Intelligence failure in U.S. counterterrorism by King, Brian Allen

“…One case is a state-sponsored terrorist attack (Khobar Towers), another planned by al-Qaeda core leadership (USS Cole), and the last is an insider attack inspired by AQAP (Naval Air Station Pensacola Florida). …”
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Seismic performance of RC structural squat walls with limited transverse reinforcement by Xiang, Weizheng

“…In the last three decades, extensive research works has been conducted to assess the validity of the design provisions of EC8 and ACI 318 for cyclic shear in reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls with low aspect ratios. …”
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Hierarchical approach to study water cluster in first-principles calculations by Nguyen, Quoc Chinh

“…In addition, the effects of zero-point energy correction on the relative stabilities, thermodynamic properties and vibrational spectra of each system were discussed throughout the studies. Last but not least, we reported the details on the development of the potential models for protonated hydrogen fluoride and deprotonated water clusters in order to extend the current work to other molecular systems and also to improve the efficiency of the hierarchical approach for our future studies.…”
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Design of IIR filters by optimization techniques by Wang, Zhe.

“…Four simulation examples are presented showing that SMSOF generally does a good job even in the All-Pass Filters’ case, initialization scheme for SMSOF were also studied under different fed in conditions. Last but not least, a special IIR filter, namely Half-Band Filter (HBF) was designed through SOCP based All-Pass Filters’ Method, SCLS-SM, Direct SM and SMSOF Methods. …”
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Nanostructured transition metal oxide (TMO) for electrochemical devices by Khoo, Eugene

“…In this thesis, the shortening of diffusion distance has been achieved by reducing the oxide dimension while different types of diffusion pathways with shortened diffusion distances were generated through the altering of oxide lattice structure. The last parameter is the ion intercalation sites, which were tailored through controlling the oxide lattice structure. …”
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Boundary element methods for axisymmetric heat conduction and thermoelastic deformations in nonhomogeneous solids by Yun, Bao Ing

“…New axisymmetric interpolating functions, which are bounded in the axisymmetric coordinate plane but are expressed in terms of relatively simple elementary functions, are proposed for use in the dual-reciprocity method. In the last part of the thesis, an alternative boundary element approach, based on the theory of complex variables, is proposed for solving an axisymmetric problem involving steady heat conduction in a nonhomogeneous solid. …”
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The golden bull : is it coming? (current prospects of gold trading) by Lim, Wee Beng, Lim, Daniel Chih Ming, Leong, Kum Hoe

“…Thus most investors shun the yellow metal. Early last year (1993), a Swiss banker was heard saying that not a single Swiss portfolio manager had recommended gold as an investment for the New Year. …”
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Novel algorithms for inferring granger causality using biological data by Furqan, Mohammad Shaheryar

“…However, with the advancement of technology, the inference of biological networks from high-throughput data has received immense consideration throughout the last decade, and is a major area of research in systems biology. …”
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Energy management in ports and its impact on port sustainability and regional competitive advantage by Li, Jianni

“…The information collected is further used to study the port of Singapore. At last, a framework on four key aspects of energy management was recommended to promote better energy management and co-regional development in Singapore port, while maintaining its competitive advantage. …”
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Peroxytungstate anions in asymmetric ion pair catalyzed oxidations by Ye, Xinyi

“…The following two chapters presented two projects utilizing the designed strategy. Over the last few years, our group has developed a series of phase-transfer catalysts, which successfully solved problems in the enantioselective addition and substitution reaction under traditional base promoted conditions. …”
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A Review of 3D Printable Construction Materials and Applications by Tan, Ming Jen, Lu, Bing, Qian, Shun Zhi

“…The article also reviews various engineering applications of 3D printing recently emerged in building and construction sector. At last, the article hypothesizes the future developments of 3D printing for building and construction based on the reviews on plausible 3D printable materials and structural applications. …”
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Enhanced stress and changes to regional seismicity due to the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake on the neighbouring segments of the Main Himalayan Thrust by Chan, Chung-Han, Wang, Yu, Almeida, Rafael, Yadav, R.B.S.

