Taiwan-Philippines diplomatic row : should Manila blink first? by Trajano, Julius Cesar I.

“…Tensions between Taiwan and the Philippines have been escalating since the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coast guards. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…Brazil has proved up its massive pre-salt trend boasting tens of billions of barrels of potential. Argentina, seen as a mature producer well past its prime only a few years ago, has a new lease of life in its world-class Vaca Muerta shale province. …”

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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Red blood cell adhesion to artificial surfaces in the presence of non-adsorbing macromolecules. by Zhang, Zhengwen

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Six Crimson Cranes / by Lim, Elizabeth, author 655947, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted. …”
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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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An investigation on the role of tarsal flexibility in insect walking by Tjuatja, Johan

“…Insect leg is a field that has been widely studied by scientists. Although there is a wealth of literature on various physical properties of insect leg, such as strength and inner structure, there seems to be a lack of knowledge on the functions or roles of the individual leg segments, such as the tarsus. …”
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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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The effect of build orientation and testing temperature on mechanical properties of polyamide-12 printed by multi jet fusion by Muhammad Fithri Bin Sadar

“…Though the technology is new, extensive research has been conducted on how different parameters impact the qualities of the printed parts. …”
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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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Co-curricular activities and students’ network by Neo, Kai Teng, Poh, Li Wen

“…Despite widespread research on the types of developmental outcomes (intellectual ability, cognitive and interpersonal skills) of Co-Curricular Activity (CCA), not much research has been conducted on the antecedents of these outcomes. …”
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Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments? by Saxena, Anju

“…PaTani (also referred to as Manchati) is spoken in the PaTan valley in Himachal Pradesh, India. There has been very little work done on it. and none of the published works (e.g. …”
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A novel fabrication method for submicron hydrogel particles loaded with protein drug by Philips Laulia

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Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs by Xia, Yang, Yeo, Chai Kiat

“…It is observed that as the mobility of nodes increases, the performance of existing cluster based routing protocols tends to deteriorate rapidly. Although many mobility based clustering schemes have been proposed to address this problem, majority of these proposals assume the movement of nodes follows group mobility. …”
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Simone de beauvoir against the power of phallocentrism. by Yeo, Cheryl Zhi Zhen.

“…Simone de Beauvoir has been considered as one of the first few feminists many others follow, but reading through The Second Sex leaves one to wonder why: the way she writes is incongruent with the ideas she seems to portray and the language she uses betrays this. …”
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Desalination : discharging brine into coastal waters by Cher, Leo Wei Kwang.

“…Both concentration and velocity profiles exhibit the Gaussian-like distribution at the upper layer but due to the buoyancy-induced instabilities, the lower layer tends to deviate away from the centerline trajectory. …”
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Non-equilibrium fluctuations for a spatial logistic branching process with weak competition by Tendron, T

“…We consider the weak competition regime where <em>c</em> tends to zero, corresponding to a local carrying capacity tending to infinity like 1/<em>c</em> as <em>c</em> vanishes.…”

Biovalorisation of brewer's spent grain (BSG) and sensory evaluation of BSG bread by Goh, Luo Lin

“…Brewer’s spent grain (BSG) is the largest by-product of beer production, generating over an approximate 38 billion kg annually. …”
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Mode of action study for a novel class of antimicrobial polymers against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Shi, Zhenyu

“…The development of antibiotics has been hampered by the rapid evolution of antimicrobial resistance and lack of new mechanisms discovered. …”
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