The anti-circumsporozoite antibody response to repeated, seasonal booster doses of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 E by Ali, MS, Stockdale, L, Sagara, I, Zongo, I, Yerbanga, RS, Mahamar, A, Nikièma, F, Tapily, A, Sompougdou, F, Diarra, M, Bellamy, D, Provstgaard-Morys, S, Zoungrana, C, Issiaka, D, Haro, A, Sanogo, K, Sienou, AA, Kaya, M, Traore, S, Dicko, OM, Kone, Y, Yalcouye, H, Thera, I, Diarra, K

“…Results obtained with GSK ELISA and the Oxford Multiplex assay were strongly correlated (Pearson’s correlation coefficient, r = 0.94; 95% CI, 0.93–0.95). …”

“Virtual encounters: the making and manifestations of Deleuze’s Bergsonism” by Lundy, Craig

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Sampling from convex sets with a cold start using multiscale decompositions by Narayanan, Hariharan, Rajaraman, Amit, Srivastava, Piyush

“…The requirement is that starting from a suitable initial distribution, the random walk should “mix rapidly”, i.e., after a number of steps that is polynomial in n and the aspect ratio R/r (here, K is assumed to contain a ball of radius r and to be contained within a ball of radius R), the distribution of the random walk should come close to the uniform distribution π K on K. …”
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THE 17 ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF A TEAM PLAYER : Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants / by Maxwell, John C., 1947-, author 272745

“…The qualities Maxwell teaches quickly take you to the heart of teamwork.Anybody can understand them and apply them -- whether at home, on the job, at church, or on the ball field. If you learn the 17 essential qualities of a team player, you can become the kind of person every team wants. …”

AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE / by Jeffrey Archer, author 507936

“…From Germany comes Masterpiece, the tale of a priceless oil painting that has remained in the same family for over 200 years, until… To the Channel Islands, and Members Only, where a golf ball falls out of a Christmas cracker and a young man’s life will never be the same again… To Italy, where a young man trying to book a hotel room ends up in bed with the receptionist, unaware that she… To England, where, in High Heels, a woman explains to her husband why a pair of designer shoes couldn’t have gone up in flames because… Some of these stories will make you laugh. …”

The tribological performance of nano-activated carbon as solid additives in modified calophyllum inophyllum based-metalworking fluid by Zubaidah, Zamri, Amiril Sahab, Abdul Sani, Radhiyah, Abd Aziz, Ainaa Mardhiah, Sabri, Norfazillah, Talib

“…The coefficient of friction for the balls and their wear diameter are evaluated and compared. …”
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Variational models in martensitic phase transformations with applications to steels by Muehlemann, A

“…</p> <p>In Chapter 2, we review the Ball-James model and related concepts. We present some simplification of existing results.…”

To assess the impact of physical factors on velocity, speed, and accuracy of tennis serve by Ma, Xudong, Yaacob, Azhar, Tengku Kamalden, Tengku Fadilah, Ng, Yee Guan

“…Objective: This study investigates the coordination of racquet and ball speed, examining how physical attributes and training impact serve performance. …”
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Epstein-Barr viral latent and early antigen serology in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Tan, Timothy Ter Ming.

“…Current methods include detection by indirect immunofluorescence assay which is laborious, subjective and requires highly-trained personnel, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), which can be easily performed by any hospital laboratory.…”
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Multicarrier communications for underwater wireless channels by Leong, Chen Ming.

“…Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) is a multicarrier transmission technology which was first described by R. W. Chang in 1966 at Bell Labs. The first patent was granted in 1970. …”
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Lead-free PCB assembly and effect of solder joint profile on the reliability of PCB assembly by Periannan Arulvanan.

“…PCBs were designed and fabricated with daisy chain loops connected to land pads of daisy chained Ball Grid Array (BGA) components with pad dimensions of 0.56 and 0.66mm NiAu finish. …”
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Process development for flip chip BGA packages by Camenforte, Raymundo M.

“…As the trend towards high performance electronic packaging continues, the introduction of a flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) package becomes more attractive to the electronic industry, due to its high packaging density, thermal and electrical performance. …”
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Uncovering wear mechanism of a Fe2Ni2CrAl multi-principal elements alloy by Qiao, Ling, Ramanujan, Raju V., Zhu, Jingchuan

“…By performing reciprocating ball-on-flat friction tests, the Fe2Ni2CrAl MPEA shows good wear resistance, with a wear rate of 8.72 × 10−5 mm3/(Nm) and average friction coefficient of ~ 0.54. …”
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Missing links in The China Model by Li, Chenyang

“…Daniel A. Bell's recent book The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy makes a significant contribution to political theory, political philosophy, and China studies. …”
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Time-frequency analysis of simulated binary pulsar signals by Nandhini Ganesan

“…With its discovery by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, who received Nobel Prize in 1974, it got the attention of many astrophysicists. …”
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SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems. by Boccaletti, Anthony, Schneider, Jean, Traub, Wes, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Stam, Daphne, Gratton, Raffaele, Trauger, John, Cahoy, Kerri, Snik, Frans, Baudoz, Pierre, Galicher, Raphael, Reess, Jean-Michel, Mawet, Dimitri, Augereau, Jean-Charles, Patience, Jenny, Kuchner, Marc, Wyatt, Mark, Pantin, Eric, Maire, Anne-Lise, Vérinaud, Christophe

“…SPICES (Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanetary Systems) is a five-year M-class mission proposed to ESA Cosmic Vision. Its purpose is to image and characterize long-period extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks in the visible (450-900 nm) at a spectral resolution of about 40 using both spectroscopy and polarimetry. …”
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Market research on a portable snake venom detection kit. by Thong, Hui Min.

“…The only commercially available diagnostic kit is from Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) and it uses the Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technique. However, it has disadvantages like the inability to fully quantify venom levels and time consuming test procedures which requires some level of expertise. …”
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Tribological properties of Cr- and Ti-doped MoS2 composite coatings under different humidity atmosphere by Ding, Xing-zhao., Zeng, X. T., He, X. Y., Chen, Z.

“…The tribological properties of the coatings were evaluated against an alumina ball under different relative humidity atmosphere using a ball-on-disc tribometer. …”
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Investigating the EM performance of building materials for mid-band 5G in urban built environment: an exploratory study by Ng, Sean Jake Peng

“…The thesis is concluded with the investigation of material loading on an evolved antecedent hexagonal-stubbed complementary split-ring resonator (CSRR)-loaded electrically small antenna (ESA) designed to cover the 3.5 GHz 5G frequency band. …”
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Asymptotic improvement of GV bound by Yip, Jose Zheng Ho

“…We also show that for the RLL(0,1) constrained system, we can achieve rates $2\log \phi - \log \tau$, where $\tau$ is the asymptotic of the total ball size for the RLL(0,1) constrained system…”
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