Up in smoke : peatland fires in Russia and Indonesia by Sofiah Jamil

“…Russia’s peatland fires, like those in Indonesia, have been triggered by high global temperatures. 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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The behaviour of steel and composite structures under a middle-column-removal scenario by Yang, Bo

“…Firstly, the behaviour of different types of steel bolted beam-column joints under a middle-column-removal scenario has been studied by experimental tests. …”
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Covalent immobilization of aminoacylase to alginate for L-phenylalanine production by Lee, Pat M., Lee, Kong H., Siaw, Yew S.

“…The beads showed stable activity under operational conditions, they lost about 40% of their activity after four reaction cycles. …”

Polarization sensitive multi-hollow-core antiresonant fiber by Raynal, Guillaume, Goel, Charu, Yoo, Seongwoo, Chang, Wonkeun

“…Of particular interest is the development of an inline multicore polarization beam splitter. To this end, multicore fiber designs have been investigated, but mostly in simulation studies. …”
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Control of microstructure architecture of polycaprolactone electrospun scaffolds by Rajendran, R., Ham, W. J., Low, C. Y., Alexander, C. H. C., Koh, C. T.

“…The beads formation was reduced by adding PBS salt solution and increasing the distance of the collector plate from the needle tip. …”
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Changes in microbial and physicochemical properties during free-cell and encapsulated probiotic fermentation of red dragon fruit juice by Ong, Yien Yien

“…The viability loss of encapsulated probiotic in red dragon fruit juice can be further improved with 1% (w/v) calcium alginate beads with 107 to 109 cfu/g of probiotic in the beads. …”
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Investigation of radiant panel cooling systems for sensible cooling in air conditioning by Teo, Nguan Teck.

“…In creating the active chilled beam systems, two air handling units were considered, namely Dedicated Outdoor Air System (DOAS) and the active desiccant dehumidification system. …”
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A novel two-degrees-of-freedom piezoelectric energy harvester by Wu, Hao, Tang, Lihua, Yang, Yaowen, Soh, Chee Kiong

“…In this article, a novel compact piezoelectric energy harvester using two vibration modes has been developed. The harvester comprises one main cantilever beam and an inner secondary cantilever beam, each of which is bonded with piezoelectric transducers. …”
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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. …”

Biomedical cellular imaging using digital holographic photothermal microscope by Hendry Renaldo.

“…The technique is based on recording the interference between two laser beams, namely the object beam and the reference beam with a Charged Coupled Device (CCD) camera and numerically reconstructing the interference result (hologram) with a computer of sufficient speed. …”
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Carbon based materials for MEMS applications by Tan, Chong Wei

“…Many researchers have been trying to control the density of the CNTs growth by using sophisticated and expensive techniques such as electron beam lithography and ion beam bombardment. …”
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Computational modeling of selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy

“…Multiple reflections of the laser beam have been developed by employing the ray-tracing model to simulate the keyhole-mode melting phenomenon. …”
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Studies on laser design and laser micro-machining by Chen, Yihong.

“…Since the first laser was operated in 1960, extensive research and development have been undertaken leading to a rapid growth in both laser technology and laser applications. …”
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Multi-modal piezoelectric energy harvester by Wang, Nan

“…Recent researches of energy harvester are designed as a cantilever beam with piezoelectric material. It was proven that resonant peaks can be achieved with array of harvester beams in wider bandwidth. …”
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Environmental audit in Singapore by Chua, Boon Hua

“…In addition, neither the public nor firms are willing to bear the costs of environmental audit.…”
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Applicability of behavioural finance by Chong, Chee Wah, Low, Ji Teng, Paik, Jek Yin

“…In order to identify the most statistically significant gauges of investors’ behaviors, a few prominent methodologies and its resulting economic indices have been analysed. Specifically, they were the (i) Volatility Index (VIX), (ii) Consumer Sentiment Index (CSI), (iii) Bull-Bear Spread Index (BBS) and the (iv) Investor Sentiment Index (ISI). …”
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Death and the doctor: the museum as a tool for understanding the needs of the dying by Harris, J, Moyse, A, Hadley, G, Frampton, S, Dempsey, A, Hordern, J, Saunders, K, Lane, R, De Luca, G

“…Over the past several years, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has been part of a multi- disciplinary team examining the question of how we train medical students to deal with those parts of their profession which are concerned primarily with the humanity of their patients. …”

Photonic engineering of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Liang, Guozhen

“…Although relatively good performance of THz QCLs has been achieved, there is still sufficient room to further improve the performance of THz QCLs, for achieving arbitrary beam control, spectral emission, intensity modulation, and polarization control, so on and so forth. …”
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Robotic manipulation of microscopic objects using multiple laser-driven fingertips by Quang, Minh Ta

“…Though much progress has been obtained in the research and development of robotic manipulation recently, it is still difficult to reproduce such achievement in the micro-world as the study of micro-manipulation opens up new research and technological issues which diverge from traditional robotic manipulation. …”
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Disposable flow cytometer with high efficiency in particle counting and sizing using an optofluidic lens by Song, Chaolong, Luong, Trung-Dung, Kong, Tian Fook, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Asundi, Anand Krishna

“…The variations of the signal peak values are reduced, owing to the small beam width at the beam waist. The device presents an efficient and accurate performance on both the counting and sizing of particles.…”
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