Rethinking small-footprint counter-terrorism: moving from kinetic operations to security force assistance by Bell, Louis

“…In response to the 'body bag syndrome' produced by the long years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has adopted a small-footprint strategy founded on kinetic operations designed to capture or kill key militants. …”
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MicroRNA trimming in the nervous system by Lee, Li Ming

“…MicroRNAs are small, single-stranded RNAs about 22 nucleotides long which are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of mRNAs. …”
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Coseismic reverse- and oblique-slip surface faulting generated by the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, China by Yu, Guihua., Chen, Guihua., Klinger, Yann., Xu, Xiwei., Wen, Xueze., Hubbard, Judith., Shaw, John H.

“…This earthquake generated a 240-km-long surface rupture zone along the Beichuan fault and an additional 72-km-long surface rupture zone along the Pengguan fault. …”
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Omitting the intra-session calibration in EEG-based brain computer interface used for stroke rehabilitation by Arvaneh, Mahnaz, Guan, Cuntai, Ang, Kai Keng, Quek, Chai

“…This process is time-consuming and inconvenient for stroke patients who undergo long-term BCI sessions with repeating same mental tasks. …”
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Exploring the mechanisms of coordinated chick provisioning in the Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus by Gillies, N, Tyson, C, Wynn, J, Syposz, M, Vansteenberghe, C, Guilford, TC

“…Manx shearwaters Puffinus puffinus are Procellariiform seabirds that exhibit a dual foraging strategy during chick provisioning in which long foraging trips to maintain condition are alternated with short, frequent trips to feed the offspring. …”

Demand for higher education in Singapore. by Chia, Wilson., Yap, Si Guan., Teo, Bee Cheng.

“…This is a survey done on NUS and NTU undergraduates to elicit their response for the need for higher education after the undergraduate level. Factors like choice of pursuit, locality of pursuit and reasons for these options were compiled and analysed.…”
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Housing policy and price effects on housing wealth distribution in Singapore. by Chan, Joy Yuen Yee.

“…The change in prices could have result the housing wealth distribution in Singapore to change too. Social problems like inequality might have resulted.…”
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Matlab® for Engineers / by Moore, Holly, author 389527, Pearson Education Limited (Online service) 647098

“…When the text covers new subjects, like statistics and matrix algebra, brief background information is used to support your success. …”
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Wavefront control in space with MEMS deformable mirrors for exoplanet direct imaging by Cahoy, K. L., Marinan, A. D., Novak, B., Kerr, C., Nguyen, T., Webber, M., Falkenburg, G., Barg, A.

“…To meet the high contrast requirement of 1 x 10(-10) to image an Earth-like planet around a sun-like star, space telescopes equipped with coronagraphs require wavefront control systems. …”
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An analog of double electromagnetically induced transparency with extremely high group indexes by Yang, An, Yan, Changchun, Tian, Jiebing, Wang, Cheng, Li, Guiming, Zhang, Dao Hua

“…Our simulations demonstrate that both maximum group indexes are extremely high at the two EIT-like positions. The group index reaches about thrice the currently reported maximum value at the high-frequency EIT-like position. …”
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Internet-of-things gateway for augmented/virtual reality application using light fidelity transmission by Leong, Zhi Cheng

“…This study explores the development and use of an IoT gateway using hardware boards like the Raspberry Pi 4. The IoT gateway will be able to enable communication between hardware devices with different operating systems like Windows and Linux, through the use of Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) communication. …”
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Surface wave interaction with a vertical viscoelastic barrier by Bi, Cheng, Wu, Mao See, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

“…As the regime changes from plate-like to membrane-like, the wave transmission diminishes and the sheet boundary displacement together with the flexural strain and shear force reduce, while the corresponding resonating wavenumber increases instead. …”
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Impact and semi-static performance of thermoplastic composites by Chia, Justin Jun Hao

“…The failure modes of the specimens are also investigated using the optical microscope. Parameters like the thickness of the laminate, which can vary due to manufacturing, can affect the performance of the material. …”
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Catalytic efficiency of ZIF-67 MXene and PMS in organic pollutant degradation by Eng, Bo Xuan

“…Therefore, doping MXene with materials like ZIF-67 further improves its properties for treating organic pollutants in water. …”
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黄展鸣《天界无限》的女英雄形象 = Heroine images in Wee Tian Beng’s celestial zone by 谢文良 Chia, Boon Liang

“…Next, I will analyze the signs and symbols surrounding the heroines, like the hair and sword. Lastly, I will compare the heroines from Celestial zone with some existing heroine images like Mulan, Mu Gui Ying, Fan Li Hua, Huang Rong etc, and point out how the heroines from Celestial zone improved from the feminism point of view.…”
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Adoption, usage and impact of Family Folder Collector (FFC) on a mobile Android tablet device in rural Thailand. by Chong, Vanessa Wan Ting., Lim, Michelle Huimin., Rodricks, Regina Marian.

“…Managerial factors like finance and partners played a bigger role than regulations in its impact on FFC. …”
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Self-evolving Takagi-Sugeno-Kangfuzzy neural network with self-evolving forgetting factor by Manpreet, Singh.

“…The results of these studies have lead to the development of a new branch of intelligent systems, systems that behave more so like humans. This new breed of systems exploit the tolerance for imprecision and uncertainty to achieve tractability, robustness and low solution cost. …”
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Semi-supervised clustering algorithms for web documents by Hua, Yunke.

“…However, due to the curse of dimensionality, clustering high-dimensional data like web documents and biological data can be a challenging task as the cluster patterns are difficult to be found in the high-dimensional space. …”
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Timelapse++ Application 1 : controlling the camera and motorised sliding kit by Wang, Dingcheng

“…Even though the videos are of good quality, some problems still can be observed like significant luminance change during bulb ramping. …”
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Numerical simulation of oxygen delivery in presence of hemoglobin hydrogel based oxygen carriers by Tan, Kai Ying

“…In emergency situations like accidents, it will result in delay in treatment. …”
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