Examining twitter discourse on electronic cigarette and tobacco consumption during national cancer prevention month in 2018: topic modeling and geospatial analysis by Lu, Jiahui, Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…Background: Examining public perception of tobacco products is critical for effective tobacco policy making and public education outreach. While the link between traditional tobacco products and lung cancer is well established, it is not known how the public perceives the association between electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and lung cancer. …”
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Preserving Mojiang Hani hand weaving techniques: understanding complexity for culture and sustainable development by Mingquan, Liu, Yahaya, Siti Rohaya, Chunli, Guo, Yan, Huang

“…The findings illuminate that the gradual disappearance of these techniques is intricately linked to their inherent complexity, manifesting across five dimensions: classification, materials, process, patterns, and forms. …”
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The global prevalence of sexual disorder in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Salari, Nader, Hesampour, Arian, Abdolmaleki, Amir, Heidarian, Pegah, Shohaimi, Shamarina, Mohammadi, Masoud

“…Also, the prevalence of SD in RA females and males was 36.5% (95% CI: 26.4–48) and 23.5% (95% CI:12.6–39.4), respectively. …”

Replacement of Artemia with Moina micrura in the rearing of freshwater shrimp larvae by Alam, M.J., Ang, K.J., Begum, M.

“…The mean (SD) yields of postlarvae (PL) were 11.97 (1.98), 15.10 (2.92), 14.72(1.56), 13.51 (1.74) and 12.70 (1.40) PL l-1 respectively for the feeding regimes A3M, A5M, A7M, A9M and A. Up to stage v, the ingestion rate in the Moina treatment was as low as 0.01-0.47 larva-1 h-1 compared with that in the Artemia treatment (0.29-1.77 larva-1 h-1). …”
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The Whole Picture : The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it / by Procter, Alice, author 656024, Octopus (Online service) 656025

“…Each section tackles the fascinating and often shocking stories of five different art pieces, including the propaganda painting that the East India Company used to justify its control in India; the Maori mokomokai skulls that were traded and collected by Europeans as 'art objects'; and Kara Walker's controversial contemporary sculpture A Subtlety, which raised questions about 'appropriate' interactions with art. …”
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Instrumentation optimisation for unicompartmental knee replacement by Arthur, LW

“…</p> <p>A radiographic study of 94 cementless OUKR patients identified five cases (5%) of TCS. No patient, implant, or surgical factors were found to be associated with TCS, likely due to the small number of TCS cases identified. …”

Exploring Malaysian public universities Japanese language students' views on the effects of LGBT elements in anime and manga by Paee, Rokiah, Abdul Rashid, Roswati, Ahmad, Normah, Mamat, Roslina

“…Methodology: Online Google survey forms were distributed to students studying the Japanese language at five public universities in Malaysia. In these universities, Japanese is offered as an elective or part of a core course and is taken by students from various faculties. 280 students responded to the survey. …”
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Relationship of sperm protamine content with bull breeding soundness evaluation and sperm DNA damage by Mohamed Abbad Alfadel, Fatima

“…The result of BBSE revealed that two of the five bulls examined were unsatisfactory due to low normal sperm percentages (< 70%). …”
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AOBL‑IPACO: a novel and optimized algorithm to mitigate losses in electrical grid systems by Gupta, Rahul, Khanna, Ashish, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The proposed AOIPACO approach is implemented on standard IEEE-5, 13 and 40 bus systems and generates optimal results as compared to other conventional techniques while solving the complex problem of optimization. …”
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Systematic review of factors and barriers influencing e-commerce adoption among SMEs over the last decade: a TOE framework perspective by Loo, Mei Kay, Ramachandran, Sridar, Raja Yusof, Raja Nerina

Early detection of reduced artemisinin susceptibility in plasmodium falciparum using novel phenotypic indicators by Xiong, Aoli

“…This observation indicated a potential link between the acquisition of artemisinin resistance and DNA damage repair. …”
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Enhancing spectrum efficiency through hybrid-duplex systems for aeronautical communications by Tan, Ernest Zheng Hui

“…On the contrary, severe shadowing on the desired link leads to higher outage probability at the FD-GS, despite SI mitigation measures. …”
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Influence of mixed modifier fluoride on tuning the AC and dielectric properties of xBaF2–(50–x)CaF2–50B2O3 glass system by Sahapini, N. F. M., Winie, Tan, Azlan, M. N., Zaid, M. H. M., Hisam, R.

“…This study examined the effect of mixed alkaline earth modifier fluoride on AC conductivity and dielectric properties in xBaF2–(50–x)CaF2–50B2O3 (x = 5–35 mol) glass system. The impedance data showed a single-depressed semicircle with decreasing bulk resistance (Rb) with temperature. …”

Use of ontology to manage a consumer product website : a study of a mobile phone site by Zhang, Xin

“…Within the ontology, there are five taxonomies to categorize information into a hierarchical structure linking every component with appropriate relations. …”
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Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding by Davies, Rodrigo

“…The rapid rise of crowdfunding in the past five years, most prominently among US-based platforms such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, has begun to attract the attention of a wide range of scholars, policymakers and practitioners. …”
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Vehicle energy systems for autonomous driving by Goh, Daniel Jun Hao

“…In 2018, Shell added an autonomous category to the competition that requires the cars in competition to complete five challenges. In order to compete in this category, the autonomous capabilities have to be added to the Nanyang Venture 11 (NV11). …”
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Strength simulation of rock with existing cracks under static loadings by Chea, Bunly.

“…The random cracks have been assigned within the rock sample and the crack percentages are laid between zero percent to five percents. The simulation of the rock sample with pre-existing microcracks is observed in action of applied compression force. …”
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Investigation on the use of desiccant in dedicated outdoor air systems by Ong, Zhi Wei.

“…With the conclusion of the in-depth system analysis, results show that the desiccant systems are truly feasible when operating in the context of Singapore, especially the solid desiccant based air conditioning system utilizing the electric chiller which can economizes the operating costs by as much as twenty five percent while providing high quality cooling.…”
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Open-set pattern recognition in computer vision by Liang, Yuqian

“…This paper first reviews the proposal and development of Open Set Recognition technology, and then focuses on the study of five classic Open Set Recognition algorithms. Based on self-defined convolutional neural networks, this article attempts to replicate the algorithms of four of these methods. …”
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That mysterious man by Lin, Enyi

“…This dissertation includes five chapters from the novel That Mysterious Man. …”
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