Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis... by Reitsma, M. B., Kendrick, P. J., Ababneh, E., Abbafati, C., Abbasi-Kangevari, M., Abdoli, A., Abedi, A., Abhilash, E. S., Abila, D. B., Aboyans, V., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., Adebayo, O. M., Advani, S. M., Aghaali, M., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, S., Ahmadi, K., Ahmed, H., Aji, B., Akunna, C. J., Al-Aly, Z., Alanzi, T. M., Alhabib, K. F., Ali, L., Alif, S. M., Alipour, V., Aljunid, S. M., Alla, F., Allebeck, P., Alvis-Guzman, N., Amin T. T., Amini, S., Amu, H., Amul, G. G. H., Ancuceanu, R., Anderson, J. A., Ansari-Moghaddam, A., Antonio, C. A. T., Antony, B., Anvari, D., Arabloo, J., Arian, N. D., Arora, M., Asaad, M., Ausloos, M., Awan, A. T., Ayano, G., Aynalem, G. L., Azari, S., B, D.B., Badiye, A. D., Baig, A. A., Bakhshaei, M. H., Banach, M., Banik, P.C., Barker-Collo, S. L., Bärnighausen, T. W., Barqawi, H. J., Basu, S., Bayati, M., Bazargan-Hejazi, S., Behzadifar, M., Bekuma, T. T., Bennett, D. A., Bensenor, I. M., Berfield, K. S. S., Bhagavathula, A. S., Bhardwaj, N., Bhardwaj, P., Bhattacharyya, K., Bibi, S., Bijani, A., Bintoro, B. S., Biondi, A., Birara, S., Braithwaite, D., Brenner, H., Brunoni, A. R., Burkart, K., Butt, Z. A., Caetano dos Santos, F. L., Car, Josip, Cárdenas, R., Carreras, G., Carrero, J. J., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Cattaruzza, M. S. S., Chang, J. C., Chen, S., Chu, D. T., Chung, S. C., Cirillo, M., Costa, V. M., Couto, R. A. S., Dadras, O., Dai, X., Damasceno, A. A. M., Damiani, G., Dandona, L.

“…We used a direct estimation approach to estimate attributable burden, providing more comprehensive estimates of the health effects of smoking than previously available. Findings: Globally in 2019, 1·14 billion (95% uncertainty interval 1·13–1·16) individuals were current smokers, who consumed 7·41 trillion (7·11–7·74) cigarette-equivalents of tobacco in 2019. …”
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Astray by Tan, Ken Wei Hao

“…Astray is a visual development project about a world that has been plunged into chaos, overrun by forests created by unstable magic unleashed in a fight against extinction as a result of conflict between the ever-industrious human race and the ancient beings that governed the natural world. …”
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Security and subversion in a time of monsters by Andersson, R

“…What kind of human future awaits once security becomes the default solution to perennial crisis? …”

Three essays on the funds allocation of U.S. Firms by Shih, Chia Mei

“…We examine the spending patterns of these proceeds and find that firms do not have a greater tendency to spend option proceeds than they do with other equity proceeds. …”
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Investigate the use of electrostatics in fabricating 3d objects using additive manufacturing technology by Ling, Pui Foong

“…They will be in the form of molten and dry state. Special attention has been placed on the molten state adhesion experiment as it is among the first of its kind. …”
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The Survey Method : The Contribution of Surveys to Sociological Explanation / by Marsh, Catherine, author 192668

“…The survey is the most widely used method of social research, but in recent years it has been the object of much damaging criticism. …”

Towards hollow-core fiber polarization beam splitting and combining by Raynal, Guillaume Dorian Louis

“…Inhibited Coupling fibers (ICFs) are a new kind of hollow core fibers. During the last decade, researchers have improved the performance of these fibers and low loss over broad transmission windows has now been achieved. …”
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Equilibrium β-limits dependence on bootstrap current in classical stellarators by Baillod, A., Loizu, J., Qu, Zhisong, Arbez, H. P., Graves, J. P.

“…As increases, pressure-driven currents perturb the vacuum magnetic field and often lead to the emergence of magnetic field line chaos, which can worsen the confinement and is the cause of another kind of -limit, the so-called equilibrium -limit. …”
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The uniqueness trap by Flyvbjerg, B, Budzier, A, Christodoulou, MD, Zottoli, M

“…<br> The cure is to always assume that someone, somewhere has undertaken a project like yours. If you can’t find an analogue, break your project into components, which may prove comparable with other projects. …”

Building a web application for Microsoft imagine cup 2015 by Ram, K. L.

“…Hence, most people end up discarding the item or pass it to be recycled rather than reused, even though it is of good working condition. …”
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Elastic shape memory polymeric materials for comfort fitting footwear by Wang, Taoxi

“…Although the shoe prototypes are only for the purpose of proof-of-concept, the demonstration successfully shows that the prototypes are deformable to fit different sized feet at around human body temperature. Such a kind of comfort fitting approach has yet been achieved using any other existing materials and technologies.…”
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An experimental investigation on relation of stress with occurrence of tinnitus by Ng, Chee Seng.

“…The effects of stress to human physiological change, in terms of neuroendocrine system, are studied and the relation between tinnitus and stress is discussed. …”
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Can Plants Perceive Human Gestures? Using AI to Track Eurythmic Human–Plant Interaction by Gil, Alvaro Francisco, Weinbeer, Moritz, Gloor, Peter A.

“…Using machine learning, we found that the voltage differentials over time of the plant predict if (a) eurythmy has been performed, and (b) which kind of eurythmy gestures has been performed. …”
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A study of how Israel gives back to the U.S. in terms of military technology for the foreign military funds received by Law, Daniel Zhen Yi

“…Subsequently, this paper will then investigate the growth of the Israeli military and the technological advancement in its military hardware, attributable to the aid given by the US. This will demonstrate the degree of aid given to Israel by the US, not in terms of dollars and cents, but in terms of the effects it has on the Research and Development (R&D) progress of Israel. …”
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Extracting event knowledge from pretrained language models by Ong, Claudia Beth

“…We find that word-level differences (with GloVe embeddings) and sentence-level similarities (with the Universal Sentence Encoder) between the demonstrations and question can aid the models in predicting the correct label more often.…”
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Molecular imaging in small animals (MISA) by Foo, Kristin Zhi Ting.

“…The final product will be published mainly to scientists who may find the app useful when deciding on instrument purchases that will aid them in their research. …”
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Presenting social media information on mobile devices using multiple contexts by Tan, Esther Meng Yoke, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…It should also take into account the purpose of use, for example, the kind of tasks undertaken by users. However, little research has been done on the organization of social media information by multiple context and tasks. …”
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Maritime bunker sales in Singapore : an overview of the bunkering market in Singapore 2018/2019(focusing on charter parties disputes) by Yong, Jordan Yong Jie

“…Another concern would be charter parties which affects shipowners and charterers as each of them will try to avoid responsibilities to lower their cost to meet the condition of IMO2020 which might end up in disputes. This report aims to find the different kind of disputes and problems that will happen between charterer and shipowners to satisfy the condition of IMO2020 as well as to find out the different aspects that would get affected that would cause disputes to increase or to decrease. …”
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Case study on queues : models analysis of service centre by Yong, Wei Der.

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Healthcare, Clinical Research and Digital Health Systems by Datta, Shoumen

“…This presentation explores healthcare issues from multiple angles and proposes to focus on data farming to provide assistance, now, (within reason), rather than wait for perfection to be achieved in the distant future. …”
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