Fictions of youth: childness in selected West African novels, 1991-2009 by Moellenberg, T

“…<p>This thesis examines child figures in Anglophone West African novels by Ben Okri, Chris Abani, Uzodinma Iweala, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Helen Oyeyemi, and Yaba Badoe. A "child" here is defined as a human person under age 18 and is referred to using the term <em>childness</em>, drawing from the work of children's literature scholar Peter Hollindale. …”

Dismantling silos: The case for an integrated approach to address childhood determinants of lifelong brain health by Raju, Ravikiran M, Tsai, Li-Huei

“…We have started to elucidate the mechanisms underlying this association but have made little progress in reducing the disease burden of environmentally mediated neurological and psychiatric illness. Here, we highlight barriers to innovation and how they may be overcome.…”
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The Phight for Phage: Understanding Bacteriophage Therapy in Aquaculture and Human Health by Cornman, Eva

“…The benefits, and some of the challenges, of phage therapy for both aquaculture and human health are discussed here.…”
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Reynolds numbers exhibit dramatic influence on directionality of movement of self-propelled systems by Zhao, Guanjia, Pumera, Martin

“…Self-propelled artificial objects are at the current forefront of research. We demonstrate here that the motion directionality of millimetre sized self-propelled objects is highly dependent on the Reynolds numbers (Re) of the systems, with emphasis on the “intermediate” Re region (1–600). …”
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AI paradigms for teaching biotechnology by Goh, Wilson Wen Bin, Sze, Chun Chau

“…Beyond direct application, it is also a useful tool for adaptive learning and forging new conceptual connections within the vast network of knowledge for the advancement of biotechnology. Here, we discuss a new paradigm for biotechnology education that involves coevolution with AI.…”
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Improving inlet performance of turbo-ramjet engine by using surface correction by Nandhini Raju

“…The intake geometry of SR-71 supersonic aircraft was used here for testing a scale model. Static and total pressure measurements in the duct were used to observe shock effect on internal flow. …”
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Low earth orbit satellite communications and services studies by Dubey, Vimal Kishore.

“…There are limitations on the present service and the R&D work initiated here is in collaboration with Institute of Telecommunication Research (ITR) Australia to extend the capability of the present ARGO system. …”
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Unconventional warfare to counter insurgency : U.S. army special forces in contemporary combat by Jouke Christiaan Valk

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Chromosome integrity : a major determinant of mitotic cell death in cancer treatment by Lai, Soak Kuan

“…However, the mechanisms underlying this form of cell death is poorly understood. Here, a novel molecular event that regulates mitotic cell death is reported. …”
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Watch and learn - laboratory practical made easy. by Wong, Mei Kee.

“…Mixing video teaching with laboratory lessons is a concoction that will make the learning experience more engaging and better supplement written protocols that students are provided with. Here in the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) however, it remains a largely unexplored teaching resource. …”
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Interactive mobile media tagging by Tan, Jun Hong.

“…The method will involve peer or community tagging where each individual mobile users can insert tags/keywords to the image data. The main idea here is to gather information of annotated images that users had uploaded and from these images, try to provide tags/keywords for other images. …”
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Practical bamboo joint design for small bamboo shelter by Ali Marzuki Ab Rani

“…Design improvements and experimental work to evaluate the effect of the improved design is reported here. According to the experimental results, it is identified that the thin rubber joint design improves the overall joint performance. …”
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Benefits of regionalisation by Chua, Kim Hee, Foo, Huey Huey, Lai, Kevin Wai Yuen

“…Results indicate that companies generally do not maintain _many links with Singapore but they do coordinate their subsidiaries' activities from their base here. This suggest that there are still certain aspects of the Regionalisation Drive that needs to be fine-tuned . …”
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Numerical modeling and simulation of shape memory allows using the mesh-free method by Ren, Ji

“…Consequently, many efforts in this thesis have been dedicated to the development of mesh-free methods. The emphasis here is on the moving least squares approximation (MLS), and detailed derivation of MLS approximation is described, whereby an efficient approach for obtaining the MLS shape functions and their derivatives is introduced. …”
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Specific enzyme immobilization approaches and their application with nanomaterials by Liu, Wenshan, Wang, Liang, Jiang, Rongrong

“…Non-specific immobilization approaches often face problems of enzyme leaching, 3D structure change and mass transfer resistance. Here, we focus on the review of specific enzyme immobilization approaches and have separated them into non-covalent and covalent categories.…”
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Sequencing palladium-catalyzed cycloisomerization cascades in a synthesis of the gelsemine core by Liang, G, Anderson, EA

“…However, applications of cycloisomerizations in complex target synthesis in which more than one cycloisomerization process is deployed in a cascade context are rare. Here we report investigations of the relative rates of two different types of ene-ynamide cycloisomerization that form fused and spirocyclic rings, and use of these results to design a sequence-controlled cascade cycloisomerization that prepares the tetracyclic core of gelsemine in a single step. …”

Assessing the effect of predator control on black-footed cat survival in central South Africa by Lai, S, Rodrigues, CW, O'Donnell, H, Küsters, M, Herrick, J, Lawrenz, A, Lamberski, N, Schroeder, M, Wilson, B, Sliwa, A

“…The black-footed cat, a small felid endemic to southern Africa, is particularly vulnerable to killing by larger carnivores while also being prone to developing renal diseases. Here, we investigated the effect of predator control on black-footed cat populations by comparing adult annual survival between two sites, a nature reserve with little predator management and a sheep and game farm where jackals and caracals were lethally controlled. …”

Star Chamber and the civil law by Williams, I

“…In the 1607 edition of his <i>Britannia</i>, William Camden explained that in the Star Chamber ‘causes here are debated and decided … after the course of the civill Law’. …”

Anomalous high-magnetic field electronic state of the nematic superconductors FeSe1−xSx by Coldea, A, Bristow, M

“…The data were collected using lock-in amplifiers. The data here are part of the figures presented in the manuscript were detailed figure captions are provided.…”

An account of the genus Cistanche (Orobanchaceae) in Iraq and taxonomic considerations in the Middle East by Aldughayman, M, Thorogood, CJ, A Al-Mayah, AA, Hawkins, JA

“…Species limits in the genus <em>Cistanche</em> are poorly understood, despite the plants’ long history of use in traditional herbal medicine and food across their range. Here we present a taxonomic account for the genus <em>Cistanche</em> in Iraq, where several taxa have been reported, most of them doubtfully. …”