Singapore's struggle against CPM: what if the Barisan sosialis had won? by Kumar Ramakrishna

“…On the 25th anniversary of the end of the long struggle against the Communist Party of Malaya, it is critical that the conflict be remembered and evaluated accurately. …”
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Speculating the future : ASEAN defence industrial collaboration? by Ron Matthews, Balakrishnan, Kogila

“…These benefits are compelling for the Europeans. After a long period when ASEAN has been reluctant to engage in defence-industrial collaboration, is this all about to change?…”
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The Stabbing of Wiranto : Growing Trend of Knife Attacks by Arianti, Vidia

“…The stabbing of Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Political, Law, and Security Wiranto highlights that top Indonesian government officials, especially those in charge of security matters, have long been targeted by the groups that support Islamic State (IS). …”
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China’s Defence Spending: Settling in for Slow Growth? by Bitzinger, Richard A.

“…Nevertheless, Beijing is unlikely to pull back from its long-term commitment to build a modern, 21st Century military.…”
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A Japan with Fewer Japanese: Enter the Machines by Tan, Ming Hui, Lim, Christopher H.

“…Japan has long been beset by persisting demographic challenges – an ageing population, a shrinking workforce, and a reluctance to embrace immigration. …”
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The Palk Strait project : a transit passage regime for a canal? by Mohd Hazmi Mohd Rusli

“…An Indian government project to dig an 83 km long canal to deepen the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and the Indian sub-continent, raises the prospect of the Strait being opened to international traffic when completed. …”
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President Jokowi's 'ordinary' style : simplicity and the 'wealth of poverty'? by Farish, A Noor

“…But this simple self-presentation has a long history in Southeast Asia, where assuming an ordinary character is also a form of cultural capital that carries huge symbolic power.…”
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Monetary policy and inequality by Andersen, AL, Johannesen, N, Jørgensen, M, Peydró, J

“…We use administrative household-level data covering the entire population in Denmark over the period 1987 to 2014 and exploit a long-standing currency peg as a source of exogenous variation in monetary policy. …”

An introduction to phase ordering in scalar active matter by Meissner, L, Yeomans, JM

“…We first briefly review Model A and Model B, the long-standing continuum descriptions of ordering in systems with a non-conserved and conserved scalar order parameter. …”

Obama's energy policy: the energy plan is in reality a climate change plan by Matzke, R

“…The plan is bold, aggressive, challenging, controversial, expensive, and long overdue. Its legislative version is greater than 1000 pages and should be referred to in its original form for those seeking a better understanding than can be presented in this brief article.…”

Numerical study on the operation rules of hydropower generation by Tan, Benjamin Zhi Wen

“…Currently, most cascade dual-reservoir models are incapable of considering the hydraulic links between upstream and downstream reservoirs and of applying different operating rules to each reservoir. …”
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Dynamic linkages of Asian stock markets by Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi, Sarmidi, Tamat, Tan, Hui Boon

“…The empirical results suggest that all the Asian markets are closely linked with each other and with the world capital markets, namely those of the US and Japan, over the post-liberalization era. …”

Curing kinetics of epoxies by thermal and alternative radiation in the application of fibre-reinforced composites by Ng, Feng Lin.

“…Additional advantage of radiation curing in fibre-reinforced composites is the absence of gel time since cross-linking in a resin formulated with photo-initiator will only commence upon exposure to UV light. …”
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Gum Arabic and breast cancer biology: Biotechnology perspective

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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping by Das, Madhurima, Yang, Maria C

“…Results also indicate that early-stage sketch quantity, but not quality, is linked with design outcomes. This study also finds a link between the frequency of sketching and higher maximum sketch quality scores (i.e., at least one highly rated sketch) as well as a correlation between individuals’ maximum sketch quality scores and overall design outcomes. …”
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Deletion of VPS50 protein in mouse brain impairs synaptic function and behavior by Ahumada-Marchant, Constanza, Ancatén-Gonzalez, Carlos, Haensgen, Henny, Brauer, Bastian, Merino-Veliz, Nicolas, Droste, Rita, Arancibia, Felipe, Horvitz, H. Robert, Constantine-Paton, Martha, Arriagada, Gloria, Chávez, Andrés E., Bustos, Fernando J.

“…Patients with mutations in VPS50 show severe developmental delay and intellectual disability, characteristics that have been associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The mechanisms that link VPS50 mutations to ASD are unknown. …”
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Optimizing resource allocation in large communications satellite constellations by Pachler de la Osa, Nils

“…By testing existing designs, it is concluded that the number of satellites, as well as the link quality are the main drivers of performance. …”
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The Response Regulator OmpR Negatively Controls the Expression of Genes Implicated in Tilimycin and Tilivalline Cytotoxin Production in Klebsiella oxytoca by Varela-Nájera, Ramón G., De la Cruz, Miguel A., Soria-Bustos, Jorge, González-Horta, Carmen, Delgado-Gardea, Ma Carmen E., Yáñez-Santos, Jorge A., Cedillo, María L., Hirakawa, Hidetada, Fox, James G., Sánchez-Ramírez, Blanca, Ares, Miguel A.

“…Klebsiella oxytoca toxigenic strains represent a critical health threat, mainly due to their link to antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis. …”
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TPPP acts downstream of RhoA-ROCK-LIMK2 to regulate astral microtubule organization and spindle orientation by Heng, Yi-Wen., Lim, Hong-Hwa., Mina, Theresia., Utomo, Prayudi., Zhong, Shaoping., Lim, Chwee-Teck., Koh, Cheng-Gee

“…Thus, our results reveal a new regulatory link between the actin cytoskeleton and the mitotic spindle during the early stages of mitosis.…”
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An efficient mechanism for dynamic multicast traffic grooming in overlay IP/MPLS over WDM networks by Cheng, Tee Hiang, Yu, Xiaojun, Xiao, Gaoxi

“…To facilitate request provisioning, OMP jointly utilizes a data learning (DL) scheme on the IP/MPLS layer for logical link cost estimation, and a lightpath fragmentation (LPF) based method on the WDM layer for improving resource sharing in grooming process. …”
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