Optimization and scheduling for a large-scale urban transportation system involving human factors by Zhang, Yi

“…Traffic signal control, as one of the most essential strategies to tackle this challenge, has been applied and studied over the past several decades. However, existing traffic signals generally focus on optimality of vehicle flows, but the pedestrian delay is seldom considered. …”
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Mechanism design for internet of things services market by Jiao, Yutao

“…Over the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) adoption and applications have significantly increased. …”
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Extracellular nucleic acids in monochloraminated drinking water distribution systems by Bairoliya, Sakcham

“…Analysis of eRNA revealed its potential as a signaling molecule in environmental systems and as a glimpse into the past metabolic state of the bacterial cells. To validate observations made in the lab-scale setup, the methods for eDNA and eRNA extraction from DWDS were optimized. …”
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Conditional prosociality in development: deconstructing social and materialistic factors that modulate early prosocial behavior by Lee, Kristy Jia Jin

“…The past decade of developmental research has illuminated a fascinatingly diverse range of prosocial behavior in young children. …”
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论新加坡对红头巾和印度建筑工的态度 = A case study of Singapore government and Singaporeans' attitude towards Samsui women and Indian construction workers by 颜莉娜 Gan, Linda

“…Since the 1990s, Samsui women have become a figure of the past. Indian construction workers started coming to Singapore to make a livelihood. …”
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Deep transcriptome profiling reveals limited conservation of A-to-I RNA editing in Xenopus by Nguyen, Tram Anh, Heng, Joel Jia Wei, Ng, Yan Ting, Sun, Rui, Fisher, Shira, Oguz, Gokce, Kaewsapsak, Pornchai, Xue, Shifeng, Reversade, Bruno, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Eisenberg, Eli, Tan, Meng How

“…Background: Xenopus has served as a valuable model system for biomedical research over the past decades. Notably, ADAR was first detected in frog oocytes and embryos as an activity that unwinds RNA duplexes. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…Polymer/clay nanocomposites have been widely investigated over past three decades due to the dramatic boost in properties at low filler content. …”
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Developing metallic cathode for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell applications by Yu, Chen-Chiang

“…With the effort input by numerous researchers in the past decade, the operating temperature of SOFCs had been successfully decreased to below 500 ˚C with more than 1 W·cm-2 of output power density. …”
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Association of current Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum, and Schistosoma mekongi infection status and intensity with periportal fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-ana... by Ewuzie, A, Wilburn, L, Thakrar, DB, Cheng, H, Reitzug, F, Roberts, N, Malouf, R, Chami, GF

“…<p><strong>Background:&nbsp;</strong>Periportal fibrosis is a severe morbidity caused by both current and past exposure to intestinal schistosomes. We aimed to assess the association between current infection status and intensity of&nbsp;<em>Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum</em>, or&nbsp;<em>Schistosoma mekongi</em>&nbsp;with periportal fibrosis.…”

Electronic structures of topological materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by He, S

“…<p>This thesis summarizes my DPhil research projects, which involve electron optical simulations for photoelectron spectroscopy instruments and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) studies of several novel topological quantum materials:<br> 1. Over the past decades, photoelectron spectroscopy has experienced numerous advancements and become a powerful tool for understanding the electronic properties of solid-state systems. …”

Prevalence of West Nile virus in domesticated mammals (cattle, goat, horse and pig) in selected areas of Peninsular Malaysia by Mohammed, Mohammed Nma

“…Serological results indicate past exposure to WNV in all the species in this study. …”
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Reward optimization for content providers with mobile data subsidization: a hierarchical game approach by Xiong, Zehui, Zhao, Jun, Niyato, Dusit, Deng, Ruilong, Zhang, Junshan

“…Considering the inherent high complexity of the EPEC problem, we utilize the distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm to obtain the optimum solutions with fast-convergence and decomposition properties of ADMM.…”
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Rotor angle stability-constrained dispatch and control of large-scale wind penetrated power system by Yuan, Heling

“…In general, four main effects on power system transient stability are: 1) wind generation has no contribution to system inertia and system with synchronous generators replaced by wind turbines will lead to reduction of inertia, 2) power electronics converter-based interfacing is added when wind turbines are implemented, which will change the dynamic behavior of the system, 3) power dispatch of synchronous machines will change fast to compensate wind power variation, 4) the magnitude and direction of power flows will fluctuate quickly and randomly in the transmission lines. …”
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Modeling and optimization of photovoltaic systems under partially shaded and rapidly changing conditions by Jiang, Lian Lian

“…The direct prediction of the global MPP region in one step guarantees a fast system response. The implementation without irradiance sensors can accurately track the global MPP and features a relatively low cost. …”
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Growth of vanadium oxides nanostructures by chemical vapour deposition by Sim, Dao Hao

“…The growth of nanosheets arrays on Ni foam is due to the high substrate temperature which leads to fast diffusion of adatoms and crystal growth rate, and allows side deposition, forming the nanosheets structure. …”
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Ranging-based adaptive navigation for autonomous micro aerial vehicles by Nguyen, Pham Nhat Thien Minh

“…The last decade has witnessed a surge in popularity of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) in many civilian, industrial and military applications. …”
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Development of serum alternative with fermented soybean residue (okara): towards cultured meat production application by Teng, Ting Shien

“…An in-depth study on the cellular metabolite interaction would be required to optimise the proliferative effects that the fermented okara extracts have on the cells. The last part of the work examines the applicational value of fermented okara extracts in actual cultured meat production – by culturing skeletal muscle cells in media supplemented with fermented okara extracts. …”
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Towards practical data-driven predictive maintenance: a robust and generalizable deep learning approach by Mohamed Ragab Mohamad Adam

“…Subsequently, towards a more scalable domain adaptation approach, a novel adversarial multiple domain adaptation (AMDA) method for single-source multiple targets (1SmT) is proposed to handle multiple unlabeled working conditions concurrently. Last, unlike previous domain adaptation approaches that assume access to unlabeled data from the target working condition, a novel contrastive domain generalization (CDG) is designed to generalize to unseen working conditions with no prior data available. …”
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Improved 3-D frequency-selective structures and their applications by Ahmed Abdelmottaleb Abdelfattah Attia Omar

“…By properly exciting and absorbing the second mode of the modified unit cell, an ultra-wideband dual-polarized absorber is constructed. As the last application example, which is absorptive frequency-selective transmission structure, a tailoring methodology is proposed to achieve arbitrary frequency response within a wide absorption band. …”
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Efficient circuit-designs using spintronic devices by Deb, Suman

“…The last 50 years of Moore’s Law have witnessed a continuous shrinkage of CMOS technology node in the sub-micron range. …”
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