Prosopanche: a remarkable genus of parasitic plants by Hatt, SA, Cameron, DD, Grace, OM, Rocamundi, N, Cocucci, AA, Martel, C, Thorogood, CJ

“…Growing almost entirely underground with a complete lack of leaves, plants of Prosopanche bear more resemblance to fungi than plants and have many remarkable aspects to their life history and ecology that require further investigation. …”

Why Brussels? Neruda’s ‘título absolutamente enigmático’ by Moran, D

“…<p>The primary purpose of this article is to propose a solution to longstanding literary mystery, namely, why Neruda&rsquo;s disconcertingly enigmatic poem &lsquo;Bruselas&rsquo; (from&nbsp;<em>Tercera residencia</em>&nbsp;[1947]) has a title which seems to bear little if any relation either to the city of Brussels itself or to its sometimes bewilderingly obscure content and imagery. …”

5G mobile wireless access and digital channeling with RF over fiber for long-haul 64-QAM communication by Al Noor, Mazin, Virdee, Bal Singh, Ouazzane, Karim, Mariyanayagam, Dion, Benetatos, Harry, Hubenova, Svetla

“…The optical receiver is shown to have a sensitivity of -28.3 dBm for a bit-error rate (BER) of 10−9. These results demonstrate the viability of the proposed RFoF architecture in providing significant improvement in the bit rate over a transmission distance.…”
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Multilateral security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region : prospects and possibilities by Ball, Desmond

“…It acknowledges the extraordinary progress of the institutionalisation of multilateral security cooperation between 1992-97 but also sees this process and institutionalising a region-wide confidence-building process were fundamentally important achievements of the first five-year period, but they were relatively easy undertakings when compared to mroe substantive activites such as preventive diplomacy, conflict resolution or arms control.…”
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Crazy pole dancing tattooed metalhead biking crossplaying Asians by Devi, Uma, Kang, Hillary Yu Ping

“…Singapore is known for its glitz, glamour and billion dollar skyline, but there are great things to be found in Singapore beyond what the world sees on glossy magazines and CGI-ed screens. Not everyone in Singapore may be rich, but they are certainly crazy - if you know where to look. …”
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Land reclamation without using soil-fills by Yeo, Eng Swee

“…Singapore has been developing rapidly over the past decades. In order to sustain the fast-paced economic development and urbanisation, an increasing emphasis has been placed on land reclamation projects. …”
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Frequency domain MDPSK based non-equalization OFDM for coherent free-space optical communication over modified rician turbulence channel by Chen, Chen, Zhong, Wen-De, Li, Xiang

“…Our study shows that NE-OFDM attains a comparable BER performance to equalized OFDM, but with lower complexity and higher spectral efficiency.…”
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Co-existing study of a radar and communication (Radcomm) system by Tan, Danial Norman Jee Chuan

“…The performance evaluation for the communication aspect of the coexisting system will be based on the bit-error rate (BER) while the detected target range will determine the performance of the radar system using range-speed response pattern (RSRP) plots.…”
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The effect of silver nitrate and silver thiosulphate on in vitro shoot regeneration of australian pink finger lime (Citrus australasica cv. Mia Rose) by Qiao, Stephanie Er Wong, Sreeramanan Subramaniam, Bee, Lynn Chew

“…Conventional propagation of C. australasica is challenged by incompatibility issues during grafting and budding, its monoembryonic nature, and the lengthy time required to flower and bear fruits. Micropropagation on the other hand is an efficient alternative to conventional propagation for various commercial crops including citruses. …”
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N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed atroposelective annulation for access to thiazine derivatives with C-N axial chirality by Li, Tingting, Mou, Chengli, Qi, Puying, Peng, Xiaolin, Jiang, Shichun, Hao, Gefei, Xue, Wei, Yang, Song, Hao, Lin, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Jin, Zhichao

“…The obtained axially chiral thiazine derivative products bear multiple functional groups and are feasible for further transformations.…”
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Abui stories : seven children by Chew, Grace Min Hui

“…Thriving on an oral tradition, these stories, like the traditional Abui language, bear no written form and are at risk of extinction. …”
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Detection of simultaneous structural problems using multiple structural health monitoring techniques by Yang, Lu

“…After the construction, cracks, wear and tear, fatigue, creep, etc., will appear anytime during their life span, which significantly affects the capacity of the structure to bear loads. Hence structure health monitoring (SHM) technique came into existence to detect the structural problems and increase its life span. …”
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Study of warm mix technologies for asphalt concrete by Sim, Joey Xin Yi

“…However, the move to expand road infrastructure underground sees its own shortcomings. Road construction in tunnels has been notoriously worrisome. …”
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Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy by Holman, Christopher

“…Democracy is tragic to the extent that it must be a regime of self-limitation, there existing no ethical standard external to society that may intervene so as to guide our political self-activity, and yet the structure of deliberation in democratic assemblies tends to render such self-limitation impossible. Hence what Hobbes sees as the inherent tendency of democratic activity to descend into excess and madness. …”
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Without passage by Chee, En Cui

“…They change across perspectives. I see a girl exploring her psyche. Maybe you see a witch trying to escape a prison? …”
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Stiffness of RC columns with hollow section by Teng, Ganyu

“…In particular, an accurate and reliable OpenSees model was proposed and validated against experimental data. …”
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Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…A 'naive' view of identity sees it as straightforwardly and deterministically causative, but if so the 2011 Pearl Uprising in Bahrain appears a paradox - a primarily secular episode of political contestation in a country with a Shi'a majority, against a Sunni dominated regime, in a political realm with a Shi'a Islamist-dominated opposition. …”
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Ant, spider and DNA: letting mindless generative mechanisms speak by Bråten, E

“…They are especially concerned with questions about agency and the character of relations. Where ant sees ‘networks’, spider insists that we deal with ‘meshworks’. …”

Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles by Wells, Eliza

“…It also means that role-occupants are not off the moral hook. Ultimately, we each bear responsibility to create a more just social world.…”
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Soft law, hard stakes? State commitment to non-binding international instruments and the case of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Villeneuve, L

“…Whilst the advantages and appeal of soft law have been widely studied, with its effects explored in both International Relations (IR) and International Law (IL) scholarship, states’ behaviour on commitment to soft law per se has remained underexplored. …”