Food security issues in Asia by Teng, Paul

“…Towards 2050, the ability to meet growing demands for rice, fish, vegetables and meat has to be met with innovations from increased investments, supportive government policies and technology transfer systems appropriate for the millions of small food producers. …”
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Weapons acquisition in the US: streamlining the process by Kuah, Adrian W. J.

“…Past attempts to reform the US weapons acquisition process have largely met with failure. However, the combined impact of the economic recession and the US’ current woes in Iraq and Afghanistan may paradoxically give the Obama administration the opportunity to succeed where previous administrations have failed.…”
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Taking data feminism to school: A synthesis and review of pre‐collegiate data science education projects by Lee, Victor R, Pimentel, Daniel R, Bhargava, Rahul, D'Ignazio, Catherine

“…In this review paper, we draw on principles from data feminism to review 42 different educational research and design approaches that engage youth with data, many of which are educational technology intensive and bear on future data-intensive educational technology research and design projects. …”
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Comparison of Machine Learning-Based Methods for Narrowband Blind Adaptive Beamforming by Shonkwiler, Lara

“…Traditional blind source separation methods such as CMA, SOBI, JADE, and FastICA tend to be highly effective at beamforming datasets with moderate to large sample supports, but they do not perform well when they only have access to a limited number of data samples. They also bear the disadvantage that the appropriate algorithm must be selected based on the properties of the expected signal. …”
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Easing the “second-shift” burden : grandparental childcare and the subjective wellbeing of working mothers in Singapore by Cheo, Rachel Ka Yang

“…However, it is still common for working mothers to bear the brunt of both domestic and paid work. In the present study, I explored the role of grandparents as providers of childcare for their grandchildren in contemporary Singapore. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. …”

Intelligent elderly care II by Low, Jia Xin.

“…Digi International XBee modules, which make use of the low-power-consumption ZigBee technology, are the wireless transmitting modules implemented in this project. …”
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Utilizing open-source hardware and software to construct a mesh of environmental sensors for microclimate studies by Chan, Cun Bin

“…A network of 3 Router sensors and Coordinator is prototyped using Arduino microcontroller, Raspberry Pi single-board computer, and ZigBee and Wi-Fi communication protocols. The wireless sensor network is deployed within Crest Secondary School as a test bed. …”
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A study of air molecular contamination (AMC) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in new AMC/VOC controlled cleanroom by Wong, Chee Kong

“…Based on results, the cleanroom had met the required condition after the 4th test result. …”
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A molecular dynamics simulation to shed light on the mechanical alloying of an Al-Zr alloy induced by severe plastic deformation by Morkina, Alina Y., Babicheva, Rita I., Korznikova, Elena A., Enikeev, Nariman A., Edalati, Kaveh, Dmitriev, Sergey V.

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An empirical study of the (financial and operational) characteristics of companies promoted from SESDAQ to the main board by Ang, Patrick Gee Wing, Ong, Geraldine Mui Hoon, Liang, Mulyaty Qiuling

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Optimal network charge for peer-to-peer energy trading: a grid perspective by Yang, Yu, Chen, Yue, Hu, Guoqiang, Spanos, Costas J.

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Energy saving control of robot by Chan, Chee Siang.

“…For example, control of robot to put an object into a cup, throwing a dart to a dart board, picking up an object from a conveying belt, driving a car along a road etc. The region reaching controller are focusing on reaching on the stationary region, for example, put a straw in a cup. …”
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In memory of Aureliano's ice. by Ho, Jia Xuan.

“…For a man with seventeen sons, thirty odd wars under his belt and a relatively dysfunctional family, the fact that Colonel Aureliano Buendía figures his experience with ice as the defining moment in his life is intriguing to say the least. …”
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Synchronous reluctance motor-drive for energy efficiency solution by Xu, Han

“…To limit the scope of this work, only industrial drives have been considered because these form the largest percentage of drives sold globally and around the tropical belt that includes Singapore.…”
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Why ‘strategic competitor’? : China’s national image formation in the United States facilitated by the Chinese media in Xi Jinping era by Liu, Kai

“…In the second section, this paper will use two hottest campaigns in China after Xi took office to conduct two case studies, which are ‘China Dream’ and ‘One Belt, One Road Initiative’ to see how the Chinese media’s depictions influence the formation of China’s national image as a ‘strategic competitor’ in the United States. …”
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Strengthening District Administration in Plural Communal Context: An Analysis on the Potential Impact of Establishing a Kalmunai Administrative District in Sri Lanka by Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus, Sarjoon, Athambawa, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah

“…One such issue is the call to form a separate administrative district (referred to as “Kalmunai administrative district”) in the coastal belt of the existing Amparai district. While exploring the factors that motivated the concept of a new administrative district, this study examined the potential impact of the formation of a Kalmunai administrative district. …”
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Orientational beamforming via a modified RBF neural network for orientational UWB interference rejection by Han, Jiangyan, Ng, Boon Poh, Er, Meng Hwa

“…The BER reduction rate of the proposed RBF-OBF system is higher than 92% in additive white Gaussian noise channel and higher than 89% in line-of-sight multipath channel.…”
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TDCS-IDMA system for cognitive radio networks with cloud by Hu, Su, Li, Fan, Guo, Huiting, Wang, Pei, Bi, Guoan, Gao, Yuan, Liu, Zilong, Yu, Bin

“…Simulation results demonstrate that the two proposed system architectures can achieve significant improvement on BER performance, multiple access capability, and anti-interference ability with spectral nulling.…”
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Performance of a novel LED lamp arrangement to reduce SNR fluctuation for multi-user visible light communication systems by Wang, Zixiong, Yu, Changyuan, Zhong, Wende, Chen, Jian, Chen, Wei

“…After time domain zero-forcing (ZF) equalization, the BER performances and channel capacities of 100-Mbit/s and 200-Mbit/s bipolar on-off-keying (OOK) signal with most significant inter-symbol interference (ISI) are very close to that of the channel without any ISI caused by this LED lamp arrangement.…”
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