Solving the modern marriage puzzle : the problems of creating value in marriage by Ang, Claudia Hui Lin

“…This paper argues that marriage should be disestablished, or at the very least, reformed. Marriage lacks intrinsic value, and if socioeconomic purposes that necessitated marriage in the past are no longer valid now, then there remains no good justification for marriage. …”
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The battle for Asia in crude oil markets: an easier road ahead for India? by Sen, A

“…This, together with the deregulation of product prices, will help boost Indian fiscal balances immensely, in a complete reversal of the trend seen over the past decade.…”

'Raji': language of a vanishing Himalayan tribe by Rastogi, Kavita

“…Its grammar and lexicon store the shared experiences of past generations, and a language is the channel by which knowledge and beliefs of one generation are transmitted to the next. …”
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Networks of care for the modern adolescent by White, SR, Soneson, E, OxWell Study Team, Fazel, M

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> One in four (27.0%, 6449/23927) adolescents reported past-year access to mental health support, of which 56.7% (3658/6449) reported accessing multiple types. …”

On language attrition : lexical access in Singaporean English-Chinese bilinguals by Toh, Xiao Xuan

“…The results also established grounds for attributing at least part of the language processing difficulties in migrants to language attrition, since lexical access difficulties were found in the early bilinguals whose language disuse did not coincide with the acquisition of a new language.…”
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Holocene rate of slip and tentative recurrence interval for large earthquakes on the San Andreas fault, Cajon Pass, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, Weldon, Ray J.

“…An excavation has provided evidence for at least 2 earthquakes, and perhaps as many as 4, that caused rupture on the fault between 1290 and 1805 A.D.; it has provided tentative evidence for 6 earthquakes in about the past 1,000 yr. …”
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Introducing a new dataset on Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) by Tominaga, Yasutaka, Lee, Chia-yi, Lyu, Mengting

“…The DTO includes 281 terrorist groups that have been officially designated by at least one IGO or state government as well as 223 other active terrorist groups that have never been designated. …”
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Multi-stable configurations for vibration-based energy harvester by Wileen Kristanto

“…Although this research has been around for the past few years, it has seen many drawbacks to the bandwidth of the operation for the energy harvester. …”
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Prehistoric foragers and farmers in South-east Asia: Renewed investigations at Niah Cave, Sarawak by Barker, G, Barton, H, Beavitt, P, Bird, M, Daly, P, Doherty, C, Gilbertson, D, Hunt, C, Krigbaum, J, Lewis, H, Manser, J, McClaren, S, Paz, V, Piper, P, Pyatt, B, Rabett, R, Reynolds, T, Rose, J, Rushworth, G, Stephens, M

“…The critical importance of the Niah stratigraphies was commonly identified – including by Tom Harrisson himself – as because the site provided a continuous sequence of occupation over the past 40,000 years. The present project indicates that Niah was first used at least 45,000 years ago, and probably earlier; that the subsequent Pleistocene and Holocene occupations were highly variable in intensity and character; and that in some periods, perhaps of significant duration, the caves may have been more or less abandoned. …”

Improving the well-being outcomes via decent work and job engagement: a findings from Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in Malaysia by Norizan Baba Rahim, Rasidah Arshad, Zulnaidi Yaacob

“…Using purposive sampling technique which involved 143 PWDs in Malaysia via SurveyMonkey, the measurement items were adopted from past research with acceptable reliability, and the hypothesis were tested via Partial Least Squares (PLS) 2.0. …”
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Conceptual paper on action research in a chinese lithium electric materials company: brain drain, talent-position mismatch and talent outflow. by Fu, Jianghua, Choo, Ling Suan, Teo, Poh-Chuin, Tan, Jun-Wei, C. F. Ho, Theresa

“…Subsequently, this paper reviewed the past literature, and identified the intervention plans. …”

Hybrid brain computer interface for relaxation management by Ngian, Michelle Mei Xue

“…Learning performance is an important feature that needs to be evaluated in managing learning performance of the students. In the past, teachers evaluate students by monitoring their grades. …”
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Changes in the phenomenon of icon-painting in Romania from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present day by Draghici-Vasilescu, N

“…</p> <p>The thesis presents the same tradition regarding the requirements of the profession of an iconographer, how they were fulfilled in the past and how they are satisfied today in Romania, in both a monastic and a secular milieu. …”

Unveiling the facade of blog posts to reveal subjective well-being : an exploratory study. by Ou, Zhiqi., Tan, Justine Yi Ting., Tan, Jessie Zi Xi.

“…With the increased usage of social media over the past few years, online platforms like blogs and micro blogs may offer a valuable source of information with regards to behavioral economics and policy design. …”
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Online learning with kernels by Fan, Haijin

“…The recurrent term makes the past information reusable for the updating of the algorithm. …”
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Electrical and Electronics Global Supply Chain: The Significance Effect of Psychological Empowerment on Organizational Business Performance by Wei-Kit, Loke, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Foo, Wah Lim

“…The data were then analyzed utilizing Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) technique. …”
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Study of vector antennas by Zeng, Yong

“…Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for electromagnetic waves has its wide application in today’s industry and it has attracted a lot of research interest in the past several decades. Traditional DOA estimation techniques usually use antenna arrays as field sensors, whose data outputs are scalar quantities. …”
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Face recognition based on the combination of rectangle filters and unified subspace analysis approach by Cai, Yichang

“…As one of the most successful applications of Image analysis and understanding, face recognition has recently received significant attention, especially during the past several years. At least two reasons account for this trend: the first is the wide range of commercial and law enforcement applications, and the second Is the availability of feasible technologies after 30 years of research. …”
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Trends in extreme daily rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia : 1948 - 2010 by Firouzi, Morteza

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Do institutional pressures impact voluntary environment information disclosure? by Fan, Jing, Muhamad, Haslinah, Mohd Said, Ridzwana, Daud, Zaidi Mat

“…Over the past decades, China's rapid economic growth has mainly come at the expense of excessive energy consumption, resulting in significant carbon dioxide emissions and other environmental challenges. …”
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