The strategy of coercive isolation U.S. security policy by Timonthy W. Crawford

“…Finally, we examine the role and utility of coercive isolation in three problem areas of U.S. security policy—humanitarian intervention, counter-proliferation, and regime change.…”
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Civil military fusion : a cross-national assessment between Indonesia & Singapore from the 1990s to the 2010s by Yang, Ryan Xianzhe

“…Although Singapore and Indonesia have experienced very different forms of civil-military development in the past two decades, cross-national assessments between different regime-types remain uncommon and should be acknowledged as valuable in the examination of civil-military relations within the region. …”
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Interfacial phenomena and biological recognition of mammalian cells on biomimetic materials by Chan, Vincent.

“…Most biological processes leading to cellular functions and physiological regulations are driven by molecular interactions at the nano-scale regime. A good example is the specific recognition between protein and proteoglycan receptors embedded in cell membrane matrix and other biomolecules immobilized on extracellular matrix that trigger the signal transduction cascades of cells and tissues. …”
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Resolving the third Korean nuclear crisis : lessons from diplomatic engagement. by Koh, Swee Lean.

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The structure of coal market in China : pricing mechanism and market efficiency by Goh, Emilyn Shi Min, Chong, Phoi Yee, Tan, Jessica Shi Han

“…This study explores the market competitiveness and the pricing regime of the coal market structure in China by adopting quantitative research methods, namely the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) and the Marginal Cost-Pricing. …”
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Open water disposal of barged sediment by Er, Jenn Wei

“…The last part of the study investigated the formation of a new regime, within which sediments descend through the water column as sediment clumps.…”
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Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…A 'naive' view of identity sees it as straightforwardly and deterministically causative, but if so the 2011 Pearl Uprising in Bahrain appears a paradox - a primarily secular episode of political contestation in a country with a Shi'a majority, against a Sunni dominated regime, in a political realm with a Shi'a Islamist-dominated opposition. …”
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Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China by Thornton, P

“…Thornton offers a historical reading of the state-making process as a contest between central and local regimes of bureaucratic and discursive practice.…”

A comparison of methods for forecasting value at risk and expected shortfall of cryptocurrencies by Trucíos, C, Taylor, JW

“…Among them, long-memory processes, procedures taking into account the presence of extreme observations, procedures that include more than a single regime, and quantile regression-based models have performed substantially better than standard methods in terms of forecasting risk measures. …”

Weaning of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man) larvae from Artemia to Moina micrura (Kurz) by Alam, M.J., Ang, K.J., Cheah, S.H.

“…M. rosenbergii larvae were gradually weaned from Artemia to Moina at their different stages. The feeding regime in which larvae were weaned on to Moina at stage X (AM10M) resulted in the highest (P<0.05) yield of 19.21 ± 1.54 PL/l with a corresponding survival of 64.02 ± 5.14%. …”
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The effect of selenium supplement on anti-oxidant status and ast concentration in beef cattle by Hashim, Zharif Atiq

“…It is concluded that supplementation regime of Se used may not be effective in abating the oxidative stress and improving muscle integrity in beef cattle.…”
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Harmonic fields based surface and volume mapping by Xia, Jiazhi

“…After that, a global smoothing step is adopted to improve the continuity along the segmentation boundaries. In Chapter 5, we also develop another method to overcome the drawback of harmonic maps in parameterizing 3D facial expressions. …”
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Predictive and Prescriptive Trees for Optimization and Control Problems by Kim, Cheol Woo

“…We prove that a piecewise constant optimal policy exists for MFQNET control problems, with segments separated by hyperplanes passing through the origin. …”
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Design of a Precision Needle for Injection of Fluid into the Suprachoroidal Space of the Eye for the Treatment of Retinal Detachment by Rutherford, Emma

“…This work presents a device developed to minimally invasively reach posterior segments of the eye, deploy an injection needle in-situ with high resolution, sense when the needle tip has passed into the suprachoroidal space (SCS), and inject a viscous fluid. …”
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Patch repair technology with sacrificial zinc anodes in RC slabs with corroded steel bars by Christian, Alvin

“…Furthermore, the highest amount of macrocell corrosion can be encountered at steel segments near the patch repair area. Compared with each sample, it was discovered that zinc sacrificial anodes installed within areas with high level of chloride contamination provided the best protection for the steel reinforcement against corrosion damage.…”
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Triggered slip along the San Andreas fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake by Williams, Patrick L., McGill, Sally Fagerson, Sieh, Kerry, Allen, Clarence R., Louie, John N.

“…In addition to minor surface cracks in the region of the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake, minor aseismic surficial rupture occurred along three segments of the San Andreas fault, 44 to 86 km southeast of the epicenter. …”
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Pragmatic and discourse markers used by Malay and Arab postgraduates students during classroom oral presentations by Alkhawaja, Hussein Walid Hussein

“…These markers are, in fact, valuable tools in the hands of learners to structure and organize the segments of their speech, make the content of the presentation comprehensible and meaningful, and help their audiences follow the sequence of ideas. …”
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Controllable broadband multicolour single-mode polarized laser in a dye-assembled homoepitaxial MOF microcrystal by He, Huajun, Cui, Yuanjing, Li, Hongjun, Shao, Kai, Chen, Banglin, Qian, Guodong

“…Here, we demonstrate a single crystal with multiple segments based on the host-guest metal-organic framework ZJU-68 hierarchically hybridized with different dye molecules generating controllable single-mode green, red, and near-infrared lasing, with the lasing mode mechanism revealed by computational simulation. …”
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Ingestible artificial urinary biomarker probes for urine test of gastrointestinal cancer by Xu, Cheng, Xu, Mengke, Hu, Yuxuan, Liu, Jing, Cheng, Penghui, Zeng, Ziling, Pu, Kanyi

“…Upon reaction with a cancer biomarker in the colon segment, HATS releases a small fragment of tetrazine that can transverse the intestinal barrier, enter blood circulation, and ultimately undergo renal clearance to urine. …”
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Transcriptome analysis for the identification of cellular markers related to trabecular meshwork differentiation by Sathiyanathan, Padmapriya, Tay, Cheryl Y., Stanton, Lawrence W.

“…Expression analysis by qPCR verified the differential expression and immunofluorescence of the anterior segment confirmed strong expression in the TM. …”
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