Nondestructive evaluation interfaces defects IC packaging by Guo, Ningqun., Ling, Shih Fu., Wong, Brian Stephen.

“…However, weak interface due to weak adhesion has often gone undetected and may become potential defective area at a later stage. It is desirable to develop a more quantitative method to characterize the weak interface nondestructively, and this has been the motivation and focus of the study.…”
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A Marxist reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein: making the case for social and political change by Deegan, MJ

“…This article offers a Marxist reading of Wittgenstein and juxtaposes his famous dictum that philosophy ‘leaves everything as it is’ with the idea of transformative action. I seek to align the later philosophy of Wittgenstein with Marx’s 11th thesis on Feuerbach. …”

The perils of reconstruction: the case of Proto-Yao by Benedict, Paul K.

“…From time to time the writer has informally expressed the view that it often proves easier to reconstruct at an earlier level, say Proto-Sino-Tibetan. than at a later level. say Proto-Sinitic (Chinese/ Bai). This has been described as an 'illusion' (Matisoff 1990: 1 17), but cases continue to surface that support the notion. …”
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Lightwave propagation in microstructured optical fibers by Yan, Min

“…Many properties of such fiber, such as dispersion, birefringence, nonlinearity and bending loss etc, can be tailored beyond what we can obtain in a conventional step-index fiber. Later experiments further achieved air-guiding with a periodic air-silica cladding. …”
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Making Singapore a major dispute resolution/arbitration centre in the maritime industry by Ong, Alvin Ruiyang.

“…Maritime arbitration in Singapore was established much later compared to European countries. With London receiving more than 90% of the maritime arbitration cases, much is needed to be done in order for Singapore to compete with London as an internationally recognized maritime arbitration centre. …”
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Relationship between emotional intelligence and past involvement in co-curricular activity by Tamrin, Adzim Khairunnashier

“…The results suggest that, during secondary school years, participants who were in student associations is correlated to a significantly higher level of EI in later years than participants who took up sports as their CCA. …”
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Optimization for real time strategy games by Ng, Heng Khai.

“…The generated build list gives the player has a solid foundation at the start of the game, in which he or she can then focus their energies into managing and developing, and adapting their more strategies for the later part of the game.…”
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Segmentation of liver tumor from CT images by La, Cam Chung

“…This final year project aims to study characteristics of cancerous and healthy tissues in liver, which are later used by two algorithms, Support Vector Machine and Graph-cut, to do the liver tumor segmentation. …”
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A low power portable bioelectronics holter monitor for arrhythmias detection by Koh, Boon Kiong

“…To increase the robustness of the system, further improvements and recommendations is provided at the later part of the report.…”
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Design of optoacoustic imaging system for care medical diagnostics by Wang, Haiyun

“…Firstly, involved the design of a palm size laser diode driver circuit board which later on could be used in the photoacoustic imaging system for driving a low power laser diode. …”
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Quantum information entropy by Pi, Shuheng

“…Information entropy, the expected amount of information produced by a random data source, has been a topic of interest since Shannon introduced the concept in 1948. The concept was later generalised to Rényi and Tsalli entropies for different research applications in the classical information theory. …”
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Orientations of the divine in medieval urbanism [Lecture] by Frost, Christian W.

“…Many contemporary descriptions of twelfth and thirteenth-century medieval urban landscapes focus on characteristics of geometry, alignment and perspective (including the impression of crosses) that are derived more from later ideas of reason and perspectivity than from the cultural conditions of the Middle Ages. …”

Book review : Jerry John Rawlings: leadership and legacy: a pan-African perspective by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…He began his political career in the late 1970s as a fiery revolutionary and ended it more than three decades later as a popularly elected president, winning two terms in office via a liberal democratic political system. …”
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Historicising Keats’ opium imagery through Neoclassical medical and literary discourses by Cox, O

“…The essay contends that John Keats, along with many of his post-1780s contemporaries, drew on the neoclassical tradition in their use of opium imagery, rejecting the Brunonian theory of stimulation later embraced by Thomas De Quincey.…”

Informality, the Fourth Standard of Practice by Rowe, Mary

“…Informality was recognized as a fourth principle, or pillar of practice, somewhat later. This happened relatively slowly, over at least fifteen years, after the first three pillars were widely adopted. …”
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Another Myth of Persistence? by Byrne, Alex

“…The onset of gender dysphoria may be in early childhood or “around puberty or even much later in life” (American Psychiatric and Association, 2022, p. 517). …”
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Real-time 3D model-based motion tracking by Li, Zheng.

“…The early stage is to match and measure the error between the model and corresponding image features; The later stage is to estimate the model pose according to previous measurement. …”
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Mining temporal features of exploratory search for supporting collaborative information seeking by Toh, Yee Teng.

“…If collaboration is implemented in the search engine, user who uses it later can benefit from the work of earlier collaborators which will result in efficient and effective search. …”
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Relationship between emotional intelligence and past involvement in co-curricular activity by Adzim Khairunnashier Tamrin

“…The results suggest that, during secondary school years, participants in student associations have a significantly higher level of EI in later years than participants who took up sports as their CCA. …”
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Age and productivity : a sector perspective by Gan, Geraldine Xinya, Shia, Lisong, Yang, Fan

“…We also find that high income countries and ageing countries tend to have a later peak in productivity compared to low and low middle income and non-ageing countries respectively. …”
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