Determination of mosquitoes species diversity and molecular detection of West Nile virus in wild bird habitats in Perak and Selangor, Malaysia by Jafar Ali, Natasha

“…West Nile virus (WNV) is a zoonotic and emerging arthropod-borne RNA virus from the Flaviviridae family. The virus is maintained in a sylvatic cycle between vectors and reservoirs host, the wild birds. …”
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Microstructural changes during precision machining of thin substrates by Saptaji, K., Sathyan, Subbiah

“…The machining process induces severe plastic deformation through the thickness of the machined thin workpiece due to the high ratio of the depth of cut to workpiece thickness. The diamond face turning is used to machine thin workpieces down to a thickness less than 100μm. …”
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Correlations and energy in mediated dynamics by Krisnanda, Tanjung, Lee, Su-Yong, Noh, Changsuk, Kim, Jaewan, Streltsov, Alexander, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Paterek, Tomasz

“…The direct interactions are proved to provide the fastest way to entangle the principal systems, but it turns out that there exist mediated dynamics that are just as fast. …”
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Practical pseudo-collisions for hash functions ARIRANG-224/384 by Guo, Jian, Matusiewicz, Krystian, Knudsen, Lars R., Ling, San, Wang, Huaxiong

“…We show that bitwise complementation of whole registers turns out to be very useful for constructing high-probability differential characteristics in the function. …”
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Advanced attack and defense techniques in machine learning systems by Zhao, Mengchen

“…Towards building secure machine learning systems, the first step is to study their vulnerability, which turns out to be very challenging due to the variety and complexity of machine learning systems. …”
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An exploratory study on Mom and Pop shops : surviving the trade. by Chua, Yew Teck., Quek, Woon Hwee., Fu, Eunice Karina Yumin.

“…Their inability to react effectively to change and accept it as part of business fundaments has greatly affected their profitability, which is further worsened by the proliferation of more “Big Box” retailers that have gradually turned small businesses irrelevant. In addition, the swift pace of changes in macro-sociology trends such as demographics shifts, IT evolution and transportation networks has also hastened the decline of small business owners (Haltiwanger et al, 2010)…”
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A study of using simple features for video classification by Chow, Wei Ling.

“…The last phase is to do testing with a set of 20 videos to see if they fall correctly into their respective shows. The results turned out to be encouraging, with an average of up to 84.60% accuracy.…”
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Lotte Reiniger re-imagined by Kang, Fabian Yong Sheng

“…As an aesthetic response to her work and legacy, I am using Plato’s Cave as a point of departure to speak of the projection of shadows, by turning this idea in on itself, to escape the real world and embrace fantasy. …”
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Designing and implementing experiments within local bureaucratic systems: a cautionary tale from an educator incentive program by Asad, S, Habib, M, Karachiwalla, N, Kosec, K, Leaver, C, ur Rehman, A

“…The paper briefly outlines the design of the pilot—promotion-based incentives for educators—and summarises the largely null results. It then turns to implementation, discussing what went wrong, how this was uncovered, and lessons learned for co-designing and embedding future pilot studies with(in) government.…”

Why renewable energy could be a chance for the GCC economies by El-Katiri, L

“…When the first oil well was struck in Jebel Dukhan in Bahrain in 1931, few would have forecast that the fortunes of the sheikhdoms along the Gulf would be so fundamentally shaped by a single energy commodity as has turned out to be the case. Today’s wealth, visible in the global capital cities Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City, is as much the result of the region’s unique gift of natural resources as it is of historical leadership in the use of these resources in promoting the region’s unparalleled economic development. …”

Longing for (a Taiwanese) academy: practical theology as an essentially hospitable and balanced discipline by Chen, SK

“…This notion of balance is then applied as an interpretation tool to understand the dual ‘turns’ in practical theology methodology and the pastoral cycle, demonstrating how various cycle adaptations aim to maintain balance. …”

Holographic entropy inequalities and multipartite entanglement by Hernández-Cuenca, Sergio, Hubeny, Veronika E., Jia, Hewei F.

“…In attempting to interpret the corresponding sign-definite quantities as correlation measures, we also obtain a no-go result: the superbalance property of holographic entropy inequalities turns out to preclude them from being monotonic under partial tracing. …”
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Controller design of a tidal system by Nur Insyirah Sazali

“…The P&O MPPT controller algorithm will be used as the primary controller system in this project since it allows the system to produce more power which in turns improve the overall system performance. Additionally, MPPT controller using lookup table will be explored. …”
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A high-power factor permanent magnet vernier motor for direct drive application by Guo, Feifan

“…Furthermore, optimizations about number of turns, magnet height and split teeth distance are made. …”
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Near-infrared afterglow semiconducting nano-polycomplexes for multiplex differentiation of cancer exosomes by Lyu, Yan, Cui, Dong, Huang, Jiaguo, Fan, Wenxuan, Miao, Yansong, Pu, Kanyi

“…The afterglow signal of the nanocomplex (ASPNC), being initially quenched, is turned on in the presence of aptamer‐targeted exosomes. …”
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解析海峡华人领袖如何通过早期的《海峡华人杂志》塑造海峡华人独特与中间人的形象，并探讨其中的意义 = An analysis of how the Straits Chinese leaders shaped a distinct and intermediary image of Straits Chinese through the early Strai... by 朱碧瑜 Zhu, Bi Yu

“…关键词： 海峡华人、海峡华人领袖、海峡华人杂志、政治考量 In the late 19th to early 20th century, the Straits Chinese were at a crucial turning point. They needed to progress socially and intellectually, in which they had to discard their outdated beliefs and customs, and turned to embrace knowledge from the modern civilization. …”
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Testing & performance characterization of a CubeSat attitude control system by Tan, Yong Kai

“…Additionally, the design of the ACS board will also be described in detail as to how the design was conceptualized and finalized and turned into an actual board design. Results from the various testing will also be discussed further on in the report.…”
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The role of recommendation agents in relationship marketing for mobile commerce and gaming. by Muhammad Firdaus Masdar., Low, Kenny Ghim Weng., Luo, Michael Weining.

“…Service providers have turned to intelligent recommendation agents to help them better profile their consumers, recommend preferable products and services, and thus develop two-way relationships with the consumers. …”
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Economic growth and the environment in Singapore. by Lee, Elaine Xiao Yin., Tan, Lorraine Ruoling.

“…Results show that CO2 and SO2 emissions, along with total waste disposal are inverted U-shaped, while particulate matters (PM 10) and biodiversity loss yield a U-shaped relationship and a monotonically increasing relationship respectively with income. In addition, the turning points show varying time of improvement, with sulphur dioxide (SO2) improving the earliest, and PM10, the latest. …”
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Press start to play : video games and the imagined realities of the cold war by Koh, Kevin Shao Jie

“…Thus, early video games can be seen as a reflection of imagined futures during the Cold War, a period in history which some have argued was based off an imagined fear, eventually turning into an imagined reality. As such, this paper attempts to prove that popular video games during the late twentieth century contributed to the imagination of Cold War escalation by portraying worlds in a constant state of war. …”
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