“可爱” 又 “可恶” 的女人 ：中国广场舞大妈 = Adorable or abominable? : Chinese square dancing dama by 徐昕 Xin, Xu

“…These "dama" seeks to replace the loneliness that retirement brings and also to forge a bond with fellow square dancers that would last until their time is up. …”
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Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Ramapurath Chemmencheri, S

“…The lens of state life brings out how the state in Kerala manages its Adivasi surplus populations that break out into agitations for land. …”

Low power piezoelectric devices for fluid transportation by Wang, Ying

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Synthesis and self-assembly of plasmonic metal nanoparticles for surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy by Chew, Wee Shern

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Human machine interface/brain control for electric vehicles application by Tang, Tao

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幽禁中之丰姿，落寞中之妖冶：《唐詩名媛集》述評 = Charming in silence and coquettish in desolate : a commentary on Tangshi Mingyuan Ji by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

“…Tangshi mingyuan ji 唐詩名媛集 (A compilation of Tang poems on mingyuan) is one of the volumes of Tangshi yanyi pin 唐詩艷逸品 (Exemplars of the flamboyant and the elegant in Tang poetry) edited by late Ming scholar Yang Zhaozhi 楊肇祉. …”
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Discrete differential geometry driven methods for architectural geometry by Yao, Sidan

“…In addition, architectural geometry provides new context for some well-established concepts and brings new challenges and new objectives. In this dissertation, we tackle four challenges in architectural geometry. …”
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Innovation and firm survival: the role of timing, funding, and networks by Gao, Ming

“…Given the explanation that a lack of adequate financial resources may increase the overall risk profile faced by SMEs and thereby reduce their likelihood of survival, this study tries to explore whether a helping hand from other organizations such as governments and large incumbent firms can help to diminish the negative influence of SMEs’ innovation in the early stage on their survival. This brings forth our second research question: does external financial support have a moderating effect on the relationship between firms’ innovation and their survival performance? …”
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Dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing liquid layers by Wei, Tao

“…The concept of dissipative compacton also brings to light the properties of interfacial fractalization. …”
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Ocular blood flow measurements in healthy white subjects using laser speckle flowgraphy by Luft, Nikolaus, Wozniak, Piotr A., Aschinger, Gerold C., Fondi, Klemens, Bata, Ahmed M., Werkmeister, René M., Schmidl, Doreen, Witkowska, Katarzyna J., Bolz, Matthias, Garhöfer, Gerhard, Schmetterer, Leopold

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团派与中共派系政治 = “Tuan Pai” and factionalism in Chinese politics by 卢凌之 Lu, Lingzhi

“…The conclusion of the thesis suggests that TuanPai is a loosely structured group of politicians with many sub-factions such as Ling Jihua Clique. TuanPai and its sub clique serves to consolidate Hu’s power base in CPC political system where authority is yet sufficiently institutionalized. …”
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Efficient algorithms for embedded optimisation-based control by Dang, Van Thuy

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Ranging-based adaptive navigation for autonomous micro aerial vehicles by Nguyen, Pham Nhat Thien Minh

“…While this approach may facilitate convenient solutions and analysis, it also brings about several compromises, such as low adaptability to complex/cluttered environments when localization relies on an external positioning system, or estimation drift and limited cooperative capability for MAVs relying on onboard visual odometry (VO) systems. …”
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On self-dual cyclic codes and generalized self-dual cyclic codes over finite fields by Yan, Jia

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重新建构女性的自我认同 ： 以苏童“红粉”系列小说为例 = Re-constructing woman’s self identity : a case study of Su Tong’s “Hong Fen” series by 陈品秀 Tan, Ping Siew

“…In this thesis, three novels from “Hong Fen” series, Qi Qie Cheng Qun (Wives and Concubines), Hong Fen and Ling Yi Zhong Fu Nv Sheng Huo, have been chosen to be the focus point for text interpretation, as well as analysis how country’s social systems and power “repress” women’s identities, and how they manage to re-construct their identities, in order for survival, with achieving self-worth and self-liberation.…”
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Biomimetic whisker transducer for vibrissal tactile sensing by Ju, Feng

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A combined numerical and experimental approach to investigations of body-freedom flutter on flying wings by Ang, Elijah Hao Wei

“…In such scenarios, the fuselage cannot be assumed to be fixed, and rigid-body modes have to be considered. Hence, this brings about a need for a new methodology to flutter investigations, as conventional methods used in the past may not be applicable to flying wings undergoing BFF. …”
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Developing metallic cathode for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell applications by Yu, Chen-Chiang

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A study on open set recognition methods by Sun, Xin

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Efficient storage codes for non-volatile memories by Chua, Melissa Wan Jun

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