The teaching of thinking in Malaysia by Hashim, Rosnani, Hussien, Suhailah

“…This important landmark of an educated person is again raised today as a major issue in education, after many studies have begun to reveal symptoms of a decline in students' ability to think wisely, especially when schools began to focus on the mastery of facts, probably in the preparation for examinations rather than on the processes of arriving at those facts. …”
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Fracture behavior of sandwich beams with novel triaxially woven fabric composite skins under bending by Al-Fasih, Mohammed Yahaya Mohammed

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Multistage artificial neural network in structural damage detection by Goh, Lyn Dee

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Steady flow of some non-newtonian fluids through a porous medium by using adomian decomposition method by Mansour Elniel Dalam, Fawzia

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Budget allocation management model for seismic rehabilitation of infrastructure assets. by Mohammadreza Yadollahi

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The search for city : between being and seeming in the rapid urbanisation of Doha, Qatar by Chomowicz, Peter

“…This thesis takes as its central concern how the institutional order within Doha, Qatar, provides the ground for ethical and ontological orientation; how one specific urban society, Doha, Qatar, uses architecture and its representation in its search for an authentic orientation in history when caught between the pull of tradition and the push of modernity. …”
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The role of attachment styles in team functioning by Pheiffer, Gary

“…Using mediation analysis, team avoidant attachment was consistently and strongly associated with the study’s dependent variables and emerged as the key explanatory variable in this research. When all the attachment styles were analysed simultaneously to determine the unique effects of each attachment style, team avoidance style was the most useful in understanding both TMX and Team Identification, job satisfaction, OCB and performance measures. …”
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An optimised competency framework for improving students’ self skills during work-related learning by Patel, Preeti

“…A study conducted to test the intervention reveals that significant improvements can be seen in students’ understanding and perception of their competencies, but that this improvement is only apparent when both Work-related learning and developmental feedback based on self-evaluation are implemented. …”
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Deterioration and Recovery in Verbal Recall: Repetition Helps against Pro-Active Interference by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Markowska, Monika, Ridhi, Kochhar

“…Thus, in both studies, a significant monolingual disadvantage showed. When the two data sets were merged (N=123), statistical effects showed that the single word list repetition had successfully and significantly increased resistance to PI, but all individual differences due to bilingualism and sex had disappeared. …”
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Using wikis to support student writing mentors' reflective practice : a brief overview by Bakhshi, Savita, Reynolds, Lynn, Harrington, Kathy, O'Neill, Peter

“…In particular, they have been used to facilitate mentors’ reflective practice, including the benefits and challenges of working with fellow students for improving writing. When we first began using wikis, it was hoped that this virtual space would enable mentors with different working hours in the Centre to continue to reflect on their professional practice as mentors following the initial three-day intensive training programme. …”
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Complex boundary integral techniques for turbomachinery blading by Wood, David John

“…Approximations to the representation are given for the case when first order derivatives are known. These approximations are geared to the utilisation of the numerical solutions of the aforementioned integral equations. …”
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An investigation of navigational decisions by Strange, J. L.

“…From the results of these experiments it was possible to produce an order of the subjects' preference for the different aids, to demonstrate that the subjects preferred to use only two position lines when fixing their position and to examine how the subjects used these aids.…”
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Natural language processing approach to NLP meta model automation by Amirhosseini, Mohammad Hossein, Kazemian, Hassan, Ouazzane, Karim, Chandler, Chris

“…Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is one of the most utilised approaches for personality development and Meta model is one of the most important techniques in this process. Usually, when one speaks about a problem or a situation, the words that one chooses will delete, distort or generalize portions of their experience. …”
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A new study to suppress mutual-coupling between waveguide slot array antennas based on metasurface bulkhead for MIMO systems by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Khalily, Mohsen, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Performance of the dual-waveguide antenna structure is shown to substantially enhance when compared against an identical reference WSA antenna with no metasurface. …”
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The Pricing of Contingent Claims in a Multivariate Gamma Distributed Economy by Vitiello, Luiz, Rebelo, Ivonia

“…Multivariate contingent claim pricing models are of particular interest when payoffs depend on two or more stochastic variables, such as options to exchange one asset for another, options on mutual funds, and options with a stochastic strike price in general. …”
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Three Days in the Life of a Full-Time Working, Studying Mum (or How To Avoid Your PhD): Reflections by Brown, Karen Jane

“…Secondly, your PhD studies will have ebbs and flows so don’t expect to achieve at a high rate all the time, and don’t get depressed when you don’t. And thirdly, keeping a diary of your student activities will help you become a better researcher. …”
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How do clinicians work with the shift between stabilisation-work and exposure-work in PTSD-treatment? Interviewing clinicians - a grounded theory study by Hellegren, Sarah T. N.

“…Specifically, the aim is to explore how clinicians conceptualise exposure-readiness and how they evaluate when clients are ready to initiate exposure-work. …”
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Topical delivery of Niacinamide: influence of binary and ternary solvent systems by Zhang, Yanling, Kung, Chin-Ping, Sil dos Santos, Bruno, Lane, Majella E., Hadgraft, Jonathan, Heinrich, Michael, Sinko, Balint

“…However, data from the Skin PAMPA model and from human skin could only be correlated when the PG-fatty acid systems were excluded. These findings add to our knowledge of the potential applications of Skin PAMPA for screening dermal/transdermal preparations.…”
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Land remediation, event spaces and the pursuit of Olympic legacy by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…The third section documents the role of remediation as an option employed recently by Games’ organisers when needing to find spaces of suitable size to stage the Olympics, noting how choosing remediation ab initio involves commitment to legacy. …”
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Mozart sharpens and Mahler degrades the word memory trace by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Rohloff, Stella

“…We investigated the impact of the Mozart effect on word memory when music was heard in the delay rather than using music to induce mood or as background music. …”
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