The South China Sea Disputes : Makings of a New Cold War? by Teo, KB

“…Tensions in the South China Sea (SCS) have somewhat abated but the latent flashpoint remains. In mid-October 2018, a near collision took place between an American and Chinese warship. …”
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Russian oil – challenges and possibilities by Moe, A

“…In fact the rate of growth fell drastically after 2004, growth continued, however, with output reaching 523 million tonnes in 2014, getting close to the record levels of the mid-1980s.…”

Natural gas in Latin America and interactions with the rest of the world by Honoré, A

“…Latin America has long been disconnected from other gas markets, focusing instead on regional integration via pipeline – especially in the Southern Cone. In the mid-2000s, a shortage of natural gas production coupled with political disagreements, tensions over price renegotiations, and shortfalls of deliveries from neighbours led several countries to turn to LNG imports – either to replace or supplement indigenous production and imports of pipeline gas. …”

Holocene relative sea-level histories of tropical islands by Tan, Fangyi

“…I produced a standardised, quality-controlled database of published Holocene RSL data from mid Pacific islands, which had been formerly used to validate GIA models and infer ice-equivalent sea-level changes. …”
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Cross-reactive dengue human monoclonal antibody prevents severe pathologies and death from Zika virus infections by Kam, Yiu-Wing, Lee, Cheryl Yi-Pin, Teo, Teck-Hui, Howland, Shanshan W., Siti Naqiah Amrun, Lum, Fok-Moon, See, Peter, Kng, Nicholas Qing-Rong, Huber, Roland G., Xu, Mei-Hui, Tan, Heng-Liang, Choo, Andre, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Ginhoux, Florent, Fink, Katja, Wang, Cheng-I, Ng, Lisa F.P., Rénia, Laurent

“…The SIgN-3C variant with Leu-to-Ala mutations in the Fc region (SIgN-3C-LALA) did not induce antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) in vitro but provided similar levels of protection in vivo. …”
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A comparative study of loan packages for executive condominiums by Wong, Chee Cheong, Chew, Anthony Chwee Kim, Ang, Ben Siew Hock

“…This scheme provides a quasi-private form of housing that is similar in design and quality to mid-range private condominiums. ECs are sold with strata titles restrictions. …”
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Landmines and civilian security in Eastern Burma : implications for humanitarian engagement. by Bookbinder, Alex.

“…The emergence of the human security paradigm in international relations since the mid-1990s has successfully put a number of human-centric security concerns on the global agenda. …”
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Lowering in-memory footprint of antenna beams via polynomial approximation by Taqi, A, Adámek, K, Gueuning, Q, Serylak, M, Laing, R, Armour, W

“…A novel prototype is reported here to approximate antenna beams suitable for SKA-MID using Zernike polynomials. It is shown that beam kernels can be well approximated, paving the way for future optimisations towards facilitating more efficient beam-dependent solutions and approaches to tackling the aforementioned challenges, all of which are essential for large-scale radio telescopes.…”

Lowering in-memory footprint of antenna beams via polynomial approximation by Taqi, A, Adámek, K, Gueuning, Q, Serylak, M, Laing, R, Armour, W

“…A novel prototype is reported here to approximate antenna beams suitable for SKA-MID using Zernike polynomials. It is shown that beam kernels can be well approximated, paving the way for future optimisations towards facilitating more efficient beam-dependent solutions and approaches to tackling the aforementioned challenges, all of which are essential for large-scale radio telescopes.…”

Reading and ideology: the case of the free public libraries movement by Spowage, K, Toth, HG

“…This article examines social debates on mass reading in Britain, linking them to the free public libraries movement of the mid-19th century. It argues that free public libraries were defended on the grounds of a piecemeal, eclectic, but nonetheless identifiable vernacular theory of ideology that emerged over the course of a century. …”

Living by the lake: plant food diversity in a prehistoric lake-dwelling community in the Republic of North Macedonia by Holguin, A, Charles, M, Antolín, F, Ballantyne, R, Ergun, M, Hafner, A, Jacomet, S, Lotter, AF, Naumov, G, Reich, J, Soteras, R, Stroud, E, Tinner, W, Wood, R, Bogaard, A

“…This paper explores the relationship between wetland ecosystems and prehistoric lakeshore settlements within the Lake Ohrid basin (a biodiversity hotspot) by considering plant food systems at Ploča Mičov Grad, North Macedonia. The mid-fifth millennium (c.4555–4373 to 4437–4241 cal BCE) waterlogged assemblage contained a diverse spectrum of crops and ‘wild’ resources, providing resilience against crop failure. …”

Pro defunctis: Lassos frühe Toten- und Memorialkompositionen zwischen Individualisierung und Generalisierung by Leitmeir, C

“…This has a decisive impact on the tradition of the genre of the polyphonic Requiem, to which Orlando di Lasso made his first contribution only in his mid-forties. By contrast, settings of individual texts from the Office of the Dead already feature prominently in Lasso’s earliest publications of the years 1556–7, the transitional phase between his formative years in Italy and the permanent appointment at the ducal court of Munich. …”

3D spheroid-microvasculature-on-a-chip for tumor-endothelium mechanobiology interplay by Zhang, Yingqi, Jiang, Fengtao, Zhao, Charles Yunduo, Cho, Ann-Na, Fang, Guocheng, Cox, Charles D., Zreiqat, Hala, Lu, Zu Fu, Lu, Hongxu, Ju, Arnold Lining

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Relationships between fungal community composition in decomposing leaf litter and home‐field advantage effects by Veen, G. F. Ciska, van der Putten, Wim H., Snoek, Basten L., Bakx‐Schotman, Tanja, Wardle, David A.

“…Fungal communities on decomposed late‐successional litter in late‐successional soil differed from those in early‐ and mid‐successional stage litter and soil combinations. …”
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Indonesia’s mass killings of 1965–1966 : retrospective and requiem by Faizah Zakaria

“…Joshua Oppenheimer, who brought international attention to the massacre of up to a million Indonesians in the mid-1960s through his films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), regards his work as having “forever broken the silence on the 1965-1966 genocide.” 1 This statement is perhaps only half-right. …”
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Automated image generation by Chen, Xueyao

“…Recent years have shown emerging trends in the role of artificial intelligence in art and image generation, as the popularity of AI image generators such as DALL·E, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion and NovelAI have proven the many benefits and uses of automated image generation. …”
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Tonal reassociation and rising tonal contours in Naxi by Michaud, Alexis

“…Western Naxi has three tones (High, Mid and Low) plus a more recent rising contour tone. …”
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Development of the capital market in Malaysia : a critical analysis by Li Qingyuan, Lim Boon Hau, Teo Yong Meng

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Molecular beam epitaxy of dilute nitride indium antimonide materials for long wavelength infrared application by Pham, Huynh Tram

“…InSb is an important material for high frequency electronic devices and for mid-infrared radiation detection. By adding a small amount of N into InSb, the band gap is found to decrease and this is useful for long wavelength infrared detector application. …”
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Sensing and communication based on novel laser technologies by Huang, Wei

“…Free-space optic (FSO) communication systems have been playing an important role in communication area, and the wave in range of Mid Infra Red (MIR) becomes advantaged as communication requires higher speed and longer distance. …”
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