From phosphate to refugees: the offshore refugee boom in the Republic of Nauru by Morris, J

“…After outlining my theoretical framing, I explore the many procedures and techniques that modulate to Nauru’s state-building effort as a phosphate turned refugee company town.</p> <p>Nauru has occupied a prominent place in the international news, but the landscape of refugee market production that takes place there is represented by legal critics and global media as an exception. …”

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced biosensors by Zhang, Jinling

“…The detections operated on AuNH array using the collective effects of LSP and PSP turned out to be a promising combination in that it theoretically by simulation and experimentally revealed that the fluorescent enhancement was stronger in 2 orders of magnitude as compared with flat Au thin film substrate irradiated off-resonance. …”
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Going on from Picasso? Late modernism and the dynamics of history by Nelson, S

“…As in the various re-stagings of Picasso’s 'Demoiselles d’Avignon' (1907; itself, of course, a crossing-point for multiple traditions) carried out by Hartigan in the 1950s, Souza in the 1960s, and Robert Colescott in the 1980s, they actively diverted and reshaped these histories, turning such reflection into the material for continued painterly practice. …”

Emotion language in context: investigating emotion words in children’s written language and word learning by Dong, Y

“…After controlling for age, even books targeted at pre-schoolers for shared reading contained more unique emotion words than both child-directed speech and television language. …”

Metatheoretical study of Lijphart's power sharing theory by Mafakheri, Ramin

“…Several ways were used to get access the information – primary and secondary data – needed in this study. While, articles, books and some other important documents were used for secondary data collection, interview is the technique of primary data collection in this research. …”
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Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in North India: collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change by Tang, Bo

“…The two case studies of on-going live projects provide the empirical basis for this study: (1) The Kachhpura Settlement Upgrading Project (KSUP) started in 2006 focuses on sanitation in Agra, beginning with the introduction of household toilets leading to a natural Decentralised Waste Water Treatment System (DEWATS) turning foul drain effluent into a community resource for clean water…”
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历史与文学的交错 ：论李靖多重形象的演变 = The entwinement of history and literature : a study on the multiple images of Li Jing by 吴文培 Goh, Wen Pei

“…This paper will explore and analyze the multiple images of Li Jing from historical image to the various literary images by examining historical books and literature works so as to learn more about the transition process that Li Jing had undergone. …”
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Thermal energy storage enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Low, Zheng Hua

“…With the pressing need to decarbonize, industries are turning to renewable energy and energy saving technologies in a bid to reduce emissions. …”
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Studies of insulin transport across intestinal epithelium using nano-encapsulation for oral delivery by Zhang, Yiming

“…Great efforts have been devoted to the development of an effective alternative treatment but none of them has been turned into a solution to date. The discovery of insulin in the early 1920s brought promising hopes to pharmaceutical industries as increasing number of them have been attempting to load the drug in a capsule for the conventional oral route. …”
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Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Ramapurath Chemmencheri, S

“…Meanwhile, they have been dissuaded from turning into labourers in constant migration by virtue of welfare provisions and political mobilisation. …”

Advanced attack and defense techniques in machine learning systems by Zhao, Mengchen

“…Towards building secure machine learning systems, the first step is to study their vulnerability, which turns out to be very challenging due to the variety and complexity of machine learning systems. …”
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Discrete differential geometry driven methods for architectural geometry by Yao, Sidan

“…For each face with small curvature difference, we compute a stretch matrix that turns the principal directions into a pair of conjugate directions. …”
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Innovation and firm survival: the role of timing, funding, and networks by Gao, Ming

“…Therefore, researchers realized that attention should be turned to exploring heterogeneous issues or the factors that may affect the influence of innovation on firms’ survival. …”
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《新客》：新加坡第一部华语电影的书报讨论 = Discussions of the first Singapore Chinese-language film, Xinke (new immigrant) by 张陶陶 Chong, Pheona TaoTao

“…It was a questionable conclusion that brought me search and sort out the newspapers, books and magazines, like “Xin guo min re bao” and “Nanyang Annual” to found evidences that “Xin ke” was been released, and finally found “Xin ke” is not only Singapore’s first Chinese-language film, but also Singapore’s first locally produced movie.…”
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翻译与社会场域理论 ：以新加坡华族小吃双语名称为例 = Translation and field theory : study on bilingual names of Chinese delicacies in Singapore by 林育正 Lin, Yu Cheng

“…Thus, the first chapter of the essay will briefly describe the problems in translating these dishes, followed by the chapter of tracing back the history and how they derive and differ in both official and non-official publications, such as booklets and recipe books from 1980s to year 2000 and beyond. The third chapter will include responses of local owner, Mr Seet and a designer, Miss S, from two different signboard private limited companies. …”
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