Plastic Instability in Co-Cr-Ni-Mo alloy wires drawn with different drawing practices by GVK, Sai Srikanth, Tan, Ming Jen, Liu, Zhenyun

“…The experimental results indicated that wires drawn with FDD practice, when compared with the HDD drawn wires, had a lower instability until 75% CW, after which it increased significantly when drawn to 95% CW. …”
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Exploring the drivers of bunker fuel prices by Yi, Yang Bo.

“…But not many pay attention to the drivers of bunker fuel price. There is scope therefore for further improvements in risk management in bunker purchasing. …”
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PandoraHearts : Caucus Race, by Shinobu Wakamiya, author 655895, Jun Mochizuki, illustrator 655896

“…There, children run to and fro, full of life. Two cats chase after them. The sight calls to mind a single thought: They seem to be racing each other. …”
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Load tests and moments evaluation of aircraft pylon using refurbished test assembly by Subas Chandrabose Satheesh Kumar

“…In this dissertation, a non-jettisonable pylon of F- 16 Aircraft used for carrying an external fuel tank or store (600 gallons capacity), is studied. …”
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Virtual piano by Tan, Alan Lai Chian

“…Smartphones are small but powerful devices, providing humans with countless uses, from making phone calls and taking photos, to accessing the Internet from almost anywhere. …”
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The space-times of post-capitalist transformation: More-than-human affects in French and Catalan eco-communities by Schramm, E

“…I have conducted an ethnographic study of three eco-communities in Southwestern France and Catalonia in a broadly comparative vein and have drawn on the disparate body of literature around post-capitalist transformations and eco-communities on one hand, and more-than-human and non-representational geographies on the other. …”

China and the “Singapore Model” : perspectives from mid-level cadres and implications for transnational knowledge transfer by Liu, Hong, Wang, Tingyan

“…Although this phenomenon has been studied, no attention has been drawn to the perspectives of those mid-level cadres who took part in the training and what those perspectives might imply. …”
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Stress analysis and stress intensity factor computation of DNV X65 pipes subjected to four point bending by Lee, Shaun Raphael Kwok Yuen

“…In spite of the high standards and regulations in place to ensure safe and secure pipelines, oil pipeline spills still amount to about a gallon per million barrel-miles, a figure drawn from the USA Association of Oil pipelines. …”
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The catalytic deoxygenation reaction temperature and N2 gas flow rate influence the conversion of soybean fatty acids into Green Diesel by Hafriz, R.S.R.M., Habib, S.H., Raof, N.A., Razali, S.Z., Yunus, R., Razali, N.M., Salmiaton, A.

“…Background: Green diesel is a promising alternative as a petroleum replacement given the worldwide demand for petroleum fuel. Environmental issues have drawn public attention and concerns towards advancing renewable energy development. …”
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A machine-learned approach for reducing airborne delays and environmental impact in terminal manoeuvring area using extended arrival management by Lim, Zhi Jun

“…The rise in air travel has drawn significant attention to reducing congestion, mitigating environmental impact, and ensuring safety and efficiency. …”
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Approximating conditions within a multistage axial compressor and assessing the possibility of hot surface ignition on the heated surfaces by Koh, Alan Fu Hai

“…These gas turbines continuously ingest large amounts of air from their surroundings, presenting the possibility that leaking flammable gas may be drawn into the air intakes and the gas turbine ingests the leaking flammable gas. …”
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in blood serum of adults living in high and low-traffic volume areas in Malaysia: A comparative cross-sectional study by Al-Battawi, Samer, Latif, Mohd Talib, How, Vivien, Thilakavathy, Karuppiah, Abd Hamid, Haris Hafizal, Hameed, Sarah, Ho, Yu Bin

“…Ambient polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) originate predominantly from fuel combustion of motor vehicles and have the potential to affect human health. …”
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Development and evaluation of clustering algorithms for microarray data analyses by Wang, Yiman.

“…An efficient and robust software system called GeneSpy has been eventually developed. It provides many of the methods drawn from standard statistical cluster analysis. …”
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Engineering global transcription factor camp receptor protein of escherichia coli for cell phenotype improvement in biofuel production. by Zhang, Hongfang

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Real politics and metaethical baggage by Nye, S

“…So-called 'realists' have argued that political philosophers should engage with real politics, but that mainstream 'non-realist' political philosophers fail to do so. …”

Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the Le Chatelier principle by Dekel, E, Quah, JK-H, Sinander, L

“…We show that comparative-statics conclusions may be drawn under the usual ordinal complementarity assumptions on the objective function, assuming very little about costs: only a mild monotonicity condition is required. …”

Wireless sensor network for intelligent lighting control by Teng, Yu Hau.

“…The high pace movement had drawn great attention in challenges from resources management and impact on earth natural habitat. …”
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An innovative design of household civil defence shelters by Khong, Zhi Cong.

“…Two aspects related to the hollow steel section filled with RCA design were further studied. The effects of RCA size and the presents of grout were studied with respect to their penetration resistance. …”
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Pseudo-randomness in cryptography by Bansal Arushi

“…In addition, the paper defines the criteria for a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator (CSPRNG) and outlines the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) randomness test suite, which offers a framework for evaluating the randomness quality of RNG outputs. The conclusions drawn from this research underscore the indispensable requirement of high-quality randomness in protecting cryptographic infrastructures from advanced threats, calling for continuous advancements and evaluations in PRNG technologies.…”
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Performance evaluation of SAFIS for benchmark problems by Sinara Vijayan.

“…This dissertation presents a performance evaluation of SAFIS algorithm with benchmark problems drawn from the areas of regression and classification. …”
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