Development of database management system for underground cavern construction by Tan, Shao

“…This report analyses the rock parameters collected from various research papers on past cavern project history, compares afew database management systems (DBMS) and state the instructions to build query using DBMS with the data collected.…”
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Competition of opinions in multiple correlated social systems by Guo, Qiheng

“…Over the past few decades, Internet has become worldwide known and easily accessible by anyone. …”
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New moon by Chen, Danning

“…While on the magical maze of the planet, your goal is to get past obstacles and navigate back home to Earth. Jump through portals and work your way through this unique geometric landscape by utilizing your head and body movements. …”
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Beijing’s leadership transition : testing times for China by Ho, Benjamin Tze Ern, Oh, Ei Sun, Liu, Liu

“…The political scandal over the Bo Xilai affair has led to concerns over China’s internal stability. Over the past two decades, the centrality of the Party’s dominance has been maintained by the Chinese Communist Party’s skilful maneuvering around disturbing domestic issues and careful projection of an image of stability abroad. …”
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Court cuts risk shredding muscle, not just fat: some cases are so rushed that defendants can’t follow what is going on by Yates, Shaun S.

“…Government-sponsored reports over the past 30 years have continuously called for greater efficiency to deal with case backlogs and the view that the cost of running the courts is too high. …”
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Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality by Alexander, James

“…The text discusses how youth violence and attempts to tackle it have changed over the past decade, through an 11 year ethnographic study of a South London housing estate. …”
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Brazil: pre-salt outlook by Chauhan, V

“…This ranks alongside Kashagan as one of the largest and most significant oil discoveries of the past few decades. However, as has often been the case in recent history of the oil markets, a number of project delays and cost overruns have since taken the shine off the initial optimism.…”

Percy Manning’s archaeological survey of Oxfordshire by Roberts, A

“…Thurlow Leeds, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.’.1 The article consisted of a concise topographically organized index of archaeological finds from the county together with a short introduction that stated (p. 227) that the work ‘is almost entirely based on the material in the Manning Collections and stands therefore as a monument to one whose knowledge of Oxfordshire’s past has had few rivals’. The article was published in Archaeologia, the original journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, which was appropriate not just as both Leeds and Manning were Fellows of the Society but also because Leeds stated that the Society had provided the model for Manning’s work.…”

Entangled entitlements and Shuar tsantsa (shrunken heads) by Van Broekhoven, LNK

“…Newly installed interpretation replaced the original case display, to allow visitors to consider the problematic past academic practices of physical anthropology, its relationship to race science and how those are linked to racist ideas about superiority and inferiority that shape our present today. …”

Advanced Structural Materials

“…Concrete and cement properties and consistency, structural properties of modern wooden materials, and thermal insulation materials are the main topics of the last chapter. The edition will be useful to specialists in materials science, machinery and construction.…”
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A review of homogenous ensemble methods on the classification of breast cancer data by Nur Farahaina, Idris, Mohd Arfian, Ismail

“…In the last decades, emerging data mining technology has been introduced to assist humankind in generating relevant decisions. …”
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Effectiveness of influencer marketing tactics and our understanding of consumers psychology in the digital era by Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Farghaly, Ahmed Taiseer, Nur Sofia Nabila, Alimin

“…Social media became very popular lately and social media influencers became a main driver in the marketing strategies in the last years, they also have the ability to influence a wild numbers of audience behaviours and their preference when it comes to purchasing decisions and all this became possible because of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, This paper aims to improve our knowledge of marketing through social media influencers by studying how influencer attributes effects customers behaviour, attributes such as expertise, trustworthiness, similarities, and attractiveness , this paper will provide some important ideas on how to improve influencers marketing strategies and will make us understand customers purchasing behaviour, the results of this paper might deliver a very useful insights on how to develop brands ethical marketing and will provide suggestions to help brands in implementing influencers marketing in their marketing strategies to be able to reach their target audience through better and real cost efficient manner…”
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Stem Life: A Framework for Understanding the Prebiotic-Biotic Transition by Fournier, Gregory P.

“…Drawing from several natural history analogies, I show how this shift in perspective enriches our understanding of Origins and directly informs debates on defining Life, the emergence of the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), and the implications of prebiotic chemical experiments.…”
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NOFIS: Normalizing Flow for Rare Circuit Failure Analysis by Gao, Zhengqi, Zhang, Dinghuai, Daniel, Luca, Boning, Duane

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15.012 Applied Macro- and International Economics, Spring 2002 by Thurow, Lester

“…The fourth part looks at the problems faced by transition economies. Finally, the last module looks at challenges of developed countries.…”
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Prospects of a multipolar international monetary order by Alam Md Whaheed

“…It has experienced turmoil periods at different moments but survived. But in the last twenty-five years the US has been undergoing persistent current account deficit and external debts. …”
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A study on Chinese religion model and how it may inspire interreligious relations in Singapore by Feng, Yiqin

“…Chapter 3 describes on some of the main problems of Singapore religious environment led by state control, and demonstrate on why and how Chinese Religion Model can help in alleviate these problems. At last, conclusion is drawn that by accepting practices from various religions can help to build a sense of community in a multi-religious society where religions are under state control.…”
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Comparison of different binary classification models on radiomic features by Loo, Bryan Kun Hao

“…Machine Learning (ML) has advanced significantly in the last few years and offers many different approaches on how to detect and model out associations. …”
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China and Southeast Asia in the 2000s : tension management in the maritime space by Zha, Daojiong, Lina, Gong

“…Viewed through the standard prisms of international politics, escalation of security tensions is the definitive feature in the evolution of relations between China and Southeast Asia over the last decade. Disagreements over territorial ownership of and rights to the South China Sea sharpened and arguably became the defining feature of regional geopolitics. …”
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Dying to be seen : suicide and the Chinese in colonial Singapore, 1860s - 1930s by Gan, Zhen Yin

“…For European colonial subjects, suicide was regarded as a tragedy and/or consequence for the pathologically ill while the Chinese colonial subject viewed it as an alternative or last resort to transform themselves into subjects of value that was advocated by Confucian thought. …”
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