Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 96

“…No longer just global suppliers of energy, the GCC states have become a key centre of energy demand growth in their own right, accounting to a large extent for projections such as those by the IEA that see the Middle East alongside Asia as the world’s future energy demand growth centres well into the 2030s. …”

Can social adversity and mental, physical and oral multimorbidity form a syndemic? A concept and protocol paper by Joury, E, Nakhleh, E, Beveridge, E, Tracy, D, Heidari, E, Shiers, D, Vereeken, S, Peckham, E, Gilbody, S, Das-Munshi, J, Fortune, F, Aggarwal, VR, Mishu, M, Firth, J, Bhui, K

“…Methods: Data from three large-scale population-based databases: UK BioBank, US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the Research with East London Adolescents Community Health Survey (RELACHS) will be analysed. …”

China Internet Development Report 2019 : Blue Book for World Internet Conference / by Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies issuing body 643062, World Internet Conference (2020) 643063, CCTB Translation Service, translator 643064

“…This book systematically summarizes China Internet development over the past 25 years, highlighting its strong impact on China's economy and society, and discussing the Chinese people's transition from beneficiaries and participants to builders, contributors and joint maintainers of cyberspace development. …”

Mastery / by Greene, Robert, author 376350, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship, absorb the hidden knowledge possessed by those with years of experience, surge past competitors to surpass them in brilliance, and explode established patterns from within. …”
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Encore Valentine / by Adriani Trigiani, author 656192

“…More so, she longs to create one of her own, but is torn between a past love that nurtured her, and a new one that promises to sustain her.…”

Handbook of Research on Education Institutions, Skills, and Jobs in the Digital Era / by Ordóñez de Pablos, Patricia, 1975-, editor 656401, Zhang, Xi, 1982-, editor 540571, Almunawar, Mohammad Nabil, 1960-, editor 623326, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…The evolution of information technologies, mobile devices, social media, and the needs of students, workers, and academics has experienced rapid changes in the past several years. This complex and dynamic reality requires new forms of education delivery and teaching methodologies for academics. …”
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SEM model: cognitive function predicting activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living performance in older adults by Goh, Pei Swhen

“…The present study examines the relationship between cognitive function and activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), specifically whether cognitive function can predict difficulties in ADLs and IADLs. Past research has found useful results in which our study is built on. …”
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Relationship between agreeableness and metamemory, moderated by self-esteem by Tan, Xuan Wei

“…Control participants did not view any past ratings. Participants did a word-pair task, rated JOLs, completed a mental paper folding task, and recalled the word-pairs. …”
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A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of dyslexia in alphabetic words and chinese characters. by Kwok, Fu Yu.

“…Nevertheless, in the past few years, studies of dyslexia in other languages such as Chinese language are slowly increasing. …”
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Age-related differences in functional connectivity during scene encoding by Leow, Dayton Wei Yang

“…The functional network underlying episodic encoding involves both the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and medial temporal lobe (MTL).1 Episodic encoding differs in terms of the stimuli and the types of encoding.2. Past neuroimaging studies have found both the parahippocampus in the MTL and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) in the PFC to be activated for scene encoding.3 In addition, when scenes are encoded based on its meaningfulness (i.e. relational encoding), the hippocampus will be activated for relational binding of the stimuli.4. …”
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Thermodynamics of complexity and pattern manipulation by Vedral, Vlatko, Gu, Mile, Garner, Andrew J. P., Thompson, Jayne

“…We derive the ultimate limits of this heat dissipation and show that it is generally nonzero and connected with the pattern's intrinsic crypticity—a complexity theoretic quantity that captures the puzzling difference between the amount of information the pattern's past behavior reveals about its future and the amount one needs to communicate about this past to optimally predict the future.…”
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Broadleaf afforestation impacts on terrestrial hydrology insignificant compared to climate change in Great Britain by Buechel, M, Slater, L, Dadson, S

“…For these three aims we run simulations using (i) past climate with proposed land cover changes and known floods and drought events; (ii) past climate with independent changes in precipitation, temperature, and CO₂; and (iii) a potential future climate (2020–2050). …”

A driftwood-based record of Arctic sea ice during the last 500 years from northern Svalbard reveals sea ice dynamics in the Arctic Ocean and Arctic peripheral seas by Hole, GM, Rawson, T, Farnsworth, WR, Schomacker, A, Ingólfsson, Ó, Macias-Fauria, M

“…Driftwood occurrence and provenance also track the northward ice formation shift in peripheral Arctic seas in the past century. A distinct decrease in driftwood incursion during the last 30 years matches the observed decline in pan-Arctic sea ice extent in recent decades. …”

Surface mapping of faceted metal oxides by chemical probe-assisted NMR for catalytic applications by Peng, Y

“…As a result, this often leads to different interpretations amongst researchers during the past decades.</p> <p>As the publications of titanium and zinc ranked top two among studies of first row of transition oxides in the past decades, this thesis will firstly review on the disagreements generated among researchers when they correlated the performance of ZnO and TiO₂ with their facet activities based on traditional techniques. …”

The global status of nursing research on hemodialysis: A bibliometric and visualized analysis by Wang, Yufen, Yang, Luhuan, Lei, Yunhong

“…BACKGROUND: Hemodialysis (HD)-related nursing research has been growing over the past 2 decades, providing critical insights into improving patient care and outcomes. …”
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Singaporeans' attitudes toward gender stereotypes in advertising. by Ng, Meng Yee., Yap, Mee Lee.

“…Secondary research was used to gather information about past researches regarding this topic. Primary data used for this study was by survey method.…”
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Distinction between charisma and vision. by Lim, Jacqueline Ai Hoon., Poh, Wan Fen., Lim, Yvonne San San.

“…In this paper, we believe that charisma and vision are two distinct constructs, unlike past research. A study was conducted on student leaders in NTU for measuring the two constructs and their effects on motivation, satisfaction, commitment and perforrmance of the followers. …”
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Performance of a multi-cell wideband DS-CDMA system by Yep, Kwok Kui.

“…During the past decade, the mobile radio communication industry has grown considerably, fuelled by the digital and RF circuit fabrication improvements, new scale circuit integration and other technologies, which make portable radio equipment smaller, cheaper and more reliable. …”
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Numerical and experimental study of pulsatile flow in bi-leaflet mechanical heart valves by Shi , Yubing.

“…This research project is aimed towards a better understanding of the flow field structure of a bi-leaflet mechanical heart valve (MHV) operating under simulated physiological condition. In the past, much research has been carried out to study the flow in heart valves with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and particle image velocimetry (PIV) experimental methods.…”
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Development of biotechnology in Singapore. by Lim, Adeline Yi Ling., Leow, Siok Theng., Chua, Seow Koon.

“…Review on the role of government in the development of Biotech industry in Singapore from newspapers, magazines and websites for the past one-year and the findings from the interviews that we have conducted.…”
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