Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…Secular changes in the petroleum investment risk profile of major oil and gas hubs such as Russia, North Africa, West Africa, and the Middle East, limited access to acreage in the traditional producing areas, as well as the lack of new exploration successes outside the emerging provinces such as East Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, among others, have made Latin America an interesting place to re-visit. …”

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) : Day-of-the-week effect and bid-ask spreads by Guo, Lisa Xiuhui, Ernest Julian Sutanto, Quek, Benny Shiwei

“…We find that the technology sector is associated with higher transaction cost. Last but not least, our results in the last section present the absence of DOW effect in all three types of classifications by trading volume.…”
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Legionella pneumophila filamentous morphological form and the generation of novel spherical form upon interaction with protozoan hosts by Chan, Sock Hoai

“…Our investigation showed that filamentation cannot be neatly pegged to a single dominant factor but is promoted under a concerted influence of environmental conditions leaning towards (i) higher than ambient temperatures, at 37-42°C, (ii) static fluid movement, and (iii) with at least a minimal organic content of 5% buffered yeast extract, or equivalent. …”
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Molecular, Genetic, and Process Approaches for Improving Secreted Pharmaceutical Protein Quality in Komagataella phaffii by Yang, Yuchen

“…We further showed the comparability between yeast- and CHO-secreted products, providing a framework for rapid product development with this unconventional yeast. …”
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Unexpected anthropogenic emission decreases explain recent atmospheric mercury concentration declines by Feinberg, Aryeh, Selin, Noelle E., Braban, Christine F., Chang, Kai-Lan, Custódio, Danilo, Jaffe, Daniel A., Kyllönen, Katriina, Landis, Matthew S., Leeson, Sarah R., Luke, Winston, Molepo, Koketso M., Murovec, Marijana, Nerentorp Mastromonaco, Michelle G., Aspmo Pfaffhuber, Katrine, Rüdiger, Julian, Sheu, Guey-Rong, St. Louis, Vincent L.

“…Global anthropogenic emission inventories report increases in Northern Hemispheric (NH) Hg emissions during the last three decades, in contradiction with the observed decline in atmospheric Hg concentrations at NH measurement stations. …”
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Asian monetary fund : getting nearer by Rana, Pradumna B.

“…But still, don’t expect the AMF for at least another five years.…”
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Design of whole-genome tiling microarrays for pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. by Chong, Anna Siew Chyn.

“…Results show that a total of 62,561 60-mer PAO1 probes were created via Agilent eArray and optimized by CLC bio Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST). These optimal probes were used to design the WGTAs for chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and comparative genome hybridization (CGH) applications using Agilent eArray. …”
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Identification and characterization of Botrytis cinerea causing gray mold on tomatoes in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia by Siti Fairuz Yusoff, Siti Izera Ismail, Farah Farhanah Haron, Zahir Shah Safari, Rohasmizah Hashim, Paiman

“…The resulting sequences deposited in GenBank were accessions MT012053 to MT012062, respectively. A BLAST analysis of the resulting 550-bp nucleotide sequences showed 99-100% identity closest matched to B. cinerea. …”
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Implementation of a radar prototype on an unmanned arial vehicle by Liu, Jiaqing

“…In the part of system integration, it further covers aspects like RF testing and measurement for different parts of the system, verification of choice of components, power budget and payload distribution for UAV. Last but not the least; the conclusion part illustrates the executive summary and recommendation for the future development.…”
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WARM BODIES : A NOVEL / by Marion, Isaac, 1981-, author 656199

“…First as his captive, then his reluctant house guest, Julie is a blast of living color in R's gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. …”

Study of chemical vapor deposited carbon nanotubes as electrical interconnect by Ng, Chou Shing

“…Experiments are conducted with various thicknesses of Ti/TiN and Al/Al2O3 thin films in order to find a best fit solution that allows considerable growth of carbon nanotubes while as the same time minimizing the resistivity of the barrier layers. Last but not least, a comparison study is done to find out the differences in properties of the carbon nanotubes grown on the two thin films.…”
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Design of optoacoustic imaging system for care medical diagnostics by Wang, Haiyun

“…Secondly, studied the photoacoustic effect and furthermore a photoacoustic imaging system was implemented to achieve high spatial resolution and good contrast image. Last but not least, had a basic understanding of photoacoustic effects, coupled with the research study on PA-SAW devices, a PA-SAW based particle sensing system was designed to effective enhance the sensing signal.…”
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Report on the 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) by Pelkey, Jamin R.

“…Principal organizer Zev Handel, with the help of his amicable postgraduate detachment, infused the event with sensible, yet aesthetic, efficiency from the first circular to the last supper. From a tasteful-but-functional webpage design to a careful-but-flexible scheduling of events, Handel’s detailed attention to form enabled conference participants to focus their attention on academic and interpersonal content during the three-day event. …”
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Phenol degradation and molecular validation of phenol hydroxylase gene of Alcaligenes faecalis by Abdul Habib, Nur Muhamad Syahir

“…The BLAST result showed that the phenol hydroxylase gene was successfully amplified from the bacteria. …”
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Identifying the interaction between N-WASP, an actin nucleation factor and vinculin, a focal adhesion protein by Ganaesh

“…Although the two-hybrid assay showed interaction between N-WASP and vinculin in yeast cells, vinculin could not be detected in the pull down. …”
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Analysing Malaysian exports, capital, exchange rate, and income growth through the balance of payments constrained growth model by Ramasamy, Kanageswary, Said, Rusmawati, Ismail, Normaz Wana

“…The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method is used to estimate the model, and Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) and Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS) are used to assess the model's robustness. …”
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New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

“…Of particular note is that the exhaustiveness in 3-round trail core search of at least one out-Kernel α is only experimentally verified. …”
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Power system transient stability enhancement by Keh, Soon Heng

“…To understand how it works we will need to first understand how a power system works with the help of a simplified power model known as the Single Machine to Infinite Bus and make used of the simulation software “MATLAB” to build and run the stimulation models. Last but not least, we will review and conclude our results from stimulation models and analyses by comparing results and suggest what could be done for future recommendations.…”
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Implementation of AFS approach for web data analysis by Liu, Yuyang.

“…All the 25 MatLab AFS codes are documented using flowchart, and 9 out of them have been implemented using Java codes. Last but not least, future works are suggested.…”
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Financing of residential properties by Ang, Agnes Ming Li, Poh, Geok Tin, Lim, Jye Lih

“…Next, it will also outline the loan application process, followed by a discussion on the general approach as to how bank officers evaluate their customer's credit standing. Last but not least, the legal aspects of housing loan, as well as the future prospects of housing finance in the financial service industry will also be discussed in this report.…”
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