Are all renewable energy sources the same? a comparative analysis of public perceptions and preferences for renewable energy types in Southeast Asian cities by del Barrio Alvarez, Daniel, Wang, Nan, Sugiyama, Masahiro, Numata, Masako, Thuy, Truong Dang, Abd Aziz, Azlina, Palanca-Tan, Rosalina, Ze Ya, Aung, Yusuf, Ariel Anshory, Abd. Ghani, Awang Noor, Castillo, Gem, Siyaranamual, Martin Daniel

“…In contrast, bioenergy (or biomass) is generally the least preferred source of energy in all cities. There is considerable variation in perceptions of wind, hydro, and geothermal energy, with a high degree of variability between and within countries. …”
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Elemental characteristics of particulate matter (Pm10 and Pm2.5) from peat swamp area in kuala pahang by Eng, Hwai Ern, Teoh, Chee Shan, Firdaus, Ismail, Abdul Syukor, Abd Razak, Suryati, Sulaiman

“…The data is obtained from the Aeroqual AQM 65 machine starting for April 2019 till March 2020. The survey will last for 12 months to generate a reliable result. …”
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Using edge detection and polarimetric imaging for vaccine inspection by Sharan, Praveer, Tellbach, Denise, Sarma, Sanjay E.

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Predicting Risk and Optimizing Resilience of Digital and Physical Supply Chains by Hu, Kevin

“…Chapter 4 develops a novel methodology for optimizing shipping container scheduling for the last leg in the shipping container global supply chain, called the \textit{drayage trucking} delivery process. …”
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Design, fabrication and characterization of organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells by Ahmed Ali Said Ahmed

“…Finally, summary was provided, as well as the recommendations for current and future work were involved in last chapter.…”
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Hodge theory and its applications to molecular data analysis by Koh, Ronald Joon Wei

“…Not only have HOIPs been projected to be one of the most cost-effective options for future solar cells, its efficiency levels have risen from 5% to 25% in the last decade. Current machine learning-based perovskite designs rely heavily on the prediction of the bandgap of HOIPs. …”
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Simulation-based passenger evacuation optimization in metro stations considering multi-objectives by Guo, Kai, Zhang, Limao

“…An RF-based meta-model is used to construct the relationship between influential factors and objectives. At last, NSGA-III is applied to seeking the optimal solutions for the station renovation in order to achieve a safe evacuation. …”
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Development a novel paradigm for characterization of emerging contaminants in mixed-use anthropogenic impacted watersheds by Lee, Theodora Hui Yian

“…As current monitoring methods are extremely resource intensive, this research will evaluate the effect-based monitoring technique which was designed to have a more cost-efficient and systematic approach in utilizing state-of-the-art analytical techniques. The last key chapter of this thesis focused on the use of an environmental surrogate, fluorescence EEM. …”
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Three-dimensional scour at submarine pipelines by Wu, Yushi.

“…Although numerous studies have been conducted during the last few decades, knowledge on pipeline-scour is still quite limited, especially considering that most of the published research was performed with a 2-dimensional model while pipeline-scour is actually 3-dimensional in field conditions. …”
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Design and simulation of plasmonic metamaterials for sub-wavelength imaging in the visible range by Li, Dongdong

“…At 560 nm, the proposed dielectric nanorod chain lens demonstrated a resolution of 50 nm. The last section of the thesis discusses a unique planar magnifying lens made of two symmetrically arranged unidirectional surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) generators and a multilayered MD structure. …”
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Achieving reliability for wireless multicast transmission using network coding by Qureshi, Jalaluddin

“…We then show that by taking advantages of opportunistic listening due to the shared medium of wireless transmission, overlapping transmission range of the interfering transmitters and physical layer network coding scheme, the results of collision codes and BENEFIT coding algorithm, can be extended to interfering multicast networks to improve the aggregate retransmission throughput performance. In the last part of our thesis we design efficient erasure codes where the coding decision is made independently of the feedback information from the receivers, thus completely eliminating the overhead of feedback transmissions from the receivers. …”
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Intelligent microgrid management and EV control under uncertainties in smart grid by Wang, Ran

“…Several uncertain quantities such as the arrival and departure times of the EVs, their charging requirements and available renewable energy are taken into account. Finally in the last case, we develop a hybrid centralized-decentralized (HCD) EV charging scheme which offers flexible charging choices for customers. …”
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High-performance and low-complexity implementation of fixed-coefficient FIR filters by Lou, Xin

“…By using the proposed technique, the increment of delay caused by the structural adders can be either completely eliminated or minimized at the cost of very small area overhead. Last, a novel approach for the minimization of sign-extension overhead in MCM blocks is proposed. …”
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Global monitoring of volcanic SO2 degassing with unprecedented resolution from TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor by Barrington, Charlotte, Taisne, Benoit, Theys, N., Hedelt, P., De Smedt, I., Lerot, C., Yu, H., Vlietinck, J., Pedergnana, M., Arellano, S., Galle, B., Fernandez, D., Carlito, C. J. M., Delgado-Granados, H., Loyola, D., Van Roozendael, M.

“…Over the last four decades, space-based nadir observations of sulfur dioxide (SO2) proved to be a key data source for assessing the environmental impacts of volcanic emissions, for monitoring volcanic activity and early signs of eruptions, and ultimately mitigating related hazards on local populations and aviation. …”
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Dynamics of current-driven magnetic domain walls and skyrmions by Indra Purnama

“…Our results shows it is possible to optimize the speed of the DWs in PMA nanowires by locking the DWs in a configuration that is least hindered when driven by current. Lastly, our work on the skyrmion research provides a framework to solve the issue of skyrmion annihilations. …”
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Malaysian SMEs m-commerce adoption : TAM 3, UTAUT 2 and TOE approach by Salimon, Maruf Gbadebo, Kareem, Olanrewaju, Sany Sanuri, Mohd Mokhtar, Abdullateef, Aliyu Olayemi, Bamgbade, Jibril Adewale, Adeleke, Adekunle Qudus

“…The data collected were analyzed using partial least square-structural equation modeling. Findings: The findings of this study reveal that technological factors (computer self-efficacy [CSE], result demonstrability [RD] and computer anxiety [CA]) positively and significantly influence MCA. …”
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Non-linear Log-Sobolev Inequalities for the Potts Semigroup and Applications to Reconstruction Problems by Gu, Yuzhou, Polyanskiy, Yury

“…We show that to have a non-trivial reconstruction probability the branching number of the tree should be at least $$\begin{aligned} \frac{\log q}{\log q - \log (q-1)} = (1-o(1))q\log q. …”
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Liposomal nanotherapy for treatment of atherosclerosis : passive versus active targeting by Darwitan, Anastasia

“…Release was sustained up to 30 days in vitro and the formulation was stable for at least 3 months. In active strategy, active ligands were decorated on nanoliposomal surface for enhancement of cell internalization. …”
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An observational study of the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in treatment-experienced people living with HIV in Singapore by Ang, Li Wei, Ng, Oon Tek, Boudville, Irving Charles, Leo, Yee Sin, Wong, Chen Seong

“…Of all the 2,231 individuals, 68.8% had at least one component of MetS. The overall prevalence of MetS was 23.6% (95% confidence interval 21.9%–25.4%). …”
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Analysis of influence and its applications in social advertising by Zhu, Yuqing

“…Our method generates only the samples spreading influence beyond the source with at least one 2-hop live path. The samples generated by our 2-hop+ method can yield the random variable to estimate with tighter ranges and better concentration bounds can be applied to obtain an approximation of the random variable with a theoretically tighter threshold requiring less samples. …”
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