South African real estate investment trusts prefer Tuesdays by Ajayi, Oluwaseun Damilola, Gavu, Emmanuel Kofi

“…Generally, Wednesday was found to be the least profitable day to invest in all REIT classifications because it had the least average daily return. …”
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How many online workers are there in the world? A data-driven assessment by Kässi, O, Lehdonvirta, V, Stephany, F

“…Approximately 19 million of them have obtained work through the platform at least once, and 5 million have completed at least 10 projects or earned at least $1000. …”

Multi-linear regression models for traffic prediction in large-scale networks by Zhao, XinYue

“…Various methods have been practice in the traffic forecasting study and some algorithms that used in other fields like In this paper we apply 3 multi-linear regression models on the speed data collected from 266 road segments in Singapore, which are Partial Least Square, High-Order Partial Least Square and N-way Partial Least Square model. …”
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A study of GPS based attitude determination technique by Dai, Lin

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Design of system for parking and repositioning of bikes in a public bike-sharing system by Siong, Jun Wei

“…In the case study of this report, the proposed model is shown to be able to determine a bike reallocation plan that incurs the least cost. Also, the model provides information of the quantity of bikes to reallocate and when to reallocate to incur the least cost. …”
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Globalization and environmental quality : insights from 128 countries by Le, Ha Chi

“…Fixed Effects (FE) is employed as the main estimation technique while panel Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) and Driscoll-Kraay (D-K) standard errors estimations are employed as robustness check. …”
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A comparative study on parameter recovery of three approaches to structural equation modeling by Malhotra, Naresh K., Tomiuk, Marc A., Hwang, Heungsun, Kim, Youngchan, Hong, Sungjin

“…Traditionally, two approaches have been employed for structural equation modeling: covariance structure analysis and partial least squares. A third alternative, generalized structured component analysis, was introduced recently in the psychometric literature. …”
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Geometry of single axis motions using conic fitting by Jiang, G, Tsui, H-T, Quan, L, Zisserman, A

“…The main advantage is that determining only five parameters of a conic from one corresponding point over at least five views is simpler and more robust than determining a fundamental matrix from two views or a trifocal tensor from three views. …”

Measuring shear wave velocity using bender elements by Leong, Eng Choon, Yeo, Sir Hoon, Rahardjo, Harianto

“…The interpretation of the bender element test can be improved if two performance criteria are adopted: (1) a signal-to-noise ratio of at least 4 dB for the receiver signal, and (2) a wave path length to wavelength ratio of at least 3.33. …”
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New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

“…Of particular note is that the exhaustiveness in 3-round trail core search of at least one out-Kernel α is only experimentally verified. …”
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The formation and evolution of Earth’s inner core by Wilson, AJ, Davies, CJ, Walker, A, Pozzo, M, Alfé, D, Deuss, A

“…Mineral physics calculations suggest that a supercooling of at least 450 K is needed to nucleate the inner core, while inferences from geophysical observations constrain the maximum available supercooling to 420 K, and more likely <100 K when satisfying constraints on long-term core-mantle evolution. …”

Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…It is more accurate than the existing least squares calibration method which is verified with both simulation and experiment. …”
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On the Complexity of Neural Computation in Superposition by Adler, Micah, Shavit, Nir

“…This implies that any “lottery ticket” sparse sub-network must have at least Ω(m′ log m′ ) parameters no matter what the initial dense network size. …”
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The effect of rare-earth nanoparticles on drug delivery by Li, Linda Shi Wen

“…We investigate various synthesis methods to produce the least cytotoxic rare-earth nanoparticle, we evaluate its efficiency in drug delivery and we analyze the changes it induces in cells. …”
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Robust parameter estimation for one-inflated positive Poisson Lindley distribution under the presence and absence of outliers with applications to crime data by Mohd Tajuddin, Razik Ridzuan, Mohd Safari, Muhammad Aslam, Ismail, Noriszura

“…Hence, several estimators: maximum likelihood, method of moments, ordinary least squares, weighted least squares, Cramér-Von Mises, modified Cramér-Von Mises (MCVM) and maximum product of spacing (MPS); for the parameters of the model are also proposed and investigated in terms of unbiasedness, consistency and joint efficiency under the presence and absence of outliers. …”
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Tidal corrections from and for SWOT using a spatially coherent variational Bayesian harmonic analysis by Monahan, T, Tang, T, Roberts, S, Adcock, T

“…The approach demonstrates superior robustness to different types of noise contamination in comparison to conventional least-squares approaches while providing full uncertainty estimation. …”

Report on industrial attachmeny with Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd 2002 by Kwan, Hon Fai.

“…The purpose of the report is to find out and improve upon the design and manufacturing process weaknesses by applying accelerated stresses in the least amount of time and corrects the source of the weaknesses before the production of the product begins.…”
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Development of fiber-optic transmitter and receiver circuits using hybrid thick film technology by Mukkamala Kameshwar Rao., Lee, Brian.

“…The primary objective is to design and fabricate fiber-optic transmitter and receiver circuits to handle data rates of at least 2 MB/S with NRZ signals.…”
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Multivariable predictive control of a distillation column by Cai, Yue Bin

“…The main feature of this scheme is the use of the Deterministic Least Squares framework for both the controller and the state estimator designs.…”
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Long-term equilibrium in electricity markets with renewables and energy storage only by Tarel, Guillaume, Korpås, Magnus, Botterud, Audun

“…By using a net load duration curve approach, we formulate a least-cost optimization model in which EES is only limited by its power capacity. …”
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