Food Prices: A Double-edged Sword by Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P., Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…The recent phenomenon of food prices declining over the past five years is like a double-edged sword to food consumers globally.…”
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Weapons acquisition in the US: streamlining the process by Kuah, Adrian W. J.

“…Past attempts to reform the US weapons acquisition process have largely met with failure. …”
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Returning IS Fighters : Lesson From JI’s Hijrah by Muhammad Saiful Alam Shah

“…Examining the practice of ‘hijrah’ (emigration) by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in the past could help authorities understand what lies ahead in the fight against the terrorists.…”
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Falling oil price : an opportunity for Asia by Lee, Chia-Yi

“…In the past three months, the price of crude oil has fallen dramatically, from higher than US$100 per barrel to below US$60 per barrel. …”
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Can't Hurt Me : Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds / by Goggins, David, author 655975, Storytel (Online service) 655976

“…And the beauty of the book, CAN'T HURT ME, is that in it, David reveals the strategies and principles that he used (and which anyone, including you, can also use) to push past pain, fear, lack and self-doubt. This book is a summary. …”
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Love and Other Words / by Lauren, Christina, author 593883, Little, Brown Book Group (Online service) 655987

“…Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.…”
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Advanced nanostructured materials : wide-band-gap oxides based magnetic semiconductors by Xing, Guozhong

“…Nanomaterials and Spintronics are focuses of research over the past ten years. The conjunction of electron spin with the charge manipulation in the semiconductor could lead to a whole new era in information technology, called semiconductor spintronics. …”
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Lateral offsets and revised dates of large prehistoric earthquakes at Pallett creek, Southern California by Sieh, Kerry

“…Systematicd issectiono f a 50-m-long, 15-m-wide, 5-m-deep volume of earth, centered on the fault, enables documentation in three dimensions of fault patterns, lateral offsets, and vertical deformation associated with large earthquakes of the past. The excavations expose evidence for 12 earthquakes that occurred between about 260 and 1857 A.D., with an average recurrence interval of about 145 years. …”
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Bilateral Trade Welfare Impacts of India’s Export Ban of Non-Basmati Rice Using the Global Partial Equilibrium Simulation Model (GSIM) by Fathelrahman, Eihab, Osman, Raeda, Hoag, Dana Loyd Keske, Sixt, Gregory N., Strzepek, Kenneth

“…Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Cooperation Council regions were most affected. …”
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The Matter of the Hold: Housing futures and the paradigm of the ship by Donovan, Inge, Pankhurst, David

“…This familiar pattern is currently playing out in the phased demolition of the Bunker Hill Public Housing Development, the largest affordable housing community on the East Coast. The BHHD can be seen in contrast to the Charlestown Navy Yard, an adjacent shipyard where centuries of investment have established a robust infrastructure of maintenance. …”
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Why are territorial disputes left unresolved? Finding the true utility of ASEAN through a mixed-method analysis on the case of Malaysia and its territorial disputes in Southeast A... by Chan, Felicia Jia Hui, Ng, Wei Ting

“…Based on our analysis, our dissertation will answer the following questions - (1) What are the factors that cause territorial disputes to be unresolved in South East Asia?, (2) What are the dispute management tactics that ASEAN and ASEAN member states have implemented to resolve territorial disputes within ASEAN, and (3) Why are territorial disputes in ASEAN still in existence? …”
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Preparation of porous carbon materials by polyphosphazene as precursor for sorption of U(VI) by Liu, Xiaopeng, Liu, Yan, Wang, Yun, Yuan, Dingzhong, Liu, Jinbiao, Chew, Jia Wei

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Chen Wen Hsi: more than Chinese painting by Lee, Ju-Lyn

“…More importantly, they demonstrate that he also activated them as medium or form to transfer his artistic ideologies, such as on the combinations of the “East” and “West”, traditionality and modernity, and the importance of individualism, innovation, and internationalisation. …”
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On cultural filters in Lin Shu's Chinese translation of David Copperfield by Yang, Jinyu

“…This thesis takes the first Chinese translation of David Copperfield, Kuai Rou Yu Sheng Shu (《块肉余生述》) as the source text to analyze the way in which Lin Shu resolved the cultural conflicts between the East and the West in the process of translation, especially in terms of religious and ethical culture, while exploring the hidden personal literary ideals as well as the historical influence reflected in the translation. …”
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New model for identifying critical success factors influencing BIM adoption from precast concrete manufacturers' view by Phang, Thomas C. H., Chen, Chen, Tiong, Robert Lee Kong

“…From the survey responses of 53 respondents from the PC industry in various countries including Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, China, Korea, Taiwan, the Middle East, and Finland, the study successfully identified a total of eight CSFs, which are regarded as the main contributions this research makes to the body of knowledge. …”
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The post-modern Japanese identity of Haruki Murakami's literature. by Ling, Shannon.

“…Regarded as the literati ahead of his contemporaries, his words would come to ring true in the following century, as the concept of identity (and national identity) would rise to the forefront of most literature coming out of East Asia, with the traditions and cultures of these nations challenged by the onset of modernization (or Westernization) into the region. …”
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Interactive Sonification of Weather Data for The Locust Wrath, a Multimedia Dance Performance by Lindborg, PerMagnus

“…The sonifications represented weather systems pushing through South-East Asia in complex patterns. The climate was rendered as a piece of electroacoustic music, whose compositional form - gesture, timbre, intensity, harmony, spatiality - was determined by the data. …”
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A review of offshore decommissioning regulations in five countries – strengths and weaknesses by Fam, Mei Ling, Konovessis, Dimitris, Tan, Hoon Kiang, Ong, Lin Seng

“…Two oil-producing countries in South East Asia, Malaysia and Thailand are also reviewed to identify potential gaps in decommissioning legislation for countries in its infancy in decommissioning. …”
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Book review : Religion, populism, and modernity: confronting white Christian nationalism and racism by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…From the United States to the Middle East and from Asia to Africa, religious nationalism is an important component of political activity and organisation. …”
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Pentecostalisation, the American Christian right, and civil religion in Ghana by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Ghana is the first west African nation to be subject to sustained attention from elements of the US Christian Right, following similar efforts in east Africa, particularly in relation to Kenya and Uganda. …”
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