Expressive B-spline curves: a pilot study on a flexible shape representation by Seah, Hock Soon, Tandianus, Budianto, Sui, Yiliang, Wu, Zhongke

“…We present a pilot study on eXpressive B-SplineCurves (XBSC), an extension of Disk B-Spline Curves (DBSC). XBSC facilitates expressive drawings in terms of shape and color. …”
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Development of a framework for TQM : a case study on a ready mixed concrete manufacturer by Lee, Yao Chiang, Loh, Philip Chee Hoe, Yang, Patrick Eng Tsin

“…The framework is designed to facilitate a company in shaping its vision and strategies to sustain a competitive edge.…”
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Is it who you know or what you know? Evidence from ipo allocations and mutual fund performance by Hwang, Chuan-Yang, Titman, Sheridan, Wang, Yuxi

“…We show that the better performance of elite graduates is generated from their better connections with underwriters that facilitate allocations to underpriced initial public offerings (IPOs). …”
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Multi-User Framework for Collaboration and Co-Creation in Virtual Reality by Greenwald, Scott W., Corning, Wiley, Maes, Pattie

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Collaborative querying through a hybrid query clustering approach by Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Fu, Lin, Foo, Schubert, Na, Jin-Cheon

“…Harnessing previously issued queries to facilitate collaborative querying is an approach that can help users in digital libraries and other information systems better meet their information needs. …”
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Are two teachers better than one? Team teaching in TBL by Yang, Lishan, Rajalingam, Preman

“…To deal with these increased demands on the teacher, a strategy where every TBL session is co-taught by a Content Expert and a Facilitator was implemented. Twelve classroom sessions focusing on the interaction between these groups of teachers and their contribution in class were observed. …”
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A marketplace for crowdsourced federated learning by Feng, Daifei

“…This paper presents CrowdFL, a marketplace for facilitating the crowdsourcing of FL model training. …”
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Video surveillance robot (hardware) by He, Zhihua.

“…Also a control station is constructed to facilitate the interactions with the remote robot system, where all of the sensor measurements and the dedicated interactions can be monitored and modified via the wireless Bluetooth network.…”
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High performance parallel processing system for real-time animation by Leong, Soon Khing.

“…This involved the development of a prototype using off-the-shelf transputer modules to facilitate feasibility study and simulation of the system performance. …”
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Narratives and tactile comfort for anxious children by Ang, Charmaine Hui Zhen

“…Through quantitative and qualitative methods administered to children aged 5 to 12 years of age, including parental feedback, findings were analysed to create a design outcome that can contribute to the current studies related to: (a) facilitating the treatment of childhood anxieties in cognitive behavioural therapy, (b) healthy emotional regulation and in (c) promoting children’s social wellbeing in general. …”
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Refining Hardware of Desktop Fiber Extrusion Devices for Affordable Manufacturing and Novel Fiber Prototyping by Glasser, Kaili

“…The Fiber Extrusion Device (FrED) is a hands-on desktop tool designed to facilitate the teaching of manufacturing engineering concepts through remote laboratory experiences. …”
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Alive Scene: Participatory Multimodal AI Framework for Collective Narratives in Dynamic 3D Scene by Cheng, Chi-Li

“…The streamlined interaction interface promotes user engagement and facilitates the discovery of related views and perceptions. …”
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Industrial symbiosis and the successional city : adapting exchange networks to energy constraints by Terway, Timothy M. (Timothy Michael)

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Assessing ant colony optimization for inducing non-uniform population distribution for UAS risk assessment in urban environments by Gracious, John

“…Overall, the study is preliminary, but further research in this area may facilitate a refined analysis of population movement in UAS risk assessments.…”
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1-octanol-water partitioning as a classifier of water soluble organic matters: Implication for solubility distribution by Kuwata, Mikinori, Lee, Wen-Chien

“…Linear combinations of these mass spectra allowed the estimation of the mass fractions of WSOM partitioned to 1-octanol and aqueous phases, thereby facilitating the evaluation of the mass fractions of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) active materials.…”
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Investigation into ion channel- and nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation in resistance arteries by Wallis, LE

“…Artery tone is determined by various ion channels, with voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) expressed by vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) being key in facilitating the influx of Ca²⁺ required for vasoconstriction. …”

Mobile health (mHealth) interventions for health promotion during the perinatal period in India: a scoping review by Small, Z, Thompson, SE, Sharma, A, Majumdar, S, Thout, SR, Praveen, D, Hirst, JE

“…Therefore, we aimed to identify mHealth interventions targeting women and their families in the perinatal period in India, identify barriers and facilitators to their uptake, and future research directions. …”

A simplified weak coupling dynamic analysis method for running safety evaluation of train on bridges under earthquake excitation by Zhu, Zhihui, Gong, Wei, Zhou, Gaoyang, Yang, Yaowen, Jiang, Lizhong

“…This study proposes a simplified analysis method that couples the bridge and train-track subsystem in a weak form to facilitate the dynamic analysis of the train-track-bridge coupled system (TTBS) under earthquakes. …”
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Spillovers across industries and regions in China’s regional economic diversification by Gao, Jian, Jun, Bogang, Pentland, Alex, Zhou, Tao, Hidalgo, César A.

“…Our findings confirm the role of relatedness and geographical distance in the diffusion of economic capabilities and support the idea that improvements in transportation can facilitate the diffusion of productive capabilities.…”
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The unseen duties. by Nur Juliana Mohd Johan.

“…Institutions often facilitate informal and latent consequences that are not explicitly part of their mission statements. …”
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