Is the ASEAN charter necessary? by Desker, Barry

“…Has the Charter lived up to expectations since its adoption in Singapore last year?…”
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China’s export control regime : from state to private sector proliferation by Yoram Evron

“…During the last decade China has strengthened its export control regime. …”
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A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of dyslexia in alphabetic words and chinese characters. by Kwok, Fu Yu.

“…Nevertheless, in the past few years, studies of dyslexia in other languages such as Chinese language are slowly increasing. …”
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Halving premature death and improving quality of life at all ages by Norheim, OF, Chang, A, Bolongaita, S, Barraza-Lloréns, M, Jha, P, Lewington, S, Jamison, DT, Peto, R

“…To assess whether halving premature mortality by 2050 is feasible, we examined the large variation in premature death rates before age 70 years and trends over the past 50 years (1970–2019), covering ten world regions and the 30 most-populous nations. …”

Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2022, MIT Museum by Durant, John

“…This report contains the following sections: Celebrating our Past; Ongoing Activity; Planning for Kendall; Personnel…”
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Contextual Predictability and Phonetic Reduction by Martin, Kinan R.

“…We train instances of GPT-2 on different context directions (past, future, and bidirectional) and context sizes (bigram vs. sentence) to provide measures of conditional word predictability, then use linear regression to quantify their correlation with a measure of phonetic reduction (word duration). …”
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The redirected gesture in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa by Lee, Cheryl Julia

“…In particular, I propose that, contrary to most critics’ straightforward reading of the Mundys’ dance in Act 1 as one of Michael’s memories, it is in fact an aesthetic gesture located at the intersection of the past and present, of reality and the imagination, of the self and the other. …”
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The role of mainstreamness and interdisciplinarity for the relevance of scientific papers by Thurner, Stefan, Liu, Wenyuan, Klimek, Peter, Cheong, Siew Ann

“…Here we use the bibliographic coupling network, derived from all physics papers that were published in the Physical Review journals in the past century, to try to identify them as mainstream, out-of-the-box, or interdisciplinary. …”
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Influenza messaging is better than no messaging at all : an experimental assessment of the effects of goal framing and affected-person framing on influenza vaccination attitudes an... by Kong, Wei Yi

“…The persuasiveness of goal framing on preventive behaviors has been established in past research but its effect on vaccination is inconsistent, and highlighting recipients of health benefits or consequences was suggested to moderate framing effects. …”
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Establishing the association between traditional tobacco, e-cigarette and dual use and mental health problems among high school students: results from a 2022 behavioral surveillanc... by Thepthien, BO, Tinn, CS, Sharma, R

“…This study examined the association among past-year use of conventional cigarette (CC), e-cigarette (EC), dual use (using both CC and EC), with presence of substance use (i.e., alcohol use and marijuana use), having friends and family members who use cigarettes, and mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety, psychological distress (PD), problem gambling (PG) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)). …”

120 children of UMPSA staff participated in Exploring Mathematics Programme by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…PEKAN, 21 December 2023 - A total of 120 participants consisting of the children of Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) staff participated in the Exploring Mathematics Programme held at both campuses for four sessions starting last Monday.…”
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Taliban await US withdrawal from Kabul by Sajjad Ashraf

“…US Secretary of State John Kerry and President Hamid Karzai announced in Kabul last week that the two sides are close to a much-delayed deal on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA). …”
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Development and investigation of bileaflet heart valve prostheses by Ramesh Veerappan

“…Artificial heart valves are in use the last four decades. They seem to be gaining ever increasing popularity though they are prone to have problems such as thrombosis and haemolysis. …”
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The relationships between irrational beliefs, self-esteem and public and private self-consciousness in adults by Lee, Janice Niann Tsyr

“…Thirdly, there is a positive relationship between irrational beliefs and public and private self-consciousness. The fourth and last hypothesis is that there are no gender differences in self esteem, irrational beliefs and public and private self-consciousness.…”
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3D interactive internet application based on VRML by Gao, Bo

“…Second aspect is on finding out all advantages and disadvantages of VRML by comparing it with other 3D authoring languages and formats. Last and the most important aspect is on proposing a set of non-proprietary mechanisms and the ways of implementation for creating a shared multi-user VRML environment.…”
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Pinch. by Koh, Kim Joo., Manoj Prabhoda Chandran.

“…With millions of dollars suddenly at stake for the now underworld players, the film takes a violent surreal turn when the twosome head out for one last heist.…”
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Study of goods vehicles in intermodal supply chain by Chng, Jing Feng.

“…Being widely utilised for first and last mile freight, road transportation is as critical a link as any in an intermodal supply chain. …”
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Piracy in the South China Sea : maritime ambushes off the Mangkai passage by Frecon, Eric

“…But what about surrounding areas such as Anambas Islands in the South China Sea? Attacks occured last year in this outlying place and the growing danger there deserves as much attention.…”
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ASEAN Plus eight defence cooperation : rise of a new player by Desker, Barry

“…The ground-breaking ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting Plus Eight convened for the first time last week. The emergence of the ADMM Plus will have implications for ASEAN and the evolving regional security architecture.…”
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Asian monetary fund : getting nearer by Rana, Pradumna B.

“…The establishment of the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) recently and the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM) last year has shortened the road towards the Asian Monetary Fund (AMF). …”
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