Robust parameter estimation for one-inflated positive Poisson Lindley distribution under the presence and absence of outliers with applications to crime data by Mohd Tajuddin, Razik Ridzuan, Mohd Safari, Muhammad Aslam, Ismail, Noriszura

“…Hence, several estimators: maximum likelihood, method of moments, ordinary least squares, weighted least squares, Cramér-Von Mises, modified Cramér-Von Mises (MCVM) and maximum product of spacing (MPS); for the parameters of the model are also proposed and investigated in terms of unbiasedness, consistency and joint efficiency under the presence and absence of outliers. …”
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Motor insurance : an analysis with comparison by Cheong, Siew Hong, Sim, Poh Joo, Tan, Chin Kwang

“…The rapid expansion of car ownership in Singapore in the last two decades, despite efforts by the government to curb car usage has led to a significant increase in the number of people killed or injured in automobile accidents.…”
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Samuel Johnson: Pembroke's angry young man by Mugglestone, L

“…This article re-examines the history of Samuel Johnson's links to Pembroke College in Oxford from his undergraduate years to his last visit shortly before his death.…”

Estimating consumptive water use of rice in lowland paddy fields of Tanjung Karang, Malaysia by Abdullahi, Abubakar Sadiq

“…For the main season (August to February 2011) the mean evapotranspiration obtained were 5.1 mm/day, 6.0 mm/day and 5.1 mm/day for the initial, mid and last stages of the growing season, respectively. …”
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Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music : 14th International Symposium, CMMR 2019, Marseille, France, October 14-18, 2019, Revised Selected Papers / by CMMR (Symposium) (14th : 2019 : Marseille, France), organiser 643215, Kronland-Martinet, Richard, editor 643219, Ystad, Sølvi, editor 643220, Aramaki, Mitsuko, editor 643221

“…The fifth section concerns auditory perception and cognition, while the three following sections are related to sound design and sonic and musical interactions. The last section contains contributions that relate to Jean-Claude Risset's research.…”

Driving Miss Norma : AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS AT THE END OF LIFE / by Bauerschmidt, Tim, author 655967, Liddle,Ramie, author 655968

“…But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma - newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage - rose to her full height of five feet and told the doctor, "I'm ninety years old. …”

Another decade of photoacoustic imaging by Das, Dhiman, Sharma, Arunima, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Pramanik, Manojit

“…Although the photoacoustic phenomenon was known more than a century back, only in the last two decades it has been widely researched and used for biomedical imaging applications. …”
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An algorithm for a dynamically reconstituting portfolio of U.S. equity mutual funds to outperform the S&P 500 by Anthony, Fernandes Victor

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Experimental archaeology and the study of early medieval farming by Hamerow, H, Kropp, C, Bogaard, A

“…A group of archaeologists and archaeological scientists, in a collaboration with the Lauresham Open Air Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology in Lorsch, Germany, are conducting a series of farming experiments to establish what was, and was not, possible using replicas of tools and technologies used in the past. While it is not possible exactly to replicate past conditions, such experiments allow us to test the feasibility of certain interpretations through cultivation trials in which variables such as manuring, tillage methods, soil types, labour inputs, etc. are carefully measured and controlled to establish impact on soil fertility, yields, etc.…”

Quantifying and analysing the non-collective bargaining benefits of NTUC by Neo, Aaron Chun Boon

“…This not only solves the free ridership problem of macro-focused unions, but it will also allow union members to receive a wage boost. To quantify the benefits, the research focus on a few key areas that we are looking into, namely, the amount of savings that members can reap, regularity of frequenting the merchant and lastly, the importance of the benefits that are provided. …”
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Complexities of the San Andreas fault near San Gorgonio Pass : implications for large earthquakes by Yule, Doug, Sieh, Kerry

“…The pattern of crustal seismicity beneath these structures includes a 5–8 km high east-west striking step in the base of crustal seismicity, which corresponds to the downdip limit of rupture of the 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake. …”
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School Management System (SPS): factors affecting school effectiveness by Wan Mahmud, Wan Marfazila, Ab.Jalil, Habibah

“…This research was done for four districts which had been chosen at random, according to the states and zones in Peninsular Malaysia including Central Zone (Petaling Perdana district, Selangor), North Zone (North East district, Penang), East Zone (Kota Bahru district, Kelantan) and South district (Johor Bahru district, Johor). …”
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Tidal corrections from and for SWOT using a spatially coherent variational Bayesian harmonic analysis by Monahan, T, Tang, T, Roberts, S, Adcock, T

“…The approach demonstrates superior robustness to different types of noise contamination in comparison to conventional least-squares approaches while providing full uncertainty estimation. …”

Report on industrial attachmeny with Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd 2002 by Kwan, Hon Fai.

“…The purpose of the report is to find out and improve upon the design and manufacturing process weaknesses by applying accelerated stresses in the least amount of time and corrects the source of the weaknesses before the production of the product begins.…”
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Enhancing Roll Form Bending Processes through Experimentation and Informed Predictive Analysis: A Strategic Approach to Optimize Tooling by Kompella, Sarvagnya

“…These insights can be integrated within Novelis’ production line to boost production efficiency and roll performance. …”
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Received signal strength based indoor positioning using a random vector functional link network by Cui, Wei, Zhang, Le, Li, Bing, Guo, Jing, Meng, Wei, Wang, Haixia, Xie, Lihua

“…In the proposed system, a subset of informative features from many randomized noisy features is selected to both reduce the computational complexity and boost the generalization ability. Moreover, the feature selector and predictor are jointly learned iteratively in a single framework based on an augmented Lagrangian method. …”
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Mixed-addenda polyoxometalates for enhanced electrochemical water oxidation by Ong, Boon Chong, Lim, Teik-Thye, Dong, Zhili

“…In this study, mixed-addenda polyoxometalates (POMs) were synthesized by self-assembly process accompanied by the introduction of dopants to boost the electrochemical water oxidation performance. …”
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Highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction activity of N-doped carbon–cobalt boride heterointerfaces by Jose, Vishal, Nsanzimana, Jean Marie Vianney, Hu, Huimin, Choi, Jinho, Wang, Xin, Lee, Jong-Mi

“…Compositional and structural engineering of metal-metalloid materials can boost their electrocatalytic performance. Herein, a highly efficient and stable electrocatalytic system for the oxygen reduction reaction is obtained by creating heterointerfaces between N-doped carbon and cobalt boride nanosheets. …”
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Achieving economic and environmental sustainability with supply chain contracts by Dong, Chuanwen, Li, Dong

“…We find that even a conventional price-only contract with an option to shift freight mode can already boost the use of the green transport mode and considerably improve supply chain efficiency. …”
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Website performance study by Qian, Lei

“…Taking into consideration customers’ high expectation of web application performance and potential negative consequences brought by poor performance, this report offers a comprehensive range of solutions to enhance web performance so as to perfect end-user experiences and further boost business bottom lines where applicable. The experiment was carried out on the self-built blog web application. …”
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