Study of online reviewers in a UGC community by Phyu Mon Theint

“…In addition, since the study intends to focus on the portion of reviewers that have matured, basing the study on the prolific reviewers by the imdb website (those who have contributed at least a thousand reviews) will be deemed justifiable compared to randomly selecting reviewers from other communities. …”
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Soundfield control using loudspeaker array by Li, Renshi

“…To address the issue, least squares (LS) methods along with regularisation techniques such as ordinary cross validation (OCV), generalized cross validation (GCV), the L-curve and the truncation method have also been proposed to achieve a desired sound energy level in a pre-defined zone of interest. …”
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Characterizing the scouring efficiency of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) particles in membrane fouling mitigation via wavelet decomposition of accelerometer signals by Wang, Jingwei, Wu, Bing, Yang, Shiliang, Liu, Yu, Chew, Jia Wei, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…Results indicate that the smallest particle diameter of 1.20 mm conferred the least scouring efficiency, while both the larger particle diameters of 1.85 mm and 2.18 mm provided similar scouring efficiency. …”
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Sexual behaviors among methadone maintenance patients in a mountainous area in northern Vietnam by Boggiano, Victoria L., Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi, Nguyen, Long Hoang, Tran, Tho Dinh, Van Nguyen, Hung, Le, Huong Thi, Le, Hai Quan, Hoang, Canh Dinh, Nguyen, Cuong Tat, Tran, Bach Xuan, Latkin, Carl A., Zary, Nabil, Vu, Thuc Minh Thi

“…Results: Most patients (66.4%) reported having at least one sexual partner within the previous twelve months. …”
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Spin-ice physics and phase transitions in cadmium cyanide by Coates, CS

“…Having confirmed the importance of spin-ice physics, chapter 6 explores the pressure and temperature dependence of the ice-like correlations. At least two phase transitions are identied at low pressure, kinetic trapping is observed and the extreme compressibility shown to be a function of cyanide reorientation and ice-like coordination. …”

Towards formal verification of Bayesian inference in probabilistic programming via guaranteed bounds by Zaiser, F

“…These bounds can be computed for a much larger class of probabilistic programs than exact methods and, unlike approximate methods, provide non-stochastic guarantees about the posterior distribution, such as: “the posterior probability of a given event is at least <em>p</em> and at most <em>q</em>”. Crucially, these bounds are fully automated and require no user-provided auxiliary information like loop invariants. …”

Large-scale profiling of antibody reactivity to glycolipids in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome by Thomma, RCM, Halstead, SK, de Koning, LC, Fehmi, J, Rinaldi, S, IGOS consortium

“…<br> Of all patients, 1309 (92.6%) were positive for at least one anti-glycolipid (complex) antibody. Anti-GM1 and anti-GQ1b (complex) antibodies best distinguished motor GuillainBarré syndrome and Miller Fisher syndrome from controls, with antibodies to glycolipid complexes outperforming antibodies to single glycolipids. …”

An epigenetic analysis of planarian stem cells by Dattani, A

“…We also present preliminary evidence to suggest that ATAC-seq on planarian cells can identify both transcriptionally permissive gene promoters, at least in differentiated cells, as well as putative enhancers that correlate with expression of neighbouring genes. …”

Are all renewable energy sources the same? a comparative analysis of public perceptions and preferences for renewable energy types in Southeast Asian cities by del Barrio Alvarez, Daniel, Wang, Nan, Sugiyama, Masahiro, Numata, Masako, Thuy, Truong Dang, Abd Aziz, Azlina, Palanca-Tan, Rosalina, Ze Ya, Aung, Yusuf, Ariel Anshory, Abd. Ghani, Awang Noor, Castillo, Gem, Siyaranamual, Martin Daniel

“…In contrast, bioenergy (or biomass) is generally the least preferred source of energy in all cities. There is considerable variation in perceptions of wind, hydro, and geothermal energy, with a high degree of variability between and within countries. …”
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Elemental characteristics of particulate matter (Pm10 and Pm2.5) from peat swamp area in kuala pahang by Eng, Hwai Ern, Teoh, Chee Shan, Firdaus, Ismail, Abdul Syukor, Abd Razak, Suryati, Sulaiman

“…The data is obtained from the Aeroqual AQM 65 machine starting for April 2019 till March 2020. The survey will last for 12 months to generate a reliable result. …”
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Using edge detection and polarimetric imaging for vaccine inspection by Sharan, Praveer, Tellbach, Denise, Sarma, Sanjay E.

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Predicting Risk and Optimizing Resilience of Digital and Physical Supply Chains by Hu, Kevin

“…Chapter 4 develops a novel methodology for optimizing shipping container scheduling for the last leg in the shipping container global supply chain, called the \textit{drayage trucking} delivery process. …”
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Design, fabrication and characterization of organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells by Ahmed Ali Said Ahmed

“…Finally, summary was provided, as well as the recommendations for current and future work were involved in last chapter.…”
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Hodge theory and its applications to molecular data analysis by Koh, Ronald Joon Wei

“…Not only have HOIPs been projected to be one of the most cost-effective options for future solar cells, its efficiency levels have risen from 5% to 25% in the last decade. Current machine learning-based perovskite designs rely heavily on the prediction of the bandgap of HOIPs. …”
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Simulation-based passenger evacuation optimization in metro stations considering multi-objectives by Guo, Kai, Zhang, Limao

“…An RF-based meta-model is used to construct the relationship between influential factors and objectives. At last, NSGA-III is applied to seeking the optimal solutions for the station renovation in order to achieve a safe evacuation. …”
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Development a novel paradigm for characterization of emerging contaminants in mixed-use anthropogenic impacted watersheds by Lee, Theodora Hui Yian

“…As current monitoring methods are extremely resource intensive, this research will evaluate the effect-based monitoring technique which was designed to have a more cost-efficient and systematic approach in utilizing state-of-the-art analytical techniques. The last key chapter of this thesis focused on the use of an environmental surrogate, fluorescence EEM. …”
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Three-dimensional scour at submarine pipelines by Wu, Yushi.

“…Although numerous studies have been conducted during the last few decades, knowledge on pipeline-scour is still quite limited, especially considering that most of the published research was performed with a 2-dimensional model while pipeline-scour is actually 3-dimensional in field conditions. …”
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Design and simulation of plasmonic metamaterials for sub-wavelength imaging in the visible range by Li, Dongdong

“…At 560 nm, the proposed dielectric nanorod chain lens demonstrated a resolution of 50 nm. The last section of the thesis discusses a unique planar magnifying lens made of two symmetrically arranged unidirectional surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) generators and a multilayered MD structure. …”
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Achieving reliability for wireless multicast transmission using network coding by Qureshi, Jalaluddin

“…We then show that by taking advantages of opportunistic listening due to the shared medium of wireless transmission, overlapping transmission range of the interfering transmitters and physical layer network coding scheme, the results of collision codes and BENEFIT coding algorithm, can be extended to interfering multicast networks to improve the aggregate retransmission throughput performance. In the last part of our thesis we design efficient erasure codes where the coding decision is made independently of the feedback information from the receivers, thus completely eliminating the overhead of feedback transmissions from the receivers. …”
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Intelligent microgrid management and EV control under uncertainties in smart grid by Wang, Ran

“…Several uncertain quantities such as the arrival and departure times of the EVs, their charging requirements and available renewable energy are taken into account. Finally in the last case, we develop a hybrid centralized-decentralized (HCD) EV charging scheme which offers flexible charging choices for customers. …”
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