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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Symbol-error performance and bit-error performance for 2-dimensional signals by Ilakkiyaa D/O Gunasekaran

“…The main purpose of this project is to compare the SER and BER performances for different Phase Shift Keying (PSK) and Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) schemes. …”
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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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The role of PTEN in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells mediated tumor cells suppression. by Toh, Xin Yi.

“…Our laboratory has previously observed tumor suppression in glioma-bearing mice co-injected with human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells. …”
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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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Development of a multi-rotor UAV : structural material & key component analysis by Goh, Hung Soon

“…Wing structure of the novel design was analysed and showed forms of material failure in load-bearing members. The addition of a gussets stiffener or reinforcing element can be added to boost strength, or transmit loads to promote a more uniform distribution of stresses.…”
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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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Mechanical properties of multi jet fusion-printed polyamide 12 composites reinforced by glass beads and glass fibres by Chan, Jacob Wei Xuan

“…However, its main material polyamide 12 (PA12) does not have sufficient mechanical performance to use for certain load bearing applications. In this work, the mechanical performance of MJF printed glass fibres (GF) and glass beads (GB) reinforce PA12 composites is investigated. …”
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Bit-error rate simulation for frequency-hopped multiple-access systems over fading channels by Le, Thi Ngoc Anh.

“…Five diversity-combining methods utilized in BER simulation to counter MAI and PBJ effects are square-law linear combining, product combining, hard-decision majority-vote (HDMV), self-normalizing and clipper receivers.…”
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MIMO visible light communication system with enhanced performance by Han, Junyao

“…Furthermore, zero-forcing and minimum mean square error with regards to pre and post coding were used to plot BER against various parameters. In this simulation, the performance of 4x4-MIMO-OFDM is evaluated and enhanced…”
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Direct observation of resonant energy transfer in lanthanide complexes from multidisciplinary perspectives by Chen, Xuebo

“…However, in special case incorrect arguments and formulae were often employed by ignoring energy resonance conditions and selection rules of state-to-state transition, especially for the sensitive intramolecular EnT of lanthanide complexes bearing a uniform donor-acceptor distance. Herein, we proposed an innovative model of energy degeneracy crossing controlled EnT, which can be experimentally confirmed by a bi-exponential decay using the time-resolved photoluminescence measurements. …”
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Small bamboo shelter by Vimalatulasi Vetrivel

“…This report will be providing methodology and data analysis on parameters such as bending and bearing strength of the bamboo. In addition to that, the methodology of joint connection and bamboo truss calculation for the bamboo shelter will be discussed as well. …”
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A study of tidal turbine array by Yong, Heng Wei.

“…The torque sensor will be measured by mounting on a DC motor, fixing ball bearings to a housing hub. By doing so, it will prevent its rotation by the deflection of a strain-gauge-instrumented plate. …”
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Identification of FGF receptor-binding peptides for cancer gene therapy by Maruta, F, Parker, AL, Fisher, KD, Hallissey, MT, Ismail, T, Rowlands, DC, Chandler, LA, Kerr, DJ, Seymour, LW

“…The consensus motif MXXP was iterated after four to five rounds and the peptide MQLPLAT was studied in depth. Phage bearing MQLPLAT showed high levels of binding to FGF receptor positive cells, with over 90% of phage bound being eluted competitively by adding free FGF2. …”

Spooky action in the film/novel debate. by Lee, Tracy Marie Shiyin., Luo, Esmonde Jianwen., Wong, Kai Wing., Manoj Prabhoda Chandran., Chee, Kang Xiong.

“…The installation follows a Collector, Photographer, Writer and a Collective (a beer garden group that gathers at the local coffeeshop) in their daily life as they contemplate the curious events, and each other, in an attempt to cope with the boredom they face in the neighbourhood. …”
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Frequency domain MDPSK based non-equalization OFDM for coherent free-space optical communication over modified rician turbulence channel by Chen, Chen, Zhong, Wen-De, Li, Xiang

“…Our study shows that NE-OFDM attains a comparable BER performance to equalized OFDM, but with lower complexity and higher spectral efficiency.…”
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