Investment in China : reform and policy by Bai, Wenyang

“…The focus is on the determination of investment with a view to identifying its specific financing sources, mechanism, and links with monetary and fiscal policies. The analysis is mainly based on a modified version of the flexible accelerator theory of investment. …”
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Numerical simulation of debris throw after breaking up of a concrete struture by blast load by Xiong, Can

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Studies on high-frequency noise characteristics in deep submicron NMOSFETs by Zeng, Rong

“…The reduction of minimum noise figure with the increase in body bias may provide a possible methodology to finely adjust the device high-frequency noise performance for circuit design.…”
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Processing-properties relationship of nanostructured Ni-Fe-Mo magnetic materials by Shen, Yanping

“…However, coercivity was mainly affected by the milling process and was independent of the substitution of Mo.…”
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Facile growth of horizontally suspended carbon nanotubes by Lu, Jingyu, Miao, Jianmin, Yan, Bin

“…The Raman spectroscopy reveals that the structural quality of CNTs gradually improves from CNT roots to tips, which is mainly attributed to the decay of catalyst activity during the CNT growth. …”
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Controller design of linear servo motor systems by Lee, Tim Leong.

“…This project mainly concerns the control technique of linear servo motor systems to achieve position control. …”
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Bandwidth reduction techniques for distributed interactive simulation by Liang, Lawrence Aik Hwa.

“…It is initially employed mainly for military applications. Today, this emerging technology has found its niche in many other industries and is successfully adopted by many applications such as entertainment, training, planning and analysis. …”
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Regionalisation : an economic analysis of outward foreign direct investment from Singapore by Teo, Thiam Hoe, Goh, Mien Zo, See, Bee Lin

“…The economic development of Singapore began with the role played by the Economic Development Board (EDB) in attracting foreign investors, mainly multinational companies into Singapore. However, more emphasis was placed on venturing overseas through FDI in the late eighties as Singapore's economy began to mature. …”
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Source language effect on translating Korean honorifics by Paik, Kyonghee., Ohtake, Kiyonori., Bond, Francis., Yamamoto, Kazuhide.

“…The original corpus was compiled from Japanese-English parallel sentences collected from more than 300 phrase books in order to build a Japanese-English machine translation system mainly for Japanese traveling abroad. The corpora used for this research consist of 324,616 Korean sentences. …”
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Augmented Object Intelligence with XR-Objects by Dogan, Mustafa Doga, Gonzalez, Eric, Ahuja, Karan, Du, Ruofei, Cola?o, Andrea, Lee, Johnny, Gonzalez-Franco, Mar, Kim, David

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Site-specific chemical and topological modifications to augment mRNA therapeutic potential by Aditham, Abhishek J.

“…We show that mocRNAs are subject to slower deadenylation and enhance therapeutic protein expression in cell lines and primary cell cultures. We expanded on this technology by creating mRNAs with chemically branched poly(A) tails, or multitail mRNAs, which increase the density of modifications at the 3’ end of mocRNA and further stabilize mRNA against deadenylation. …”
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Rhetorical contestation and the mediterranean migration crisis, 2013-2018 by He, Wendy Qingli

“…In addition, I argue that the securitization of the migration crisis is perpetuated by the EU and Italy’s use of complicity to construct a political narrative that blurs the lines of responsibility and culpability. By ascribing complicity to others using highly politicized rhetoric, the EU and Italy complicate the narrative of the migration crisis, making it more challenging to attribute responsibility to any one party. …”
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Engineering a surface to enhance endothelial cell adhesion towards creating a 'roll-up' blood vessel prosthesis by Chua, Hui Yee.

