READY PLAYER ONE / by Cline, Ernest, author 655943

“…Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. …”

Hedonic and non-hedonic bias toward the future by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Norton, James

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The ethics of silence : reading the lover's discourse in contemporary trauma narratives by Goh, Pei Hua

“…In Testimony, Felman and Laub contend that a historical and collective trauma like the Holocaust cannot be represented, and cannot be understood, because it lacks a frame of reference. …”
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Functional characterization of orexin system by Chua, Peiling

“…Orexin, which has been known to be involved in feeding and sleep-wake cycle, might have antidepressant-like effects. Researches indicate that depression might be associated with nucleus accumbens and its dopaminergic inputs from ventral tegmental area, which make up the mesolimbic dopamine system. …”
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Sound and smoke propagation models for virtual crowd environments by Vaisagh Viswanathan Thattamparambil

“…Virtual crowd simulations are important for various applications like defense, social studies, etc. While literature exists on agent design and sensor modeling, there is still no generic model for sound and smoke propagation that can be integrated into existing virtual crowd simulation frameworks. …”
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Behavioural and biochemical abnormalities in a mouse model for Parkinson's disease. by Ten, Rachel Rui Xian.

“…In addition to motor abilities, 2 and 4 months old LRRK2R1441G mice were tested in the elevated plus-maze for anxiety-like behaviour, and in the tail suspension test and forced swim test to assess depression-like behaviour. …”
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Implementing pull production within an aerospace assembly operation by Lennox, Kevin Michael

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Arabization, the victimizer: a constructivist analysis of the role of Arabization in harming social security and social cohesion in Singapore by Shukul, Raaj Kumar

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Image registration by Pua, Denny Zaiqi

“…Lowe suggested that the best result is achieved by using 4 by 4 array of histograms with only 8 orientations bin for each array, which derive the 128 descriptors for each key points.[2]…”
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Security protocol design against malicious attacks in neighborhood area network in smart grid by Li, Xiaochen

“…Based on original 4-way handshake protocol standard, Mr. Bin Hu and Mr. Hamid Gharavi proposed the Merkle-Tree Based Handshaking Scheme (MTBH) that can overcome most vulnerabilities found in 4-way handshake. …”
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HIV-related knowledge and stigma towards people living with hiv among community in Tawau, Sabah by Sudarman, Abdul Halim

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Pembangunan Dan Keberkesanan Aplikasi Pembelajaran Geometri Realiti Terimbuh (Learngeoar) Terhadap Keupayaan Visualisasi Ruang Dan Pencapaian Tajuk Ruang Dalam Kalangan Murid Tahun... by Nadzeri, Mohamad Basri

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Effects of ZnO nanoparticle exposure on wastewater treatment and soluble microbial products (SMPs) in an anoxic-aerobic membrane bioreactor by Zhang, Dong Qing, Eng, Chin Yee, Stuckey, David C., Zhou, Yan

“…The presence of ZnO NPs enhanced the production of amino acid-like (7.5–25.1%) and tryptophan protein-like compounds (31.7–38.1%), compared to the control (6.0–20.2% for amino acid-like compounds; and 28.5–36.7% for tryptophan protein-like compounds). …”
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Investigation of structure and particle fabrication of ferritin by Fan, Rongli

“…In this thesis, we demonstrate ferritins and ferritin-like proteins are ideal model systems to investigate protein quaternary structure and to fabricate nanomaterials. …”
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Crosslingual comparison of linguistic phenomenon in English, Japanese and Chinese by Gao, Eshley Huini

“…The remaining contribute to evidence for translation shifts, which includes direct differentiation like hyponymy relationship to less straightforward variation like translation equivalents. …”
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Development of a hybrid utility/wind/solar power supply system for energy neutral building by Chooi, Kin Fei

“…The result of the system show that the power generate from Hybrid System has a promising future and it is suitable a limited space for a country like Singapore. Ever this system had been scale down, however, the data collected from the simulator show this system is working as designed and it can be done by using simple component like, Op-Amp, Ac to Dc Convector and etc. …”
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Enhancement of morlet mother wavelet in time–frequency domain in electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for driver fatigue classification by Rafiuddin, Abdubrani, Mahfuzah, Mustafa, Zarith Liyana, Zahari

“…Then, the artificial neural network (ANN) classifier with Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) training algorithm gives the highest accuracy of the classification results with 97.40%, followed by the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) with 95.83% and the support vector machine (SVM) with 83%.…”
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Deformed Fréchet law for Wigner and sample covariance matrices with tail in crossover regime by Han, Yi, Han, Yi

“…An intermediate regime is recently uncovered in Diaconu (Ann Probab 51(2):774–804, 2023): when lim x → ∞ x 4 P ( | a ij | > x ) = c ∈ ( 0 , ∞ ) , then the law of the largest eigenvalue converges to a deformed Fréchet distribution. …”
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Clinical Validation of Non-invasive Simulation-Based Determination of Vascular Impedance, Wave Intensity, and Hydraulic Work in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Repla... by Brown, Jonathan Y., Fernandez, Gabriela V., De La Torre Hernández, Jose M., Murphy, Michael, Wessler, Benjamin S., Edelman, Elazer R.

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Machine learning for bioelectronics on wearable and implantable devices: challenges and potential by Goh, Guo Dong, Lee, Jia Min, Goh, Guo Liang, Huang, Xi, Lee, Samuel, Yeong, Wai Yee

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