Alcohol Use and Its Relation with Demographic, Environmental, and Psychological Factors among Adolescents in Nabawan, Sabah by Jaimon, Selly, Deligannu, Pravina, Robinson, Fredie

“…Analysis revealed that older age adolescents 18 years and 19 years, respectively (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 3.93; P=0.021; aOR, 5.38; P=0.003), having parents (aOR, 4.11; P=0.001) and peers (aOR, 11.57; P<0.001) who consume alcohol were significantly associated with alcohol use. …”
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Intelligent database design for microgrids in low voltage distribution systems-I GUI and database design by Ng, Pei Fen

“…Climatic change can lead to consequences such as increasing cases of heat-related illness, endangering wildlife like polar bears and rising of sea level that would trigger natural disasters leading to individual losing their homes. [51] Due to extensively use of electricity in this contemporary society, there arises a need to seek for alternative energy sources, if at all possible renewable resources such as wind and solar. …”
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Novel statistical emulator construction for volcanic ash transport model Ash3d with physically motivated measures by Yang, Qingyuan, Pitman, E. Bruce, Spiller, Elaine, Bursik, Marcus, Bevilacqua, Andrea

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Study of warm mix technologies for asphalt concrete by Sim, Joey Xin Yi

“…However, the move to expand road infrastructure underground sees its own shortcomings. Road construction in tunnels has been notoriously worrisome. …”
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Turning the virtual into reality: China's role in the metaverse by Gong, Xue

“…According to the state’s news mouthpiece Xinhua, the development of the metaverse could have significant impacts on this geopolitical competition.3 The CCP sees the metaverse as an area where China can beat the West, making the question of how to materialize the concept to advance Beijing’s geopolitical agenda salient in China’s technological development.4 The Chinese government is redefining how the metaverse works at the domestic and the global level. …”
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Crystal phase and architecture engineering of lotus thalamus-shaped Pt-Ni anisotropic superstructures for highly efficient electrochemical hydrogen evolution by Zhang, Zhicheng, Liu, Guigao, Cui, Xiaoya, Chen, Bo, Zhu, Yihan, Gong, Yue, Saleem, Faisal, Xi, Shibo, Du, Yonghua, Borgna, Armando, Lai, Zhuangchai, Zhang, Qinghua, Li, Bing, Zong, Yun, Han, Yu, Gu, Lin, Zhang, Hua

“…The Pt‐Ni ASs with Pt‐rich surface are composed of one Ni‐rich “core” with face‐centered cubic (fcc) phase, Ni‐rich “arms” with hexagonal close‐packed phase protruding from the core, and facet‐selectively grown Pt‐rich “lotus seeds” with fcc phase on the end surfaces of the “arms.” …”
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Phonological and semantic influences on auditory word perception in children with and without reading impairments using magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG... by Wehner, Daniel T

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Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…I hope that in trying to meaningfully constrain these processes I plant seeds of inquiry from which myself and others can one day make more concrete statements of the cause and effect between tectonics and climate.…”
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21W.730-2 Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture, Fall 2005 by Boiko, Karen

“…"Civilization is mostly the story of how seeds, meats, and ways to cook them travel from place to place." - Adam Gopnik, "What's Cooking" "A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes." - Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating" If you are what you eat, what are you? …”
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Crystal phase-based epitaxial growth of hybrid noble metal nanostructures on 4H/fcc Au nanowires by Lu, Qipeng, Wang, An-Liang, Gong, Yue, Hao, Wei, Cheng, Hongfei, Chen, Junze, Li, Bing, Yang, Nailiang, Niu, Wenxin, Wang, Jie, Yu, Yifu, Zhang, Xiao, Chen, Ye, Fan, Zhanxi, Wu, Xue-Jun, Chen, Jinping, Luo, Jun, Li, Shuzhou, Gu, Lin, Zhang, Hua

“…However, it remains a challenge to use these materials as seeds to construct heterometallic nanostructures with desired crystal phases and morphologies for promising applications such as catalysis. …”
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Electrode modification by diazonium chemistry : studies on the effect of steric bulk on film thickness, and modified activated carbon cloths for energy storage by Subrata, Arnold

“…One key disadvantage of grafting by diazonium chemistry is the inherent tendency of the grafted film to bear multilayers of organic molecules, which is not desired in most applications requiring modified electrodes. …”
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New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

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Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Moreover, from the principal customers’ perspective, a higher level of environmental risk lowers a supplier firm’s probability of being selected relative to its industry peers by its potential customer. Conditional on an ongoing relationship with principal customers, supplier firms with high environmental risk have lower sales to principal customers and shorter relationship durations. …”
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Social network structure in autistic individuals: a systematic review by Lei, J, Qian, X, Kim, KM

“…Results indicate that autistic children experience greater isolation with more peripheral status and lower peer acceptance compared with their neurotypical peers. …”

To what extent and in what ways do communities of practice facilitate learning in the context of professional development for interpreting students and practitioners? by D'Hayer, Danielle

“…The formal integration of alumni to a horizontal CoP every academic year offers regularity in the life cycle of the community and value creation to all participants. It sows the seeds for a CoP mindset that sustains beyond participation and so has the power to transform the ethical values of the interpreting profession. …”
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High cycle fatigue characterisation and modelling of 316L stainless steel processed by laser powder bed fusion by Zhang, Meng

“…Despite the diverse fatigue and fracture properties, the models produced good prediction accuracy when checked against the test data. Moreover, the method demonstrated good generalisation capability on applying to literature data. …”
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论李世民音乐政治观对儒家礼乐思想的继承和转化 = A study on Li Shimin music-politics: inheritance and transformation of Confucian ritual and music thought by 许惠佳 Koh, Hwee Kay

“…To a certain extent, he had inherited Yueji, Confucian ritual and Music thought - which extensively covers the social influence and educational function of music to society – while at the same time, his Music-politics thought bears much resemblance to those of Ji Kang. This article hopes to explore in detail Li Shimin’s Music-politics thought, and by using Yueji as a comparison, analyses how his inheritance and transformation of Confucian Ritual and Music thought played an important role in shaping the Tang Culture.…”
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Data-driven forward and inverse analysis of two-dimensional soil consolidation using physics-informed neural network by Wang, Yu, Shi, Chao, Shi, Jiangwei, Lu, Hu

“…To address these limitations, a novel physics-informed neural network (PINN) is developed for both forward and inverse analyses of two-dimensional soil consolidations when only limited measurements are available. Different random seeds are used to test the robustness of the PINN developed and quantify the associated model uncertainty. …”
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Tin oxide based dye sensitized solar cells by Teh, Jun Jie

“…To tailor the conduction band edge of tin oxide to increase open circuit voltage of DSSCs, gallium doped SnO2 nano-cuboids (Ga-SnO2-NC) was synthesised by hydrothermal method with the aid of commercially available SnO2 nanoparticles (SnO2-NP) as the growth seeds. Even though Ga-doping wasn’t found any changes in morphology and crystallinity, however it successfully increased the band edge of SnO2, in which it is capable of suppressing photoelectron backflow and achieving a higher open circuit voltage (Voc ~ 0.74 V). …”
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15.665B Power and Negotiation, Fall 2002 by Williams, Michele

“…You will learn and practice the technical skills and analytic frameworks that are necessary to negotiate successfully with peers from other top business schools, and you will learn methods for developing the powerful social capital you will need to rise in the executive ranks of any organization. …”
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