Probabilistic calibration of strength and strain enhancement models for FRP-confined concrete in circular section by Chen, Qi-Sen, Yu, Bo, Li, Bing

“…Therefore, that there is a need for calibrations of deterministic models for strength enhancement (SEE) and strain enhancement (SAE) based on proposed probabilistic prediction models and comprehensive available databases. …”
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Educational robotics - control by Heng, Michelle Yu Lin.

“…Through this Robotic Arm, the student will be able to see the effects of PD Control, and even plot the Arm's response in Matlab. …”
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Development of healthcare application on mobile devices (ClinicQ) by Chia, Daryl Bing Hong

“…The waiting time before going into the consultation room to see the doctor is always absurdly long. One can easily spend their whole morning at the clinic just to see the doctor. …”
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Unknowing a southern life: writing around the abyss by Collins, K

“…One is a stick chart, a navigational aid from Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands, made from thin strips of wood and seashells (see Figure 5.1). The other is a water carrier from the Northern Cape Province in South Africa, an ostrich egg engraved with shapes and schematic figures such as antelopes and ostriches, into which has been cut a lateral hole (see Figure 5.2). …”

Investment opportunities in the tourism industry of South Africa. by Lim, Boon Khong., Saravanan Malaiyandi Chettiar., Kee, Boon Thow.

“…The aim of this research is to identify opportunities in the South African tourism industy and match them against the strengths of the Singaporean businessmen to see whether it would be worthwhile for the latter to make an investment in South Africa.…”
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Global threat assessment 2009 by Rohan Gunaratna

“…Whilst 2009 will continue to see terrorism as the pre-eminent security threat, much can be done by the West to reach out to alienated communities, especially in the Muslim world. …”
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Starvation, ferroptosis, and prodrug therapy synergistically enabled by a cytochrome c oxidase like nanozyme by Cao, Changyu, Yang, Nan, Su, Yan, Zhang, Zheye, Wang, Chenxi, Song, Xuejiao, Chen, Peng, Wang, Wenjun, Dong, Xiaochen

“…Loaded with bioreductive predrug (AQ4N), this Cu-Ag nanozyme unprecedentedly enables simultaneous starvation, ferroptosis, and chemical therapy with high specificity, and is able to totally eliminate tumor and greatly prolong the survival rate for 4T1-tumor-bearing mice. The underlying working mechanism is revealed both experimentally and theoretically.…”
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Experimental investigation into load settlement characteristics of piled rafts in sand by Leong, Hazel Xueling.

“…Studies by many notable researchers in the years to come suggest that the most effective combinations of piles and raft happens when all the initial loading can be borne with the raft’s bearing capacity alone. The role of the piles was solely to reduce the excessive settlement experienced by the plain raft.…”
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Dense/porous bioceramic composites by Hu, Yifei

“…The pores were designed for bone ingrowth, whereas the graded pores and the dense cores were introduced for load bearing capability. For bone ingrowth, the porous structures must have a high porosity, a high interconnectivity, and a suitable pore size.…”
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Facile access to chiral ketones through metal-free oxidative C-C bond cleavage of aldehydes by O2 by Tiwari, Bhoopendra, Zhang, Junming, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…Giving the metal the boot: The title reaction provides facile access to functionalized chiral ketones from chiral α,α′-disubstituted aldehydes in the presence of molecular oxygen (see scheme). The CC bond-cleavage approach offers an alternative or better method relative to the typical bond-forming strategies used in synthesizing chiral ketones.…”
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Hmong in Vietnam : a tradition in flux. by Wong, Gillian Jin-Lin.

“…The author of this project wanted to observe the meeting of Vietnam’s communist politics and “socialist-oriented market economics” from the inside. And also, to see the cultural and social changes brought by rapid industrialisation and foreign investment in one of Southeast Asia’s poorest countries.…”
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Measuring equity risk premium and risk aversion in the US. by Chong, Hui Han., Thng, Anthony Lian Guan., Soo, Jia Hao.

“…In the analysis, we want to test to see if the risk aversion is constant over time. …”
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Mechanics of Three-Dimensional Micro-Architected Interpenetrating Phase Composites by Chen, Andrew Y.

“…We show that independent of the material system, the presence of a load-bearing matrix distributes the stress in the composite, contributing to a high-strength, globally stretchingdominated failure behavior, regardless of nodal connectivity. …”
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What is to reproduce? On the overlap, development, and persistence account of reproduction by Palacios-González, C

“…Her account seems able to answer the question of whether reproduction takes place, and who reproduces, when we employ biotechnologies that bear little to no resemblance to naturally occurring human sexual reproduction. …”

Prosopanche: a remarkable genus of parasitic plants by Hatt, SA, Cameron, DD, Grace, OM, Rocamundi, N, Cocucci, AA, Martel, C, Thorogood, CJ

“…Growing almost entirely underground with a complete lack of leaves, plants of Prosopanche bear more resemblance to fungi than plants and have many remarkable aspects to their life history and ecology that require further investigation. …”

No Shangri-La for North Korea by Samaniego, Catherine

“…Kim Jong-un should expect to see his regime’s political leverage in Northeast Asia gradually reduced, while its biggest ally, China, remains preoccupied with its own domestic concerns.…”
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Non-nested adaptive timesteps in multilevel Monte Carlo computations by Giles, MB, Lester, C, Whittle, J

“…Numerical experiments are given for each, with the full code available for those who are interested in seeing the implementation details.…”

Another philosophical look at twistor theory by Gajic, G, Lilani, N, Read, J

“…In this article, we (a) present for philosophers an introduction to twistor theory, (b) consider how the spacetime–twistor correspondence interacts with the philosophical literature on theoretical equivalence, and (c) explore the bearing which twistor theory might have on philosophical issues such as the status of dynamics, the geometrisation of physics, spacetime ontology, the emergence of spacetime, and symmetry-to-reality inferences. …”

Direct β-activation of saturated aldehydes to formal michael acceptors through oxidative NHC catalysis by Mo, Junming, Shen, Liang, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…Without detours: Oxidative catalysis mediated by N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) enables the direct β-carbon functionalization of saturated aldehydes (see scheme). The reaction proceeds through two sequential oxidative steps to generate ,β-unsaturated triazolium ester equivalents as formal Michael acceptors, which react with 1,3-diketones and β-ketone esters in an enantioselective manner.…”
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Production planning in semiconductor industry using simulation : simplification strategies by Puah, Sen Ann.

“…The thesis is that production planners at high level do not see all the details to develop an effective plan Simplifying the input data of a model as well as decreasing the number of elements in a model can reduce complexities of a model.…”
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