Optimization and scheduling for a large-scale urban transportation system involving human factors by Zhang, Yi

“…Especially for Singapore, a densely-populated small city-country with a 648 km^2 main island and a total population of 5.6 million. Clearly, developing an efficient public transport system is definitely indispensable in order to solve serious traffic issues with a limited land supply and exploding transport demands. …”
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Securing untrusted memories in embedded systems by Vig, Saru

“…The tree is initialized using Van-Emde Boas (vEB) organization to take advantage of locality of reference. …”
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ESBL and AmpC β-lactamase encoding genes in E. coli from pig and pig farm workers in Vietnam and their association with mobile genetic elements by Hounmanou, Yaovi Mahuton Gildas, Bortolaia, Valeria, Dang, Son Thi Thanh, Truong, Duong, Olsen, John E., Dalsgaard, Anders

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Correlation between GNSS-TEC and eruption magnitude supports the use of ionospheric sensing to complement volcanic hazard assessment by Manta, Fabio, Occhipinti, Giovanni, Hill, Emma M., Perttu, Anna, Assink, Jelle, Taisne, Benoit

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Experimental & simulation study of 16kWp photovoltaic (PV) system performance & the investigation of PV heat island effect by Devihosur, Shiddalingeshwar Channabasappa

“…The disparity in performance ratio (PR) was seen to be largely within an acceptable range of 2.77-5.22% with the exception of the Jan 2022 where the difference was 10.38%. …”
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Thermal energy storage enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Low, Zheng Hua

“…With respect to horizontal fins, positively inclined fins of +15º and +30º delayed the full melt time by 3.8% and 4.0%, respectively, while negatively inclined fins at -15º and -30º improved the melt fraction difference by up to 5.2%. Three fin lengths corresponding to dimensionless lengths of 0.375, 0.625 and 0.875 were numerically studied together with varying angles. …”
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Geometric hashing for camera based localization by Tan, Wei Chian

“…Next step could be looking into improvement of feature detection or more advanced speeding up techniques such as Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) [5] and Randomized Tree [6] or Forest [7] for better performance.…”
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Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…By using an asymmetrical contact structure, the hybrid devices present significant rectification in I-V curves, and show predominant photoresponse to light illumination. …”
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Sampling-based approaches for image and video matting by Ehsan Shahrian Varnousfaderani

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Human factors in agile software development by Lin, Jun

“…To address these three questions, we have conducted a series of experiments, simulations and data analysis, and contributed a series of solutions and insights in this research, including 1) a Goal Net based method to enhance goal and requirement management for ASD process, 2) a novel Simple Multi-Agent Real-Time (SMART) approach to enhance intelligent task allocation for ASD process, 3) a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) based method to enhance emotion and morale management for ASD process, 4) a large-scale in-depth empirical analysis of human factors in the agile development process through the continuous observation of student ASD teams, and 5) the identification of an ASD process as a human-computation system that uses humans to perform tasks that computers are not good at and computers to assist human decision making.…”
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Ion doping behavior of stöber silica-nanosynthesis and application by Song, Xiaohui

“…It is a simple, general method to synthesize Janus nanoparticles by ion doping control during the metal nanoparticle coating process. In Chapter 5, another type of core-shell structure, metal nanoparticle coated by poly(styrene)-block-poly(acrylic acid) (PSPAA) shell was studied. …”
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Quantitative analysis of coronary artery from computed tomography angiography images by Cui, Hengfei

“…When correlating with myocardial perfusion assessment or coronary blood flow, lumen area evaluation is expected to be preferable to diameter quantification [5, 6, 7, 8]. It is intuitive that diameter assessment is difficult when considering irregular arterial lumen shapes at lesion sites [9]. …”
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Developing metallic cathode for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell applications by Yu, Chen-Chiang

“…When GDC capping was applied, the ohmic resistance reduced from 1186.0 to 1052.0 Ωcm2 while the polarization resistance increased from 767.3 to 2541.4 Ωcm2 at 400 ˚C for the bi-layered Ag cathode; for the porous Ag cathode, the ohmic resistance reduced from 1190.0 to 963.5 Ωcm2 while the polarization resistance increased from 325.8 to 421.2 Ωcm2. …”
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EEG-based attention recognition using machine learning by Sun, Haoqi

“…Using CSDF, 83 out of 868 features are selected to distinguish the unattended and attended conditions. The accuracy 94.3% (±5.6%) is the best compared to other feature selection and channel selection algorithms. …”
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Optimized GPU algorithms for sparse data problems by Pham, Nguyen Quang Anh

“…Our SpGEMM algorithm efficiently enumerates all the work done during a computation to achieve perfect load balancing, and also uses a randomized algorithm to nearly optimally partition the matrix into pieces small enough to be operated on using the fast but limited amount of shared memory. It is up to 2.5× faster than the state of the art GPU SpGEMM algorithm on the most difficult, unstructured matrices. …”
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Studies of insulin transport across intestinal epithelium using nano-encapsulation for oral delivery by Zhang, Yiming

“…With only 1 layer of insulin loaded on the surface of liposomes, the transport of insulin across Caco-2 cells was enhanced by 2.6 fold from 5.7ng/ml to 15ng/ml. An enhancement factor of more than 8x was observed with just 2 layers of insulin coating. …”
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Derivation of extreme non-gaussian stochastic offshore structural responses using finite memory nonlinear system by Mukhlas, Nurul ’Azizah

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Association of current Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum, and Schistosoma mekongi infection status and intensity with periportal fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-ana... by Ewuzie, A, Wilburn, L, Thakrar, DB, Cheng, H, Reitzug, F, Roberts, N, Malouf, R, Chami, GF

“…In sub-Saharan Africa, before the widespread introduction of mass drug administration in 2003 there was a significant association between current infection status and periportal fibrosis (OR 5·38, 95% CI 2·03–14·25) but this association was no longer present after 2003 (1·19, 0·82–1·74). …”

The costs of rearing a buffalo calf from birth until weaning age at buffalo breeding and research centre, Telupid, Sabah by Ishak, Muhammad Hasifsafwan

“…The calf remained with their dam in the paddock until weaning and were given 0.5kg pellet per calf 3 weeks before weaning age. …”
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A model-independent measurement of the CKM angle γ in partially reconstructed B± → D*h± decays with D → 𝐾0𝑆 h+h− (h = π, K) by Aaij, R., Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W., Abellan Beteta, C., Abudinén, F., Ackernley, T., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adlarson, P., Agapopoulou, C., Aidala, C. A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Akiba, K., Albicocco, P., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F.

“…The measurement uses a data sample collected in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of approximately 9 fb<jats:sup><jats:italic>−</jats:italic>1</jats:sup>. …”
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