Designing shallow foundation to Eurocode 7 by Neo, Chee Wei

“…British Codes and Standards (BS) have been used in practice for many years and for the past few years, it is use co-existence with Eurocodes (EC) for the past few years. …”
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Performance study of digital communication systems in TWDP fading by Li, Yuan

“…In the context of this kind of fading channel, we research into the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of some digital bandpass modulation schemes, which mainly touches on some binary one-dimension modulations and the quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Apart from the onefold technique to improve transmission efficiency, the space diversity combining is utilized, such as maximum ratio combining (MRC), to mitigate the impacts of fading at the receiver side. …”
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“This Will Blow Your Mind”: examining the urge to click clickbaits by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Pal, Anjan, Banerjee, Snehasish

“…Originality/value: This paper represents one of the earliest attempts to investigate Internet users' urge to click clickbaits. Apart from extending the boundary conditions of the U&G theory, it integrates two other theoretical lenses, namely, the notion of information richness and personal epistemology framework, to develop and empirically validate a theoretical framework.…”
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Moonchild. by Chan, Yin Wan., Chong, Sara Shuzhen.

“…I will not be discussing details in the make-up of the story, however, as any attempt to do so would only tear it apart.…”
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Experimental measurement of squeeze flow in bearings by Mak, Weng Keong.

“…In the second series of tests, apart from pressure generations and temperature variations, the change in flow rate was also recorded for different rotational speeds and three different film thicknesses. …”
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Portfolio insurance strategies : a comparison of OBPI versus CPPI by Chen, Xinyi, Zhang, Jenny Bi Zhen, Liu, Xinyi

“…We explore 4 global markets, namely the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Japan in evaluating the effectiveness of these strategies. Apart from traditional mean-variance performance measures such as Sharpe and Sortino ratio, we consider the Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall of the strategies, which are more appropriate in a portfolio insurance context. …”
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The use of "soft" and "hard" approach in the management of educational research projects by Riduan Mazlan.

“…These assumptions do not apply to "soft" projects like research projects, setting them apart from the rest so much so that adopting "hard" approaches can lead to failure. …”
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Investigating the signaling properties of myeloid specific integrin αMβ2 (CD11BCD18) by Ong, Li Teng

“…Dysfunctional or deregulated integrins can lead to a compromised immune system or generate overt inflammatory responses. Apart from its well-established role as a phagocytic receptor, the myeloid specific integrin αMβ2 (CD11bCD18) is involved in cell migration, leukocyte survival and immune tolerance. …”
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RE teachers’ ways of balancing children’s existential concerns and the curriculum: mirrored through established RE approaches by Osbeck, C, Lilja, A, Fancourt, N

“…However, revisiting these approaches in combination with concrete examples of teachers’ experiences has brought our understanding further, and has also drawn attention to the need for awareness concerning the varying character of this relationship, as a tension, one between whose poles the teaching constantly moves or as one that falls apart in two different poles that do not necessarily need to be seen in the light of each other.…”

Scenes of misrecognition (Koltès, Duras) by Killeen, M-C

“…As performative utterances, these abortive confessions ultimately perform little apart from their own undoing. This failure is due in no small part to the persistence with which they direct one’s focus elsewhere: instead of the familiar spectacle of a character’s full and frank confession (assuming such a thing were even possible), the disquieting theater of Koltès and Duras demands instead that one attend to what one disavows. …”

A systematic literature review of resilience approaches in small and medium tourism-based sector by Rohini Shakthinathan, Velan Kunjuraman

“…The findings significantly contribute to the tourism small and medium-sized enterprises in creating resilience-based sustainable tourism, and society’s well-being apart from contributing to the COVID-19 tourism resilience literature. …”
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Side channel attack on mobile devices using machine learning by Muhammad Jazeel Meerasah

“…These are some of the improvements that would be worked on in this report. Lastly , it is concluded that the improved method of attack works and is then considered for future works .…”
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Use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: nested case-control studies using the QResearch and CPRD databases by Vinogradova, Y, Coupland, C, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…The risk associated with past long term oestrogen-progestogen use, however, remained increased (1.16, 1.11 to 1.21). …”

末代华文教育分子的后代 = The evolution of Chinese teaching in Singapore by 颜灵恺 Gan, Ling Kai

“…The descendants of the last elements of Chinese Education in Singapore.…”
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Cheaper Than A Funeral: Considering Ibogaine’s Psychedelic Journey and Therapeutic Potential by Daly, Noah

“…The past decade has seen a surge of interest in psychedelic compounds as therapeutic medicine. …”
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Does disability modify the association between poor mental health and violence victimisation over adolescence? Evidence from the CoVAC cohort study in Uganda by Carter, DJ, Pitcairn, CFM, Eldred, E, Knight, L, Nakuti, J, Mirembe, A, Atuhaire, L, Allen, E, Bhatia, A, Naker, D, Parkes, J, Devries, K

“…The relationships between early mental health difficulties and both mental health difficulties in later adolescence and past year violence are stronger in young people with functional difficulties. …”

Vision enhancement using artificial intelligence techniques by Yu, Xiaohan

“…Proposed papers show limitations dealing with both fast moving cameras and pretty heavy rain. In the former paper, their main idea was to create a method to achieve perfect frame alignment. …”
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Distributed multicasting algorithm for real time multimedia traffic by Quan, Huo Sheng.

“…In the past, very few network applications involved multiple users and none of them had QoS (Quality and Service) requirements. …”
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Protestant masculinities : a study of Christian men’s sensibilities. by Woo, Darren Hon Fai.

“…Past literature have shown that the presentation of Protestant and masculine selves are relatively straightforward when considered separately. …”
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Overcoming cultural barriers to capture a market by Dominic Michael Stoeckler, Kishan Golyan, Miao, Xin, Samir Mowla

“…China has gone through an amazing growth spurt over the past 30 years, and with a population of 1.3 billion people, it represents a vast potential market for businesses the world over. …”
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