Development of fiber optic strain sensor system for smart structure applications by Ong, Lin Seng, Seah, Leong Keey, Chai, Gin Boay

“…However, as a result of external perturbation or disturbances, the light that passes through the optical fiber changes one or more of its characteristics or properties such as intensity, phase, state of polarization, wavelength or reflective index. As long as we are able to detect these changes and relate them to the changes of external perturbations we can transform the optical fiber into a sensor to detect those perturbations. …”
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Arranged Spaces by Poh, Janice Esther

“…Traditional provision shops have been around Singapore for quite a long time. Recognised as a vanishing trade and essential to Singapore’s heartland heritage, National Heritage Board (NHB) has been led to commission a research team to document a portion of the shops in 2011. …”
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The "Paulson Plan" and its implications by Woo, Raymond Weng Pong

“…However, the "Paulson Plan" will likely provide only short-term benefits without solving the crisis' root causes. It might even create long-term damage to the US' economic and strategic position.…”
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Sensory, motor, and emotion associations for landscape concepts differ across neighbouring speech communities by Striedl, P, Majid, A, Purves, RS

“…A long-standing debate centres around our mental representation of landscape: is it experienced in largely the same way across all humans or is it shaped to some extent by cultural and linguistic experience? …”

Historicising Keats’ opium imagery through Neoclassical medical and literary discourses by Cox, O

“…This chapter argues that conceptions of opium in long-eighteenth-century culture, in medical and literary genres of writing alike, predominantly harked back to classical precedent, which had dominated for centuries, there being then scant scientific understanding of opium’s chemical physiological mechanisms. …”

An account of the genus Cistanche (Orobanchaceae) in Iraq and taxonomic considerations in the Middle East by Aldughayman, M, Thorogood, CJ, A Al-Mayah, AA, Hawkins, JA

“…Species limits in the genus <em>Cistanche</em> are poorly understood, despite the plants’ long history of use in traditional herbal medicine and food across their range. …”

Breaking up rationally by Villiger, D, de Vries, B

“…The end of a long-term romantic relationship ranks among the most stressful and momentous events in life. …”

Natural gas in Latin America and interactions with the rest of the world by Honoré, A

“…Latin America has long been disconnected from other gas markets, focusing instead on regional integration via pipeline – especially in the Southern Cone. …”

Annotated Old Enggano word list derived from Walland’s “Het Eiland Engano” from 1864 by Krauße, D, Rajeg, GPW

“…The remarks column from the original PDF was curated into a long- and wide-table format. Abbreviations used as Remarks are as follows: HL means remarks on High Language; LL means remarks on Low Language; OE indicates sound changes involved from Old Enggano into Modern/Contemporary Enggano (ME); ME indicates the Modern/Contemporary Enggano translation; </p><p>Other remarks. …”

Robust and efficient deep learning methods for vision-based action recognition by Xu, Yuecong

“…To extract robust long-range dependencies more efficiently, we explore on further improving the non-local neural network by proposing a novel long-range spatiotemporal dependencies extraction module, the Pyramid Non-Local (PNL) module. …”
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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

“…In The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player, Maxwell outlines the successes of team players who have been: Intentional – making every action count toward a long-term goalRelational – focused on othersSelfless – willing to take a subordinate role for the sake of the teamTenacious – hardworking and optimistic in the face of setbacks. …”
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NeuroTribes : The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently / by Silberman, Steve, author 656044, Allen & Unwin (Online service) 656043

“…The narrative arc is roughly chronological, stretching across time and highlighting some of the Big Non-autistic Names in autism’s long, strange and often terrible trip: Hans Asperger, Leo Kanner, Bruno Bettelheim, Bernard Rimland, Ole Ivar Lovaas, Lorna Wing. …”
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Recent Developments in Machine and Human Intelligence / by Rajest, S. Suman, 1988-, editor 656392, Singh, Bhopendra, 1974-, editor 656393, Obaid, Ahmed J., 1983-, editor 656394, Regin, R., 1985-, editor 656395, Chinnusamy, Karthikeyan, 1973-, 656396, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…Establishing the means to improve performance in healthy, clinical, and military populations has long been a focus of study in the psychological and brain sciences. …”
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An immune-competent human gut microphysiological system enables inflammation-modulation by Faecalibacterium prausnitzii by Zhang, Jianbo, Huang, Yu-Ja, Trapecar, Martin, Wright, Charles, Schneider, Kirsten, Kemmitt, John, Hernandez-Gordillo, Victor, Yoon, Jun Young, Poyet, Mathilde, Alm, Eric J., Breault, David T., Trumper, David L., Griffith, Linda G.

