Variational study of the two‐impurity spin–boson model with a common Ohmic bath : ground‐state phase transitions by Zhou, Nengji, Zhang, Yuyu, Lü, Zhiguo, Zhao, Yang

“…With the linear grid of the Ohmic spectral density, numerical calculations herein produce a much better description of the ground states with lower energies than other calculations employing a logarithmic grid with a discretization factor far greater than unity. …”
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The effect of sensationalised news on peoples' willingness to pay for food items by Chung, Jia Hui, Ng, Joey Jia Hui, Law, Victoria Yan Ting

“…Participants who read sensationalised news expressed a WTP which was $2.44 lower than the control group, and participants who read scientific news expressed a WTP which was $1.39 lower than the control group. …”
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Measurement and error analysis of Cu film thickness with Ta barrier layer on wafer for CMP application by Qu, Zilian, Wang, Wensong, Li, Xueli, Li, Qi, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Conversely, the measured thickness of Cu film decreases when Ta barrier layer is thinner than the threshold. Then, a compensation method is presented, and the error of thickness measurement of Cu film is reduced to less than 6 nm.…”
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Condition monitoring of thermal comfort and energy efficiency for indoor environment of buildings by Chua, Andy Bing Zhong

“…Vapour absorption systems are also able to achieve total costs which are lower than the vapour compression system.…”
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An EEG-based empirical analysis of information display, situational awareness and workload in air traffic control by Lu, Patricia Chunqi

“…Yet, it was found that ATCOs’ physiological workload was slightly higher in 1:1 traffic flow than in 3:1 traffic flow condition though the difference was not significant. …”
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Investigation on effective solutions against insider attacks by Ang, Jun Hao

“…From the results, it can be concluded that the performance of feature selection methods is more stable than feature extraction methods but the degree of improvements in terms of accuracy and data storage reduction by feature extraction methods are far more better than that by feature selection methods. …”
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Tensile Behavior of High Performance Structural Steel T-stub Joints by Zhao, Ming Shan, Lee, C. K., Chiew, S. P.

“…However, although the S690 specimens showed higher design resistance than the S385 and S440 specimens with the same thickness, the results were significantly lower than both the predictions by the analytical approach and the EC3. …”
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Attitudinal versus psychosocial resource measures of career adaptability and boundaryless career attitudes by Sam, Emma Yoke Loo, Ho, Moon-Ho Ringo, Uy, Marilyn Ang, Chenyshenko, Oleksandr S., Chan, Kim Yin

“…All three (concern, curiosity and confidence) subscales of the attitudinal rCMI-A correlate most strongly with the “concern” subscale of the CAAS rather than with the corresponding sub-scale, suggesting that career adaptability as measured in the attitudinal, rCMI-A is a narrower construct than that measured in the overall CAAS. …”
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Field instrumentation for performance assessment of Geobarrier System by Rahardjo, Harianto, Qian, Zhai, Satyanaga, Alfrendo, Leong, Eng Choon, Wang, Chien Looi, Wong, Johnny Liang Heng

“…The saturated hydraulic conductivity of a coarse-grained material is normally higher than that of a fine-grained material. However, the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of the coarse-grained material decreases much faster than that of the fine-grained material with increasing matric suction and consequently the coarse-grained material can be less permeable than the fine-grained material in unsaturated condition. …”
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A new hybrid method for 3D object recovery from 2D drawings and its validation against the cubic corner method and the optimisation-based method by Lee, Yong Tsui, Fang, Fen

“…The hybrid method produces the best results in general, but it is less efficient than the cubic corner method and more efficient than the optimisation-based method.…”
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Adaptive function modal learning neural networks by Kang, Miao

“…Modal learning method is a neural network learning term that refers to a single neural network which combines with more than one mode of learning. It aims to achieve more powerful learning results than a neural network combines with only one single mode of learning. …”
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Formulation, physicochemical, and sensory evaluation of cookies prepared from Sacha Inchi Oil Meal (SIOM) by Christopher, Jeffi, Tan, Chin Ping, Wasoh, Helmi, Tang, Teck-Kim, Lee, Yee-Ying, Lai, Oi Ming

“…The hardness of wheat flour-SIOM incorporated cookies was lower (2.52–3.22 N) than wheat flour cookies (3.30 N). The water activity value of all the cookie samples during the 30-day storage was less than 0.6, indicating that the product was stable. …”
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Concise Guide to APA Style : The Official APA Style Guide for Students / by American Psychological Association (Online service) 655223

“…Full color throughout; Content relevant to a range of majors and courses, including psychology, social work, criminal justice, communications, composition, education, business, engineering, and more; New chapter focused on student papers; Sample student title page, paper, and annotated bibliography; Streamlined APA Style headings and in-text citations; New chapter on writing style and grammar; Chapters on punctuation, lists, italics, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, numbers, and statistics; Latest bias-free language guidelines; More than 20 new sample tables and figures; Comprehensive guidelines on citation to help writers credit their sources appropriately and avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism; More than 100 new reference templates and examples, including traditional sources (e.g., journal articles, books, dissertations, and reports) plus many others (e.g., social media, webpages and websites, legal).…”
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You Are the Placebo : Making Your Mind Matter / by Dispenza, Joe, author 656175, Hay House (Online service) 656169

“…The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo, Dr. …”
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Influence of water content and anisotropy on the strength and deformability of low porosity meta-sedimentary rocks under triaxial compression by Li, Diyuan, Wong, Louis Ngai Yuen, Liu, Gang, Zhang, Xiao-Ping

“…The thin section analysis reveals that the meta-siltstone contains more hydrophilic substances such as clay minerals than the meta-sandstone, and both two meta-sedimentary rocks are characterized by distinct beddings and laminae. …”
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An accuracy controllable and memory efficient method for computing high-quality geodesic distances on triangle meshes by Adikusuma, Yohanes Yudhi, Du, Jie, Fang, Zheng, He, Ying

“…Furthermore, the performance of our method is less sensitive to mesh tessellation than what VTP does. Our method empirically produces [Formula presented] windows and scales well to deal with large-scale models. …”
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Exploring the ability of stroke survivors in using the contralesional hemisphere to control a brain-computer interface by Mansour, Salem, Giles, Joshua, Ang, Kai Keng, Nair, Krishnan P. S., Phua, Kok Soon, Arvaneh, Mahnaz

“…Those with the ipsilesional BCI accuracy of less than 60% had significantly higher motor impairments than those with the ipsilesional BCI accuracy above 80%. …”
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High-spin impurities and surface acoustic waves in piezoelectric crystals for spin-lattice coupling by Magnusson, E

“…We show that the system also has good properties for spin-lattice coupling experiments, with a strain-coupling parameter <em>G</em>₃₃ = 280 ± 5GHz/strain, which is about 16 times larger than the largest reported for NV centres in diamond. …”

Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: the importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties by van Eeden, S, McKean, C, Stringer, H

“…Those with CSC + DSC had significantly lower language scores than those with typically developing speech or CSC only. …”

The epidemiology of periportal fibrosis and relevance of current Schistosoma mansoni infection within the context of repeated mass drug administration: a population-based, cross-se... by Ajayi, S, Nabatte, B, Mpooya, S, Tinkitina, B, Opio, CK, Kabatereine, NB, Chami, G

“…Individual schistosome status, intensity, and prevalence of heavy intensity infections of less than 1% and less than 5% were not correlated with periportal fibrosis likelihood or village prevalence. …”