Africa Digest : Trends and issues in business Vol. 18 by Burger, Johan

“…This report addresses some events prior to the pandemic. 4. The Middle East in Africa - Countries from the Middle East have been involved in Africa for many years. …”
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别样绽放的“恶之花”：“双百” 时期 《译文》 的现代派文学译介 = The translation of occidental modernist literature in Yi Wen during double hundred campaign : the case of Les Fleurs du mal... by 崔峰 Cui Feng

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TOWARDS A HISTORY OF LAW IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE / by Ahmad Ibrahim, Tan Sri Datuk, 1916-1999, author 440731

“…Native customary law plays a much more important part in East Malaysia than it does in West Malaysia or Singa-pore and one must go beyond 1786 to trace the history of law in Malaysia. …”

Inverse and pseudo-inverse prefixes in Kiranti languages: evidence from Belhare, Athpare, and Dungmali by Ebert, Karen H.

“…Belhare, Athpare and Dungmali are small Rai languages located in the area between l3antawa to the West and Limbu to the East. Athpare is spoken in a few villages to the East and Southeast of Dhankuta. …”
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Empirical investigation on container port competition and cooperation by Aw, Bing Zong

“…For the past few decades, East and South East Asia container ports are slowly edging out Europe‟s and America‟s container ports to be the top 20 busiest container ports in the world. …”
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Effects of turbidity on marine organisms by Leong, Bernice.

“…Water quality tests were conducted in along the shorelines of Singapore mainly East Coast and Chek Jawa. East Coast has high levels of coastal and recreational activities whilst there are still conserved marine habitats in Chek Jawa. …”
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South African real estate investment trusts prefer Tuesdays by Ajayi, Oluwaseun Damilola, Gavu, Emmanuel Kofi

“…Generally, Wednesday was found to be the least profitable day to invest in all REIT classifications because it had the least average daily return. …”
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Exploring the development of a firewall using Windows filtering platform by Pang, Willy Boon Tee.

“…A firewall is also required to have learning mode, allowing the user the ability to block or allow an application to connect upon its initial execution. Last but not least, a firewall has to be able to save its data so it can be retrieved easily. …”
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Catastrophic risk analysis and management for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure systems by Qian, Qiyu

“…Such strategy is developed based on an in-depth understanding of the project’s risk exposure derived from catastrophe model, layered risk financing portfolio setup decided by concession agreement, cost and benefit analysis between different risk financing instruments and mitigation efforts, and last but not least, a good understanding of dynamic financial demand.…”
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Design of slender concrete column using chinese design code GB50010-2010 by Chen, Qiaofen

“…Data analyses reveal that loading capacity of slender column decreases with the increase of e/h, and the reduction of strength tends to be lesser for higher e/h; slender column tends to have less loading capacity with the increase of L/h, and the reduction of strength is lesser for high L/h; slender concrete column can be strengthened by installing more reinforcements, i.e. higher percentage of reinforcement; last but not least, use of higher strength concrete and steel result in a stronger slender concrete column. …”
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Design of slender reinforced concrete column using Indian design code and Chinese design code (dual project) by Tan, Xesman Zhong Hong

“…In addition, this lower compressive strength will decrease even further when the column has a low e/h ratio. Last but not least, column with a lower e/h ratio will yield a higher load carrying capacity. …”
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Motor adaptation with passive machines: A first study on the effect of real and virtual stiffness by Tommasino, Paolo, Melendez-Calderon, A., Burdet, E., Campolo, Domenico

“…Several studies conducted over the last two decades used active robotic manipulanda to generate force fields capable of perturbing the baseline trajectories of both healthy and impaired subjects. …”
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Econometric analyses of liquefied petroleum gas and product tanker shipping markets by Bai, Xiwen

“…Specifically, the relationship among very large gas carrier (VLGC) market variables, VLGC freight rate dependency with product price arbitrage and oil prices, and VLGC vessel destination choices have been studied. Last but not least, a disaggregate approach has been used to study the freight relationships across major routes for the product tanker market. …”
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Holocene rate of slip and tentative recurrence interval for large earthquakes on the San Andreas fault, Cajon Pass, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, Weldon, Ray J.

“…Combined with the historic record, this investigation indicates that the last major earthquake at Cajon Creek was probably near the beginning of the 18th century. …”
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Archaia Phusis: the original nature of the soul in Plato’s Middle Dialogues by Körner, H

“…Do we desire our fully realized state because it ‘belongs’ (is <em>oikeion</em>) to us or because it is good? Last but not least, what do we make of the fact that immortality and the theory of recollection seem to play no role in the <em>Symposium</em>? …”

Through the looking glasses and anthropology comes 'Home': globalising the view on European cultures by Cash, Jennifer R.

“…Shortly after being confirmed as the new co-editor of AJEC, I attended the annual meeting of the East Asian Anthropological Association. With an institutional base in Singapore, there are not many anthropology meetings within easy reach, but EAAA meets most autumns; and the meeting of 2023, held in Hong Kong, was the third meeting I had attended since 2018. …”
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The effect of Mahakam sand on the mechanical and durability of porous concrete paving blocks by Yudi Pranoto, Yudi Pranoto, Mohd. Hashim, Nor Fazilah, Tumingan, Tumingan, Ashadi Putrawirawan, Ashadi Putrawirawan

“…The high price of Palu aggregate and the reduced catchment area in East Kalimantan have encouraged the improvisation of local materials as materials for infrastructure development. …”

Using shock tube species time-histories in Bayesian parameter estimation: Effective independent-data number and target selection by Chen, Huaibo, Ji, Weiqi, Cassady, Séan J, Ferris, Alison M, Hanson, Ronald K, Deng, Sili

“…The influence of target selection is investigated by comparing LastP and C-1. LastP outperformed C-1 slightly, which can be attributed to the fact that larger discrepancies observed between experimental data and model predictions of the last point can increase the weights of likelihood functions. …”
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Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi by Chen, Sherry Yong, Kenstowicz, Michael J.

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How many online workers are there in the world? A data-driven assessment by Kässi, O, Lehdonvirta, V, Stephany, F

“…Approximately 19 million of them have obtained work through the platform at least once, and 5 million have completed at least 10 projects or earned at least $1000. …”