A 35-Year Analysis of Vegetation Cover in Rare-Earth Mining Areas Using Landsat Data by Zheng, Zhubin, Liu, Yuqing, Chen, Na, Liu, Ge, Lei, Shaohua, Xu, Jie, Li, Jianzhong, Ren, Jingli, Huang, Chao

“…To elucidate the spatio-temporal changes in vegetation within Dingnan County over the past 35 years and the effects of natural and human factors on these changes, the spatial and temporal variations in FVC were analyzed using Landsat-TM/OLI multispectral images taken in 1988, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2006, 2013, 2017, and 2023. The findings indicate that (1) vegetation coverage in Dingnan County decreased from 1988 to 2002, followed by a gradual increase; (2) high vegetation cover is predominantly found in forested areas that maintain their natural state, while the central town and mining areas exhibit generally low coverage; (3) there are regional differences in the relationship between vegetation cover and environmental factors in Dingnan County. …”
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Last-Meter Delivery: Solving the Unattended Delivery Challenge from Streets to Doorsteps by Xiao, Wen-Xin

“…The thesis concludes by summarizing the key findings and contributions, discussing the broader implications of the proposed methodology, and suggesting directions for future work, such as enhancing system robustness and scalability. …”
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Wearable Gut and Brain Interfaces for Valence Detection and Modulation by Vujic, Angela

“…This thesis presents findings and innovations in research and application: first, offline affect detection models which contextualize neural with embodied modalities and evaluate how each signal influences affect detection performance. …”
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Coevolving Cybersecurity Adversaries for Industrial Control Systems in Failure-Prone Environments by Wicks, Kathryn

“…This thesis answers these questions by comparing the performance of different anomaly detection methods on cyberattack datasets with varying levels of stressor complexity and severity, and finds that stress on an industrial system can degrade anomaly-based intrusion detector performance. …”
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Design of EWMA control chart for minimizing the proportion of defective units by Shamsuzzaman, Mohammad, Wu, Zhang

“…The probability distribution of the random process shift (e.g. mean shift d) is taken into account that may be modeled by a Rayleigh distribution based on the sample data acquired during the operation of the control chart. Findings – The results of the comparison studies and an example show that the proposed MD-EWMA chart is significantly superior to the Shewhart-type MD-X¯ chart and the other EWMA charts in terms of the overall mean defective MD. …”
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Heuristic control of multiple batch processors with incompatible job families and future job arrivals by Tajan, John Benedict C., Sivakumar, Appa Iyer., Gershwin, Stanley B.

“…This reduction in cycle time generally increases with: increasing number of job families, decreasing number of processors, and increasing time between job arrivals. Our findings imply that controlling the upstream processors, such that job families of consecutive job arrivals are correlated, can reduce the cycle time at the batch processing stage. …”
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Synergistic effects in hydrodynamic cavitation abrasive finishing for internal surface-finish enhancement of additive-manufactured components by Nagalingam, Arun Prasanth, Yuvaraj, Hemanth Kumar, Yeo, Swee Hock

“…The microabrasives present in the cavitating flow enhanced the erosion favorably, creating a synergistic effect that resulted in significantly improved material removal and surface finish quality. The findings suggest that the synergistic effects in hydrodynamic cavitation abrasive finishing are effective in enhancing the material removal and surface finish quality of AM components.…”
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Autonomous ships : evolution or revolution? by Keh, Cassandra Xiao Ting

“…It offers information on the economic advantages of autonomous vessels. Mainly, the findings reflect an economic potential. The operating cost of an unmanned vessel is about 1.4 times lower than that of a conventional manned vessel and yields a time charter equivalent that is about 2.1 times higher than a manned vessel. …”
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Combining stratigraphy and tectonics to understand intermittent deposition on the outer rise offshore Sumatra, Indonesia by Tan, Li Ching

“…This robust method of estimating deep sea sediments could be applied to other subduction margins to investigate the interplay of climate and sedimentology. Such findings are rarely documented by cores worldwide since the materials are situated offshore below 4 km water depth, where physical samples are inaccessible. …”
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The development of lead-less perovskite materials for the photovoltaic application by Chen, Yan

“…In summary, the major findings presented in this thesis dissertation highlight the significance of compositional engineering of the perovskite materials to the fine-tuning of their optoelectronic properties and the performance of their associated devices. …”
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Why did China seldom claim? : Overseas investment and bilateral investment treaties by Chen, Jiaxin

“…To critically examine the topic, BITs between China and the European Union (EU) countries as well as 53 BITs between China and the countries along ‘Belt and Road’ are analyzed. The research finds that, instead of solving the dispute settlement issues, the China-EU BIT tends to play its role in market liberalization. …”
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3D path planning and real-time collision resolution of multirotor drone operations in complex urban low-altitude airspace by Zhang, Na, Zhang, Mingcheng, Low, Kin Huat

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Opportunity or risk? Appraisal and affect mediate the effect of task framing on working memory performance in university students by Chen, Luxi, Qu, Li

“…Mediation analysis revealed that the alteration of threat appraisal and the change in positive affect mediated the effect of task framing on WM performance. Findings highlight the important role of modifying cognitive appraisals and affective responses in optimizing cognitive performance.…”
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Information extraction from bibliography data by Leong, Kai Ling

“…As such, this project concludes that those in the field of Computer Science and the general audience, do not share the same trends. With this finding, the academia, organisations, and other stakeholders should consider the field of Computer Science and the general audience to be separate communities and may have different growth direction in the observed research topics.…”
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Machine translation of English relative clauses to Chinese in commercial contracts -- a contrastive evaluation of the outputs by SYSTRAN translate, Baidu translate and Google trans... by Li, Yidi

“…When generating relative clauses, the MT tools tended to prepose attributes regardless of their lengths, generate wrong identifications of the headwords, neglect relative clauses, and choose expressions with inaccurate meanings and overlong premodifiers. The findings shed light on MT issues in dealing with relative clauses, which helps developers to better improve their systems.…”
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Travel-based multitasking behaviour and autonomous vehicle design by Ang, Shiela Sze Ling

“…In this study, several key findings are reported. Firstly, the most popular in-vehicle activity group conducted by the survey respondents (drivers) was found to be social. …”
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Electroosmotic flow hysteresis for fluids with dissimilar pH and ionic species by Lim, An Eng, Lam, Yee Cheong

“…In contrast, the NaHCO3 concentration has little impact on the displacement process. These findings enhance the understanding of EOF involving solutions with dissimilar pH and ion species.…”
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Summative and formative style anatomy practical examinations: do they have impact on students' performance and drive for learning? by Mogali, Sreenivasulu Reddy, Rotgans, Jerome Ingmar, Rosby, Lucy, Ferenczi, Michael Alan, Beer, Naomi Low

“…Students highlighted positive features of the formative practical examination, including team reinforcement of learning, instant feedback, and enhanced learning. These findings indicate that students continue to study for anatomy practical examination without the need for external drivers. …”
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Young male motorcycle rider perception response times to abrupt- and gradual-onset hazards by Wong, Grace, Wong, Yiik Diew

“…Unlicensed subjects tended to underperform relative to licensed riders. The findings from this study contribute to the literature in the relatively novel field of motorcycle RTs and should be of interest to crash reconstructionists as well road safety professionals in designing road operations.…”
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Synthesis of metal alloy catalysts using high-throughput experiments and machine learning optimization by Calista, Vania

“…The catalytic performance is evaluated by collaborators at the University of Toronto. The initial findings from measuring pure Cu, which serves as a baseline, demonstrate consistent performance when compared to commercially available Cu nanoparticles. …”
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