Turning back time: an exploration of nostalgia in Shinto Japan through studio Ghibli films by Lim, Jia Hui

“…Through this, my essay argues that both films articulate a yearning for an idealized past.…”
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Xenophobia in Singapore : understanding the causes and nature of negative attitudes towards foreign professionals by Chew, Jing Rui

“…Over the past few years, the Singaporean-foreigner divide has increasingly come under the spotlight, with certain high profile incidents and assemblies occurring, signifying xenophobic sentiments brewing locally. …”
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The black swan of American Presidency : comparing Obama and Trump's foreign policies on Southeast Asia by Desker, Reesa Corrie

“…His campaign rhetoric and general temperament are a deviation from American presidents of the past and elicit the question of a new normal in U.S. government and foreign policy. …”
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The rise of China in Southeast Asia (SEA) : an analysis of hedging strategy on selected SEA states from 2008-16 by Yeo, Amanda Joy Sue Mae

“…Over the past decade, China has experienced strong economic growth rates and a clear enhancement of its military might. …”
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Energy efficient protocol in wireless sensor networks by Chen, Alex Bowei

“…The recent speedy development of computer technology, Internet of things (IoT) and Industrial 4.0 over the past couple of years are promoting the need for massive secure communication for wireless devices. …”
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The variable sampling interval X̄ chart with estimated parameters by Zhang, Ying, Castagliola, Philippe, Wu, Zhang, Khoo, Michael B. C.

“…However, in practice, these parameters are usually unknown and it is necessary to estimate them from the past data. In this paper, we evaluate and compare the performance of the VSI X̄ equation image chart in terms of its average time to signal in the case where the process parameters are known and in the case where these parameters are estimated. …”
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A fragmentation approach to quantum calculation of large molecular systems by Zhang, Dawei, Ji, Changge, Mei, Ye, Zhang, John Z. H., He, Xiao

“…Fragmentation method has opened a new door for the development of quantum mechanical methods and their applications to large molecules. In the past decade, we have evidenced much progress in this field, and this development is believed to be continued in the future. …”
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Impact of delay on the formation of high-order interactions and structural imbalance by Siboni, M. H. Hakimi, Jafari, Reza

“…Because of this delay, an event from the past influences the activities of another entity today, which is no guarantee of direct contact between the two. …”

Solvability of differential Riccati equations and applications to algorithmic trading with signals by Drissi, F

“…As an application, we solve two algorithmic trading problems in which the agent adopts a constant absolute risk-aversion (CARA) utility function, and where the optimal strategies use signals and past observations of prices to improve their performance. …”

Enhancing the Oxford University Research Archive: compliance, consistency, and challenges in supporting researchers by Mitchell, T, Lindgren, T, Partridge, J

“…This paper examines recent developments made to the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA), which has been in place as the University of Oxford's institutional repository, supporting Oxford researchers, since 2007. Over the past four to five years, ORA has undergone significant updates, including the implementation of a new data model, the adoption of enhanced metadata standards, and the integration of automation tools. …”

Surfactant and polymer-based technologies for water treatment by Shen, L, Hankins, NP, Singh, R

“…In this contribution, we highlight several surfactant and/or polymer-based technologies which have been developed over the past few decades for water treatment. Among these emerging technologies, polymer–surfactant complexation and flocculation is emerging as a new, economical and sustainable process for removing the contaminants from dilute aqueous solutions, and then recovering them into a highly concentrated valuable product, before recycling the polymer and surfactant in the next cycle without deterioration of treatment performance. …”

Dynamic consumer search by Parakhonyak, A, Rhodes, A

“…The optimal search rule has two reservation values, one for newly-searched products, and another for products that were searched in the past. Depending on the search cost, firms either keep price steady over time, or gradually raise price to take advantage of a growing pool of high-valuation repeat customers. …”

Stable isotope ratio analysis: an emerging tool to trace the origin of falsified medicines by Roncone, A, Kelly, SD, Giannioti, Z, Hauk, C, Caillet, C, Newton, PN, Perez-Mon, C, Bontempo, L

“…Falsified medicines pose a serious threat to global public health. Over the past few decades, the number of public health issues and seizures of falsified medicines has dramatically increased across the world. …”

Introduction: exponential inequalities: what can equality law do? by Atrey, S, Fredman, S

“…The chapter shows how the book uses a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to isolate the features of exponential inequalities that have arisen during the pandemic and other past crises, and to lay down a template of thinking about exponential inequalities in future crises such as climate emergencies, democratic deficits, wars, refugee crises, etc. …”

The soma question: interrogating the history of psychedelics with Sanskrit mantras by Moore Gerety, FM

“…Historical narratives tell us as much about the present as they do about the past—and the grand narrative of psychedelics in the ancient world is no exception. …”

Analyzing Malaysian Manufacturing Firm’s Flexibility and New Product Performance by Teoh, Bak Aun, Abu, Noor Hidayah

“…Manufacturing flexibility has been receiving attentions over the past decades as firm’s flexibility-related functional capabilities are competencies and resources of the firm. …”
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Comparison product optimization performance of fed-batch fermentation processes for penicillin G production by Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Arshad, Ahmad

“…To provide on-line estimates of the difficult to measure penicillin concentration, Partial Least Squares model was employed. These estimates were then used in the control loop and successful control of the product concentration was established. …”
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Triadic resonant instability in confined and unconfined axisymmetric geometries by Boury, S., Maurer, P., Joubaud, S., Peacock, T., Odier, P.

“…In both the confined and unconfined cases, we show that sub-harmonics can be spontaneously generated from a primary wave field if they satisfy at least a resonance condition on their frequencies of the form ω0 = ±ω1 ± ω2. …”
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Noise cancellation algorithm for respiratory sound classification by Soh, Marianne Hui Ying

“…The objective of this project is to design an adaptive noise cancellation algorithm based on least mean square (LMS) filtering on MATLAB to improve the clarity of respiratory signals. …”
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Pragmatic encroachment on knowledge? by Wong, Don Wei Wen

“…Much debate has centred around the contentious idea that having knowledge is a matter that is at least partly dependent on some non-truth connected factors, as in our non-epistemic, practical reasons or aims. …”
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