Similarity Joins of Sparse Features by Metwally, Ahmed, Shum, Michael

“…FastScalableSparseJoiner effectively prunes candidate pairs, and efficiently distributes the computation of partial results for load-balancing across executors. …”
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Monitoring the Wobbe Index of Natural Gas Using Fiber-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy by Sandfort, Vincenz, Trabold, Barbara M., Abdolvand, Amir, Bolwien, Carsten, Russell, Philip St. J., Wöllenstein, Jürgen, Palzer, Stefan

“…The fast and reliable analysis of the natural gas composition requires the simultaneous quantification of numerous gaseous components. …”
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Scalable near identical image and shot detection by Chum, O, Philbin, J, Isard, M, Zisserman, A

“…We focus primarily on scalability to very large image and video databases, where fast query processing is necessary. Both methods are designed so that only a small amount of data need be stored for each image. …”

Design of a power management unit for a wireless-power-transfer-enabled wireless sensor node by Luo, Hao

“…Moreover, the load-adaptive negative-resistance helps to boost the DC-gain of the proposed OCL-LDO while improving the current efficiency and ensuring fast-settling and frequency stability. Lastly, the compensator-less SRVM controller is meant to minimize power and area induced by discrete circuitries and components that build the compensator in a conventional DC-DC converter. …”
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Singapore on the Thames : Model for a Post-Brexit UK? by Martin, David

“…Last week, the UK formally exited the European Union. …”
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Hero. by Wang, Xun.

“…This 2D animation short brings back Xiang's last combat in Chinese folk tales to life, whereby he fought against 200 Han cavalry soldiers with his heroic spirit before he committed suicide.The real world and the shadowy combat are expressed respectively in visual art of classical Chinese shan shui paintings and clear pencil sketches.…”
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Blinken's Beijing visit: private conversations, public criticism by Ho, Benjamin Tze Ern

“…Antony Blinken’s first visit to Beijing last weekend may not be quite as dramatic or consequential as Henry Kissinger’s secret visit in 1971. …”
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Optimization of component placement operations for multi-head concurrent operation PCBA machines by Wu, Lijun.

“…Over the last few years, optimization of PCB component onsertion/placement operations has emerged as an important research area and an increasing number of solution approaches have been proposed. …”
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Control of a high-order boost converter by Yeo, Jackie Shi Jing.

“…Two of these controllers are current mode based controllers. The last controller is voltage mode based controller. …”
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Tourism in Thailand : factors behind its growth and resilience. by Nino Gruettke., Karthik Naga., Kartika Surja., Tan, Kiam Hong.

“…Tourism has been contributing an average of 6% to the GDP of Thailand in the last 20 years, one of the highest in South East Asia. …”
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Ubin or, life in the woods. by Tan, Katrina Liyi.

“…The installation showcases a series of images and found objects that encapsulates the essence of this last bit of rural landscape left in Singapore. Experimenting with the early photographic salt print process using local seawater, the work speaks of the organic beauty of the island and its ephemeral state.…”
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An exploratory study of award and non award winning retail companies in Singapore. by Chan Sock Leng, Lim Shu Pin, Ong Wah Lian Alan

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A study of web services adoption in Singapore. by Seow, Poh Sun., Phoa, Ang Hiok., Soh, See Kong.

“…With the advent of Web Services in the last 18 months, discussions on the subject of Web Services have increased dramatically in the IT and business press. …”
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一首 "长恨" "长" 又 "恨" ：《长恨歌》作为 "新乐府" 的解读 = The eternalised hatred of ‘The Song of Everlasting Hatred’ : from the perspective of the ‘YueFu’ movement... by 曾思慧 Chew, Si Hui

“…Although the language used was purposed to be easily understood and entertaining, the last four sentences still puzzled many till this day. …”
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Time Series Predictive Control in Robotics / by Liu, Hui, author 491460, Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Online service) 655461

“…The book proposes a unique new perspective using time series prediction to control robots. Especially with the fast increasing of various data in robotics, this new robot control mode using time series prediction has become very important. …”
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Lattice Green’s Functions for High-Order Finite Difference Stencils by Gabbard, James, van Rees, Wim M.

“…Under these conditions, fast expansion methods are available that enable precomputation of 2D or 3D LGFs in linear time, avoiding the need for brute-force multi-dimensional quadrature of numerically unstable integrals. …”
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A 180 nm technology new 2.5 Gbps burst-mode optical receiver design with automatic gain control and feed-forward created reset by Siek, Liter, Duan, Lian, Lim, Wei Meng

“…Fabricated in a 180 nm CMOS technology, the optical receiver demonstrates a fast response time of less than 10 ns inclusive of the reset creation time. …”
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Hilbert-Huang transform based transient analysis in voltage source converter interfaced direct current system by Li, Dongyu, Ukil, Abhisek, Satpathi, Kuntal, Yeap, Yew Ming

“…Therefore, a fast and sensitive fault detection method is required. …”
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Review of the use of transition-metal-oxide and conducting polymer-based fibres for high-performance supercapacitors by Mohd Abdah, Muhammad Amirul Aizat, Azman, Nur Hawa Nabilah, Kulandaivalu, Shalini, Sulaiman, Yusran

“…There is a growing interest in the application of supercapacitors in energy storage systems due to their high specific power, fast charge/discharge rates and long cycle stability. …”
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Southeast Asian space activities: recent trends in regional cooperation by Berthet, Maximilien

“…Though not new, it has increasingly flourished in the last ten years, especially in three areas: satellite engineering, space policymaking, and space entrepreneurship. …”
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