The role of rhetoric in crowdfunding success: effects of logos, ethos, pathos and kairos appeals by Yew, David

“…The third essay tests the effects of rhetorical appeals in crowdfunding pitches on backer decisions to support crowdfunding campaigns. …”
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Developing of innovative and cool mobile applications on the Googles Android powered devices 5 by Arun Mohan

“…Users will get notifications about all major upcoming matches relevant to their choice of sports. Sports Info is tailored to meet the expectations of smart phone users who regularly checks sports updates like match schedules, score card and important sports news.…”
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Empirical investigation on container port competition and cooperation by Aw, Bing Zong

“…With the dawn of the financial downturn, container ports have to seize the opportunity to erode or match their competitors‟ competitive advantage or cooperate to remain competitive. …”
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Wilson loops and spherical branes by Astesiano, D, Bomans, P, Gautason, FF, Puletti, VGM, Nix, A

“…In particular, the structure of the divergences of the one-loop partition functions takes a non-universal form in contrast to examples available in the literature. We devise a general framework to treat the divergences, successfully match the sub-leading scaling with λ and N, and provide a first step towards obtaining the numerical prefactor.…”

Autotuning PID Controllers for Quadplane Hybrid UAV using Differential Evolution Algorithm by Pairan, Mohammad Fahmi, Shamsudin, Syariful Syafiq, Yaakub, Mohd Fauzi

“…Comparing DE tuning to manual tuning, the results demonstrate a considerable improvement in quadplane roll and pitch performance of about 58.5%, 65.0%, and 74.0% in the overshoot, peak time, and rising time, respectively.…”
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CMOS compatible building blocks by Tan, Darel Teng Kiat

“…This project explores the application of physical reservoir computing in predicting alcohol sales and highlights its potential to match the recurrent neural networks in performance with less complexity and improve efficiency when dealing with sequential data taskings. …”
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Structural performance and design of stainless steel gusset plate connections by Khine Myint Myat Thein

“…After the evaluation, it can be concluded that European Code EN 1993-1-4 provides better conservative design predictions for the stainless steel open-section connections as compared to the American Specification AISC 370-21 which provides less conservative design predictions for the same stainless steel open-section connections.…”
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Transition optimization for a VTOL tail-sitter UAV by Li, Boyang, Sun, Jingxuan, Zhou, Weifeng, Wen, Chih-Yung, Low, Kin Huat, Chen, Chih-Keng

“…The simulation and experimental results show that the optimized transition strategy enables the vehicle to finish transition with less time and change of altitude compared with that by using traditional linear transition methods.…”
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Predictive modeling of gold prices: integrating technical indicators for enhanced accuracy by Husiani, Noor Aida, Gan, Yee Jing, Ghazali, Rozaida, Mohmad Hassim, Yana Maswin, Yap, Jie Shen, Joseph, Jerome Subash

“…For this, three (3) machine learning (ML) models - Decision Tree Regressor (DTR), Support Vector Regression (SVR), and Random Forest (RF); must be carefully chosen, and model parameters must be adjusted so that predicted values roughly match actual results. …”
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Influence of competitive anxiety between different genders in racket sports by Woon, Yu Mei

“…The hypothesis was that men would interpret competitive anxiety as being more facilitative than women would. 32 badminton and squash players (16 males, 16 females) completed the Revised Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (Cox, Martens & Russell, 2003) before their match and a post-competition questionnaire. …”
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Constraint optimisation method for the heat transfer in a wavy microchannel by Xu, Yan

“…Resulting populations from algorithms gave best-pareto-front solutions, which allowed further decision-making based on the values of objectives and feasibility of microchannel setups. …”
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Rediscovering Homo sapiens in international politics: evolution and rationality’s missing link by Johnson, D

“…Human decision-making and behavior does not match the definition of either “rationality” or “non-rationality,” and is much better described as “adaptive rationality,” honed over the millennia to compete strategically for survival and reproduction under conditions of uncertainty. …”

Assessing United States Energy Poverty Policy: Regulatory Design Alternatives and Resource Allocation by Heller, Peter J.

“…To improve the targeting strategy of LIHEAP, I design an optimized allocation structure that illustrates a shift in funding to the southern US from northern states. To better match household assistance needs, this analysis urges policy makers to revise the distribution of resources to reflect where concentrations of energy poverty exist in the US.…”
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TimelyTale: A Multimodal Dataset Approach to Assessing Passengers' Explanation Demands in Highly Automated Vehicles by Kim, Gwangbin, Hwang, Seokhyun, Seong, Minwoo, Yeo, Dohyeon, Rus, Daniela, Kim, SeungJun

“…Explanations in automated vehicles enhance passengers' understanding of vehicle decision-making, mitigating negative experiences by increasing their sense of control. …”
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Heterogeneous dataflow architectures for FPGA-based sparse LU factorization by Siddhartha, Kapre, Nachiket

“…We customize the dataflow architecture by picking the right mixture of addition and multiplication processing elements to match the observed balance in the dataflow graphs. …”
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AI-Augmented Predictions: LLM Assistants Improve Human Forecasting Accuracy by Schoenegger, Philipp, Park, Peter, Karger, Ezra, Trott, Sean, Tetlock, Philip

“…Our results suggest that access to a frontier LLM assistant, even a noisy one, can be a helpful decision aid in cognitively demanding tasks compared to a less powerful model that does not provide specific forecasting advice. …”
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Simulation and study on cooling plant efficiency in green data centres by Yeo, Keat Kee.

“…By using multiple units of smaller sized chillers, cooling plant are able to match the installed capacity in the data centre to the optimum efficiency operating point of the chiller, reducing energy inefficiencies.…”
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Modeling, optimization and thermal characterization of micropillar evaporator based high performance silicon vapor chamber by Wei, Mengyao

“…Heat transfer coefficient was found to increase with larger micropillar diameter/pitch ratio, smaller micropillar height, wider micropillar islands and narrower microchannel width. …”
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To assess the impact of physical factors on velocity, speed, and accuracy of tennis serve by Ma, Xudong, Yaacob, Azhar, Tengku Kamalden, Tengku Fadilah, Ng, Yee Guan

“…Only a minor portion of the force exerted on the ball (less than 50%) is generated by the trunk and lower body, yet they significantly influence the velocity. …”
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Android smart phone based participatory sensing by Teo, Kok Hien

“…Various methodologies exist to implement the image matching sub-system, ranging from histogram comparison to template matching to feature analysis. …”
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