Laboratory and field measurement of dispersion curves using surface wave methods by Tan, Roy Guan Ming.

“…The use of active wave methods, such as the likes of Continuous Surface Wave and Spectral Analysis of Surface Wave, predominate the discussions of this project. …”
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Children’s influence on parental yielding on toys with respect to educational value and perceived price. by Li, Xian., Lee, Mildred Sook Han., Tan, Rachael Yan Hang.

“…In this research, results have shown that mothers are more likely to yield to toys that possess high educational value as compared to low educational value ones. …”
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Lie, cheat, and steal: how harmful brands motivate consumers to act unethically by Rotman, Jeff D., Khamitov, Mansur, Connors, Scott

“…That is, consumers are more likely to lie, cheat, or steal to punish a harmful brand. …”
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Surface plasmon enhanced thermal properties of noble metallic nanofluids by Lee, Kwang Hong, Low, Swee Ling, Lim, Geok Kieng, Wong, Chee Cheong

“…This mechanism of thermal enhancement is most likely attributable to the high surface area to volume ratio of the nanoparticles, and should be operative in other metallic nanoparticle suspensions as well.…”
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Improved NiSi salicide process using presilicide N2+ implant for MOSFETs by Wee, A. T. S., Chan, L., Mangelinck, D., Lee, Pooi See, Pey, Kin Leong, Ding, Jun

“…Phase transformation to the undesirable high resistivity NiSi2 phase was delayed, likely due to a change in the interfacial energy. …”
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Asia-Pacific university libraries on facebook : content analysis on posts and interactions by Somasundram, V., Seah, Frank Eng Kiat, Wong, Evelyn, Tan, Catherine, Sum, Hedren Wai Yuan

“…The majority (83%) of the interactions were expressed through post likes while the remaining were expressed through comments. …”
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Tournaments of financial analysts by Yin, Huifang, Zhang, Huai

“…Using data from 1991 to 2007, we find that interim losers are more likely to increase the boldness of their forecasts in the remainder of the tournament period than interim winners. …”
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Effects of various surface treatments on the storage life of guava (Psidium guajava L) at 10°C by Mohamed, Suhaila, Kyi, Khin Ma Ma, Yusof, Salmah

“…LDPE shrinkwrap was most effective in reducing weight loss and maintaining the firmness of guava (most likely indicating its effectiveness in alleviating water stress), followed by clingwrap packaging and 200 g litre−1 palm oil emulsion coating. …”

Current evidence and future direction on evaluating the anticancer effects of curcumin, gingerols, and shogaols in cervical cancer: a systematic review by Rahim, Unwaniah Abdull, Mustapa, Marami, Mohamed Shakrin, Nik Noorul Shakira, Nurdin, Armania, Mohamad Taridi, Nursiati, Mohd Yusof, Yasmin Anum, Mad Nordin, Mariam Firdhaus, Che Roos, Nur Aishah

“…Only studies investigating the effects of curcumin, gingerol, shogaol, and/ or their combination in human cervical cancer cell lines and/or rodent animal models implanted with cervical cancer xenografts were included. …”
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Synthetic, spectroscopic, biological and X-ray crystallographic structural studies on a novel pyridine-nitrogen-bridged dimeric nickel(II) complex of a pentadentate N3S2 ligand by Akbar Ali, Mohammad, Mirza, Aminul Huq, Butcher, Ray J., Tarafder, M.T.H.

“…The anticancer properties of these compounds were also evaluated against Human T-lymphoblastic leukaemia cell lines. The Schiff base exhibits marked cytotoxicity against these cells, but its nickel(II) complex is inactive.…”
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Characterisation of decellularised oesophagus in tissue engineering by Chia, Evelyn Sheng Nan.

“…Results from the cyclic loading test mostly showed that the decellularised samples did not vary from the fresh samples insignificantly, which indicated that the composition of the extracellular matrix of the decellularised samples were likely to be preserved. The slight variation between the samples was the also found to be most likely caused by the difference in hydration level. …”
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Novel nitric oxide donors for the dispersal and control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by Poh, Wee Han

“…Two purified proteins, DipA and RbdA, were not found to act as sensors of NO, and are likely to be involved in the dispersal process through other mechanisms. …”
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Agriculture and citadel in the Bronze Age Aegean: the view from western Anatolia by Maltas, T

“…This scenario of independent households engaged in extensive farming systems is likely to have created the potential for sustained high wealth inequality within settlements. …”

A mid-life health crisis : supplements for good health. by Toh, Hwee Ling.

“…An important finding is the challenges to their doctors’ opinions by seeking second opinions from friends and the Internet, as well as the link between gender and the propensity to consume health supplements, where men are more likely to reject supplements and women to consume them and encourage others to consume them regardless of their ethnicity.…”
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Manual laterality, grip types and tool use styles of andaman long-tailed macaques. by Tan, Say Hoon.

“…Results suggest that macaques were able to display a myriad of hand grips and that lateralization in tool use is likely to have clear advantages.…”
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Perceptions of hip-hop dance. by Swee, Daren Jin Quan.

“…This was followed by a quantitative study in which the participants were given 5 sets of questions, assessing their perception of hip-hop, Singapore culture, U.S culture, their motivations behind dancing hip-hop, and the importance they attached to certain aspects of the dance. Hip-hop dance was likely to be perceived as similar to the Singapore culture as compared to the U.S culture. …”
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Mental accounting and its impact on outbound leisure traveler’s overspending Behavior. by Chu, Peng., Leng, Wei Yi., Song, Wanyi Celestine.

“…Lastly, outbound tourists who practise mental accounting are more likely to overspend as compared to those who do not.…”
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From captivity to courtship : the representation of romance in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Disney's beauty and the beast by Siti Aishah Kasman

“…The story of the captive heroine found in the likes of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela endures time and underwent a relatively similar re-telling in Disney’s 1991 animated film, Beauty and the Beast. …”
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User interfaces for predicting, evaluating and visualizing protein complexes by Lai, Kwan Cheng

“…However currently it does not have an interface, thus a motivation to design a user-friendly interface for InteHC so that researchers can use the algorithm to generate candidate protein complexes for further investigation The interface will come with three components; the first component allows the user not only to be able select the data source(s) to be use but also change the weight value of each source to their liking. The second component will predict the protein complexes and output the result into a file set by the user. …”
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Seeing sounds around you : non-linguistic visual information and speech perception by Ho, Danyuan

“…Lack of perceptual salience and linguistic remoteness of the visual stimuli are postulated to be likely factors for the non-effect of the visual cues. …”
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