The hollow fiber bioreactor as a stroma-supported, serum-free ex vivo expansion platform for human umbilical cord blood cells by Xue, Cao, Kwek, Kenneth Y. C., Chan, Jerry Kok Yen, Chen, Qingfeng, Lim, Mayasari

“…We evaluated the efficacy of such a platform in comparison to standard cultures performed on tissue culture polystyrene (TCP), using a human stromal cell line (HS-5) as stromal support, co-cultured with lineage-depleted human cord blood cells in serum-free medium supplemented with a cytokine cocktail. …”
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Analysis and design recommendations for structures strengthened by prestressed bonded Fe-SMA by Li, Lingzhen, Wang, Sizhe, Chatzi, Eleni, Motavalli, Masoud, Ghafoori, Elyas

“…A parametric study and a sensitivity analysis are then conducted to assess the impact of the four influential features on the final prestress level, and their impact is ranked in the following order: recovery stress ≈ Fe-SMA width > activation length > bonded anchorage length. Based on these findings, a design strategy, in line with Eurocode 0, for the bonded/embedded Fe-SMA strengthening system is proposed. …”
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping by Das, Madhurima, Yang, Maria C

“…First, it proposes a rubric for assessing the quality of early-stage design sketches including line smoothness, proportion, and understandability. …”
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Modeling public transit route choice behaviour by Zhou, Yao Hui.

“…Some of these research findings are briefly decribed below. Through the comparison between the passenger arrival at various stations and the passengers’ stated rating of crowdedness of the platforms, it was inferred that passengers’ perceived crowdedness does not vary linearly with the platform passenger density and their perception of crowdedness was more sensitive when the crowd on-platform was either below 15 people or more than 30. …”
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Framework of key success criteria for high performance and sustainable ports - port management perspective by Lee, Nicole Jia Ying

“…The 19 received survey responses were subjected to Z-tests to obtain descriptive data for analysis and discussion. Research Findings: Sluggish market conditions have compelled PSA to focus on highly productive & efficient operations, coupled with the other criteria aggregated under the Internal Processes dimension. …”
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Dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control: DHF-solve model using linebot-application and GIS by Mala, M., Meenongwar, C., Jundaeng, J., Osman, M., Viegus, Z., Nithikathkul, C.

“…It features six menus accessible through the Line Official Account (LOA) and can function as a real-time platform. …”
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RSM and ANN-based optimized ultrasound-assisted extraction of functional components from olive fruit (cv Arbequina): assessment of antioxidant attributes and GC-MS metabolites prof... by Ali, Liaqat, Anwar, Farooq, Qadir, Rahman, Batool, Fozia, Mustaqeem, Muhammad, Mohsin Ali, Rana

“…The results of ANN, which employed the multilayer perceptron design, were fairly in line with the findings of the experiments. The antioxidant characteristics and GC-MS metabolite profile of the obtained extracts were examined. …”

Dominant contribution of oxygenated organic aerosol to haze particles from real-time observation in Singapore during an Indonesian wildfire event in 2015 by Budisulistiorini, Sri Hapsari, Riva, Matthieu, Williams, Michael, Miyakawa, Takuma, Chen, Jing, Itoh, Masayuki, Surratt, Jason D., Kuwata, Mikinori

“…Simultaneously, we characterized carbonaceous components and organic aerosol (OA) tracers from fine PM (PM2.5) samples to support source apportionment of the online measurements. …”
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Development of a vision-based gesture human-computer interface by Lim, Chun Ping.

“…The VG HCI system was subjected to a series of performance evaluation experiments and the system’s parameters were fine tuned with insights gained from the experiments. …”
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Bloodbath in Christchurch : The Rise of Far-Right Terrorism by Quek, Natasha

“…Last Friday, 50 Muslims were killed when a white supremacist, Brenton Tarrant, targeted two mosques in a shooting spree in Christchurch, New Zealand. Long overshadowed by Islamist radicalism, questions are now asked about what drives the far-right ideology and, specifically, what is the role of the Internet as a driver and enabler of violent far-right extremism and terror.…”
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Development of anaerobic immobilized-cell processes for biohydrogen production by Zhang, Zhenpeng

“…A major drawback of the cell immobilization is the long startup period, which generally requires a few months for the development of hydrogen-producing granules or biofilms. …”
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SNR enhancement in OTDR using pulse coding by Xie, Yi.

“…So the high spatial resolution and long dynamic range can’t be obtained simultaneously. …”
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Allianz's success factors in the European market and their challenges faced in China. by Chin, Chee Meng., Koh, Teck Chee., Li, Heng., Saqlain Javed.

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Network resource management to transport pre-stored video across broadband networks by Fu, Huirong.

“…MPEG variable bit rate (VBR) encoded video is known to exhibit long-range dependent behavior and significant multiple-time-scale rate variability but with consistent image quality. …”
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Three-dimensional analyses of deep excavations in clay by Teo, Yi Wei.

“…The assumption for this analysis is that the length of the excavation is infinitely long. Thus, it does not take into account of the length of the excavation. …”
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A novel polymer quantum dot derived from poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and its application for sensing and optical imaging by Xu, Qian

“…However, they suffer from several intrinsic drawbacks like rapid photo-bleaching making it difficult to carry out long-term imaging. Semiconductor quantum dots (semi-QDs) have been regarded as alternatives, but they may possess some limitations, including cytotoxicity, carcinogenicity, and too-large size. …”
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From an image to a text description of an image by Peter

“…The network consists of a convolutional neural network (CNN) that learns features found on an image, and a long short-term memory (LSTM) unit that predicts the sequence of words from learnt features of the image. …”
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Chasing the Elusive Militant in Indonesia: The Wonosobo raid to capture Noordin M Top by Astuti, Fatima

“…The police order on the inhabitants to surrender was met with gunfire. After an hour-long gunfight, the resistance ended with two suspects dead and one captured. …”
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Global norms in regional institutions : lessons from the African Union and ASEAN by Lotze, Walter, Stensland, Andreas, Ng, Joel

“…Acceptance of global norms by regional organisations is only the beginning of a long process of institutionalisation, as cases in the African Union (AU) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) demonstrate. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…In August, Mexico completed far-reaching energy reform; many in the industry had long hoped for this, but it had seemed politically unthinkable even after President Enrique Peña Nieto had submitted his proposal to the legislature a year earlier.…”