Survey of healthcare-associated sink infrastructure, and sink trap antibiotic residues and biochemistry, in 29 UK hospitals by Rodger, G, Chau, K, Aranega Bou, P, Moore, G, Roohi, A, The SinkBug Consortium, Walker, AS, Stoesser, N

“…<p><strong> Results</strong></p> Of 287 sinks surveyed 111 were in ICUs, 92 in medical wards and 84 in surgical wards; 77 were in medicines/drug preparation rooms, 97 on patient bays, 25 in patient side-rooms and 88 in sluice rooms. Sink-to-bed ratios ranged from 0.23-2.83 sinks/patient bed and were higher on ICUs (1.21 versus 0.82 and 0.84 on medical and surgical wards, respectively; p- value=0.04). …”

Investigating the impact of ligand modification on luminescent lanthanide complexes by Simms, CH

Application of smartphone-based biophotonic instrumentation for glucose sensing using colorimetric method by Azlan, Nur Ainin Sofhia Nurul

“…The calibration curves consistently confirm that the proposed method aligns with the Beer-Lambert law, in accordance with expectations with previous studies. …”
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High performance parallel processing system for real-time animation by Leong, Soon Khing.

“…The first stage development of the prototype served as a test bed for the various computer graphics processes implemented. …”
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Review of Eric Hutton, Xunzi : the complete text by Sung, Winnie

“…For non-specialists who are unacquainted with the Xunzi, it will be an excellent alternative to Burton Watson‟s abridged translations (1963) of ten out of thirty-two chapters of the Xunzi. For the specialists, it serves as a valuable new scholarly translation for their research in addition to Knoblock‟s translation (1988-94) completed twenty years ago.…”
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Comparative analysis of undergraduate life science education at NTU, Singapore and Kyutech, Japan : commonalities and differences in preparing students for employment or graduate s... by Lee, Kok Sang.

“…Students in Singapore tend to start working upon graduation while students in Japan tend to go for graduate study. …”
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Moral panic, fear, stigma, and discrimination against returnee migrants and Muslim populations in Nepal: analyses of COVID-19 media content by Aryal, Nirmal, Regmi, Pramod, Dhakal Adhikari, Shovita, Sharma, Shreeman, van Teijlingen, Edwin

“…During the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, some media content in Nepal tended to create moral panic and public fear towards specific sub- groups in the population. …”
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Sleep and circadian difficulties in schizophrenia: presentations, understanding, and treatment by Freeman, D, Waite, F

“…We describe key techniques and their typical order of implementation for the ten presentations. Sleep problems are an important issue for patients. …”

Time/cost performance ratio modelling for estimation and project evaluation by Goh, Ngan Hong.

“…The objective of this study is to develop a theoretical background for defining and measuring performance of construction projects in relation to both time and cost effectiveness and to investigate and analyze the contract performance with respect to public institutional building and road projects in Singapore in the last ten years (1981 to 1990). It also attempts to formulate methods by which the results of the study can be used for improving performance of similar building and road projects in future by setting realistic time and cost targets.…”
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Comparison for decentralized control multivariable process by Kyaw, Kyaw Htike.

“…In this dissertation, the design procedures of four typical decentralized PI/PID controller design methods: the biggest log modulus tuning (BLT) method, the gain and phase margin (GPM) method, the internal model control (IMC) method and the effective relative gain array (ERGA) method, are revisited first, and then implemented to ten different distillation systems that vary from two-input two-output systems up to four-input four-output systems.…”
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Robust impedance control for robot manipulators by Chen, Heping.

“…Due to dynamic constraints from the environment, this task is quite demanding and is adopted in the research as a common test-bed to evaluate the performance of robust control schemes with those of model-based control laws. …”
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Influence of reactor hydrodynamics on sludge deposition and membrane performance in anaerobic membrane bioreactors by Liou, Cui Xian.

“…The objectives of this project were to utilize CFD to predict flow patterns in both anaerobic fluidized bed reactor (AFBR) and anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AFMBR). …”
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Embedded Object Detection and Mapping in Soft Materials Using Optical Tactile Sensing by Solano-Castellanos, Jose A., Do, Won Kyung, Kennedy, Monroe D.

“…We show the performance of our methodology using ten different configurations of the beads where the proposed approach is able to approximate the underlying configuration. …”
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A time evolution study of the ecologies of collaboration in two business schools. by Wee, Jee Foon.

“…In this dissertation, the ecologies of collaboration among the academics at two business schools, namely, the Nanyang Business School (NBS) and INSEAD were studied by analysing the ten-year publication output of the two schools using techniques from both scientometrics and social network analysis. …”
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On the stability of moral preferences: a problem with computational elicitation methods by Boerstler, K, Keswani, V, Chan, L, Schaich Borg, J, Conitzer, V, Heidari, H, Sinnott-Armstrong, W

“…We address this possibility here by asking the same survey participants the same moral questions about which patient should receive a kidney when only one is available ten times in ten different sessions over two weeks, varying only presentation order across sessions. …”

The changing nature of Chinese business in Africa : the case of Cape Verde by Horta, Loro

“…Many tend to associate China's presence in Africa with a frenetic search for natural resources such as oil and gas. …”
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Selection and optimization of carriers in biological wastewater treatment applications by Zheng, Qiaogeng

“…The treatment system uses a two-stage biological process, which is a three-phase fluidized bed aerobic reactor (TPFBR), and the second is a conventional activated sludge process.…”
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Investigation and fabrication of tiltrotors/tiltwings with morphing wing mechanisms by Hon, Shah Kiat.

“…In order to provide a platform for researches and test-bedding of different technologies, a prototype was designed with low cost and ease of manufacturing in mind. …”
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Wave-induced longitudinal vortices in a shallow current by Huang, Zhenhua, Mei, Chiang C.

“…With a simple model of eddy viscosity the dimensionless shearing rate of the basic current is much weaker than the dimensionless velocity almost everywhere except near the bed. We shall show that in addition to the internal vortex force, a mean shear stress exists on the mean sea level, owing to nonlinear wave–current interactions, despite the absence of wind. …”
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Partnership Ties Shape Friendship Networks: A Dynamic Social Network Study by Stadtfeld, Christoph, Pentland, Alex

“…First, partnership ties drive clustering in friendship networks: individuals who are in a partnership tend to have common friends and befriend other couples. …”
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