The elusiveness of 'interdependent obligations' and the invocation of responsibility for their breach by Urs, P

“…Since the adoption in 2001 of the International Law Commission’s ‘Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts’, attention has been increasingly drawn to the enforcement by states individually of multilateral obligations. …”

The devil is in the details: an evaluation of recent feature encoding methods by Chatfield, K, Lempitsky, V, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…This allows a consistent comparative analysis of these encoding methods. Several conclusions drawn from our analysis cannot be inferred from the original publications. …”

Exploring the limitations of osmotically assisted reverse osmosis: membrane fouling and the limiting flux by Peters, Christian D., Li, Dan, Mo, Zijing, Hankins, Nicholas P., She, Qianhong

“…First, internal membrane fouling at the draw (permeate) side was shown to be insignificant. …”
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Investigation of phenylpropanoid sucrose esters as antidiabetic compounds by Wong, Kathy Pooi Wen

“…Alpha glucosidase inhibitors (AGIs) are a class of anti-diabetic drug known for their effectiveness and safety. However, they are associated with gastrointestinal (GI) side-effects such as diarrhoea, nausea and flatulence. …”
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The treatment of malaria in pregnancy by Nosten, F, McGready, R

“…Studies are urgently needed to define the best therapeutic options and to develop new treatments, especially in Africa where drug resistance already compromises all strategies of control.…”

Synthesis of noble metal-based nanocomposites for enhanced catalytic performance by Liu, Ye

“…Noble metal nanocomposites thus have drawn growing attention spontaneously. This study aims to fabricate noble metal-based nanocomposites possessing enhanced catalytic performance. …”
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Membrane compaction in forward osmosis process by Ng, Daniel Yee Fan, Chen, Yunfeng, Dong, Zhili, Wang, Rong

“…At the end of FO experiments, all TFC membranes experienced water flux and salt flux decline to different extents. …”
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A review of emotion sensing: categorization models and algorithms by Wang, Zhaoxia, Ho, Seng-Beng, Cambria, Erik

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Unravelling genetic heterogeneity of hepatocellular carcinoma with driver genes and subclones by Ng, Ming Hwee

“…The clonality analysis next, determined if driver genes were found in all or a subset of a tumor and thus whether it was an early or late event in tumor evolution. …”
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Achievable PID performance using sums of squares programming by Sendjaja, Antonius Yudi, Kariwala, Vinay

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What Dicey forgot by Barber, NW

“…Within the United Kingdom, or, more precisely, within Britain, the eulogisation of Dicey’s rule of law was understandable, after all, the principle served as a guarantor of liberty. …”

Causal inference in health and disease: a review of the principles and applications of Mendelian randomization by Lovegrove, CE, Howles, SA, Furniss, D, Holmes, MV

“…Conventional observational epidemiological studies are subject to bias from a range of sources; MR analyses can offer an advantage in that they are less prone to bias as they use genetic variants inherited at conception as “instrumental variables”, which are proxies of an exposure. However, as with all research tools, MR studies must be carefully designed to yield valuable insights into causal relationships between exposures and outcomes, and to avoid biased or misleading results that undermine the validity of the causal inferences drawn from the study. …”

Blood brain barrier: a tissue engineered microfluidic chip by Musafargani, Sikkandhar, Mishra, Sachin, Gulyás, Miklós, Mahalakshmi, P., Archunan, Govindaraju, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs

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An analysis of heavy silicone oil treatment for inferior proliferative vitreoretinopathy by Hammer, M, Ie, A, Eibenberger, K, Auffarth, GU, Xue, K

“…The number of glaucoma drugs were increased in 45% of patients during Densiron tamponade. …”

Expressive B-spline curves: a pilot study on a flexible shape representation by Seah, Hock Soon, Tandianus, Budianto, Sui, Yiliang, Wu, Zhongke

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Epidemiology of injuries in street dancers by Yee, Ernest Chun Tuck

“…However, street dance has yet to draw the desired research attention. Purpose: To determine the prevalence rate, severity, types and distribution of injuries amongst street dancers in Singapore. …”
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nCVTs : a hybrid smart tumour targeting platform by Goh, Wei Jiang, Zou, Shui, Czarny, Bertrand, Pastorin, Giorgia

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Sustainability and interactivity between cities and ports : a two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach by Chen, Chen, Lam, Jasmine Siu Lee

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Seoul-Hong Kong-Macau : love with an alien (1957) and postwar Korea-Hong Kong co-production by Lee, Sangjoon

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The business plan of Electras Technologies Pte Ltd by Lim, Khar Hwee, Loh, Vanessa Wee Heng, Wong, Lai Peng

“…Conclusions solely based on the students' observations, analysis and experience during the six months of preparation work are drawn at the end of this report. The group's opinions are presented under the Final Note to examine the company's achievements and success.…”
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