Comparing user behavior when targeted based on firm inferred interest vs. user stated interest by Cao, Yiqun(Scientist in business management)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Modal tense: if and wish by Crowley, Paul

“…I show how previous proposals for X-marking cannot satisfy these desiderata, making them insufficient for a unified account. Lastly, I introduce a hypothesis that all varieties of morphology that can be used as X-marking cross-linguistically-including past, imperfective, plural and habitual-are vacuous in both their X-marked and ordinary uses.…”
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Active Extrinsic Contact Sensing: Application to General Peg-in-Hole Insertion by Kim, Sangwoon, Rodriguez, Alberto

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Effects of music attrition on English-Mandarin Chinese bilinguals’ lexical tone perception and production in a foreign language by Toh, Xin Ru

“…Although non-‘dialect’ speaking non-musicians performed the worst in musical abilities and lexical tone perception, ‘dialect’ speaking ex-musicians did not perform the best. Lastly, ex-musicians and non-musicians performed equally well in lexical tone production, and lexical tone production accuracy was not associated with lexical tone perception accuracy, musical abilities, or number of years of musical training. …”
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A cup of coffee by Yong, Kai Ting

“…This research paper focuses on the history, characteristics and variables of coffee and how infinite ways of making coffee can relate to mathematics, followed by the exploration of the concept ‘Coffee = Math’, and lastly, the design process leading to the final outcome – a coffee brand identity inspired by mathematics and quantification.…”
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Deep learning based action recognition by Ong, Zong You

“…This report consists of three sections: Firstly, several ablation studies are conducted on the baseline model – Two-Stream Adaptive Graph Convolutional Network (2s-AGCN) to better understand the performance of the baseline model, Secondly, several experiments are performed where we explore adding some modification to the baseline model to improve on its performance when benchmarking the model against datasets that contain skeleton data such as – NTU RGB+D 60 dataset, Lastly, experiments on several models with new ideas incorporated are conducted to test their performance against the baseline model.…”
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Smart hand gesture sensing with millimeter wave radar and machine learning by Sang, Jiajun

“…This will involve numerous transforms, data visualizations, and calculations. Lastly, the project will also explore different machine learning techniques to identify different gestures. …”
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Effects on miniature filament on flow characteristics by Pisigan Charles Abraham Rectra

“…This results thus highlighted how the surface texture affect the aerodynamic properties. Lastly, recommendations were given to investigate new areas of study to further explain and quantify the change in aerodynamic properties of fabric as it varied in composition, elongation, and orientation.…”
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Arabization, the victimizer: a constructivist analysis of the role of Arabization in harming social security and social cohesion in Singapore by Shukul, Raaj Kumar

“…Given that religion often shapes the values, norms and worldviews of individuals, being able to identify and even counter such nefarious attempts of agitating the Malay-Muslim community against the Other will (1) empower them to know the nuances between politics and religion without acting on illegitimate agendas being advocated for by such non-state actors; (2) Allow for the contextualized and accurate interpretations of religious tenets amongst various demographics within the Malay-Muslim community in Singapore and lastly, (3) serve as a significant model of the appreciation and practice of Islam within the Nusantara region that allows for a strengthening of our social fabric, social security and social cohesion borne out of a sincere and informed appreciation of Islam.…”
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Hydrogen embrittlement behaviour of additively manufactured Inconel 625 alloy by Khor, Ashley Shao Ying

“…The study also found that the hardness values of the dilution region were higher than those of the deposition region due to the smaller grain size in the former region. Lastly, addition of an interlayer cooling dwell period was found to increase the hardness value due to grain growth. …”
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Which IR theory, liberalism, realism or constructivism, best explains the interaction between ASEAN and the two superpowers, the US and China? by Pua, Zopa Wei Yuan

“…Meanwhile, liberalists argued that economic ties, international organisations like the ASEAN, and diplomatic efforts are essential for maintaining stability and fostering peaceful coexistence. Lastly, constructivists would focus on the roles of ideas and identities of the stakeholders involved and how they influence their interactions in the region. …”
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黄展鸣《天界无限》的女英雄形象 = Heroine images in Wee Tian Beng’s celestial zone by 谢文良 Chia, Boon Liang

“…Next, I will analyze the signs and symbols surrounding the heroines, like the hair and sword. Lastly, I will compare the heroines from Celestial zone with some existing heroine images like Mulan, Mu Gui Ying, Fan Li Hua, Huang Rong etc, and point out how the heroines from Celestial zone improved from the feminism point of view.…”
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Optimization of operational conditions for continuous membrane distillation crystallization process with zero discharge by Lim, Deric Weikang.

“…In addition, a runtime experiment lasting 21 hours was performed to determine its viability to be implemented on an industrial scale. …”
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Providing effective recommendation of learning materials for students by Koh, Jun Kiat

“…The group wiki and forum module’s objective is to promote team-based learning where students form group to study and learn from one another. Lastly the content management and ratings module is to consolidate ratings from each individual so that useful and relevant materials can be identified and shared with other users. …”
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Development of bioactive PCL films using low temperature solvent free method by Lim, Lynette Sihui

“…For the release profile of Mg, results revealed that 20% PCL/ MgCl2 could release 9.52 mM of Mg in 1 ml of deionized (DI) water under a time period of 4 hours. Lastly, degradation of PCL/ MgCl2 in NaOH suggested that an increase in Mg incorporation led to an increase in the recorded mass loss. …”
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Prototyping wireless pulse oximeter by Ng, Kimberly Jin Jin

“…It implies that with wireless data transmission technology, there will be less administrative work for the healthcare providers; It reduces the risks involved for hardcopy data storage, reducing space usage and time involved in retrieving patient data and that the nurses could better utilize the time to perform other works in hand. Lastly, the graphic user interface (GUI) of this wireless pulse oximeter is designed in such a way that when blood oxygenation (SpO2), pulse rate (BPM) or perfusion index (PI) dropped below a pre-determined value, an alarm would be sound to alert the doctor and nurses. …”
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Nonlinear optical imaging investigations at the micro-scale by Lim, Ken Choong

“…Simulations were performed to correlate the experimentally observed phenomena to a proposed analytical model and methods to reduce image distortions due to astigmatism are briefly discussed. Lastly, in order to further extend the capabilities of the NLSM, a methodology to batch stitch images obtained using an NLSM was developed to achieve wide field-of-view 3D tomography.…”
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Effect of acute resistance exercise on cognition and creativity in healthy, well-trained university undergraduates by Chow, Zi Siong

“…Each treatment (i.e.: RE and reading) lasted 20 minutes. RE protocol consisted of 3 exercises that target all major muscle groups in the full body. 2 sets of 10 repetitions done at a load of 70% of 10 repetition maximum was completed for each exercise. …”
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Ultrsonic testing of bond integrity in adhesive joints between 2 similar metals by Ang, Marcus

“…While in the presence of a disbond, the A-scan is unable to pick up the signals. Lastly the specimens with fully cured adhesive are subjected to the instron lap-joint shear test. …”
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Nanoporous gold nanostructures : morphological design and their energy conversion applications by Yang, Zhe

“…The excellent catalytic activity of the obtained NPG-molybdenum sulfide hybrid in hydrogen evolution reaction is demonstrated. Lastly, chapter 6 summarizes research works in my 4-year PhD study and provides an outlook of the potential future direction in this field.…”
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