Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state by Dorling, D

“…Middle England has been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis, and even people doing comparatively well are struggling to stay afloat. …”

The complete cosmicomics : the universe of a failed, emotional literary journey by Lim, Yi Qing

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Effect of fish, starch and salt contents on the microstructure and expansion of fish crackers ('keropok') by Cheow, C.S., Yu, S.Y., Howell, N.K., Che Man, Y., Muhammad, Karidah

“…Light microscopy studies on the fish cracker gel and expanded product ('keropok') emphasised the role of fish proteins in the starch expansion process. The addition of salt (20 g kg-1) in the 'keropok' helped to distribute evenly the starch in the fish protein. …”
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Green information technology and green information systems: Science mapping of present and future trends by Mohd Nazim, Mat Nawi, Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong, Wider, Walton, Amaka, Gabari Barry

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The importance of research and development of virgin coconut oil in food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmeceutical industries by Ya’akob, Harisun, Amirmudin, Noor Afiqah, Abdul Aziz, Azila, Aman Nor, Nor Farahiyah, Mat, Siti Alyani, Hasham@Hisam, Rosnani, Al-Batul Azizuddin, Maryam

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Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata” by de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex

“…Sánchez et al.’s textbook k-anonymization example does not prove, or even suggest, that location and other big-data data sets can be anonymized and of general use. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…Brazil has proved up its massive pre-salt trend boasting tens of billions of barrels of potential. …”

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow / by Katouh, Zoulfa, 1994-, author 656134, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

“…Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Salt to the Sea. Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. …”
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Revisiting project delivery performance: evidence from Swedish transport infrastructure by Chapman, P

“…This contribution opens new avenues for research by scholars to explain this apparent success and why some projects, even in Sweden, fail.…”

Webpage ranking: how it affects your selections? by Tan, Pei Li.

“…Search engines have become an essential tool for interacting on the Web and they are also navigational tools that can direct users to specific Web sites or aid in browsing. However, even today‟s most successful search engines struggle to provide high-quality search results: Approximately 50 percent of Web search sessions fail to find any relevant results for the searcher.[1] This project not only helps readers to have a better understanding of how the top 4 search engines works and how they rank their pages but also shows readers method(s) to manipulate the order of displaying results. …”
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Similarity Joins of Sparse Features by Metwally, Ahmed, Shum, Michael

“…This is the reason they fail to scale when the alphabet is large, the records are large, or some elements are shared by numerous records. …”
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Certifiers make neural networks vulnerable to availability attacks by Lorenz, T, Kwiatkowska, M, Fritz, M

“…For the remaining predictions without guarantees, the method abstains from making a prediction, and a fallback strategy needs to be invoked, which typically incurs additional costs, can require a human operator, or even fail to provide any prediction. While this is a key concept towards safe and secure AI, we show for the first time that this approach comes with its own security risks, as such fallback strategies can be deliberately triggered by an adversary. …”

Secure Sorting and Selection via Function Secret Sharing by Agarwal, Amit, Boyle, Elette, Chandran, Nishanth, Gilboa, Niv, Gupta, Divya, Ishai, Yuval, Kelkar, Mahimna, Ma, Yiping

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Olga Tokarczuk’s art of reading: a linguistic view by Bilut-Homplewicz, Zofia, Krauz, Maria

“…The distinction of unusual, even surprising collocation combinations and metaphors is an expression of the writer's creativity.…”
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Deep visual saliency on stereoscopic images by Nguyen, Anh-Duc, Kim, Jongyoo, Oh, Heeseok, Kim, Haksub, Lin, Weisi, Lee, Sanghoon

“…In addition, most algorithms specialized in detecting visual saliency on pristine images may unsurprisingly fail when facing distorted images. In this paper, we investigate a deep learning scheme named Deep Visual Saliency (DeepVS) to achieve a more accurate and reliable saliency predictor even in the presence of distortions. …”
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The prevalence of mental health among Malaysian university students by Arifin, Suhaili, Abdullah, Siti Salina, Omar, Nor Ezdianie, Mohamed, Nurshuhada, Mohamad Yusop, Yusni, Hamdul Hadi, Noor Muthmainnah

“…Instead, they have to deal with the problems themselves using the resources and facilities that have been provided to them. Those students who fail to manage these challenges are highly exposed to mental health problems and further lead to the academic underperformance. …”
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Anti-fouling thin film composite (TFC) polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes based on piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrates by Fu, Jia Shen

“…With the unmodified RO membrane fabrication protocol, the RO membrane with salt rejection less than 40% were fabricated. …”
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Constraint satisfaction approach to product configuration with cost estimation by Wang, Lin

“…To study the impact of changes to cost drivers and design parameters on the cost of a product, the entire product family, or even the entire product lifecycle, cost variation constraint are proposed. …”
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Unveiling the diversity and ecological roles of Macrofungi in Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, Selangor, Malaysia by Noor Aisyah Mohd Nordin, Nur Ain Izzati Mohd Zainudin, Wan Mohd Syazwan, Nor Azwady Abd Aziz, Mohd Termizi Yusof, Nurul Shazini Ramli

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Yeast-laden Hydrogel Capsules for Scalable Trace Lead Removal from Water by Gokhale, Devashish, Stathatou, Patritsia M., Athanasioud, Christos E., Doyle

“…Conventional treatment processes fail to remove trace lead from water in a resource-efficient manner. …”
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