Exœrcising a Haunted City by Wong, Bryan Hon Ting

“…This thesis documents, through the study of local Taoist-Buddhist practices, the choreographies of rituals as a reparative tool to resist the disap- pearance of local culture. It is linked to findings from everyday domestic offerings to ancestors, annual festive performances of traumatic cleansing, and the booming clientele businesses of precautionary rites, all of which demonstrate their spatial and temporal qualities as methods to resist modern state control. …”
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Contradictions and compromises in sustainability planning: The case of the sub-Arctic city of Yakutsk, Russia by Durova, Aleksandra, Ryan, Brent D.

“…The study underscores that these tensions are intricately linked to historical, political, planning, and governance contexts and reflect the complexities of urban development politics. …”
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Mechanical properties and deformation behaviour of early age concrete in the context of digital construction by Panda, Biranchi, Lim, Jian Hui, Tan, Ming Jen

“…The compressive green strength was linked with material yield strength evolution and later, modified with nanoclay for higher buildability properties. …”
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Sexual selection predicts the persistence of populations within altered environments by Parrett, Jonathan M., Mann, Darren J., Chung, Arthur Y. C., Slade, Eleanor M., Knell, Robert J.

“…Testes mass, an indicator of post-copulatory selection, is, however, negatively linked with the abundance of species within the most disturbed habitats. …”
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Resonant forward-scattered field in the high-saturation regime : elastic and inelastic contributions by Kwong, Chang Chi, Wellens, T., Pandey, K., Wilkowski, David

“…Comparing our measurements to a model based on Maxwell-Bloch equations, our experimental results are consistent with contributions from only the elastic component, whereas the attenuation of the coherent transmission power is linked to the elastic and inelastic scatterings. In the large saturation regime and at the vicinity of the atomic resonance, we derive an asymptotic expression relating the elastic scattering power to the forward-scattered power.…”
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Floral trait preferences of butterflies in Singapore by Fung, Louisa May

“…While butterfly ecological and morphological traits have been linked to flower specialisation, the flower traits associated with flower specialisation in this same system have not been explored. …”
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Model development and GUI of renewable energy systems considering battery degradation by Toh, Hubert Ze En

“…A simulation of battery cycling will also be made and linked to the GUI to estimate battery degradation over time. …”
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Motivation of the re-emergence of territorial disputes in the South China Sea : from an US and China regional strategies' perspective. by Huang, Huijianmei.

“…A representation of the South China Sea disputes was made in the third chapter, followed by a detail observance into the competition between the U.S. and China, through analysing the strategies the two big powers implemented within Asia Pacific. The fifth chapter linked the competitive relation between the U.S. and China to the re-emergent South China Sea territorial disputes. …”
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Two-way shape memory polymer by Chng, Wei Kee

“…This report will focus on the continuation research of this two-way shape memory polymer, covalently cross-linked Poly[ethylene-co-(vinyl acetate)] (cPEVA). …”
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Security enhancements to prevent DNS cache poisoning attacks by Chong, Soon Seng

“…One of the main reason was linked to extended loading time for website due to delays and errors caused by signature generation and validation required in DNSSEC, affecting user experience. …”
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Disrupted working memory event-related network dynamics in multiple sclerosis by Rossi, C, Vidaurre, D, Costers, L, D’hooghe, MB, Akbarian, F, D’haeseleer, M, Woolrich, M, Nagels, G, Van Schependom, J

“…First, the activation of an early theta prefrontal network linked to stimulus encoding and attentional control significantly decreases in MS compared to HC. …”

Immune correlates of early clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among tuberculosis household contacts in Indonesia by Setiabudiawan, TP, Apriani, L, Verrall, AJ, Utami, F, Schneider, M, Indrati, AR, Halim, PP, Kaplonek, P, Malca, H, Lee, JS, Moorlag, SJCFM, de Bree, LCJ, Mourits, VP, Joosten, LAB, Netea, MG, Alisjahbana, B, McNamara, RP, Alter, G, van Laarhoven, A, Ussher, JE, Sharples, K, Koeken, VACM, Hill, PC, van Crevel, R

“…The protective effect of BCG vaccination against Mtb infection may be linked to innate immune priming, also termed ‘trained immunity’.…”

Privacy harms by Cofone, IC, Robertson, AZ

“…To do so, we use standard Bayesian statistics to formalize a key intuition: that information privacy is fundamentally linked to how much other people know about you. A key advantage of our model is that, for the first time, it takes privacy preferences seriously while maintaining tractability. …”

Prevalence of smartphone addiction and the impact on sleep quality among undergraduate students at School of Health Sciences, USM by Othman, Nurul Aina

“…Numerous studies have been done on sleep quality, but very few have linked it to smartphone addiction. A cross-sectional survey was carried out to study Prevalence of Smartphone Addiction and the Impact on Sleep Quality Among Undergraduate Students at School of Health Sciences, USM using a set of self-administered online questionnaire that adopted the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. …”
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Creative Schools / by Robinson, Ken, author 509031, Aronica, Lou, author 621386

The impact of foreign direct investment on the economy of the people's republic of China : a macroeconomic model by Lim, Harold Chee Kian, See Toh, Wai Meng, Hu, Koon Phei

“…The econometric study is purely empirical in nature and thus throws new light on the various channels through which FDI influences five macroeconomic variables: economic growth, exports, imports, national saving and domestic investment. …”
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Extraordinary model systems for regeneration by Accorsi, A, Guo, L, Marshall, WF, Mommersteeg, MTM, Nakajima, Y-I

“…To expand this topic further, this Perspective conveys the voices of five expert biologists from the field of regenerative biology, each of whom showcases some less well-known, but equally extraordinary, species for studying regeneration.…”

Integration of an Aptamer-Based Signal-On Probe and a Paper-Based Origami Preconcentrator for Small Molecule Biomarkers Detection by Lee, Na E., Hong, Ji H., Lee, Seungmin, Yoo, Yong K., Kim, Kang H., Park, Jeong S., Kim, Cheonjung, Yoon, Junghyo, Yoon, Dae S., Lee, Jeong H.

“…By integrating cortisol-selective aptamer-based probes and POP, we accurately diagnosed cortisol levels within 30 min of signal probe incubation, followed by 10 min of preconcentration. …”
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Impact and damage resistance studies on thermoplastic reinforced composites by Muhammad Shah Abdullah

“…The composite laminates perform better at lower strain rate of 1.2mm/min compared to 2mm/min, where higher average peak force and displacement was observed. …”
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Frailty, multimorbidity and polypharmacy: exploratory analyses of the effects of empagliflozin from the EMPA-KIDNEY trial by Mayne, KM, Sardell, R, Staplin, N, Judge, P, Zhu, D, Sammons, E, Wanner, C, Emberson, J, Preiss, D, Landray, M, Baigent, C, Haynes, R, Herrington, W

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> The EMPA-KIDNEY trial randomized 6609 patients with CKD (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] ≥20<45 mL/min/1.73m2 , or ≥45<90 mL/min/1.73m2 with urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio ≥200 mg/g) to receive either empagliflozin 10 mg daily or matching placebo and followed for two years (median). …”