Sexual selection predicts the persistence of populations within altered environments by Parrett, Jonathan M., Mann, Darren J., Chung, Arthur Y. C., Slade, Eleanor M., Knell, Robert J.

“…The effect of sexual selection on species persistence remains unclear. The cost of bearing ornaments or armaments might increase extinction risk, but sexual selection can also enhance the spread of beneficial alleles and increase the removal of deleterious alleles, potentially reducing extinction risk. …”
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Behaviour of steel reinforced concrete columns with high strength materials by Cai, Yan Qing

“…Nevertheless, the proposed method was conservative in predicting the bearing capacity of columns with normal and high strength materials. …”
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36 stratagems & applications by Soe Thiha @ Nyan Lin Htun

“…There are some 6 different fields of strategies for different state of the situation, starting when one is superior, gaining ground to losing, each bearing 6 individual strategies each. It is now widely accepted that some war strategies could be applied in business world, behavioral science and thus taken another leap trying to better apply in other areas such as geopolitical affairs, behavioral change, public policy etc. …”
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Impact of jet fuel hedging on firm value : a study on global airlines. by Quah, Hui Li., Tan, Jazreel Yan Zhen., Teo, Lay Hui.

“…We also find three factors, namely managerial shares and options holdings, financial distress costs and the presence of alternative hedging mechanism that have significant bearing on airlines’ hedging decisions. Upon understanding how hedging value adds across different regions and periods of fuel price volatility, investors can pay more attention to these three factors in order to accurately predict and assess airlines’ hedging decisions. …”
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Development of an advanced nano-satellite VELOX-I – attitude control system by Ng, Yu Lian.

“…Experiments have conducted to measure the moment of inertia of an air bearing table test setup. In the experiments, the environmental frictional torque was characterized as well. …”
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Design and development of a solar-powered vehicle by Zhou, Bo

“…The two rear wheels are driven by a motor connected by the axle and bearings. The steering system in the front controls the direction of the front wheels. …”
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Design language in packaging. by Wijaya, Merwyn.

“…Craid is a fictitious brand of Irish beer that is designed based on this essential role. …”
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Divergent reactivity of phosphapalladacycles toward E-H (E = N, P, As) bonds by Tay, Wee Shan, Li, Yongxin, Pullarkat, Sumod A., Leung, Pak-Hing

“…Subsequently, secondary arsines bearing the As-H bond were applied in deuteration by directed ortho-metalation (DoM) and decomplexation strategies. …”
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Switching-based transmit antenna / aperture selection for MISO hybrid FSO / RF system by Tan, Jerome Kwee Ann

“…Lastly, we present the simulations of average SER for a Hybrid system when the RF links are subject to outdated channel state information (CSI). …”
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Synoptic analysis of a decade of daily measurements of SO2 emission in the troposphere from volcanoes of the global ground-based network for observation of volcanic and atmospheric... by Arellano, Santiago, Galle, Bo, Apaza, Fredy, Avard, Geoffroy, Barrington, Charlotte, Bobrowski, Nicole, Bucarey, Claudia, Burbano, Viviana, Burton, Mike, Chacón, Zoraida, Chigna, Gustavo, Clarito, Christian Joseph, Conde, Vladimir, Costa, Fidel, De Moor, Maarten, Delgado-Granados, Hugo, Di Muro, Andrea, Fernandez, Deborah, Garzón, Gustavo, Gunawan, Hendra, Haerani, Nia, Hansteen, Thor. H., Hidalgo, Silvana, Inguaggiato, Salvatore, Johansson, Mattias, Kern, Christoph, Kihlman, Manne, Kowalski, Philippe, Masias, Pablo, Montalvo, Francisco, Möller, Joakim, Platt, Ulrich, Rivera, Claudia, Saballos, Armando, Salerno, Giuseppe, Taisne, Benoit, Vásconez, Freddy, Velásquez, Gabriela, Vita, Fabio, Yalire, Mathieu

“…Operational monitoring of volcanic plumes, at scales relevant for adequate surveillance, has been facilitated through the use of ground-based scanning differential optical absorption spectrometer (ScanDOAS) instruments since the beginning of this century, largely due to the coordinated effort of the Network for Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric Change (NOVAC). …”
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Visible light communication systems supporting wireless data access and indoor positioning applications by Yang, Helin

“…On the one hand, VLC has been emerging as a promising candidate for indoor wireless communications due to its supporting high-speed data rate, economic, electro-magnetic interference free and high security, compared with traditional radio-frequency (RF) systems. …”
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Spray cooling and condensation heat transfer in a liquid cooled server system by Liu, Pengfei

“…An artificial neural network (ANN) model has been successfully developed for pulsed spray cooling on a vertical surface. …”
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Energy-efficient hardware accelerators based on bit-serial graph and memory-centric computing architectures by Mu, Junjie

“…As semiconductor process technology nodes have shrunk over the past few decades, the complexity of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) has grown significantly. Emerging ASICs have been widely explored to accelerate various algorithms with high energy efficiency, including machine learning and scientific computing. …”
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Design and analysis of passive phase shifters using controllable defected ground structures in 65nm CMOS technology for 77-81 GHz automotive radar by Wu, Jiaqi

“…Many phase shifter topologies have been demonstrated. Active phase shifters like vector summing type employing active devices consume large amount of power and the phase accuracy is normally low due to the active components. …”
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AI techniques in CFD: leveraging physical priors with deep learning to improve on numerical solvers by Loh, Jessica Sher En

“…While the use of prior physical knowledge to alleviate data dependence has been proposed, the transition from case-specific feed-forward networks to more general convolutional networks has called for data-saving methods that are more applicable to the new architectures. …”
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刘宗周《人谱》的改过思想及工夫论 = The idea of reform cultivation in Liu Zongzhou’s "Renpu" by 林彦慧 Lim, Dorothea Yan Hui

“…Since the era of Confucius and Mencius, the idea of reform cultivation (改过思想) has been continuously discussed. Until Liu Zongzhou (刘宗周), this idea was also deemed as an effort that a person has to put his or her entire body and mind in. …”
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Aeration slab study volume 2 by Rahardjo, Harianto, Indrawan, I Gde Budi, Fakhrur, Rozy Harnas

“…However, there have not been any local empirical data to indicate whether aeration slabs confer significant benefits to trees in car parks. …”
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Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) by Tudor, Katarina Ivana, Tudor, Mario, McCleery, Jenny, Car, Josip

“…Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) is an alternative surgical intervention. It has been suggested that ETV may lead to better outcomes, including fewer complications. …”
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Improved 3-D frequency-selective structures and their applications by Ahmed Abdelmottaleb Abdelfattah Attia Omar

“…ABSTRACT Frequency-selective surfaces are 2-D infinite arrays that act as a filter for the incident electromagnetic waves. They have been used in hybrid radomes, dichroic main reflector, sub-reflector, microwave absorbers, absorptive frequency-selective surfaces, high impedance surfaces, and many other applications. …”
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Improving the diagnostic yield of whole genome sequencing: neurodevelopmental and epilepsy disorders by Hashim, M

“…Following the initial report that described KMT2E as a neurodevelopmental disorder-causing gene, a new syndrome called O'Donnell-Luria-Rodan-Rodan syndrome (ODLURO) has been recognised, and the gene has received approval for panel testing. …”