Up in smoke : peatland fires in Russia and Indonesia by Sofiah Jamil

“…The heatwaves behind the current Russian fires bear similarities with the Indonesian experiences in 1998 and 2006, Indonesia and ASEAN could share their experiences in addressing peatland fires with Russia.…”
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Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2024, Office of the Vice Chancellor by Hastings, Daniel

“…This report contains the following sections: Executive Summary, Office Updates, OVC Headquarters, Office of Admissions, Career Advising & Professional Development, Office of Experiential Learning, D-Lab, Edgerton Center, Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, First Year Learning Communities, Concourse, Experimental Study Group, Terrascope, Office of Graduate Education, International Students Office, Office of Minority Education, Registrar’s Office, Reserve Officer Training Corps, Air Force, Army, Navy, Student Financial Services, Teaching + Learning Lab, Undergraduate Advising Center.…”
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Unbiased in silico design of pH-sensitive tetrapeptides by Hu, Yue, Rigoldi, Federica, Sun, Hui, Gautieri, Alfonso, Marelli, Benedetto

“…We used coarse-grain molecular dynamics simulations to screen all possible histidine-bearing tetrapeptide sequences, finding novel peptide sequences with pH-tunable assembly properties. …”
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Greening our laws : revising land acquisition law for coal mining in India by Srivastav, S, Singh, T

“…The Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act, 1957 provides minimal social and environmental safeguards, and deviates, in important ways, from India’s general land acquisition law. …”

RES.2-001 Engineering Design Instructional Computer System (EDICS), Spring 2008 by Wilson, David Gordon, Blanco, Ernesto, Tsutsumi, Seichi, Flowers, Woodie

“…EDICS, or Engineering Design Instructional Computer System, is an interactive multimedia program started in 1981, which consists of three chapters on bearings, rotors and cylinders, lets students with little background in engineering learn about procedures on a computer with text, graphics, animation, sound and diagrams.Online Publication…”
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Carbene-catalyzed N,N-nucleophilic activation of thioureas for access to pyrimidinthione derivatives by Cao, Liya, Li, Tingting, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Jin, Zhichao

“…Pyrimidinthione derivatives bearing various substituents and substitution patterns are afforded as the products in moderate to good yields.…”
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Biocementation of fine-grained soil by Ong, Jun Hao

“…However, the California Bearing Ratio tests did not show improvement for samples tested immediately after compaction. …”
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Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2024, Arts Initiatives by Kinney, Leila W.

“…This report contains the following sections about arts initiatives and the Center for Art, Science & Technology: faculty grants; cross disciplinary classes; visiting artists; CAST x MIT Museum; Communications; the Council for the Arts at MIT; student arts programs; Student Center Arts Studios; Wiesner Art Gallery; and personnel.…”
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An autonomous ultrasonic fastener holes inspection system of an aircraft lower wing skin by Lim, Chee Wei.

“…Fasteners like rivets and bolts bear a large part of the stress and thus require frequent inspection for cracks around the fastener's holes. …”
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Crushing of patterned shells by Lim, Tariene Zi Yi.

“…The patterns on the shells are placed at the center of each section, and are symmetrical about the center line for consistency.…”
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The value of feedback in decentralized detection by Tay, Wee Peng

“…We study certain two-message feedback architectures, in which every sensor sends two messages to a fusion center, with the second message based on full or partial knowledge of the first messages of the other sensors. …”
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Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2023, Office of the Vice Chancellor by Waitz, Ian A

“…This report contains the following sections: Priorities and Progress; Graduate Student Unionization; Undergraduate Advising; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Visiting Committee; Organizational Change: FlexWork and Space Allocation; Office of the Vice Chancellor Headquarters; Admissions Office; Career Advising and Professional Development; Office of Experiential Learning; D-Lab; Edgerton Center; Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center; Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program; Office of Graduate Education; MIT Summer Research Program; International Students Office; Office of Minority Education; Registrar’s Office; Reserve Officer Training Corps—Air Force; Reserve Officer Training Corps—Army; Reserve Officer Training Corps—Navy; Student Financial Services; Teaching + Learning Lab; Undergraduate Advising Center (UAC); Concourse; Experimental Study Group; Terrascope…”
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Compressive strength of brick made of cemented sand by Muhammad Mubarak Nordin

“…Primarily used in the African countries such as Nigeria and Ghana as load-bearing and non-load bearing blocks due to the affordability and availability of the constituent materials. …”
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Environmental audit in Singapore by Chua, Boon Hua

“…In addition, neither the public nor firms are willing to bear the costs of environmental audit.…”
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Impact of structural eurocodes on steel and composite structures by Jin, Y. F., Cai, Y. Q., Chiew, Sing Ping, Lee, Chi King

“…It is found that the flexural buckling resistance, web bearing and buckling resistance and lateral-torsional buckling resistance determined from Eurocodes 3 and 4 are much larger than those from BS5950. …”
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Multi-carrier M-ary DCSK system with code index modulation : an efficient solution for chaotic communications by Cai, Guofa, Fang, Yi, Wen, Jinming, Mumtaz, Shahid, Song, Yang, Frascolla, Valerio

“…In the proposed CIMMC-M-DCSK system, the reference and information-bearing signals for each subcarrier can be transmitted simultaneously by using the orthogonal sinusoidal carriers, where the information bearing signal adopts the M-DCSK modulation to further increase the data rate. …”
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Quad's India problem : no different from Beijing by Gupta, Sourabh

“…Australia, Japan and the US should first get New Delhi to revise its UNCLOS-related rules and regulations, which bear far greater similarity with Beijing’s than that of its Quad partners.…”
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Judging with common sense: George Eliot's Romola and the exemplary life by Hayes, PR

“…Here I propose an approach which takes its initial bearings from Kant’s aesthetic theory, and is filled out by George Eliot’s Romola (1862-3), an unusual but richly significant biographical novel which stages the act of judgment-forming.…”

Live Verification in an Interactive Proof Assistant by Gruetter, Samuel, Fukala, Viktor, Chlipala, Adam

“…Other tools providing real-time feedback already exist, but ours is the first one that only relies on a small trusted proof checker and that provides a concise summary of the symbolic state at the point in the program currently being edited, as opposed to only indicating whether user-stated assertions or postconditions hold. …”
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Pressure mat development for old folks home by Tong, Jackie

“…Resulting in most of the day care center shorthanded for nurses. In this project, the focus is to intergrade a pressure mat and tablet on the wheelchair specifically to assist the nurses in monitoring the wellbeing of the elderly in the day care center. …”
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