China & the Middle East: Tilting Towards Iran? by James, Michael Dorsey

“…President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Middle East, the first by a Chinese leader in seven years, saw the signing of billiions of dollars worth of agreements with Saudi Arabia and Egypt and a ten-fold expansion of trade with Iran over the next ten years. …”
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Russian Turkestan and the First World War by Morrison, A

“…This article explores the direct links between Turkestan and the front, the conscription of soldiers and labourers from the region and its hosting of tens of thousands of Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war. …”

Effects of electromagnetic field on proliferation, differentiation, and mineralization of MC3T3 cells by Teoh, Swee-Hin, Suryani, Luvita, Too, Jian Hui, Hassanbhai, Ammar Mansoor, Wen, Feng, Lin, Daryl Jimian, Yu, Na

“…Pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs) have been documented to promote bone fracture healing in nonunions and to enhance the maturation of osteoblastic cell, which is the key element in bone tissues. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…Brazil has proved up its massive pre-salt trend boasting tens of billions of barrels of potential. Argentina, seen as a mature producer well past its prime only a few years ago, has a new lease of life in its world-class Vaca Muerta shale province. …”

Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination by Dong, Xiaowen, Jahani, Eaman, Morales, Alfredo J., Bozkaya, Burçin, Lepri, Bruno, Pentland, Alex

“…This paper analyzes millions of credit card transaction records during several months for tens of thousands of individuals from two different countries. …”
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An autonomous ultrasonic fastener holes inspection system of an aircraft lower wing skin by Lim, Chee Wei.

“…Fasteners like rivets and bolts bear a large part of the stress and thus require frequent inspection for cracks around the fastener's holes. …”
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China's collaboration with IndoChina countries in hydropower development in the Mekong region - how far can it go? by Phua, Pei Pei.

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Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem by Somin, Shahar, Altshuler, Yaniv, Gordon, Goren, Pentland, Alex, Shmueli, Erez

“…Consequently, in recent years research efforts have been directed towards modeling the structure and dynamics of the underlying networks of financial ecosystems. …”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The ‘polluter pays’ principle has been implemented by several pieces of environmental legislation in China as a means to confront the issue of liability in the case of bankrupt polluters. …”
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Stomach tissue classification using autofluorescence spectroscopy and machine learning by Lim, Soo Y., Yoon, Hong M., Kook, Myeong-Cherl, Jang, Jin I., So, Peter T. C., Kang, Jeon W., Kim, Hyung M.

“…Abstract Background and objectives Determination of stomach tumor location and invasion depth requires delineation of gastric histological structure, which has hitherto been widely accomplished by histochemical staining. …”
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Sequence-Dependent & -Independent Effects of Intron-Mediated Enhancement (IME) by Kowal, Emma J. K.

“…This phenomenon, termed Intron-Mediated Enhancement (IME), has been observed in many organisms, genes, and introns. …”
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Open source security issues of the Android operating system by Hong, Hsiang Ted.

“…Smart phone is a very common electronic device today compared to ten years ago. Mobile phone today is not just a device for calling and receiving phone calls, but it also acts as an informative and entertainment devices to the users. …”
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Automated categorization of person by gender/ethnicity by Raghuraman Katherayson

“…As one of the most successful applications of image analysis and understanding, face recognition has recently gained significant attention. Over the last ten years or so, it has become a popular area of research in computer vision and one of the most successful applications of image analysis and understanding. …”
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Protein spatiotemporal dynamics in gene regulation and disease pathology by Zheng, Ming

“…This thesis focuses on the physical motions of proteins at a length scale of tens of nanometers to several microns, where the apparent diffusion and the condensate dynamics of assembly and disassembly are specifically studied. …”
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Quad's India problem : no different from Beijing by Gupta, Sourabh

“…Australia, Japan and the US should first get New Delhi to revise its UNCLOS-related rules and regulations, which bear far greater similarity with Beijing’s than that of its Quad partners.…”
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Identifying primary care clinicians' preferences for, barriers to, and facilitators of information-seeking in clinical practice in Singapore: a qualitative study by Lee, Mauricette Moling, Tang, Wern Ee, Smith, Helen Elizabeth, Car, Lorainne Tudor

“…Methods: A convenience sample of ten doctors and ten nurses was recruited. We conducted semi-structured face-to-face in-depth interviews. …”
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The political psychology of personality and attitudes towards immigrants by Buettner, N

“…However, immigration has turned into an extraordinarily influential topic over the last ten years, markedly shaping Western politics, which makes answers to the question why natives differ in their attitudes about immigrants and immigration increasingly high in demand and pressing.…”

Enterprise risk management implementation : a study of Singapore companies by Ang, Xin Liang, Hong, Jingjing, Wang, Huiping

“…Our research sample included a total of 100 Singapore listed companies. We selected the top ten companies based on their market capitalization from ten selected industries, namely commerce, construction, finance, holdings, hospitality/F&B, information and communications, manufacturing, property, services and transport/storage. …”
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Vision-based interaction using mobile devices by Wesley Djingga

“…This game was created to simulate the ability of computer vision to detect simple objects. There were ten standard colors and six standard geometry shapes that the game was able to detect. …”
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Focused strategy and advantage in the telecommunications equipment industry by Pek, Ruoh Han, Aw, Bee Huay, How, Janice Sui Yen

“…We explore the various business models adopted by the ten selected companies and examine the advantges cross-sectionally and longitudinally.…”
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