Effect of consumers' awareness about country of origin on purchasing decision in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Taheri, Nasim

“…Globalization has become vital in today’s competitive market place with firms often outsourcing various parts of their production and operation to different countries in search of the lowest possible cost and expertise. …”
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Purification of miraculin from miracle fruit [Synsepalum dulcifium (Schumach. & Thonn.) Daniell] by He, Zuxing

“…The potential use of the various parts of miracle fruit as well as the useful components could be extracted also needs to be explored to provide data of the importance of this fruit in economic point of view. …”
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Tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy versus non‐surgical treatment for chronic/recurrent acute tonsillitis by Burton, MJ, Glasziou, PP, Chong, LY, Venekamp, RP

“…The size of the effect is very modest, but there may be a benefit to knowing the precise timing of one episode of pain lasting several days ‐ it occurs immediately after surgery as a direct consequence of the procedure. …”

Coacervates derived from mussel foot proteins by Guo, Qi

“…Based on the fact that only parts of Tyr residues are post-modified into Dopa residues within native Pvfp-5β, two Pvfp-5 variants, Pvfp-5-Tyr and Pvfp-5-Dopa, were expressed to investigate the exact roles of Dopa residues. …”
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Electrochemical kinetic energy harvesting mediated by ion solvation switching in two-immiscible liquid electrolyte by Lee, Donghoon, Song, You-Yeob, Wu, Angyin, Li, Jia, Yun, Jeonghun, Seo, Dong-Hwa, Lee, Seok Woo

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Metasurface-enabled broadband multidimensional photodetectors by Jiang, Hao, Chen, Yinzhu, Guo, Wenyu, Zhang, Yan, Zhou, Rigui, Gu, Mile, Zhong, Fan, Ni, Zhenhua, Lu, Junpeng, Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Gao, Weibo

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3D content recovery and complexity reduction by Tan, Cheen Hau

“…For human motion capture (mocap) data acquired using optical systems, entries of the data might be missing due to occluded body parts or markers. For scanned 3D meshes, the complexity, or resolution, of the mesh could be much higher than necessary for the intended application; this will consume a large amount of computational resources. …”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…This section is sub-divided up into four subsections - Maps, Names (& Beings), Territories, and Strategies – each of which, in turn, is further divided into four parts. The goal is to reach the PostIndependence section first by explaining and then by working through in reverse order, the following parts: Critical Social Innovation, Smart City, We (& The Others) (comparison with the seven territories), City-Regions, Communities and TransLoKal.…”

Health monitoring, lifetimes estimation, and thermal management of IGBT-based power converters by Mohamed Halick Mohamed Sathik

“…This thesis proposes and discusses an online measurement technique for health monitoring of power modules in power converter systems. Lastly, a three-phase inverter system is developed for experiments to verify the proposed method in real time operating conditions. …”
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Human Centered Computing : 66th International Conference, HCC 2020, Virtual Event, December 14-15, 2020 : Revised Selected Papers / by HCC (Conference : Human Centered Computing) (6th : 2020 : Online), organiser 642973, Zu, Qiaohong, editor 642970, Tang, Yong, editor 642971, Mladenović, Vladimir, editor 642972

Uncovering vein patterns from color skin images for personal identification in forensic investigation by Tang, Chaoying

“…The blood vessel between the skin and the muscle covering most parts of the human body is a powerful biometric trait, because of its universality, permanence and distinctiveness. …”
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Extreme learning machines for feature learning by Liyanaarachchi Lekamalage, Chamara Kasun

“…Hierarchal features consist of multiple levels and the low level features represent edges of an image such as lines and curves while high level features represent parts of the image such as nose, eyes of a face. …”
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Correlates of lifestyle patterns among children in Singapore aged 10 years: the growing up in Singapore towards healthy outcomes (GUSTO) study by Tan, Sarah Yi Xuan, Chia, Airu, Tai, Bee Choo, Toh, Jia Ying, Colega, Marjorelee, Padmapriya, Natarajan, Setoh, Peipei, Kee, Michelle Zhi Ling, Yuan, Wen Lun, Lee, Yung Seng, Loo, Benny Kai Guo, Yap, Fabian Kok Peng, Tan, Kok Hian, Godfrey, Keith M., Chong, Yap Seng, Eriksson, Johan, Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk, Chong, Mary Foong-Fong

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Study of planning and operational aspects of tidal in-stream power generation by Mahda J. Jahromi

“…Although their papers were mostly dedicated to the development of a mechanical model for the turbine blades, their strategy in looking into different parts of a tidal in stream generation system was very helpful[7, 16]. …”
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Observation of flat bands and Dirac cones in a pyrochlore lattice superconductor by Huang, Jianwei, Setty, Chandan, Deng, Liangzi, You, Jing-Yang, Liu, Hongxiong, Shao, Sen, Oh, Ji Seop, Guo, Yucheng, Zhang, Yichen, Yue, Ziqin, Yin, Jia-Xin, Hashimoto, Makoto, Lu, Donghui, Gorovikov, Sergey, Dai, Pengcheng, Denlinger, Jonathan D., Allen, J. W., Hasan, M. Zahid, Feng, Yuan-Ping, Birgeneau, Robert J., Shi, Youguo, Chu, Ching-Wu, Chang, Guoqing, Si, Qimiao, Yi, Ming

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Antidiabetic activity of Curculigo latifolia extracts in vitro and in vivo studies by Ishak, Nur Akmal

“…In the present study, antidiabetic properties of C. latifolia in cell lines (in vitro) and in diabetic-induced rats were determined. Different parts of C. latifolia plant (fruit, root and leaf) were extracted using distilled water and then were freeze dried into powder. …”
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