Market surveillance of porcine DNA detection in commercial food products in Sibu, Sarawak by Yong, S.P. A., Sajali, N., Desa, M. N. M., Koh, C. C., Sani, M., Wong, S. C., Lani, M. N., Wasoh, H., Abubakar, S.

“…The qPCR assay demonstrated presence of porcine DNA in two food samples which lacked product labelling, with mean Ct values ± SD of 19.05 ± 0.72 and 28.07 ± 1.67 as compared to the positive control (mean Ct values ± SD of 13.44 ± 0.37 to 14.78 ± 1.10). …”
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Sway control of a tower crane with varying cable length using input shaping by Haszuraidah, Ishak, Zaharuddin, Mohamed, Fasih, S.M., Bello, M.M., Reza Ezuan, Samin, Adebayo, B.W.

“…The effectiveness of these shapers is evaluated through criteria such as maximum oscillation and reduction of mean squared error (MSE) for overall oscillations. …”
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Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 : serial murder and narrative necrosis by Scott, Bede

“…What impact does this extensive litany of dead bodies have on the novel’s plot trajectory, its production of meaning, and its proairetic qualities? What, precisely, does the recitation of such atrocities do to the fictional discourse it generates? …”
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Turbulence-induced secondary flows in straight open channel with imposed transverse bed non-uniformities by Wang, Zhiqian

“…This study aims to investigate time-mean characteristics of open channel flows subject to steady large-scale longitudinal vorticity, which are generated by longitudinal bedforms. …”
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Efficient computation of the Nagaoka–Hayashi bound for multiparameter estimation with separable measurements by Conlon, Lorcán O., Suzuki, Jun, Lam, Ping Koy, Assad, Syed Muhamad

“…One such bound is the Holevo Cramér–Rao bound on the trace of the mean squared error matrix. The Holevo bound is an asymptotically achievable bound when one allows for any measurement strategy, including collective measurements on many copies of the probe. …”
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Optimal probes for global quantum thermometry by Mok, Wai-Keong, Bharti, Kishor, Kwek, Leong Chuan, Bayat, Abolfazl

“…First, all of the existing optimally precise temperature probes are local, meaning their operation is optimal only for a narrow range of temperatures. …”
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Trend of temperature changes in Singapore by Wang, Qian.

“…Thus, the project focuses on data collection and analysis of the mean minimum temperature of the past three decades. …”
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Mortality and probability: philosophical considerations in selected contemporary British and Irish literature by Lai, Zaneta Zhi Yan

“…As the 21st century human struggles to find meaning in a world that is increasingly saturated with technological advancements, the human necessarily struggles with the fact that death is the one inevitable and irrefutable truth of life. …”
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Zhuangzi's concept of you 遊: limitless transformation along with things by Kamamoto, Yuka

“…It is generally taken to mean the ideal Zhuangzian way of life, whereby one wanders around the world freely and aimlessly without having an ultimate goal in mind. …”
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Catalytic pyrolysis of rain tree biomass with nano nickel oxide synthetized from nickel plating slag: a green path for treating waste by waste by Guo, Dabin, Hu, Mian, Chen, Zhihua, Cui, Baihui, Zhang, Qi, Liu, Yuhuan, Luo, Shiyi, Ruan, Roger, Liu, Yu

“…It appeared from the analyses by FTIR, TGA, XRD, BET, and FESEM/EDX that nano-NiO produced had a SBET and mean particle size of 53.4 m2/g and 112.3 nm. The catalytic pyrolysis kinetics of RTB with and without catalyst were studied by Friedman method. …”
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Designing interactive augmented reality application for student's directed learning of continuous distillation process by Gao, Sitian, Lu, Yunpeng, Ooi, Ching Hui, Cai, Yiyu, Gunawan, Poernomo

“…The evaluation survey with 6-point likert scale questions shows that students had a positive experience using the mobile AR application and it has enhanced their learning experience, as suggested by a mean evaluation score of 5.18 out of 6.0.…”
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Redefining guardianship: a study of the intellectually disabled, their family, and their social sphere in cinema by Lim, Tammie

“…By evaluating three primary texts in the cinematic medium, namely Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump (1994), Lee Chang-dong’s Oasis (2002), and Bong Joon-ho’s Mother (2009), the essay negotiates both valuable and detrimental guardianship strategies in the films, so as to outline the ways in which family-centred care of ID patients can be more constructive, in not only facilitating these individuals’ formation of identities, but also their capacity for meaning-making of the world. In essence, the project postulates that effective family-centric care is at the centre of the endeavour to empower ID individuals –– without it, the intellectually disabled individual cannot thrive, and would instead continue to maintain a tenuous relationship with dominant society.…”
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Modelling spatial correlation in earthquake-induced damage and its impact on regional loss estimation by Nguyen, Michele, Loos, Sabine, Lallemant, David

“…As illustrated using data from the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the modelled spatial correlation leads to greater regionalization of the latent variable mean surface and shifts in damage state distributions. …”
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Data analytics, modelling and optimization on HVAC systems by Sim, Xavier Yan Sheng

“…The performance of these forecasting models is continuously being compared across different metrics with the Mean Absolute Error (MAE), for us to find out which might be more suitable for which use cases. …”
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The present state of PST/PTB reconstruction: can we even write a fable in Proto-Lolo-Burmese? by Matisoff, James A.

“…How much can we really recover from the past history of languages? What do we mean when we claim to have "reconstructed a proto-language"? …”
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Modeling of space charge limited current in solid by William Chandra

“…By considering the electrons are injected from an infinitely long emission strip of width W, the one-dimensional (1D) SCL current density is enhanced by a factor of 1+F X(4/phi)/(W/L), where F = 1/(l+2) measures the mean position of the injected electrons in a solid of length L, and l is the ratio of the distribution of the traps to the free carriers. …”
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Perceptions of hip-hop dance. by Swee, Daren Jin Quan.

“…In order to better understand the glocalization of hip-hop dance from the perspective of the user, the present study started off with a qualitative study by interviewing dance instructors from both the U.S and Singapore to gain insights on the cultural meanings of hip-hop. This was followed by a quantitative study in which the participants were given 5 sets of questions, assessing their perception of hip-hop, Singapore culture, U.S culture, their motivations behind dancing hip-hop, and the importance they attached to certain aspects of the dance. …”
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Zombies and the agency of women as the living dead. by Kwek, Marguerita.

“…Gina Wisker states in “Crossing Liminal Spaces: Teaching the Postcolonial Gothic” that writers “have engaged since the days of second-wave feminism with the potential of Gothic fantasy and horror fictions to further the feminist enterprise of cultural critique and the exploration of new visions and versions of what it can mean to be women in differing contexts” (408). My dissertation seeks to create a „new vision‟ of women in the liminal space of the living dead. …”
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The happiness revolution : live life now. by Hong, Shuqi., Cher, Fiona., Lin, Huanyu., Rusydi, Izzat.

“…Targeted at tertiary students aged 18 to 25, the key campaign goal is to highlight the importance of meaning as a component towards happiness and mental well being by engaging youths in conversations about their current state of happiness. …”
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A programmable voltage reference for sub-1.2V power supplies by Meng, Yuan

“…These three outputs have a typical temperature coefficient 3.943ppm/K and Monte Carlo sampling mean temperature coefficient 22.5 ppm/K over the temperature range 0 to 70℃ for 1000 samples.…”
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