Exploring microbial diversity in green honey from Pulau Banggi Sabah: a preliminary study by Rajindran, Nanthini, Abdul Wahab, Roswanira, Nurul Huda, Nurul Huda, Oyewusi, Habeebat Adekilekun, Ida Bagus Wayan Gunam, Ida Bagus Wayan Gunam, Mohd. Shariff, Amir Husni, Ismail, Norjihada Izzah, Huyop, Fahrul

“…Bacillus count was higher in raw green honey (110 ± 0.01 cfu/g) compared to processed green honey (5 ± 0.01 cfu/g). …”
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Experience of overcoming the stereotype of masculinity in Singaporean elite level male gymnasts by Ilma Nur Jannah Fadzal

“…Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five Singaporean elite level male gymnasts from the Singapore Gymnastics Association and were transcribed verbatim before being analysed into raw themes, categories and general dimensions. …”
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English medium instruction, EAP/ESP: exploring overlap and divergences in research aims by Macaro, E, Aizawa, I

“…This scoping review investigates the overlap and divergences between these fields. As well as using raw data from a previous systematic review of EMI, we identified research questions published in five selected journals between 2017 and 2022: <i>Journal of English for Academic Purposes</i>, <i>English for Specific Purposes</i>, <i>International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism</i>, <i>Language and Education</i>, and <i>Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development</i> in order to identify the convergence and divergence in academic interest areas. …”

Technological transmission of knowledge in Neolithic northwestern China: mineralogical and chemical analyses of Yangshao and Majiayao painted ware by Spataro, M, Hein, A

“…The results show that similar raw material selection and processing and technological choices were followed at the three sites to make both fine and coarse wares. …”

Investigation of digital twins and metaverse by Chow, Harry Yun Fatt

“…CHiLX is a project headed by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Associate Professor Cai Yiyu and has been developing and researching AI solutions for the past five years. Identifying this gap in the market, CHiLX has developed a solution to automatically and accurately transform point cloud data from LiDAR scanners into fully functional BIM Models with the help of AI and Machine Learning (ML) technologies. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…This is a fundamental and challenging task for scene understanding, with a variety of real-world applications, such as indoor robots, autonomous driving, drones, AR/VR devices, etc. We propose five different novel methods, including one fully supervised method, two weakly supervised methods, one zero-shot method, and an augmentation method to enhance model generalization. …”
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Exploring the limitations of osmotically assisted reverse osmosis: membrane fouling and the limiting flux by Peters, Christian D., Li, Dan, Mo, Zijing, Hankins, Nicholas P., She, Qianhong

“…First, internal membrane fouling at the draw (permeate) side was shown to be insignificant. …”
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Correction of errors in tandem mass spectrum extraction enhances phosphopeptide identification by Hao, Piliang, Ren, Yan, Sze, Siu Kwan, Tam, James P.

“…Here we propose to identify and correct these errors via the combinatorial use of multiple spectrum extraction tools. We evaluated five free and two commercial extraction tools using Mascot and phosphoproteomics raw data from LTQ FT Ultra, in which RawXtract 1.9.9.2 identified the highest number of unique phosphopeptides (peptide expectation value <0.05). …”
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Current state-of-the-art of non-reverse osmosis-like forward osmosis technology by Chang, Zhen Hong, Sum, Jing Yao, Lau, Woei Jye, Ang, Wei Lun, Teow, Yeit Haan, Ooi, Boon Seng, Yeap, Swee Pin

Publication of share recommendations in Lianhe Zaobao : testing for market response by Foo, Bin Gee, Tan, Tuan Kiong, Tan, Yin Hoon

“…Abnormal returns are also detected prior to the publication day, suggesting evidence that the market does not adjust instantaneously and fully upon the publication of the recommendations on the paper. …”
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Formal contracts mitigate social dilemmas in multi-agent reinforcement learning by Haupt, Andreas, Christoffersen, Phillip, Damani, Mehul, Hadfield-Menell, Dylan

“…It is an open problem in MARL to replicate such cooperative behaviors in selfish agents. In this work, we draw upon the idea of formal contracting from economics to overcome diverging incentives between agents in MARL. …”
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Effects of woven fabric embedment on thin film composite membranes for osmotically driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Teo, Shino Yu Qin

“…While the technology itself shows potential, further advancement in ODMP membrane development is necessary to fully harness its power production capabilities. …”
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Competition in two-sided market : with heterogeneous users and negative externalities. by Chen, Hongyu.

“…Under the two-sided market model, we observe that there exists full participation for end-users and under advertisement for advertisers. …”
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When the Earth Breathes: An Anthology of Volcanic Urbanism by Carucci Alvarez, Maria Gabriela

“…Together, these imaginaries draw an unyielding binary narrative about volcanoes as purely destructive entities, and further dismiss the porosity that exists between the geos, the bios and the polis. …”
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The impact of founder personalities on startup success by McCarthy, PX, Gong, X, Braesemann, F, Stephany, F, Rizoiu, M, Kern, ML

“…We find that the Big Five personality traits of startup founders across 30 dimensions significantly differ from that of the population at large. …”

Joint Feature Learning for Face Recognition by Lu, Jiwen, Liong, Venice Erin, Wang, Gang, Moulin, Pierre

“…Experimental results on five widely used face data sets show the effectiveness of our proposed approach.…”
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Digging for literature on tailoring cultural offers with and for older people from ethnic minority groups: a scoping review by Tierney, S, Gorenberg, J, Santillo, M, Westlake, D, Wong, G, Husk, K, Vougioukalou, S, Baxter, R, Dawson, S, Roberts, N, Potter, C, Warburton, H, McDougall, B, Latchem, J, Mahtani, KR

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Screening of 906 references–59 of which were read as full documents–resulted in six sources being included in the review. …”

Heterogeneous dataflow architectures for FPGA-based sparse LU factorization by Siddhartha, Kapre, Nachiket

“…We combine software pre-processing and architecture customization to fully expose and exploit the underlying heterogeneity in the factorization algorithm. …”
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Thin film nanocomposite forward osmosis membrane with exfoliated layered double hydroxide nanosheets embedded support for fouling-resistant microalgae dewatering by Vrasna, Dhita Karunia, Goh, Pei Sean, Ahmad, Nor Akalili, Gonzales, Ralph Rolly, Wong, Kar Chun, Lim, Jun Wei, Lau, Woei Jye, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Matsuyama, Hideto

“…Dewatering of Chlorella vulgaris by FO in active layer facing feed solution (AL-FS) and active layer facing draw solution (AL-DS) was evaluated with 2 M NaCl as draw solution. …”

Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding by Davies, Rodrigo

“…The rapid rise of crowdfunding in the past five years, most prominently among US-based platforms such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, has begun to attract the attention of a wide range of scholars, policymakers and practitioners. …”
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