READY PLAYER ONE / by Cline, Ernest, author 655943

“…Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. …”

The ethics of silence : reading the lover's discourse in contemporary trauma narratives by Goh, Pei Hua

“…In Testimony, Felman and Laub contend that a historical and collective trauma like the Holocaust cannot be represented, and cannot be understood, because it lacks a frame of reference. …”
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Mechanics of fracture and flexure in Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves by Zhang, H

“…To explore the effect of subglacial hydrology on the grounding line (GL) and tidal flexure, in Chapter 4, I develop a model combining a viscoelastic ice stream and subglacial hydrology. …”

Functional characterization of orexin system by Chua, Peiling

“…Orexin, which has been known to be involved in feeding and sleep-wake cycle, might have antidepressant-like effects. Researches indicate that depression might be associated with nucleus accumbens and its dopaminergic inputs from ventral tegmental area, which make up the mesolimbic dopamine system. …”
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Sound and smoke propagation models for virtual crowd environments by Vaisagh Viswanathan Thattamparambil

“…Virtual crowd simulations are important for various applications like defense, social studies, etc. While literature exists on agent design and sensor modeling, there is still no generic model for sound and smoke propagation that can be integrated into existing virtual crowd simulation frameworks. …”
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Behavioural and biochemical abnormalities in a mouse model for Parkinson's disease. by Ten, Rachel Rui Xian.

“…In addition to motor abilities, 2 and 4 months old LRRK2R1441G mice were tested in the elevated plus-maze for anxiety-like behaviour, and in the tail suspension test and forced swim test to assess depression-like behaviour. …”
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Liquid immersion cooling with enhanced Al2O3 nanofluid for large-format prismatic battery pack: Numerical and statistical investigation by Yousefi, Elnaz, Talele, Virendra, Moralı, Uğur, Mishra, Dhananjay, D., Ramasamy, K., Kadirgama, Najafi Khaboshan, Hasan, Kanthale, Sarthak, Panchal, Satyam

“…The study compares two cooling configurations: (1) axial fluid flow (z-axis in line flow direction, front face A is the first contact) and (2) battery side axial flow (x-axis in line flow direction, face B is the first contact). …”
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Cytotoxic and genotoxic characterization of titanium dioxide, gadolinium oxide, and poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles in human fibroblasts by Das, Gautom Kumar, Loo, Joachim Say Chye, Leong, David Tai, Ng, Kee Woei, Xiong, Sijing, Zhao, Xinxin, Setyawati, Magdiel Inggrid, Khoo, Pheng Kian Stella, Eng, Bao Hui, Tan, Timothy Thatt Yang

“…To evaluate nanoparticle-induced genotoxicity more realistically, a human skin fibroblast cell line (BJ) with less mutated genotype compared with cancer cell line was used. …”
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Small sample sizes reduce the replicability of task-based fMRI studies by Turner, Benjamin O., Paul, Erick J., Miller, Michael B., Barbey, Aron K.

“…Thus, our results join the existing line of work advocating for larger sample sizes. …”
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Clinical implementation of an oncology-specific family health history risk assessment tool by Fung, Si Ming, Wu, Ryanne R., Myers, Rachel A., Goh, Jasper, Ginsburg, Geoffrey S., Matchar, David, Orlando, Lori A., Ngeow, Joanne

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Information extraction from bibliography data by Leong, Kai Ling

“…Trend analysis was performed using line of best fit, correlations and Mann Kendall trend test. …”
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Theoretical studies and model calculations of femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy by Qiu, Xueqiong

“…The change in phase of the line shapes with Raman pump wavelength was reproduced. …”
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Real-Time Event-Triggered Object Tracking in the Presence of Model Drift and Occlusion by Guan, Mingyang, Wen, Changyun, Shan, Mao, Ng, Cheng-Leong, Zou, Ying

“…The occlusion and drift identification module is intended to perform on-line evaluation of the short-term tracking. When a model drift event occurs, the target re-detection module is activated by the event-triggered decision model to relocate the target and reinitialize the short-term tracker. …”
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A size and position invariant event-based human posture recognition algorithm by Chen, Shoushun, Folowosele, Fopefolu, Kim, Dongsoo, Vogelstein, R. Jacob, Etienne-Cummings, Ralph, Culurciello, Eugenio

“…The algorithm employs a simplified line segment Hausdorff distance classification and uses projection histograms to achieve size and position invariance. …”
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Moments of the Riemannn zeta function and log-correlated random variables by Curran, MJ

“…We then move on to study the problem of moments of moments of zeta and the closely related problem of estimating shifted moments of zeta on the half line. Moments of moments of zeta were introduced by Fyodorov and Keating [42] in order to understand the value distribution of zeta in short intervals on the critical line. …”

Vision language representation learning by Yang, Xiaofeng

“…Firstly, visual information and language information operate at different levels. Visual information, like image pixels, typically constitutes low-level information, while language information generally carries high-level information with semantic meanings. …”
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NiMn-based bimetal-organic framework nanosheets supported on multi-channel carbon fibers for efficient oxygen electrocatalysis by Cheng, Weiren, Lu, Xue Feng, Luan, Deyan, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…Owing to the desired components and architecture, the MCCF/NiMn-MOFs manifest comparable electrocatalytic performance towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) with the commercial Pt/C electrocatalyst and superior performance towards oxygen evolution reaction (OER) to the benchmark RuO2 electrocatalyst. X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the strong synergetic effect of adjacent Ni and Mn nodes within MCCF/NiMn-MOFs effectively promotes the thermodynamic formation of key *O and *OOH intermediates over active NiO6 centers towards fast ORR and OER kinetics.…”
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Mix design of porous asphalt mix (PAM) using steel slag as coarse aggregates for value-add applications by Erni Farisha Nor'Azhar

“…The specimens were cast by mixing the coarse aggregates with the granite fine aggregates, PG76 binder and hydrated lime fillers. …”
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Effect of residual soil depth on soil-water characteristic curve and unsaturated shear strength by Tikno, Nickanor

“…The percentage of fines plots clearly show the transition region between two layers which is denoted with steep gradient. …”
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Attitude determination and control of LEO microsatellites by Wee, Melisa Toon Cheng.

“…This is particularly so as imaging is likely to be one of the main objectives of X-Sat. …”
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