OLIVER TWIST / by Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author 457349

“…But Fagin isn't about to let his young recruit go so easily, and with vicious thug Bill Sikes among his henchmen, Oliver soon finds himself back in the criminals' lair, with many more travails to face on the torturous road to discovering the truth about his past. In Oliver Twist Dickens exposes the sordid underbelly of Victorian England, where rootless young innocents are at the mercy both of brutal institutions and the corrupting forces that lurk on the streets.…”

New method for automatic generation of patient specific finite element models of the distal femur by Lek, Cheah Wen.

“…Three-dimensional (3-D) finite element (FE) modeling in orthopedics biomechanics has gained considerable interest in the past decades. In biomedical applications, the geometry of the bodies to be meshed is complex and manual generation would be a complex and time-consuming task. …”
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An experimental investigation on finite wings with leading-edge protuberances by Teo, Marcus Jun Jie

“…Additionally, analysis of flows over the suction side of the wing will be conducted using Particle Image Velocimetry to determine the nature of flows over a tubercle wing against a baseline wing. Comparisons against past studies will also be conducted. Results have shown an overall similarity between the flow behaviour of the experiment wing and wings of past numerical and experimental studies. …”
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Development of microfluidic chip for modeling of human gastrointestinal tract by Khoo, Kaydeson Kong Guan

“…This is proven by publishing a review paper, “Microfluidic Gastrointestinal Cell Culture Technologies - Improvements in the Past Decade.” The insights gained contribute to a deeper understanding of cell growth within the gastrointestinal tract and highlight the advancements of microfluidic devices over the past decade. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…In fact, their works articulate a vision of the present where the past – old patterns, artistic traditions and images, remnants of the feudal past – are not just a lingering echo but a coeval and constitutive part of peripheral modernity.…”

Development of UV photodetector from high bandgap materials by Jiang, Wei

“…During past several years, significant progresses have been made with diamond film growth techniques, characterization techniques and application of CVD diamond film to optoelectronics devices.…”
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Draft genome sequence of Enterobacter sp. strain EA-1, an electrochemically active microorganism isolated from tropical sediment by Rice, Scott A., Marsili, Enrico, Lauro, Federico M., Doyle, Lucinda Elizabeth, Williams, Rohan Benjamin Hugh

“…EA-1, along with a previously sequenced Enterobacter isolate from East Asia, forms a distinct clade within the Enterobacter genus.…”
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The other face of the coin : a reevaluation of the air war over Malaya 1941-42 by Cheang, Jia Wei

“…This essay thus attempts a reappraisal of the RAF’s position in the Far East by rejecting ‘European’ standards of aircraft performance. …”
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Design and verification of a fast low-dropout regulator for a high performance receiver chain targeting GNSS applications by Debaditya, Mullick

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Materiality of common good objects by Khonsari, Torange

“…This chapter uses one specific project from the commons organisation the author co-founded entitled Public Works in a neighbourhood in East London (Bow) where she initiated the project in 2014 after being asked to get involved by local residents. …”
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Book review : Africa's urban youth: challenging marginalization, claiming citizenship by Amy S. Patterson, Tracy Kuperus, and Megan Hershey by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Ghana is in West Africa and the latter two are in East Africa. Ghana is a liberal democracy, and Tanzania and Uganda have authoritarian governments. …”
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Genomic perspective on the bacillus causing paratyphoid B fever by Hawkey, J, Frézal, L, Tran Dien, A, Zhukova, A, Brown, D, Chattaway, MA, Simon, S, Izumiya, H, Fields, PI, De Lappe, N, Kaftyreva, L, Xu, X, Isobe, J, Clermont, D, Njamkepo, E, Akeda, Y, Issenhuth-Jeanjean, S, Makarova, M, Wang, Y, Hunt, M, Jenkins, BM, Ravel, M, Guibert, V, Serre, E

“…Following its discovery in 1896, it circulated across Europe until the 1970s, after which it was mostly reimported into Europe from South America, the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa. Antimicrobial resistance recently emerged in various genotypes of SPB PG1, mostly through mutations of the quinolone-resistance-determining regions of gyrA and gyrB. …”

Technological transmission of knowledge in Neolithic northwestern China: mineralogical and chemical analyses of Yangshao and Majiayao painted ware by Spataro, M, Hein, A

“…Sixteen sherds come from the early Yangshao-period Banpo site in the Wei River Valley, east of Xi’an, 17 from the eponymous site of Majiayao and five from Waguanzui in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu province. …”

Exploring the development of agricultural trade between China and ASEAN under the RCEP: a SWOT analysis by Cong, Shufeng, Chin, Lee, Allayarov, Piratdin

“…Through the RCEP, China's agricultural products are expected to achieve not only growth in trade scale and trade facilitation, but also stronger economic ties in East Asia. However, the RECP also poses new challenges to China's agricultural trade structure, core competitiveness, and quality and safety system. …”
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Broadcast Yourself via Digital Marketing: A Case Study of ‘Saiful Nang’ (S/O 14903) by Mijan, Rohana, Che Ab Adziz, Aselawati

“…CSI services sprawl worldwide from the North to South and East to West in service coverage. Being a renowned brand in this field is the greatest thing that ever happened to this company, but all the history initiated with only passion and determination by Saiful Nang who were failed in a couple of businesses between 2001-2004 before CSI. …”
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Effect of voluntary disclosure on trading volume. by Chen, Huifen., Lim, Shi Hui., Ng, Kian Aik.

“…The motivation is to find out the validity of the statement made by the Disclosure and Accounting Standards Committee [DASC, 2001] that the level of voluntary disclosure has not increased over the past few years.…”
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A study on third party logistics by Goh, Alex Junji, Tham, Jeremy Delun, Ang, Yew Jin

“…Not only that, we also analyzed the past, present and provided some insights of what the future might hold for this industry.…”
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What’s in a name? by Mooney, E

“…Over the past 25 years, Forced Migration Review and its precursor the Refugee Participation Network newsletter have not only captured, but arguably have also contributed to, important evolutions in the thinking and practice of approaches for protecting, assisting and finding solutions for forcibly uprooted people.…”

Indoor occupancy estimation using environmental parameters by Masood, Khalid Mustafa

“…First, we propose novel feature selection algorithms within the static feature paradigm. In past works, feature selection has generally been implemented using filter-based approaches. …”
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Partial purification and characterization of molybdenum reducing enzyme from Escherichia coli strain K12 by Sulaiman, Mohd Haris

“…The combination of 1% (w/v) glucose,0.4% (w/v) ammonium chloride, 0.2% (w/v) yeast extract, and in ratio of 5mM phosphate and 80mM molybdate at pH 7.5 gave the optimum production of Molybdenum blue. …”
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