Curtain call : a final bow for the traditional arts. by Chen, Shanshan., Khew, Carolyn Jin-Ny., Koh, Valerie Swee Fang.

“…But with a $23 million kitty and a five-year Traditional Arts Plan proposed by the National Arts Council, the languishing state of the industry looks set to change. …”
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Towards an understanding of the growth of primary schoolchildren's mathematical ability using latent curve analysis. by Koh, Ian Chong-Hua.

“…This study investigated the growth of children’s mathematical ability over time, with mastery goals, performance goals, and socioeconomic status (SES) as predictors of mathematical scores. Five hundred and forty children from four age cohorts (grade 0, grade 2, grade 4, and grade 6) participated in a study that assessed them on mathematical ability and motivation over four years. …”
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Novel fiber design for photon triplets generation by Zhang, Meng

“…Based on the theoretical research and software simulation, five kinds of fiber structures have been designed that successfully fulfill the phase matching condition. …”
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Stock market price forecasting with machine learning methods by Zhu, Huilin

“…Moreover, a method for signal decomposition called empirical mode decomposition is used to improve the accuracy, along with five datasets that are utilized to test and verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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Analysis of New York City traffic speed data set by Le, Duy Anh

“…The data files in this data set was collected from traffic monitors installed in all five boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island) during 2015 and 2016. …”
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What’s the point of constitutional monarchy? by Barber, NW

“…<p>The article examines the point of constitutional monarchy as a form of leadership. It considers five functions of leadership and examines the extent to which constitutional monarchy fits these functions. …”

'A poem in leaden hexameters': on rehabilitating Dorotheus’ Carmen Astrologicum by Lightfoot, JL

“…Our main evidence for the lost five-book astrological poem of Dorotheus of Sidon is an Arabic translation by David Pingree, but examination of the Greek fragments reveals essential aspects of the poem over and above its informational content. …”

Breaking up rationally by Villiger, D, de Vries, B

“…It does so by using a novel five-level account of transformative decision-making, which can also be used for other key life choices, and which is the first to integrate in a systematic way several approaches for making (certain types of) transformative decisions that have been proposed in recent years.…”

HFI 302E - Islamic Philosophy January 2016 by PPIK, Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan

“…Instructions: This exam paper has FIVE (5) questions. Answer THREE (3) questions. …”
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An Exploration of Brand Identity Building Process in the Context of Malaysian Cafe (S/O 13612) by Mohd Rashid, Sabrina

“…This research provides the definition of brands by scholars, including a qualitative study on five brand owners in Malaysia on how they create their identity. …”
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Multifidelity Methods for Design of Transition MetalComplexes by Janet, Jon Paul

“…The application of these methods to virtual design problems is demonstrated with two case studies: 1) identifying spin crossover complexes from a design space of thousands using an evolutionary strategy and 2) probabilistic, multiobjective optimization of redox couples over a 3 million-complex space. …”
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Durable waterborne hydrophobic bio-epoxy coating with improved anti-icing and self-cleaning performance by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Wu, Xinghua, Zhan, Xuejun, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…The coatings were applied on Fe foil substrates using a one-step spin-coating method. The optimal coating with 33.3 wt % SiO 2 nanoparticles exhibits high hydrophobicity with a water contact angle (CA) of 153.0 ± 1.1° and a sliding angle (SA) of 14.3 ± 1.9°. …”
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The effect of tuning the coordination sphere of iron complexes for the oxygen reduction reaction in acidic media by Wang, Xiaojiang, Zheng, Tianlong, Tang, Yizhao, Li, Xiaoyu, Rykov, Alexandre I., Li, Xuning, Wang, Junhu, He, Qinggang, Cheng, Jun, Zhang, Xue

“…Novel activity descriptors including the charge and spin densities on the Fe site were proposed and validated by available experimental data, presenting a strategy to design highly-active nonprecious metal complex catalysts with specific supporting ligands.…”
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Optimal probes for global quantum thermometry by Mok, Wai-Keong, Bharti, Kishor, Kwek, Leong Chuan, Bayat, Abolfazl

“…In addition, we show how the best approximation of optimal global probes can be realized in spin chains, implementable in ion traps and quantum dots.…”
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Unexpected intrinsic catalytic function of porous boron nitride nanorods for highly efficient peroxymonosulfate activation in water treatment by Bao, Yueping, Yan, Weili, Sun, Ping-Ping, Zhu, Justin Yeow Seow, Lua, Shun Kuang, Lee, Wen Jie, Liang, Yen Nan, Lim, Teik-Thye, Xu, Jason Zhichuan, Zhou, Kun, Hu, Xiao

“…The evolution of 1O2 was verified by electron spin resonance (ESR) and chemical scavenging experiments. …”
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Advanced nanostructured materials : wide-band-gap oxides based magnetic semiconductors by Xing, Guozhong

“…The conjunction of electron spin with the charge manipulation in the semiconductor could lead to a whole new era in information technology, called semiconductor spintronics. …”
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Pressure-Dependent Polymorphism and Band-Gap Tuning of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite by Jiang, Shaojie, Fang, Yanan, Li, Ruipeng, Xiao, Hai, Crowley, Jason, Wang, Chenyu, White, Timothy John, Goddard III, William A., Wang, Zhongwu, Baikie, Tom, Fang, Jiye

“…We report the pressure-induced crystallographic transitions and optical behavior of MAPbI3 (MA=methylammonium) using in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction and laser-excited photoluminescence spectroscopy, supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculations using the hybrid functional B3PW91 with spin-orbit coupling. The tetragonal polymorph determined at ambient pressure transforms to a ReO3-type cubic phase at 0.3 GPa. …”
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Microsecond dark-exciton valley polarization memory in two-dimensional heterostructures by Jiang, Chongyun, Xu, Weigao, Rasmita, Abdullah, Huang, Zumeng, Li, Ke, Xiong, Qihua, Gao, Wei-bo

“…Transition metal dichalcogenides have valley degree of freedom, which features optical selection rule and spin-valley locking, making them promising for valleytronics devices and quantum computation. …”
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Non-Abelian adiabatic geometric transformations in a cold strontium gas by Leroux, Frederic, Miniatura, Christian, Grémaud, Benoît, Wilkowski, David, Rebhi, Riadh, Pandey, K., Chevy, F.

“…Topology, geometry, and gauge fields play key roles in quantum physics as exemplified by fundamental phenomena such as the Aharonov–Bohm effect, the integer quantum Hall effect, the spin Hall, and topological insulators. The concept of topological protection has also become a salient ingredient in many schemes for quantum information processing and fault-tolerant quantum computation. …”
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Synthesis of Co-doped MoS2 monolayers with enhanced valley splitting by Zhou, Jiadong, Lin, Junhao, Sims, Hunter, Jiang, Chongyun, Cong, Chunxiao, Brehm, John A., Zhang, Zhaowei, Niu, Lin, Chen, Yu, Zhou, Yao, Wang, Yanlong, Liu, Fucai, Zhu, Chao, Yu, Ting, Suenaga, Kazu, Mishra, Rohan, Pantelides, Sokrates T., Zhu, Zhen-Gang, Gao, Weibo, Liu, Zheng, Zhou, Wu

“…Valley splittings of 3.9, 5.2, and 6.15 meV at 7 T in Co-doped MoS2 with Co concentrations of 0.8%, 1.7%, and 2.5%, respectively, are achieved as revealed by polarization-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. …”
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