Indonesia's presidential debates: the score midway through by Lanti, Irman G.

“…Two debates remain to be held and if they do not produce a decisive outcome, it is likely that the election will go on to a run-off.…”
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An analysis of the travel agency industry in Singapore based on porter's model. by Choy, Kam Luen., Lim, Mui Huang., Teo, Paul Choon Boh.

“…Objectives In this study, the travel agency industry in Singapore is analysed using Michael Porter's Industry Analysis Model with a view to: a) evaluate the structure and attractiveness of the industry; b) review actual examples of how the industry structure and the competitive forces impact on the business of travel agencies; c) assess how the industry structure is likely to change given the trends affecting the industry; and d) present a vision of the future role of travel agencies.…”
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Issues for an ASEAN charter by Acharya, Amitav

“…THE forthcoming ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur in December 2005 is likely to appoint an Eminent Person’s Group (EPG) to guide the development of an ASEAN Charter. …”
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Judging a book by its cover: cultural differences in inference of the inner state based on the outward appearance by Ji, Li-Jun, Lee, Albert, Zhang, Zhiyong, Li, Ye, Wang, Xin-Qiang, Torok, Debra, Rosenbaum, Sam

“…We showed that Chinese were more likely than Euro-Canadians to make inference of inner state that deviated from outward appearance, whereas Euro-Canadians were more likely than Chinese to infer a convergence between outward appearance and inner state (Studies 1-5). …”
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Generation of lentiviral-mediated shRNA vectors to inhibit the expression of caspase-1 and Pycard/ASC in dendritic cells. by Tan, Bee Kim.

“…Collectively, we have generated an efficient lentiviral vector-mediated shRNA silencing system in primary cell lines which could provide an insight to into the biological mechanisms involved in inflammasome activation.…”
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Analysis of hepatocyte antigen presentation and T cell/hepatocyte interaction in the context of hepatitis B virus Infection. by Noviani, Maria.

“…Nevertheless, as this study was performed with hepatocyte lines, further ex vivo study is needed to validate our current findings. …”
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Discovery of exosomes as gastric cancer biomarkers from conditioned cell culture media. by Low, Su Jun.

“…We isolated exosomes by concentrating 100ml of conditioned cell culture media from 3 gastric cancer cell lines AGS, NCIN87 and IM95, and subjected them to ultracentrifugation. …”
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Effects of hemodynamic shear stress on circulating breast cancer cells by Khairunisa Liyana Abdul Malek

“…In this project, three lines of metastatic breast cancer cells, 231-C3, 231-M1 and 231-M1A were circulated in a microfluidic model mimicking the blood circulatory system over four different time periods: 2 hours, 4 hours, 9 hours and 18 hours while being exposed to three different hemodynamic shear stress at values of 15 dyn/cm2, 30 dyn/cm2 and 45 dyn/cm2. …”
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Laplacian Regularized Subspace Learning for interactive image re-ranking by Zhang, Lining., Wang, Lipo., Lin, Weisi.

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Statistical theory of the broadband two-plasmon decay instability by Rusko, RT, Bingham, R, Silva, LO, Harper, M, Aboushelbaya, R, Myatt, JF, Norreys, PA

“…The instability-quenching properties of a spectrum of discrete lines spread over some bandwidth have also been studied. …”

Paper or Tablet? The Impact of Digital Tools on Sketching During Engineering Design Concept Generation by Das, Madhurima, Huang, May, Yang, Maria

“…This is especially important as tablets can automatically smooth lines and help perfect sketch features, but these features may also take longer to use and may result in fewer sketches produced.…”
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Selective targeting of MYC mRNA by stabilized antisense oligonucleotides by Gill, Taylor, Wang, Haichuan, Bandaru, Raj, Lawlor, Matthew, Lu, Chenyue, Nieman, Linda T, Tao, Junyan, Zhang, Yixian, Anderson, Daniel G, Ting, David T, Chen, Xin, Bradner, James E, Ott, Christopher J

“…MYCASO treatment of cancer cell lines leads to significant inhibition of cellular proliferation while specifically perturbing MYC-driven gene expression signatures. …”
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Unsupervised Learning for Generative Scene Editing and Motion by Fang, David S.

“…In this thesis, we propose two distinct lines of unsupervised learning work with generative applications: 1) BlobGSN and 2) optical flow estimation and flow generation with diffusion models. …”
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Analysis of subtelomeric virulence gene families in Plasmodium falciparum by comparative transcriptional profiling by Witmer, Kathrin, Schmid, Christoph D., Brancucci, Nicolas M. B., Luah, Yen-Hoon, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Bozdech, Zbynek, Voss, Till S.

“…Here, we analysed promoters of upsA, upsB and upsC var, rifA1-type rif, stevor, phist and pfmc-2tm genes and investigated their role in endogenous gene transcription by comparative genome-wide expression profiling of transgenic parasite lines. We find that the three major var promoter types are functionally equal and play an essential role in singular gene choice. …”
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Elucidating the size-dependency of in vitro digested polystyrene microplastics on human intestinal cells health and function by Ma, Yiyuan, Koh, Cheryl Jie Yan, Lim, Hong Kit, Shi, Pujiang, Tay, Chor Yong

“…Herein, the potential deleterious biological effects of pristine and in vitro digested polystyrene (PS) MPs of varying sizes (i.e., 0.1, 1, and 10 µm) are systematically examined over a wide concentration range of 25–400 µg mL−1 on two human intestinal cell lines, namely Caco-2 and NCM 460. Specifically, significant internalization of 0.1 and 1 µm PS -MPs have been observed in both cell types 24 h postexposure. …”
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Luteolin restricts dengue virus replication through inhibition of the proprotein convertase furin by Peng, Minhua, Watanabe, Satoru, Chan, Kitti Wing Ki, He, Qiuyan, Zhao, Ya, Zhang, Zhongde, Lai, Xiaoping, Luo, Dahai, Vasudevan, Subhash G., Li, Geng

“…In addition, ADE-mediated dengue virus infection of human cell lines and primary PBMCs was inhibited. In a time-of-drug-addition study, luteolin was found to reduce infectious virus particle formation, but not viral RNA synthesis, in Huh-7 cells. …”
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Mythical heroines : the appropriation of myth in reconstructing female identities in ethnic American literature by Goh, I-Mei.

“…The three literary texts being investigated along these lines are Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. …”
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Functional analysis of root-preferential oil palm metallothionein promoter in tobacco by Masura, Subhi Siti, Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi, Masani, Mat Yunus Abdul, Chan, Kuang-Lim, Low, Eng-Ti Leslie, Chan, Pek-Lan, Rahmah, Abdul Rahman Siti, Amiruddin, Nadzirah, Abdullah, Mohd Puad, Azzeme, Azzreena Mohamad, Parveez, Ghulam Kadir Ahmad, Abd Rasid, Omar

“…Stable functional characterisation of tobacco transgenic lines using the T1 generation showed that a deletion construct, designated as RSP-2D (1107 bp), directed strong GUS expression at all stages of root development, particularly in mature roots. …”

Determinants of Expatriate Manager Failures in the International Assignment by Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Abd Hamid, Nurzawani, Kamil, Syahida, Abu, Noor Hidayah

“…The international assignment requires an organization send their staff abroad for high potential career development, to coordinate global lines of business, transfer the organization knowledge in abroad, expand into new markets worldwide and also manage an international subsidiary. …”
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The Influence of Root Geometry on Soil Cohesion and Anchoring Ability through Geologic Time by Colicci, Vittorio

“…We maintain that the earliest trees played a key role in surface stabilization within their ecosystems and likely paved the way for species that followed.…”
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