Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata” by de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex

“…The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” bears no resemblance to modern high-dimensional data sets on which their methods fail. …”
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Developing a web app in conjunction with a honey dehydrator by Sim, Yang Kai

“…Honey is a sweet tasting viscous liquid made by bees, and honey harvesting practices have grown in the last few decades. …”
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Up in smoke : peatland fires in Russia and Indonesia by Sofiah Jamil

“…The heatwaves behind the current Russian fires bear similarities with the Indonesian experiences in 1998 and 2006, Indonesia and ASEAN could share their experiences in addressing peatland fires with Russia.…”
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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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Regression analysis ofr characterization of materials for photovoltaic cells by Vundavalli, Bala Satya Manikanta

“…The traditional Design-of-Experiments (DoEs) adapted so far, are slow and the information obtained sometimes bears little relevance to optimizing the key performance parameters of merit. …”
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Investigations into high resolution imaging and contouring for diagnostic bio-applications by Valiyambath, Krishnan Mohankumar

“…The capability of the system was demonstrated using micron-sized fluorescent polystyrene beads and cells mounted on a microscope slide. Besides providing imaging capability, the imaging fibre can double up as a light conduit to illuminate the target tissue, which would be in synergy with the first two modalities, namely, the RGB and the dynamic speckle analyses. …”
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The golden thread of Woolmington – A domestic yarn that should never have been spun by Dyer, Karen

“…The case of Woolmington v The Director of Public Prosecutions [1935] 1 AC 462 is renowned for Viscount Sankey’s ‘golden thread’ ruling, that the prosecution bears the burden of proof at trial. However, what is frequently overlooked is that this judgment arises from domestic violence. …”
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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. …”

Phenomenological observations of quinone-mediated zinc oxidation in an alkaline environment by Mallia, Christopher T, Brushett, Fikile R

“…The development of such systems requires knowledge of underlying reaction mechanisms, which bear similarities to the processes that underpin corrosion and semiconductor electrochemistry. …”
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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. …”

Why Brussels? Neruda’s ‘título absolutamente enigmático’ by Moran, D

“…<p>The primary purpose of this article is to propose a solution to longstanding literary mystery, namely, why Neruda&rsquo;s disconcertingly enigmatic poem &lsquo;Bruselas&rsquo; (from&nbsp;<em>Tercera residencia</em>&nbsp;[1947]) has a title which seems to bear little if any relation either to the city of Brussels itself or to its sometimes bewilderingly obscure content and imagery. …”

How resource revenues can halve global poverty by Segal, P

“…The bitter struggles for oil nationalisation through the twentieth century bear witness to the sensitivity of this question. …”

Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…Carbon nanomaterials are unique in terms of structure, carbon nanotube (CNT) bears a hollow one-dimensional structure; and graphene is an one-atom-thick sheet and has extremely high specific surface area; both of them are presenting excellent charge transport capability. …”
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Abui stories : seven children by Chew, Grace Min Hui

“…Thriving on an oral tradition, these stories, like the traditional Abui language, bear no written form and are at risk of extinction. …”
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Detection of simultaneous structural problems using multiple structural health monitoring techniques by Yang, Lu

“…After the construction, cracks, wear and tear, fatigue, creep, etc., will appear anytime during their life span, which significantly affects the capacity of the structure to bear loads. Hence structure health monitoring (SHM) technique came into existence to detect the structural problems and increase its life span. …”
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Fragmentation of white phosphorus by a cyclic (alkyl)(amino)alumanyl anion by Koshino, Kota, Kinjo, Rei

“…Structural and electronic features of the latter were fully characterized by standard spectroscopic means, X-ray diffraction analysis, and computational studies, which revealed that 2 bears highly polarized Al (δ+) and P (δ-) and relatively short Al-P bonds, indicative of the σ-donating and π-accepting nature of CAAAl groups.…”
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Modelling and characterization of membrane fouling in osmotically-driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Lai, Li

“…Performance of neural networks bears strong relationship with learning rate, number of hidden layers and number of nodes in hidden layer. …”
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Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles by Wells, Eliza

“…It also means that role-occupants are not off the moral hook. Ultimately, we each bear responsibility to create a more just social world.…”
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking? : an exploratory study on the attitudes of pregnant employees and co-workers towards workplace pregnancy. by Chew, Alicia Jing Yi., Goh, Xin Lei., Tan, Hwee Hoon.

“…Our forum findings shed a different perspective: female employees have the liberty to prioritise between family and career but they will have to bear the consequences of their choice. Recommendations by employees include hiring of temporary help, allowing for flexible working hours and open communication channels. …”
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Negotiating time in British Malaya : colonial Singapore’s role in time legislature, 1895 – 1933 by Teo, Grace Jie Ying

“…This paper argues that the various time changes in Singapore and British Malaya between 1895 to 1933 were products borne of influence from international agreements, yet more strongly bear the marks of local negotiation. Being arbitrary in nature, time offsets in the form of mean times, standard times, and daylight saving times were socially determined, negotiated, and sustained, by the circulation of ideas, objects, and actors. …”
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