Human agency and instrumental rationality: applying human capital to gender inequalities and intergenerational stratification by Luo, H

“…This thesis contends that educational attainment, a form of human capital, can evolve differently based on human agency and instrumental rationality, influencing its effectiveness in mitigating inequalities and enhancing mobilities.…”

Optimizing OOD Detection in Molecular Graphs: A Novel Approach with Diffusion Models by Shen, Xu, Wang, Yili, Zhou, Kaixiong, Pan, Shirui, Wang, Xin

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Physico-chemical and microstructure of artificial soils stabilised with lime-zeolite by Felix Ling, Ngee Leh

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Metagenetic analysis of gut microbial community of Malaysian mahseer Tor tambroides (Bleeker, 1854) (Cyprinidae) and its probiotics potential by Tan, Chun Keat

“…These selected potential probiotics were fed to T. tambroides followed by challenge test to evaluate its effects on growth and disease resistance against Aeromonas hydrophila. …”
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A computational fluid dynamics analysis of cryo-CO2 flow and thermal behaviour in high-speed milling process by Nur Fatini, Mohamad Fauzee, Nurul Hayati, Abdul Halim, Zainoor Hailmee, Solihin, Izdihar, Tharazi, Irnie Azlin, Zakaria, Musfirah, Abdul Hadi

“…Understanding the heat transfer phenomenon is crucial for optimizing thermal behavior and its effects, which remain challenging to capture experimentally. …”
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Habit Formation and Political Persuasion: A Behavioral and Statistical Approach by Tohidi Kalorazi, Amir

“…Through empirical analyses, we establish the validity of the entropy metric, demonstrating its effectiveness in capturing distinct behavioral patterns beyond mere frequency. …”
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Offline eLearning for undergraduates in health professions : a systematic review of the impact on knowledge, skills, attitudes and satisfaction by Wark, Petra A., Rasmussen, Kristine, Belisario, José Marcano, Molina, Joseph Antonio, Loong, Stewart Lee, Cotic, Ziva, Papachristou, Nikos, Riboli–Sasco, Eva, Car, Lorainne Tudor, Musulanov, Eve Marie, Zhang, Yanfeng, Kunz, Holger, George, Pradeep Paul, Heng, Bee Hoon, Wheeler, Erica Lynette, Al Shorbaji, Najeeb, Svab, Igor, Atun, Rifat, Majeed, Azeem, Car, Josip

“…To inform investments in offline eLearning, we need to establish its effectiveness in terms of gaining knowledge and skills, students’ satisfaction and attitudes towards eLearning. …”
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Discrete time optimal control and its applications in power systems by Zhang, Hehong

“…Speci fically, the field PMUs data are filtered using the proposed TD based on the DTOC algorithm. To test its effectiveness, I compare the system emergency control schemes' solutions and the corresponding control results during cascading failures based on the filtered data and the noise-free PMUs data, respectively. …”
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Learning to generalize to new tasks/domains with limited data by Peng, Danni

“…The method is evaluated in two real-world application domains: few-shot image classification and user cold-start recommendations, to demonstrate its effectiveness. Meta-learning derives common knowledge by assuming that all tasks are available at once. …”
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Disaster risk modeling and assessment towards enhanced infrastructure resilience under extreme events by Wang, Ying

“…The experimental study on a recent open-source dataset named xBD validates its effectiveness in solving the extremely imbalanced classification problem for building damages. …”
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Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticles for Cytokine Delivery by Pires, Ivan S.

“…When evaluated for its effectiveness in this highly aggressive model, two doses could significantly enhance survival compared to even five times (5x) the amount of free cytokine. …”
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Self-healing materials for flexible electronic devices by Tiwari, Naveen

“…This chapter depicts the study of the influence of ionic liquids on the different class of polymer structure and its effects on the healing properties. In the end, a novel healing mechanism with ionic liquids was demonstrated in PVP polymer without DA recovery mechanisms.…”
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Towards robust sensing and recognition : from statistical learning to transfer learning by Yang, Jianfei

“…The proposed platform is an IoT-enabled platform which leverages off-the-shelf (COTS) WiFi routers for sensing. To demonstrate its effectiveness, we develop an occupancy detection system and a sedentary behavior monitoring system, and evaluate their performance in real-world scenarios. …”
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