Changes in the phenomenon of icon-painting in Romania from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present day by Draghici-Vasilescu, N

“…</p> <p>The thesis presents the same tradition regarding the requirements of the profession of an iconographer, how they were fulfilled in the past and how they are satisfied today in Romania, in both a monastic and a secular milieu. …”

Swimming in Data by Douglass, Katherine, Lamb, Augustus, Lu, Jerry, Ono, Ken, Tenpas, William

“…Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the Olympic Final,” thunders from the loudspeakers, yet it is barely audible over the deafening roar of a crowd ten thousand strong. One long blast of the referee’s whistle summons eight of the world’s fastest swimmers to the starting blocks. …”
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Unveiling the facade of blog posts to reveal subjective well-being : an exploratory study. by Ou, Zhiqi., Tan, Justine Yi Ting., Tan, Jessie Zi Xi.

“…With the increased usage of social media over the past few years, online platforms like blogs and micro blogs may offer a valuable source of information with regards to behavioral economics and policy design. …”
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Online learning with kernels by Fan, Haijin

“…The recurrent term makes the past information reusable for the updating of the algorithm. …”
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Electrical and Electronics Global Supply Chain: The Significance Effect of Psychological Empowerment on Organizational Business Performance by Wei-Kit, Loke, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Foo, Wah Lim

“…The data were then analyzed utilizing Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) technique. …”
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Stabilization of waste soils using novel binders by Tan, Adrian Yong Jian

“…Aside from the commonly used Portland cement (PC), a new low-energy consumption binder, carbide slag-activated ground granulated blast furnace slag (CS-GGBS), was also used in the experiment for comparison purposes. …”
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Perturbation of fetal liver hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell development by trisomy 21 by Roy, A, Cowan, G, Mead, AJ, Filippi, S, Bohn, G, Chaidos, A, Tunstall, O, Chan, JKY, Choolani, M, Bennett, P, Kumar, S, Atkinson, D, Wyatt-Ashmead, J, Hu, M, Stumpf, MPH, Goudevenou, K, O'Connor, D, Chou, ST, Weiss, MJ, Karadimitris, A, Jacobsen, SE, Vyas, P, Roberts, I

“…Commensurately, HSC and megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitors show higher clonogenicity, with increased megakaryocyte, megakaryocyte-erythroid, and replatable blast colonies. Biased megakaryocyte-erythroid–primed gene expression was detected as early as the HSC compartment. …”

Study of vector antennas by Zeng, Yong

“…Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for electromagnetic waves has its wide application in today’s industry and it has attracted a lot of research interest in the past several decades. Traditional DOA estimation techniques usually use antenna arrays as field sensors, whose data outputs are scalar quantities. …”
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Face recognition based on the combination of rectangle filters and unified subspace analysis approach by Cai, Yichang

“…As one of the most successful applications of Image analysis and understanding, face recognition has recently received significant attention, especially during the past several years. At least two reasons account for this trend: the first is the wide range of commercial and law enforcement applications, and the second Is the availability of feasible technologies after 30 years of research. …”
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Trends in extreme daily rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia : 1948 - 2010 by Firouzi, Morteza

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Do institutional pressures impact voluntary environment information disclosure? by Fan, Jing, Muhamad, Haslinah, Mohd Said, Ridzwana, Daud, Zaidi Mat

“…Over the past decades, China's rapid economic growth has mainly come at the expense of excessive energy consumption, resulting in significant carbon dioxide emissions and other environmental challenges. …”
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Discovery of novel antifungal drugs through the inhibition of the Shikimate pathway by T Niraj

“…The Malassezia DAHPS sequence was derived using BLAST. MD simulations were carried out for DAHPS using GROMACS. …”
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Experimental and analytical study of exterior beam-column joint for progressive collapse by Yap, Sim Lim.

“…The performance of building structures, especially so-called “iconic buildings” in blast conditions have been a major concern in metropolitan cities, especially with the recent surge in terrorist activities targeting public structures. …”
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On a problem of El-Zahar and Erdős by Nguyen, T, Scott, A, Seymour, P

“…First, a strengthening: we can ask for one of the two subgraphs to have large chromatic number: that is, for all <i>t</i>, <i>c</i> ≥ 1 there exists <i>d</i> ≥ 1 such that if <i>G</i> has chromatic number at least <i>d</i>, and does not contain the complete graph <i>K_t</i> as a subgraph, then there are anticomplete subgraphs <i>A</i>, <i>B</i>, where <i>A</i> has minimum degree at least <i>c</i> and <i>B</i> has chromatic number at least <i>c</i>.…”

Sexual violence at higher education institutions: prevalence, nature, and opportunities for prevention by Steele, B

“…Among the students participating in the OUR SPACE survey, I found 20% experienced at least one act of SV and 53% experienced at least one act of sexual harassment (which included unwanted acts of a sexual nature that did not involve physical touch, such as crude sexual or sexist remarks and stalking). …”

South African real estate investment trusts prefer Tuesdays by Ajayi, Oluwaseun Damilola, Gavu, Emmanuel Kofi

“…Generally, Wednesday was found to be the least profitable day to invest in all REIT classifications because it had the least average daily return. …”
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Genes implicated in the storage and the production of energy : bioinformatics approach and application in coral reefs in Singapore. by Seow, Wan Yi.

“…A bioinformatics approach was used to study ATP synthase subunit beta and malonyl-CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase (MCAT), genes implicated in the storage and production of energy. 55 MCAT and 77 ATP synthase subunit beta protein and nucleotide sequences from marine clades were retrieved from the NCBI database using BLAST. Sequences were aligned using ClustalW2 and primers specific to corals and zooxanthellae were designed. …”
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Fire resistance of ECC materials by Sim, Tian Qi

“…With the water/binder ratio constant, variables of the mixes were the Aggregate/Binder ratio, PE-Steel fibres variation, Fly Ash (FA) replacement and Ground Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag (GGBS) replacement. Based on the tensile stress-strain graphs, the mix was chosen. …”
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Nonlinear adjustment of exchange rate and exchange rate policy : lessons from Singapore by Yan, Fangli, Yip, Paul Sau Leung

“…Thus, one should be cautious of the significant portion of past empirical studies that did not incorporate the HBS effect in their estimations. …”
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Development of compact power electronics inverter using gallium nitride (GaN) devices by Sinurat, Hendry Donald Hanesty

“…The world of electronics industry has been increasing rapidly and expanding widely in the past three decades. Its development from time to time has shown huge potential to bring electronics into a more advanced and sophisticated stage. …”
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