PandoraHearts : Caucus Race, by Shinobu Wakamiya, author 655895, Jun Mochizuki, illustrator 655896

“…Shifting among present, past, and future, these stories link to each other like a wheel, traveling to and fro in a never-ending ring between the everyday and the extraordinary. …”
Get full text

Bad touch theme park and other stories : a collection of short stories and an exegesis by Nurulhuda Mohammed Arslan

“…At the heart of each story is a seeking for a future not yet set in concrete, ending often on an ambiguous outlook, an opening for other possibilities.…”
Get full text

Alternate Imaginaries for the Kinara: River Ravi’s Edge as a Threshold by Khalil, Mahwish

“…It stages newer encounters and engagements with Ravi and its communities by stitching together stories of numerous community members, the dwellers, the boatmen, and the civil defense divers, actively defying and transforming the seemingly static Kinara—their home—through cultural and economic production. …”
Get full text

One-Pass Learning via Bridging Orthogonal Gradient Descent and Recursive Least-Squares by Min, Youngjae

“…By doing so, we bridge two seemingly distinct algorithms in adaptive filtering and machine learning, namely the recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithm and orthogonal gradient descent (OGD). …”
Get full text
Get full text

A voxel-based morphometry study on grey matter correlates of need for cognition and exploratory information seeking by Lau, Shermine Shimin

“…Past research suggests that intrinsic motivation and curiosity seem to be the underlying conceptual mechanism driving an individual’s inclination to cognitive-related processes in NFC and EIS. …”
Get full text

Temperature measurement in microfludic system by Lim, Yu Qian.

“…Rhodamine B powder were added into the liquid to study the fluorescence intensity with microscope. However, glycerol seemed to be more appropriate for this experiment with higher intensity at room temperature. …”
Get full text

Self-evolving Takagi-Sugeno-Kangfuzzy neural network with self-evolving forgetting factor by Manpreet, Singh.

“…Using these components of Soft Computing in combination seem to deliver better results when solving real life problems, than if each component is used independently. …”
Get full text

Studies of bioactivity of proteins encapsulated in liposomes by Ho, Amelia May Teng.

“…In conclusion, liposomes of smaller size seemed to have better sustained release but further studies should be conducted to improve its sustained drug release.…”
Get full text

Anger, physical activity and depression in patients with coronary heart disease : a dominance and moderation analysis by Ng, Emil Jin Huai

“…However at higher levels of physical activity, the magnitude of the simple effect of anger expression out on depression is greatly reduced. The findings seem to partially support the psychodynamic theory of inward directed anger leading to depression, and also suggest that increasing physical activity may be helpful in reducing the likelihood of depressive outcomes in cardiac patients by moderating the relationship between the propensity to express anger and depression.…”
Get full text

Mechanical and geometrical analysis of 3d-printed auxetic structures by Ong, Darryl Wen Kai

“…Material development has come to a point where the advancement of metals has hit a plateau while that of polymers has seemingly just begun. This is largely due to the improvements made towards Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology which has granted the capability of fabricating complex polymers and their composites with relative ease. …”
Get full text

Taming metals: the use of leaded bronze in early China, 2000–1250 BC by Huan, L

“…Instead, I argue that the widespread of leaded bronze objects was mainly due to both the socio-economic concerns in making bronze ritual vessels in Central China and the recycling and reuse of the metals by other communities around Central China. Moreover, the seemingly common use of leaded bronze does not reflect a uniform acceptance of a single set of knowledge and know-how. …”

Rediscovering Homo sapiens in international politics: evolution and rationality’s missing link by Johnson, D

“…An evolutionary perspective suggests: (1) rational choice is not always the most effective or efficient solution to decision-making problems; (2) cognitive biases are not mistakes, but adaptive “strategic instincts,” which evolved because they helped us make good decisions, not bad ones; (3) these “non-rational” dispositions follow a systematic pattern, allowing predictions about how people are likely to react under given conditions; (4) a theory for the origins of preferences; (5) an explanation for why humans can sometimes seem rational and sometimes non-rational (because adaptive behavior depends on context); and finally (6) error management theory suggests that cognitive biases evolved precisely because of uncertainty, as a way of minimizing costs over time. …”

From mechanisms to future therapy: a synopsis of isolated REM sleep behavior disorder as early synuclein-related disease by Stefani, A, Antelmi, E, Arnaldi, D, Arnulf, I, During, E, Högl, B, Hu, MMT, Iranzo, A, Luke, R, Peever, J, Postuma, RB, Videnovic, A, Gan-Or, Z

“…A genome-wide association study identified five loci, which all seem to revolve around the GBA1 pathway. iRBD patients often show subtle motor, cognitive, autonomic and/or sensory signs, neuroimaging alterations as well as biofluid and tissue markers of neurodegeneration (in particular pathologic α-synuclein aggregates), which can be useful for risk stratification. …”

Sure (EM)-Autometrics: An Automated Model Selection Procedure with Expectation Maximization Algorithm Estimation Method (S/O 14925) by Kamarudin, Nur Azulia

“…Despite numerous emergences of procedures in selecting models automatically, there has been a lack of studies on procedures in selecting multiple equations models, particularly seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE) models. …”
Get full text

Factors Effecting Human Resource Practices on Employee Performance in Libya Oil & Gas Industry by S Eshtewi, Marwan Bashir, Anuar, Herman Shah, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun

“…Many HRM studies have indicated positive effect of HR practices on employee performance, but there are some other studies that indicate the otherwise, indicating that the findings of the existing HRM studies are seemingly inconclusive. Equally, most studies are conducted in other contexts other in Libyan context, most especially in the context of Oil and Gas sector. …”
Get full text

Conversion of sewage sludge to clean solid fuel using hydrothermal carbonization: Hydrochar fuel characteristics and combustion behavior by He, Chao, Giannis, Apostolos, Wang, Jing-Yuan

“…Besides, longer carbonization time seemed to decrease oxygen containing functional groups while carbon aromaticity structure increased, thereby rendering hydrochars highly hydrophobic. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Decoding Codon Bias: The Role of tRNA Modifications in Tissue-Specific Translation by Ando, Daisuke, Rashad, Sherif, Begley, Thomas J., Endo, Hidenori, Aoki, Masashi, Dedon, Peter C., Niizuma, Kuniyasu

“…Using this observation, we synthesized, and delivered in vivo, codon-mutated EGFP for Q-codons, where the C-ending Q-codons were replaced with U-ending codons. …”
Get full text

Madrush. by Selamat.

“…Our story is about the encounter of the soldier with the creatures when the hibernating period just ended. Unfortunately, they are savage creatures and our poor soldier is running for dear life.…”
Get full text

US-Russia relations under Trump presidency: will the reset come to pass? by Dave, Bhavna

“…Donald Trump’s pre-election admiration for Russian president Vladimir Putin as a “strong leader” has raised hopes of a ‘reset’ of diplomatic relations since the deterioration of the US-Russia ties in this decade. While it hints at ending the sanctions on Russia, curtailing support to NATO and joining forces with Russia to combat ISIS in Syria, how likely is a breakthrough in US-Russia relations?…”
Get full text
Get full text

Explorations of combined nonsolvent and thermally induced phase separation (N-TIPS) method for fabricating novel PVDF hollow fiber membranes using mixed diluents by Zhao, Jie, Chong, Jeng Yi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…The water permeability of the membrane increased significantly from 389 ± 30–922 ± 36 L m–2 h–1 bar–1, with overall porosity improved from 50 ± 2.2–69 ± 2.9%, and a mean pore size of ~ 0.18 µm. …”
Get full text