Securing reform? Post-election power sharing and security sector reform in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Togo, 2006-2013 by Noyes, A

“…While the power-sharing model continues to be used worldwide and security reform is widely identified by scholars and practitioners as critical to durable peace, the existing literature has generally ignored the potential link between the two.</p> <p>As such, this dissertation seeks to answer the following questions: Does post-election power sharing lead to security sector reform? …”

Magnetic dynamics in iron-based superconductors probed by neutron spectroscopy by Taylor, A

“…The experiments were primarily designed to investigate the link between magnetic dynamics and superconductivity. …”

Waste palm leaves-based hydrochar support catalytic esterification of palm fatty acid distillate by Aliyu, Muhammad, Rashid, Umer, Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina, Mohd Salleh, Mohamad Amran, Hazmi, Balkis, Alharthi, Fahad A., Antunes, Elsa, Yu, Jianglong

Identifying erosion risk criteria for coastal city sustainability by using a Hyper-Delphi-hierarchy model: a case study of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia by Bagheri, Milad, Ibrahim, Zelina Z., Manaf, Latifah Abd, Wolf, Isabelle D., Akhir, M.F., WIAW, Talaat

Dysfunctional cardiac energy transduction, mitochondrial oxidative stress, oncogenic and apoptotic signaling in DiNP-induced asthma in murine model by Kehinde, Samuel Abiodun, Olajide, Abosede Temitope, Fatokun, Tolulope Peter, Faroud, Dalia, Hadi, Najah R., Elgazzar, Ahmed M., James, Adewale Segun, Ashour, Mohamed H. Mazhar

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Model of motivational forces influencing academic achievement among secondary school students through the mediation of flow by Syed Mustafa, Sharifah Muzila

“…However, motivational force alone is not adequately strong to ensure students perform well in their academic tasks. There is a missing link between motivation and academic achievement which can be filled by flow, defined as an optimal state of engagement, concentration and enjoyment when doing a task. …”
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杜牧“‘秋’意象诗”研究 = Research on Du Mu’s autumn imagery poems by 林宛仪 Lim, Wan Yi

“…Close reading will be used to uncover the emotions between the lines in Du Mu’s poems that may contain feelings other than grief. …”
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Evaluation of paper spray mass spectrometry for direct analysis of small molecule drugs and hemoglobin constant spring peptide markers by Takyi-Williams, John

“…The test compound, sunitinib, was stable in all conditions studied and analyte extraction and detection sensitivity could be improved with sufficient off-line or on-line pre-moistening of the dried spot prior to PS-MS analysis after longer storage period. …”
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Investigations into high resolution imaging of the aqueous outflow system and cornea by Hong, Jesmond Xun Jie

“…The imaging probe has resolutions of 10.08 line pairs per mm (~49.61 µm) at the iridocorneal angle region and 5.04 line pairs per mm (~99.21 µm) at the fundus. …”
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Multi-colony coral skeletal Ba/Ca from Singapore’s turbid urban reefs : relationship with contemporaneous in-situ seawater parameters by Tanzil, Jani Thuaibah Isa, Goodkin, Nathalie Fairbank, Sin, T. M., Chen, Mengli, Fabbro, Gareth Nicholas, Boyle, E. A., Lee, A. C., Toh, K. B.

“…There was also no clear relationship between Ba/Cacoral and skeletal luminescence G/B (a coral proxy strongly linked with salinity and river runoff). This implies that (1) the incorporation of terrestrially derived humic-like substances into the coral is independent of Ba, and (2) it is likely factors other than freshwater discharge/flood events are driving the poor reproducibility of Ba/Cacoral and disconnect with BaSW at our study sites. …”
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Homocysteine metabolism pathway is involved in the control of glucose homeostasis: a cystathionine beta synthase deficiency study in mouse by Cruciani-Guglielmacci, Céline, Meneyrol, Kelly, Denom, Jessica, Kassis, Nadim, Rachdi, Latif, Makaci, Fatna, Migrenne-Li, Stéphanie, Daubigney, Fabrice, Georgiadou, Eleni, Denis, Raphaël G., Sanchez-Archidona, Ana Rodriguez, Paul, Jean-Louis, Thorens, Bernard, Rutter, Guy A., Magnan, Christophe, Le Stunff, Hervé, Janel, Nathalie

