Modern Game Testing : Learn how to test games like a pro, optimize testing effort, and skyrocket your QA career / by Finska, Nikolina, author 656259

“…Implement modern and agile QA practices to ensure your games are high quality, on budget, and released on time Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Set up a test environment, create test plans, and learn to communicate with developers Discover how to build efficient QA teams either in-house or remotely Increase your chances of career advancement and your employability in the gaming industry Book Description Few things are more annoying for gamers than encountering a buggy new game. …”
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Safe human dual-robot interaction based on control barrier functions and cooperation functions by Shi, Kaige, Chang, Jindong, Feng, Shuo, Fan, Yali, Wei, Zilai, Hu, Guoqiang

“…First, the high-order time-varying control barrier functions (HO-TV-CBFs) are defined to represent human safety, based on which a safety control set is formulated to guarantee human safety. Second, the cooperation functions are introduced to abstract the cooperation constraints of different cooperative tasks of dual robots, which are further guaranteed by a cooperation control set. …”
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Explaining islamist insurgencies : the case of Al Jamaah Al Islamiyyah and the radicalisation of the Poso conflict, 2000-2007. by Muhammad Tito Karnavian.

“…Why do some people turn to terrorism while others from the same background and the same set of experiences do not? This is the question the study sets out to answer through examining the process of radicalisation in an Islamist insurgency. …”
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A universal transfer network for machinery fault diagnosis by Yu, Xiaolei, Zhao, Zhibin, Zhang, Xingwu, Tian, Shaohua, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Li, Xiaoli, Chen, Xuefeng

“…However, existing fault diagnosis methods based on DA are tailored for a specific setting, and highly rely on prior knowledge about the relationship between the source and target label sets which is usually not available in advance. …”
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Wind characteristics of thunderstorms and their effects on wind loading design in Singapore by Choi, Edmund Cheong Chuen., Brownjohn, James Mark William., Chan, Weng Kong.

“…Singapore is situated in the equatorial belt where there are no severe tropical cyclones (typhoons). …”
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SAS Essentials : Mastering SAS for Data Analytics / by Elliott, Alan C., 1952-, author 256265, Woodward, Wayne A., author 256273, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…The Third Edition also includes a companion website with data sets, additional code, notes on SAS programming, functions, ODS, PROC SQL, and SAS Arrays, along with solutions for instructors. …”
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Mitigating fading effects for mobile communications by Balaji, Srinivasan

“…Performance comparison parameters like signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), bit error rate (BER) etc. are calculated and analyzed. Mitigation using diversity combining techniques is then analyzed and implemented in these fading environments. …”
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Investigation studies on mechanical properties of PH15-5 stainless steel for selective laser melting by Tan, Wei Jie

“…This study is done to develop a set of optimised parameters for SLM. The different sets of parameters will be used to conduct the investigation. …”
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Efficient top-k continuous query processing over sliding window model (SWM) method on uncertain data stream by Wahab, Raja Azhan Syah Raja, Rum, Siti Nurulain Mohd, Ibrahim, Hamidah, Ishak, Iskandar

“…UDS consists of a finite set of states known as possible worlds (PW), and enhancing data organization can lead to more accurate extraction of user preferences. …”
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A perspective on the role of point-of-care "immuno-triaging" to optimize COVID-19 vaccination distribution in a time of scarcity by Zhang, Yi, Rogers, Angela, Nadeau, Kari, Gu, Jun, Yang, Samuel

“…Vaccine bears hope to bring COVID-19 pandemic under control. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of feature extraction methods for emotion recognition from multichannel EEG recordings by Yuvaraj, Rajamanickam, Thagavel, Prasanth, Thomas, John, Fogarty, Jack, Ali, Farhan

“…However, most studies in this area have used relatively small monocentric data and focused on a limited range of EEG features, making it difficult to compare the utility of different sets of EEG features for emotion recognition. This study addressed that by comparing the classification accuracy (performance) of a comprehensive range of EEG feature sets for identifying emotional states, in terms of valence and arousal. …”
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Experimental investigation of abrasive finishing with robotic application by Shankara Narayanan, Padmanabhan

“…A comparison between the two sets of too ls on the too l life/wear is do ne and a critical analysis on their performance is tabulated.…”
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Learning stock market dynamics using the kinetic ising model by Nguyen, Ai Linh

“…Fitting a time series to the kinetic Ising model is achieved by determining the optimal set of weights {W_ij }_(i,j=1,…N), and this is done iteratively using the scheme developed by Hoang et al. [1]. …”
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Performance evaluations of fast frequency-hopped spread-spectrum communication systems with partial-band noise jamming and multitone jamming by Teh, Kah Chan.

“…The effects of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)are also taken into consideration. The bit-error rate (BER)expressions presented in this thesis are applicable to higher diver-sity levels without much extra computational complexity. …”
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Stock prediction using support vector regression by Manasa, Abburu.

“…For experimentation purpose, two data sets representing TAIEX (Taiwan Stock Exchange Market Weighted Index) and RELIANCE (Reliance Industries Limited) data have been used. …”
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An integrated nine-switch power conditioner for power quality enhancement and voltage sag mitigation by Zhang, Lei, Loh, Poh Chiang, Gao, Feng

“…A nine-switch power converter having two sets of output terminals was recently proposed in place of the traditional back-to-back power converter that uses 12 switches in total. …”
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The papal tiara in sacred historiography by Pattenden, M

“…This article sets out historiographical engagement with the papal tiara since the late sixteenth century, examining the range of questions asked about the object and the motivations behind them. …”

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

“…However, decentralized district administration in postindependence Sri Lanka has been challenging, primarily due to a number of issues related to the accommodation of rights and interests of minorities. …”
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Reliability analysis and data driven modelling of railway component failure by Wang, Jinlong

“…The one-dimensional time-to-failure type data sets in the first three cases were modeled by Weibull distribution models to characterize the reliability. …”
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Aggregating and analyzing Indian political tweets by Chirag Ruhela

“…A topic identification module has also been implemented using tf-idf algorithm. The dimensionality reduction of the data set has been done using Scatterplot visualization of tweet sentiments alongside topic clusters. …”
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