SOCIAL MASKING: The act of comfortable personalities by Yar, Lionel Jun Cheng

“…In a best-case scenario, social masking enables individuals to function easily within various contexts in our social world. On the contrary in a worst-case scenario, social masking serves as barriers to true acceptance, hospitality, understanding and authentic communication. …”
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Seven children inequality and Britain’s next generation by Dorling, D

“…Dorling’s seven were born in 2018, when the UK faced its worst inequality since the Great Depression and became Europe’s most socially divided nation. …”

Bit-error rate simulation and analysis of various frequency-hopped multiple-access receivers by Wang, Kaiyuan

“…The results show that MRC performs the best and SC is the worst; Rayleigh fading channel and Rician fading channel both can degrade the BER of the system while Rician channel performs better than Rayleigh channel; the MAI does have bad effects at the receiver and degrades the BER performance significantly.…”
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Design and simulation of periodic dielectric waveguide splitter by Ng, Kah Sheng.

“…The simulation results show that Y-Shaped is the worst performer of the three while the 90° bend is produce the best result.…”
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Evaluation of strategies to manage risks in smart, sustainable Agri logistics sector: a Bayesian-based group decision-making approach by Gupta, Himanshu, Kharub, Manjeet, Shreshth, Kumar, Kumar, Ashwani, Huisingh, Donald, Kumar, Anil

“…Therefore, this study aimed to identify potential risks to the smart, sustainable agri-logistics industry and strategies for mitigating those risks. Bayesian Best Worst Method (BBWM) was used to prioritise the identified risks and the mitigating strategies. …”
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A Proposed Framework of Unemployment and Youth Restiveness in the North-Eastern Nigeria: Exloring the Role of the “Almajiri” Culture by Abbo, Usman, Romle, Abd Rahim

“…More so as unemployment in Nigeria increase by 16% from 2011 to 2013 representing 39.9%, with youth unemployment representing 50% of this, where the north-eastern region continue to manifest the worst poverty rate compare to the other five geo-political zones couple with the existence of about 10 million “Almajiris” in the entire northern region which is much more than the total population of Sweden and the result of several investigation panels revealing the involvement of “Almajiri” in most of the violence occurring in the northern region from 1980 to 2010, where the vulnerability of the “Almajiri” due to abject poverty makes them a tool for unleashing violence by some unscrupulouselements. …”
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跨媒介视野下的严歌苓研究 ：从《陆犯焉识》到《归来》的影视改编 = Cultural studies of Yan Geling from the trans-media perspective : from the adaption of the novel “The Prisoner Called Yanshi Lu” to the movie “Com... by 叶晓霞 Ye, Amber Xiaoxia

“…Her works are often adapted and directed into movie productions, in which one of her earliest works “TianYu” had won seven honorable awards from the Golden Horse Film Festival. Her works also garnered attention from acclaimed directors, where the novel “The Prisoner Called Yanshi Lu” gained extensive recognition after it was adapted and directed by Zhang Yimou. …”
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THE BIG RICH : THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREATEST TEXAS OIL FORTUNES / by Burrough, Bryan, 1961-, author 376296

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Multiple criteria decision making comparison between electre II method and deviation method by Choong, Hon Yoong.

“…ELECTRE II method started with the comparison of the concordance index and discordance index of all the suppliers, followed by the computation of outranking relationship and final ranking from best to worst whereas Deviation Method measured the difference between the supplier’s value and the requestor’s value to calculate the individual criterion score. …”
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Sampling from the random cluster model on random regular graphs at all temperatures via Glauber dynamics by Galanis, A, Goldberg, L, Smolarova, P

“…Nevertheless, it is widely conjectured that the bottleneck phenomena that impede mixing from worst-case starting configurations can be avoided by initialising the chain more judiciously. …”

Quality of life among patients with lower limb osteoarthritis in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Nazeri, Nuranis Milani Ahmad

“…In conclusion, the findings of this study showed that the quality of life among patients with lower limb osteoarthritis was the worst in pain domain and the best in social functioning.…”
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Design and implementation of enhanced lightweight memory-based and monostable physical unclonable functions by Zhong, Hui Shu

“…The average and worst-case uniformities are 50% and 54%, respectively. …”
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Critical events detection and management in complex networks by Yu, Yi

“…We study the problem of finding the best locations of a given number of monitors in the network to minimize the worst-case infection size of a strong infection. …”
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Complexity-Theoretic Limitations on Quantum Algorithms for Topological Data Analysis by Schmidhuber, Alexander, Lloyd, Seth

“…Because quantum computers are not expected to solve #P-hard or NP-hard problems in subexponential time, our results imply that quantum algorithms for TDA offer only a polynomial advantage in the worst case. We support our claim by showing that the seminal quantum algorithm for TDA developed by Lloyd, Garnerone, and Zanardi achieves a quadratic speedup over the best-known classical approach in asymptotically almost all cases. …”
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Effects of music attrition on English-Mandarin Chinese bilinguals’ lexical tone perception and production in a foreign language by Toh, Xin Ru

“…Although non-‘dialect’ speaking non-musicians performed the worst in musical abilities and lexical tone perception, ‘dialect’ speaking ex-musicians did not perform the best. …”
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Effects on miniature filament on flow characteristics by Pisigan Charles Abraham Rectra

“…These trends were also observed in the other fabrics tested. The worst performing fabric, the 80% nylon, was thusly observed to have a larger minimal C_d of 0.320 and a higher S_q measurement of 35.8μm. …”
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Non-iterative division circuit design with accuracy and performance trade-off based on mixed integer linear programming approach by Wu, Lei, Jong, Ching Chuen

“…Mixed integer linear programming is adopted to optimize the worst case error due to approximation in each stripe. …”
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Development of a capacitive deionization (CDI) device for water desalination by Chia, Desmond Zhi Yong

“…In many places around the world, access to fresh water is often difficult, tedious and sometimes outright impossible. At worst, some have no choice but to utilize contaminated water in their daily activities, knowing fully well that they are jeopardizing their health. …”
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Field survey of Typhoon Hato (2017) and a comparison with storm surge modeling in Macau by Switzer, Adam Douglas, Mok, Kai Meng, Wang, Peitao, Peng, Dongju, Li, Linlin, Yang, Jie, Lin, Chuan-Yao, Chua, Constance Ting, Wang, Yu, Zhao, Kuifeng, Wu, Yun-Ta, Liu, Philip Li-Fan

“…Among the hardest hit cities, Macau experienced the worst flooding since 1925. In this paper, we present a high-resolution survey map recording inundation depths and distances at 278 sites in Macau. …”
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Simultaneous adsorption of selected endocrine-disrupting compounds at trace level of concentration by using novel calcium-based metal-organic framework by Sukatis, Fahren Fazzer, Razak, Muhammad Raznisyafiq, Looi, Ley Juen, Lim, Hong Ngee, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Basyaruddin, Aris, Ahmad Zaharin

“…The order from the best to worst removal efficiency was EE2 > PFOA > BPA when Ca-MIX was used as the adsorbent. …”
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