From private entrepreneurship to state monopoly: contracting Swiss soldiers for Dutch Service under Ancien Régime Fiscal- Military Practices (1693–1829) by Depreter, M

“…This contribution examines Dutch contracting practices to hire Swiss troops during the Ancien Régime, from the first contracts directly negotiated in the Protestant cantons by Petrus Valckenier (1693-1694) during the Nine Years’ War, seizing opportunities arisen from Louis XIV’s revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) after a period during which the Dutch seem to have relied on uncertain access to Swiss manpower through French intercession, up to the end of a short-lived revival of Swiss foreign regiments in the newly-instated Kingdom of the Netherlands (1814-1829). …”

Understanding thermal unsteadiness in engine representative flows and improved methodologies for derived heat transfer calculations using thin-film gauges by Singh, D, Beard, PF, Cardwell, D, Chana, KS

“…The experiments with a radially varying NGV inlet temperature profile showed up to nine times higher thermal unsteadiness, compared to the uniform inlet. …”

Lernea cyprinacea L. (Copepoda: Caligidea) in Helostoma temmincki Cuvier & Valenciennes: the dynamics of resistance in recovered and naive fish by Woo, P. T. K., Shariff, M.

“…In another experiment, all nine recovered fish were infected when the challenge infective dose was high. …”

Research on Guqin composition in Mainland China in the 1950s and 1960s: some works of Yu Shaoze [ 喻绍泽] by He, Zeng, Chiat, Loo Fung

“…This paper primarily focuses on the historical and morphological study of nine guqin pieces composed by Yu Shaoze [ 喻绍泽] (1903–1988), the earliest professional guqin music teacher in the west China, between 1956 and 1966. …”
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The role of smartphone applications as English learning tool among Chinese university students by Liu, Mengjie, Noordin, Nooreen, Ismail, Lilliati, Abd Rahim, Nur Aira, Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab

Carlibration parameters of social force model (SFM) for customized personal mobility devices (PMD) by Yuan, Liqiang

“…After getting the parameters of SFM for different PMDs, simulation can be done to find out the correlation between PMD speed and lateral distance for PMD rider when encountering a pedestrian. …”
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Multiplexed switched- capacitor filter design with emphasize on crosstalk reduction by Li, Jianer.

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Chasing the city that cannot stop: Exploring transportation and urban co-development in São Paulo’s history by Borges Costa, Adriano, Zegras, P Christopher, Biderman, Ciro

“…Over the entire 130 years, we find that urban expansion and road development pushed and pulled each other, in a somewhat “orderly” way. …”
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Influence of psychological and personal factors on predicting individual's thermal comfort in an office building using linear estimation and machine learning model by Muhammad Nafiz, Muhammad Nafiz, Shaikh Salim, Sheikh Ahmad Zaki, Nadarajah, Pravin Diliban, Singh, Manoj Kumar

“…Fanger’s six parameters and nine other parameters are considered for linear estimation and ML input parameters. …”

Retirement instruments and their distribution channels. by Ong, Cheow Chong., Poh, Choon Kiat., Ong, Joo Liang.

“…More has to be done to help people plan for retirement. First, we hope to find out about the relationship between demographics and instruments used by them. …”
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Multipoint sensing for energy efficient operation in buildings by Zhang, Han Wen

“…The first experiment is to find the effect of the multipoint sensing system due to the moving heat source. …”
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Analysis of underground excavation in rocks by Tang, Zhu Min

“…The purpose is to find out the factors which affect the instability and displacements of the underground excavations. …”
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Elastic-plastic fracture mechanics investigation on two interacting cracks by Lee, Jonathon Zhao Feng

“…The second step is to find the relationship between crack, inclusion and dislocation whereby the CTOD of the crack will also be affected by an additional dislocation. …”
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Governing in the face of a global crisis: when do voters punish and reward incumbent governments? by Duch, RM, Loewen, P, Robinson, TS, Zakharov, A

“…Using machine learning techniques, we find only muted heterogeneity in the magnitude and distribution of these treatment effects. …”

A mean field game between informed traders and a broker by Bergault, P, Sánchez-Betancourt, L

“…<p>We find the solution to the stochastic game between a broker and a mean-field of informed traders. …”

Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines by Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella

“…The last chapter, Chapter Nine, provides a summary of my work and its contributions, a discussion on its limitations, and suggestions for future research.…”
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Effective coping among dementia caregivers in Singapore : narratives through an online MCAT-DC intervention by Tan, Lynette Shun Ying

“…Grounded theory approach was used for the data analysis. Findings: The emergent model consisted of a total of nine themes across four theme categories – having self-compassion, staying realistically positive, remembering caregiving purpose, and holistic online MCAT-DC experience. …”
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Corporate governance in China : a study on S-chips by Lim, Sylvia Ying Zhen, Chen, Xizi, Jaya Pathak

“…In July 2012 alone, there were a total of nine S-Chip companies under investigation for suspected fraud. …”
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Capitalizing on a crisis: a computational analysis of all five million British firms during the Covid-19 pandemic by Muggleton, N, Rahal, C, Reeves, A

“…Leveraging a comprehensive cache of administrative data on every UK firm and all nine million people running them, combined with probabilistic algorithms, we conduct individual-level analyzis to understand who became Covid entrepreneurs. …”

Loopholes. by Li, Yvonne Meini., Law, Georgina Wan Yi., Phua, Geraldine Soo Yee.

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