What Happens to Confidentiality if the Visitor Refuses to Report Unacceptable Behavior? by Rowe, Mary

“…It discusses some options for getting information where it needs to go, on a timely basis, without the ombuds practitioner having to breach confidentiality, and points out that such options usually exist.…”
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Clan, marriage practices and kinship terms amongst the Ao and Sema Nagas by Sreedhar, M. V.

“…For instance, when the maternal aunt of a man gets married. he is expected to offer certain specified items as presents to his maternal aunt, and her husband in his turn is expected to return these presents at the time of the marriage of his wi. si. son. son.…”
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Investigation into the effect of process parameter on properties of AM parts - scan speed by Lau, Marilyn Li Qin

“…Through the process of building the DIY 3D printer, the user gets to experience and understand the working principle of it. …”
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A serious game design and development by Pang, Er Chao

“…One field of research studies on use of computing technologies, such as serious games, to possibly help slow down and reduce the risk of getting the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease. This project seeks to justify the use of games as a potential rehabilitation tool for memory loss, one of many the symptom of the Alzheimer’s Disease. …”
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Process optimization of alumina extraction from aluminium dross via response surface methodology by Mohamad Jamil Arif, Mansor, Yeoh, Yuan Xin, Siti Nor Amira, Rosli, Noor Intan Shafinas, Muhammad, Kittappa, Shanmuga, Sumaiya, Zainal Abidin

“…Various techniques including precipitation, leaching, sol-gel, and hydrothermal methods have been explored for alumina (Al2O3) extraction. …”
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Highly stretchable, elastic, and ionic conductive hydrogel for artificial soft electronics by Zhou, Yang, Wan, Changjin, Yang, Yongsheng, Yang, Hui, Wang, Shancheng, Dai, Zhendong, Ji, Keju, Jiang, Hui, Chen, Xiaodong, Long, Yi

“…The proposed ionic conductive hydrogel is achieved by physically cross-linking the tough biocompatible polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) gel as the matrix and embedding hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) biopolymer fibers inside matrix followed by salt solution soaking. …”
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Enhancing prosthetic control through high-fidelity myoelectric mapping with molecular anchoring technology by Pan, Liang, Wang, Hui, Huang, Pingao, Wu, Xuwei, Tang, Zihan, Jiang, Ying, Ji, Shaobo, Cao, Jinwei, Ji, Baohua, Li, Guanglin, Li, Dechang, Wang, Zhiming, Chen, Xiaodong

“…The use of hydrophobic poly(N-vinyl caprolactam) gel has resulted in an interface impedance of 20 kΩ, which is 1/100 of a commercial acrylic-based electrode, allowing the detection of ultralow myoelectric signals (≈1.5% MVC) that approach human limits. …”
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Slr0151 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is required for efficient repair of photosystem II under high-light condition by Yang, Haomeng, Liao, Libing, Bo, Tingting, Zhao, Lei, Sun, Xuwu, Lu, Xuefeng, Norling, Birgitta, Huang, Fang

“…Further analysis using in vivo radioactive labeling and 2-D blue native/sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that the PSII repair cycle was hindered at the levels of D1 synthesis and disassembly and/or assembly of PSII in the mutant. …”
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Carbon-coated nanophase CaMoO4 as anode material for Li ion batteries by Sharma, N., Shaju, K. M., Rao, G. V. Subba, Chowdari, Bobba V. R., Dong, Zhili, White, Timothy John

“…At the 20th discharge cycle, the capacity values (mA h/g) are as follows: solution precipitated, 190; sol-gel, 268; 5% C-coated, 401; and 10% C-coated, 508. …”
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Bipolar / by Lake, C. Raymond, author 656115, Elsevier Science and Technology (Online Service) 656114

“…Untreated Bipolar usually gets worse.Bipolar aims to improve recognition, acceptance, and compliance. …”
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Optimization of the thermal performance of building double-skin envelope by Chua, Wei Jin

“…Therefore, to slow down the rise in the mean global temperature, a double-skin roof technology was used to reduce the heat produced by the sun from getting into the building. When less heat gets into the building, thermal comfort can be achieved much easily and also reducing the usage of air-conditioner. …”
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Effect of alkali cation type on strength endurance of fly ash geopolymers subject to high temperature exposure by Lahoti, Mukund, Wong, Keng Khang, Tan, Kang Hai, Yang, En-Hua

“…Formation of cracks and gel densification due to shrinkage, and healing of micro-cracks and change of pore sizes due to sintering were identified as responsible mechanisms at different temperature ranges. …”
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Conversion of alcohols to olefins and ethers on supported and unsupported metal phosphate catalysts by Lau, Mei Hui.

“…In addition, nanostructured LaPO4 with P/La of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 were prepared by sol-gel method using La(NO)3 .6H2O and NH4H2PO4 as precursors. …”
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Engineering a surface to enhance endothelial cell adhesion towards creating a 'roll-up' blood vessel prosthesis by Chua, Hui Yee.

“…The hydrogel composition also requires optimization to compensate increased viscosity for the gel stability and to monitor the cell proliferation rate in this optimized gelatin by quantitative methods such as AlamarBlue®. …”
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Thermodynamic modelling and performance study of an engine waste heat driven adsorption cooling for automotive air-conditioning by Ali, Syed Muztuza, Chakraborty, Anutosh

“…It is also observed that the driving heat source temperature does not remain constant throughout the cycle time unlike the conventional adsorption chiller, and the hot water temperatures as driving source vary from 65 to 95 °C. CaCl2-in-silica gel–water system is found better in terms of COP and SCP as compared with other adsorbents – water systems.…”
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Identification of lactic acid bacteria from chili bo, a Malaysian food ingredient by Leisner, Jørgen J., Pot, Bruno, Christensen, Henrik, Rusul, Gulam

“…A total of 43 strains were selected for comparison of their sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) whole-cell protein patterns with a SDS-PAGE database of LAB. …”
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A web-based system for automating the assessment question setting and associated activities for Primary School Mathematis - E by Lee, Wei Bing

“…It is undeniable that demands of the quality on the web services provided by the service provider are getting higher, and tougher. This project aims to develop a dynamic web-based system to generate and automate the questions, solutions and marking with accordance to selection of standard and topics in Primary School Mathematics. …”
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Russian oil – challenges and possibilities by Moe, A

“…In fact the rate of growth fell drastically after 2004, growth continued, however, with output reaching 523 million tonnes in 2014, getting close to the record levels of the mid-1980s.…”

How resource revenues can halve global poverty by Segal, P

“…Political upheavals in Venezuela and Bolivia are two dramatic examples of what can happen when a majority feel that they are not getting their fair share of their national patrimony. …”

Mobile app for used item giveaway by Peng, Xiaoyu

“…As the App are designed with powerful function for various target, the mobile phone has become the upstart of the internet Era, the major way of getting access to information, recreation, and friends for people. and Even the related knowledge of APP designing has become the hot topic in design circle. …”
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