Effects of contrast enhanced positron emission tomography/computed tomography in cancer imaging by Mahmud, Mohd Hafizi

“…The mean SUVmax of all observed lesions was determined and the SUVmax of liver was statistically associated with several biological and procedural related factors. …”
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Understanding conflict in the franchised restaurant industry: insights from court records by Siti Nurhayati Khairatun, Zheng, Tianshu

“…This exploratory study employed a content analysis using a data triangulation of New York court records (23 cases, 3 dismissed) spanning from 1957 to 2016 and IFA corporate databases to explore the causes of conflict in the franchised restaurant industry. …”
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BIM : interoperability issues between BIM authoring software and structural analysis software (RC) by Low, Khai Jer

“…This is an era of digitalisation, software usage is ubiquitous across all industry, including the Built Environment industry, spanning from concept development, design, construction, operations till demolition of the building. …”
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Advancing specificity in delirium: the delirium subtyping initiative by Bowman, EML, Brummel, NE, Caplan, GA, Cunningham, C, Evered, LA, Fiest, KM, Girard, TD, Jackson, TA, LaHue, SC, Lindroth, HL, Maclullich, AMJ, McAuley, DF, Oh, ES, Oldham, MA, Page, VJ, Pandharipande, PP, Potter, KM, Sinha, P, Slooter, AJC, Sweeney, AM, Tieges, Z, Van Dellen, E, Wilcox, ME, Zetterberg, H, Cunningham, EL

“…Recording and analyzing all delirium equally could be hindering the field's understanding of pathophysiology and identification of targeted treatments. …”

Identification and application of self-binding zipper-like sequences in SARS-CoV spike protein by Zhang, Si Min, Liao, Ying, Neo, Tuan Ling, Lu, Yanning, Liu, Ding Xiang, Vahlne, Anders, Tam, James Pingkwan

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Beam-pattern analysis of multi-beam high peak power IR-UWB transmitter tag for indoor positioning and tracking system by Md Arif Hussain Ansari, Law, Choi Look

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Synthesis and performance analysis of a polysulfone braid-supported hollow fiber membrane for natural gas purification by Imtiaz, Aniqa, Kamaludin, Roziana, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Jilani, Asim, Khan, Imran Ullah, Muhammad Ayub, Muhammad Ayub, Samuel, Ojo, Iftikhar, Musawira

“…Characterization of the fabricated membrane samples involved scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), gas separation performance testing, and mechanical strength testing. …”

Modal tense: if and wish by Crowley, Paul

“…This paper is concerned with uses of certain morphemes, most notably the past, to represent meanings of distance from reality in modal expressions. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. …”

Tackling background ambiguities in multi-class few-shot point cloud semantic segmentation by Lai, Lvlong, Chen, Jian, Zhang, Chi, Zhang, Zehong, Lin, Guosheng, Wu, Qingyao

“…With our proposed approach, fine-tuning, a weak baseline method for few-shot segmentation, gains significant performance improvement (e.g., 7.48% and 7.04% in 2-way-1-shot and 3-way-1-shot tasks of S3DIS, respectively) and outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in all the task settings of S3DIS and ScanNet benchmark datasets.…”
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Development of a carbon fiber/polyamide 12 composite via selective laser sintering by Oh, Chan Yong

“…Three different printing parameters, laser power, scan spacing and scan speed, were manipulated in an attempt to optimize the mechanical properties of the printed carbon fiber reinforced polyamide 12 composite parts. …”
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A radio frequency tagging continuous-wave optical spectrometer with megahertz refreshing rate by Ren, Xiaojing, Hsieh, Chao-Mao, Malik, Mohammad O. A., Su, Joshua Weiming, Liu, Quan

“…Optical spectrometers capable of fast spectral measurements are useful in many fields spanning from industrial manufacturing to scientific research. …”
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Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…Since the paper ”Attention is All You Need” came out in 2017, the trans former (TF) model has greatly attracted the interest of many scholars. …”
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GE-25 : effects of GGBS and lime/MgO on the engineering properties of Kaolin by Chua, Serene Jie Lin

“…A series of laboratory tests were conducted to investigate the changes in the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of the modified soil and these tests include unconfined compression test and the field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). In all, the influence of the type of stabiliser, binder content, Lime:GGBS ratio and curing period on the UCS of the specimens were addressed in this report. …”
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Defect detection for remanufacturing engineering using non-destructive testing by Yeo, Hwee Ling

“…These properties are mostly obtained by destructive testing means which are uneconomical. In this project, operating procedures are clearly developed and have proven to be effective in defect detection and obtaining of material properties through Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM), a non-destructive way of testing. …”
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Income change and sympathy for right-wing populist parties in the Netherlands: the role of gender and income inequality within households by Roll, Y, De Graaf, N

“…Finally, we hypothesise that this gender disparity can be interpreted by considering who contributes most to the household income. All these hypotheses are grounded in gender socialisation and economic dominance theories. …”

The effect of C:P ratio of plant residues added to soils of contrasting phosphate sorption capacities on P uptake by Panicum maximum (Jacq.) by Umrit, Gunshiam, Friesen, Dennis K.

“…The fractional percentage of P derived from residues increased with increasing P content of residues at all cuttings. Similarly, L-values were consistently greater on residue-treated soils. …”
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Privacy: a political approach by Bogue, RC

“…An examination of four historic reformulations of what it means to be private, spanning two thousand years of western history, confirms that privacy has shifted considerably over time and that attempts to essentialize it are misplaced. …”

Transduction on directed graphs via absorbing random walks by De, Jaydeep, Zhang, Xiaowei, Lin, Feng, Li, Cheng

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The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

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