Traffic management proposed electronic road pricing system by Ho, Eng Foo, Lim, Choon Fong, Poh, Leong Wee

“…First, the study looks at the policies from the past to present and into the future. Essentially, it includes the concept planning (1971), Area Licensing Scheme, (ALS, 1975), whole-day ALS or Manual Road Pricing system, (MRP , 1994) and Proposed Electronic Road Pricing System, ERP (1997) . …”
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Partially collaborative storage codes for distributed storage systems by Liu, Shiqiu

“…This process is often called maintenance, or repair. Over the past years, there has been a vibrant research activity around the problem of designing good storage erasure codes, amenable to repair. …”
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Land reclamation without using soil-fills by Yeo, Eng Swee

“…Singapore has been developing rapidly over the past decades. In order to sustain the fast-paced economic development and urbanisation, an increasing emphasis has been placed on land reclamation projects. …”
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Future of the MPP carrier market by Leong, Ernest Jiahe

“…While MPP shipping remains differentiated from other shipping sectors, it is now easily affected by many unique influences, which were unobserved in the past. This report seeks a balanced outlook of the Asian MPP shipping market within the next 7 years, through reviewing trends in market fundamentals, reappraising analysis by economists, considering different perspectives and concerns of multiple MPP carriers and interpreting firsthand observations of these industry-insiders. …”
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论古代小说中的“大团圆”结局 ：以《聊斋志异》为例 = “Happy endings” in traditional Chinese fiction : a case study of strange stories from a Chinese studio... by 黄蕙玟 g, Hui Wen

“…Lastly, this paper will analyse the value of “Happy Endings” in past and present from using the aesthetic characteristics.…”
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Translating local science fiction as social critique : a case study of Auspicium Melioris Aevi by Lee, Ying Jing

“…In fact, local Chinese pieces tend to focus on reminiscing Singapore’s cultural past and reflecting on the loss of cultural identity. …”
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Ultrathin 2D photocatalysts : electronic-structure tailoring, hybridization, and applications by Di, Jun, Xiong, Jun, Li, Huaming, Liu, Zheng

“…As a sustainable technology, semiconductor photocatalysis has attracted considerable interest in the past several decades owing to the potential to relieve or resolve energy and environmental‐pollution issues. …”
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Bondi mass with a cosmological constant by Saw, Vee-Liem

“…That suggested quantity, however, introduced a Λ-correction term to the Bondi mass MB (where MB is the usual Bondi mass for asymptotically flat spacetimes), which would involve information not just on the state of the system at that moment but ostensibly also its past history. In this paper, we derive the identical mass-loss equation using an integral formula on a hypersurface formulated by Frauendiener based on the Nester-Witten identity and argue that one may adopt a generalization of the Bondi mass with Λ∈R without any correction, viz., MΛ=MB for any Λ∈R. …”
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Emergency logistics considering traffic congestion by Wang, Qingyi

“…Particularly, plannings of emergency supply and evacuation serve a fundamental role to increase effectiveness and efficiency of EL in field practice, and various models have been developed to facilitate the plannings in the past few decades. However, challenges of developing more practical planning models, which incorporate realistic factors and relationships, for real-world applications still exist. …”
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Review of mid-infrared mode-locked laser sources in the 2.0 μ m–3.5 μ m spectral region by Ma, Jie, Qin, Zhipeng, Xie, Guoqiang, Qian, Liejia, Tang, Dingyuan

“…Ultrafast laser sources operating in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region, which contains the characteristic fingerprint spectra of many important molecules and transparent windows of atmosphere, are of significant importance in a variety of applications. Over the past decade, a significant progress has been made in the development of inexpensive, compact, high-efficiency mid-IR ultrafast mode-locked lasers in the picosecond and femtosecond domains that cover the 2.0 μm–3.5 μm spectral region. …”
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Triggered slip along the San Andreas fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake by Williams, Patrick L., McGill, Sally Fagerson, Sieh, Kerry, Allen, Clarence R., Louie, John N.

