Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…For states seeking to catch up, the acquisition and assimilation of frontier technology has always been paramount (Abramovitz, 1986).</p> <p>Multinational firms based in industrialized countries have long been seen as sources of technology (Evans, 1979). …”

Preparation and characterization of polypropylene/clay nanocomposites by Lim, Jia Jie.

“…Polypropylene/clay nanocomposites were synthesized by melt compounding with Cloisite® 20A nanoclay and three different types of compatibilizer in a twin-screw extruder. …”
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A New Framework on Success Factors of Social Media Applications Usage (S/O 14449) by Mohd Sappri, Mazlan, Abdul Hamid, Mohamad Shukri, Sulaiman, Nor Intan Saniah, Omar, Mohd Faizal

“…This causing several developers to create their own SMA that have been targeted to mobile app users. However, only several SMA managed to become popular and successful in term of usage, leaving other unpopular SMA in the lower rank of the Google PlayStore. …”
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Automatic modulation classification of higher order QAM signals by Gan, Eng Siew

“…Modulation classification has been used for more than 2 decades in military applications such as electronic warfare, surveillance, threat analysis, spectrum monitoring and management. …”
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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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Bit-error rate simulation and analysis of various frequency-hopped multiple-access receivers by Wang, Kaiyuan

“…In the 21st century, with the large-scale development of mobile communication network, users put forward higher requirements for the excellent performance of the system, and FHSS system has been proposed and widely applied in military nowadays. …”
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MEASUR - Manufacturing Energy Assessment Software for Utility Reduction by Accawi, G, Root, R, Blondheim, N, Howard, D, Hernandez, R, Armstrong, K, Cranfill, K, Shires, P, Kaminski, M, Hadden, J, DePauw, J, Sakovets, Y, Causey, C, Beanblossom, K, Whitmer, M, Ledbetter, A, Rappoport, B, Saravanan, S, Merchant, C, Kokul, S, Fontenot, Z, Vance, D, Worley, A, Aziz, O, Ferree, A, Rosser, N, Jensen, J, Adams, M, Rios, R

“…MEASUR your energy savings with the free DOE MEASUR software The Department of Energy (DOE), with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), released version 1.0 of their energy efficiency software tool MEASUR (Manufacturing Energy Assessment Software for Utility Reduction). MEASUR has been available for several years as a beta version, being tested by industry experts and real users, and will continue to be updated and improved in the coming years. …”

Design of a smart LED lighting control unit by Chua, Fiona

“…Additional features are introduced to increase the convenience brought to users. One example would be an alert system connected to a timer to notify users when the time is up. …”
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Study of efforts made by government and E-commerce companies into countering fraud by Mok, Bin Hua

“…While active measures have been taken to combat this, fraud cases involving E-commerce continues to rise. …”
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Modeling e-learning effectiveness and usability by Leong, Lock Wah.

“…For the last two decades, many organizations, junior schools, Universities and educational institutions have been investing in the information technologies to improve education and training at an increasing rate. …”
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Web application for community driven DIY augmented reality platform by Seah, Yunting

“…Users has been dependent on the world-wide web to find self-repair guide of a product, setup of a product or even on how to fold clothes in the fastest way. …”
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Object-oriented heat transfer software application by Donno Maharanto

“…With fast and powerful personal computers becoming a common tool, many engineering software applications have been developed for practical and educational purposes. …”
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Kinect-based automatic sign language recognition by Khor, Gladys Chiao Yuin

“…Sign language recognition has been gaining popularity over the past few years, it is the natural language and communication tool for hearing and speaking disabilities. …”
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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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What is to reproduce? On the overlap, development, and persistence account of reproduction by Palacios-González, C

“…Her account seems able to answer the question of whether reproduction takes place, and who reproduces, when we employ biotechnologies that bear little to no resemblance to naturally occurring human sexual reproduction. …”

Towards sustainable socially-aware mobile crowdsensing : leveraging hierarchical game for incentive mechanisms by Nie, Jiangtian

“…Traditional mobile crowdsensing has shown a great potential to address large-scale data sensing problems by allocating sensing tasks to pervasive mobile users with smart devices. As crowdsensing service provider involves data collection from mobile users, the issue of providing rewards to incentivize mobile users is fundamentally important to ensure the sustainability of crowdsensing system. …”
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Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Another antibody, Avastin®, indicated for bowel cancer, accounted for $6.7 billion among these top-selling drugs, while Herceptin®, used to treat breast cancer, had sales of $6.6 billion. These numbers bear eloquent testimony to the increasing demand for protein therapeutics. …”
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Presenting social media information on mobile devices using multiple contexts by Tan, Esther Meng Yoke, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…It should also take into account the purpose of use, for example, the kind of tasks undertaken by users. However, little research has been done on the organization of social media information by multiple context and tasks. …”
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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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Polymeric composites for powder-based additive manufacturing : materials and applications by Yuan, Shangqin, Shen, Fei, Chua, Chee Kai, Zhou, Kun

“…As one of the most important categories in the additive manufacturing (AM) field, powder-based techniques, such as selective laser sintering, electron beam melting and selective laser melting, utilize laser or electronic beams to selectively fuse polymeric, metallic, ceramic or composite powders layer-by-layer into desired products according to their computer-aided design models. …”
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