Semantic matching in machine reading comprehension: an empirical study by Liu, Qian, Mao, Rui, Geng, Xiubo, Cambria, Erik

“…Most existing MRC works contain a semantic matching module, either explicitly or intrinsically, to determine whether a piece of context answers a question. However, there is scant work which systematically evaluates different paradigms using semantic matching in MRC. …”
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Intelligence failure in U.S. counterterrorism by King, Brian Allen

“…In order to test these two theories, I examine three cases to determine whether there were critical pieces of information (dots) existing in government channels that could have been connected to discover the terrorist plot. …”
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Unconventional exhibitions of desire. by Ng, Hwei Yun.

“…Now that Winterson has found a new piece of text, she has to find a new language to speak of love and settles upon using science, the language of objectivity, to break down the body and the concept of love through the analogy of geographer and archaeologist. …”
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Finding Bukit Brown. by Chee, Janie Alison Hui-Yen., Shiu, Pedro Pui Kar., Siti Nurbaya Rameh.

“…Unfortunately, Tan is concerned that the graves would be displaced due the redevelopment plans. The piece also shares the inner thoughts of Soh Hun Seng, a tomb keeper who has been working in the cemetery his whole life. …”
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Development of high efficiency power electronics converter for medium voltage drive by Sapkota Rajesh

“…The model of these topologies was built in Piece-wise Linear Electrical Circuit Simulation (PLECS) 3.6.3 software. …”
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Application of classical clustering methods for online tool condition monitoring in high speed milling processes by Li, Xiang, Torabi, Amin J., Er, Meng Joo, Lim, Beng Siong, Zhai, Lian yin, San, Linn, Gan, Oon Peen, Ching, Chuen Teck

“…Tool Condition Monitoring (TCM) is a necessary action during end-milling process as worn milling-tool might irreversibly damage the work-piece. So, there is an urgent need for a TCM system to provide an evaluation of the tool-wear progress and resulted surface roughness. …”
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Direct measurement of magnetic monopole charge and transport dynamics by Hsu, C

“…This thesis endeavors to elucidate the dynamics of the monopole fluid by developing advanced SQUID-based spectrometer and provides several unique pieces of evidence towards the dynamical mechanism.…”

Techniques for analysis and integration of histology data and agent-based modelling of T cell-tumour interactions by Stephens, R

“…In clinical trials of such therapies, patients are monitored in several ways, often including core-needle biopsies in which a small piece of the tumour is removed, stained for specific cell markers, and imaged.…”

How are cognitive maps formed and encoded in humans? by Glitz, L

“…<p>To structure knowledge efficiently, we need to acquire and store it in a way that retains the relations between different pieces of content. A cognitive map is a way of organising knowledge in a relational manner that provides us with behavioural flexibility when goal demands change. …”

Freezing of impact water droplets on cold moving substrates by Mohamad Taufiq Md Tarmidi

“…The only parameter that is kept constant is the surface wettability of the aluminium test pieces which are prepped to be hydrophilic, maintaining a contact angle of 49.8 ± 3.4◦. …”
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Syntactic discovery of web service by Nguyen, Van Quoc.

“…Each of these concepts describes a piece of meaningful information. Together, they can demonstrate alternative meaning in the real world. …”
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Darwin-scepticism and mass persuasion: an examination of propaganda in the Evolution Wars by Aechtner, T

“…This dissertation seeks to help answer this question by uniquely considering a crucial piece of the modern Evolution Wars puzzle: <em>propaganda</em>. …”

Tissue and spatially resolved immune drivers of fibrotic pulmonary sarcoidosis by Weeratunga, P

“…However many groups of sarcoidosis researchers have progressively fitted the pieces of the disease puzzle together. Today, we know that sarcoidosis is an immune-mediated disease, characterised by granuloma deposition, primarily in the lungs. …”

21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2003 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…Students explore race and ethnicity in personal essays, pieces of cultural criticism or analysis, or (with permission of instructor) fiction. …”
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Autonomy Work: Personhood, Expertise, and Activism of Disabled AI Data Workers in China by Wu, Di

“…With deep knowledge and lived experience of the social issues they advocate for, disabled activists in China approach technology as a puzzle piece, not a magic bullet. They make technology useful for their lives, work, and activism by returning the technical to the social. …”
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Balancing waiting times in sequential servers appointment system using distributionally robust optimization by Goh, You Hui

“…To reduce its problem size, we investigate the problem of minimizing the number of pieces in the piecewise linear approximation of the separable concave minimization problem. …”
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A cost-aware utility-maximizing bidding strategy for auction-based federated learning by Tang, Xiaoli, Yu, Han

“…Based on this analysis, jointly optimizes in a novel end-to-end framework, and then executes the proposed return on investment (ROI)-based method to determine the optimal bid price for each piece of the data resource. Through extensive experiments on six commonly adopted benchmark datasets, we show that outperforms eight state-of-the-art methods, beating the best baseline by 4.39%, 4.56%, 1.33%, and 5.43% on average in terms of the total amount of data obtained, number of data samples per unit cost, total utility, and FL model accuracy, respectively.…”
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Oxygen suffocation for firefighting in underground cavern by Yeo, Wei Liang

“…In the simulation, setting a polyurethane chair (a very common piece of furniture) on fire, the heat release rate (HRR) and temperature reading directly above the fire source (Device 8, XYZ = 10m,40m,3m) in hypoxia environment are lowered at 2900 kW and 700ºC, respectively, compared to 4000 kW and 850ºC, respectively, in normal environment. …”
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Managing risks to the media from emerging networked technologies by Shere, ARK

“…</p> <p>Therefore, this thesis comprises a multi-piece toolkit that enables members of the press to identify threats from IoT devices to themselves and their work, and then identify the countermeasures best suited to their context.…”

ESBL producing E. coli in chickens and poultry farms environment in Selangor, Malaysia: a cross-sectional study on their occurrence and associated risk factors with environment and... by Aliyu, Abdulrasheed Bello, Jalila, Abu, Saleha, Abdul Aziz, Zunita, Zakaria

“…Thus, the findings of the study can assist to serve as a piece of useful information to veterinary authority in designing evidence-based mitigation strategies for the control of ESBL-EC in poultry farms.…”