“Is delulu the solulu?”: Understanding parasocial relationships and fan participatory behaviour in K-pop by Yeo, Jocelin Zhi Ling

“…The unique structures in place within K-pop fan practices, both implemented by the industry and created by fans have resulted in various fan activities that span both the gaining of practical skills and to satisfy gratifications. …”
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A monstrous text : an exploration of genre in the Harry Potter novels by Vanderstraaten Vanessa Ann

“…The writer, who once lived on welfare benefits, became a multi-millionaire in the span of five years, selling a total of more than 325 million copies of the seven novels. …”
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The role of membrane undulations in cell adhesion by Li, Yuan.

“…Human Red Blood Cells (RBC) undergo several physicochemical changes, during their course of life span of approximately 120 days. The increased aggregation of senescent RBC continues to be of great interest to researchers. …”
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Effects of the layers of foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Leo, Sin Chyuan

“…This study will also include a sand dike model of 40m base depth, 10m span across at the top of the dike and a height of 5m. …”
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Fragment screening for stabilizers and binders to human DJ-1 by Oh, Xu Xuan

“…Currently, treatments are only available to alleviate the span of symptoms but not to cure the morbidity. This project focuses on finding ligands to increase the stability of DJ1 where its anti-oxidant properties help to reduce the rate of dopaminergic neurons degeneration, delaying onset of PD. …”
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Noise influences on restorative effects in a tropical urban green space by Tan, Shi Ying

“…Performance on the Digit Span Backwards test was used to analyse cognitive restoration while Profile of Mood States- Short Form scale and Restorative State Scale were used for affective and restorative state restoration analysis. …”
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Ultra durable concrete for sustainable construction by Teng, Susanto, Sabet Divsholi Bahador, Lim, Darren Tze Yang

“…Residential structures and important civil structures are typically designed for a life span of 50 and 100 years respectively. However, the life expectancy of structures can be increased to several hundred years with careful planning and proper design. …”
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Conflict and contract use in cross-cultural buyer–supplier relationships: the role of cultural context by Roehrich, J, Sarafan, M, Squire, B, Lawson, B, Bouazzaoui, M

“…Conflict is common within global supply chains, especially where the buyer and supplier span different cultures. In such settings, formal contracts assume an important role in providing a common language that specifies each party's roles, responsibilities, and liabilities. …”

Practices, attitudes and motives for domestic waste recycling by Aini, M. S., Fakhru'l-Razi, A., Lad, S. M., Hashim, A. H.

“…The 15 000 tonnes of garbage produced daily are thrown into 230 landfills nationwide, where 80% of them have only two years of life span left. Although recycling programmes were launched as early as 1990, only 5% of the wastes are recycled. …”

Estimation of crown characters and leaf biomass from leaf litter in a Malaysian canopy species, Elateriospermum tapos (Euphorbiaceae) by Osada, Noriyuki, Takeda, Hiroshi, Kawaguchi, Hideyuki, Furukawa, Akio, Awang, Muhamad

“…Leaf fall rate was estimated to be 2.0-28.1 kg per tree per year in the five trees of various heights, and was greater in taller trees. Since leaf life span was smaller for taller trees, leaf biomass was estimated to be 2.6-30.5 kg per tree, and was also greater in taller trees. …”
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Can topology predict a financial crisis? by Dang, Thi Mai Vy

“…Simplical complexes which exists over a longer spatial scales are call persistent features and are more likely the true features of the underlying space. …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…The Flexible Job Scheduling problem aims at determining the starting times of flexible jobs that do not have to be started immediately at their arrivals to minimize the span of all the jobs, where the span is the time duration in which at least one job is running. …”
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Data-driven methods to predict the stability metrics of catalytic nanoparticles by Prabhu, Asmee M., Choksi, Tej S.

“…Ab initio methods can calculate these metrics but are computationally intensive due to the large configurational space that these nanostructures span. Moreover, sub-nanometer nanoparticles are structurally flexibile under reaction conditions. …”
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Intermittent demand forecasting by Mishra, Prerna.

“…The project paper deals with comparative assessment of the of forecast for “in-sample” as well as “out of sample” periods derived by various methods of intermittent demand forecasting on historical data set of fifteen hundred products for a span of twenty four months obtained by several numerical modelling tools – classical to contemporary and evaluate the superiority of models by comparison of achievement of different methods in respect of degree of accuracy of forecast for future periods and judge the robustness of forecasting methodology.…”
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Development of communication links between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV traffic management (UTM) systems via the cellular network by Holmberg, Carl Oswald

“…The usefulness of such vehicles span many areas, as it advantageously aids in areas ranging from, agricultural monitoring, surveillance and even to goods delivery. …”
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Phenotypic, physiological, and molecular response of Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum under different light quality treatments based on leaf color changes by Zhang, Yifan, Liu, Yang, Ling, Lin, Huo, Wenwen, Li, Yang, Xu, Lu, Xiang, Lili, Yang, Yujie, Xiong, Xingyao, Zhang, Donglin, Yu, Xiaoying, Li, Yanlin

“…Moreover, we also found that the CRY-like gene, HY5-like gene, BBX-like gene, MYB-like gene, CHS-like gene, DFR-like gene, ANS-like gene, and UFGT-like gene were significantly upregulated. …”
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Organic donor-acceptor cocrystals for multiferroic applications by Wang, Zongrui, Zhang, Qichun

“…The cocrystallization strategy has provided an efficient route to fulfill room temperature magnetoelectricity in single phase owing to the long-range ordered π-π stacking (donor-acceptor assembled) network, long-lived excitons (with μs lifetime), spin orders (±1/2 s pin) and charge transfer (CT) dipoles in the assembled crystal lattice. …”
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The Portevin-Le Chatelier effect of Cu-2.0Be alloy during hot compression by Zhu, Daibo, Wu, Na, Liu, Yang, Liu, Xiaojin, Jiang, Chaohua, Jiang, Yanbin, Zhao, Hongyun, Cui, Shuhui, Xie, Guilan

“…As the strain rate increases, the dislocations outpace the diffusion speed of the solute atoms, limiting their ability to effectively pin the dislocations, resulting in lower dislocation density and serration amplitude. …”
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The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends by Platt, Edward, Bhargava, Rahul, Zuckerman, Ethan

“…Trending videos in particular, by virtue of reaching a large number of viewers in a short span of time, are powerful as both influencers and indicators of international communication flows. …”
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Dynamical Pose Estimation by Yang, Heng, Doran, Chris, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

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