A note on the Tibetan kinship terms khu and zhang by Nagano, Sadako

“…Tibetan kinship terminology is an important topic, not just for learning about the language and culture of Tibet, but also for learning about the languages and cultures of other Sino-Tibetan peoples. This subject has long been discussed from the standpoints of culural anthropology, history and linguistics. …”
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Subband adaptive algorithms for high-order transversal filters by Lee, Kong Aik

“…One application of interest is acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which involves colored excitation and the modeling of long impulse response. Acoustic echo canceller finds application in hands-free telephone systems, audio or video conference systems, hearing aids, voice-control systems, and many more.…”
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Regression assisted evolutionary optimization by Ayyappan, Murugan

“…As some industrial applications involve complex calculations to evaluate a single solution, optimization takes an intractably long time to complete. The aim of this project is to reduce the number of these evaluations during an optimization run, which would in turn reduce the computational time of the evolutionary optimization. …”
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Tool use and hand preference in Macaca fascicularis aurea. by Tan, Virnice Pinlin.

“…Tool use among long-tailed macaques in natural environments has been limited to anecdotal reports. …”
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Personal positioning and location inferences by Niu, Xudong.

“…SPs represent the “hotspots” which the user visits frequently and/or dwell for relatively long period of time, while trajectories reflect how the user traverses among the SPs. …”
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Investigation of the spectral and electrical accelerated degradation characteristics of semiconductor injection lasers grown by molecular beam epitaxy by Yoon, Soon-Fatt.

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Tourism : a catalyst for warmer China-Taiwan relations. by Li, Yuanyi.

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Processing-properties relationship of nanostructured Ni-Fe-Mo magnetic materials by Shen, Yanping

“…Mo atoms were substituted into the FeNi3 phase, and destroyed the long-range FeNi3 lattice to form short-range order. …”
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Investigate the efficiency and effectiveness of material handling in a pharmaceutical factory by Cen, Yizhe

“…Simulation-based analysis and financial analysis were performed to prove that the additional forklift truck solution was more cost-effective in the short run and the conveyor solution was better suited in the long run.…”
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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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