“…However, there is no existing system for a long-term co-culture of human innate immune cells with epithelium and oxygen-intolerant commensal microbes, hindering the understanding of microbe-immune interactions in a controlled manner. …”
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Metabolic modulation to improve MSC expansion and therapeutic potential for articular cartilage repair by Tee, Ching A., Roxby, Daniel N., Othman, Rashidah, Denslin, Vinitha, Bhat, Kiseer S., Yang, Zheng, Han, Jongyoon, Tucker-Kellogg, Lisa, Boyer, Laurie A.

“…We further demonstrate that AA treatment reduced the proportion of senescent cells and cell heterogeneity also allowing for long-term expansion that led to a > 300-fold increase in yield of MSCs with enhanced chondrogenic potential compared to untreated cells. …”
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Co-seismic ruptures of the 12 May 2008, Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan : East–west crustal shortening on oblique, parallel thrusts along the eastern edge of Tibet by Liu-Zeng, J., Zhang, Z., Wen, L., Sun, J., Xing, X., Hu, G., Xu, Q., Zeng, L., Ding, L., Ji, C., Hudnut, K. W., van der Woerd, J., Tapponnier, Paul

“…The Ms 8.0, Wenchuan earthquake, which devastated the mountainous western rim of the Sichuan basin in central China, produced a surface rupture over 200 km-long with oblique thrust/dextral slip and maximum scarp heights of ~ 10 m. …”
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Direct seeding of mass-cultured coral larvae is not an effective option for reef rehabilitation by Edwards, Alasdair J., Guest, James R., Heyward, Andrew J., Villanueva, Ronald D., Baria, Ma. Vanessa, Bollozos, Iris S. F., Golbuu, Yimnang

“…While some studies have shown positive short-term effects on settlement, to date, none have examined the long-term effects of larval seeding for a broadcast-spawning coral. …”
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Hydrated eutectic electrolyte with ligand-oriented solvation shell to boost the stability of zinc battery by Han, Mingming, Huang, Jiwu, Xie, Xuesong, Li, Tian Chen, Huang, Jiangtao, Liang, Shuquan, Zhou, Jiang, Fan, Hong Jin

“…An electrolyte cation additive strategy provides a versatile route for developing high-energy and long-life aqueous zinc-ion hybrid capacitors. However, the mechanisms of energy storage and Zn anode protection are still unclear in Zn-based systems with dual-ion electrolytes. …”
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Macroscopic assembled graphene nanofilms based room temperature ultrafast mid-infrared photodetectors by Peng, Li, Liu, Lixiang, Du, Sichao, Bodepudi, Srikrishna Chanakya, Li, Lingfei, Liu, Wei, Lai, Runchen, Cao,Xiaoxue, Fang, Wenzhang, Liu, Yingjun, Liu, Xinyu, Lv, Jianhang, Abid, Muhammad, Liu, Junxue, Jin, Shengye, Wu, Kaifeng, Lin, Miao-Ling, Cong, Xin, Tan, Ping-Heng, Zhu, Haiming, Xiong, Qihua, Wang, Xiaomu, Hu, Weida, Duan, Xianfeng, Yu, Bin Yu, Xu, Zhen, Xu, Yang, Gao, Chao

“…The nMAG provides a long-range platform to understand the hot-carrier dynamics in bulk 2D materials, leading to broadband and ultrafast MIR active imaging devices at room temperature. …”
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Visual analytics for massive urban public transport data by Zeng, Wei

“…Hence, studying PTS is highly beneficial to both individuals as well as a city as a whole, and it has long been a hot topic in transport research. However, many conventional transport researches have long been relying on simulation and survey data, making the results less of conviction. …”
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