Environmental, social, and governance and hierarchical network data envelopment analysis firm efficiencies of Japan Airlines' supply chain by Kweh, Qian Long, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong, Asif, Jawad, Lu, Wen-Min

“…Second, we run ordinary least squares regression analyses with 5000 bootstrap replications and determine that overall ESG and its three main elements are positively linked with firm efficiencies. …”
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Experimental study on heat transfer characteristics of a ⊥-shaped oscillating heat pipe used in the battery thermal management system by Hongkun, Lu, Noor, M. M., Ning, Shuigen, K., Kadirgama, Badruddin, Irfan Anjum, Kamangar, S.

“…When employing mixed working fluids, the acetone-ethanol and acetone-methanol combinations display the least and most temperature fluctuations, respectively. …”
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Integrated annotation prioritizes metabolites with bioactivity in inflammatory bowel disease by Bhosle, Amrisha, Bae, Sena, Zhang, Yancong, Chun, Eunyoung, Avila-Pacheco, Julian, Geistlinger, Ludwig, Pishchany, Gleb, Glickman, Jonathan N, Michaud, Monia, Waldron, Levi, Clish, Clary B, Xavier, Ramnik J, Vlamakis, Hera, Franzosa, Eric A, Garrett, Wendy S, Huttenhower, Curtis

“…This suggested >1000 metabolic features as potentially bioactive in IBD and associated ~43% of prevalent, unannotated features with at least one well-characterized metabolite, thereby providing initial information for further characterization of a significant portion of the fecal metabolome. …”
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Predicting the influence of geometric imperfections on the mechanical response of 2D and 3D periodic trusses by Glaesener, R.N., Kumar, S., Lestringant, C., Butruille, T., Portela, C.M., Kochmann, D.M.

“…Information about the nature and expected magnitude of geometric defects that emerge from the additive manufacturing processes would allow for new designs that aim to mitigate (or at least account for) the effects of defects and to reduce the uncertainty in the effective properties. …”
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Measurement of the top quark mass using a profile likelihood approach with the lepton + jets final states in proton–proton collisions at... by Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Del Valle, A. E., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Paulitsch, P., Pitters, F. M., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Sonawane, M.

“…The measurement uses a sample of top quark pair candidate events containing one isolated electron or muon and at least four jets in the final state. For each event, the mass is reconstructed from a kinematic fit of the decay products to a top quark pair hypothesis. …”
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping by Das, Madhurima, Yang, Maria C

“…The study also finds a link between frequency of sketching and having higher maximum sketch quality scores (i.e. at least one excellent sketch) as well as a correlation between individuals’ maximum sketch quality scores and their overall design outcomes. …”
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No Free Lunch: Analyzing the Cost of Deep Decarbonizing Residential Heating Systems by Sitaraman, Anupama, Bashir, Noman, Irwin, David, Shenoy, Prashant

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Near Optimal Alphabet-Soundness Tradeoff PCPs by Minzer, Dor, Zheng, Kai Zhe

“…We show that for all > 0, for su ciently large prime power ∈ N, for all > 0, it is NP-hard to distinguish whether a 2-Prover1-Round projection game with alphabet size has value at least 1 − , or value at most 1/ 1− . This establishes a nearly optimal alphabet-to-soundness tradeo for 2-query PCPs with alphabet size , improving upon a result of [Chan 2016]. …”
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Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bbW+W− decay mode in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Sonawane, M.

“…The final states considered include at least one leptonically decaying W boson. No evidence for the presence of a signal is observed and corresponding upper limits on the HH production cross section are derived. …”
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Complexity of High-Dimensional Identity Testing with Coordinate Conditional Sampling by Blanca, Antonio, Chen, Zongchen, Stefankovic, Daniel, Vigoda, Eric

“…Given as input an explicit distribution , an > 0, and access to sampling oracle(s) for a hidden distribution , the goal in identity testing is to distinguish whether the two distributions and are identical or are at least -far apart. When there is only access to full samples from the hidden distribution , it is known that exponentially many samples (in the dimension) may be needed for identity testing, and hence previous works have studied identity testing with additional access to various “conditional” sampling oracles. …”
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An empirical design theory for compact drip irrigation emitters by Ghodgaonkar, Aditya, Welsh, Emily, Judge, Benjamin, Winter V, Amos G.

