The ‘inauthentic’ naturalized citizens: the case of foreign sports athletes in elite sports by Woo, Shawn

“…Our findings showed that factors like age and embeddedness in the sporting set-up were significant factors in affecting their perceptions of the effectiveness of the FST scheme and the acceptance of the foreign athletes themselves.…”
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Meaningful noise : auditory roughness and dissonance predict emotion recognition and cross-modal perception by Liew, Kong Meng

“…Results suggest that auditory roughness and dissonance are important in conveying emotional properties like arousal and valence, as well as information on visual shape and texture.…”
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Automatic vanishing points detection for single view reconstruction by Potcharaphol, Chat Anan

“…The images of our target are those with no more than 3 vanishing points and have clear feature lines like an urban scene or angular structures. The algorithm is found to be fast and effective for an image with clear feature lines but struggles with an image with few feature lines. …”
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A smart home system by O, Chee Xian

“…The mobile app has multiple function like on/off lights, increase or decrease the speed of the fan and even detect intruder. …”
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Insurgency in Southern Thailand: More Unrest Ahead? by Rajakumar, Vikram

“…These trends portend more unrest in the coming months and render the region vulnerable to exploitation by groups like ISIL/ISIS.…”
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Floating Nuclear Power Plants: Are They Safe and Secure? by Trajano, Julius Cesar Imperial

“…Floating NPPs may provide alternative energy supply to energy-scarce small states, port cities, and remote islands in the region. But just like with traditional land-based NPPs, would floating NPPs also come with potential risks to nuclear safety and security?…”
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Indonesia's regional diplomacy : imperative to maintain Asean cohesion by Sebastian, Leonard C

“…How does Indonesia view itself in terms of regional groupings like ASEAN?…”
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Revolt in the Middle East : Arab monarchies next? by Dorsey, James M.

“…The ever sharper sectarian divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Middle East consitutes the Achilles heel of gulf monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. They have been resisting political reforms and seeking to insulate themselves from the wave of popular protests that have swept the region for the past two years.…”
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Organic electronics and beyond (Advanced Optical Materials 14/2021) by Gather, MC, Lüssem, B, Reineke, S, Riede, M

“…With this Special Issue, we would like to celebrate the 60th birthday of Prof. Karl Leo, one of the leading scientists in the field of Organic Electronics (see also the Guest Editorial, article number 2101108). …”

Development of resistive random access memory for next-generation embedded non-volatile memory application by Sun, Jianxun

“…It is well known that the MLC can be obtained through tuning of the DC operation parameters like set compliance current (CC) and reset stop voltage (SV). …”
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Association between COVID-19 infection and new-onset dementia in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Shan, D, Wang, C, Crawford, T, Holland, C

“…Only original investigations exploring the link between COVID-19 infection and NOD were selected for inclusion. …”

High p16 expression and heterozygous RB1 loss are biomarkers for CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance in ER+ breast cancer by Palafox, Marta, Monserrat, Laia, Bellet, Meritxell, Villacampa, Guillermo, Gonzalez-Perez, Abel, Oliveira, Mafalda, Brasó-Maristany, Fara, Ibrahimi, Nusaibah, Kannan, Srinivasaraghavan, Mina, Leonardo, Herrera-Abreu, Maria Teresa, Òdena, Andreu, Sánchez-Guixé, Mònica, Capelán, Marta, Azaro, Analía, Bruna, Alejandra, Rodríguez, Olga, Guzmán, Marta, Grueso, Judit, Viaplana, Cristina, Hernández, Javier, Su, Faye, Lin, Kui, Clarke, Robert B., Caldas, Carlos, Arribas, Joaquín, Michiels, Stefan, García-Sanz, Alicia, Turner, Nicholas C., Prat, Aleix, Nuciforo, Paolo, Dienstmann, Rodrigo, Verma, Chandra Shekhar, Lopez-Bigas, Nuria, Scaltriti, Maurizio, Arnedos, Monica, Saura, Cristina, Serra, Violeta

“…Combination of the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib with the PI3K inhibitor alpelisib showed antitumor activity in estrogen receptor-positive non-basal-like breast cancer patient-derived xenografts, independently of PIK3CA, ESR1 or RB1 mutation, also in drug de-escalation experiments or omitting endocrine therapy. …”
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How Stories Change Us : A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real Life / by Reese, Elaine, author 655966

“…Stories may even help future generations to cope with global issues like future pandemics and climate change"--…”
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Three essays on the share structure reform in China by Zhu, Yanjian

“…In China, prior to April 29, 2005, about two thirds of all outstanding shares were mainly help by the government or government-linked agencies and cannot be traded in the open market. …”
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Market research on a portable snake venom detection kit. by Thong, Hui Min.

“…The only commercially available diagnostic kit is from Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) and it uses the Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technique. However, it has disadvantages like the inability to fully quantify venom levels and time consuming test procedures which requires some level of expertise. …”
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More with less by Lim, Amanda Jane Yi Kuan, Lim,Aronn Chong Leong, Peh, Gina Ying Ying, Puah, Kevyn Pin Xuan

“…Minimalism is often associated with words like “boring” and “deprivation”, where it is pegged with negative connotations to the uninitiated. …”
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Development of 3-D display technologies by Ng, Desmond Jun Han

“…This report document the creation of a functional 3D LED display using commercially available parts such as the WS2812D RGB LEDs as well as open-source software like the FastLED libraries to control the LED cube. …”
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The female American and its liminal spaces (Article) by Kneitly, Jonahs

“…Published anonymously in London in 1767, The Female American, like many thematically similar texts, capitalized on the popularity of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe published in 1719.…”
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Design and implementation of a multi-camera automated inspection system for PCB assembly by Yang, Xia Hua

“…In the PCB assembly process, various kinds of defects like missing component, bridging, misalignment, tombstoning, extra component, inverted component, wrong polarity, bent lead, lifted lead, and wrong component are frequently encountered. …”
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Speeding up secure web transactions using elliptic curve cryptography by Lim, Lai Koon.

“…Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is becoming an attractive alternative to traditional public-key cryptography systems like RSA, Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) and Diffie-Hellman (DH) as ECC provides similar level of security with smaller key sizes resulting in faster computations, lower power consumption, as well as memory and bandwidth savings. …”
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