The Whole Picture : The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it / by Procter, Alice, author 656024, Octopus (Online service) 656025

“…Each section tackles the fascinating and often shocking stories of five different art pieces, including the propaganda painting that the East India Company used to justify its control in India; the Maori mokomokai skulls that were traded and collected by Europeans as 'art objects'; and Kara Walker's controversial contemporary sculpture A Subtlety, which raised questions about 'appropriate' interactions with art. …”
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Learning from nature : experimental observation of mimosa pudica by Zhang, Yi

“…A box plot depicts groups of numerical data graphically through the five-number summary. The five-number summary includes: the minimum (0th percentile or Q0), the first quartile (25th percentile or Q1), the sample median (50th percentile or Q2), the third quartile (75th percentile or Q3), and the maximum (100th percentile or Q4). …”
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Instrumentation optimisation for unicompartmental knee replacement by Arthur, LW

“…</p> <p>A radiographic study of 94 cementless OUKR patients identified five cases (5%) of TCS. No patient, implant, or surgical factors were found to be associated with TCS, likely due to the small number of TCS cases identified. …”

Exploring Malaysian public universities Japanese language students' views on the effects of LGBT elements in anime and manga by Paee, Rokiah, Abdul Rashid, Roswati, Ahmad, Normah, Mamat, Roslina

“…Methodology: Online Google survey forms were distributed to students studying the Japanese language at five public universities in Malaysia. In these universities, Japanese is offered as an elective or part of a core course and is taken by students from various faculties. 280 students responded to the survey. …”
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Relationship of sperm protamine content with bull breeding soundness evaluation and sperm DNA damage by Mohamed Abbad Alfadel, Fatima

“…The result of BBSE revealed that two of the five bulls examined were unsatisfactory due to low normal sperm percentages (< 70%). …”
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Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding by Davies, Rodrigo

“…The rapid rise of crowdfunding in the past five years, most prominently among US-based platforms such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, has begun to attract the attention of a wide range of scholars, policymakers and practitioners. …”
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Vehicle energy systems for autonomous driving by Goh, Daniel Jun Hao

“…In 2018, Shell added an autonomous category to the competition that requires the cars in competition to complete five challenges. In order to compete in this category, the autonomous capabilities have to be added to the Nanyang Venture 11 (NV11). …”
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Strength simulation of rock with existing cracks under static loadings by Chea, Bunly.

“…The random cracks have been assigned within the rock sample and the crack percentages are laid between zero percent to five percents. The simulation of the rock sample with pre-existing microcracks is observed in action of applied compression force. …”
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Investigation on the use of desiccant in dedicated outdoor air systems by Ong, Zhi Wei.

“…With the conclusion of the in-depth system analysis, results show that the desiccant systems are truly feasible when operating in the context of Singapore, especially the solid desiccant based air conditioning system utilizing the electric chiller which can economizes the operating costs by as much as twenty five percent while providing high quality cooling.…”
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Open-set pattern recognition in computer vision by Liang, Yuqian

“…This paper first reviews the proposal and development of Open Set Recognition technology, and then focuses on the study of five classic Open Set Recognition algorithms. Based on self-defined convolutional neural networks, this article attempts to replicate the algorithms of four of these methods. …”
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That mysterious man by Lin, Enyi

“…This dissertation includes five chapters from the novel That Mysterious Man. …”
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Simulation studies on normalized decoupling control system design for MIMO processes by Ni, ChengYan.

“…The method avoids the drawbacks of existing decoupling schemes and is very simple which can be easily understood, implemented by field control engineers. These are five multivariable system process models studied to evaluate the effectiveness and simplicity of the proposed normalized decoupling control method. …”
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Investigation into push-pull boundary in supply chains by Cheung, Siu Fung.

“…Based on the model concepts done by the previous research student, five models are constructed for simulation on a case study. …”
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Synthesis of metal complex crystals of bisisoquenolines derivatives and their x-ray crystallography by Teng, Jun Boon.

“…The report consists of five chapters: 1) Introduction, 2) Methodology 3) Experimental, 4) Results and Discussion and 5) Conclusion. …”
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Automatic writing assessment for ESL students by Gong, Mingyi

“…Multiple assessment tools and techniques are studied and implemented in the system, in order to generate both short-term and long-term writing feedbacks based on five metrics, syntactic complexity, lexical richness, semantic correlation, grammar and spelling correctness. …”
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Study of impact of liquid droplets on glass prism surface by Choo, Tingkang

“…This study observes the impact of droplets of water, and five other liquids characterised by their low surface tension. …”
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Storytime : a pilot study on sound symbolism and child-directed speech by Travers Kumar, Juanita

“…Participants were parents of children aged three to five years and they were asked to each read a storybook created with specific target pseudowords. …”
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Cultural identity, language ability, and their relationship among Chinese preschoolers in Singapore by Teng, Venice Wen Si

“…The Chinese and Western cultural identity, as well as Mandarin and English receptive vocabulary of Chinese preschoolers aged five to six years (N = 41), were measured. Results demonstrated that preschoolers had a dominant Western cultural identity and were dominant in the English language. …”
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Irradiance data analysis by Kwok, Ervin

“…The accumulated power output for each inverter was calculated for each of the five classifications and compared. Results show that the SMA inverter with 2 MPPTs built-in is the best performing inverter, with an even better performance in high variability situations. …”
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Audio and video-based extremists detection by Xu, Sijia

“…In the second step, two feature extraction methods (OpenSMILE and Affectiva) are exploited to extract the emotion features hidden in the origin videos. In the third step, five machine learning algorithms (Random Forrest, SVM with RBF kernel, SVM with linear kernel, AdaBoost and Decision Tree) are used in the extremist evaluation base on the extracted features in the second step. …”
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