Greater soil carbon losses from secondary than old-growth tropical forests by Raczka, Nanette Christine, Ho, Qian Yi, Srinivasan, Vupasana, Lee, Ming Yang, Ko, Chung-Wing, Königer, Madeleine, Chua, Terence, Binny, Delia, Ngo, Kang Min, Andersen, Kelly M.

“…While old-growth forests typically contain larger stores of C aboveground than secondary forests, past research has found varied results for belowground soil C storage and fluxes between tropical forest types. …”
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Academic achievement inspired machine learning methods for student grade prediction and at-risk detection by Wei, Qiu

“…To this end, sustained efforts have been focused on leveraging prior grades attained in consecutive (past) semesters to predict grades of pilot courses that have been registered in the upcoming or current semester. …”
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Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: evidence from the PATH study by Behrooz, Leili, Xie, Wubin, Goghari, Aboli, Robertson, Rosemarie, Bhatnagar, Aruni, Stokes, Andrew, Hamburg, Naomi M.

“…In the multivariable models adjusted for relevant covariates, combustible cigarette users (adjusted odds ratio, AOR=1.77; 95% CI: 1.56–2.01) and dual users (AOR=2.22; 95% CI: 1.61–3.05) had higher odds of reporting ever having chest pain, as well as having chest pain in the past 30 days. Conversely, exclusive e-cigarette users had similar odds of reporting chest pain compared to non-users (AOR=1.03; 95% CI: 0.69– 1.54) and lower odds than combustible and dual users. …”
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Unveiling the facade of blog posts to reveal subjective well-being : an exploratory study. by Ou, Zhiqi., Tan, Justine Yi Ting., Tan, Jessie Zi Xi.

“…With the increased usage of social media over the past few years, online platforms like blogs and micro blogs may offer a valuable source of information with regards to behavioral economics and policy design. …”
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Online learning with kernels by Fan, Haijin

“…The recurrent term makes the past information reusable for the updating of the algorithm. …”
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团派与中共派系政治 = “Tuan Pai” and factionalism in Chinese politics by 卢凌之 Lu, Lingzhi

“…探究团派浮沉，对于观察当代中共高层派系政治的走向提供了重要且即时的参考价值。 Over the past decade when former CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao was in office, it was a phenomenon that many CCYL cadres began to occupy key position within Party or the Government, this phenomenon is noted as an emergence of a new faction named “TuanPai”. …”
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EEG based brain signal analysis on stress level by Ng, Yu Xin

“…The classification result using the Support Vector Machine(SVM) indicated that the combination of the EEG power ratio of Beta band over Theta band and the EEG power difference between Beta band and Alpha band generated the best average classification accuracy of 77.53% in a 3-level stress classification. Comparing to the past studies, it has a higher accuracy than [2] and a lower accuracy than [1]. …”
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Soundfield control using loudspeaker array by Li, Renshi

“…Control of loudspeaker arrays have been studied in the past few years for a wide variety of applications. …”
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A unified framework of active transfer learning for cross-system recommendation by Zhao, Lili, Pan, Sinno Jialin, Yang, Qiang

“…In the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been successfully applied to recommender systems employed in many e-commerce companies, such as Amazon, eBay, Netflix, etc., which aim to provide personalized recommendations on products or services. …”
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Air distribution and thermal comfort for active chilled beam systems by Wu, Bingjie

“…During the past few decades, the active chilled beam (ACB) system has become increasingly prevalent worldwide as a promising air conditioning and mechanical ventilation (ACMV) system. …”
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Investigating protein adsorption at solid-liquid interfaces towards the development of functional biomaterial coatings by Park, Jae Hyeon

“…While most of the experimental layouts are in reference to past studies, the methods were reinforced with modern techniques, and speculations were minimized through data verification via complimentary pairing of analytical devices. …”
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Probabilistic verification beyond context-freeness by Li, G

