Indonesia's presidential debates: the score midway through by Lanti, Irman G.

“…Two debates remain to be held and if they do not produce a decisive outcome, it is likely that the election will go on to a run-off.…”
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An analysis of the travel agency industry in Singapore based on porter's model. by Choy, Kam Luen., Lim, Mui Huang., Teo, Paul Choon Boh.

“…Objectives In this study, the travel agency industry in Singapore is analysed using Michael Porter's Industry Analysis Model with a view to: a) evaluate the structure and attractiveness of the industry; b) review actual examples of how the industry structure and the competitive forces impact on the business of travel agencies; c) assess how the industry structure is likely to change given the trends affecting the industry; and d) present a vision of the future role of travel agencies.…”
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Issues for an ASEAN charter by Acharya, Amitav

“…THE forthcoming ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur in December 2005 is likely to appoint an Eminent Person’s Group (EPG) to guide the development of an ASEAN Charter. …”
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Re-branding plan for Meritus hotels & resorts. by Yeo, Tien Huei.

“…Based on the findings obtained from this study, the ultimate aim is to work out a Re-branding campaign for the Meritus Hotels & Resorts.…”
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Generation of lentiviral-mediated shRNA vectors to inhibit the expression of caspase-1 and Pycard/ASC in dendritic cells. by Tan, Bee Kim.

“…Collectively, we have generated an efficient lentiviral vector-mediated shRNA silencing system in primary cell lines which could provide an insight to into the biological mechanisms involved in inflammasome activation.…”
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Discovery of exosomes as gastric cancer biomarkers from conditioned cell culture media. by Low, Su Jun.

“…We isolated exosomes by concentrating 100ml of conditioned cell culture media from 3 gastric cancer cell lines AGS, NCIN87 and IM95, and subjected them to ultracentrifugation. …”
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Effects of hemodynamic shear stress on circulating breast cancer cells by Khairunisa Liyana Abdul Malek

“…In this project, three lines of metastatic breast cancer cells, 231-C3, 231-M1 and 231-M1A were circulated in a microfluidic model mimicking the blood circulatory system over four different time periods: 2 hours, 4 hours, 9 hours and 18 hours while being exposed to three different hemodynamic shear stress at values of 15 dyn/cm2, 30 dyn/cm2 and 45 dyn/cm2. …”
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Laplacian Regularized Subspace Learning for interactive image re-ranking by Zhang, Lining., Wang, Lipo., Lin, Weisi.

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Statistical theory of the broadband two-plasmon decay instability by Rusko, RT, Bingham, R, Silva, LO, Harper, M, Aboushelbaya, R, Myatt, JF, Norreys, PA

“…The instability-quenching properties of a spectrum of discrete lines spread over some bandwidth have also been studied. …”

Cognitive training and mild cognitive impairment : a review by Chua, Xavier Cheng En, Seow, Jonathan Wei En, Tan, Huiting

“…This review uses the theory of brain/cognitive reserve (Stern et al., 2018) as a basis for discussing these findings. At the conclusion, this review finds that the present research provides better support for the effectiveness of CT in MCI. …”
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#Hooked? Extending the social cognitive model in examining the antecedents of problematic social network sites use among Singaporean adolescents and adults by Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…Most notably, a nuanced difference in how paternal and maternal relationships were associated with adolescents’ problematic SNSs was found—adolescents who had poor relationships with their fathers were more likely to depend on SNSs for identity formation—which had the strongest association with deficient self-regulation. …”
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Paper or Tablet? The Impact of Digital Tools on Sketching During Engineering Design Concept Generation by Das, Madhurima, Huang, May, Yang, Maria

“…This is especially important as tablets can automatically smooth lines and help perfect sketch features, but these features may also take longer to use and may result in fewer sketches produced.…”
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Selective targeting of MYC mRNA by stabilized antisense oligonucleotides by Gill, Taylor, Wang, Haichuan, Bandaru, Raj, Lawlor, Matthew, Lu, Chenyue, Nieman, Linda T, Tao, Junyan, Zhang, Yixian, Anderson, Daniel G, Ting, David T, Chen, Xin, Bradner, James E, Ott, Christopher J

“…MYCASO treatment of cancer cell lines leads to significant inhibition of cellular proliferation while specifically perturbing MYC-driven gene expression signatures. …”
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Unsupervised Learning for Generative Scene Editing and Motion by Fang, David S.

“…In this thesis, we propose two distinct lines of unsupervised learning work with generative applications: 1) BlobGSN and 2) optical flow estimation and flow generation with diffusion models. …”
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Mythical heroines : the appropriation of myth in reconstructing female identities in ethnic American literature by Goh, I-Mei.

“…The three literary texts being investigated along these lines are Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. …”
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Functional analysis of root-preferential oil palm metallothionein promoter in tobacco by Masura, Subhi Siti, Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi, Masani, Mat Yunus Abdul, Chan, Kuang-Lim, Low, Eng-Ti Leslie, Chan, Pek-Lan, Rahmah, Abdul Rahman Siti, Amiruddin, Nadzirah, Abdullah, Mohd Puad, Azzeme, Azzreena Mohamad, Parveez, Ghulam Kadir Ahmad, Abd Rasid, Omar

“…Stable functional characterisation of tobacco transgenic lines using the T1 generation showed that a deletion construct, designated as RSP-2D (1107 bp), directed strong GUS expression at all stages of root development, particularly in mature roots. …”

Determinants of Expatriate Manager Failures in the International Assignment by Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Abd Hamid, Nurzawani, Kamil, Syahida, Abu, Noor Hidayah

“…The international assignment requires an organization send their staff abroad for high potential career development, to coordinate global lines of business, transfer the organization knowledge in abroad, expand into new markets worldwide and also manage an international subsidiary. …”
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The Influence of Root Geometry on Soil Cohesion and Anchoring Ability through Geologic Time by Colicci, Vittorio

“…We maintain that the earliest trees played a key role in surface stabilization within their ecosystems and likely paved the way for species that followed.…”
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Solder joint testing and failure analysis by Kang, Eng Tat.

“…These devices are also likely to undergo thermo-mechanical cycling during device processing and service and therefore, the joints are likely to have existing low-cycle fatigue cracks, which might adversely affect the joint mechanical integrity under various loading situations. …”
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Understanding motivation to adhere to guidelines for alcohol intake, physical activity, and fruit and vegetable intake among U.K. university students by de Visser, Richard O., Conroy, Dom, Davies, Emma, Cooke, Richard

“…University students are a group worth of attention because although they are less likely than older adults to exceed UK weekly alcohol intake guidelines or to be inactive, they are also less likely to meet FV consumption targets. …”
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