以日本视角论述钓鱼群岛（尖阁诸岛）的主权归属 = The sovereignty of Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands : the Japanese perspective by 刘志强 Liu, Zhiqiang

“…Why are the Japanese laying claims to the Diaoyu Islands when the islands have been a part of the Chinese territory since ancient times? …”
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The effects of music-induced emotions on English-Chinese bilinguals' resolution of standing ambiguity. by Ho, Sher Min.

“…The biased sentences are manipulated in a way that adjectives are added to both NP1 and NP2 where the context of attaching the relative clause to NP1 would give rise to a sadder context than when attached to NP2. Since music is proven to have an effect on its listeners’ emotions, whether directly or indirectly (Trainor, 2003; Levinson, 1997), sad music is used to induce sad emotional cues for the context of reading the sentences. 27 English-Chinese bilinguals in Singapore participated in two experiments, 9 in Experiment 1 and the other 18 in Experiment 2. …”
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Applying the self-determination theory in computer games for health communication. by Leow, Shallyn Xue Ling.

“…This study aims to illustrate how SDT could address the issues of low awareness and motivations pertaining to cardiovascular wellness among youths by: 1) examining how an individual’s sense of self-determination (sense of autonomy and sense of relatedness) when playing a health communication computer game could influence his knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions towards the given issue, and 2) testing the potential mediating effects of game enjoyment on one’s sense of self-determination in influencing his knowledge gain, attitude change, and behavioral intentions. …”
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Three essays on gender wage differentials by Fang, Zheng

“…The issue has been studied extensively in the literature, especially at the mean; however, distributional patterns may be of more interest as they relate to policy-making, when targeted intervention is deemed appropriate. …”
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Evaluation of high-strength concrete interior beam-column joints under simulated seismic loading by Leong, Chee Lai

“…The congestion of reinforcement in a high strength concrete beam-column joint can be improved when the usage of larger bars are allowed.…”
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A FPGA-based ultrasonic voice detection platform for whisper to voice reconstruction by Fan, Gaofeng

“…As a result, the system is also capable of assisting mobile communication for whisper-to-voice conversion when the speakers do not desire to speak loudly, or where speech-like background babble is present during a conversation. …”
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Outlier detection by Li, Shukai

“…Unsupervised outlier detection methods are used when there are no labeled patterns. For this kind of problems, we propose a Maximum Margin Criterion to segregate the unknown outliers from the normal patterns in a given set of samples. …”
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TEM image simulation of silicon carbide using multislice technique by Saw, Ann Nee.

“…CTF plot is consider optimal when it remains almost constant close to -1, it indicates broad band of good transmittance. …”
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Fixtured vibratory finishing of Ti-6Al-4V by Houmayune, Haja Abdul Jaafer.

“…Fixtured vibratory finishing is employed when part-on-part contact of parts is prohibited and this method has been said to reduce cycle times significantly. …”
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Ray tracing in Mac OS X by Lim, Bing Yan

“…The implementation starts with the development of the GUI, detailing the methods employed when dealing with and creating the GUI in XCode. …”
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Effect of pre-load on diffusion characteristics of composite material by Chew, Xin Yun

“…The aim of this project was to study the water absorption properties of the composite when immersed in salt water – the salt water had a salt to water concentration of 3.5%. …”
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An appraisal of existing seismic vulnerability assessment methodologies by Kathotia, Vaibhav

“…In this study, the author has analyzed the available seismic vulnerability risk assessment methods and how they compare with each other when the building model and Intensity Measure (IM) in concern are similar. …”
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A code transformation framework for linear algebra operations targeting multiple platforms by Tan, Wen Jun

“…The linear algebra template libraries present the linear algebra operations in an algebraic form that is easily understandable by the user, and at the same time provides good performance when codes are compiled. It is possible to target multiple platforms through different linear algebra template libraries, such as Eigen and Armadillo. …”
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Development of biomimetic 3D cancer platform for drug testing by Ker, Sia Fong

“…First, spheroids were not fully immersed in PEG + Gelatin matrix as they sunk into the collagen matrix when added. Also, the non-invading cancer cells in the spheroids facing the PEG + Gelatin matrix were suspected to have poor nutrient gradient and the inadequate presence of integrins in the matrix. …”
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Android smart phone based participatory sensing by Teo, Kok Hien

“…(ORB, ORB, BRUTEFORCE_L1) was eventually chosen given that it was computationally efficient with a runtime of less than 3 seconds per transaction with only an accuracy drop of 3% in day time building recognition (but with a slight overall improvement in accuracy when accounting for junctions and night time recognition). …”
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Development of low cost, highly stable and active water splitting photocatalysts for hydrogen production by Goh, Simon Chun Kiat

“…It was purported that dark coloured carbon sphere supported photocatalytic system was found to confer remarkable increase in hydrogen gas production over 24 hours period than systems using other supports such as layered double hydroxide and silica or without support. When 1 wt>/o Pt was loaded onto carbon spheres, the system reveals 48 times increase in activity than unsupported Pt system. …”
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Flood risk management of a polder terminal in Singapore by Loh, Yee

“…The societal consequences will only be significant when the event mortality is high, the probability of failure is higher and the economical cost is lower. …”
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A novel instrumented projectile for investigation of impact dynamics by Pang, Xin

“…An analytical model is proposed to predict the responses of instrumented projectile when it is impacting on closed-cell aluminium foams. …”
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Numerical simulation of titanium fibre metallic laminates under various impact loading by Selvadurai Shanmugasundram

“…In low impact velocity impact, the front and back panels failed in a petaling shape mode but when the impact velocity is increased to the ballistic level of 400m/s shear plugging was observed. …”
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Novel algorithms for inferring granger causality using biological data by Furqan, Mohammad Shaheryar

“…One of the conventional methods used for inferring biological networks from time series data is Granger causality, which analyses the causal link between the variables and can be used to map the associations in the form of a network diagram using graph theory. However, when using high-throughput data, current implementations of Granger causality face limitations, especially while handling high dimensionality and non-linear relationships among correlated variables. …”
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