New US strategy : Afghans losing bargaining power by Bibhu Prasad Routray

“…However this approach runs counter to an Afghan vision of an end state for the war torn country.…”
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Duterte: Delivering the Promised Peace to Mindanao by Singh, Bilveer

“…After years of starts-stops and derailment of peace agreements, the Philippines is today poised to make a peace breakthrough in strife-torn Muslim-dominated Mindanao in southern Philippines. …”
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Build your own Android App by Kyaw, Thu Zin

“…The purpose of this project is to develop a GPS enabled android mobile application that will assist users to find an available parking space within a HDB residential town. The mobile application also has multiple functions such as displaying the current location of the user with nearby HDB car park information in Map View, search function by residential town, and search function by carpark name to look for real-time total carpark lots and available empty lot. …”
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As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow / by Katouh, Zoulfa, 1994-, author 656134, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

“…But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, Salama is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. …”
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SCHOOL OF THIEVES / by Sabrina Ismail, author 655830, Naadhira Zahari, editor 655828

“…One day, a new family moves into town. It’s her father, who had long abandoned Amra and her family. …”

The Nightingale / by Hannah, Kristin, author 369246, Macmillan Books (Online service) 655983

“…The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. …”
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Sentinels of Afghan democracy : the Afghan national army by Chan, Samuel

“…Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, the international community has contributed much in terms of manpower, monetary aid, essential equipment and expertise in rehabilitaring this war-torn Central Asia country. The Afghan National Army (ANA) has arguably been one of the leading success stories. …”
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Off-farm employment and spatial distribution of paddy farmers in integrated agricultural development area in north-west Selangor determined using GIS by Lokman, Eleanor Daniella

“…The objective of this study is to investigate the involvement and location distribution of 250 paddy farmers and farm households in off-farm employment in IADA NWS using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to capture a farm location effect on mobility with regional condition, such as to work or to the nearest town. The descriptive analysis was used to describe the respondent’s socio-economic profile. …”
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Models and solutions for emergency logistics by Yi, Wei

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TechX challenge by Yuan, Shenghai.

“…The concept of this competition is making future unman combat robot to replace human soldier in the future war-torn urban landscape. Robot has to function effectively in hazards situation. …”
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“It’s complicated” : cognitive dissonance and the evolving relationship between editorial and advertising in US newsrooms by Duffy, Andrew, Cheng, Lydia

“…It finds reluctance to embrace this evolving relationship, revealed in the fragmented and contradictory syntax editors use to talk about it as they are torn between the old (ethically driven) norm of how things should be, and the emerging (economically driven) norm of how things are. …”
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The Kwatha dialect of Meitei by Singh, Waribam Raghumani

“…The Kwatha dialect of Manipuri (Meitei) is spoken in a small village called Kwatha, situated at the Indo-Burma border near Moreh, which is 109 kilometers to the south of Imphal town. It is the only hill village in Manipur in which the Manipuri language is spoken. …”
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Ending the Syrian conflict : foreign intervention or renewed political process? by Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan

“…The massacre of more than 100 people in the west-central town of Houla last month brought condemnation of the brutal regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by the U.N. …”
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Paternalism, petitions and the politics of church construction in Alsace, c. 1850–1885 by Clement, W

“…Over a period of 30 years, Catholic parishioners and clergy repeatedly petitioned the town’s Calvinist industrial and municipal elite for a church to be built in the paternalist cités ouvrières housing district, culminating in the eventual construction of the church of Saint-Joseph by 1883. …”

A small-molecule inhibitor of Haspin alters the kinetochore functions of Aurora B by Santaguida, Stefano, De Antoni, Anna, Maffini, Stefano, Knapp, Stefan, Musacchio, Andrea

“…By phosphorylating Thr3 of histone H3, Haspin promotes centromeric recruitment of the chromosome passenger complex (CPC) during mitosis. …”
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The post-modern Japanese identity of Haruki Murakami's literature. by Ling, Shannon.

“…Japan, in particular, had undergone massive changes since the end of the Meiji era and the Second World War, giving birth to a new generation of Japanese torn between respecting the traditional and embracing the modern. …”
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Characteristic vibration patterns of odor compounds from bread-baking volatiles upon protein binding : density functional and ONIOM study and principal component analysis by Treesuwan, Witcha, Hirao, Hajime, Morokuma, Keiji, Hannongbua, Supa

“…It was found that acetaldehyde (“acid” category) binds strongly in the large cavity inside the receptor, whereas 2-ethyl-3-methylpyrazine (“roasted”) binds weakly. Lys296, Tyr268, Thr118 and Ala117 were identified as key residues in the binding site. …”
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Role of posttranslational modifications of histone proteins in epigenetics by Raj, R

“…Homogeneously GlcNAcylated histone protein, H2A-Thr101 was synthesized. The modified protein was used to reconstitute histone sub-complexes and nucleosomes. …”

Functional food candidate from Indonesian green algae Caulerpa racemosa (Försskal) J. Agardh by two extraction methods: metabolite profile, antioxidant activity, and cytotoxic prop... by Taslim, Nurpudji Astuti, Hardinsyah, Hardinsyah, Radu, Son, Mayulu, Nelly, Tsopmo, Apollinaire, Kurniawan, Rudy, Tallei, Trina Ekawati, Herlina, Tati, Maksum, Iman Permana, Nurkolis, Fahrul

“…The sequence of the identified peptide was ELWKTF (Glu-Leu-Trp-Lys-Thr-Phe; C41H58N8O) and its abundance was identified in the α-chymotrypsin hydrolysate of C. racemosa. …”
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Online and offline social contact survey data analysis by Foo, Amanda Kar Wee.

“…The weekend activities varies according to each individual preference but the locations that have the highest average number throughout the entire day are places of worship, shopping in town and nearby, market and in the swimming pool. …”
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