External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England by Khafagy, Amr, Nguyen, Thao, Gorton, Matthew, Phillipson, Jeremy

“…Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) make a substantial contribution to regional development and economic prosperity. Access to external finance is an important determinant of business growth, and the growth potential of rural firms may be hindered by limited access to external finance. …”
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Current frailty knowledge, awareness, and practices among physicians following the 2022 European consensus document on Frailty in Cardiology by Wong, Jie Jun, Wang, Laureen Yi-Ting, Hasegawa, Koji, Ho, Kay Woon, Huang, Zijuan, Teo, Louis L. Y., Tan, Jack Wei Chieh, Kasahara, Kazuyuki, Tan, Ru-San, Ge, Junbo, Koh, Angela S.

“…Methods and results: We launched a prospective multinational web-based survey via social networks to broad cardiology communities representing multiple World Health Organization regions, including Western Pacific and Southeast Asia regions. …”
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Behaviorally informed digital campaigns and their association with social media engagement and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belize by Daga, Giuliana, Kossuth, Lajos, Boruchowicz, Cynthia, Lopez Boo, Florencia, Largaespada Beer, Natalia

“…However, lack of trust in the vaccine and fear of side effects in regions like the Caribbean resulted in a low uptake despite enough vaccine supply. …”
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马来西亚华人玩家的游戏语言选择调查 = An investigation of language preference in Chinese Malaysian gaming community by 赖政墀 Lai, Zheng Ci

“…Most of them are native speaker of Malaysian Chinese, and able to understand and use both Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. As one of the regional varieties of Chinese, Malaysian Chinese is different from other regional varieties in terms of pronunciation, grammar as well as vocabulary. …”
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Holocene relative sea-level histories of tropical islands by Tan, Fangyi

“…In this thesis, I produced quality-controlled, high-resolution Holocene RSL data from tropical regions that have insofar been lacking. I produced a standardised, quality-controlled database of published Holocene RSL data from mid Pacific islands, which had been formerly used to validate GIA models and infer ice-equivalent sea-level changes. …”
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Noise matters in image restoration: from synthetic degradation to real-world challenges by Guo, Lanqing

“…In the third work, we exploit the non-shadow regions as contextual information, aiding in the restoration of shadow regions through a customized transformer network tailored to handle partial and non-uniform degradation. …”
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What do you want to make? What to make of public library makerspaces: a look into the power of makerspaces in Singapore public libraries by Tan, Yi Lin

“…An interview with NLB was conducted to obtain a deeper understanding of the day-to-day task of running the makerspaces at Jurong, Woodlands, Tampines, and Punggol Regional Libraries. This study has found that understanding the relations between people and making, beyond the popular rhetoric of providing access to makerspaces and technologies, is key to helping librarians, teachers, and curators of art and science museums make informed decisions about why and how to engage with the maker movement in our communities. …”
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Young people's understanding of European values: enhancing abilities, supporting participation and voice by Ross, Alistair, Loughran, Tom, Brunold, Andreas, Hartsmar, Nanny, Liljefors Persson, Bodil, Chistolini, Sandra, Dotta, Leanete Thomas, Freires, Thiago, Kõiv, Kristi, Lopes, Juliana Crespo, Pembecioğlu, Nilüfer, Pereira, Fátima, Spinthourakis, Julia Athena

“…D An analysis of regional and other factors. E Teaching issues. We draw together the implications of the analysis for educating young people about understanding these values F Conclusions and recommendations. …”
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Surface water sensitivity to climate variability by Paltan-Lopez, H

“…This includes explaining the snowpack characteristics that determine timing and magnitude of river flow peaks in snow-dominated regions. Also, by quantifying the inter-annual variability driven by Atmospheric Rivers, this thesis found that this form of moisture transport contributes to 22% of total global annual runoff and their variability importantly drives hydrological extremes in various global locations. …”

Lithological controls of the Mg isotope composition of the Lena River across seasons and its impact on the annual isotope flux to the Arctic Ocean by Mavromatis, V, Porcelli, D, Andersson, PS, Korets, MA, Pokrovsky, OS

