Our weapons, our problem: arms exports, democracy and civil society in Brazil and the UK by de Moraes, RF

“…</p> <p>This thesis adopts a mixed-method approach. Initially, it uses quantitative methods to test potential determinants of humanitarian concerns in decisions on arms exports, as well as to select cases for further analysis. …”

Pragmatic and discourse markers used by Malay and Arab postgraduates students during classroom oral presentations by Alkhawaja, Hussein Walid Hussein

“…For these purposes, the current thesis used pragmatic discourse analysis in which the data were collected qualitatively in the form of audio-recorded presentations and then analyzed in a mixed mode design using descriptive and analytical approaches. …”
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Molecular identification and effect of salt-tolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on the biochemical aspect and growth of rice by Chompa, Sayma Serine, Ali Tan, Kee Zuan, Amin, Adibah Mohd, Hun, Tan Geok, Ahmad Ghazali, Amir Hamzah, Sadeq, Buraq Musa, Akter, Amaily, Rahman, Md Ekhlasur, Rashid, Harun Or

“…The present study exhibited that inoculation of a mixed inoculum at 5 dS m-1 resulted in significantly higher dry weight of the shoots and roots of seedlings (9.29 and 1.24 g, respectively) which was due to the increased SPAD value, proline content (7.55 μmol g-1 FW), and antioxidant enzyme activity in the inoculated plants. …”
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A Sustainable Higher Education Ecosystem: A Development of Malaysian Transport Demand Management Framework (S/O 14195) by Abdul Hanan, Suhaila, Zainuddin, Nizamuddin, A. Jalil, Emy Ezura, Ahmad Mahyadin @ Mahidin, Fariza, Zakaria, Izatul Husna

“…The present research aims, in particular, to investigate the factors that contribute to current and future commuting trends on-campus, to investigate the current transport framework that has been implemented on-campus, and to develop an on-campus TDM framework that addresses a sustainable higher education ecosystem. A mixed-method approach addressed these research objectives at Malaysia's Northern higher education institution (HEI) campus. …”
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Development of serum alternative with fermented soybean residue (okara): towards cultured meat production application by Teng, Ting Shien

“…Excessive consumption of animal derived products has also been linked to health deterioration, rise in cancer incidence, and exposure to zoonotic diseases. …”
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Characterising the functional role of GATA1short isoform in normal and malignant haematopoiesis by Cruz Hernandez, D

“…Both TAM and ML-DS are driven by mutations in the gene encoding the X-linked erythroid-megakaryocyte transcription factor GATA1 that result in truncation of 83 N-terminal amino acids to produce GATA1short (GATA1s). …”

Global marine flyways identified for long-distance migrating seabirds from tracking data by Davies, T, Guilford, T

“…We visualised the routes of each cluster using a line density analysis and used knowledge of seabird spatial ecology to combine the clusters to identify the broad-scale flyways followed by most pelagic migratory seabirds tracked to-date at an ocean-basin scale.…”

Investigating molecular vulnerabilities in TP53-mutant transformed myeloproliferative neoplasms by Paterson, A

“…Furthermore, all upregulated RBP were identified to be essential for cancer cell line survival via <em>in silico</em> analysis and validated by candidate RBP-targeted gene perturbation screens.…”

Advances in Remanufacturing : Proceedings of the VII International Workshop on Autonomous Remanufacturing / by International Workshop on Autonomous Remanufacturing (7th : 2023 : Caserta, Italy), Fera, Marcello, editor 656030, Caterino, Mario, editor 656031, Macchiaroli, Roberto, editor 656032, Pham, Duc Truong, editor 326888

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A Sufficient Condition for k-Contraction of the Series Connection of Two Systems by Ofir, Ron, Margaliot, Michael, Levron, Yoash, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

“…The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnections of contracting sub-systems yield an overall contracting system. …”
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Dual-frequency vortex-induced vibrations of long flexible stepped cylinders by Li, Ang, Mentzelopoulos, Andreas, Triantafyllou, Michael S., Fan, Dixia

“…The results show that the maximum in-line (IL) and cross-flow (CF) displacements and the frequency ratio of the stepped cylinder separated by individual frequency resemble those of a uniform cylinder vibrating in the uniform flow at a single frequency. …”
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Active Extrinsic Contact Sensing: Application to General Peg-in-Hole Insertion by Kim, Sangwoon, Rodriguez, Alberto

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Microlensing Near Macro-Caustics by Weisenbach, Luke, Anguita, Timo, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Oguri, Masamune, Saha, Prasenjit, Schechter, Paul L.

“…Micro-caustics join into a connected network in a region around the macro-critical line of a width proportional to the surface density of microlenses; within this region, the increase of the mean magnification toward the macro-caustic is driven by the increase of the number of micro-images rather than individual magnifications of micro-images. …”
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Effect of curvature variations on the hydrodynamic performance of heaving and pitching foils by van Rees, Wim M.

“…Overall, our results demonstrate that curving fins are consistently able to significantly outperform rigid fins with the same chord line kinematics on both thrust and hydrodynamic efficiency.…”
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Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel by Seering, Joseph, Khadka, Manas, Haghighi, Nava, Yang, Tanya, Xi, Zachary, Bernstein, Michael

“…Moderating online spaces effectively is not a matter of simply taking down content: moderators also provide private feedback and defuse situations before they cross the line into harm. However, moderators have little tool support for these activities, which often occur in the backchannel rather than in front of the entire community. …”
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Regional seismic risk of railway system including derailment consequences by Uchiyama, Yayoi Misu

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Intensity and contrast based surface roughness measurement approaches for rough and shiny surfaces by Prabhathan, P., Song, Chaolong, Haridas, Aswin, Prasad, Guru, Chan, Kelvin

“…In addition to this, in situ monitoring of surface roughness on a workpiece is an important requirement in modern machining process, since it would increase on-line machining rate and consequently productivity. …”
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Experimental investigations on heat and mass transfer performances of a liquid desiccant cooling and dehumidification system by Ou, Xianhua, Cai, Wenjian, He, Xiongxiong, Zhai, Deqing

“…The model predictions are compared with the experimental data, and the results show that the model predictions are well in line with the experimental data with the maximum errors less than 10%. …”
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Crack nucleation from a wedge disclination dipole with shift of rotation axes by Wu, Mao See

“…Biaxial dipoles are more stable when the rotation axis of each disclination approaches the defect line of the other disclination. If the negative disclinations of a uniaxial dipole and a biaxial dipole have the same axis shift, the critical nucleation stress of the biaxial dipole is larger if its positive disclination shift is more than that of the uniaxial dipole. …”
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Object tracking enhanced interactive pinball display by Tan, Bryan Zhen Ye

“…The interactive display should also encompass some modes of artificial intelligence to showcase how AI is able to breathe new life into what is considered an outdated object. In line with the objectives above, a 2-player pinball game has been created. …”
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