Finding meaning behind immortality of Anne Rice’s vampires. by Nurhayati Zakaria.

“…Immortality plays a central role in the continuous inquiry into the vampires’ nature and existence throughout the span of many centuries. These novels follow the psychological and emotional experiences of vampiric immortality, firstly, via two first-person accounts of two separate vampires, Louis and Lestat, and later trace Rice’s interpretation of vampiric urban legend through the stories of various vampires of different walks of life. …”
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Behaviour of precast concrete joints subject to a missing column scenerio by Wee Jun Yang.

“…The sub-assemblages include two-span beams with two column stubs and a middle beam-column joint. …”
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Micropipette aspiration of a living cell by Badjo, Wenna

“…Using the viscoelastic model, it was found that PDMS 20:1 will result in higher stiffness of cell and the longer the cell is cultured on the substrate, the stiffer the cell, however this is only apply for the span of 7 days. On the other hand, no substantiate conclusion is drawn from the elastic modulus. …”
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Effect of a circular tunnel in the foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Yeong, Siang Phong

“…A dry sand dike of 12 m crest span, 60 m base width and 8 m height is selected as the model in this study. …”
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Futurism: performance and performativity of a movement by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig

“…Performance interventions span across the history of this movement (Goldberg, 2011): from the notorious 'serate' instigated by Marinetti, in which the audience would be purposefully scandalised, provoked and offended, to the futurist music concerts that provided an ancestral root for the aesthetics of synthesised sound in contemporary music (Rodney, 1976), not to mention the Russian counterpart of this movement, which embraced, on stage, such wide a field as to encompass theatre, opera, dance, music and scenic design. …”
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Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment by Albini, D, Ransome, E, Dumbrell, AJ, Pawar, S, O’Gorman, EJ, Smith, TP, Bell, T, Jackson, MC, Woodward, G

“…While substantial empirical evidence has accumulated in recent years on such changes, we still lack general insights due to a limited coverage of warming scenarios that span spatial and temporal scales of relevance to natural systems. …”

Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications by Whitehouse, H

“…Theprocess has involved various theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and advances,discussed in this book review forum from a variety of novel angles. Contributors span a broadrange of disciplines, including cognitive and evolutionary anthropology (Atran, Burdett, Lanman,Stanford), history (Larson, Martin), philosophy (McCauley), religious studies (Wood) and compu-ter science (Lane). …”

Redefining Ancient Epirus

“…Covering a region that today spans parts of south Albania and north-west Greece, Epirus was an important crossroad in antiquity, a meeting place of different peoples and cultures. …”

Falling for Rachel / by Roberts, Nora, 1950- author 465662

“…Public defender Rachel Stanislaski is not what he has in mind—until he discovers there’s a lot more to the beautiful, coolheaded attorney than meets the eye…and finds himself falling for her, hook, line and sinker.…”

CASTERS OF EVERVILLE / by Yap, Cherilyn, author 655829, Ikram Wazir, editor 655732

“…Honey, his childhood friend, is determined to find a cure and put her life on the line in order to save her friend. With the entire town against Wyn, will there be enough time to save the people? …”

Terahertz radiation by Wong, Yun Ming

“…In this project, the characterisation of a tranmission line using PTI waveguide was done in the THz region. …”
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On tube models of rubber elasticity: fitting performance in relation to sensitivity to the invariant I2 by Kumar, G, Brassart, L

“…However, I₂ sensitivity can emerge from line-stretch–based micromechanical models when three-chain averaging is used. …”

On detection of wide linear features by Shu, Jian Jun

“…In this paper, two new simple line detection filters have been designed and compared with two existing line detection filters, the Petrou filter and the Sombrero filter. …”
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Analog smart I/O pads by Tan, Shyue Mei.

“…ESD is an increasingly significant problem in integrated circuit design as increasing pin counts and faster circuit speeds compound the need for more and better reliable ESD protection. …”
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Tribological properties of wax microcapsule modified polymers by Ang, Ping Lon

“…The tribology test uses the Pin-On-Disk wear test method and the default tribometer settings used in this project were set at 2000m sliding distance, 40cm/s linear speed and 3N linear load. …”
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Effect of emulsion temperature on physical properties of palm oil‐based margarine by Miskandar, M. S., Che Man, Y. B., Yusoff, M. S. A., Abdul Rahman, R.

“…The emulsion temperatures studied were 40, 45, and 50°C, with other parameters such as emulsion flow rates, tube cooler temperature, and pin rotor speed kept constant. The SFC developed during processing and storage at 28°C was measured to evaluate the quality of margarine. …”
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Behaviors of floating droplet by Kan, Kah Hou

“…High amplitude oscillation is characterized by a gradual contraction of contact line and followed by a steep and sharp expansion. …”
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Combined 2D and 3D features for robust RGB-D visual odometry by Cai, Pei

“…Some works attempt to address this issue by incorporating line features. However, these methods still extract line features merely based on 2D RGB images, resulting in a restricted utilization of the environment’s 3D structural information and therefore providing only limited performance improvement. …”
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Optical gradient force for all-optical control in photonic circuits by Xu, Kaijun.

“…We also simulate the performance of the designed slot-waveguide as a tunable optical delay line and find that the slot-waveguide can produce a refractive index change comparable to that of an optical fiber based delay line. …”
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An NKX2-1GFP and TP63tdTomato dual fluorescent reporter for the investigation of human lung basal cell biology by Goh, Kim Jee, Tan, Ee Kim, Lu, Hao, Roy, Sudipto, Dunn, Norris Ray

“…This dual fluorescent reporter hPSC line will be useful for tracking, isolating and expanding basal cells from heterogenous differentiation cultures for further study.…”
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