A two-stage automatic color thresholding technique by Pootheri, Shamna, Ellam, Daniel, Grübl, Thomas, Liu, Yang

“…Accurately performing background suppression in PCA boards facilitates the inspection of digital images with small objects of interest, such as text or microcontrollers on a PCA board. The segmentation of skin cancer lesions will help doctors to automate skin cancer detection. …”
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A structural interpretation of the aftershock "cloud" of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake by Liu, Jing, Sieh, Kerry, Hauksson, Egill

“…Low b-values occur along segments that are simple, whereas higher b-values correlate with sections that are more complex. …”
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Exponential tail local Rademacher complexity risk bounds without the Bernstein condition by Kanade, V, Rebeschini, P, Vaškevičius, T

“…Our results apply to improper prediction regimes not directly covered by the classical theory, such as optimal model selection aggregation for arbitrary classes (including infinite and non-convex classes), and early-stopping/iterative regularization; the Bernstein condition does not hold in both examples.…”

Relational persistent homology for multispecies data with application to the tumor microenvironment by Stolz, BJ, Dhesi, J, Bull, JA, Harrington, HA, Byrne, HM, Yoon, IHR

“…We demonstrate that relational topological features can extract biological insight, including the dominant immune cell phenotype (an important predictor of patient prognosis) and the parameter regimes of a data-generating model. The methods provide a quantitative perspective on the relational analysis of multispecies spatial data, overcome the limits of traditional PH, and are readily computable.…”

Financial forecasting using meta-cognitive fuzzy neural networks by Singh Akhand Pratap

“…Other recommendations to target the problem of Financial Prediction in a more comprehensive manner could include addition of data from other sources like social media platforms, current affairs, global search queries, etc. to judge the public sentiment about a company. Another inclusion could have industry or market statistics or compilation of a single model of correlativeness of all the firms with each other that are operating within the market.…”
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失败人生与精神阉割 ： 论英培安笔下华校生系列小说 = Setback and mental castration : a study of Yeng Pway Ngon’s novels of the Chinese-educated by 林俊捷 Lim, Chun Kiat

“…Being a Chinese-educated himself, Yeng is sentimentally attached to the Chinese educated community in relation to the challenges they face in the society of Singapore where the Chinese educated are deemed inferior to that of the English educated elites. …”
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Coherent superposition of current flows in an atomtronic quantum interference device by Aghamalyan, Davit, Cominotti, Marco, Rizzi, Matteo, Rossini, Davide, Hekking, Frank, Minguzzi, Anna, Kwek, Leong-Chuan, Amico, Luigi

“…The goal of the present study is to corroborate the emergence of an effective two-level system in such a setup and to assess its quality, in terms of its inner resolution and its separation from the rest of the many-body spectrum, across the different physical regimes. In order to achieve this aim, we examine the dependence of the qubit energy gap on the bosonic density, the interaction strength, and the barrier depth, and we show how the superposition between current states appears in the momentum distribution (time-of-flight) images. …”
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On a submerged wave energy converter with snap-through power take-off by Wang, Lixian, Tang, Hui, Wu, Yanhua

“…With larger waves impacting on the WEC, the conversion efficiency of the present nonlinear PTO increases significantly. Three response regimes, i.e. local oscillation, aperiodic snap-through, and periodic snap-through, of the nonlinear PTO system are observed with various wave amplitudes. …”
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Thermal conductivity of biocemented graded sands by Xiao, Yang, Tang, Yifan, Ma, Guoliang, McCartney, John S., Chu, Jian

“…This paper includes an investigation of the thermal conductivity of biocemented soils to better understanding the regimes of heat transmission through soils treated by microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP). …”
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Non-Markovian refrigeration and heat flow in the quantum switch by Cheong, Jian Wei, Pradana, Andri, Chew, Lock Yue