“…Given the importance of permafrost regions in providing the major elements to the Arctic Ocean, and the vulnerability of these regions to ongoing climate change due to permafrost thaw and landscape modifications, assessing the magnitude and characterizing the factors governing isotope compositions in river waters across seasons and space is of high priority. …”

The relationship between leisure time physical activity patterns, Alzheimer’s disease markers and cognition by James, S, Sudre, CH, Barnes, J, Cash, DM, Chiou, Y, Coath, W, Keshavan, A, Lu, K, Malone, I, Murray-Smith, H, Nicholas, JM, Orini, M, Parker, T, Almeida-Meza, P, Fox, NC, Richards, M, Schott, JM

“…Regression analyses were conducted to assess the direct and the moderating relationship between leisure time physical activity metrics, Alzheimer’s disease-related neurodegeneration markers (including Aβ status, hippocampal and whole-brain volume, and cortical thickness in Alzheimer’s disease signature regions) and cognition. All models were adjusted for childhood cognition, education and childhood socioeconomic position, and examined by sex. …”

Mechanics of fracture and flexure in Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves by Zhang, H

“…In Chapter 2, I consider basal fracturing in grounded glaciers and ice sheets. Sticky patches are regions with higher basal shear stress than their surroundings. …”

Analysis of residual soil properties on slope: A study in Dusun, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor by Norhidayah, Mohamed, Muhammad Farhan, Zolkepli, Ahmad Safuan, A. Rashid, Azman, Kassim, Muhammad Syamsul Imran, Zaini, Muhammad Irfan, Shahrin, Mohd Fakhrurrazi, Ishak, Zaihasra, Abu Talib

“…Slope failure is a widespread and devastating disaster that can occur in various regions, including Malaysia. Given the numerous incidents caused by slope failure, it is vital to conduct a thorough scientific study to determine the specific soil characteristics at Dusun UTM, Johor. …”
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Objective quality assessment and perceptual compression of screen content images by Wang, Shiqi, Gu, Ke, Zeng, Kai, Wang, Zhou, Lin, Weisi

“…SCIs are often composed of pictorial regions and computer generated textual/graphical content, which exhibit different statistical properties that often lead to different viewer behaviors. …”
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Sustainability and interactivity between cities and ports : a two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach by Chen, Chen, Lam, Jasmine Siu Lee

“…Constrained by different regional structures, port cities have developed various formulations over time. …”
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Buried in the mists of history : the comfort women of Singapore by Chee, Sylvia Sook Yan

“…This thesis asks the question why have these women’s tragedies been silenced from Singapore history, when victims from so many other regions have been, and are currently, volubly advocated for by their countries? …”
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Threads between communities : silk trade in Singapore, 1900-1941 by Leong, Yoke Yann

“…This thesis argues that different ethnic silk merchant communities used to be interdependent on each other to obtain silk goods from certain regions, but became more independent as firms established new routes for a more direct flow of goods due to the boycotts and quotas. …”
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Face/object recognition and tracking on IoT device with 3D camera by Lin, Yuxin

“…Compared with Depth-guided Attention, both quantitative and qualitative experiment results indicate that LBP-Depth-guided Attention has better focus on the important discriminative regions and achieved improved recognition accuracies under several challenging conditions, such as occlusion, pose variation and facial expression changes.…”
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Urgency of controlling black carbon emissions in shipping by Ong, Min Yee

“…Hence, this study seeks explores the impacts of BC on a regional and global scale and understand the challenges faced in BC reduction to establish the legitimacy of BC as a climate threat and determine the urgency in reducing BC emissions from ships.…”
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Biothermoplastic elastomer (BTPE), influence of architecture on mechanical properties by Tjin, Monica Suryana.

“…The mechanical properties of the star-shaped copolymers were determined by molar ratio of -CL and TMC. Microcrystalline regions present in the soft block as well as the amount of hard block have been found to play an important role in providing elastic properties to the star-shaped copolymers. …”
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