“…The theory enabled a reduction in emitter material consumption by 67% compared to at least one commercial emitter, potentially cutting the initial capital cost of drip irrigation by up to 10%, making this already sustainable irrigation technology more globally accessible.…”
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SP.784 Wheelchair Design in Developing Countries, Spring 2007 by Winter, Amos G., Amy, Smith

“…Funded summer fellowships to implement class projects into African wheelchair workshops will be offered to at least six students. This class is made possible by an MIT Alumni Sponsored Funding Opportunities grant with additional support from the MIT Public Service Center and the Edgerton Center.…”
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Improved margin multi-class classification using dendritic neurons with morphological learning by Hussain, Shaista, Liu, Shih-Chii, Basu, Arindam

“…We also present preliminary results for multi-class classification on handwritten digits from the MNIST database and show that our system can attain comparable performance (≈ 3% more error) with other reported spike based classifiers while using at least 50% less synaptic resources.…”
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A 9.87 nW 1 kS/s 8.7 ENOB SAR ADC for implantable epileptic seizure detection microsystems by Do, Anh Tuan, Lam, Chun Kit, Tan, Yung Sern, Yeo, Kiat Seng, Cheong, Jia Hao, Yao, Lei, Tan, Meng Tong, Je, Minkyu

“…A smaller-than-unit capacitor is used at the end of the least significant bit array to mitigate the negative impact of the parasitic components on the linearity of the capacitors array. …”
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A word-embedding-based steganalysis method for linguistic steganography via synonym substitution by Xiang, Lingyun, Yu, Jingmin, Yang, Chunfang, Zeng, Daojian, Shen, Xiaobo

“…The experimental results show that the proposed steganalysis improves the average F-value at least 4.8% over two baselines. In addition, the detection performance can be further improved by learning better word embeddings.…”
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Attempting developmental regionalism through AFTA : the domestic politics - domestic capital nexus by Helen E. S. Nesadurai

“…Althought AFTA is acknowledged as a project of open regionalism aimed at attracting FDI to Southeast Asian region, its member surprisingly chose to accord foreign investors full market access and national treatment privileges at least ten years later than to ASEAN national investors in AFTA's investment liberalisation component programme. …”
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Polar curved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soot formation by Menon, Angiras, Martin, Jacob W., Bowal, Kimberly, Slavchov, Radomir I., Akroyd, Jethro, Mosbach, Sebastian, Kraft, Markus

“…The earliest (smallest size) onset of curvature integration was found to be a six ring PAH with at least one pentagonal ring. The σ bonding in the presence of pentagons led to curvature, however, the π bonding strongly favored a planar geometry delaying the onset of curvature and therefore the induction of a flexoelectric dipole moment. …”
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Online estimation of power capacity with noise effect attenuation for lithium-ion battery by Wei, Zhongbao, Zhao, Jiyun, Xiong, Rui, Dong, Guangzhong, Pou, Josep, Tseng, King Jet

“…An online model identification method based on adaptive forgetting recursive total least squares (AF-RTLS) is proposed to compensate the noise effect and attenuate the identification bias of model parameters. …”
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Linear A libation tables : a semitic connection explored by Eu Min, Niki Cassandra, Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, Cavallaro, Francesco Paolo

“…The results show that there is very little in common between Linear A and the Semitic languages examined, at least in the context of Linear A libation tables.…”
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Design and development of an online platform for peer tutorial scheme by Heng, Nadine Nyi Zheng

“…Nevertheless, the need for Social Distancing remains due to precautionary reasons thus online classes and here to stay, at least for the near future. That being said, online classes bring about many benefits such as increased convenience and flexibility for both students and tutors alike. …”
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