Alfian Sa'at : negotiating the inauthenticity of Singapore's identity by Yee, Kenneth Shaoyong

“…The works that I will be analysing are “The Last Kampung”, “Void Deck”, and “Neighbours”. The third way that Alfian’s works evaluate the authenticity of Singapore’s identity is in the way the Singapore government has created reified icons and symbols to represent Singapore. …”
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Low-power non-binary SAR ADC with a two-mode comparator by Li, Jianni

“…To lower the power consumption, the method of applying a two-mode comparator was proposed, where the first few steps are completed in the comparator’s low accuracy mode, and the last few steps are completed in the high accuracy mode. …”
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The impingement boiling heat transfer of liquid nitrogen onto superheated tube array by Yonathan, Gayus

“…After all, conclusions and recommendation will be given in the last part to improve all factors and minimize error before the real experiments.…”
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Design, fabrication and characterization of integrated electronic devices based on wafer-scale 2D materials by Zhao, Guangchao

“…Then standard micro-fabrication process including electron beam lithography (EBL) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) will be carried out to complete the fabrication of MoS2 field effect transistors (FETs). At last, several tests such as output characteristic and transfer characteristic need to be run to characterize the direct current (DC) performance of the transistors. …”
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The impact of the timing of a prior year's auditor concessions on financial officers' judgments by Cheng, Mandy M., Tan, Hun-Tong, Trotman, Ken T., Tse, Aileen

“…We find that financial officers report a larger expected ultimate income-decreasing audit adjustment and are prepared to offer more concessions if the auditor had previously used a concession-start strategy (where the auditor had given a concession before the start of the negotiation but did not concede during the negotiation) relative to a concession-end strategy (where the concession was provided only in the last round of negotiation). Our results indicate that auditors' prior negotiation strategies impact financial officers' use of strategies on current year's negotiations. …”
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Entropy Based Modelling for Estimating Demographic Trends by Monterola, Christopher, Li, Guoqi, Zhao, Daxuan, Xu, Yi, Kuo, Shyh-Hao, Xu, Hai-Yan, Hu, Nan, Zhao, Guangshe

“…The procedure of the proposed method involves three stages, namely: 1) Prediction of the age distribution of a country’s population based on an “age-structured population model”; 2) Estimation the age distribution of each individual household size with an entropy-based formulation based on an “individual household size model”; and 3) Estimation the number of each household size based on a “total household size model”. The last stage is achieved by projecting the age distribution of the country’s population (obtained in stage 1) onto the age distributions of individual household sizes (obtained in stage 2). …”
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Organ Printing: Past, Present and Future by Rezende, Rodrigo A., Balashov, Sergey, Da Silva, Jorge V. L., Mironov, Vladimir, Kasyanov, Vladimir

“…The organ printing technology consists of three main steps: (i) pre-processing or design of blueprint for bioprinting of human organ; (ii) processing or actual 3D bioprinting using bioink or self-assembling tissue spheroids, biopaper or bioprintable, biocompatible and sacrificial hydrogel and bioprinter or automatic computer-aided robotic dispenser; and finally, (iii) postprocessing or bioreactor-based accelerated tissue maturation. During last decade 3D bioprinting technology has been advances and broadly recognized a new research paradigm and new exciting research direction in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. …”
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Bacterial Biofilm Control by Perturbation of Bacterial Signaling Processes by Jakobsen, Tim Holm, Tolker-Nielsen, Tim, Givskov, Michael

“…In particular, bacterial cell to cell signaling called “Quorum Sensing” together with intracellular signaling by bis-(3′-5′)-cyclic-dimeric guanosine monophosphate (cyclic-di-GMP) have gained a lot of attention over the last two decades. More recently, regulatory processes governed by two component regulatory systems and small non-coding RNAs have been increasingly investigated. …”
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An investigation on the mechanism of droplet formation in a microfluidic T-junction by Sivasamy Jayaprakash, Wong, Teck Neng, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Kao, Linus Tzu-Hsiang

“…We provide new insights on the pressure difference between the dispersed phase and the continuous phase during the droplet break-up process and show that the minimum pressure difference happens at the last moment of the droplet break-up and not during the second and third stage of the droplet formation mechanism in the squeezing regime as suggested by other researchers.…”
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Performance comparison of time slot allocation schemes in TDD-CDMA multihop cellular networks by Arabshahi, Maryam, Hong, Lei, Chong, Peter Han Joo