“…The long elapsed time since the last megathrust event and the mainshock coseismic stress increase on the Main Himalayan Thrust suggest high seismic potential in the Lalitpur and Lamjung areas along the fault system. …”
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Flood risk analysis under consideration of river system dynamics and spatial temporal scales by Oliver, Julien

“…Due to rapid urbanization and climate change, the frequency of flood events has notably increased over the last decades, adversely impacting societal development and economic growth. …”
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Slip on the Superstition Hills fault and on nearby faults associated with the 24 November 1987 Elmore Ranch and Superstition Hills earthquakes, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, McGill, Sally F., Allen, Clarence R., Hudnut, Kenneth W., Johnson, David C., Miller, Wayne F.

“…No precursory slip had occurred on the Superstition Hills fault up to 27 October 1987, when the last measurement before the earthquakes was made. …”
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Hematologically important mutations : leukocyte adhesion deficiency (first update) by Holland, Steven M., Belohradsky, Bernd H., Kuijpers, Taco W., Van de Vijver, Edith, Maddalena, Anne, Sanal, Özden, Uzel, Gulbu, Madkaikar, Manisha, de Boer, Martin, Van Leeuwen, Karin, Köker, M. Yavuz, Parvaneh, Nima, Fischer, Alain, Law, S. K. Alex, Klein, Nigel, Tezcan, F. Ilhan, Unal, Ekrem, Patiroglu, Turkan, Schwartz, Klaus, Somech, Raz, Roos, Dirk

“…Finally, in LAD-III (also called LAD-I/variant) the conformational activation of the hematopoietically expressed β integrins is disturbed, leading to leukocyte and platelet dysfunction. This last syndrome is caused by mutations in FERMT3, encoding the kindlin-3 protein in all blood cells that is involved in the regulation of β integrin conformation.…”
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Retention in second year computing students in a London-based university during the post-Covid-19 era using learned optimism as a lens: a statistical analysis in R by Chrysikos, Alexandros, Bamford, Neal

“…The main aim is to support the university’s efforts to improve retention rate as the overall dropout has been increasing in the last few years. The research methodology employed was an exploratory investigation approach by using statistical modelling analysis in R to predict behavioural patterns. …”
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Towards in-network machine learning on programmable network devices by Zheng, C

“…By jointly utilising unused resources among programmable network devices distributed across the network, this solution further scales in-network ML models and computing functions. The last part of the thesis demonstrates the application of in-network ML in anomaly detection, IoT traffic classification, financial market prediction, and load balancing use cases, showing its potential as a practical service.…”

India’s ‘gas renaissance’ - rhetoric versus reality by Sen, A

“…</p> <p>In fact, despite relatively high economic growth in the last decade, it is difficult to make a confident and accurate assessment of India’s potential as a major gas market. …”

Mechanistic and inhibition studies on gamma-butyrobetaine hydroxylase by Rydzik, AM

“…BBOX has been shown to catalyse a hydroxylation of the symmetrical dialkyl piperidine carboxylic acids, leading to formation of up to three stereocentres in one reaction.</p> <p>In the last part of this work properties of human BBOX were compared to BBOX from <em>Pseudomonas</em> sp. …”

Immune checkpoint blockade sensitivity and progression-free survival associates with baseline CD8+ T cell clone size and cytotoxicity by Watson, RA, Tong, O, Cooper, R, Taylor, CA, Sharma, PK, de Los Aires, AV, Mahé, EA, Ruffieux, H, Nassiri, I, Middleton, MR, Fairfax, BP

“…Cytotoxic CD8⁺&nbsp;effector clones were more likely to persist following ICB and were more likely to correspond with public tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte clonotypes. Last, we demonstrated that individuals whose CD8⁺&nbsp;T cell pretreatment showed low cytotoxicity and had fewer expanded clones typically had worse outcomes after ICB treatment. …”