Islam in Late Antiquity: state-making, the Bedouin, and the end of empires by Wakeley, JM

“…Comparative approaches are also employed, not least to situate Arabia in a broader late antique context and also to improve our understanding of the development of the early Islamic state.…”

The effect of early age feed restriction on subsequent response to high environmental temperatures in female broiler chickens by Zulkifli, I., Che Norma, M.T., Israf, D.A., Omar, A.R.

“…It is concluded that the F60 regimen is beneficial for alleviating, at least in part, the detrimental effects of heat stress in female broiler chickens.…”
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Development of a generic framework for dynamic website design by Huang, Dongli

“…as our platform and our basic framework to start with. At last, two Joomla! components were developed and installed. …”
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Multirate Linear Quadratic Gaussian controllers for linear time-invariant systems by Chua, Say Yong.

“…In the last decade and particularly the last several years, multirate digital control has been an area of active and prominent research. …”
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Genetic analysis of normal human phenotypes within the people of the British Isles by Meena, D

“…Although none of the SNPs attained genome-wide significance for food preference data, some SNPs showed suggestive significance and were well-supported by available literature.</p> <p>The last part of this thesis provides new insights into the field of olfactory perception and argues for the potential link between neurological disorders and olfactory impairment. …”

Therapeutic effects of Cosmos caudatus kunth leaf extract in the prevention and treament of obesity in sprague dawley rats by Abdul Rahman, Hafeedza

“…Lean and obese rats were clearly discriminated from each other on Orthogonal partial least square (OPLS-DA) score plot proving the ability of the high fat diet used in inducing obesity. …”
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On zero-dimensional polynomial systems and their applications to the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem by Yun, Yang

“…We give an upper bound of the last fall degree of the Weil descent system of $\mathcal{F}$ from $k$ to $k'$, which depends on $q$, $m$, the last fall degree of $\mathcal{F}$, the degree of $\mathcal{F}$ and the number of solutions of $\mathcal{F}$, but not on $n$. …”
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Design of system for parking and repositioning of bikes in a public bike-sharing system by Siong, Jun Wei

“…Next, the concept of the Wagner-Whitin model is used to determine the bike reallocation plan that incurs the least cost. Lastly, the proposed model accounts for the returning bikes, which is important as it will affect the inventory and thus, inventory cost, from one period to another. …”
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Design and simulation of plasmonic metamaterials for sub-wavelength imaging in the visible range by Li, Dongdong

“…They are the multilayered planar metal-dielectric (MD) structures, the hyperlenses, the dielectric nanorod chain array embedded in the metal and the planar magnifying lens. The first part of this thesis investigates the imaging performance of the multilayered planar MD structures and the hyperlens. …”
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Behaviour of reinforced welded tubular joints by Wong, Looi Kian.

“…In the offshore industry, a common operation problem is the last minute change of barge scheduled for transporting an offshore jacket to the designated location for installation while fabrication of the jacket is almost complete. …”
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Unexpected anthropogenic emission decreases explain recent atmospheric mercury concentration declines by Feinberg, Aryeh, Selin, Noelle E., Braban, Christine F., Chang, Kai-Lan, Custódio, Danilo, Jaffe, Daniel A., Kyllönen, Katriina, Landis, Matthew S., Leeson, Sarah R., Luke, Winston, Molepo, Koketso M., Murovec, Marijana, Nerentorp Mastromonaco, Michelle G., Aspmo Pfaffhuber, Katrine, Rüdiger, Julian, Sheu, Guey-Rong, St. Louis, Vincent L.

“…Global anthropogenic emission inventories report increases in Northern Hemispheric (NH) Hg emissions during the last three decades, in contradiction with the observed decline in atmospheric Hg concentrations at NH measurement stations. …”
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4.181 Architectural Design Workshop - Rethinking Office Development, Spring 2003 by Duffy, Francis, 1940-, Tsakonas, Konstantinos G.

“…The questions the workshop will address are: What has and has not changed over the last three decades in the context of office development in the US? …”
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Historicity and the contemporary theatre of Kuo Pao Kun and Krishen Jit by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…The contemporary is both an idea of the time in which we are in and a goal of reacting more effectively to the demands of the immediate present. And a part of the 1980s was a sense that earlier regional formations of modern art that had eradicated traditional cultural forms as backward needed to be rethought. …”
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Boundary element methods for axisymmetric heat conduction and thermoelastic deformations in nonhomogeneous solids by Yun, Bao Ing

“…New axisymmetric interpolating functions, which are bounded in the axisymmetric coordinate plane but are expressed in terms of relatively simple elementary functions, are proposed for use in the dual-reciprocity method. In the last part of the thesis, an alternative boundary element approach, based on the theory of complex variables, is proposed for solving an axisymmetric problem involving steady heat conduction in a nonhomogeneous solid. …”
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Mechanistic and inhibition studies on gamma-butyrobetaine hydroxylase by Rydzik, AM

“…BBOX has been shown to catalyse a hydroxylation of the symmetrical dialkyl piperidine carboxylic acids, leading to formation of up to three stereocentres in one reaction.</p> <p>In the last part of this work properties of human BBOX were compared to BBOX from <em>Pseudomonas</em> sp. …”

Structured sparse representations for supervised and unsupervised learning by Zeng, Yijie

“…On the other hand, representing the data in an effective and efficient way is challenging, partly due to the intrinsic complexity of the high dimensional data distributions. …”
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Quantifying the internal and external drivers of Southeast Asian rainfall extremes on decadal timescales by Wang, Shouyi, Ummenhofer, Caroline C., Murty, Sujata A., Nguyen, Hung T. T., Buckley, Brendan M.

“…Historical records and paleoclimate archives that span the last millennium reveal extreme multi-year rainfall variations that significantly affected the societies of mainland Southeast Asia. …”
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Radio science measurements of atmospheric refractivity with Mars Global Surveyor by Cahoy, Kerri, Hinson, David, Tyler, G. Leonard

“…Refractivity is proportional to neutral density at low altitudes and electron density at high altitudes, with a transition at ~75 km. We use weighted least squares to decompose zonal refractivity variations into amplitudes and phases for observed wave numbers k=1-4 over the entire altitude range and use the results to analyze atmospheric structure and dynamics. …”
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HLO : half-kernel laplacian operator for surface smoothing by Pan, Wei, Lu, Xuequan, Gong, Yuanhao, Tang, Wenming, Liu, Jun, He, Ying, Qiu, Guoping

“…Given a vertex v, HLO first finds all pairs of its neighboring vertices and divides each pair into two subsets (called half windows); then computes the uniform Laplacians of all such subsets and subsequently projects the computed Laplacians to the full-window uniform Laplacian to alleviate flipping and degeneration. The half window with least regularization energy is then chosen for v. …”
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COVID-19 and global governance: waking up to a safe new world by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…Yet, as the collateral damage unfolds, the response has been astounding for at least two reasons. First, the difference in national responses to COVID-19, even among developed countries, could not be more stark. …”
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