Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Up to date, no studies have been done to examine the viability of probiotics in popular, well-liked, commercialized carbonated sodas/beers, but it is known that certain components in these matrices (e.g. phosphoric acid in soda, hops and ethanol in beers) can reduce the viability of probiotics. …”
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Han Suyin’s translation philosophies in the context of Mainland China since the 1950s by Cui, Feng

“…The first (1950s–1970s) sees her translation philosophy influenced by Chinese national politics and the Cold War; the second (1980s–1990s) reflects her beliefs in translation as an art as well as a creative process; the third phase (1990s–2000s) is characterized by Han’s influential nurturing of other translators, and her patronage of translation scholarship as a means of spreading Chinese literary culture. …”
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“Following according to a rule is FUNDAMENTAL to our language-game.” Rules and meaning in Wittgenstein by Child, W

“…There is widespread agreement that, in his later philosophy, Wittgenstein sees the meaning of a word as a matter of the rules for its use; to grasp its meaning is to grasp the rules for its use; and using the word with that meaning is a matter of following those rules. …”

Detailed turbulent structures investigation around piers group induced flow by Ikani, Nima, H. Pu, Jaan, Zang, Shuyan, Hussein Al-Qadami, Ebrahim Hamid, Razi, Adib

“…The result reveals that the log-law layer near wall has been enhanced by the installation of pier. …”
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An Efficient Computational Algorithm for Solving Arbitrary Sylvester Matrix Equations in Fuzzy Control Theory (S/O 14179) by Ahmad, Nazihah, Ibrahim, Haslinda

“…By modifying the existing fuzzy arithmetic operators, the constructed algorithm exceeds the positive restriction to allow the negative and near-zero LR-TFN as the coefficients of the equations. …”
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Evaluation of patient dose during multi-catheter insertion in CT-guided interstitial liver brachytherapy by Sivaprakasam, Puviya

“…Introduction: Brachytherapy is a type of cancer treatment that involves placing an encapsulated radioactive source either near or directly into the tumour. Liver brachytherapy has been practiced in institutions where multiple catheters are inserted into the liver under CT-guidance. …”
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The tower : transformation of a precedent by Cross, Elizabeth Ann.

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Dynamic range of camera in photography by Oon, Nicole Xin Jie

“…This is due to the dynamic range of the camera resulting in a difference in the image captured and what the human eye sees. Dynamic range is a measure of the ratio of the maximum and minimum measurable light intensity, which is also the total amount of light captured in a scene. …”
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Singapore premiere. by Ong, Shannon.

“…Once in a while, the box office sees hits from local film director, Jack Neo. …”
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Drafting ‘Anon’ and killing anon: Virginia Woolf and the genesis of English literary language by Phillips, J

“…The moment of English literature’s birth is the moment of Anon’s death: Woolf’s genetic narrative sees her figuration for the pre-literate oral tradition, Anon killed at the moment William Caxton begins to print books with authorial signatures. …”

Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement by Vickers, P, Adamo, L, Alfano, M, Clark, C, Cresto, E, Cui, H, Dang, H, Dellsén, F, Dupin, N, Gradowski, L, Graf, S, Guevara, A, Hallap, M, Hamilton, J, Hardey, M, Helm, P, Landrum, A, Levy, N, Machery, E, Mills, S, Muller, S, Sheppard, J, N. K., S, Slater, M

“…The novel methodology employed sees local coordinators, at each institution in the network, sending survey invitation emails internally to scientists at their home institution. …”

A novel design of power-efficient reconfigurable multiplier targeting at increasing the throughput of the CGRA by Li, Jiaxu

“…And after implementing the array multiplications application on the optimized CGRA, the throughput sees an improvement of 98% and 296% for 4-bit multiplications and 2-bit multiplications respectively. …”
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A neuroimaging approach to evaluate choices and compare performance of tower air traffic controllers during missed approaches by Ayeni, Alvin John, Pushparaj, Kiranraj, Izzetoglu, Kurtulus, Alam, Sameer, Duong, Vu N.

“…The aim of this research is to use functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to compare and contrast brain activation for professional versus novice Tower Air Traffic Controllers when performing their daily tasks, whilst accounting for missed approaches. …”
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Clouds and hazes in Saturn's troposphere and stratosphere by Merlet, CTC

“…The haze physical and optical properties can however be independently retrieved from VIMS near-infrared spectra at shorter wavelengths in the 0.8-3.5 <em>μ</em>m spectral range. …”

Loss analysis of a mix-flow turbine with nozzled twin-entry volute at different admissions by Xue, Yingxian, Yang, Mingyang, Martinez-Botas, Ricardo F., Romagnoli, Alessandro, Deng, Kangyao

“…Loss breakdown of turbine shows that loss is higher in nozzle but lower in rotor when the majority of flow is fed from upper part of the component (near shroud). Opposite phenomenon happens when the majority is fed from lower part (near hub). …”
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Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology by Gould, E, Fraser, HS, Parker, TH, Nakagawa, S, Griffith, SC, Vesk, PA, Fidler, F, Hamilton, DG, Abbey-Lee, RN, Abbott, JK, Aguirre, LA, Alcaraz, C, Aloni, I, Altschul, D, Arekar, K, Atkins, JW, Atkinson, J, Baker, CM, Barrett, M, Bell, K, Bello, SK, Beltrán, I, Berauer, BJ, Bertram, MG, Wood, A

“…For the blue tit analyses, the average effect was convincingly negative, with less growth for nestlings living with more siblings, but there was near continuous variation in effect size from large negative effects to effects near zero, and even effects crossing the traditional threshold of statistical significance in the opposite direction. …”

上古汉语的名物化现象再探 = The study on nominalization of archaic Chinese by 沈源源 Shen, Yuan Yuan

“…However, prevailing/current literature in the study of archaic Chinese sees this practice as ci lei huo yong (the alternation use of words); verbs replace nouns and gain their syntactic properties. …”
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Full threshold change range of threshold changeable secret sharing by Ding, Jian, Lin, Changlu, Lin, Fuchun, Wang, Huaxiong

“…Moreover, we construct some near optimal TCSS schemes to show that the full threshold change range of TCSS schemes (without requiring optimality) is completely covered by the threshold change regimes of our near optimal TCSS schemes together with the full threshold change range of optimal TCSS schemes.…”
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Unequal health: the scandal of our times by Dorling, D

“…As a whole the book shows conclusively that inequalities in health are the scandal of our times in the most unequal of rich nations and calls for immediate action to reduce these inequalities in the near future.…”

Safety analysis of active mobility mode by Ho, Siu Joon

“…Logistical regression model was chosen as it can be used as future predictor for near misses or crashes at a particular location. …”
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