WGS.101 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Fall 2014 by Walsh, Andrea, Fox, Elizabeth

“…This course offers an introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field that asks critical questions about the meanings of sex and gender in society. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions and debates in Women's and Gender Studies, both historical and contemporary.…”
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AD PERCEPTIO (Self Perception Diary) / by Diyas, Myrzakozha Dr., author 655770, Perez-Lopez, Patrick, author 655772

“…In a not too distant future, there exists the means to access the past and to watch history as it happens and not as it has been written. …”

Plateau by Png, Hui Min, Goh Timothy Wei Wen

“…Like any other person the family find it hard to concede the uprising situation. …”
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合(Hé) Harmony : emblematic furniture informed by broken home and perseverant heart by Yang, Tongchen

“…合 means togetherness, oneness and harmony. It is one of the most honorific ideograms in China. …”
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Healthcare alarm system by Ng, Xue Ting

“…With this rapidly aging population in Singapore, it also means that the number of elderly who are suffering from diseases will increase tremendously. …”
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Echoes From the Stone Reframing Preservation in Syria Through Haurani Folklore by Alrifai, Hajar

“…Through creative writing and cinematic intervention, Echoes from the Stone asks: what does it mean to preserve a place, and preservation for whom? …”
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Navigating an invisible labyrinth: the effect of involuntary bogus self-employment on female Greek-Cypriot educators’ job satisfaction and subjective well-being by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Drawing on the work and family conflict theory, this study reports that female educators still resort to bogus self-employment as the only means to support their families. …”
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Resource allocation and performance analysis of multi-rate WiFi network by Neo, Jun Wei

“…In this report, detailed information of the IEEE 802.11 family will be discussed first, followed by the means of building and running a simulation program. …”
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Shinmi (親身): a distinctive Japanese medical virtue? by Ozeki-Hayashi, R, Wilkinson, D

“…In this paper, drawing a case study, we introduce the concept of Shinmi, used in Japan to describe a desirable approach to medical care. Shinmi means kind or cordial in Japanese. In the medical context, it refers to doctors treating patients with a degree of emotional closeness as if they were the doctors’ own family. …”

Social support and subjective well-being among undergraduate students in School of Health Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia by Arifin, Nur Shahidah

“…Majority of students have high level of social support 184 (%55.3), 140 (42%) recorded moderate social support meanwhile only 9 (2.7%) recorded low social support. The mean value for subjective well-being is (mean= 4.67, SD= 1.478). …”
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Archaeal proline dehydrogenase from Pyrobaculum aerophilum : sequence comparison. by Kik, Shian Chi.

“…U-96 and L-proline dehydrogenase from Pyrococcus horikoshii with root mean square deviation of 2.043 and 1.983 respectively. …”
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Unbiased metabolomics of volatile secondary metabolites in essential oils originated from Myrtaceae species by Manickavasagam, Ganapaty, San, Priscilla Wong Chie, Gorji, Sara Ghorbani, Sungthong, Bunleu, Yong, Yoke Keong, Fitzgerald, Melissa, Dewi, Firli Rahmah Primula, Lim, Vuanghao

“…In terms of cluster analysis, the essential oils were clustered into five different groups using hierarchical cluster analysis. However, K-mean clustering showed that lemon myrtle oil and lemon-scented tea tree oil were clustered together due to their very close chemical composition compared to the other studied essential oils. …”
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Speech enhancement using auditory-based spectral amplitude estimators by Sekar Sathiya Narayanan.

“…In this project, a new family of Bayesian estimators has been proposed such that its cost function includes both a power law and a weighting factor. …”
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一路走好 = A safe journey by See, Hui Qin

“…Such rituals serve more than the purpose of ensuring the deceased is properly sent off to the afterworld; For the bereaved, the performance of death rituals also provides closure for the family. 一路走好: A Safe Journey, explores the role of Chinese funeral rites in Singapore, through a visual narrative, to analyze the details of funerary practices and how they act as a means to help bereaved families cope with eventuality and grief. …”
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The present state of PST/PTB reconstruction: can we even write a fable in Proto-Lolo-Burmese? by Matisoff, James A.

“…How much can we really recover from the past history of languages? What do we mean when we claim to have "reconstructed a proto-language"? …”
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Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans by Suvilehto, JT, Glerean, E, Dunbar, RIM, Hari, R, Nummenmaa, L

“…Across all tested cultures, the total bodily area where touching was allowed was linearly dependent (mean r2 = 0.54) on the emotional bond with the toucher, but independent of when that person was last encountered. …”

Kinderwork : redesigning and optimising the home space for children in Singapore by Sim, Jocelyn Chun Wei

“…Even past the age of 5, parents are able to transform the set into a set of drawers with an add-on. The use of plywood means children can scribble on any surface to make it their own, and parents are able to lightly sand off the markings, before passing the piece onto the next family for their brand new baby.…”
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Intersection between individual, household, environmental and system level factors in defining risk and resilience for children in Kenya’s ASAL: A qualitative study by Chongwo, EJ, Aoko, B, Kaniala, M, Esala, M, Magoma, P, Njoroge, E, Nyamanya, S, Marangu, J, Khamis, A, Ng’asike, J, Huizink, AC, Abubakar, A

“…Thematic approach was used to analyze the data, using NVIVO software. Results: The mean age of the participants was 44years (SD = 11 years). …”

GRAViTy-V2: a grounded viral taxonomy application by Mayne, R, Aiewsakun, P, Turner, D, Adriaenssens, E, Simmonds, P

“…Analysis times ranged from 1-506 min (median 3.59) on datasets with 17-1004 genomes and mean genome length of 3000–1 000 000 bases.…”

A still small voice by Yeow, Siobhan Ying Hong

“…A still small voice charts the artist’s attempts at finding herself and her own voice, far removed from her family while on exchange at the Royal College of Art in London. …”
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