“…Firstly, it establishes the decidability of the Almost-Sure Termination (AST) and Positive Almost-Sure Termination (PAST) properties for rPTSA, and develops methods for quantitatively analysing termination probability and expected termination time. …”

The association between hip morphology parameters and 19-year risk of end-stage osteoarthritis of the hip in caucasian females: a case-control study by Nicholls, AS

“…<p>Over the past decade, measures of hip morphology have been recognised as biomechanical risk factors for the development of osteoarthritis (OA) in the hip. …”

The epidemiology of periportal fibrosis and relevance of current Schistosoma mansoni infection within the context of repeated mass drug administration: a population-based, cross-se... by Ajayi, S, Nabatte, B, Mpooya, S, Tinkitina, B, Opio, CK, Kabatereine, NB, Chami, G

“…Periportal fibrosis likelihood linearly increased with age from age 5 years to age 25 years, non-linearly increased from age 26 years to age 45 years, attenuated or remained unchanged from age 46 years to age 60 years, and steadily decreased past 60 years of age. History of liver diseases, HIV, and ultrasound-detected chronic hepatitis or early cirrhosis-like disease were associated with more than two-times increased periportal fibrosis likelihood.…”

Impact of media literacy on soft drink consumption among adolescents in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohammad Shahid, Nur Nadirah

“…Results revealed that 36% of respondents drank a minimum of 1 can, bottle or glass of soft drink for the past seven days and possessed good level of media literacy (45.1%). …”
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Towards the Realization of National Automotive Policy (NAP): Modelling the Malaysian Consumers’ Purchase Behavioral Intention towards Energy Efficient Vehicles (EEVs) (S/O 14165) by Mohd Noor, Nor Azila, Mohd Fadhil, Faudziah Hanim, Md Isa, Filzah, Salleh, Hayatul Safrah, Muhammad, Azli

“…Malaysian Automotive Association disclosed that energy efficient vehicles have enjoyed tremendous sales growth in the past few years after the introduction of duty exemptions. …”
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Biogeochemical cycling and environmental footprints of peatland-derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean in Southeast Asia by Zhou, Yongli

“…Terrigenous DOC derived from peatlands is advected from the east coast of Sumatra to the Singapore Strait during the Southwest Monsoon. …”
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Agarwood oil grade clustering of aquilaria malaccensis species using Extraction by GC-MS analysis: Efficient KNN algorithm based on patterns visualization of two-dimensional graph by Siti Mariatul Hazwa, Mohd Huzir, Anis Hazirah ‘Izzati H., Al-Hadi, Amir Hussairi, Zaidi, Nurlaila F., Ismail, Zakiah, Mohd Yusoff, Saiful Nizam, Tajuddin, Mohd Nasir, Taib

“…A two-dimensional graph (2D graph) is one of the graphical presentations for data visualization. Over the past decades, Agarwood Oil grade clustering is still at a disadvantage since there is no official standard grading system. …”
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Vaccines: The Health of Nations - A Paradigm Shift by Datta, Shoumen

“…"The Health of Nations" is a review/summary of research results over the past 30+ years which indicates that untreated, raw, plant products (leafs, stems, roots) may be effective in delivering antigens (e.g. viral proteins engineered in recombinant vectors for production in transgenic plant tissue) to humans and animals to vaccinate against future infections (e.g. emerging threat from viruses with pandemic potential). …”
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A Heliocentric Satellite Constellation for Continuous Solar Coverage and Space Weather Monitoring by Shtofenmakher, Allan, Gochenaur, Daniel, Waters, Benjamin, Cato, Robert, Miller, Duncan, de Castro, Luke, Zheng, Tai, Koenig, Alexander, Sweeney, Katelyn, Diaz, Joel Jurado, Lepe, Alexis, McLellan-Cassivi, Claire, Ajisafe, Frederick, Saravanan, Akila, Nikolova, Joana, Ma, Clara Ziran, Trautman, Leilani, Khan, Nadia, de Weck, Olivier L., Crawley, Edward F.

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