Principles : Life and Work / by Dalio, Ray, author 656003, Simon & Schuster (Online service) 656004

“…In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. …”
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Investigation of pulsed electric field operation as a chemical-free anti-scaling approach for electrodialysis desalination of brackish water by Honarparvar, Soraya, Al-Rashed, Rashed, Winter V., Amos G.

“…Considering that the scale-forming ions were transported to the concentrate channel within the first 50 % of the batch time, a novel hybrid pulsed-conventional operation was theorized that leveraged pulsing early in the batch and switched to constant voltage later to expedite the desalination process. Hybrid operation improved the desalination rate compared to a pure PED system and could potentially reduce membrane scaling by decreasing the recirculation period of the concentrate stream.…”
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Urban Visual Intelligence: Studying Cities with Artificial Intelligence and Street-Level Imagery by Zhang, Fan, Salazar-Miranda, Arianna, Duarte, Fábio, Vale, Lawrence, Hack, Gary, Chen, Min, Liu, Yu, Batty, Michael, Ratti, Carlo

“…The visual dimension of cities has been a fundamental subject in urban studies since the pioneering work of late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century scholars such as Camillo Sitte, Kevin Lynch, Rudolf Arnheim, and Jane Jacobs. Several decades later, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing how people move, sense, and interact with cities. …”
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The flexible urban grid: adaptation, expansion and evolution in Philadelphia's city block morphology by Ryan, Brent D., Wang, Elaine

“…The second was adaptation through expansion of the grid, first an irregular, ‘unplanned’ grid, and later a regular, ‘planned’ grid. Both expansions reduced 1683 block depths to permit additional east- west circulation and to increase developable block frontage. …”
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Medication adherence : software development for anticoagulant medicine smart-packs by Chua, Ming Zhou

“…Hence, former features that complicated the User Interface (UI) were revised or removed to present a cleaner experience for users. This project was later tested for feasibility in clinical trials through repeated feedback and revision.…”
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Enlightenment in The Age of Phillis — The Age of Phillis (Roundtable) by DeLucia, JoEllen

“…For our group primarily comprising teachers and scholars of eighteenth-century British and American litera-ture, the title instantly evoked the names of classes we had both taken and later taught: “The Age of Reason,” “The Age of Enlightenment,” “The Augustan Age,” and “The Age of John-son.” …”
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Additive manufacturing of cooling responsive shape memory hydrogel via FDM printing by Muhammad Ridhuan Mohamed Hairi

“…The first phase of the study is to focus on FDM and its main component. The later phases focus on the alteration made to FDM printer to be used for Hydrogel, challenges faced and discusses the result produced.…”
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BKW EOS: history of modifications and further improvement of accuracy with temperature-dependent covolumes of polar molecules by Suceska, Muhamad, Chan, Serene Hay Yee, Stimac, Barbara, Dobrilovic, Mario

“…A hundred years ago (in 1921) Becker proposed an equation of state in which the repulsive term in van der Waals equation of state was replaced by an exponential function. Twenty years later, Kistiakowsky and Wilson modified Becker's equation and used it to calculate the detonation properties of nitroglycerine and mercury fulminate. …”
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Ship route optimization to enable the just-in-time arrival at a port by Haziq Bin Mudzzaffar

“…The strengths and limitations of these programs would then be discussed later in this report.…”
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Novel sensor suit design for smart suit : technology, ergonomics and fashion by Low, Kien Ooi.

“…Illustrations of future development on the lower limb will be presented on the later chapters with sketches and 3D models.…”
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Development and control of a mini quad-copter by Tan, Wei Hong.

“…There will also be a detailed description on the hardware design in the later part of this report. The calibration process includes finding the calibration parameters based on the available source provided, which contains camera calibration tools used for MATLAB and also to determine the exact position of the Caspa VL camera on the mini quad-copter from the experiment conducted. …”
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Intermittent demand forecasting by Mishra, Prerna.

“…Such forecast holds tremendous importance to business because erroneous forecast could lead to extremities of „over supply‟ or „under supply‟- former leading to damage to business by glut in the market and later by loosing brand image by failing customer‟s expectation. …”
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Robotic mirror finishing KPV (key process variable) optimization in the aerospace industry by Ortiz, Walter Frank Pintor

“…Thanks to methods developed previously for designing experiments, such as the Taguchi method, working parameters are encountered and tuned. Later, using the ANOVA method allows the class definition of the variables and their pertinence in the overall experimentation. …”
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Integrating BIM with RFID technology to develop an onsite precast element management system by Nguyen, Thi Hoai Thanh

“…However, BIM has the potential to enhance project management processes in the later phases of the project life, including precast concrete logistics management, if more dimensions of information are incorporated and managed in BIM. …”
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Pleasant emotions widen thought-action repertoires, develop long-term resources, and improve reaction time performance: a multistudy examination of the broaden-and-build theory amo... by Thompson, Mark, Nicholls, Adam R., Toner, John, Perry, John L., Burke, Rachel

“…In Study 1b, 126 athletes from Study 1a repeated the same questionnaires 6 months later. In Study 2, 21 athletes were randomly allocated to an emotional (e.g., pleasant or unpleasant emotions) or control group and undertook a laboratory-based reaction-time task across three time points. …”
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Detecting changes in population trends in infection surveillance using community SARS-CoV-2 prevalence as an exemplar by Pritchard, E, Vihta, K-D, Eyre, DW, Hopkins, S, Peto, TEA, Matthews, PC, Stoesser, N, Studley, R, Rourke, E, Diamond, I, Pouwels, KB, Walker, AS, COVID-19 Infection Survey Team

“…When estimating recent change-points using successive data periods, four change-points (4/96) identified by GAMs were not found when adding later data or by ISR. Change-points were detected 3-5 weeks after they occurred in both methods but could be detected earlier within specific subgroups. …”

Taste and see: real presence as revelation in Heideggerian perspective by Olson, JW

“…Language is then linked up with this pre-reflective understanding, first as discourse and then later as poetry, both of which disclose a fundamental world-orientation to language.…”

Structure of mushy layers grown from perfectly and imperfectly conducting boundaries. Part 1. Diffusive solidification by Hitchen, JR, Wells, AJ

“…For low concentration ratio the high porosity zone spans the full mush depth at early times, before localising near the mush–liquid interface at later times. Such variation of porosity has important implications for the properties and biological habitability of mushy sea ice.…”

Synthesis and characterization of bio-based flame-retardant coating for cotton fabric by Nurul Hidayah, Abu Bakar, Wan Norfazilah, Wan Ismail

“…The vertical burning test demonstrated that the coated cotton fabric sustained minimal damage, ignited later, and had shorter char length compared to the uncoated fabric. …”
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Association between COVID-19 outcomes and mask mandates, adherence, and attitudes by Adjodah, Dhaval, Dinakar, Karthik, Chinazzi, Matteo, Fraiberger, Samuel P., Pentland, Alex, Bates, Samantha, Staller, Kyle, Vespignani, Alessandro, Bhatt, Deepak L.

“…We extend previous studies on the impact of masks on COVID-19 outcomes by investigating an unprecedented breadth and depth of health outcomes, geographical resolutions, types of mask mandates, early versus later waves and controlling for other government interventions, mobility testing rate and weather. …”
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