The U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy and its implications for U.S.-ASEAN economic governance architecture by Pitakdumrongkit, Kaewkamol

“…Moreover, the text authorizes $1.5 billion to “the Department of State, United States Agency for International Development [USAID], and, as appropriate, the Department of Defense . . . for each of the fiscal years 2019 through 2023, which shall be used” to achieve several objectives including ensuring “the regulatory environments for trade, infrastructure, and investment in partner countries are transparent, open, and free of corruption.” …”
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Associations between health literacy and health care utilization and mortality in patients with coexisting diabetes and end-stage renal disease : a prospective cohort study by Griva, Konstantina, Loong, Russel K. L., Nandakumar, Mooppil, Rajeswari, Moothathamby, Khoo, Eric Y. H., Lee, Vanessa Y. W., Kang, Augustine W. C., Osborne, Richard H., Brini, Stefano, Newman, Stanton P.

“…Results A total 221 participants [median age: 59 years, 61.6% men, 54.8% Chinese] were recruited. …”
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Sustaining antimicrobial stewardship in a high-antibiotic resistance setting by Ng, Tat Ming, Heng, Shi Thong, Chua, Boon Hou, Ang, Li Wei, Tan, Sock Hoon, Tay, Hui Lin, Yap, Min Yi, Quek, Jason, Teng, Christine B., Young, Barnaby Edward, Lin, Ray, Ang, Brenda, Lee, Tau Hong, Lye, David C.

“…During the same period, the mean monthly patient days increased from 33929 in 2007 to 45603 in 2018, and the proportion of patients older than 65 years increased from 45.5% in 2007 to 56.6% in 2018. …”
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Surface reconstruction on spinel oxides for oxygen evolution reaction by Luo, Songzhu

“…In recent years, burgeoning energy demand has precipitated a marked increase in fossil fuel consumption, elevating greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbating the global climate crisis. …”
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Growth of gallium nitride nanowires by low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) by Wang, Jianbo

“…Group-III nitrides such as gallium nitride (GaN) have been intensively used for high power electronic, optoelectronic, RF power and sensor applications such as blue light emitting diodes (LEDs), high power and high voltage transistors, etc. In recent years, nanowires have gained interest due to the ability to take advantage of their geometry for improving optical and electrical properties such as increased light absorption, and the freedom synthesis of high quality nano heterostructures on different substrates with large lattice mismatching. …”
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Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous vehicles by Diluka Moratuwage

“…Unfortunately almost all those algorithms inherit above mentioned issues from their single-vehicle counterpart. In the recent years an alternative solution based on the finite set statistics (FISST) has been proposed as a radically different alternative solution to the mono-SLAM problem. …”
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NMR structure and activity relationship of defensin-analogous peptides by Bai, Yang

“…In recent years, strains of bacteria with resistance to conventional antibiotics have been emerging at an alarming rate leading to the urgency of designing a new generation of antimicrobials. …”
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Essays in dynamic pricing, channel control and channel competition by Song, Boqian

“…Dynamic pricing has been successfully applied in the travel, hospitality, retail and entertainment industries to boost revenue and profits. In recent years, the popularity of the Internet and advances in information technology allow sellers to integrate dynamic pricing into their service bundling/unbundling strategy as well as multi-channel distribution strategy. …”
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Active control of wakes and vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder at Re = 100 by Wang, Chenglei

“…For years appropriate control methods have been actively sought to mitigate vortex-induced vibration (VIV) through either altering the shedding frequency or completely eliminating the vortex shedding. …”
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Soundfield control using loudspeaker array by Li, Renshi

“…Control of loudspeaker arrays have been studied in the past few years for a wide variety of applications. One of such application is to control a pre-defined listening environment to achieve audible and inaudible zones so as to gain a personalized and immersive sound experience. …”
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Essays on social responsibility in the marketplace : an experimental economic analysis by Wang, Yan

“…The idea of market exchange dates back to the ancient world, as evidenced, for example, by ancient bazaars. Over the years, along with the development of the market economy, there have been many cases where sellers or buyers do not take responsibility for external costs generated by their activities, and these costs have instead been passed on to society. …”
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Advanced code reuse attacks against modern defences by Wang, Chenyu