“…In particular, we compare the quantum switch to the superposition of independent channels where two quantum channels are placed in a superposition, which have no non-Markovian effects, and show that the quantum switch can only outperform the superposition of independent channels in the prethermalization regimes, which also depends on the presence and amount of non-Markovianity. …”
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Lasing in Bose-Fermi mixtures by Kochereshko, Vladimir P., Durnev, Mikhail V., Besombes, Lucien, Mariette, Henri, Sapega, Victor F., Askitopoulos, Alexis, Savenko, Ivan G., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Shelykh, Ivan A., Platonov, Alexey V., Tsintzos, Simeon I., Hatzopoulos, Z., Savvidis, Pavlos G., Kalevich, Vladimir K., Afanasiev, Mikhail M., Lukoshkin, Vladimir A., Schneider, Christian, Amthor, Matthias, Metzger, Christian, Kamp, Martin, Hoefling, Sven, Lagoudakis, Pavlos, Kavokin, Alexey

“…We demonstrate how magnetic fields affect dramatically the phase diagram of mixed Bose-Fermi systems, switching between fermionic lasing, incoherent emission and bosonic lasing regimes in planar and pillar microcavities with optical and electrical pumping. …”
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Islamic donations-based crowdfunding platforms in Malaysia: an evaluation of regulatory and shariah issues by Mat Radzi, Rafisah, Muhamed, Nurul Aini, Kamaruddin, Muhammad Iqmal Hisham, Wan Mohamad Nazarie, Wan Nur Faznie, Kamarubahrin, Aimi Fadzirul

“…Drawing from the conceptual framework of Islamic economics and qualitative data collection through semi-structured with six representatives of the Islamic donation-crowdfunding platforms, this study concludes that the issues associated with Malaysian regulations regimes and Shariah issues revolve around the donation-based crowdfunding platforms business model should be considered when devising a Shariah framework for donation-crowdfunding schemes. …”
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What does sounding Singaporean mean? by Tan, Charmaine Li Min

“…While there is no single prototype for sounding Singaporean, it is clear that our local accent differs from other Englishes from the segmental level.…”
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Unearthing roots by Lim, Ling Ern

“…The installation consists of three main segments:The first is an interactive physical display of a range of selected herbs and common kitchen ingredients widely available and affordable in Singapore. …”
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3-way respiratory sound classification using machine learning algorithms by Tu, Yixuan

“…This dissertation also shows the signal processing progress before the respiratory sound could be classified, which includes audio value extraction, data choosing, signal processing, segmentation, feature extraction, etc.…”
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A theory of zeugma by Yeo, Jia Qi

“…I then identify basic structures for the three subtypes of nominal, verbal and adjectival zeugma, and consolidate several disparate concepts previously mentioned in relation to zeugma, including homonymy, regular and irregular polysemy, and Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. I also consider the siting of elegant zeugma within its surrounding written discourse as a crucial complement to the usual approach of analysing word relations within the utterance. …”
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Simple and flexible vision-based hand gesture recognition system by Lee, Chun Kiat.

“…This paper proposes a simple yet flexible Hand Gesture Recognition System-Codebook (HGRS-Codebook) using the techniques of codebook background subtraction, skin color segmentation, median filtering, contour detection, convexity defects and definition of peaks and valleys of fingertips. …”
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Operational efficiency and productivity in container terminals part (II) : service quality and port pricing by Chan, Sek Yeong.

“…This paper shows the top 5 segments of “Importance”, “Satisfaction” and “Possible Improvements” in service quality according to the customers‟ demands of PSA Singapore Container Terminals by using Quality Attribute Ranking (QAR), which provides an evaluation of the priority levels of consumer requirement attributes. …”
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Banking behaviour of expatriate lecturers in Singapore. by Goh, Amy., Phua, Nai Hsin., Poh, Siok Peng.

“…The competitive banking environment today forces banking institutions to continuously seek out profitable market segments. With the regionalisation of the Singapore’s economy, the growing number of expatriates forms a ready market for these institutions. …”
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Investigation on the mechanism of amyloid beta peptides oligomerization and the process for its inhibition by Zhao, Li Na

“…We have chosen the full-length Abeta peptides as well as the most representative short segments of Abeta and employed the classical molecular dynamics and the sampling-enhanced replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations, to investigate the aggregation and atomic detailed interaction among Abeta, lipids, small molecules and macromolecules.…”
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