“…To date, scarce information is available about the HHcy effect on insulin secretion, and the link between CBS activity and the setting of type 2 diabetes is still unknown. …”
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Fine-scale genetic structure and natural selection signatures of southwestern Hans inferred from patterns of genome-wide allele, haplotype, and haplogroup lineages by Wang, Mengge, Yuan, Didi, Zou, Xing, Wang, Zheng, Yeh, Hui-Yuan, Liu, Jing, Wei, Lan-Hai, Wang, Chuan-Chao, Zhu, Bofeng, Liu, Chao, He, Guanglin

“…Generally, we provided a case and ideal strategy to reconstruct the detailed demographic evolutionary history of Guizhou Hans, which provided new insights into the fine-scale genomic formation of one ethnolinguistically specific targeted population from the comprehensive perspectives of the shared unlinked alleles, linked haplotypes, and paternal and maternal lineages.…”
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Unexpected anthropogenic emission decreases explain recent atmospheric mercury concentration declines by Feinberg, Aryeh, Selin, Noelle E., Braban, Christine F., Chang, Kai-Lan, Custódio, Danilo, Jaffe, Daniel A., Kyllönen, Katriina, Landis, Matthew S., Leeson, Sarah R., Luke, Winston, Molepo, Koketso M., Murovec, Marijana, Nerentorp Mastromonaco, Michelle G., Aspmo Pfaffhuber, Katrine, Rüdiger, Julian, Sheu, Guey-Rong, St. Louis, Vincent L.

“…Many factors can obscure the link between anthropogenic emissions and atmospheric Hg concentrations, including trends in the reemissions of previously released anthropogenic (“legacy”) Hg, atmospheric sink variability, and spatial heterogeneity of monitoring data. …”
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Associations between health literacy and health care utilization and mortality in patients with coexisting diabetes and end-stage renal disease : a prospective cohort study by Griva, Konstantina, Loong, Russel K. L., Nandakumar, Mooppil, Rajeswari, Moothathamby, Khoo, Eric Y. H., Lee, Vanessa Y. W., Kang, Augustine W. C., Osborne, Richard H., Brini, Stefano, Newman, Stanton P.

“…Objectives Health literacy encompasses a broad skill set linked to patients' self-management ability and the complexity of their health care environments. …”
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Magnetic nanochain enabled microarray and microfluidic bioassays by Xiong, Qirong

“…The magnetic dynamic nanomixers were expected to find widespread uses in on-surface bioassays that suffer from diffusion limitation, such as microfluidic assays, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and heterogeneous catalysis. …”
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Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…For guiding strategies, the classical guiding strategy with a data structure of indexed interwoven linked list is fastest to achieve the most reasonable unwrapping results. …”
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Electronic structures of topological materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by He, S

“…Moreover, the findings are also linked to the <em>Z</em>₂ topology of bismuth and suggest possibilities for studying obstructed surface states in a broader range of topological materials.…”

Dna markers and mapping of quantitative trait loci for yield and bunch quality in Deli dura X Yangambi pisifera oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) population by Seng, Tzer Ying

“…For practical applications from this work, it will be necessary to test these yield component QTLs in a broader array of genetic backgrounds and in different environments. Also, more closely linked markers or flanking markers to the QTLs should be sought because recombinations between the markers and QTLs can occur when transferring the results from one population to another. …”
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The opioid receptor influences circadian rhythms in human keratinocytes through the β-arrestin pathway by Bigliardi, Paul, Junnarkar, Seetanshu, Markale, Chinmay, Lo, Sydney, Bigliardi, Elena, Kalyuzhny, Alex, Ong, Sheena, Dunn, Ray, Wahli, Walter, Bigliardi-Qi, Mei

“…In this study, we propose a significant association between cutaneous opioid receptor (OPr) activity and circadian rhythmicity. To investigate this link, we conducted a 48 h circadian rhythm experiment, during which RNA samples were collected every 5 h. …”
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以“才”充“再”？以“再”充“才”？新加坡华语里“才”和“再”的使用情况 = Study of the usage of adverb cai and adverb zai in Singapore Chinese by 余依霖 Er, Yee Ling

“…According to Lu Jianming, Zhang Chuhao, Qian Ping (2002) and Xing Fuyi (2005), Singapore Chinese users tend to replace adverb zai with adverb cai. …”
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