新加坡华语口语重叠式研究 = A study of reduplication in spoken Singapore Mandarin by 蔡佳馨 Chua, Kah Hsing

“…In addition to the corpus data, a survey was also conducted to investigate the “VV yixia” structure that is exclusive to Singapore Mandarin. All in all, through this study, it was found that the unique forms of reduplication in Singapore Mandarin are mainly reduplicated verb, reduplicated adjective and reduplicated noun. …”
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中国成年人血浆酰基肉碱和胆汁酸水平与冠心病发病风险的关联研究 by Zhiyu, W, Shuyao, S, Yu, C, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Chen, J, Chen, ZM, Lv, J, Li, L, Yuanjie, P

“…<p><b>Results</b> The mean age of the participants was (53.1±9.8) years and 754 were males (34.9%). …”

Lasso environment model combination for robust speech recognition by Xiao, Xiong, Li, Jinyu, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…Usually, the combination weights are estimated using a maximum likelihood (ML) criterion and the weights are nonzero for all the mean supervectors. We propose to estimate the weights by using Lasso (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator) which imposes an L1 regularization term in the weight estimation problem to shrink some weights to exactly zero. …”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…Postindependence is the day after independence but also the management of all of the strategic processes that need to be prepared beforehand, and the management of the governance of the plebiscite/referendum onwards. …”

Music for plants? An investigation into the impact of exposure to acoustic stimulus in bok choy (brassica rapa) plants by Yeoh, JPS, Zhang, Z, Koh, KS, Sinniah, UR, Spence, CJ, Beh, WF

“…The results reveal that those plants exposed to classical music exhibited significant differences in shoot characteristics with the highest total fresh weight, shoot fresh weight, and mean leaf numbers. Meanwhile, those plants exposed to rock music demonstrated values that were the lowest across all plant parameters. …”

Duration of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae carriage in hospital patients by Mo, Yin, Hernandez-Koutoucheva, Anastasia, Musicha, Patrick, Bertrand, Denis, Lye, David C., Ng, Oon Tek, Fenlon, Shannon N., Chen, Swaine L., Ling, Moi Lin, Tang, Wen Ying, Barkham, Timothy, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Cooper, Ben S., Marimuthu, Kalisvar

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Layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte coated erythrocyte carriers by Heng, Puay Ling.

“…The erythrocytes coated with a polyelectrolyte multilayer provide a simple mean for controlling the burst and subsequent release of bioactive agents. …”
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Why do we care how much oxygen tumors have? by Martin, LAW, Hammond, EM

“…The air we all breathe contains oxygen, which is essential for life. …”

Surface modification and characterization of polypropylene fibers by Tan, Terry Jian Hong.

“…However, due to the commercial application of the PP fiber/specimen for the reverse osmosis process, argon plasma treatment may be deemed unsuitable after all.…”
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The battle for Asia in crude oil markets: an easier road ahead for India? by Sen, A

“…Even though the drop in prices is unlikely to last (given the high cost on the supply side) and prices are likely to pick back up to at least the US$80–100 per barrel range in the coming years, India will remain in a privileged position compared to a few years ago, as the continued growth of US tight oil means producers from all around the world will still focus on Asia to sell their crude. …”

Host susceptibility to Lernaea cyprinacea L. and its treatment in a large aquarium system by Shariff, M., Kabata, Z., Sommerville, Christina

“…Approximately 17% carried a mean of less than 10 parasites and 22% carried a mean of more than 10 parasites. …”

Application of stock selection strategies on the Singapore market by Li, Xinhao

“…Fundamental Analysis strategy was then applied to all of Singapore’s Stocks and appeared to be useful as the results shows an annual yield of 9.5% for good fundamental stocks. …”
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Zola's Une page d'amour: the novelist as Japanese artist by Yee, J

“…Japanese art also influences description in Une page d’amour, and most of all the five great cityscapes that show Paris seen from Hélène’s apartment at different times of day. …”

A comparison between cannulated and non-cannulated cancellous screws used in the fixation of simulated femoral neck fracture by Tan, Daren Teng Yeow.

“…The mean maximum load to failure as well as stiffness was higher for the non-cannulated screw fixation with statistical significance.…”
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Machine Learning For Dummies / by Mueller, John Paul, author 321669, Massaron, Luca, author 617095, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…While machine learning expertise doesn't quite mean you can create your own Turing Test-proof android - as in the movie Ex Machina- it is a form of artificial intelligence and one of the most exciting technological means of identifying opportunities and solving problems fast and on a large scale. …”
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Interpretable Computational Modeling of pre-mRNA Splicing for Multiple Eukaryotic Species by McCue, Kayla M.

“…Furthermore, many of these motifs are common to all of the organisms tested, suggesting that aspects of splicing regulation are deeply conserved. …”
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John Banville : interpreting reality through fiction. by George, Tissina.

“…Banville’s protagonists attempt to re-imagine the world and their relation to it, and their means of doing so evolve throughout his oeuvre. Some choose to approach the world through scientific means, as in Doctor Copernicus and Mefisto. …”
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FedCBO: reaching group consensus in clustered Federated learning through Consensus-Based Optimization by Carrillo, JA, Trillos, NG, Li, S, Zhu, Y

“…Our model is motivated by rigorous mathematical reasoning, including a mean field analysis describing the large number of particles limit of our particle system, as well as convergence guarantees for the simultaneous global optimization of general non-convex objective functions (corresponding to the loss functions of each cluster of users) in the mean-field regime. …”

Analysis of strategies in translating idiomatic expressions from English into Malay by Farah Syazana Suhaimi

“…Even though idioms are omnipresent in majority, if not all languages, identifying and translating idiomatic expressions remain a challenging aspect of the translation process (Adelnia & Dastjerdi, 2011). …”
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Thermally induced phase separation PVDF membrane fabricated by using NaCl coagulation bath: relation of membrane surface morphology and permeation performance by Chen, Ningyuan, Zhao, Jie, Shi, Lei, Goto, Atsushi, Wang, Rong

“…Compared to the membranes fabricated without NaCl addition, the increment of the PWP contributed to the slight increase in mean pore size from 65 nm to 84 nm. Meanwhile, the water-insoluble diluent DMP was not affected by the addition of NaCl, which means that the bulk structure of the membrane could be maintained. …”
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