The present state of PST/PTB reconstruction: can we even write a fable in Proto-Lolo-Burmese? by Matisoff, James A.

“…In these respects, Indo-Europeanists have been much better off than Sino-Tibetanists, to the point where the 19th century scholar August Schleicher once dared to compose a fable in Proto-Indo-European.'…”
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Task-based digital library for the academic community. by Meyyappan, Narayanan.

“…Taking into account current practices, gaps in DL research and development, and user requirement analysis, this research proposed the use of a task-based approach to design a prototype Digital Work Environment (DWE) to serve as a one-stop access point for users to retrieve all kinds of digital information resources including those found in the institution's Intranets, library and the Internet. …”
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An analysis on the Vietnam's equity market. by Sng, Ya Ying., Chang, June Tneg., Tran, Thanh Thuy.

“…A brief description on the Vietnam’s equity markets is given to show the current conditions of the markets and to point out the channels through which foreign investors can invest in Vietnamese stocks. …”
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Development of a lab on a chip for nerve agent detection by Tan, Hsih Yin

“…Rapid and sensitive detection of chemical and biological warfare agents (CWA) could provide an early ‘alarm’ of their release, therefore minimizing civilian casualties. Point-of-care diagnosis of individuals who are potentially exposed to chemical warfare agents will allow first-responder health providers to react quickly and efficiently. …”
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The monsters under my bed : fears and phobias. by Chong, Cherlyn Peiwen.

“…We cannot help but fear a certain situation or object, to the point of behaving impractically by going out of our way to avoid it. …”
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Rheology on CNT-filled polymer nanocomposites (II) by Chan, Xue Shuang.

“…With the addition of acid-treated MWCNTs, the rheological percolation threshold drops from 2 wt% to 1.5 wt%. The gel point (Cg) value for pristine MWCNTs/PP-g-MA/PP and acid treated MWCNTs/PP-g-MA/PP was 2.0 wt% and 1.5 wt% respectively.…”
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Aerodynamics of marine vessels by Muhammad Al-Muzakkir Kamsani.

“…More precise flow visualization was obtained in the water tunnel test which had also provided a rough estimation of the critical point of interest. The wind tunnel test was performed to obtain the numerical data which were then used to locate the maximum flow velocity or the wind power over the superstructure of the vessel model by Excel Computation Method (The concept of integrating the Velocity Profile from the Wind Power Equation). …”
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The greening of the offshore and marine industry. by Wee, Shi Hao., Leong, Pei Ling., Kong, Justin Jude Tse Sen.

“…On the whole, the formation of green alliances is aptly traceable to external pressures as the starting and/or focal point. Social pressures to protect the planet and regulations are the salient constituents of these external pressures which serve to create awareness within organizations the importance and need for green strategies and alliances. …”
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Secondo : a platform for moving objects database research by Tan, Andrew Wee Teck

“…For example, a single value of moving point (mpoint for short) data type could represent a complete trip of a passenger on board an MRT or a LRT train which possibly has several changes of course along the path. …”
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Android smart phone based participatory sensing (2) by Leung, Lap Kan

“…This project aims to develop an eye tracking system running on IOS devices which provides similar accuracy as the mac book version. At this point of writing, due to difficulties encountered which will be explained in the report, the implementation of the ipad version is still a work in progress. …”
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Does death penalty have a deterrent effect on homicides? by Du, Shangzhu, Sheng, Chao, Wen, Shaoyi

“…Among all debates about whether to retain or abolish death penalty, the effect of death penalty on deterring homicides is the most controversial arguing point. This paper aims at examining the significance of deterrent effects of death penalty, taking into consideration country-specific economic climates, in order to provide policy makers with meaningful insights so as to make better-informed decisions. …”
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Chemical vapor deposition growth and transfer of two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride by Chin, Warren Chee How

“…Different types of characterisation tools were also used namely Raman spectroscopy, SEM, AFM and four-point probe to verify the properties of the grown h-BN. …”
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Paper-based microfluidic device : serial dilution application by Tan, Eng Kiat

“…Recently, there is an increasing demand in point-of-care diagnostic devices in the healthcare industry. …”
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Real time analysis of social behavior from video and kinect recordings by Ramasamy, Pandi Ramesh

“…The prime aim is to pin point the most seemly machine learning classifier for obtaining highest accuracy for classification.…”
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Effect of a circular tunnel in the foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Yeong, Siang Phong

“…Importance is given to the comparison of Horizontal Peak Ground Acceleration at different horizontal placement of points and varying tunnel diameter. For an in-depth analysis, other ground readings such as Peak Ground Velocity and Peak Ground Displacement are also compared. …”
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A human-centered design framework for the development of product-service systems by Wong, Thomson Chi Shing

“…Nevertheless, research has pointed out that the number of service-specific approaches is scarce, and the tools that are mainly used to develop the services in PSS offerings are usually taken from product and software engineering. …”
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Brain control games and applications by Darmaja, Natalia

“…This could be due to the challenging control of the headset despite rigorous training and the high price point of headsets with better accuracy. Therefore, cheaper alternative Emotiv Insight headset is used to develop a simple altered version of Tetris game called Brain Tetris. …”
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SOCIAL MASKING: The act of comfortable personalities by Yar, Lionel Jun Cheng

“…What levels of vulnerability should one adopt in any given relationship? And at what point can one be completely oneself without the fear of judgment or intolerance and the need to conform to social norms? …”
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Viral determinants of enterovirus 71 neuroinvasive potential by Rachel

“…To assess the functional significance of mutations identified in the 5’UTR from a previous experiment in a mouse-model of infection, we generated 10 infectious clones with point mutations in an otherwise homogenous genetic background. …”
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Delineating the protective effects of testosterone on dentate gyrus neurons by Lim, Xue Yun

“…This study thus serve as a start point to further illuminate the potential of androgen dependent mechanisms in mediating protective effects against hippocampal atrophy.…”
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