Rewriting the literary tradition : chick lit by Cao, Baoying

“…That said, a diverse pool of material is drawn from in order to meet the requirements of each syllabus, and almost anything, in the loosest sense of the word, can constitute a ‘literary text,’ with students of the discipline studying sources as disparate as art, music and film, in addition to traditional prose and poetry. …”
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China and the “Singapore Model” : perspectives from mid-level cadres and implications for transnational knowledge transfer by Liu, Hong, Wang, Tingyan

“…Although this phenomenon has been studied, no attention has been drawn to the perspectives of those mid-level cadres who took part in the training and what those perspectives might imply. …”
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Those swans, remember: Graeco-Celtic relations in the work of J.M. Synge by Currie, A

“…When the Celtic world began to be scrutinised in the eighteenth century, its borders could, therefore, be filled with concepts drawn from other antiquities. …”

Clustering-triggered emission of EPS-605 nanoparticles and their application in biosensing by Li, Chengcheng, Shi, Xiaotong, Zhang, Xiaodong

“…Natural carbohydrates with intrinsic luminescent properties have drawn increasing attention thanks to their fundamental importance and promising applications. …”
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Engineering a surface to enhance endothelial cell adhesion towards creating a 'roll-up' blood vessel prosthesis by Chua, Hui Yee.

“…The optimized gelatin “ink” allowed extended viability for the entrapped HUVECs and the drawn scaffold lines to retain their integrity whilst in growth media. …”
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Influence of membrane active layer properties and support layer properties on organic and inorganic fouling in pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) process by Tan, Joelyn Yi Ying

“…Over the recent years, Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has drawn many interest due to its potential to harvest renewable and sustainable osmotic energy. …”
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Piezoelectric fibers for flexible and wearable electronics by Qian, Shengtai, Wang, Xingbei, Yan, Wei

“…As a new emerging flexible and wearable technology, fiber-shaped piezoelectric devices offer unique advantages over conventional thin-film counterparts. In this review, we survey the recent scientific and technological breakthroughs in thermally drawn piezoelectric fibers and fiber-enabled intelligent fabrics. …”
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Modeling, optimization and thermal characterization of micropillar evaporator based high performance silicon vapor chamber by Wei, Mengyao

“…To overcome the high heat generation challenge and ensure sustainable development in the semiconductor industries, thermal management for high density electronic devices has drawn much attention in recent years. Being a passive thermal management device with high heat removal capability, vapor chamber that spreads concentrated heat via liquid-to-vapor phase change phenomena was proven to be a promising cooling technique. …”
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Stock prediction using support vector regression by Manasa, Abburu.

“…The results were compared to results generated using BP and an inference was drawn as to why SVM-R is a better performing alternative to financial market data prediction as compared to BP. …”
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