“…In this thesis, I will introduce the development of code reuse attacks in recent years together with control flow integrity (CFI). …”
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Nation in action : making Chinese in the rural borderland between China and North Korea by Chen, Shiwei

“…Data collection is based on multi-sited fieldwork over the span of three years, utilizing participant observation and in-depth interviews. …”
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Dietary fiber intake and risk of advanced and aggressive forms of prostate cancer: a pooled analysis of 15 prospective cohort studies by Sidahmed, E, Freedland, SJ, Wang, M, Wu, K, Albanes, D, Barnett, M, van den Brandt, PA, Giles, GG, Cook, MB, Giovannucci, E, Haiman, CA, Larsson, SC, Key, TJ, Loftfield, E, Männistö, S, McCullough, ML, Milne, RL, Neuhouser, ML, Platz, EA, Perez-Cornago, A, Sawada, N, Schenk, JM, Sinha, R, Tsugane, S, Visvanathan, K, Wang, Y, White, KK, Willett, WC, Wolk, A, Ziegler, RG, Genkinger, JM, Smith-Warner, SA

“…<h4>Participants/setting</h4>There were 842 149 men followed for up to 9 to 22 years between 1985 and 2009 across studies.<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>The primary outcome measures were advanced (stage T4, N1, or M1 or PC mortality), advanced restricted (excluded men with missing stage and those with localized PC who died of PC), and high-grade PC (Gleason score ≥8 or poorly differentiated/undifferentiated) and PC mortality.…”

Pathogen diversity and antimicrobial resistance transmission of Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Malawi: a genomic epidemiological study... by Dyson, ZA, Ashton, PM, Khanam, F, Chunga Chirambo, A, Shakya, M, Meiring, JE, Tonks, S, Karkey, A, Msefula, C, Clemens, JD, Dunstan, SJ, Baker, S, Dougan, G, Pitzer, VE, Basnyat, B, Qadri, F, Heyderman, RS, Gordon, MA, Holt, KE, Pollard, AJ, STRATAA Study Group

“…Phylogenetic analyses showed that most cases derived from pre-existing, locally established pathogen variants; 702 (98%) of 713 drug-resistant infections resulted from local circulation of AMR variants, not imported variants or recent de novo emergence; and pathogen variants circulated across age groups. 479 (66%) of 731 cases clustered with others that were indistinguishable by point mutations; individual clusters included multiple age groups and persisted for up to 2·3 years, and AMR determinants were invariant within clusters.…”

The paradoxes of wind power by Keay, M

“…The development of wind power in recent years has been full of paradoxes – and this is in itself something of a paradox, given that the power of the wind is easy enough to understand, indeed to experience directly, on a windy day. …”

Childhood bullying and mental health: understanding risk, resilience, and the role of anti-bullying interventions by Guzman Holst, C

“…While most children and young people experience low and stable trajectories of bulling victimisation and/or perpetration throughout the school years, a few experience chronic and increasing levels of victimisation and/or perpetration (Barker et al., 2008). …”

Large-scale profiling of antibody reactivity to glycolipids in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome by Thomma, RCM, Halstead, SK, de Koning, LC, Fehmi, J, Rinaldi, S, IGOS consortium

“…<br> In total, 1413 patients from the observational International Guillain-Barré syndrome Outcome Study (0-91 years, 60.3% male) and 1061 controls (healthy, family, infectious, vaccination, other neurological disease) were included. …”

Impact of media literacy on soft drink consumption among adolescents in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohammad Shahid, Nur Nadirah

“…A total of 500 questionnaires were distributed to adolescents aged between 13 to 18 years old at selected secondary schools in Klang Valley. …”
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Design and Implementation of Active Antennas for IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring System by MUSA, UMAR, MOHD SHAH, SHAHARIL, A. MAJID, HUDA, AHMAD MAHADI, ISMAIL, A. RAHIM, MOHAMAD KAMAL, YAHYA, MUHAMMAD SANI, ZAINAL ABIDIN, ZUHAIRIAH

“…The experimental data are obtained from ten participants with ages ranging between 18 and 40 years old for 10-minutes duration with a 1-minute step size which implies 10 samples. …”
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