Our weapons, our problem: arms exports, democracy and civil society in Brazil and the UK by de Moraes, RF

“…The causal mechanism is in part explained by activities conducted by norm entrepreneurs, whose emergence is facilitated by the existence of institutions commonly found in democratic countries, especially a system of checks and balances, contested elections, and political and civil liberties. …”

Multiple Brillouin zone winding of topological chiral edge states for slow light applications by Chen, Fujia, Xue, Haoran, Pan, Yuang, Wang, Maoren, Hu, Yuanhang, Zhang, Li, Chen, Qiaolu, Han, Song, Liu, Gui-Geng, Gao, Zhen, Zhou, Peiheng, Yin, Wenyan, Chen, Hongsheng, Zhang, Baile, Yang, Yihao

“…Photonic Chern insulators are known for their topological chiral edge states (CESs), whose absolute existence is determined by the bulk band topology, but concrete dispersion can be engineered to exhibit various properties. …”
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A comparative analysis of ENCODE and Cistrome in the context of TF binding signal by Perna, Stefano, Pinoli, Pietro, Ceri, Stefano, Wong, Limsoon

“…Moreover, the output format of the processing (BED narrowPeak) exposes a feature, the signalValue, which is seldom used in consistency checks, but can offer valuable insight on the quality of the data. …”
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Distributed formation for large swarm of agents by Reza Haghighi

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Essays on development economics by Wang, Wen

“…The estimation results remain robust when subjected to further checks and sensitivity tests. In addition, we consider alternative channels including pathogen stress, historical population density and colonization, which may also influence the degree of institutionalized democracy via the cultural dimension of collectivism / individualism. …”
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Coupled acoustic resonator systems with novel acoustic properties by Yang, Yahui

“…Similar to a gapped graphene, gapless topological valley edge states are shown at a zigzag domain wall separating different domains with opposite valley Chern numbers, while an armchair domain wall hosts no gapless edge states. …”
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Electronic structures of twisted two-dimensional materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by Pei, D

“…Chiral semimetals the PtGa family (PtGa, PtAl,PdGa) are expected to host topologically non-trivial electronic structure, such as the multi-fold band crossings with large Chern number at high symmetry points connected by long Fermi-arc surface states. …”

Development of solar power systems for solar UAV : evaluation of nomura MPPTs at sub-zero temperatures & solar modules encapsulation by Teo, Boon Rong

“…This report is a documentation of the work the author did during his final year of study at Nanyang Technological University(NTU). …”
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Expectations of undergraduates upon graduation and their means of financing it by Chen, Michele, Kam, Gladys Huey Li, Lee, Sharon Ai Leen

“…The MAS restrictions on unsecured personal loans and car loans, introduced in February 1995, is designed to check the sharp increases in personal loans and car loans over the years.…”
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A test for the reliability of loan loss provisions reported by commercial bank management and relevance of macro economic variables. by Goh, Soew Cheng., Yeo, Khar Buay., Ong, Li Wei.

“…Loan loss provisions and problem loans reported by commercial banks management could be doubtful at times. As a check on the reliability of the loan data, we propose the usage of loan loss provisions and problem loans as the means to classify failed and survived banks.…”
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Wind tunnel design and fabrication for lift force investigation by Kong, Shao Ming

“…As wind tunnels are resource intensive equipment, its potential as a learning aid is greatly hampered due to the sheer cost and logistics involved in the operation of a full sized wind tunnel. …”
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Aggregating and analyzing Indian political tweets by Chirag Ruhela

“…The author’s final year project is a part of the Twitter Data Analysis project which aims to gain insight into Indian politics using data from Twitter Stream and applying NLP and Data Mining Techniques to the same. …”
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ChatGPT robotic process automation and AI chatbots for education by Chua, Jeremy Wen Yang

“…Multiple techniques, including introspection and fact-checking, were implemented to ensure response precision. …”
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Conceptualize, design, simulate and develop a contact tracing scheme based on the Android platform by Woon, Tse Liang

“…The method of contact tracing is for people to check in to the locations that they have visited. …”
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Condition monitoring of a train door system by Tan, Alvin Chong Wei

“…This research track focuses on developing better detection methods and monitoring system to address potential issues quickly and accurately, even before they happen. In my Final Year Project, TensorFlow’s Faster Region Convolution Neural Network (Faster-RCNN) will be used to create a classifier for Human Detection. …”
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Edge/cloud resource management for time-sensitive applications by Lim, Her Huey

“…Technological advancements and skyrocketing interest in areas such as Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things as well as the sheer increase in development of software solutions, tools, infrastructure, and more have driven demand for cloud resources to staggering heights. …”
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A serious game design and development by Chan, Yuqian

“…This game is developed in the form of knowledge checking, which helps students to consolidate the knowledge and gain interest in this subject apart from just entertainment. …”
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Blind detection of interlever parameters for block and convolutional coded sequences by Liu, Xuezhe.

“…Channel encoding is implemented in most digital communications to combat transmission errors, which is achieved by adding additional parity check bits to the data stream. However, channel encoder will not be able to handle the effects of fading or burst errors. …”
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Exciton dispersions in two-dimensional materials by Li, Yifei

“…This thesis is dedicated to the calculation of a numerically solvable form of the Hamiltonian excitons in 2D materials. 2D materials are quite new, having only been fully realised only about 20 years ago[2][4].Theoretical predictions had been made about the existence of these materials for many years, with experiments going back to the 1960s[1]. …”
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Can machines learn questions? by Soo, Alvin

“…To ensure the highest performance of the classifier, the dataset is pre-processed in different ways and tested to check its performance. Text pre-processing includes removal of common stop words, punctuation and numerical numbers. …”
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