Enhancing the Oxford University Research Archive: compliance, consistency, and challenges in supporting researchers by Mitchell, T, Lindgren, T, Partridge, J

“…This paper examines recent developments made to the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA), which has been in place as the University of Oxford's institutional repository, supporting Oxford researchers, since 2007. Over the past four to five years, ORA has undergone significant updates, including the implementation of a new data model, the adoption of enhanced metadata standards, and the integration of automation tools. …”

Surfactant and polymer-based technologies for water treatment by Shen, L, Hankins, NP, Singh, R

“…In this contribution, we highlight several surfactant and/or polymer-based technologies which have been developed over the past few decades for water treatment. Among these emerging technologies, polymer–surfactant complexation and flocculation is emerging as a new, economical and sustainable process for removing the contaminants from dilute aqueous solutions, and then recovering them into a highly concentrated valuable product, before recycling the polymer and surfactant in the next cycle without deterioration of treatment performance. …”

Dynamic consumer search by Parakhonyak, A, Rhodes, A

“…The optimal search rule has two reservation values, one for newly-searched products, and another for products that were searched in the past. Depending on the search cost, firms either keep price steady over time, or gradually raise price to take advantage of a growing pool of high-valuation repeat customers. …”

Stable isotope ratio analysis: an emerging tool to trace the origin of falsified medicines by Roncone, A, Kelly, SD, Giannioti, Z, Hauk, C, Caillet, C, Newton, PN, Perez-Mon, C, Bontempo, L

“…Falsified medicines pose a serious threat to global public health. Over the past few decades, the number of public health issues and seizures of falsified medicines has dramatically increased across the world. …”

Introduction: exponential inequalities: what can equality law do? by Atrey, S, Fredman, S

“…The chapter shows how the book uses a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to isolate the features of exponential inequalities that have arisen during the pandemic and other past crises, and to lay down a template of thinking about exponential inequalities in future crises such as climate emergencies, democratic deficits, wars, refugee crises, etc. …”

The soma question: interrogating the history of psychedelics with Sanskrit mantras by Moore Gerety, FM

“…Historical narratives tell us as much about the present as they do about the past—and the grand narrative of psychedelics in the ancient world is no exception. …”

Analyzing Malaysian Manufacturing Firm’s Flexibility and New Product Performance by Teoh, Bak Aun, Abu, Noor Hidayah

“…Manufacturing flexibility has been receiving attentions over the past decades as firm’s flexibility-related functional capabilities are competencies and resources of the firm. …”
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Strained graphene optoelectronic devices with unprecedented pseudo-magnetic fields by Wang, Boyan

“…Photonic-integrated circuit (PIC) is a research field that has been attracting many researchers’ interests owing to its great potential for enabling various disruptive technologies. In the past few decades, silicon-based PIC has been at the core of PIC development due to the maturity of industry-adopted silicon processing technologies. …”
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The role of expectation: attention in cognitive performance lab study by Wong, Cheryl Qi Yin

“…Past studies have found that sudden, loud noise could distract individuals and impair behavioural performance in human participants. …”
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Empowering communication for mute individuals through AI-assisted conversations by Au, Roydon Yew Rong

“…Overtime, the app grows with the users by learning their habits and past experiences therefore improving the quality of generated responses to become more personal. …”
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Mortgage loan tenure preferences and impact of property cooling measures. by Nur Atiqah Ngaiman., Phua, Stephanie Jia Ying., Muhammad Syukri Ismail.

“…Research shows little prior studies on mortgage loan tenure preferences in Singapore. Based on past findings in other countries, this paper examines 6 common factors influencing loan tenure preferences, namely: housing prices, interest rates, presentation of financial information, purpose of property, income and education. …”
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Conversion from carbon nanotubes to boron nitride nanotubes and boron nitride-carbon nanotubes by Wei, Mingwei

“…Moreover, the mechanism of the conversion process and discussed the differences in formation of multi-wall vs cone-stacking BNNTs structure have also been examined. Lastly, the optical bandgap of converted boron nitride-carbon nanotubes has successfully been tuned. …”
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A review of extended-range operations by transport aircraft by Simpson, R. W., Ausrotas, Raymond A.

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Examining bystander intervention for peer depression and sociodemographic correlates among university students in Singapore by Lim, Benedict Wei Zhi, Koh, Yen Sin, Shahwan, Shazana, Goh, Janrius Chong Min, Samari, Ellaisha, Ong, Wei Jie, Kwok, Kian Woon, Chong, Siow-Ann, Subramaniam, Mythily

“…Results: A favourable shift in all factors was observed at post-intervention, which weakened at 3-month follow-up. Having past experience in the mental health field (β=1.50) and older age (β=0.18) were significantly associated with knowledge on how to intervene. …”
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The Organizational Ombudsman by Rowe, Mary, Gadlin, Howard

“…The chapter discusses the emergence of the role in the context of social, political, and cultural changes over the past 50 years, especially in North America. It discusses the alternative dispute resolution movement--and concurrent emergence of the OO as an appropriate dispute resolution role within a CMS. …”
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Service quality in Singapore bus service by Ang, Hui Shan, Zhang, Liyao, Goh, Robin Jin Quan

“…The second aspect seeks to investigate the findings of past researches and this research with regards to factors influencing commuters’ perceptions of public bus service quality. …”
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For Whom? Studying the Singapore Zoological Gardens, 1973–1993 by Sim, Wan Zhen

“…Likewise, the zoo was framed to be distinctly different from the “unethical” menageries of the past, an “enlightened” institution that suited the context of a newly independent republic to portray itself as a successful emerging nation. …”
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Constructions of Japan and the Japanese : war, memory and foreign policy in Singapore by Liu, Joseph Woon Keong

“…Such efforts ameliorate the traumatic memories of the past and create positive memories of Japan and the Japanese. …”
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Extracting texture feature for time series classification by Chua, Kenneth Boon Chang

“…In this kind of a data analytical tasks, the classification phase is one of the most important phases as it allows us to assign a class to a previously unseen record as precise as possible. In classification, past researches have shown that rules such as the 1-Nearest Neighbour with a distance measure in time domain performs well in a wide variety of application domains. …”
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Contexts and reasons for emoji usage of Chinese Singaporean university students by Lai, Priscilla Zi Ga

“…Past research has largely focused on quantitative data involving the number of emojis used, and of the small proportion studying contexts and reasons of emoji usage, most do not standardise cultural and linguistic backgrounds of participants and platforms used for data collection. …”
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