Cross-cultural differences in the preference for brand prominence of luxury products. by Chen, Crystal Wanjing., Heng, Michelle Jia Xin., Koh, Yu Han.

“…This study investigates the cross-cultural difference of women in the preference for brand prominence of luxury products as well as the motivations behind these preferences. 14 motivational scales were included in the research, and culture was identified as the moderating factor of the study. …”
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Hebban olla vogala: an eleventh-century link between Dutch and English literary history by Angerer, ML

Biomarkers and cognition study, Singapore (BIOCIS): protocol, study design, and preliminary findings by Leow, Yi Jin, Wang, J. D. J., Vipin, Ashwati, Sandhu, Gurveen Kaur, Soo, See Ann, Kumar, Dilip, Mohammed, Adnan Azam, Zailan, Fatin Zahra, Lee, Faith Phemie Hui En, Ghildiyal, Smriti, Liew, Shan Yao, Dang, Chao, Tanoto, Pricilia, Tan, Isabelle Yu Zhen, Chong, Wayne Freeman Weien, Kandiah, Nagaendran

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Edible Bird's Nest treatment effects on subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes and synovial fluid proteome profiles in an osteoarthritis rabbit model by Syed Sulaiman, Sharifah Zakiah

“…Numerous natural products including Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN) have been studied extensively in order to create potential therapies for inflammatory disorders such as arthritis. …”
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A treasury of virtues: sayings, sermons, and teachings of 'Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to al-Jahiz by al-Quḍāʿī, A-Q

Reforming taste through Pope’s ‘celebrated moonlight scene’: Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth’s ‘A Night-Piece’ by Cox, O

“…In ‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’ (1815), Wordsworth condemned Pope’s ‘celebrated moonlight scene in the Iliad’. Pope’s ‘passage of descriptive poetry, which at this day finds so many and such ardent admirers’, did not impress Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge, all three of whom drew specifically on this verse-paragraph of Pope’s to expose what they perceived to be faulty poetic diction and ‘corrupted’ taste. …”

Finite element analysis of shoulder rotator cuff by Lee, Kenneth Jun Rui.

“…This has provided the author an excellent foundation to build on and start carrying out FEA on the models. …”
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Optimisation of changi airport's future air traffic contingency management in extreme haze condition by Lo, Kar Koon

“…The second optimisation model tackles the problem by having an alternate land and take off or a vice versa of the pattern. …”
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Electrical characterization of three-dimensional graphene infused polymers by Ho, Roderick Zhan Feng

“…A tactile sensor helps to gauge and measure the amount of force applied to the robot by an object or the environment and vice versa. This capability is not possible through the means of visual sensors alone. …”
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Solder joint testing and failure analysis by Kang, Eng Tat.

“…It was suggested that the fracture could have propagate from the ductile bulk solder to the brittle IMC interface or vice versa. Both the solder bonded joint specimens with and without pre-crack were tested at 2 other different strain rates of 0.001/s and 0.1/s. …”
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The return of the Diaspora : recognizing the non-resident Indian (NRI) in contemporary Bollywood cinema. by Low, Shaun Chong Ying.

“…Firstly, I investigate the filmic methods by which the global culture is brought into the local and vice versa, and show that the NRI is able to build a family that encourages traditional values through modern means. …”
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Automated image generation by Goh, Shan Ying

“…Image translation techniques have gained significant attention in recent years, particularly CycleGAN. Traditionally, building image-to-image translation models requires the collection of extensive datasets with paired examples, which can be complicated and costly. …”
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Generic mapper for heterogeneous data formats used in a banking environment by Ho, Jia Xian.

“…Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architecture approach that encourages building common and reusable “services” on top of business functions offered by specific backend Host systems. …”
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Computational stylometric model for oath and oath-like expressions in Quranic text by Alqurneh, Ahmad

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Chasing the city that cannot stop: Exploring transportation and urban co-development in São Paulo’s history by Borges Costa, Adriano, Zegras, P Christopher, Biderman, Ciro

“…On the other hand, while roads are not linked to densification, we find that mass transit infrastructure did lead to building densification. …”
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Ghost factors in Gauss-sum factorization with transmon qubits by Zaw, Lin Htoo, Tan, Paul Yuanzheng, Nguyen, Long Hoang, Budoyo, Rangga P., Park, Kun Hee, Koh, Zhi Yang, Landra, Alessandro, Hufnagel, Christoph, Yap, Yung Szen, Koh, Teck Seng, Dumke, Rainer

“…We introduce preprocessing as a strategy to increase the discernability of a system, and demonstrate the technique with a transmon qubit. This can bring the total experiment time of the system closer to its decoherence limit, and increase the largest factorizable number.…”
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Thermodynamics of complexity and pattern manipulation by Vedral, Vlatko, Gu, Mile, Garner, Andrew J. P., Thompson, Jayne

“…Here, we propose a framework to describe pattern manipulators—devices that convert thermodynamic work to patterns or vice versa—and use them to build a “pattern engine” that facilitates a thermodynamic cycle of pattern creation and consumption. …”
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On semidefinite programming relaxations of the traveling salesman problem by De Klerk, Etienne., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V., Sotirov, Renata.

“…Kovačević-Vujčić, Semidefinite programming methods for the symmetric traveling salesman problem, in Proceedings of the 7th International IPCO Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 1999, pp. 126–136]. Unlike the bound of Cvetković et al., the new SDP bound is not dominated by the Held–Karp linear programming bound, or vice versa.…”
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Simultaneous polymerization and adhesion under hypoxia in sickle cell disease by Papageorgiou, Dimitrios P., Abidi, Sabia Z., Chang, Hung-Yu, Li, Xuejin, Kato, Gregory J., Karniadakis, George E., Suresh, Subra, Dao, Ming

“…These findings offer insights into possible mechanistic pathways leading to vasoocclusion crisis. …”
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Modelling the dynamics of microbubble undergoing stable and inertial cavitation: delineating the effects of ultrasound and microbubble parameters on sonothrombolysis by Tan, Zhi Qi, Ooi, Ean Hin, Chiew, Yeong Shiong, Foo, Ji Jinn, Ng, Yin Kwee, Ooi, Ean Tat

“…To address this, a computational model was developed to investigate the bubble behaviour during sonothrombolysis. The blood and clot were assumed to be non-Newtonian and porous, respectively. …”
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