Self-Archive by MD Ishak, Mohamad Syahrul Nizam

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Efficacy of Wolbachia-mediated sterility to reduce the incidence of dengue: a synthetic control study in Singapore by Lim, Jue Tao, Bansal, Somya, Chong, Chee Seng, Dickens, Borame, Ng, Youming, Deng, Lu, Lee, Caleb, Tan, Li Yun, Chain, Grace, Ma, Pei, Sim, Shuzhen, Tan, Cheong Huat, Cook, Alex R., Ng, Lee Ching

“…We selected two large towns (Yishun and Tampines) to adopt an expanding release strategy and two smaller towns (Bukit Batok and Choa Chu Kang) to adopt a targeted-release approach. …”
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The working of 5668 lbs. third grade and 1147 lbs. 1st grade argentiferous galena ore from the Merrimac Mine, Newburyport, Mass., including crushing, washing, roasting, and smeltin... by Towne, Linwood O.

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'Donkey Friends' in China: the Internet, civil society and the emergence of the Chinese backpacking community by Lim, Francis Khek Gee

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Routing drone by Zheng, Min

“…In Drone routing, both the capability of the drone and the algorithm used for pathfinding are crucial in order to achieve a feasible and optimal complete tour. This project aims to build an approximation algorithm and a model, with the algorithm created as realistically as possible, being based on the state-of-the-art drone capability to suite the study on defining and controlling the flight path. …”
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Topological phases with parafermions: theory and blueprints by Alicea, J, Fendley, P

“…In particular, we highlight how parafermion chains host a topological phase featuring protected edge zero modes. We then tour several blueprints for the laboratory realization of parafermion zero modes—focusing on quantum Hall/superconductor hybrids, quantum Hall bilayers, and two-dimensional topological insulators—and describe striking experimental fingerprints that they provide. …”

Data activism against feminicide Co-designing digital tools to monitor gender-related violence across the Americas by Cruxên, Isadora, Jungs de Almeida, Alessandra, D’Ignazio, Catherine

“…Gender-related violence happens inside the home and outside in the public spaces of cities, towns, villages and rural areas around the world. …”
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The truth about cats and dogs by Parkhi, O, Vedaldi, A, Jawahar, C, Zisserman, A

“…This approach is motivated by two ob- servations: (i) many object classes contain distinctive parts that can be detected very reliably by template-based detec- tors, whilst the entire object cannot; (ii) many classes (e.g. animals) have fairly homogeneous coloring and texture that can be used to segment the object once a sample is provided in an image. …”

Metaverse real estate virtual reality by Lim, Delon Long Ting

“…Through this application, users could freely view listed properties and tour surrounding amenities in VR. In addition, they are able to customise the property in real time and visualise the amount of sunlight in each corner of the house at different times of the day. …”
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Development of a power meter for a bicycle by SYED FARUQ AL AIDID S AFANDI

“…There are also different types of bicycle designed for their specific use and terrain such as the road bicycle, mountain bike, touring bicycle, etc [2]. Other than for transport purposes, bicycles are also used for exercises, recreational activities and sports. …”
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A systematic literature review of resilience approaches in small and medium tourism-based sector by Rohini Shakthinathan, Velan Kunjuraman

“…The objective of the study would be to facilitate collaboration between tour operators, government entities and other relevant stakeholders in order to better manage the ambiguity of the COVID-19 crisis and to implement strategies to revitalize the sector in the post-pandemic environment.…”
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Characterisation of ball impact conditions in professional tennis: Matches played on hard court by Lane, Ben, Sherratt, Paul, Xiao, Hu, Harland, Andy

“…Ball tracking information taken from three consecutive years of an ATP 250 tour event played on hard court was analysed. The frequency of first serves, second serves, racket impacts and surface impacts was assessed per game and extrapolated to show how many impacts a single ball is subjected to. …”
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Blogs vs vlogs: evaluation of chinese audience resonance in slow tourism by Wang, Meng, Abd Rahman, Azmawani, Abdul Aziz, Yuhanis, Adzharuddin, Nor Azura

“…Slow tourism has been implemented in rural areas and small towns in China for over a decade. However, the effectiveness of utilizing blogs or vlogs for promoting slow tourism destinations varies significantly. …”
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Microgrid network design and control by Goh, Kok Liang.

“…It has been designed to supply small towns and villages with electricity with high penetration of renewable energy resources. …”
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Italian literature in the US and UK since 1945: translation and interaction by Saroldi, A

“…</p> <p>Across its three chapters, the thesis traverses the realms of prose, poetry, and theatre, examining for the first time the case studies of William Weaver’s translation of Giorgio Bassani’s <em>Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini</em> (1977), Charles Tomlinson’s translation of Attilio Bertolucci’s <em>Selected Poems</em> (1993), and Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s American tour of 1986, featuring on-stage translators Ronald Jenkins and Maria Consagra.…”

Investigation of indoor thermal comfort and energy demand in different locations along the sub-Himalayan belt - a simulation based study by Thapa, Samar, Zaki, Sheikh Ahmad

“…In this study, a pre-validated model of 3-storey concrete residential building was used to study the indoor performance and thermal comfort in the face of climate change in the 8 (eight) different hill towns (hill stations) located from west to the east. …”

Mapping Time-Varying Accessibility and Territorial Cohesion With Time-Distorted Maps by Balsa-Barreiro, José, Ambuühl, Lukas, Menéndez, Mónica, Pentland, Alex

“…The study area corresponds to a Spanish region, where we set up a relatively extended network by considering its most relevant cities and towns. Final maps can clearly illustrate the deficiencies in transport infrastructure and/or connections from a spatial perspective. …”
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从华商网络来看侨乡认同的建构“林绍良”个案研究 = Qiaoxiang identity from the perspective of Chinese business network : a case study on Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Liem Sioe Liong... by 林若亭 Lin, Ruoting

“…Especially after the economic reform and reopening of the Chinese mainland, those towns and villages in South China have used their connections with overseas Chinese to develop their unique economic model. …”
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Active learning with applications in biomedical document annotation by Han, Xu

“…Active learning is an approach to resolve this issue and aid annota- tors to reduce the time and effort needed for the corpus annotation process. …”
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