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

“…Oliver Twist is born in the harsh confines of a workhouse, his mother expiring in childbirth, his father unknown. After enduring years of brutal treatment, Oliver runs away to London, where he falls in with a band of child pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin. …”

Review of mobile application performance evaluation to enhance selection and prediction in mobile app development by Aleem, Muhammad, Noorhuzaimi, Mohd Noor, Ali, Ehtesham, Ibrahim, Hassan, Al Mamun, Mohd Abdullah, Bashir, Muhammad Talha

“…This comprehensive review synthesizes findings from the past four years, proposing an integrated structure to leverage predictive analytics for anticipating user needs, user sentiment analysis for understanding customer preferences, and feature prioritization for optimizing application development. …”
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Manipulation in the in situ growth design parameters of aqueous zinc-based electrodes for batteries: The fundamentals and perspectives by Nurul Akmal, Che Lah

“…Precise exploitation of the growth of Zn metal anode in a power converter system has re-emerged as one of the technological interests that have surged globally in the past 5 years, specifically to improve the practical use of deep cycling metal batteries. …”
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A comprehensive review of state-of-the-art optical methods for methane gas detection by Khandaker, Sayma, Nurulain Nadhirah, Shaipizaman, Hasan, Md Mahmudul, Mohd Amir Shahlan, Mohd Aspar, Hadi, Manap

“…Methane (CH₄), a potent greenhouse gas, significantly contributes to climate change and global warming. Its impact over 100 years surpasses carbon dioxide (CO₂) by 28 times. …”
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Paradoxes of Openness: Trans Experiences in Open Source Software by Frluckaj, Hana, Stevens, Nikki, Howison, James, Dabbish, Laura

“…In recent years, concerns have increased over the lack of contributor diversity in open source software (OSS), despite its status as a paragon of open collaboration. …”
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Friend, foe or frenemy? Traditional journalism actors’ changing attitudes towards peripheral players and their innovations by Chua, Sherwin, Duffy, Andrew

“…This study synthesises two analytical frameworks—journalistic strangers and agents of media innovation—to examine how perceptions among newsworkers towards new entrants to their field shape the normalisation of innovations in a digitalfirst legacy news organisation over three years. Based on two rounds of interviews, it finds that peripheral players are gradually recognised for their contributions to journalism by traditional actors. …”
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Teacher professionalism : behaviour and practices of teachers in a neighbourhood secondary school by Sujeetha Margarita Brampy, W. K.

“…The Teacher Professionalism Instrument gathered responses that indicated that there is no significant correlation between years of teaching experience and teacher professionalism, as well as its two dimensions of commitment to professional behaviour and engagement in professional development.…”
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An investigation of Chen Chong Swee’s practical colour application on selected paintings by Goh, Huiying

“…Part of the practical component consists of re-enacted painting processes, colour palettes and experimental studies to explore the strengths and limitations of each medium. Over the years, Chen mastered colour mixing and understood the three qualities of colours: hue, chroma and value. …”
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Economic analysis of membrane-based separation of biocatalyst: mode of operation and stage configuration by Kapavarapu, MSR Sridhar, Ma, Yunqiao, Vasudevan, Suraj V., Chew, Jia Wei

“…The results indicate that a capital expenditure of $1.35 million and an annual operating expenditure of $85.6 thousand are needed to install a new ultrafiltration unit for a yearly permeation of 0.64 billion liters. While capital cost depends heavily on membrane area, operating cost depends on TMP and fluid flow across the unit.…”
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Viral content: a theory of vaccine hesitancy based on information encountering in the greater Manila area, Philippines by Sacramento, Simon Philip R., Sipin, Ian Dominic P.

“…The Philippine Department of Health, Food and Drug Administration temporarily suspended the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine to persons below 60 years old on April 8, 2021, due to reports of “rare cases of blood clots with low platelets detected in some individuals inoculated with the vaccine.” …”
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Strange mythologies: cultural and linguistic opacity in Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Scott, Bede

“…During the years he spent conducting fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands, Bronislaw Malinowski became convinced that foreign cultures should be studied in their entirety, as fully integrated, “organic” structures. …”
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Achieving 500x acceleration for adversarial robustness verification of tree-based smart grid dynamic security assessment by Ren, Chao, Zou, Chunran, Xiong, Zehui, Yu, Han, Dong, Zhao Yang, Dusit, Niyato

“…Based on tree algorithms technique, the data-driven smart grid DSA has received significant research interests in recent years. However, the well-trained tree-based DSA models with high accuracy are always vulnerable caused by some physical noises or attacks, which can misclassify the DSA results. …”
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Prediction of returns on equity by Lim, Hwee Sin, Tan, Eric Cheow Hean, Ang, Paul Pooh Eng

“…Fama and French (1988) in studying the New York Stock Exchange reported that as much as 25 to 40 per cent of stock returns are predictable over a 3 to 5 years time horizon. This represents a radical shift from the previously held view of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) as predictability implies market inefficiency. …”
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Study of the preservation awareness programme in NLB by Chuang, Teck Nam.

“…Community libraries in Singapore have seen an increase in numbers in the past two years, accompanied by an immense increase in membership and loans. …”
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Singlet fission in organic crystals : ultrafast spectroscopic study by Ma, Lin

“…It has attracted an increasing interest in recent years due to its potential to improve the efficiency of organic solar cells. …”
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Exposing digital image forgeries by detecting discrepancies in motion blur by Kakar, Pravin, Ser, Wee, Sudha, N.

“…Image splicing is one such form of tampering. In recent years, researchers have proposed various methods for detecting such splicing. …”
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Application of a unique miniature MBR for screening the biodegradation of brominated flame retardants by Segev, Osnat, Brenner, Asher, Kushmaro, Ariel, Shapiro, Orr H.

“…Dibromoneopentyl glycol (DBNPG) and tribromoneopentyl alcohol (TBNPA) are aliphatic BFRs, classified as recalcitrant compounds, having half-lives of more than 100 years. Following successful debromination and complete biodegradation of the two target compounds in the mMBR, we used molecular and bioinformatic techniques to track changes in bacterial community composition during the biodegradation process.…”
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Knowledge flows and the new comprador : a minicase on the Pearl River Delta by Gilbert, A. Lee

“…To illustrate such a system in action, this mini-case explores the evolution of knowledge flows in the late eighteenth century entrepot trade, from the perspective of China's Pearl River Delta region, for many years the economic growth engine of southern China. …”
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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

“…Africa's youth (18–35 years old) comprise 65 percent of Africa's population. …”
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Two paradoxes in women’s wellbeing by Kaiser, C, Muggleton, N, Quispe-Torreblanca, E, De Neve, J-E

“…Second, despite substantial advances in women’s social and economic status over the past 50 years, their wellbeing relative to men has declined. …”