On semidefinite programming relaxations of the traveling salesman problem by De Klerk, Etienne., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V., Sotirov, Renata.

“…Unlike the bound of Cvetković et al., the new SDP bound is not dominated by the Held–Karp linear programming bound, or vice versa.…”
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Mobile content contribution and retrieval : an exploratory study using the uses and gratifications paradigm by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Lee, Chei Sian

“…Interestingly, gratification factors for mobile content contribution were also found to have significant effects on mobile content retrieval intention and vice versa. Specifically, the access gratification factor had a significant positive effect on content retrieval intention while the self-gratification factor for content contribution had a significant negative effect on content retrieval intention.…”
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Intertainer Asia (A) : programming and distributing Hollywood movies on-line in the Asia-Pacific countries by Rieck, Olaf, Tan, Shirley

“…In late 2002, Andrew Yap, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice Chairman of Intertainer Asia pondered over the future of his company. …”
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Error measurements for a quantum annealer using the one-dimensional Ising model with twisted boundaries by Chancellor, Nicholas, Crowley, Philip J. D., Durić, Tanja, Vinci, Walter, Amin, Mohammad H., Green, Andrew G., Warburton, Paul A., Aeppli, Gabriel

“…A finite length ferromagnetic chain with opposite spin polarization imposed at its two ends is one of the simplest frustrated spin models. …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…This thesis is concerned with three combinatorial optimization problems for job scheduling, named the MinUsageTime Dynamic Bin Packing problem, the Energy-Efficient Job Scheduling problem and the Flexible Job Scheduling problem. …”
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Investigation on frosting and defrosting performance of superhydrophobic metal additively manufactured materials by Yew, Yun Chian

“…However, between etching time of 10 min and 15 min, there is no significant difference in the frost retardation rate of AM metal. …”
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Associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep with next-day cognitive performance in older adults: a micro-longitudinal study by Bloomberg, M, Brocklebank, L, Doherty, A, Hamer, M, Steptoe, A

“…Each 30-min increase in SB was associated with working memory scores 0.05 SD (0.00 to 0.09) lower (p = 0.03); adjustment for sleep characteristics on the previous night did not substantively change these results. …”

Effect of heat-producing needling technique on the local skin temperature : clinical dataset by Liao, Zehuan, Zhao, Yan

“…Within each session, the local ST36 skin temperature and basal body temperature of each participant were measured at 1 min before needle insertion, just after needle insertion and manipulation (if any), 5 min after needle insertion with needle removal immediately after temperature taking, and 5 min after needle removal. …”
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Arsenene nanoribbon edge-resolved strong magnetism by Wang, Sanmei, Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Sun, Chang Qing

“…Consistency between bond-order-length-strength correlation (BOLS) theory and density functional theory (DFT) calculations verified that: (i) the edge bond contraction of 9.54% deepened the edge potential well of AsNR, (ii) a net charge of 0.06 e- transferred from the inner region to the edge; and (iii) the edge quantum well polarized the unpaired electron and the net spin (antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic depending on the width) is localized at the zigzag edge. …”
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Advanced photovoltaic concepts for perovskite solar cells by Fong, Melvin Shao Feng

“…In this paper, PCBM, PEDOT:PSS, as well as MAPbI3 are used as materials for the fabrication processes In this thesis, various methods would be discussed and spin coating process will be focused on. The paper continues with the analysis of the connection between the number of spins for the hole transport layer (HTL) and electron transport layer (ETL) deposition process, as well as the impact on the efficiency of the PV device.…”
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Neutron emission studies from miniature and medium size plasma focus device by Singh, Rajdeep Raweet.

“…Although dense plasma focus devices have attracted the attention of scientific community since 1960’s as a copious source of fusion neutrons but in the recent years owing to spin-off in the applications of compact and portable table top neutron sources in wider domain, like noninvasive interrogation of explosives and narcotic drugs (by using Pulsed Fast/Thermal Neutron Analysis (PFTNA) technique), dark matter research, radioisotope production, medical neutron therapy and soil humidity measurements, there has been renewed interest across the globe for the development of sub-kilojoule range, low energy small plasma focus device (hereafter called ‘Miniature Plasma Focus i.e. …”
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Learning stock market dynamics using the kinetic ising model by Nguyen, Ai Linh

“…In this approach, the states in the time series data are represented by configurations of N spins, and the time evolution of these states in the time series data by an update rule that depends on the spin configuration {σ_i (t)}_(i=1,…,N), and the connection weights {W_ij }_(i,j=1,…N) between the spins. …”
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Non-Volatile In-Memory Computing by Spintronics by Yu, Hao, Ni, Leibin, Wang, Yuhao

“…Since the main bottleneck is from memory, we aim to develop an energy-efficient in-memory computing platform in this book. First, the models of spin-transfer torque magnetic tunnel junction and racetrack memory are presented. …”
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Detection of magnetic field effects by confocal microscopy by Déjean, V, Konowalczyk, M, Gravell, J, Golesworthy, MJ, Gunn, C, Pompe, N, vander Elst, OF, Oxborrow, M, Aarts, DGAL, Mackenzie, S, Timmel, C

“…Certain pairs of paramagnetic species generated under conservation of total spin angular momentum are known to undergo magnetosensitive processes. …”

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on behaviors in physical activity, sleep quality and usage of sport facilities in university students by Lim, Qing Feng

“…Sedentary (sitting) behaviour was seen to increase by an average of 90.5 min/day (p < .001). There were also a decreased in the booking frequency in sports facilities (2.1 to 1.6, p < .001) and time spent in a sports facility (127 to 51.6 min/week, p < .001). …”
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Liquid state machine with dendritically enhanced readout for low-power, neuromorphic VLSI implementations by Roy, Subhrajit, Banerjee, Amitava, Basu, Arindam

“…We show that compared to a single perceptron using analog weights, this architecture for the readout can attain, even by using the same number of binary valued synapses, up to 3.3 times less error for a two-class spike train classification problem and 2.4 times less error for an input rate approximation task. …”
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Characterising the T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 including variants of concern induced by natural infection and vaccines by Adele, S

“…Chapter 4 expands on T cell responses to VOCs, showing that vaccinated individuals maintain significant T cell reactivity across VOCs despite spike protein mutations that diminish antibody neutralization efficacy. …”

Ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials probed by time-and-momentum-resolved techniques by Su, Yifan

“…In this part of the thesis, I will introduce a new pathway for launching coherent acoustic phonons: magnetostriction, and discuss the spin-mediated shear oscillator enabled by this mechanism in van der Waals antiferromagnet. …”
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Exploring Optoelectronic Properties of Twisted and Intercalated Niobium Oxide Dihalides by Luo, Ashley

“…As a result of modifications in physical and chemical design involving 2D materials such as stacking, twisting and ion intercalation, properties such as electrical conductivity, spin diffusion length, thermal conductivity, and mechanical strength observe more degrees of freedom than in their bulk material counterpart. …”
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Analysis of Λ b 0 → pK−μ+μ− decays by Aaij, R., Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W., Abellan Beteta, C., Abudinén, F., Ackernley, T., Adefisoye, A. A., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adlarson, P., Agapopoulou, C., Aidala, C. A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Akiba, K., Albicocco, P., Albrecht, J., The LHCb collaboration

“…The data are consistent with receiving contributions from a mixture of Λ resonances with different spin-parity quantum numbers. The angular coefficients show a pattern of vector-axial vector interference that is a characteristic of the type of flavour-changing neutral-current transition relevant for these decays.…”
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