Bao Yi

“…Among the languages, English and Mandarin turned out to be the higher frequency of usage among Singaporeans. …”
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On the most energy-efficient input functions and the lowest input energy of passive linear circuits by Smunyahirun, Radit

“…The optimization by using calculus of variations is expanded to any first order passive circuits. It turns out that the most energy-efficient function for general first order circuits is hyperbolic family. …”
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From phosphate to refugees: the offshore refugee boom in the Republic of Nauru by Morris, J

“…After outlining my theoretical framing, I explore the many procedures and techniques that modulate to Nauru’s state-building effort as a phosphate turned refugee company town.</p> <p>Nauru has occupied a prominent place in the international news, but the landscape of refugee market production that takes place there is represented by legal critics and global media as an exception. …”

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced biosensors by Zhang, Jinling

“…The detections operated on AuNH array using the collective effects of LSP and PSP turned out to be a promising combination in that it theoretically by simulation and experimentally revealed that the fluorescent enhancement was stronger in 2 orders of magnitude as compared with flat Au thin film substrate irradiated off-resonance. …”
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Going on from Picasso? Late modernism and the dynamics of history by Nelson, S

“…As in the various re-stagings of Picasso’s 'Demoiselles d’Avignon' (1907; itself, of course, a crossing-point for multiple traditions) carried out by Hartigan in the 1950s, Souza in the 1960s, and Robert Colescott in the 1980s, they actively diverted and reshaped these histories, turning such reflection into the material for continued painterly practice. …”

Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in North India: collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change by Tang, Bo

“…The two case studies of on-going live projects provide the empirical basis for this study: (1) The Kachhpura Settlement Upgrading Project (KSUP) started in 2006 focuses on sanitation in Agra, beginning with the introduction of household toilets leading to a natural Decentralised Waste Water Treatment System (DEWATS) turning foul drain effluent into a community resource for clean water…”
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Thermal energy storage enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Low, Zheng Hua

“…With the pressing need to decarbonize, industries are turning to renewable energy and energy saving technologies in a bid to reduce emissions. …”
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Studies of insulin transport across intestinal epithelium using nano-encapsulation for oral delivery by Zhang, Yiming

“…Great efforts have been devoted to the development of an effective alternative treatment but none of them has been turned into a solution to date. The discovery of insulin in the early 1920s brought promising hopes to pharmaceutical industries as increasing number of them have been attempting to load the drug in a capsule for the conventional oral route. …”
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Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Ramapurath Chemmencheri, S

“…Meanwhile, they have been dissuaded from turning into labourers in constant migration by virtue of welfare provisions and political mobilisation. …”

Advanced attack and defense techniques in machine learning systems by Zhao, Mengchen

“…Towards building secure machine learning systems, the first step is to study their vulnerability, which turns out to be very challenging due to the variety and complexity of machine learning systems. …”
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Discrete differential geometry driven methods for architectural geometry by Yao, Sidan

“…For each face with small curvature difference, we compute a stretch matrix that turns the principal directions into a pair of conjugate directions. …”
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Innovation and firm survival: the role of timing, funding, and networks by Gao, Ming

“…Therefore, researchers realized that attention should be turned to exploring heterogeneous issues or the factors that may affect the influence of innovation on firms’ survival. …”
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