Parallel materialisation of datalog programs in centralised, main-memory RDF systems by Motik, B, Nenov, Y, Piro, R, Horrocks, I, Olteanu, D

“…Our empirical evaluation shows that our approach parallelises computation very well: with 16 physical cores, materialisation can be up to 13.9 times faster than with just one core.…”

Financial centre primacy around the world: international analysis based on mergers and acquisitions data by Wojcik, D, Keenan, L, Pazitka, V, Urban, M, Wu, W

“…These findings are analysed through a theoretical framework which integrates the literatures on urban primacy, global and world cities and comparative political economy. Situating our findings at the intersection of these literatures allows us to remain sensitive to geography, history and institutions in our analysis of financial centre primacy. …”

Tea trolley teaching in critical care: integrating evidence-based practice with library services by McGivern, H, Bridge, S, Sutherland, S, Reynolds, E, Ede, J

“…This project aimed to integrate the tea trolley teaching model, already established in our local critical care unit, with library services. …”

Lacan for the philosophical psychiatrist by McConnell, D, Gillett, G

“…He draws on Freud, phenomenology, existentialism, and structuralism to construct a subtle theoretical approach to the psyche according to which our engagement in discourse and our existence in the world combine to generate a many layered structure of meanings and influences that forms us. …”

Effects of predictability and controllability on task performance under time constraints. by Tan, Kenley Soon Chew., Ng, Zhichao., Low, Liang Neng.

“…Prior research has proposed two constructs, namely predictability and controllability, in mitigating the adverse effect of time pressure on task performance. In our studies, we investigate these two constructs separately and jointly on task performance under time pressure. …”
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Short-term facial skin simulation system by Zhong, Yunjie

“…Using skin care products is a simple and effective way to improve our facial skin quality. Customers may want to see the effect of the product on their face skin. …”
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The first person pronoun in archaic Chinese, with a note on duplex characters by Benedict, Paul K.

“…The widely represented *nga, from Chepang, Chang (Northern Naga), and Trung (Nungish) on the north(/west) and Tujia (west-central China) on the east to Burmese-Lolo on the south(/east), as our "mouse," is at times firmly in the paws of our TM "cat": Waling (Kiranti) angka < *-nga-ga '1 p. prn.' …”
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Effect of LBO announcement on private information in US market. by Kee, Serene Chi Lin., Ngoh, Yi Sin., Lin, Kennard Jian Chuang.

“…The objective of our study is to investigate whether the announcement of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) triggers the motivation for investors to conduct additional research to increase their private information of the target firm. …”
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Quality seaport : model building and empirical validation by Phang, Louise Foong Hung.

“…Combining these factors, enablers and attributes that we have found from our literature review and interviews, we have come up with a survey and we will use the survey to validate these attributes. …”
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Role of non-rational factors in the two levels of decision making. by Low, Eng Chiew.

“…Nonetheless, when we face problems in making choices, the question of what may influence our decision making process surfaces. The decision making process occur on two levels. …”
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Testing and marketing commercial accounting software packages : the case of BMS financials. by Chua, Lionel., Lee, Fong Lay., Siong, Guan-Cheng.

“…We have provided in this report, a detailed and systematic coverage of the testing strategy and results, as well as a suggested software marketing approach. It is hoped that our test model in particular would serve as a useful guide to others for testing under circumstances similar to our case. …”
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A study on factors affecting receptivity to traditional chinese medicine In Singapore. by Chu, Hui Wen., Liu, Jia., Tan, Pei Ting.

“…For our research, twenty factors were identified based on literature reviews and observations of the overall TCM context in Singapore. …”
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Development of a generic framework for dynamic website design by Huang, Dongli

“…Other functionalities that were required but beyond our main scope were also realized by installing existing Joomla! …”
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Wide-Baseline Stereo-Based Obstacle Mapping for Unmanned Surface Vehicles by Mou, Xiaozheng, Wang, Han

“…Experimental results based on our own dataset demonstrate the high efficiency of our system. …”
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Importance Sampling BRDF Derivatives by Belhe, Yash, Xu, Bing, Bangaru, Sai Praveen, Ramamoorthi, Ravi, Li, Tzu-Mao

“…Our method first decomposes the real-valued differential BRDF into a sum of single-signed functions, eliminating variance from a change in sign. …”
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Skeleton-based online action prediction using scale selection network by Liu, Jun, Shahroudy, Amir, Wang, Gang, Duan, Ling-Yu, Kot, Alex C.

“…Our proposed approach is evaluated on four challenging datasets. …”
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Learning Temporal–Spatial Spectrum Reuse by Zhang, Yi, Tay, Wee Peng, Li, Kwok Hung, Esseghir, Moez, Gaiti, Dominique

“…We show that all these policies have linear regrets in our temporal-spatial OSA framework. Simulations suggest that our proposed policies have significantly smaller regrets than the other policies when spectrum temporal-spatial reuse is allowed.…”
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RSS indoor localization and tracking with INS assistance by Wen, Kai

“…The results are used to calculate appropriate weight for the proposed scheme in later chapters. For the case when there is perfect knowledge of IMU orientation with respect to the navigation frame coordinates, this thesis proposes a novel weighted nonlinear RSS localization and tracking scheme that integrates INS positioning estimation projections. …”
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Early detection of reduced artemisinin susceptibility in plasmodium falciparum using novel phenotypic indicators by Xiong, Aoli

“…A new sample preparation approach was later applied and shown to greatly increase the sensitivity of MRR detection. …”
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The development of empathy in the healthcare setting: a qualitative approach by Yu, Chou Chuen, Tan, Laurence, Le, Mai Khanh, Tang, Bernard, Liaw, Sok Ying, Tierney, Tanya, Ho, Yun Ying, Lim, Evelyn Beng Eng, Lim, Daphne, Ng, Reuben, Chia, Siew Chin, Low, James Alvin

“…Data was analyzed independently by three investigators who later corroborated to refine the codes, subthemes, and themes. …”
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