Finding meaning behind immortality of Anne Rice’s vampires. by Nurhayati Zakaria.

“…These novels follow the psychological and emotional experiences of vampiric immortality, firstly, via two first-person accounts of two separate vampires, Louis and Lestat, and later trace Rice’s interpretation of vampiric urban legend through the stories of various vampires of different walks of life. …”
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Design and characterization of multiple-stimuli responsive shape memory hybrids by Tan, Jun Liang.

“…This shape-memory hybrid will later be used in the experiments for the testing of shape recoverability when subjected to the two stimuli. …”
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Composite right/left handed coplanar transmission line by Syed Moshin Ibrahim Ameena Fathima.

“…The simulation is done with the best knowledge of the software provided. The later stage of the dissertation involves the fabrication of four unit cell transmission line structure. …”
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Option-based quantification and generic optimization of debt refinancing in public-private partnership infrastructure projects by Zheng, Sha

“…It is very common for infrastructure PPP projects to undertake debt refinancing for improving project sponsors’ returns at a later stage. It is considered particularly suitable for long-term infrastructure projects where the construction has been completed and the successful operation has been demonstrated. …”
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Design and development of a solar-powered vehicle by Zhou, Bo

“…The car running powered by batteries was done first and later car running powered by solar panel was done also. …”
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A web portal for the social support of the elderly by Kok, Kelvin Jian Rong

“…More important functions can be included later if required. As this application is meant for the elderly, the user interface was made as user-friendly and simple as possible. …”
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Microfluidic chip for blood sample processing by Chalapathy Raja Shobana

“…The aluminum coating on the surface of filter paper traps the parasites, which is later observed under Raman Spectroscopy for detection of disease. …”
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'You would never pick up the thread from where you left off’: older Irish women migrants' narratives of non‐return, post‐retirement by Ryan, Louise, Doshi, Neha

“…Less is known about how return, and indeed non‐return, decision‐making evolves in later years, with calls for more research on migrants in the old‐old age groups. …”
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Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention by Faitaki, F, Liggins, S, Murphy, V

“…Children’s oral language skills at the earliest stages of education are known to determine their success at school later on. Improving oral language skills is achievable through targeted intervention, and drama can be an effective intervention medium, but its potential has not been extensively evaluated to date. …”

The 'Clisurean' finds from Climente II cave, Iron Gates, Romania by Bonsall, C, Boroneanţ, A, Evatt, A, Soficaru, A, Nica, C, Bartosiewicz, L, Cook, G, Higham, TFG, Pickard, C

“…Comparison of the Climente II archaeological inventory with that from later, fisher-hunter-gatherer settlements in the Iron Gates indicates continuity of mortuary ritual, lithic tradition and subsistence practices from the Lateglacial into the Early Holocene.…”

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations by Barrie, W, Yang, Y, Irving-Pease, EK, Attfield, KE, Scorrano, G, Jensen, LT, Armen, AP, Dimopoulos, EA, Stern, A, Refoyo-Martinez, A, Pearson, A, Ramsøe, A, Gaunitz, C, Demeter, F, Jørkov, MLS, Møller, SB, Springborg, B, Klassen, L, Hyldgård, IM, Wickmann, N, Vinner, L, Korneliussen, TS, Allentoft, ME, Sikora, M, Kristiansen, K, Rodriguez, S, Nielsen, R, Iversen, AKN, Lawson, DJ, Fugger, L, Willerslev, E

“…We further show that these MS-associated immunogenetic variants underwent positive selection both within the steppe population and later in Europe, probably driven by pathogenic challenges coinciding with changes in diet, lifestyle and population density. …”

Psychological significance of name changes: a case study of (North) Macedonia's name referendum by Stojanov, A, Segal, K, Halberstadt, J, Whitehouse, H

“…Participants (ethnic Macedonians, N = 301) took a survey measuring these variables, along with their voting intentions and behavior, one week prior to a national referendum on the name change, and again several weeks later. The results indicated that while all variables predicted negative attitudes toward the name change, only considering the name a sacred value and, to a lesser extent, being identified with the country, uniquely predicted this outcome, and only sacred values uniquely predicted voting. …”

The longitudinal effects of intergroup contact on youth attitudes towards ethnic minorities and constructive societal engagement by Schaefer, D, McKeown, S, Ali, S, DuPont, P-L, Manley, D, Rao, S, Taylor, LK, McKeown Jones, S

“…Building on the relatively smaller body of longitudinal intergroup contact research, we conduct a three-time point survey amongst youth in Northern Ireland to determine whether frequent and good quality interactions with ethnic minority groups is associated with later reports on: (1) attitudes towards ethnic minorities, (2) prosocial behaviour toward ethnic minorities, and (3) civic engagement. …”

Express: Learning new words via reading: the influence of emotional narrative context on learning novel adjectives by Dong, Y, Mak, MH, Hepach, R, Nation, K

“…Both immediately after and 24 hours later, participants completed a series of post-tests including speeded recognition, sentence completion, meaning generation, and valence judgment. …”

Childhood language development and alexithymia in adolescence: an eight-year longitudinal study by Lee, K-S, Catmur, C, Bird, G

“…Results indicated that boys with low language function at ages 4-5, and those who later met the diagnostic criteria for language disorders at ages 5-6, reported elevated alexithymic traits when they reached adolescence. …”

Royal Malaysia Custom Department (RMCD): A Case of Information Systems Success towards Employee Performance by Abd Zakaria, Zuhdi, Anuar, Herman Shah, Mohamed Udin, Zulkifli

“…The importance of this framework could be applied in various government departments that apply information systems which could better improve their employee performance. This will later on further improve the performance of the respective departments in achieving their key performance indicators as well as increasing their productivity in the long run…”
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A Framework for Robust Long-Term Voltage Stability of Distribution Systems by Nguyen, Hung D., Dvijotham, Krishnamurthy, Yu, Suhyoun, Turitsyn, Konstantin

“…Furthermore, the constructed regions are shown to cover substantial fractions of the true voltage stability region. The paper will later discuss a number of important applications of the proposed technique, including fast screening for viable injection changes, constructing an effective solvability index and rigorously certified loadability limits.…”
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Relationships among emotion regulation, depression, anxiety, stress, and physical health-related quality of life in coronary heart disease patients by Ng, Min Geng

“…Results indicated that baseline physical HRQoL predicted physical HRQoL 6 months later. Even though baseline emotion dysregulation levels were not found to predict change in physical HRQoL, negative change in emotion dysregulating predicted further deterioration in physical HQRoL in 6 months. …”
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A communal furniture informed by the deprivation of Mauritian beach by Fok Kow, Fok-Chi-Seng

“…Having lived near to a beach and creating childhood memories of the place, to later witness its deterioration due to erosion is something unbearable, especially when climate change is one of the major reasons. …”
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A simplified formulation to estimate influence of gearbox parameters on the rattle noise by Zhang, Jidong, Sui, Wentao, Dhupia, Jaspreet

“…The rattling noise level is affected by several gearbox parameters, an understanding of which is essential to prevent the expensive design modifications at later stages of product development. To develop such understanding at the gearbox design stage, this paper analytically evaluates the gear parameters’ effect on the root mean square of the wheel gear acceleration under idling condition, which is known to be linearly correlated to the rattling noise level. …”
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