“…Many approaches have been proposed during last decade and still there are many ongoing researches aiming to provide higher speed and higher quality services for users. …”
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Extensive stimulus repetition leads older adults to show delayed functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation by Miyakoshi, Makoto, Matsuo, Kayako, Wu, Chiao-Yi, Suzuki, Atsunobu, Nakai, Toshiharu, Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…The average cortical responses to the first eight (Repetitions 1-7) and the last eight (Repetitions 12-19) presentations out of 20 were compared within each group. …”
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Vitamin B6 pathway maintains glioblastoma cell survival in 3D spheroid cultures by Moosa, Najla Yussuf, Azeem, Sara Abdullah, Lodge, John K., Cheung, William, Ahmed, Shafiq Uddin

“…The prognosis of GBM patients has marginally improved over the last three decades. The response of GBMs to initial treatment is inevitably followed by relapse. …”
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Which context matters for capturing energy needs? A multi-level analysis by Puranasamriddhi, A, Trotter, PA, Parikh, P, Batidzirai, B, Brophy, A

“…The need for development interventions to be context-specific in the Global South has become a mantra in the academic research over the last decade. However, there is ambiguity about which type of context actually matters, using the term to either mean different countries, sub-national regions, or specific communities. …”

A fundamental study on the potential LSPI promoting mechanisms of Ca and Mg based oil detergents by McAllister, MJ, Davy, MH, Doherty, LJ, LePage, LM, Wheeler, C

“…Abnormal combustion, in its various forms, has presented a challenge to the design and operation of spark-ignited internal combustion engines for well over a century. During the last decade the relative prevalence of low speed pre-ignition (LSPI) in highly boosted and downsized engines has led to significant research efforts directed at understanding its origins. …”

Looking deep at people: towards understanding and generating humans in images with deep learning by de Bem, RA

“…A significant effort has been devoted to these tasks by the research community along the last decades, greatly motivated by a large number of potential applications, like surveillance, human-machine interaction, action and behaviour recognition, motion capture, video reenactment, and computer graphics animation. …”

Neuromuscular taping application to reduce work-related tension neck syndrome in “Batik” manual labor workers: a pilot controlled trial by Rahayu, Umi Budi, Putriana, D., Setyaningrum, A., Kusumawati, Yuli, Blow, D., Romli, M.H.

“…Evaluations were made at four points of time: before, after 3 times, after 6 times of NMT application, and follow-up 15 days after the last application with mirroring duration on the control group. …”

Respiratory epithelium, production performance and behaviour of formaldehyde-exposed broiler chicks by I., Zulkifli, O., Fauziah, A.R., Omar, S., Shaipullizan

“…In experiment 1, chick embryos were exposed to 23.5 ppm of formaldehyde vapour during the last 3 days of incubation. Tracheal samples were taken at 0, 6, 30 and 54 h after exposure to formaldehyde and examined by scanning electron microscopy for pathological changes. …”
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The digestibility, ruminal fermentation and methane product of Cajanus cajan forage as a concentrate substitute in goats by Abidinsyah, D. A., Suyub, I. B., Jusoh, S., Yaakub, H.

“…Ruminal fluid was collected during the last week of the experiment after feeding and used to determine pH, ammonia, partial VFA, and methane gas production. …”
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Preferences of camp activity among secondary school students in west coast division of Sabah by Japial, Jcrechi

“…In addition, this study found that activities such as photography became the primary choice in camping, where it reached an average of 3.68 of mean score, followed by treasure hunt (3.67), birdwatching (3.60), handicraft camp (3.57), talent show (3:53) and the last is the view of the sunset with an average of 3.50 of mean score. …”
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Recent 10-year development on surface modification of polymeric hollow fiber membranes via surface coating approach for gas separation: a review by Roslan, Rosyiela Azwa, Lau, Woei Jye, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Sutrasno Kartohardjono, Sutrasno Kartohardjono

“…To enhance the performance of conventional polymeric membranes, significant research efforts have been dedicated to modifying their surface properties in the last decade. Among the various techniques explored, membrane surface modification using coating methods, such as dip-coating, spray-coating, grafting and interfacial polymerization stands out as one of the most popular and straightforward approaches. …”