Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…<p><strong>Findings</strong></p> All risks combined account for 57·2% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 55·8–58·5) of deaths and 41·6% (40·1–43·0) of DALYs. …”

Production protocols in the current practice of instilling traditional values in Malay kuih by Kamaruzaman, Mohd Yusof, Ab. Karim, Shahrim, Che Ishak, Farah Adibah, Arshad, Mohd Mursyid

“…All the interview sessions were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim to extract themes for the research question “How can the traditional quality of Malay kuih be reproduced in current practice?” …”
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Onboard Control of a Hexarotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Goh, Yong Hong

“…Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) were made to do multiple task due to their efficiency. We need to find a platform where integrating all the tasks are simple and easy to use. …”
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Entry mode strategy for the Gates Rubber Company in Indonesia. by Lee, Paul Suay Wah.

“…Through its Singapore office, the entry mode for all the ASEAN countries has been purely export through distributors. …”
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Production and characterization of collagen and gelatin from edible jellyfish (Acromitus hardenbergi Stiasny, 1934) for fabrication of biofunctional scaffold by Khong, Nicholas Mun Hoe

“…Jellyfish gelatin has high protein content (>80%) with low moisture (<2.5%), ash (<2.0%) and negligible fat contents. All gelatins had very mild to undetectable fishy odour and were all whitish in appearance. …”
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Smartphone application-based addiction scale: psychometric evidence across nine Asian regions using advanced analytic methods by Chen, I-Hua, Pramukti, Iqbal, Gan, Wan Ying, Ruckwongpatr, Kamolthip, Pham, Le An, Huang, Po-Ching, Mamun, Mohammed A., Ullah, Irfan, Jahrami, Haitham A., Lin, Chung-Ying, Pakpour, Amir H.

“…Results: Findings from confirmatory factor analysis, Rasch analysis, and network analysis all indicate a one-factor structure for the SABAS. …”
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Multiwall carbon nanotubes derived from plastic packaging waste as a high-performance electrode material for supercapacitors by Abbas, Aumber, Yi, Yap Mei, Saleem, Faisal, Jin, Zhao, Veksha, Andrei, Yan, Qingyu, Lisak, Grzegorz, Lim, Tuti Mariana

“…These findings suggest that MWCNTs synthesized from flexible plastic packaging waste can be a superior alternate to the commercial MWCNTs. …”
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Effect of post-deposition annealing on the interface electronic structures of Al2O3-Capped GaN and GaN/AlGaN/GaN heterostructure by Duan, Tian Li, Pan, Ji Sheng, Ang, Diing Shenp

“…The XPS data, however, reveal a clear Ga-O signal for all samples and no apparent change in the Ga-O to Ga-N bond ratio for the range of annealing temperatures studied. …”
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Application of self congruency and cognitive dissonance in cosmetics advertising by State, Gabriel Marian, Deuskar, Sonali Prakash

“…The relationship of image congruity and post-purchase dissonance has been reported in the marketing literature, and so has the relationship between dissonance, satisfaction and repeat purchase behavior; but the juxtaposition of all three constructs has not been investigated. …”
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Hedonic and non-hedonic bias toward the future by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Norton, James

“…While, as predicted, we found first-person hedonic future-bias, we did not find that participants were time-neutral in all other conditions. …”
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Suppressing condensation frosting using micropatterned ice walls by Zuo, Zichao, Zhao, Yugang, Li, Kang, Zhang, Hua, Yang, Chun

“…Patterned ice walls prevent vapor deposition on the substrate base by absorbing all incoming moisture on upper sidewalls, leaving the substrate base free of contaminates from both frost and condensate. …”
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Current state of multiracialism in singapore: the youth perspective by Nabilah Binte Roslee

“…Survey findings emphasised the widespread existence of racism in Singapore and the need for greater efforts at all levels of society to overcome the problem. …”
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Long-term multi-resource fairness for pay-as-you use computing systems by Tang, Shanjiang, Niu, Zhaojie, He, Bingsheng, Lee, Bu-Sung, Yu, Ce

“…A user's demand is often changing over time, indicating that it is difficult to keep the high resource utilization all the time for cost efficiency. Resource sharing is a classical and effective approach for high resource utilization. …”
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Design of RF front-end circuit blocks for low-power applications by Lim, Kok Meng

“…This report aims to provide a comprehensive review as well as the design of the various high frequency circuits found in almost all the transceivers in the market today. Wireless communication has become a natural part of everyone’s life, its presence can be seen all around. …”
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A real time neurophysiological framework for general monitoring awareness of air traffic controllers by Yuvaraj, Rajamanickam, Lye, Sun Woh, Wee, Hong Jie

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A review on substitution of natural sand with granite fines in sustainable concrete by Li, Ziyang, Lao, Junying, Wang, Lijie, Lim, Namyo Salim, Tan, Kang Hai, Qian, Shunzhi

“…A mass amount of granite fine (GF), a byproduct of the cutting and grinding process in the masonry industry, is generated every year all around the world. Most of these wastes are landfilled which will cause serious environmental problems. …”
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Universal machine learning classifier using extreme learning machines by Chen, Jinnan

“…In order to make our classifier more intelligent to be capable of handling all types of classification datasets regardless of the difference in label types and speed up our training time, we aimed to develop a universal classifier. …”
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Overcoming endurance issue : UAV-enabled communications with proactive caching by Xu, Xiaoli, Zeng, Yong, Guan, Yong Liang, Zhang, Rui

“…With the proposed scheme, at the beginning of each operation period, the UAV pro-actively transmits the files to a subset of selected GNs that cooperatively cache all the files. As a result, when requested, a file can be retrieved by each GN either directly from its local cache or from its nearest neighbor that has cached the file via device-to-device communications. …”
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A pilot study on peptidylarginine deiminases and protein deimination in animal cancers across vertebrate species by Inal, Jameel, Hristova, Mariya, Lange, Sigrun

“…Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that CitH3 was strongly detected in all of the cancers assessed, while pan-deimination detection was overall low. …”
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Hormone replacement therapy and cancer survival: a longitudinal cohort study: protocol paper by Ranger, TA, Burchardt, J, Clift, AK, Mei, WX, Coupland, C, Tan, PS, Dixon, S, Cardwell, CR, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…We intend to the submit the findings for peer-reviewed publication in an academic journal and disseminate them to the public through Cancer Research UK.…”