“…Although the mechanism of triggered aseismic slip is poorly understood, examination of displacement rates for the past several decades to centuries may indicate whether the aseismic slip rate is constant or represents accelerating premonitory failiure of the southernmost San Andreas fault.…”
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A circular ferrofluid driven microchip for rapid polymerase chain reaction by Sun, Yi, Kwok, Yien Chian, Nguyen, Nam-Trung

“…In the past few years, much attention has been paid to the development of miniaturized polymerase chain reaction (PCR) devices. …”
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Adoption of green finance and green innovation for achieving circularity: an exploratory review and future directions by Agrawal, Rohit, Agrawal, Shruti, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil, Jain, Vranda

“…The analysis provides an unexplored and significant contribution to current literature in terms of delivering evidence of the past and present approaches to GF and GI in a circular economy. …”
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The legacy of polders: Diagnosing complex flooding processes and adaptation options in the coastal region of Bangladesh by Adnan, MSG

“…</p> <p>By analysing complex coastal flood processes and adaptation options spatially and quantitatively, this thesis provides new evidence to the effectiveness of the past (polders), and potential future (TRM) adaptation options. …”

Does not compute: social dissonance in England's computing education policy by Larke, L

“…</p> <p>Using teacher interviews, student writing and drawings, student interviews, extensive classroom observations, and policy analysis, this ethnographic case study of four primary school classrooms in the South of England will examine how the addition of computing to England’s National Curriculum came to pass and why it is not meeting its stated goals, before discussing what this means about past assumptions and future possibilities for young people’s engagement with and understanding of modern digital technologies in formal education settings. …”

Cortical regulation of sleep by Krone, LB

“…<p>Sleep is vital but the regulation of sleep is poorly understood. Over the past decades, several subcortical regions in the mammalian brain have been identified, which promote wakefulness or sleep and constitute a ‘sleep switch’. …”

Association between a selective 5-HT4 receptor agonist and incidence of major depressive disorder: emulated target trial by de Cates, AN, Harmer, CJ, Harrison, PJ, Cowen, PJ, Emmanuel, A, Travis, S, Murphy, SE, Taquet, M

“…<p><b>Aims</b></p> To determine whether prucalopride (a 5-HT4R agonist and licensed treatment for constipation) is associated with reduced incidence of depression in individuals with no past history of mental illness, compared with anti-constipation agents with no effect on the central nervous system. …”

Gender differences in perceptions of psoriatic arthritis disease impact, management, and physician interactions: results from a global patient survey by Eder, L, Richette, P, Coates, LC, Azevedo, VF, Cappelleri, JC, Johnson, EP, Hoang, M, Moser, J, Kessouri, M

“…Eligible patients were aged ≥ 18 years, with a self-reported diagnosis of PsA for > 1 year, had visited a rheumatologist/dermatologist in the past 12 months, and had reported previously using ≥ 1 conventional synthetic or biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug. …”

Evaluation of naturally occurring IgG anti-Vi antibody titers as predictors and correlates of typhoid fever in Dhaka, Bangladesh by Khanam, F, Rickett, NY, Ahmmed, F, Islam, MT, Mbae, CK, Im, J, Aziz, AB, Ongadi, B, Chowdhury, F, Khan, AI, Akter, A, Firoj, MG, Rahman, SIA, Haile, K, Park, SE, Mwebia, MB, Mwangi, M, Ngugi, B, Behute, MG, Kering, K, Agampodi, S, Kanungo, S, Liu, X, Pollard, AJ

“…The increasing seroprevalence with age suggests that these antibodies could serve as markers of cumulative past typhoid infections. Future research should explore these possibilities. …”

Factors associated with the quality of life among river communities along Sungai Pahang and Sungai Muar, Malaysia by Ramli, Siti Aisyah

“…Although the government has been championing efforts to keep rivers clean and environmentally sustainable but there are only certain to be known about the past and current impact of rivers onto the quality of life for those living near the rivers. …”
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