The case for nuclear power in the Middle East and North Africa by Shihab-Eldin, A, Rogner, H

“…This changed in the new millennium, with the UAE’s firm nuclear programme that will add 20 MW of nuclear power by 2020, turning it into the first Arab country to produce nuclear power for domestic use. …”

Microstructural changes during precision machining of thin substrates by Saptaji, K., Sathyan, Subbiah

“…The machining process induces severe plastic deformation through the thickness of the machined thin workpiece due to the high ratio of the depth of cut to workpiece thickness. The diamond face turning is used to machine thin workpieces down to a thickness less than 100μm. …”
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Scalable data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks by Lu, Haifeng, Foh, Chuan Heng, Cai, Jianfei

“…In this paper, we introduce the use of opportunistic wireless transmission for data diffusion which deals with the all-to-all data dissemination in a wireless sensor network. Our design turns the network infrastructure into a single fountain encoder where source packets arrive from each sensor node and these packets are encoded while flooding throughout the entire network to all nodes. …”
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Correlations and energy in mediated dynamics by Krisnanda, Tanjung, Lee, Su-Yong, Noh, Changsuk, Kim, Jaewan, Streltsov, Alexander, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Paterek, Tomasz

“…The direct interactions are proved to provide the fastest way to entangle the principal systems, but it turns out that there exist mediated dynamics that are just as fast. …”
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Practical pseudo-collisions for hash functions ARIRANG-224/384 by Guo, Jian, Matusiewicz, Krystian, Knudsen, Lars R., Ling, San, Wang, Huaxiong

“…We show that bitwise complementation of whole registers turns out to be very useful for constructing high-probability differential characteristics in the function. …”
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An exploratory study on Mom and Pop shops : surviving the trade. by Chua, Yew Teck., Quek, Woon Hwee., Fu, Eunice Karina Yumin.

“…Their inability to react effectively to change and accept it as part of business fundaments has greatly affected their profitability, which is further worsened by the proliferation of more “Big Box” retailers that have gradually turned small businesses irrelevant. In addition, the swift pace of changes in macro-sociology trends such as demographics shifts, IT evolution and transportation networks has also hastened the decline of small business owners (Haltiwanger et al, 2010)…”
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A study of using simple features for video classification by Chow, Wei Ling.

“…The last phase is to do testing with a set of 20 videos to see if they fall correctly into their respective shows. The results turned out to be encouraging, with an average of up to 84.60% accuracy.…”
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Lotte Reiniger re-imagined by Kang, Fabian Yong Sheng

“…As an aesthetic response to her work and legacy, I am using Plato’s Cave as a point of departure to speak of the projection of shadows, by turning this idea in on itself, to escape the real world and embrace fantasy. …”
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Designing and implementing experiments within local bureaucratic systems: a cautionary tale from an educator incentive program by Asad, S, Habib, M, Karachiwalla, N, Kosec, K, Leaver, C, ur Rehman, A

“…The paper briefly outlines the design of the pilot—promotion-based incentives for educators—and summarises the largely null results. It then turns to implementation, discussing what went wrong, how this was uncovered, and lessons learned for co-designing and embedding future pilot studies with(in) government.…”

Why renewable energy could be a chance for the GCC economies by El-Katiri, L

“…When the first oil well was struck in Jebel Dukhan in Bahrain in 1931, few would have forecast that the fortunes of the sheikhdoms along the Gulf would be so fundamentally shaped by a single energy commodity as has turned out to be the case. Today’s wealth, visible in the global capital cities Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City, is as much the result of the region’s unique gift of natural resources as it is of historical leadership in the use of these resources in promoting the region’s unparalleled economic development. …”

Longing for (a Taiwanese) academy: practical theology as an essentially hospitable and balanced discipline by Chen, SK

“…This notion of balance is then applied as an interpretation tool to understand the dual ‘turns’ in practical theology methodology and the pastoral cycle, demonstrating how various cycle adaptations aim to maintain balance. …”

Holographic entropy inequalities and multipartite entanglement by Hernández-Cuenca, Sergio, Hubeny, Veronika E., Jia, Hewei F.

“…In attempting to interpret the corresponding sign-definite quantities as correlation measures, we also obtain a no-go result: the superbalance property of holographic entropy inequalities turns out to preclude them from being monotonic under partial tracing. …”
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Health-related quality of life dynamics: modeling insights from immunotherapy by Hasgul, Zeynep, Spanjaart, Anne, Javed, Sumreen, Akhavan, Ali, Kersten, Marie J., Jalali, Mohammad S.

“…To overcome this, we have turned to simulation modeling, a method that allows for a more thorough exploration of these dynamics. …”
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Macroscopic invisibility cloaking of visible light by Chen, Xianzhong, Luo, Yu, Zhang, Jingjing, Jiang, Kyle, Pendry, John B., Zhang, Shuang

“…Invisibility cloaks, which used to be confined to the realm of fiction, have now been turned into a scientific reality thanks to the enabling theoretical tools of transformation optics and conformal mapping. …”
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Controller design of a tidal system by Nur Insyirah Sazali

“…The P&O MPPT controller algorithm will be used as the primary controller system in this project since it allows the system to produce more power which in turns improve the overall system performance. Additionally, MPPT controller using lookup table will be explored. …”
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A high-power factor permanent magnet vernier motor for direct drive application by Guo, Feifan

“…Furthermore, optimizations about number of turns, magnet height and split teeth distance are made. …”
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Near-infrared afterglow semiconducting nano-polycomplexes for multiplex differentiation of cancer exosomes by Lyu, Yan, Cui, Dong, Huang, Jiaguo, Fan, Wenxuan, Miao, Yansong, Pu, Kanyi

“…The afterglow signal of the nanocomplex (ASPNC), being initially quenched, is turned on in the presence of aptamer‐targeted exosomes. …”
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Evaluation of 2D and 3D glove input applied to medical image analysis by de Koning, P. J. H., Suinesiaputra, Avan., van Schooten, B. W., van der Geest, R. J., Reiber, Johan H. C., Sloot, Peter M. A., Zudilova-Seinstra, Elena V.

“…Our results suggest that for both tasks the overall performance and accuracy can be improved when the input device with more degrees of freedom (DOF) is used for manipulation of the visualized medical data. 3D input turned out to be more beneficial for the positioning task than for the selection task. …”
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解析海峡华人领袖如何通过早期的《海峡华人杂志》塑造海峡华人独特与中间人的形象，并探讨其中的意义 = An analysis of how the Straits Chinese leaders shaped a distinct and intermediary image of Straits Chinese through the early Strai... by 朱碧瑜 Zhu, Bi Yu

“…关键词： 海峡华人、海峡华人领袖、海峡华人杂志、政治考量 In the late 19th to early 20th century, the Straits Chinese were at a crucial turning point. They needed to progress socially and intellectually, in which they had to discard their outdated beliefs and customs, and turned to embrace knowledge from the modern civilization. …”
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Testing & performance characterization of a CubeSat attitude control system by Tan, Yong Kai

“…Additionally, the design of the ACS board will also be described in detail as to how the design was conceptualized and finalized and turned into an actual board design. Results from the various testing will also be discussed further on in the report.…”
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