Youth at Risk : A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents / by Capuzzi, David, editor 296803, Gross, Douglas R., editor 296809, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Developmental in its orientation, the text moves from population definition and identification, to causal factors and issues most often identified with placing youth at risk, to a prevention–intervention paradigm specifically created for teens. Illustrative case studies and enlightening sidebars enhance reader self-awareness, promote self-study and skill development, and aid in the comprehension of the concepts and applications of chapter material. …”
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Developing a web app in conjunction with a honey dehydrator by Sim, Yang Kai

“…Honey is a sweet tasting viscous liquid made by bees, and honey harvesting practices have grown in the last few decades. …”
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Optimising high porosity 3D scaffold by wet electrospinning by Ong, Su Ming

“…Recently, there has been a significant increase of bone tissue engineering research for elderly as they are more prone to bone defects and damages. …”
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Processing of nanostructured nickel-based magnetic materials by School of Materials Science and Engineering

“…As the grain size decreases to several tens of nanometer in scale, results of the ball milled powders showed that the all the five systems exhibited coercivities that increased with grain size, contrary to the random anisotropy model. …”
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Mathematical sequences behind genetic codes by Goh, Alfred Yuhui

“…The realm of Mathematics and Science have always been that of discovery, renewal and reconciliation. …”
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IS activity in Southeast Asia by Liow, Joseph Chinyong, Liow Chin Yong, Joseph

“…The increasing number of recruits from Indonesia and Malaysia to Islamic State reflects the evolving security threat to Southeast Asia. The emerging pattern bears lessons for countries in the region.…”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The ‘polluter pays’ principle has been implemented by several pieces of environmental legislation in China as a means to confront the issue of liability in the case of bankrupt polluters. …”
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Sb2S3-based extremely thin absorber solar cell by Kang, Aik Meng

“…In particular, solid-state cells have been drawing much attention recently due to its high light-harvesting capability, tunable band gap over a wide range and a large intrinsic dipole moment. …”
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Spooky action in the film/novel debate. by Lee, Tracy Marie Shiyin., Luo, Esmonde Jianwen., Wong, Kai Wing., Manoj Prabhoda Chandran., Chee, Kang Xiong.

“…The installation follows a Collector, Photographer, Writer and a Collective (a beer garden group that gathers at the local coffeeshop) in their daily life as they contemplate the curious events, and each other, in an attempt to cope with the boredom they face in the neighbourhood. …”
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Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata” by de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex

“…The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” bears no resemblance to modern high-dimensional data sets on which their methods fail. …”
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Factual approach for tropical forest parameters measurement and monitoring: future option with a focus on synergetic use of airborne and terrestrial lidar technologies by Bazezew, Muluken N., Hussin, Yousif A., Kloosterman, Evert H., M. Hasmadi, Ismail

“…To overcome this challenge incurred due to the complex biophysical properties of tropical forests, Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technologies have been used combinedly. Airborne LiDAR data ‘from above’ are largely restricted to analyses of lower canopy layer trees. …”

Streamoscope: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, USB-3-Capable Streaming Data Acquisition System for Low-Field MRI by Feld, Joseph W.

“…Low-field MRI systems need to acquire data with sample rates in the tens of megahertz, which can make the data acquisition system the bulk of the overall cost of low-cost systems. …”
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Teenage, with child. by Ng, Jolin Zhuo Lin., Tan, Charlene Su En.

“…This feature also discusses the current efforts of welfare agencies that deal with teen pregnancy, as well as the existing sex education model.…”
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How messianism is killing Israelis and Palestinians by Firestone, Reuven

“…They conceal the truth of a complicated reality and have caused great suffering, thousands of deaths, and tens of thousands of displaced persons among both Israelis and Palestinians.…”
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Linear A libation tables : a semitic connection explored by Eu Min, Niki Cassandra, Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, Cavallaro, Francesco Paolo

“…Attempts to decipher the writing system have been unsuccessful for several reasons. Unlike the Linear B language (Mycenaean Greek), Minoan, the language hidden behind Linear A and still undeciphered, bears no apparent similarity to Greek, and any ‘translation’ of Linear A based provisionally on Linear B phonetic values has not produced any tangible result. …”
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A three-membered diazo-aluminum heterocycle to access an Al=C π bonding species by Yan, Chenting, Kinjo, Rei

“…An X-ray study shows that the anionic part of 5 bears a considerable short exocyclic Al-C bond, and computational studies involving molecular orbital and natural bond orbital analysis indicate the Al=C π bonding character. …”
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Signatures of wave erosion in Titan’s coasts by Palermo, Rose V, Ashton, Andrew D, Soderblom, Jason M, Birch, Samuel PD, Hayes, Alexander G, Perron, J Taylor

“…Applying this framework to Titan, we find that the shorelines of Titan’s seas are most consistent with flooded landscapes that subsequently have been eroded by waves, rather than a uniform erosional process or no coastal erosion, particularly if wave growth saturates at fetch lengths of tens of kilometers.…”
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Virtual piano by Tan, Alan Lai Chian

“…Through the installation of apps, the list of possible smartphone uses multiplies by tens of thousands and grows longer every day. With smarter phone cameras coming to the market, there has been great interest in computer vision applications using real-time image processing in mobile devices. …”
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Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Up to date, no studies have been done to examine the viability of probiotics in popular, well-liked, commercialized carbonated sodas/beers, but it is known that certain components in these matrices (e.g. phosphoric acid in soda, hops and ethanol in beers) can reduce the viability of probiotics. …”
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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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