Insects compositions at different growing phases of the Sarawak indigenous eggplant, Terung Asam (Solanum lasiocarpum Dunal.) with the first report of a ladybug species, Henosepila... by Mohammed, Muhamad Azmi, Aman-Zuki, Ameyra, Buang, Marthiuz Ghany, Ossen, Abang Abdul Rahim, Che-Pa, Nurul Imani, Yaakop, Salmah

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High speed imaging of micro-sized droplet jetted on surface with wettability pattern by Lim, Chun Yee, Lam, Yee Cheong

“…Two distinct processes have been identified, namely the centering and conforming processes. During the centering process, the droplets which impinge at a certain offset distance from the center of the hydrophilic lines migrate towards the center of the line. …”
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Impacts of market impact cost on portfolio selection strategies by Tang, Jingxiang

“…The alternative problem was solved with two approaches, namely precommitment approach and game theoretic approach, to handle the intrinsic time-inconsistent issue in continuous-time mean-variance analysis. …”
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Growth strategies for liner companies in the time of economic recession by Toon, Nicholas Zhenjie.

“…Due to the lack of available studies and literature as this topic has not been extensively discussed; our project tends to lean heavier towards primary sources of information, namely company interviews and mass industry survey. …”
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Human detection and tracking in surveillance videos by Ren, Yi.

“…From the previous researches, four well-known detection methods have been analyzed, namely frame difference, OpenCV Gaussian mixture model, adaptive Gaussian mixture model and optical flow. …”
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Commodity price prediction using neural networks by Seah, Isaac Zhe Hao

“…Two different models of Artificial Neural Network(ANN), namely Backpropagation(BP) model and Radial Basis Function(RBF) model, are constructed and evaluated. …”
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Developing Online Opinion Leaders Model in the Health Promotion Digital Era (S/O: 14598) by Lynn-Sze, Joyce Cheah, Ahmad, Mohd Khairie, Yusof, Norhafezah, Kamaruddin, Azlina

“…This study also indicated five leaders’ attributes in influencing health decision making, namely personality, authenticity, trust, professional knowledge and social position. …”
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Strengthening fiscal discipline in the EMU in a market-led approach. by Cui, Cong.

“…After looking into three mainstream approaches, the author believes that the market-led approach, which applies the market automatic adjustment system to strengthen the fiscal discipline, is the most promising one. …”
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Microencapsulation of ciplukan (Physalis angulata L.) extract as food ingredients: Effect of water ratio and maltodextrin concentration variables on product characteristics by Iwansyah, Ade Chandra, Wardhani, Riuh, Darsih, Cici, Kurniawan, Taufik, Ariani, Dini, Andriana, Yusuf, Karim, Mirwan Ardiansyah, Indriati, Ashri, Luthfiyanti, Rohmah, Hazrulrizawati, Abd Hamid

“…Different water ratios namely X1 (1:2), X2 (1:5), and X3 (1:10), and maltodextrin concentrations namely Y1 (5%) and Y2 (10%) were applied in a spray drying system to produce microcapsule extracts. …”
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Modelling of thermoelectric generator with experimental investigation by Li, Jia Wen

“…The thermoelectric effects, namely the Seebeck, Peltier and Thomson effects are inter-related to the transformation of thermal into electrical energy. …”
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Real-time estimation of bound water concentration during lyophilization with temperature-based state observers by Srisuma, Prakitr, Barbastathis, George, Braatz, Richard D

“…The final stage of lyophilization, namely secondary drying, entails bound water removal via desorption, in which accurate prediction of bound water concentration is vital to ensuring the quality of the lyophilized product. …”
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Optical spectroscopic ultrasound displacement imaging : a feasibility study by Duan, Tingyang, Lan, Hengrong, Zhong, Hongtao, Zhou, Meng, Zhang, Ruochong, Gao, Fei

“…Photoacoustic imaging has been intensively studied in recent years and many of the achievements have already been applied in clinical diagnosis and therapy, e.g., using spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging to extract functional and molecular information. …”
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Tailored text augmentation for sentiment analysis by Feng, Zijian, Zhou, Hanzhang, Zhu, Zixiao, Mao, Kezhi

“…In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation technique named Tailored Text Argumentation (TTA) for sentiment analysis. …”
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Opinion based intelligent recommender system by Adjikusuma, Sentosa

“…The first task is done by applying sentiment analysis process on Twitter Tweets data. …”
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OS-FCM: a semi-supervised clustering approach to investigating consumers' usage patterns of contactless shopping-delivery (S-D) channel by Chen, Tianyi, Wong, Yiik Diew, Yuen, Kum Fai, Li, Duowei, Wang, Xueqin

“…By using OS-FCM, the participants are clustered into five patterns with each pattern involving three variables, namely, current usage frequency, current behavioral habit, and future continuance intention. …”
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Strength simulation of rock with existing cracks under static loadings by Chea, Bunly.

“…The analysis values have shown that the inhomogeneity in the rock samples, namely, the numbers of cracks in original rock samples have affected the rock strength, therefore the rock resistance against loading is reduced.…”
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Analysis of bull and bear phases of the Singapore stock market by Wang, Tiantian, Yang, Na

“…The first approach replicates the distributions of bull and bear durations by employing three parametric models, namely, the random walk, GARCH and EGARCH. Random walk model is rejected since it cannot capture the asymmetric features of the observed bull and bear durations. …”
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Market outlook of VLCCs in the next 5 years by Cheah, Peifang.

“…This can be achieved by segmenting the market into 5 bands based on historical Time Charter Equivalent (TCE) namely very weak, weak, steady, strong and very strong condition and a forecast of the strength of the freight market will be derived (ie the band the market will fall in). …”
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Speech enhancement using auditory-based spectral amplitude estimators by Sekar Sathiya Narayanan.

“…The original speech signal is subjected to three types of noises, namely, white noise, pink noise and cockpit noise. …”
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A comparative study on performance of five major bank in Singapore by Chow, Choy Leng, Pao, Ming Ern, Yeo, Keng Lee

“…Background information relating to the history, recent developments and operations were gathered to have a better understanding of the five selected banks, key indicators used to evaluate banks' performance are applied in our research. The traditional ROE measure, and three new measures, namely, Strategic Response Quotient, the Expense-to-Income Ratio and the Added Value : Inputs Measure were used as the performance indicators. …”
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