Autopia's End: The Decline and Fall of Detroit's Automotive Manufacturing Landscape by Ryan, Brent D., Campo, Daniel

“…Even today the city calls for the demolition of one of its last remaining historic auto factories. This paper surveys the disappearance of Detroit’s auto factories, and documents the histories of three of the largest complexes: the Chrysler-Chalmers Plant, cleared for a redeveloped factory; the Cadillac Plant, cleared for a failed economic development project; and the Packard Plant, slowly abandoned over 60 years. …”
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Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 : serial murder and narrative necrosis by Scott, Bede

“…This article explores the representation of serial murder in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, focusing in particular on Part Four, “The Part About the Crimes,” which provides a thinly fictionalized account of the notorious femicides that have afflicted the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez over the last two and a half decades. What impact does this extensive litany of dead bodies have on the novel’s plot trajectory, its production of meaning, and its proairetic qualities? …”
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A study on pedestrian crowd simulations through distributed personal mobility device (PMD) docking hubs by Ramakrishna Santhira Segaran

“…The rise in popularity of Personal Mobility Devices (PMDs) in the last decade has taken Singapore by storm. The numerous advantages that come with PMDs secured its place in the food delivery industry. …”
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The responsibility to protect in Southeast Asia : opening up spaces for advancing human security by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…As is the case in a number of regions, however, there is a strong sense of caution - if not hostility - in Southeast Asia (and East Asia more broadly) towards the Responsibility to Protect's provision for military interventions as a last resort, in order to protect populations from such harm. …”
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Terahertz radiation by Wong, Yun Ming

“…The length of the PTI slab did not have a remarkable effect on the transmission, which was further confirmed by the plots of propagation loss. Last but not least, the robustness of PTI waveguide against bending loss was verified by both simulation and experiment. …”
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Production planning for cloud-based additive manufacturing—A computer vision-based approach by Wang, Yuanbin, Zheng, Pai, Xu, Xun, Yang, Huayong, Zou, Jun

“…A comparative study has been conducted to verify the packing result and efficiency. At last, a case study has been displayed to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed method.…”
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Plastome assembly and phylogenomics of Annonaceae subfamily Malmeoideae by Neo, Wei Ling

“…The infrafamilial classification of Annonaceae has stabilised in the last decade and subfamiliar and intertribal relationships are relatively well understood, but there are some notable exceptions. …”
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All-weather thermal regulation coatings by Hippalgaonkar, Kedar

“…Groundbreaking work on radiative cooling has emerged in the last decade. In a recent issue of Science, Junqiao Wu and coworkers as well as Long Yi and coworkers take this one step forward by using Tungsten-doped Vanadium Dioxide to build a thermal regulatory structure. …”
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Deploying AI applications on smartphones with neural network Accelerators: 'AI benchmark application for Android devices' by Subhiksha Muthukrishnan

“…Deep Learning has exploded as a technology over the last few years, and we’ve barely scratched the surface. …”
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Performance and flight dynamics characteristics of a variable sweep wing aircraft by Chong, Zi Wei.

“…With all these performances and stability characteristics identified, the applications of this variable sweep morphing technology on the UAV in different missions are investigated as well. Last but not least, the future work that can be carried out for better understanding and applications for this type of morphing technology is discussed.…”
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Missing targets: reforming disaster policy in Southeast Asia by Cook, Alistair David Blair, Lassa, Jonatan, Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…Over the last 20 years, Southeast Asia has seen laudable advancement in disaster management. …”
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Fringing effect on the measurement of permittivity of dielectric materials by Chen, Yi Quan.

“…With the increase in dimension and functional abilities, the results are obtained with a higher level of precision and a more illustrative representation. The last part of the report seeks to apply the theory into a cascaded transformer, a high voltage application. …”
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Report on Industrial attachment report with Molex Singapore Pte Ltd by Su, Wenhong.

“…Future implementation and improvement will continue to be carried out by the author during the last few weeks of his attachment, allowing him to gain an exposure to the life of being an engineer in the real-working environment.…”
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Narcotics & counternarcotics measures in Afghanistan by Halimullah Kousary Mohammad Kawsar

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The becoming of ideal audience workers : game modders and distributive websites. by Hong, Renyi.

“…The proliferation of participative media technologies in the last decade had transformed the paradigms of traditional media production. …”
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Performance evaluation of security software for Android smartphone by Ang, Jing Jie

“…The latter part of the report will demonstrate how the monitoring android application is developed by the author during the last few weeks of the Final year project. The monitoring application will be able to monitor the mobile user behavior and recommend the most efficient mobile security application to the mobile user.…”
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Ball game measurement and analysis on Android by Ng, Wei Kang

“…Singapore is having the slowest growth rate in the last decade. Beside facing the slow growth rate, the citizen population aged 65 and above have also increase from 11.7% to 12.4% within a year from 2013 to 2014 [1] . …”
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Design and implementation of energy management system for smart building management system by Liu, Xiao Chuan

“…After the mapping work was done, the system was tested out on the Beaglebone Black. At last, ZigBee technology and Wi-Fi technology were studied for future work which will concentrate on replacing ZigBee modules with Wi-Fi modules.…”
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Web development for energy management system of a microgrid by Ngai, Alvin GuoMing

“…To connect to the web server, tornado framework have been utilized and last but not least the whole structure of the web page is done up with the HTML, CSS and Java coding.…”
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Magnetic nanoparticles for radar absorber application : silica coated cobalt-iron nanoparticles and silica coated iron nanoparticles by Leong, Glenn Jie Wei

“…Research into Radar Absorbing Materials (RAM) has increased exponentially over the last decade. One main reason is due to the proliferation of the use of stealth technology in armed forces globally. …”
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