“…The optimized gelatin “ink” allowed extended viability for the entrapped HUVECs and the drawn scaffold lines to retain their integrity whilst in growth media. …”
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Impact of BREXIT on key stakeholders of the maritime industry in UK by Ching, Claudia Loke Wei

“…By and large, UK will generally experience detrimental effects in the near future, but the long term effects of BREXIT still awaits to be seen as UK seeks to establish new trade relations and construct necessary infrastructure in supporting the UK economy post-BREXIT. UK shipping lines and port operators are therefore recommended to look to alternative sources of labour to replace the productivity gap of the EU nationals in the worst case scenario of a hard BREXIT should restrictions in the free movement of labour occur after BREXIT. …”
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In vitro and in silico investigation of TRPC3 mechanism and dynamics by Collingridge, J

“…This work provides computational evidence for the ability of TRPC3 to form a widely conserved, mechanistically important π-helix structural component in the pore-lining S6 helix. This has not previously been reported for TRPC3, and simulations presented here suggest a role for the π-helix in promoting a transition towards an open state of the channel. …”

Investigating the contribution of the unfolded protein response to prostate cancer bone metastasis by Kaya, Z

“…Using paired androgen refractory cancer of the prostate (ARCaP) cell lines ARCaPE and ARCaPM which differ in their epithelial (E) and mesenchymal (M) characteristics, I found that components of IRE1 and ATF6 ER stress pathways are higher in ARCaPE cells than in ARCaPM and decreased upon osteogenic differentiation of ARCaPM cells. …”

Engineering control of rhizobacteria for plant growth promotion by Green, PWL

“…The rhizopine system was used to demonstrate tight transcriptional control of the NifA master transcriptional regulator of <em>nif</em> genes for nitrogen fixation <em>in vitro</em>, thereby developing a rhizopine responsive diazotrophic strain which can be assayed for plant growth promotion on rhizopine producing barley lines. To test the feasibility of controlled synthetic symbiosis in a nodule environment, rhizopine control of nitrogen fixation was assayed in the model symbiotic rhizobium <em>S. meliloti</em>. …”

Elevated reactive oxygen species can drive the alternative lengthening of telomeres pathway in ATRX-null cancers by Goncalves, T, Cunniffe, S, Ma, T, Mattis, N, Rose, A, Kent, T, Mole, D, Geiller, HB, van Bijsterveldt, L, Humphrey, T, Hammond, E, Gibbons, R, Clynes, D, Rose, A

“…We also demonstrate that elevation of ROS can trigger over-activity of the ALT pathway in osteosarcoma and glioma cell lines, resulting in excessive DNA damage and cell death. …”

Physical properties of keropok (fried crisps) in relation to the amylopectin content of the starch flours by Mohamed, Suhaila, Abdullah, Norakiah, Muthu, Mangayar Karasi

“…Linear expansion, oil absorption and elasticity were positively correlated to the total amylopectin content in the whole flour (r2 = 0.99, 0.97 and 0.97 respectively). The best fitted lines for prediction of linear expansion, oil absorption and elasticity of the fried crisps were 21y ≦ 0.35x ‐ 162, y=0.15x‐ 74 and y=0.0008x‐0.41 respectively, where x is the amylopectin content of the whole flour. …”

Potential biological control agents of Geosmithia morbida restrict fungal pathogen growth via mycoparasitism and antibiosis by Onufrak, Aaron J., Gazis, Romina, Gwinn, Kimberly, Klingeman, William, Khodaei, Sima, Perez Oñate, Luis I., Finnell, Autumn, Givens, Spencer, Chen, Cristine, Holdridge, David R., Hadziabdic, Denita

“…Additionally, one metabolite-producing Trichoderma isolate, TN4-47, completely inhibited the growth of all three G. morbida isolates across all tested metabolite concentrations and had comparatively greater tolerance to juglone compared to other Trichoderma isolates. Future lines of research should focus on characterizing the active antagonistic compound present in the metabolite filtrates, determine the mode of action of the active component(s), and elucidate how abiotic and biotic factors may influence the growth, persistence, and antagonistic activity of candidate biological control agents in planta.…”
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