Development of a portable prototype of energy-saving LED lighting system by Lum, Rui Qian

“…In Singapore, where corporations and households contribute nearly half of the total energy consumption, there's a pressing need for technologies promoting energy efficiency. …”
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New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants by Allen, MR, Fuglestvedt, JS, Shine, KP, Reisinger, A, Pierrehumbert, R, Forster, PM

“…If the overall goal of climate policy is to limit peak warming, GWP100 therefore overstates the importance of current SLCP emissions unless stringent and immediate reductions of all climate pollutants result in temperatures nearing their peak soon after mid-century7, 8, 9, 10, which may be necessary to limit warming to “well below 2 °C” (ref. 1). …”

Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 96

“…Oil has defined the modern-day development of the Gulf region in a way seen in no other place in the world; together, the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are home to around a third of known global reserves of oil, and nearly a quarter of its natural gas. Saudi Arabia remains the world’s most important producer of conventional oil, and continues to hold the majority of the world’s spare capacity, while Qatar has become the world’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG). …”

Higher education and public good in England by Marginson, S, Yang, L

“…There were 24 semi-structured interviews, with middle and senior manager-leaders in two universities and policy professionals. Nearly all advocated a broad public good role, in contrast to policy in England, and provided examples of public outcomes in higher education. …”

Search for CP violation in D0 → K0 SK0 S decays in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV by CMS Collaboration

“…The analysis uses a dedicated data set that corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 41.6 fb - 1 , which consists of about 10 billion events containing a pair of b hadrons, nearly all of which decay to charm hadrons. The flavor of the neutral D meson is determined by the pion charge in the reconstructed decays D ∗ + → D 0 π + and D ∗ - → D ¯ 0 π - . …”
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Comparative study of composite scarf and strap joints for equivalent repair signature under uniaxial tension by Srinivasan, Dharun Vadugappatty, Padma, S. Ravisankar, Idapalapati, Sridhar

“…Scarf joints are preferred in aerospace composite repairs that offer better strength, flushed surface and nearly uniform shear and peel stress distribution along the bond length. …”
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Femtosecond laser-induced nano-joining of volatile tellurium nanotube memristor by Yu, Yongchao, Joshi, Pooran, Bridges, Denzel, Fieser, David, Hu, Anming

“…Compared to previous metal oxide nanowire-based memristors, the reported Te nanotube memristor system displayed a nearly two-order stronger current response. The research displays that the multileveled resistance state is rewritable with a negative bias.…”
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Gaps In Primary Care And Health System Performance In Six Latin American And Caribbean Countries by Macinko, James, Guanais, Frederico C., Mullachery, Pricila, Jimenez, Geronimo

“…Respondents reported considerable gaps in the ways in which primary care is organized, financed, and delivered. Nearly half reported using the emergency department for a condition they considered treatable in a primary care setting. …”
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Differences in pulse manifestations at Cunkou based on simplified modeling of tactile sensing by Shi, Yubing, Yang, Hongyi, Yeo, Joon Hock

“…Some researchers mentioned that no significant differences were observed in pulse manifestations at various Cunkou areas, hence there might be some difficulty in evaluating the status of different organs through checking pulse manifestations at Cunkou. This research aims to analyze the pulse response at Cunkou from the aspect of the characteristics of tactile sensing, thus to give a preliminary explanation to the above question. …”
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Bayesian collective learning emerges from heuristic social learning by Krafft, P.M., Shmueli, Erez, Griffiths, Thomas L., Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Pentland, Alex

“…Here, we show how a Bayesian social sampling model can in principle simultaneously optimally aggregate information and nearly optimally solve the exploration-exploitation dilemma. …”
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Machine learning from quantum chemistry to predict experimental solvent effects on reaction rates by Chung, Yunsie, Green, William H.

“…The presented model can provide nearly instantaneous predictions of kinetic solvent effects or relative rate constants for a broad range of neutral closed-shell or free radical reactions and solvents only based on atom-mapped reaction SMILES and solvent SMILES strings.…”
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Modelling and control of HVAC systems by Men, Bunnaroth

“…Nearly 50 percent of Singapore's electricity consumption comes from buildings, both residential and non-residential. …”
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Development and characterization of deep reactive ion etching technology for through silicon interconnection by Nagarajan, Ranganathan

“…It was shown that the leakage current can be reduced by about nearly 3 orders of magnitude when the sidewall roughness is reduced or replaced by a smoother sidewall for the initial few microns of the depth of the via by using a non-Bosch etch process. …”
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Machine learning attack on hardware implementation of one-way function by Lauw, Andri Renardi

“…It reduces the prediction accuracy from 99% to nearly 50%, which is only slightly better than random chance. …”
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AXES at TRECVID 2012: KIS, INS, and MED by Aly, R, Mcguinness, K, Chen, S, O'Conner, NE, Chatfield, K, Parkhi, OM, Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A, Fernando, B, Tuytelaars, T, Oneata, D, Douze, M, Revaud, J, Schwenninger, J, Potapov, D, Wang, H, Harchaoui, Z, Verbeek, J, Schmid, C

“…As in our TRECVid 2011 system, we used nearly identical search systems and user interfaces for both INS and KIS. …”

Analytical determination of permeability of porous fibrous media with consideration of electrokinetic phenomena by Yang, J., Liao, K., Zhu, Q. Y., Xie, M. H., Chen, Y. Q.

“…The analytical results show that when the dimensionless electric resistance number is small and the porosity is large, the dimensionless total flow rate shows a nearly uniform distribution. When the dimensionless electric resistance number is large, the resistant effects of the electrical double layer (EDL) become so significant that the superficial velocity decreases. …”
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Natural IgG antibodies provide innate protection against ficolin-opsonized bacteria by Panda, Saswati, Zhang, Jing, Tan, Nguan Soon, Ho, Bow, Ding, Jeak Ling

“…For nearly five decades since its discovery, the role of natural IgG, which pre‐exists in neonates and uninfected individuals, has remained unclear due to the general perception that natural antibodies lack affinity for pathogens. …”
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Light-induced microfluidic chip based on shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites by Wang, Wenxin, Liu, Xianbin, Xu, Wei, Wei, Hongqiu, Liu, Yanju, Han, Yu, Jin, Peng, Du, Hejun, Leng, Jinsong

“…The shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites display excellent light-induced shape memory property with recovery ratio of nearly 100% in visible light. The crosslinked network of light-induced shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites forms by aldol reaction, esterification, and/or hydrogen bonding of poly (vinyl alcohol), glutaraldehyde, and gold nanoparticles. …”
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Simplified algebraic estimation technique for sensor count reduction in single-phase converters with an active power buffer by Yuan, Huawei, Li, Sinan, Tan, Siew-Chong, Hui, Ron Shu-Yuen

“…With this method, the sensor count can be reduced by 50%, while achieving a nearly 20-times computational time reduction as compared to that of the conventional method.…”
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Hardware-efficient systolic-like modular design for two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform by Meher, Pramod Kumar, Mohanty, Basant Kumar, Patra, Jagdish Chandra

“…The proposed design can offer nearly the same throughput rate, and requires the same or less the number of adders and multipliers as the best of the existing structures. …”
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