Strengthening District Administration in Plural Communal Context: An Analysis on the Potential Impact of Establishing a Kalmunai Administrative District in Sri Lanka by Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus, Sarjoon, Athambawa, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah

“…However, decentralized district administration in postindependence Sri Lanka has been challenging, primarily due to a number of issues related to the accommodation of rights and interests of minorities. …”
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Influence of sintering temperature on structure, physical, and optical properties of wollastonite based glass-ceramic derived from waste eggshells and waste soda-lime-silica gl... by Chen, Hongxu, Azis, Raba'ah Syahidah, Mohd Zaid, Mohd Hafiz, Amin Matori, Khamirul, Ismail, Ismayadi

“…The calcium oxide and silica were made using the melt-quenching process and sintered for 2 hours at 700 to 1000 °C. …”
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Stress investigation on crack tip plastic zone - part II: sub-interface crack and crack in layered materials by Poh, Xuan You.

“…Elastic-plastic stress analysis has been carried out for the value of J Integral of a sub-interface crack with small scale yielding. …”
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Recommended changes to standard of care for monitoring of cortically blind fields by Willis, HE, Cavanaugh, MR

“…Clinical care is variable throughout the United States and United Kingdom, with only 57% of patients receiving visual field assessments and 61% stating their need for support has not been fully met. Additionally, unlike stroke survivors with motor or language deficits, those with vision loss are rarely offered visual rehabilitation. …”

Experimental investigation of methane storage under ambient conditions employing adsorption technology by Chua, Bernard Zhen Cong

“…All this knowledge has been used for industrial applications which requires adsorption science and technology. …”
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Fine-tuning selective layer architecture of hydrogel membrane towards high separation performances for engineered osmosis by Qin, Detao, Liu, Zhaoyang, Bai, Hongwei, Song, Xiaoxiao, Li, Zhengtao, Sun, Darren Delai

“…Analysis of reverse osmosis (RO) experimental results reveals hydrogel layer resistance to water permeation is linearly reduced by 1.40 × 1013 m−1 as the layer is tailored thinner per 10 nm, which leads to the remarkable enhancement of water permeability by ~10 times from 0.49 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 of 500 nm thickness to 4.75 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 of 30 nm thickness. …”
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Preliminary study on the characteristics of FO/PRO hollow fiber membranes by Chen, Yunfeng.

“…The substrate is mechanically tough and has large pure water permeability (PWP) of 462.4 L m-2 h-1 bar-1. After interfacial polymerization, the TFC HF membrane has PWP of 2.01 L m-2 h-1 bar-1 and solute permeability of 0.525 L m-2 h-1. …”
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Self-healing algorithm for real-time multicast tree by Giam, Pin Leong.

“…Real-time multicast routing had been studied in depth and a number of multicast tree building algorithms had been proposed that take into consideration network cost and performance guarantee services like end-to-end delay constraint. …”
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The contemporary development of netball in Singapore by Divyashree Balakrishnan

“…This study suggests that the successes and growth achieved by Netball Singapore as an association has been met through the contribution of athletes and coaches likewise, through sporting ideals and aspirations, to benefit the sport in one way or another. …”
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The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) by Wheeler, Mark

“…This chapter examines Paul Schrader’s directorial debut Blue Collar (1978) with reference to its entrapment of three Detroit autoworkers. Within this rust-belt drama, two of the men are black --- the thirty year-old Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Brown (Richard Pryor) and the two-time ‘loser’ ex-convict thirty-five-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). …”
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A highly strained Al-Al σ-bond in dianionic aluminum analog of oxirane for molecule activation by Koshino, Kota, Kinjo, Rei

“…The structure of 2 has been unambiguously ascertained by spectroscopic analysis as well as X-ray crystallography, and computational studies revealed that 2 bears a highly strained Al-Al σ-bond. 2 readily reacts with the unsaturated substrates such as isocyanide, ethylene, and ketone, concomitant with the cleavage of the Al-Al σ-bond under mild conditions, leading to the four- and five-membered heterocycles 3-5. …”
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Ozone reaction with interior building materials: Influence of diurnal ozone variation, temperature and humidity by Rim, Donghyun, Maddalena, Randy L., Nazaroff, William W., Gall, Elliott Tyler

“…Reactive uptake of ozone has been characterized for many building materials; however, scant information is available on how diurnal variation of ambient ozone influences ozone reaction with indoor surfaces. …”
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Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…Carbon nanomaterials are unique in terms of structure, carbon nanotube (CNT) bears a hollow one-dimensional structure; and graphene is an one-atom-thick sheet and has extremely high specific surface area; both of them are presenting excellent charge transport capability. …”
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Development of a platform to educate, detect and mitigate a cyber security social engineering attack by Lin, Xin Jie

“…In recent years, social engineering attack (SEA) has been prevailing and more people fall victims to such scams. …”
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Three-dimensional indoor positioning based on IMU/magnetometer sensor fusion by Leong, Jaaron

“…Location-based services have been gaining popularity lately with the advancement of technologies. …”
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MemeWar 2 : game platform for artificial intelligence research by Teo, Joyce Mei Li

“…It is also a platform for researchers to easily conduct artificial intelligence researches. This game has been in the market for a few years, but it has yet to gain its popularity in the gaming industry. …”
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Automated equipment management & maintenance system (AEMS) by Quek, Teng Yeow

“…Although the functional requirements were met, additional features could be added to extend the capabilities of the system. …”
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Recommend the suitability of using smoke control systems for underground data center by Yew, Kuok Fung

“…Scenario 1 and 2 showed significant amount of smoke during the evacuation period and tenability criteria were not met. Scenario 3 showed promising results where the smoke was largely under control during the evacuation period, and smoke was removed quickly after the fire has been suppressed. …”
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A comparison of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor kidney outcome trial participants with a real-world chronic kidney disease primary care population by Forbes, AK, Hinton, W, Feher, MD, Elson, W, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Joy, M, Fan, X, Banerjee, D, Cole, NI, Munro, N, Whyte, M, Suckling, RJ, Swift, PA, de Lusignan, S

“…In the real-world CKD population, 0.9%, 2.2% and 8.0% met the Canagliflozin and Renal Events in Diabetes with Established Nephropathy Clinical Evaluation (CREDENCE), Dapagliflozin and Renal Outcomes and Cardiovascular Mortality in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (DAPA-CKD) and EMPA-KIDNEY eligibility criteria, respectively. …”

A serious game to educate youths on depression by Yeoh, Sarah Sue Min

“…Results show that the objective of stigmatising depression has been met. Participants agreed the game was beneficial to educate others how to show empathy. …”
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