Finding meaning behind immortality of Anne Rice’s vampires. by Nurhayati Zakaria.

“…Immortality plays a central role in the continuous inquiry into the vampires’ nature and existence throughout the span of many centuries. These novels follow the psychological and emotional experiences of vampiric immortality, firstly, via two first-person accounts of two separate vampires, Louis and Lestat, and later trace Rice’s interpretation of vampiric urban legend through the stories of various vampires of different walks of life. …”
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Behaviour of precast concrete joints subject to a missing column scenerio by Wee Jun Yang.

“…The sub-assemblages include two-span beams with two column stubs and a middle beam-column joint. …”
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Micropipette aspiration of a living cell by Badjo, Wenna

“…Using the viscoelastic model, it was found that PDMS 20:1 will result in higher stiffness of cell and the longer the cell is cultured on the substrate, the stiffer the cell, however this is only apply for the span of 7 days. On the other hand, no substantiate conclusion is drawn from the elastic modulus. …”
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Effect of a circular tunnel in the foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Yeong, Siang Phong

“…A dry sand dike of 12 m crest span, 60 m base width and 8 m height is selected as the model in this study. …”
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Futurism: performance and performativity of a movement by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig

“…Performance interventions span across the history of this movement (Goldberg, 2011): from the notorious 'serate' instigated by Marinetti, in which the audience would be purposefully scandalised, provoked and offended, to the futurist music concerts that provided an ancestral root for the aesthetics of synthesised sound in contemporary music (Rodney, 1976), not to mention the Russian counterpart of this movement, which embraced, on stage, such wide a field as to encompass theatre, opera, dance, music and scenic design. …”
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Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment by Albini, D, Ransome, E, Dumbrell, AJ, Pawar, S, O’Gorman, EJ, Smith, TP, Bell, T, Jackson, MC, Woodward, G

“…While substantial empirical evidence has accumulated in recent years on such changes, we still lack general insights due to a limited coverage of warming scenarios that span spatial and temporal scales of relevance to natural systems. …”

Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications by Whitehouse, H

“…Theprocess has involved various theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and advances,discussed in this book review forum from a variety of novel angles. Contributors span a broadrange of disciplines, including cognitive and evolutionary anthropology (Atran, Burdett, Lanman,Stanford), history (Larson, Martin), philosophy (McCauley), religious studies (Wood) and compu-ter science (Lane). …”

Mg2SnO4 ceramicsII. Electrical characterization by Azad, Abdul-Majeed, Min, Liew Jing, Alim, Mohammad A

“…The inverse spinel-structured Mg2SnO4 possessing steady capacitance over the temperature range between 27 and 300°C in a frequency domain spanning nearly four decades has been examined by an a.c. technique. …”
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Understanding conflict in the franchised restaurant industry: insights from court records by Siti Nurhayati Khairatun, Zheng, Tianshu

“…This exploratory study employed a content analysis using a data triangulation of New York court records (23 cases, 3 dismissed) spanning from 1957 to 2016 and IFA corporate databases to explore the causes of conflict in the franchised restaurant industry. …”
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Generative AI: a systematic review using topic modelling techniques by Gupta, Priyanka, Ding, Bosheng, Guan, Chong, Ding, Ding

“…The study analyzes a corpus of 1319 records from Scopus spanning from 1985 to 2023 and comprises journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, and selected working papers. …”
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The Creative Industries Effects on Economic Performance in the Time of Pandemic by Che Arshad, Noraziah, Irijanto, Tubagus Thresna

“…Design/methodology/approach – This paper applied a random effect and fixed effect estimation approach to investigate the impact of creative industries’ development (government expenditure on education, export of creative industries, trade openness, innovation index, sukuk issuances) on the economic performance spanning from 2010 to 2020. Findings – The economic performance was proxied by two dependent variables, namely, the gross domestic product and the Misery Index. …”
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Damp Skin: Portraits of Taiwanese Domesticity, Resilience, and Otherness by Chan, Cheng-Hsin

“…Damp Skin unfolds through three intertwined registers that offer diverse materials and perspectives spanning time and space, providing a layered understanding of Taiwanese history and contemporary experiences: I. …”
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Effects of provision on non-audit services on audit lag : test of the knowledge spillover hypothesis. by Low, Jeremy Peng Mun., Lew, Zining., Tse, Man Yee.

“…Our sample comprises 5,495 companies listed on the major stock exchanges in the United States spanning 2000 to 2003 and is the largest sample study on knowledge spillover or audit lag. …”
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BIM : interoperability issues between BIM authoring software and structural analysis software (RC) by Low, Khai Jer

“…This is an era of digitalisation, software usage is ubiquitous across all industry, including the Built Environment industry, spanning from concept development, design, construction, operations till demolition of the building. …”
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Towards robust monocular depth estimation in the wild by Zheng, Zhenkai

“…Experiments will be conducted on several models trained during the span of the project and both quantitative and qualitative evaluations will be performed. …”
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Additive manufacturing by Yeong, Wai Yee

“…Applications of AM can be multidisciplinary and span across many fields of study. The research projects featured in this primer are categorised into seven research areas: (1) Aerospace & Defence (2) Biomedical & Food Printing (3) Building & Construction (4) Marine & Offshore (5) AI in Part Design & Manufacturing (6) Novel Materials & 3D Microstructure Engineering (7) Beyond 3D Printing. …”
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Behaviour of steel and polyproylene fibers in high strength concrete subjected to elevated temperature by Khoo, Li Ying.

“…Concrete are widely used in the construction industry and with the increase in demand of high strength properties and long life span, High Strength Concrete (HSC) is more commonly used as compared to other types of concretes. …”
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Intelligent reconstruction of pipe system for BIM enabled maintenance by Xie, Hang

“…With the help of BIM, planning and design such as life span, energy cost, requirement for space and structure efficiency for construction will become much simpler. …”
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Design implementation low energy fast fourier transform/inverse fast fourier transform (FFT/IFFT) processor based on asynchronous-logic by Chong, Kwen Siong

“…The circuits designed herein span from microcells and macrocells to a complete 128-point radix-2 decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform/Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (FFT/IFFT) processor for energy-critical audio applications, including hearing aids. …”
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All-optical processing technologies for next generation optical networks by Wang, Dawei

“…All-optical processing technologies span many research areas, which include optical buffering, optical logic gates, optical wavelength conversion/multicasting, optical signal regeneration, ultra-fast optical switching, optical signal modulation format conversion, de-multiplexing of optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) signal, optical data exchange, and etc. …”
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