Deep learning based solder joint defect detection on industrial printed circuit board X-ray images by Zhang, Qianru, Zhang, Meng, Gamanayake, Chinthaka, Yuen, Chau, Geng, Zehao, Jayasekara, Hirunima, Woo, Chia-wei, Low, Jenny, Liu, Xiang, Guan, Yong Liang

“…With the improvement of electronic circuit production methods, such as reduction of component size and the increase of component density, the risk of defects is increasing in the production line. Many techniques have been incorporated to check for failed solder joints, such as X-ray imaging, optical imaging and thermal imaging, among which X-ray imaging can inspect external and internal defects. …”
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Factors affecting the decision making process of customer when their salesperson jumps ship to another firm : an analysis of the Singapore insurance industry by Soh, Yong Joo, Lim, Elijah Vincent Deyuan, Yan, Naung Htut

“…Insurance firms are always seeking to expand. Insurance firm spent millions of dollars to build their brand and to recruit the best agents in the industry. …”
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Lights and sounds : effects of congruence and musical sophistication on auditory and visual perception by Aw, Justus Jinyue

“…A measure of musical sophistication was also used in place of time spent taking music lessons; this was done in order to capture other elements that encapsulated engagement with music beyond formal training and practice. …”
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To bail-out or to bail-in? Answers from an agent-based model by Klimek, P, Poledna, S, Farmer, JD, Thurner, S

“…Since the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis almost half a trillion euros have been spent to financially assist EU member states in taxpayer-funded bail-outs. …”

Morphology of three polycentric rumen fungi and description of a procedure for the induction of zoosporogenesis and release of zoospores in cultures by Ho, Y. W., Bauchop, T.

“…Undifferentiated sporangia were produced by all three isolates; differentiation of the sporangia did not occur in the spent growth media. However, if thalli possessing recently-formed sporangia were transferred to, or flooded with, fresh liquid medium or rumen fluid, zoosporogenesis and liberation of zoospores occurred within 17-20 min for isolates LL and LC2 and 30 min for R. elegans. …”
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Parametric study of gravure printing process for R2R printed electronics by Pua, Suan Tai

“…In this study, however, various printing parameters were investigated to establish their effects on printed line width and film thickness, in an attempt to achieve fine line printing resolution over a large printing area. …”
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The Europa Imaging System (EIS) Investigation by Turtle, E. P., McEwen, A. S., Patterson, G. W., Ernst, C. M., Elder, C. M., Slack, K. A., Hawkins, S. E., McDermott, J., Meyer, H., DeMajistre, R., Espiritu, R., Seifert, H., Niewola, J.

“…The WAC is designed to acquire three-line pushbroom stereo and color swaths along flyby ground-tracks.…”
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Punching shear strength analysis of corroded reinforcement concrete slab by Fu, Yibin

“…Sea levels are rising due to climate change, hence this parameter is of increasing importance for structures under long term corrosive environment. There will be a significant decline in the shear strength resistance in the long run. …”
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The cancellation heuristic in intertemporal choice shifts people's time preferences by Sengupta, Arjun, Savani, Krishna

“…The findings indicate that two features of human psychology-diminishing marginal utility and the cancellation heuristic-can be simultaneously utilized to nudge people to make decisions that would be better for them in the long run.…”
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Seismic loss dynamics in three Asian megacities using a macro-level approach based on socioeconomic exposure indicators by Sarica, Gizem Mestav, Pan, Tso-Chien

“…Our framework can be used to trigger discussions between scientific community and decision-makers for better long-term risk reduction and risk awareness strategies.…”
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Construction of human digital twin model based on multimodal data and its application in locomotion mode identification by Zhong, Ruirui, Hu, Bingtao, Feng, Yixiong, Zheng, Hao, Hong, Zhaoxi, Lou, Shanhe, Tan, Jianrong

“…Data acquisition system is built to dynamically acquire and update the body state data and physiological data of the human body and realize the digital expression of multi-source heterogeneous human body information. A bidirectional long short-term memory and convolutional neural network (BiLSTM-CNN) based network is devised to fuse multimodal human data and extract the spatiotemporal features, and the human locomotion mode identification is taken as an application case. …”
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Advancements in Management Science: Applications to Online Retail, Healthcare, and Non-Profit Fundraising by Zhai, Chen Wen (Sabrina)

“…Studies on the efficacy of first-line versus second-line and alternative antibiotics for UTI are limited and dated. …”
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Hearing loss and risk of major osteoporotic fracture: a population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom by Khalid, S, Alhambra, DP, Hasheminasab, SA, Vinogradova, Y, Qureshi, N, Ratzinger, M, Brunetti, V, Salas, A, Canals, L

“…Purpose: Assess association between hearing loss (HL) and major osteoporotic fracture (MOF; spine, wrist/forearm, shoulder/proximal humerus, hip) in individuals aged ≥ 60 years, and risk factors for MOF in individuals with HL. …”

Design of a >500MHz current starving VCO/DLL with low phase noise for digital PWM control by Chua, Dillon Yu Ze

“…It typically consist of a voltage controlled delay line, a phase detector. A delay line consists of a chain of delay cells that can be varied to adjust the amount of delay between the output and input signal through the delay line. …”
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Data-driven fault detection and isolation in DC microgrids without prior fault data: a transfer learning approach by Wang, Ting, Zhang, Chunyan, Hao, Zhiguo, Monti, Antonello, Ponci, Ferdinanda

“…In this transfer learning framework, the knowledge of faults is extracted from the transient features of line currents during normal operating disturbances, which is adversarially augmented and then transferred to a target domain as the labels of faults. …”
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Monitoring membrane biofouling via ultrasonic time-domain reflectometry enhanced by silica dosing by Sim, S. T. V., Suwarno, S. R., Chong, T. H., Krantz, William B., Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…Detecting biofouling noninvasively in real-time has been a long-standing challenge in membrane processes. Ultrasonic Time Domain Reflectometry (UTDR) offers the potential to address this challenge when used in a ‘canary cell’ that samples a slip stream from the feed to the membrane process. …”
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Sensing Informal Networks in Organizations by Orbach, Maya, Demko, Maegen, Doyle, Jeremy, Waber, Benjamin N., Pentland, Alex

“…Sociometric Badges were used to collect data on face-to-face interactions over a total of 8 weeks, the latter half of which was spent in a redesigned workspace. These data were supplemented by employees’ e-mail and instant messaging log activity. …”
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贈り物 : gift by Pang, Desmond Hee Wee

“…During the period of time spent in a foreign land, I have encountered many wonderful experiences, all of which had broadened my perspectives on life in general and made me discover more about myself as an individual. …”
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Educational software for photorealistic rendering in computer graphics (I) by Ch'ng, Kai Xin

“…After this stage, system functionalities were brainstormed and the friendly graphical user interface (GUI) was finalized. Much time was spent in developing software and it is named as Ray Tracing Educational Software (RTES) System. …”
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Real time kinematic satellite navigation of a hexarotor unmanned aerial vehicle by Wang, Tao

“…More and more research institutes and companies spent a lot of money on it. In some fields, locating precisely the position of the UAV has become a significant issue. …”
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