Attracting foreign direct investments into Burundi (Africa) : lessons from Singapore. by Evariste, Nduwayo., Loke, Swee Pan.

“…On one hand, what the reasons are behind this economic stagnation of countries like Burundi, and on the other hand, what the drivers of economies like Singapore have been.…”
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Writing identity in Peranakan literature : an ongoing and evolving project. by Lim, Reynard Yi Kai.

“…Decline of the more visible and audible aspects of Peranakan material culture like speaking Baba Malay and the wearing of traditional clothes like the Sarong Kebaya presents a picture of gradual disappearance of the culture. …”
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Performance study of digital communication over high frequency channel by Andrews, Jinto

“…Different modulations schemes like BPSK and BFSK are tested over different types of channels like additive white Gaussian noise channel, Rayleigh channel, Rician channel and finally the high frequency Ionospheric channel. …”
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Performing feminism : the evolution of the female in the legend of Robin Hood by Ess, Aubrey Gabrelyn

“…Consequently, the performance of feminism reveals a complexity to popular legends like Robin Hood, deserving of greater attention in gender or theatrical studies.…”
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Trouble on the Range: When Does a National Park Become a Bison Zoo? by Hartley, Sophia

“…For many years, it seemed like an ecological revival was beginning. But not in some places. …”
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PDMS-coated porous PVDF hollow fiber membranes for efficient recovery of dissolved biomethane from anaerobic effluents by Sethunga, Godakooru Sethunga Mudiyanselage Dilhara Prebhashwari, Karahan, Huseyin Enis, Wang, Rong, Bae, Tae-Hyun

“…Mass transfer analyses have confirmed the importance of preserving bulk porosity while coating the membrane surfaces. The long-term performance tests performed using actual anaerobic effluents suggested that the PDMS coating did not accelerate fouling, such that the lumen-modified MC membranes showed an almost steady flux for 8 days with an anaerobic membrane bioreactor effluent. …”
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Three dimensional acoustic tweezers with vortex streaming by Li, Junfei, Crivoi, Alexandru, Peng, Xiuyuan, Shen, Lu, Pu, Yunjiao, Fan, Zheng, Cummer, Steven A.

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Theory-guided machine learning to predict configurational energies of high distortion alloy systems by Huang, Xufa

“…State-of-the-art attempts at using CE with machine learning (ML) models like Lasso and Bayesian for selecting meaningful clusters show high prediction errors for these high distortion alloy systems, where the contributions of long-range effective cluster interactions (ECIs) to configurational energetics remain significant. …”
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Valley-optical absorption in planar transition metal dichalcogenide superlattices by Hashemi, R., Shojaei, S., Rezaei, B., Liu, Zheng

“…Within a semi-classical model and using the Dirac-like equation in the presence of light interaction as a perturbation, we obtained the governing Hamiltonian. …”
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Signs of criticality in social explosions by Beiró, Mariano G., Chung, Ning Ning, Chew, Lock Yue, Gandica, Yérali

“…It is natural to think that these kinds of macro social actions, as a consequence of the spontaneous and massive interactions, will attain the growth and divergence of those clusters, like the correlation length of statistical physics, giving rise to important simplifications on several statistics. …”
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Enhancing X-ray generation from twisted multilayer van der Waals materials by shaping electron wavepackets by Wong, Wesley Lee Wei, Wong, Liang Jie

“…Our findings pave the way for the use of twisted multilayer van der Waals materials in the generation of tailored X-ray spectra for applications like X-ray imaging, X-ray fluorescence, and X-ray treatment.…”
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Development of interpenetrating network (IPN) hybrid composite for thin film protection by Seah, Geok Leng.

“…Anti-biofouling aims to prevent the acculumulation of biological organisms like proteins and micro-organisms on surfaces. …”
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Decellularization of human stromal refractive lenticules for corneal tissue engineering by Yam, Gary Hin-Fai, Yusoff, Nur Zahirah Binte M., Goh, Tze-Wei, Setiawan, Melina, Lee, Xiao-Wen, Liu, Yu-Chi, Mehta, Jodhbir Singh

“…In vivo re-implantation into a rabbit stromal pocket further revealed the safety and biocompatibility of SDS-decellularized lenticules without short- and long-term rejection risk. Our results concluded that femtosecond laser-derived human stromal lenticules decellularized by 0.1% SDS could generate a transplantable bioscaffold with native-like stromal architecture and chemistry.…”
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陶望齡的老莊詮釋與晚明[無善無惡]之辯── 以其 《解老》， 《解莊》 為探討中心 = Tao Wangling’s interpretation of Laozi and Zhuangzi and the discourse of “neither good nor evil” in late-Ming : focusing on Jie Lao and... by 洪維陽 Ang, Wei Yang

“…He argues that one should neither pursue nor forsake. Tao feels that, as long as one is holding on to something, one is establishing the standard for objectivity, and this is inevitably subjective. …”
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Amino acids stimulate the endosome-to-Golgi trafficking through Ragulator and small GTPase Arl5 by Shi, Meng, Chen, Bing, Mahajan, Divyanshu, Boh, Boon Kim, Zhou, Yan, Dutta, Bamaprasad, Tie, Hieng Chiong, Sze, Siu Kwan, Wu, Geng, Lu, Lei

“…By testing components of the AA-stimulated mTORC1 signaling pathway, we demonstrate that SLC38A9, v-ATPase and Ragulator, but not Rag GTPases and mTORC1, are essential for the AA-stimulated trafficking. Arl5, an ARF-like family small GTPase, interacts with Ragulator in an AA-regulated manner and both Arl5 and its effector, the Golgi-associated retrograde protein complex (GARP), are required for the AA-stimulated trafficking. …”
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Correlating physicochemical properties of commercial membranes with CO₂ absorption performance in gas-liquid membrane contactor by Xu, Yilin, Malde, Chandresh, Wang, Rong

“…The physicochemical properties of membranes may synergistically affect GLMC performances, especially during the long-term operations. In this work, commercial polypropylene (PP) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) hollow fiber (HF) membranes were applied to explore the effects of their physicochemical properties on long-term CO₂ absorption performances in a bench-scale GLMC rig. …”
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A study of option trading strategies by Lim, Jackson Wei, Tay, Shane Cheng Sung, Yang, Shufan

“…This paper examines several option trading strategies, namely, strap, strangle and straddle, compares the profitability of short and long strategies and examines the factors that influenced the results. …”
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A stochastic thunderstorm model for dynamic response assessment by School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

“…The thunderstorm downdraught rushes down vertically and spreads out radially like a wall-jet. Highest wind speeds are registered at locations which are nearest to the storm cell centre.…”
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Will Latin America join petroleum’s new world order? by Pugliaresi, L

“…These North American (sans Mexico) unconventional petroleum developments are altering flows in world crude oil trade, shifting long-term price expectations, and challenging long-held conventional wisdom on US energy policy promulgated in an era of scarcity.…”

Experimental and numerical studies of S960 ultra-high strength steel welded I-section columns by Su, Andi, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…A testing programme, including initial geometric imperfection measurements and ten pin-ended column tests, was conducted. The testing programme was accompanied by a numerical modelling programme, where finite element models were firstly developed and validated against the test results, and then employed to perform parametric studies to generate further numerical data. …”
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