Observations on baboons, Papio anubis, in an arid region in Ethiopia by Aldrich-Blake, FP, Bunn, TK, Dunbar, RI, Headley, PM

“…The relevance of this subdivision of the troop to current theories of the evolution and adaptive significance of one-male groups in <i>P. hamadryas</i> is discussed.…”

Effectiveness of clinician client-centered counseling on knowledge, attitudes and sexual bahaviors of antiretroviral therapy patients in Yola, Nigeria by Martins, Olutayo Folashade

“…An estimated 34.0 million people are living with HIV/AIDS globally. Nearly one in twenty adults (4.9%) are living with HIV in Sub- Saharan Africa accounting for about 69% of the global burden. …”
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SHERLOCK HOLMES : MISTERI SURAI SINGA, MISTERI PENYEWA BERKERUDUNG, MISTERI SHOSCOMBE OLD PLACE & MISTERI PESARA KILANG CAT = THE ADVENTURES OF THE LION’S MANE, THE ADVENTURES OF T... by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930, author 284049, Nor Azila Zainal Abidin, translator 206311

“…Keempat-empat kisah ini telah dimuatkan dalam jilid The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes yang pertama kali diterbitkan pada tahun 1927.…”

Modeling technology pathways and retrofit adoption to achieve city-wide building emissions reduction goals by Berzolla, Zachary M.

“…The exact path to reach this goal in existing buildings varies widely from one community to another. Thus local planning efforts and a bottom-up approach is needed to attain emissions reduction goals. …”
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Helping out-groups in times of crisis : application of the Benjamin Franklin Effect to intergroup contexts by Quek, Jing Xuan

“…The Benjamin Franklin Effect (BFE) seems to be one promising mechanism to encourage such changes. …”
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Determination of shoulder range of motion by Chua, Chong Shan

“…The shoulder joint is undoubtedly one of the most important joints in the human body as it is needed to independently carry out essential daily activities such as drinking and combing. …”
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Modeling entity and event relations in scientific documents for supporting knowledge discovery and organization by Wu, Yejun

“…Scientific documents often contain knowledge about what one entity did to another entity under what conditions (such as time, place, and method), which is related to another statement of what one entity did to another entity under what conditions. …”
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Morphing structures by Tan, Sharon Si Ying.

“…In this report, it only managed to be a one-way actuation.…”
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Face recognition based on the combination of rectangle filters and unified subspace analysis approach by Cai, Yichang

“…The objective of my dissertation is to study some important and classical face recognition approaches include both the holistic approaches and the feature-based approaches for face recognition. I would also propose one method which is the combination of the two different approaches mentioned. …”
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Solar vehicle to grid simulation model by Lim, Yihn Shin.

“…As with many developed cities around the world, one major emitter of greenhouse gases is vehicles. …”
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Fabrication of composite FO hollow fiber membranes by co-spinning process – preliminary investigation on properties of the support layer by Cwa, Jackson Xing Long

“…As the foundation for this research, this Final Year Project is but one of the projects carried out in a series, focusing on the support layer of the composite hollow fiber FO membrane In this present work, 3 systems of dope solutions with polyethersulfone (PES) as polymer, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) as solvent and additives Pluronic (M.W. 1900), Polyethylene glycol (PEG 400) (M.W. 400) were prepared (1 system without additives, 1 system with Pluronic 1900 added and 1 system with PEG 400 added). …”
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In memory of Aureliano's ice. by Ho, Jia Xuan.

“…This brings us back to the very opening of Gabriel García Márquez‟s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the famous opening line: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice” (1). …”
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Improvement of the riding comfort for sentosa cable car cabin by Er, Han Guang

“…Renewable energy harvested from the sunlight is considered to be one of the possible alternative power source to support forced air circulation and/or air cooling system inside each cabin. …”
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Fault localization of a long power cable by Guo, Guoqiang

“…Error of percentage serves as an indication on how well the technique is able to identify each fault location. For one-port setup, the error is less than 1% for 5m and 10m power cable, and for two-port setup, error falls below 7% for both the power cable. …”
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Why ‘strategic competitor’? : China’s national image formation in the United States facilitated by the Chinese media in Xi Jinping era by Liu, Kai

“…Chinese media can be considered as one of the factors leading to the formation of this media as we can see there exist reports and editorials condemning the Chinese media under Xi’s leadership. …”
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Generation of shock-free pressure waves in shaped resonators by boundary driving by Luo, C., Huang, Xiaoyang, Nguyen, Nam-Trung

“…The resonator is exponentially expanded and the boundary driving is provided by a piston at one end. The pressure wave forms, amplitudes, resonance frequencies, and ratio of pressures at the two ends of the resonator are calculated for various expansion flare constants and driving strengths. …”
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Source localization by TDOA with random sensor position errors - Part II : mobile sensors by Qu, Xiaomei, Xie, Lihua

“…An illustrative example is given to demonstrate that the second algorithm outperforms the first one.…”
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Dimensionality selection in a molecule-based magnet by Goddard, Paul A., Manson, Jamie L., Singleton, John., Franke, Isabel., Lancaster, Tom., Steele, Andrew J., Blundell, Stephen J., Pratt, Francis L., McDonald, Ross D., Ayala-Valenzuela, Oscar E., Corbey, Jordan F., Southerland, Heather I., Schlueter, John A., Baines, Christopher, Sengupta, Pinaki

“…Here we demonstrate a chemical method which achieves dimensionality selection via preferential inhibition of the magnetic exchange in an S=1/2 antiferromagnet along one crystal direction, switching the system from being quasi-two- to quasi-one-dimensional while effectively maintaining the nearest-neighbor coupling strength.…”
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The value of feedback in decentralized detection by Tay, Wee Peng

“…We study certain two-message feedback architectures, in which every sensor sends two messages to a fusion center, with the second message based on full or partial knowledge of the first messages of the other sensors. We also study one-message feedback architectures, in which each sensor sends one message to a fusion center, with a group of sensors having full or partial knowledge of the messages from the sensors not in that group. …”
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Calling time on responsible drinking: a qualitative study of perceptions of information on alcohol product labels by Davies, Emma L., Cooke, Richard, de Visser, Richard O., Conroy, Dom

“…They were shown three sets of alcohol product labels: one including three responsible drinking messages (drink responsibly), one with three positively worded health messages (drinking less reduces risks) and one with three negatively worded health messages (drinking more increases risks). …”
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