Evaluation & characterization of biodegradable polymer by Loo, Jason Zi Shun

“…Biodegradable plastics are gaining popularity in recent years as the general public have been more aware of what plastics have done to Earth. …”
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A memetic approach to vehicle routing problem with dynamic requests by Mańdziuk, Jacek, Żychowski, Adam

“…The proposed method is applied to a widely-used set of 21 benchmark problems yielding 14 new best-know results when using the same numbers of fitness function evaluations as the comparative methods. …”
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The rise, collapse, and compaction of Mt. Mantap from the 3 September 2017 North Korean nuclear test by Wang, Teng, Shi, Qibin, Nikkhoo, Mehdi, Wei, Shengji, Barbot, Sylvain, Dreger, Douglas, Bürgmann, Roland, Motagh, Mahdi, Chen, Qi-Fu

“…The explosive yield from the nuclear detonation with best-fitting source parameters for 450-meter depth was 191 kilotonnes of TNT equivalent. …”
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Volume change and collapse potential of unsaturated residual granite soil by Mehrdad Kholghifard

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'The burglar's mate'? How London's probation officers persuaded magistrates in Social Enquiry Reports, 1958-72 by Lunan, J

“…<p>A clash of generations occurred in the 1960s Probation Service when increasing numbers of university graduates entered the profession. They have been described as permissive by historians because they prioritised the welfare of the offender. …”

Simultaneous adsorption of selected endocrine-disrupting compounds at trace level of concentration by using novel calcium-based metal-organic framework by Sukatis, Fahren Fazzer, Razak, Muhammad Raznisyafiq, Looi, Ley Juen, Lim, Hong Ngee, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Basyaruddin, Aris, Ahmad Zaharin

“…Electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions may explain the adsorption mechanism between EDCs and Ca-MIX. The order from the best to worst removal efficiency was EE2 > PFOA > BPA when Ca-MIX was used as the adsorbent. …”
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3D display for 3D telepresence: A review by Fadzli, Fazliaty Edora, Nor’a, Muhammad Nur Affendy, Ismail, Ajune Wanis

“…This paper, however, discusses the 3D display technology that have been implemented in the telepresence system, which can be divided into two main devices, projectors and head mounted display (HMD). …”
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Pulsed fiber laser at 1 μm wavelength region by Liu, Meng

“…Secondly, high average power and high peak power YDPFLs have been constructed and studied. High power YDPFLs have progressed rapidly and been widely utilized for material processing. …”
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AI-based stock market trending analysis by Chin, Yi Xing

“…This project focuses on finding the best machine learning model to predict stock prices. …”
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Nuclear power source for an automobile by Chong, Houquan.

“…The author then identified the best technology by comparing their size, mass, efficiency and specific power. …”
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Effect of queuing and priority rules in semiconductor testing workstation by Hadi, Ferdinand

“…Several modeling modifications are needed to obtain the best output. Therefore, optimization in the system can be carried out. …”
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A modified feasibility-based rule for solving constrained optimization problems using probability collectives by Kulkarni, Anand J., Patankar, N.S., Sandupatla, Amani., Tai, K.

“…The complex systems can be best dealt by decomposing them into subsystems or Multi-Agent System (MAS) and further treat them in a distributed way. …”
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Agarose as a tissue mimic for the porcine heart, kidney, and liver: measurements and a springpot model by Mishra, A, Cleveland, RO

“…The agarose concentrations (by mass) that gave the best fit were 0.25% for the liver, 0.3% for the kidney, and 0.4% for the heart. …”

Forecasting the UK top 1% income share in a shifting world by Castle, JL, Doornik, JA, Hendry, DF

“…Despite a well-specified constant parameter model conditioning on significant explanatory variables, the best performing forecasts are obtained from a random walk and a smoothed random walk. …”

Mental-LLM: Leveraging Large Language Models for Mental Health Prediction via Online Text Data by Xu, Xuhai, Yao, Bingsheng, Dong, Yuanzhe, Gabriel, Saadia, Yu, Hong, Hendler, James, Ghassemi, Marzyeh, Dey, Anind K., Wang, Dakuo

“…More importantly, our experiments show that instruction finetuning can significantly boost the performance of LLMs for all tasks simultaneously. Our best-finetuned models, Mental-Alpaca and Mental-FLAN-T5, outperform the best prompt design of GPT-3.5 (25 and 15 times bigger) by 10.9\% on balanced accuracy and the best of GPT-4 (250 and 150 times bigger) by 4.8\%. …”
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Compressed sensing: a discrete optimization approach by Bertsimas, Dimitris, Johnson, Nicholas A. G.

“…When compared only against the experiment-wise best performing benchmark method on synthetic data, our approach produces solutions that are on average 3.10% more sparse. …”
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An overview on effectiveness of activation functions in processing medical images by Al-Shoukry, Suhad, Zalili, Musa

“…The Main results contribute how to select best activation functions that suits most accurate and efficient medical image classification basedon this overview, any researcher can choose best activation function after reading this overview.…”
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Performance evaluation of SAFIS for benchmark problems by Sinara Vijayan.

“…Proper selection of control parameters is highly essential to achieve best performance of the network. Here, a detailed sensitivity study of the SAFIS parameters is done and a study in selecting the range of the best algorithm parameters are done. …”
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Design and simulation of periodic dielectric waveguide splitter by Ng, Kah Sheng.

“…The simulation results show that Y-Shaped is the worst performer of the three while the 90° bend is produce the best result.…”
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Apportionment methods in collective sales by Lin, Qinglian.

“…The goal of this project and report is to discover the best apportionment methods that could satisfy the criteria of collective sales for 2 developments as case studies.…”
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