AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE / by Jeffrey Archer, author 507936

“…Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi…thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of enthralling short stories. …”

Communication satellite power amplifiers: current and future SSPA and TWTA technologies by Aniceto, Raichelle, Cahoy, Kerri, Lohmeyer, Whitney

“…Overall, this research was performed to update and clarify how the power and bandwidth needs and redundancy trends of the SatCom community have evolved over the past 30 years.…”
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Automating Design Requirement Extraction From Text With Deep Learning by Akay, Haluk, Yang, Maria, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Nearly every artifact of the modern engineering design process is digitally recorded and stored, resulting in an overwhelming amount of raw data detailing past designs. Analyzing this design knowledge and extracting functional information from sets of digital documents is a difficult and time-consuming task for human designers. …”
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Africa Digest : Trends and issues in business Vol. 18 by Burger, Johan

“…This report addresses some of its experiences during the recent past.…”
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Why behavioral neuroscience still needs diversity? : A curious case of a persistent need by Mathuru, Ajay S., Libersat, Frédéric, Vyas, Ajai, Teseo, Serafino

“…In the past few decades, a substantial portion of neuroscience research has moved from studies conducted across a spectrum of animals to reliance on a few species. …”
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Methods of sustainability assessment of green logistics projects - part I: review of external stakeholders on green logistics initiatives by Toh, Alvin De Rong

“…Impacts of climate change has been continually felt and worsen over the past century. Upsurge in temperature to date thus far has provoked alterations to both the natural and human systems, including increases in floods, droughts, or some variety of extreme weather such as sea level rise to loss of biodiversity. …”
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Tensile split Hopkinson bar laboratory tests with imperfect dimension by Goh, Sean Shun Hui

“…The results obtained are then compared to past year reports to ensure that it is repeatable for future projects. …”
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The implicit decision theory of non-philosophers by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew, Miller, Kristie, Nielsen, Michael

“…Finally, we investigate whether differences in people’s implicit decision theory correlate with differences in their level of future bias: the preference for positively valenced events to be located in the future and not the past, and negatively valenced events to be located in the past and not the future. …”
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Multi-criteria re-entrant jobs scheduling problems using GA and AHP by Lin, Danping.

“…The re-entrant scheduling problem came into prominence as a new type of scheduling problem in the past years. It is found in many production systems, particularly in high-tech industries such as semiconductor wafer fabrication and repairing companies. …”
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The golden bull : is it coming? (current prospects of gold trading) by Lim, Wee Beng, Lim, Daniel Chih Ming, Leong, Kum Hoe

“…Today, it is a different story. Over the past decade or so, we have seen gold price surged to its zenith of $850 an ounce in 1980 and then tumbling down to as low as under $300. …”
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Superior memory efficiency of quantum devices for the simulation of continuous-time stochastic processes by Elliott, Thomas Joseph, Gu, Mile

“…Classical models of systems operating in continuous-time must typically track an unbounded amount of information about past behaviour, even for relatively simple models, enforcing limits on precision due to the finite memory of the machine. …”
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Range front faulting and volcanism in the mono basin, eastern California by Bursik, Marcus, Sieh, Kerry

“…For the past 40,000 years, dikes, intruding underneath the Mono Craters, seem to have been accommodating the 1 mm/yr of extension that was previously taken up by faulting. …”
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Experiences, perceptions and ethical considerations of the malaria infection study in Thailand by Naemiratch, B, Kulpijit, N, Ruangkajorn, S, Day, NPJ, Prachumsri, J, Cheah, PY

“…Background: Thailand has made significant progress in malaria control efforts in the past decade, with a decline in the number of reported cases. …”

Study on OFDM in underwater wireless communications by Pravitha Gopikannan.

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Beyond representation and reality : 'worldmaking' in John Banville's the sea. by Ong, Selina Kai Li.

“…The paper has four parts which discusses (1) the motivation for engaging in ‘worldmaking’ (2) why did the narrator choose to set his ‘narrative world’ in the past (3) the quality of the ‘narrative world’ resembling paintings and films (4) the effects of ‘seeing’ on the narrator in his ‘narrative world’.…”
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Antismoking socialization as a preventive measure against adolescent smoking : a literature review by Ratmana, Dian Tika

“…This paper is intended to provide a comprehensive summary in the research of antismoking socialization in relation to adolescents’ smoking that had been conducted in the past decade. It will also identify and examine the most researched variables that affect the effectiveness of antismoking socialization in preventing as well as reducing adolescent smoking, evaluate the sampling and procedural methods that are being used in the studies, identify limitations encountered that might affect results obtained in studies as well as provide recommendations in future research.…”
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Development of a test bed to investigate conducted and radiated emissions from power line communication networks by Thin, Virainia.

“…Technology has been evolving quickly over the past few decades. Improvement in economical and efficiency of available electronic products have always been one of the top lists for Scientists and Engineers to improve. …”
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Trip and parking generation of major land use developments by Fan, Henry Shing Leung, Tan, Yan Weng

“…The study re-affirms the findings of past research that well-defined patterns of trip and parking generation can be identified for different land use developments. …”
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Are Singapore entrepreneurs ready to venture abroad? by Chung, Dolly Thian Siang, Low, Audra Li Ping, Teo, Eric Guan Meng

“…The phenomenal growth of the Singapore economy over the past three decades can be attributed to a series of sound economic policies that has been undertaken by the government. …”
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Entrepreneurship in Singapore : nature or nurture ? by Teo Ghim Lan, Tan Sok Hong

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