The politics of consumption in Thailand : back to basics by Rappa, Antonio L.

“…The Abhisit government in Thailand is intervening to help the country out of the long, L-shaped curve of the global recession. Initial measures involve a back-to-basic economics and a rhetorical attempt to thwart materialism.…”
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ASEAN regional forum at 17 : the curse of “ad hoc-ism”? by Tan, See Seng

“…At 17, the ASEAN Regional Forum remains largely ineffectual concerning the region’s serious security challenges. So long as ASEAN — the core of the forum — maintains an ad hoc approach to regionalism, the utility of the ARF as Asia’s premier security institution will at best be limited.…”
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South China Sea : reducing the China-Vietnam tension by Zhen, Sun

“…The disputed South China Sea is a source of long-running tension and instability in Asia, worsened by controversial actions and sharp reactions by the various territorial claimants. …”
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Research on basic mechanical properties of different modulus alkaline excited ECC by Che, Jialing, Yang, Renze, Wang, Jun, Liu, Haifeng, Hu, Yun xiang, Doh, Shu Ing

“…The effect of the alkali activator modulus on the mechanical properties and microstructure of two types of fiber-reinforced engineering cementitious composites (alkali-excited ECC) with desert sand as fine aggregate was studied. The alkali activator was prepared by a certain proportion of NaOH and sodium silicate mixture, and the mechanical performance indexes were used for analysis, including compressive/tensile/flexural strength, Poisson's ratio and elastic modulus, flexural toughness ratio and energy performance index (PSH). …”
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Optimizing crystal size distribution based on different cooling strategies in batch crystallization process by Siti Zubaidah, Adnan, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad

“…Furthermore, the number of fine crystals was among the lowest at a volume distribution of 0.00071 m3/m compared to the linear profile at 0.00191 m3/m. …”
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Morphology‐Directed Light Emission from Fluorescent Janus Colloids for Programmable Chemical‐To‐Optical Signal Transduction by Frank, Bradley D., Nagelberg, Sara, Baryzewska, Agata W., Simón Marqués, Pablo, Antonietti, Markus, Kolle, Mathias, Zeininger, Lukas

“…Informed by experimental observations of morphology‐dependent optical confinement of internally emitted light within the higher refractive index phases, ray‐tracing is used to predict and fine‐tune the droplets’ optical properties and their ability to concentrate light. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

“…Our algorithm combines and extends several recent structural results and algorithmic techniques from the literature on knapsacktype problems: (1) We generalize the “fine-grained proximity” technique of Chen, Lian, Mao, and Zhang (2023) derived from the additivecombinatorial results of Bringmann and Wellnitz (2021) on dense subset sums. …”
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User satisfaction and service quality improvement priority of bus rapid transit in Belo Horizonte, Brazil by Zheng, Yunhan, Kong, Hui, Petzhold, Guillermo, Barcelos, Mariana M, Zegras, Christopher P, Zhao, Jinhua

“…These findings can help policymakers fine-tune improvement strategies targeted at different types of services.…”
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Accurate and Fast Approximate Graph Mining at Scale by Arpaci-Dusseau, Anna

“…Hybrid sampling further improves performance by automatically choosing the better scheme between fine-grained and coarse-grained sampling schemes. …”
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What the visual system can learn from the non-dominant hand: The effect of graphomotor engagement on visual discrimination by Ben-Ami, Shlomit, Buaron, Batel, Yaron, Ori, Keane, Kyle, Sun, Virginia H., Phillips, Flip, Friedman, Jason, Sinha, Pawan, Mukamel, Roy

“…However, existing studies have emphasized the dominant hand, which is superiorly dexterous in fine-motor movements. This near-exclusive focus prompts the inquiry of whether the observed perceptual facilitation is a general characteristic of the motor system, or specific to pathways controlling the skilled over-trained dominant hand. …”
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MEDFuse: Multimodal EHR Data Fusion with Masked Lab-Test Modeling and Large Language Models by Thao, Phan Nguyen Minh, Dao, Cong-Tinh, Wu, Chenwei, Wang, Jian-Zhe, Liu, Shun, Ding, Jun-En, Restrepo, David, Liu, Feng, Hung, Fang-Ming, Peng, Wen-Chih

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Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing by Piovarci, Michal, Foshey, Michael, Babaei, Vahid, Rusinkiewicz, Szymon, Matusik, Wojciech, Didyk, Piotr

“…The main difficulty in automating this process lies in the physical properties of the varnishes which owe their appearance to a high concentration of large particles and as such, they cannot be easily deposited with current 3D color printers. As a result, fine-grained control of gloss properties using today's 3D printing technologies is limited in terms of both spatial resolution and the range of achievable gloss. …”
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EasyPDP: an efficient parallel dynamic programming runtime system for computational biology by Tang, Shanjiang, Yu, Ce, Sun, Jizhou, Lee, Bu-Sung, Zhang, Tao, Xu, Zhen, Wu, Huabei

“…The experimental results illustrate that EasyPDP system is fine and provides an efficient infrastructure for dynamic programming algorithms.…”
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Defects in β-cell Ca2+ dynamics in age-induced diabetes by Li, Luosheng, Trifunovic, Aleksandra, Köhler, Martin, Wang, Yixin, Petrovic Berglund, Jelena, Illies, Christopher, Juntti-Berggren, Lisa, Larsson, Nils-Göran, Berggren, Per-Olof

“…Our data suggest that aging is associated with a progressive decline in β-cell mitochondrial function that negatively impacts on the fine tuning of Ca2+ dynamics. This is conceptually important since it emphasizes that even relatively modest changes in β-cell signal transduction over time lead to compromised insulin release and a diabetic phenotype.…”
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Utilization of recycled glass for 3D concrete printing : rheological and mechanical properties by Ting, Andrew Guan Heng, Tay, Daniel Yi Wei, Qian, Ye, Tan, Ming Jen

“…This paper examines the use of recycled glass as the fine aggregates for 3D concrete printing applications. …”
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Employee profiling via aspect-based sentiment and network for insider threats detection by Soh, Charlie, Yu, Sicheng, Narayanan, Annamalai, Duraisamy, Santhiya, Chen, Lihui

“…On the contrary to the traditional sentiment analysis, aspect-based sentiment analysis provides more fine-grained information on the employee. Our framework employs a combination of deep learning techniques such as Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) and skipgram to build temporal sentiment profiles for the employees. …”
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The development of lead-less perovskite materials for the photovoltaic application by Chen, Yan

“…In summary, the major findings presented in this thesis dissertation highlight the significance of compositional engineering of the perovskite materials to the fine-tuning of their optoelectronic properties and the performance of their associated devices. …”
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Efficiency analysis for active rectifier in more electric aircraft (MEA) generator by Lim, Sin Guang

“…In this analysis, further fine tuning will be done to achieve the desired overall performance of the rectifier. …”
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Hedonic and non-hedonic bias toward the future by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Norton, James

“…Instead, we develop a more fine-grained approach, according to which three factors—positive/negative valence, first/third-person, and hedonic/non-hedonic—each independently influence, but do not determine, whether an event is treated in a future-biased or a time-neutral way. …”
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Server-aided revocable predicate encryption : formalization and lattice-based instantiation by Ling, San, Nguyen, Khoa, Wang, Huaxiong, Zhang, Juanyang

“…The latter, introduced by Katz et al. (2008, EUROCRYPT), provides fine-grained and role-based access to encrypted data and can be viewed as a generalization of identity-based and attribute-based encryption. …”
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