Rumor cleanup : how easy it is? by Xia, Ji

“…As compared with scale free network, random network is more prone to spread information.…”
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Fire resistance of engineered cementitious composite by Ng, Wee Feng

“…Upon observation, it is gathered that HSECC is prone to shrinkage and surface cracking after exposure to temperature above 400°C. …”
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Poorer representation of minds underpins less accurate mental state inference for out-groups by Payne, B, Bird, G, Catmur, C

“…Here, we investigate whether people are less prone to theorise about the minds of out-groups, or less able to do so. …”

What is formal verification without specifications? A survey on mining LTL specifications by Neider, D, Roy, R

“…However, formulating specifications remains a manual task that is notoriously challenging and error-prone. To address this bottleneck in formal verification, recent research has thus focussed on automatically generating specifications for formal verification from examples of (desired and undesired) system behavior. …”

Toadstool poetics: alliteration in The Faerie Queene by Dubow, B

“…Reducible neither to narrative nor metric functions, Spenser’s alliterative patterns—entangled, irregular, and prone to excess—habitually overrun forms of honeycomb containment.…”

The rickettsial effector Sca4 has a conserved interaction with host clathrin and a tick cell specific role in infection by Vondrak, Cassandra Joan

“…Rickettsia species are obligate intracellular bacteria that cause vector-borne diseases that constitute an ongoing public health threat. …”
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Materials approaches for next-generation encapsulated cell therapies by Krishnan, Siddharth R., Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G.

“…Transplanted cells can act as living drug factories capable of secreting therapeutic proteins in vivo, with applications in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes (T1D), blood borne disease, vision disorders, and degenerative neural disease, potentially representing functional cures for chronic conditions. …”
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TraceTogether : pandemic response, democracy, and technology by Stevens, Hallam, Haines, Monamie Bhadra

“…However, by deploying these within a context that centralizes data, the app turns ideals borne of dissent and protest on their head, using them to build trust not within a community but rather in government power and control. …”
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The post-modern Japanese identity of Haruki Murakami's literature. by Ling, Shannon.

“…And for the modern Japanese writers like Haruki Murakami, this conflict presents a pertinent issue with his literature often derided by Japanese scholars and writers alike for the failure to represent the real Japan in his novels.In the first part of my thesis, I would seek to explore the influence that the writer himself has on his writing, discussing a little about his history such as the generation of Japanese that he was borne into. At the same time, I would also look at the particular genre of detective fiction in a critical component in understanding Murakami’s writings, as well as his fondness of music and how shapes his style of writing and in symbolizing the search for the identity. …”
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Exploring students' hypertext reading behaviour and social media use in their learning by Sharifah Maisharah Mohamed

“…The impetus to explore hypertext reading as part of information seeking behavior was borne out of the findings of a study which highlighted many problematic characteristics of the students’ information search process and attributed these tendencies to hypertext reading and multitasking. …”
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Dengue Virus Non-Structural Protein 5 by El Sahili, Abbas, Lescar, Julien

“…The World Health Organization estimates that the yearly number of dengue cases averages 390 million. This mosquito-borne virus disease is endemic in over 100 countries and will probably continue spreading, given the observed trend in global warming. …”
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Lights, camera, and action : vertebrate skin sets the stage for immune cell interaction with arthropod-vectored pathogens by Chong, Shu Zhen., Evrard, Maximilien., Ng, Lai Guan.

“…Despite increasing studies targeted at host-pathogen interactions, vector-borne diseases remain one of the largest economic health burdens worldwide. …”
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The Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Pillar 1: diagnostics and transmission by Conly, J, Plüddemann, A, Jefferson, T, Rosca, C, Heneghan, C

“…The transmission dynamics to allow for a replication-competent virus to move from a reservoir to a susceptible host and establish an invasive infection is complex and it is likely multiple modes of transmission exist from direct reservoir-to-host (contact, droplet deposition, transplacental) and indirect reservoir-to-intermediary-to- host (vehicle-borne, foodborne, waterborne, and airborne) routes. …”

A critical analysis of current debates in natural law: a theo-cultural engagement with John Finnis, Jean Porter, & John Milbank by Morgan, G

“…The contribution of this thesis is borne out of a two-fold realisation: (1) that despite renewed levels of inter-disciplinary interest within the academy, the discourse has become increasingly fragmented and will continue to fragment in the absence of a critical analysis of the deeper theo-cultural assumptions and aporias that animate current debates in natural law; (2) that by illuminating and attending to the theological and methodological “unsaid(s)” that have, heretofore, been seldom acknowledged, one can begin to appreciate how the fragmentation of the discourse is inexorably linked to the fragmentation of the secular mythos. …”

The physiological effect of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanopesticide on Aedes aegypti Larvae by Ting, Chuan Hsieh, Syahirah Zakaria, Siti Khadijah Mohd Bakhori, Shahrom Mahmud, Siti Nasuha Hamzah

“…Aedes aegypti is responsible for transmitting various mosquito-borne diseases. Recently, there have been concerns about the negative impacts of the insecticides used in vector control including insecticide resistance development in the mosquito population. …”
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Subjective social status and calorie preference by Dayana Zaihan

“…Studies suggest that calories and money are perceived as equivalent, and need for resources overlaps with food preference and selection. …”
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Are privately owned shipping companies more succesful than public listed ones? by Zhang, Allen Tongren

“…People are willing to pour money into them as they are deemed to be successful enough to become listed in the market. …”
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Real time kinematic satellite navigation of a hexarotor unmanned aerial vehicle by Wang, Tao

“…More and more research institutes and companies spent a lot of money on it. In some fields, locating precisely the position of the UAV has become a significant issue. …”
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Maternal social capital and child health in Vietnam by Tuan, T, Harpham, T, De Silva, M, Thu Huong, N, Tod, B, Thi Lan, P, Duc Thach, T, Abeyasekera, S

“…It shows that high levels of maternal social capital may positively affect child health by enabling mothers to access more services and more assets, such as jobs, money, and goods. It may also improve maternal physical and/or mental health. …”

At your service! The role of tax havens in international trade with services by Hebous, S, Johannesen, N

“…We find patterns consistent with profit shifting in service categories such as&nbsp;intellectual property&nbsp;(patents and trademarks),&nbsp;<em>headquarter services</em>(administration, management and advertizing),&nbsp;<em>information services</em>(data processing and storage) and&nbsp;financial services&nbsp;(investment, lending and money management). In these service categories, trade with affiliates in&nbsp;tax&nbsp;havens is skewed towards imports and the internal service providers in&nbsp;tax havens&nbsp;earn significant excess profits that vary strongly with the value of their internal service sales. …”