Prevalence of lumbosacral transition vertebrae in symptomatic adults and the levels of degeneration in the suprajacent disc by Song, Joshua, Betzler, Brjan Kaiji, Kaliya-Perumal, Arun-Kumar, Oh, Jacob Yoong-Leong

“…There was a significantly higher number of patients with grade IV and above degeneration in the suprajacent disc level among those with LSTV when compared to the last unfused (L5-S1) disc level in those without LSTV (84% vs. 65%; p = 0.0001). …”
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Mechanochemical synthesis of corannulene flanked n-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) precursors and preparation of their metal complexes by Hum, Gavin, Muzammil, Ezzah M., Li, Yongxin, García, Felipe, Stuparu, Mihaiela Corina

“…In this regard, over the last decades huge efforts have been made to not only develop new molecular entities but also more efficient sustainable synthetic methodologies due to the increasing concerns over environmental sustainability. …”
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Design and application of a thyristor-based half-sine pulsed power converter for eddy current septum magnet by Liu, Yongfang, Zhou, Xiaoxuan, Li, Guoqiang, Wang, Ruiping, Yuan, Qibing

“…Over 10 years of operation, the failure rate of septum magnet pulsed power converters in the SSRF has increased in the last 2 years. To address this issue, an upgrade of half-sine pulsed power converters for septum magnets has been implemented to enhance system reliability. …”
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Surviving the economic crisis in distribution and warehousing business by Chai, Guan Sheng

“…Lastly, expansion and information technology development will be suggested to warehouses and distribution centers to sustain in the long run.…”
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Single antenna power measurements based direction finding : an FRI solution by Zhang, Song Bai

“…To further reduce the computational com- plexity, design of ideal low pass lter is explored, besides that, Conjugate Gradient Method for frequency spectrum estimation based on non-uniform sampling in time domain is also presented at last part of this report.…”
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An ultra low-power precision sample-and-hold circuit for biomedical application by Mah, Sai Lei

“…With a target of achieving less than 13 μW of power consumption, some transistors in the op-amp may works in moderate or weak inversion. At last, the student managed to design an op-amp that consumes 12.04 μW that gives 0.395 μW/pF of power efficiency. …”
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Organocatalytic asymmetric mannich, formal [4+1] and [4+2] annulation reactions by Shi, Zugui

“…In this doctoral thesis, the research work that was carried out during the last four years will be divided into 5 chapters. …”
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Efficient simulation of large-scale urban environment with adaptive multiple-scene management by Le, Minh Duc

“…Project sizes and complexities of 3D Games and Simulations have increased drastically during the last ten years. Nowadays, a large number of applications have increasing scene complexity with non-scene-boundaries and contain many types of objects, both outdoors and indoors. …”
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Development of point-of-interest recommendation web application by How, Jiahe

“…The use of recommendation based systems has been a growing trend in the last decade. In today’s modern technology age, whereby users have access to high bandwidth network, it has been a norm for people to frequently visit recommendation website to look for point-of-interests such as nearby restaurants or tourist attractions. …”
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Sphero robot controlled by using brain computer interface offline by Sun, Yaxiong

“…Thirdly, the SVM model has been used to analyze the brain signal, in this process, the time domain signal need to be converted to frequency domain signal. Lastly, transfer the analyzed the result to robot for movement. …”
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Why ‘strategic competitor’? : China’s national image formation in the United States facilitated by the Chinese media in Xi Jinping era by Liu, Kai

“…The third section mainly explores the reasons why Xi administration set Chinese media’s tongue in a proactive way when China or its rise is depicted. Last, in the fourth section, concrete strategies for China to use media to craft a better national image in the United States will be put forward based on the analysis above.…”
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Evaluation of popular science translation : a case study on the Universe in a Nutshell by Huang, Qingling

“…The four dimensions are Accuracy, Fluency, Information flow, Style/Textuality, with the first two covering micro-textual assessment and the last two covering macro-textual assessment, respectively. …”
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A Review on the Use of Robots in Education and Young Children by Toh, Lai Poh Emily, Causo, Albert, Tzuo, Pei-Wen, Chen, I-Ming, Yeo, Song Huat

“…The paper synthesizes the findings of research studies carried out in the last ten years and looks at the influence of robots on children and education. …”
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Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…While the number of protein therapeutics has grown substantially over the last decade [1], delivery systems continue to be limited. …”
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Exaggerated expectations in ancient starch research and the need for new taphonomic and authenticity criteria by Mercader, Julio, Akeju, Tolutope, Brown, Melisa, Bundala, Mariam, Collins, Matthew J., Copeland, Les, Crowther, Alison, Dunfield, Peter, Henry, Amanda, Inwood, Jamie, Itambu, Makarius, Kim, Joong-Jae, Larter, Steve, Longo, Laura, Oldenburg, Thomas, Patalano, Robert, Sammynaiken, Ramaswami, Soto, María, Tyler, Robert, Xhauflair, Hermine

“…However, lapses in prevailing starch research demonstrate the exaggerated expectations for the field that have been generated over the last few decades. This includes an absence of explanation for the millennial-scale survivability of a biochemically degradable polymer, and difficulties in establishing authenticity and taxonomic identification. …”
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Korean war June-October 1950 : Inchon and Stalin in the "trigger vs. justification" debate by Tan, Jack Kwoh

“…Three shortcomings of this debate are identified: 1) whether Mao would have intervened had the US military stopped at the 38th parallel is difficult to determine; 2) Mao's vacillations up till the very last minute cast doubt on the justification arguement i.e. offensive intervention driven by revolutionary ideology and politics; and 3) as a result, this ignores the complex dimensions of decision-making and interaction between Stalin and the Chinese leadership, as well as within the Chinese leadership itself. …”
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Neutron diffraction as a precise and reliable method for obtaining structural properties of bulk quantities of graphene by Sofer, Zdeněk, Šimek, Petr, Jankovský, Ondřej, Sedmidubský, David, Beran, Přemysl, Pumera, Martin

“…Graphene based carbon materials have attracted a great deal of attention in the last decade; nowadays tons of graphene are produced yearly. …”
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Fourier transform-based scalable image quality measure by Narwaria, Manish, Lin, Weisi, McLoughlin, Ian Vince, Emmanuel, Sabu, Chia, Clement Liang-Tien

“…In this way, the required weights are determined via proper training and hence more convincing and effective. Last, using the fact that phase usually conveys more information than magnitude, we use only the phase for RR quality assessment. …”
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Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum by Giurlando, Philip, Wajner, Daniel, Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…Populist politics in Southern Europe displays several distinctive patterns related to a shared history, geography, culture, and economy, while being subject to similar geopolitical pressures. In the last decade, moreover, the Euro-Mediterranean region has been struck by destabilizing shocks: the Eurozone crisis and the refugee crisis, which led to a realignment of party politics, with populist parties of both the left and the right enjoying high levels of popular support and taking, or have gotten close to taking, governmental power. …”
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The Rise and Fall of the Ideal City by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig

“…Curated by Jacek Ludwig Scarso, the depictions of the city in Marta Czok's paintings, which vary in period from the early eighties to the last decade, show a satirical perspective on social hierarchies. …”
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