Conservation Shophouse in Singapore : case studies on Boat Quay & Blair Plain by Chai, Meng Woei, Wong, Wai Man, Low, Thomas Hong Shin

“…Just like monumental building such as the Fullerton Building, the National Museum or the Empress Place, they stand to remind us of our past. Yet unlike their monumental cousins, shophouses can be more easily associated with since we may have taken our working lunches in them, or in certain instances lived in them.…”
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Timekeeper by Ng, Yang Meng

“…When 11-year-old Anna visits Hock’s quirky shop house by surprise, an affinity is quickly formed between the pair as Hock reminisces and shares his past. Revisiting Hock’s memory lane, they discover about a memento that connects them together.…”
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The Currency union : the Euro and lessons for East Asia by Baloch Amna, Gan, Kian Keong, Veerasak Pongtanyavichai

“…Despite the two World Wars that were fought there, the member countries of the European Union were able to forget the past and co-operate for the benefit of everyone. …”
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Analysis of lava flow impacts for use in risk assessments by Meredith, Elinor Siwan

“…To start, I compiled the first dataset of past lava flow impact events to the built environment, to quantify event frequency, and to assess temporal and spatial trends of events. …”
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Dynamic fracture mechanics of FRP-concrete interface by Li, Gen

“…The model was applied in finite element analysis (FEA) of various dynamic tests with FRP-concrete interface bond, e.g. single-lap shear tests, three-point bending tests, FRP strengthened RC beams subjected to dynamic loading and an FRP strengthened RC wall under blast load. From the comparison with test results, the model was shown to be reliable and accurate in simulating the behaviour of FRP-concrete mixed-mode separation.…”
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Six of Crows / by Bardugo, Leigh, author 656001, Holt (Online service) 655998

“…A convict with a thirst for revenge; A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager; A runaway with a privileged past; A spy known as the Wraith; A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums; A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. …”
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AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE / by Jeffrey Archer, author 507936

“…Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi…thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of enthralling short stories. …”

Communication satellite power amplifiers: current and future SSPA and TWTA technologies by Aniceto, Raichelle, Cahoy, Kerri, Lohmeyer, Whitney

“…Overall, this research was performed to update and clarify how the power and bandwidth needs and redundancy trends of the SatCom community have evolved over the past 30 years.…”
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Automating Design Requirement Extraction From Text With Deep Learning by Akay, Haluk, Yang, Maria, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Nearly every artifact of the modern engineering design process is digitally recorded and stored, resulting in an overwhelming amount of raw data detailing past designs. Analyzing this design knowledge and extracting functional information from sets of digital documents is a difficult and time-consuming task for human designers. …”
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Africa Digest : Trends and issues in business Vol. 18 by Burger, Johan

“…This report addresses some of its experiences during the recent past.…”
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Why behavioral neuroscience still needs diversity? : A curious case of a persistent need by Mathuru, Ajay S., Libersat, Frédéric, Vyas, Ajai, Teseo, Serafino

“…In the past few decades, a substantial portion of neuroscience research has moved from studies conducted across a spectrum of animals to reliance on a few species. …”
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Methods of sustainability assessment of green logistics projects - part I: review of external stakeholders on green logistics initiatives by Toh, Alvin De Rong

“…Impacts of climate change has been continually felt and worsen over the past century. Upsurge in temperature to date thus far has provoked alterations to both the natural and human systems, including increases in floods, droughts, or some variety of extreme weather such as sea level rise to loss of biodiversity. …”
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The implicit decision theory of non-philosophers by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew, Miller, Kristie, Nielsen, Michael

“…Finally, we investigate whether differences in people’s implicit decision theory correlate with differences in their level of future bias: the preference for positively valenced events to be located in the future and not the past, and negatively valenced events to be located in the past and not the future. …”
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Multi-criteria re-entrant jobs scheduling problems using GA and AHP by Lin, Danping.

“…The re-entrant scheduling problem came into prominence as a new type of scheduling problem in the past years. It is found in many production systems, particularly in high-tech industries such as semiconductor wafer fabrication and repairing companies. …”
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Superior memory efficiency of quantum devices for the simulation of continuous-time stochastic processes by Elliott, Thomas Joseph, Gu, Mile

“…Classical models of systems operating in continuous-time must typically track an unbounded amount of information about past behaviour, even for relatively simple models, enforcing limits on precision due to the finite memory of the machine. …”
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Range front faulting and volcanism in the mono basin, eastern California by Bursik, Marcus, Sieh, Kerry

“…For the past 40,000 years, dikes, intruding underneath the Mono Craters, seem to have been accommodating the 1 mm/yr of extension that was previously taken up by faulting. …”
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Experiences, perceptions and ethical considerations of the malaria infection study in Thailand by Naemiratch, B, Kulpijit, N, Ruangkajorn, S, Day, NPJ, Prachumsri, J, Cheah, PY

“…Background: Thailand has made significant progress in malaria control efforts in the past decade, with a decline in the number of reported cases. …”

Study on OFDM in underwater wireless communications by Pravitha Gopikannan.

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Beyond representation and reality : 'worldmaking' in John Banville's the sea. by Ong, Selina Kai Li.

“…The paper has four parts which discusses (1) the motivation for engaging in ‘worldmaking’ (2) why did the narrator choose to set his ‘narrative world’ in the past (3) the quality of the ‘narrative world’ resembling paintings and films (4) the effects of ‘seeing’ on the narrator in his ‘narrative world’.…”
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Antismoking socialization as a preventive measure against adolescent smoking : a literature review by Ratmana, Dian Tika

“…This paper is intended to provide a comprehensive summary in the research of antismoking socialization in relation to adolescents’ smoking that had been conducted in the past decade. It will also identify and examine the most researched variables that affect the effectiveness of antismoking socialization in preventing as well as reducing adolescent smoking, evaluate the sampling and procedural methods that are being used in the studies, identify limitations encountered that might affect results obtained in studies as well as provide recommendations in future research.…”
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