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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Visual learning : an approach to help chinese dyslexic children to overcome learning disabilities. by Huang, Yuxian.

“…In Singapore, dyslexia in reading Chinese has doubled that of dyslexia in reading English. …”
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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. …”

Asia's Next Giant : South Korea and Late Industrialization by Amsden, Alice H. (Alice Hoffenberg), author 254521, Oxford University Press (Online service) 655242

“…This book examines South Korean economic growth as an example of “late industrialization,” a process in which a nation's industries learn from earlier innovator nations rather than innovate themselves. Discussing state intervention, shop‐floor management, and big business groups, the reasons are explored for South Korea's phenomenal growth, paying special attention to the principle of reciprocity in which the government imposes strict performance standards on those industries and companies that it aids. …”
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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. …”

Design implementation low energy fast fourier transform/inverse fast fourier transform (FFT/IFFT) processor based on asynchronous-logic by Chong, Kwen Siong

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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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Re-thinking the safety of navigation in the Malacca Straits by Desker, Barry

“…In the post-Soeharto era, the move towards greater regional autonomy and the devolution of power to the provinces has meant that the central government in Jakarta has fewer resources to expend on areas with no direct impact on Indonesian society. …”
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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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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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Design of high speed advanced encryption standard (AES) encryption circuit by Li, Lantian

“…The proposed optimized high-speed 128-bit AES encryption circuit has a throughput about 5 times higher than the standard design.…”
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Hong Kong’s media representations of China amid COVID-19: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis by Hu, Xiaolin, Kasimon, Diyana Nawar, Wan Abas, Wan Anita

“…The Sing Tao Daily was chosen for the study because it has been in existence for a long time and has readers all over the world. …”
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