ASEAN and EU in the political reform in Myanmar by Nguyen Thi Anh Thu

“…While there is still a long road ahead of Myanmar towards a more sustainable future, this dissertation is expected to give a hint on the effectiveness of the carrot and stick approaches taken by ASEAN and the EU in the past years. It may also be helpful for a continuous observation of this country's democratization in the future, especially when looking forward to its election in 2015.…”
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Cyclic compression of mesenchymal stem cells loaded scaffolds for bone tissue engineering by Guo, Fangfang

“…Cyclic mechanical loading on Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) has resulted in increased expression of early osteogenic markers as well as increased mineralized matrix deposition. In most of past studies, scaffolds were subjected to the cyclic loading immediately after seeding or a few days after static culture. …”
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The antecedents and consequences of a layered architecture of mobile handsets by Lee, Alvin Wei Ming

“…It will highlight how this concept, which has proven relevant in many past instances, permeates itself in this industry. …”
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Experimental study of flows in a porous pipe by Lin, Wanxi

“…Studies on permeable-rough bounded flows done in the past are mainly conducted in open channels, where it is subjected to the effect of surface variance. …”
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Web-based English grammar system for personalized learning by Yan, Qian Ping

“…The learning concepts defined for each section and questions in this system were gathered from the past year exam papers and assessment books. Grammar Express allows students to search for questions, learn concepts for each section, practice questions on the sections that they are weak at, and take a paper test with a time limit. …”
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Detecting facial expressions from kinect camera by Muhammad Hafiz Bin Mohd Zakee

“…In the past years, there were several advances methodology regarding face detection and tracking, features extraction methodology and techniques used for expression classification. …”
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Building a low cost advanced driver assistance system : human detection by Tan, Yan Ling

“…Advance Drive Assistance Systems (ADAS) are systems which helps driver in their driving process can enhance manufacturers’ competitiveness in the market. In the past decade, more emphasis has been placed on using such systems on driverless vehicles. …”
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Brand or friend? A study on relational mobility as the mediator between stress and brand identification by Chi, Boon See

“…This identification has been demonstrated possible to replace social identification, which is essential to an individual’s self-concept and self-worth. Review of past researches illustrates the potential of brand identification as a coping resource to overcome stressors. …”
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Use of DSRC and other sensor signals for vehicular localization by Gong, Yi Lin

“…The V2X communication can be performed over Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) technology. In past days, the most common method of localization is using Global Positioning System (GPS). …”
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Photoluminescence study of graphene quantum dots (GOD's) embedded into SiO2 matrix by M Tanda Erapanni Sukumar

“…GQDs have been at centre of attention for researchers for the past couple of years. However, most of the optical researches are done while GQDs are in liquid phase, which makes it impossible to be part of alternative lighting source in solid phase. …”
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Improving hydration and carbonation of reactive magnesium oxide cement by Tye, Wenkai

“…However, mechanical strength advancement of RMC concrete is limited by the low hydration and carbonation of MgO in ambient conditions. Some past studies had presented the effectiveness of using hydrating agents (HA) to improve hydration of MgO while others improved the carbonation aspect via various methods. …”
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Development of an industrial SCADA firewall prototype using single board computer - part 2 by Teo, Joycelyn Li Ting

“…Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is one of such systems which controls the operations in these industries. In the past, SCADA systems operate in isolation from the rest of the world, within their own networks. …”
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Modelling, design and control of the virtual synchronous machine in the smart grid application by Chen, Yidan

“…In the past few years, due to the increasing people’s awareness in environmental protection, the renewable energy (distribution) generation plays a larger and larger part in the power grid. …”
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Laplacian Regularized Subspace Learning for interactive image re-ranking by Zhang, Lining., Wang, Lipo., Lin, Weisi.

“…Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has attracted substantial attention during the past few years for its potential applications. To bridge the gap between low level visual features and high level semantic concepts, various relevance feedback (RF) or interactive re-ranking (IR) schemes have been designed to improve the performance of a CBIR system. …”
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Compressing Trajectory for Trajectory Indexing by Feng, Kaiyu, Shen, Zhiqi

“…With the availability of such trajectory data, many mining tasks have been proposed and investigated in the past decade. Since the raw trajectory data is usually very large, it is a big challenge to analyse and mine the raw data directly. …”
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Preface : two dimensional (2D) hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites by Li, Wei, Docampo, Pablo, Mohite, Aditya D., Zhang, Hua

“…2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have been intensively investigated over the past 30 years before the rise of photovoltaic 3D hybrid perovskites. …”
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A sustainable approach to individualized disease treatment : The engineering of a multiple use MEMS drug delivery device by Tng, Danny Jian Hang, Song, Peiyi, Hu, Rui, Lin, Guimiao, Yong, Ken-Tye

“…Individualized disease diagnosis and therapy has emerged as a new direction in the research of future medication. Over the past several years, innovative approaches based on microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology have demonstrated promising potential in individualized therapy. …”
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Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs by Xia, Yang, Yeo, Chai Kiat

“…Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) has been an active research area in the past few years. It is observed that as the mobility of nodes increases, the performance of existing cluster based routing protocols tends to deteriorate rapidly. …”
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The temporality of building: European and Chinese perspectives on architecture and heritage by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas, Xiao, Jing

“…Through these lenses, buildings, interiors and their exterior spaces (churches/cathedrals, temples, palaces, gardens and courtyard houses) are explored to demonstrate how building time involves particular situations/settings and their correlating relationships to past traditions. In the final chapter we consider notions of time in the context of contemporary buildings in Europe and China, drawing on the earlier historical investigations and addressing globalising influences. …”
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Information gathering: dissociable effects of autistic and alexithymic traits in youths aged 6–25 years by Lee, KS, Long, EL, Catmur, C, Hauser, TU, Bird, G

“…Little is known about the cognitive processes associated with this intolerance of uncertainty, most notably the tendency to actively gather information to minimize uncertainty. Past research has relied on self-report measures that may not allow investigation of the multifaceted processes associated with intolerance of uncertainty, including information gathering. …”