Development of an integrated scheduling model for handling equipment in automated port container terminals by Sadeghian, Syed Hamidreza

“…In addition, results proved that the modified meta-heuristic algorithm is able to find near optimal solutions and on average, the solutions found by the GA algorithm are only 0.2% worse than the optimal solutions and in the worst case in the test cases this difference is 2.3% which is acceptable. …”
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Impact of media literacy on soft drink consumption among adolescents in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohammad Shahid, Nur Nadirah

“…The influence of advertisements is getting worse when the marketers use misleading messages in soft drink advertisements to attract adolescents. …”
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Secure Computation in Decentralized Systems by Zyskind, Guy

“…In this regard, they are strictly worse than assuming full trust in a centralized server, since any node in the network must see all data. …”
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Remote digital cognitive assessment reveals cognitive deficits related to hippocampal atrophy in autoimmune limbic encephalitis: a cross-sectional validation study by Shibata, K, Attaallah, B, Tai, X-Y, Trender, W, Hellyer, PJ, Hampshire, A, Irani, SR, Manohar, SG, Husain, M

“…Patients with ALE performed significantly worse in memory, visuospatial abilities, executive function, and language. …”

Asnaffood: a Model Driven Development of Mobile Application for Reducing Food Waste Amongst Local Food Producers (S/O 14671) by Abd Ghani, Nor Farzana, Abd Wahab, Alawiyah

“…Food waste has been a worldwide concern for several decades, however, COVID-19 is making the problem even worse. According to Alvin Chen, the cofounder of What a Waste (WaW), there will be a devastating figure of food waste over the Malaysia movement Control Order (MCO) (Murad, 2020). …”
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Savings and Investment Behaviour of the Consumer of Financial Services and Their Service Expectations from Banks (S/O 12349) by Ahmad, Nor Hayati, Saha, Asish, Eam, Lim Hock, Katib, Mohamed Nasser, Musa, Muhammad Muhaizam, Yeok, Siew Goh

“…If the mandatory pension contributions are taken out, the profile of household savings in the country would be further worse. Given the above perspective, present research was aimed at i) deciphering the drivers of savings of Malaysian households, ii) to assess the future savings behavior in physical and financial forms of assets and iii) to assess the service expectations of customers from banks in the country which will enable banks to workout appropriate strategies to garner business. …”
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Effective and efficient topic mining and exploration from geo-textual data by Zhao, Kaiqi

“…Moreover, the existing methods cannot capture topical aspects, e.g., the “environment” of a restaurant, thus failing to tell users why a POI is recommended to the user. Worse still, the existing methods are frequency-based (the more a topic is mentioned, the more likely a user prefers the topic), while ignoring the user’s sentiment. …”
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Probabilistic modeling of nodal charging demand based on spatial-temporal dynamics of moving electric vehicles by Musa, Ryan Rezal

“…To make matters even worse, that, combined with the impossible task of predicting the random acts of EV drivers, to make an intelligent guess and to pinpoint the place and time that a potential power congestion may occur would be very difficult. …”
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Design of low-power analog filters in WBAN receiver front-ends for hyper/hypothyroidism patients by Wang, Xiaoying

“…However, overdosing the medication may lead to the reversion of the hormone levels and hence would worse the effect of treatment. Therefore, the WBAN devices are necessary to undertake the monitoring task for hyper/hypothyroidism patients. …”
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Inflammatory biomarkers and motoric cognitive risk syndrome: multicohort survey by Groeger, Justina L., Ayers, Emmeline, Barzilai, Nir, Beauchet, Olivier, Callisaya, Michele, Torossian, Maral R., Derby, Carol, Doi, Takehiko, Lipton, Richard B., Milman, Sofiya, Nakakubo, Sho, Shimada, Hiroyuki, Srikanth, Velandai, Wang, Cuiling, Verghese, Joe

“…Results: Although associations between higher (worse) CRP and IL-6 tertiles and MCR were only seen in three out of the five cohorts (EAS, TASCOG, and LonGenity), when a pooled meta-analysis was performed, a robust association was demonstrated. …”
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Effect of surface albedo of urban fabrics on urban climate in tropical area by Long, Yongping

“…The global warming trend in recent decades makes it worse. To combat the adverse effects of UHI, it’s assumed that the UHI is mainly caused by heat absorption during the daytime and heat release during the night-time. …”
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Ultra low power asynchronous-logic quasi-delay-insensitive circuit design by Ho, Weng Geng

“…When benchmarked against the ubiquitous sync counterpart which requires worse case timing assumptions, our SAHB dissipates ~39% lower energy at 1GHz throughput but at the expense of ~2× more transistor-count. …”
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“文章四友”新论：以李峤、崔融之应用文书写为探讨中心 = New perspectives on “Wenzhang siyou” : focus on Li Qiao and Cui Rong’s practical prose by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

“…In LI and CUI’s prose, excessively beautiful and parallel style goes from bad to worse in general. Their ode declarations, merit epitaphs and mourning appointments express their appearance of palace writers totally and become continuation of the Six Dynasties. …”
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Semantic-based vulnerability analysis of software by Li, Yuekang

“…With experiments, we showed that greybox fuzzers can perform even worse than blackbox fuzzers on the target program protected by Vall-nut. …”
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Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Bhattacharjee, NV, Schumacher, AE, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Graham, SM, Lacey, BWH, Maude, RJ, Runghien, T, Rodriguez, JAB

“…A positive skill metric indicates that the model being evaluated performs better than the baseline model (here, a simplified model holding 2007 values constant in the future), and a negative metric indicates that the evaluated model performs worse than baseline. <p><b>Findings</b></p> During the period from 1950 to 2021, global TFR more than halved, from 4·84 (95% UI 4·63–5·06) to 2·23 (2·09–2·38). …”

A visual category filter for Google Images by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…</p> <p>We demonstrate the method on image sets returned by Google’s image search for a number of object categories including bottles, camels, cars, horses, tigers and zebras.</p>…”

A boundary-fragment-model for object detection by Opelt, A, Pinz, A, Zisserman, A

“…<p>The objective of this work is the detection of object classes, such as airplanes or horses. Instead of using a model based on salient image fragments, we show that object class detection is also possible using only the object’s boundary. …”

An object category specific mrf for segmentation by Kumar, MP, Torr, PHS, Zisserman, A

“…Results are presented on two object categories, cows and horses. We compare our methods to the state of the art in object category specific image segmentation and demonstrate significant improvements.…”

The rise of deep learning in cyber security: Bibliometric analysis of deep learning and malware by Nur Khairani, Kamarudin, Ahmad Firdaus, Zainal Abidin, Mohd Zamri, Osman, Alanda, Alde, Erianda, Aldo, Shahreen, Kasim, Mohd Faizal, Ab Razak

“…Its main categories include viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, adware, and ransomware. Hence, many deep learning researchers apply deep learning in their malware studies. …”
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Jamaican customs data, c. 1800-45 by Graham, A, Lavallee, E

“…Imports include provisions (such as flour, cornmeal, bread, fish and rice), stores (such as barrel staves, roof shingles, timbers), livestock (horses, cattle, asses, mules) and a wide range of other items. …”