The Aircraft Carrier: An Idea That Refuses to Die by Bitzinger, Richard A.

“…The aircraft carrier, denigrated by some as obsolete and a “cruise missile magnet,” continues to find new users and new uses. Consequently, over the next decades expect the number of aircraft carriers and the number of countries in the Asia-Pacific operating carriers, to expand, not decline.…”
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The mediating role of halal supply chain integrity in enhancing performance for halal herbal-based food SMEs by Rajendran, Salini Devi, Kamarulzaman, Nitty Hirawaty, Abd Rahman, Azmawani

“…Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. Findings – The findings showed that supply chain integration (SCI), Islamic human capital and HSCI have a significant relationship with SMEs’ performance. …”
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Examining twitter discourse on electronic cigarette and tobacco consumption during national cancer prevention month in 2018: topic modeling and geospatial analysis by Lu, Jiahui, Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…Background: Examining public perception of tobacco products is critical for effective tobacco policy making and public education outreach. While the link between traditional tobacco products and lung cancer is well established, it is not known how the public perceives the association between electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and lung cancer. …”
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Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication : A Guide for Research / by Brookes, Gavin (Linguist), author 629273, Collins, Luke, author 656146

“…Both those with a little or a lot of experience in either field will find value in its pages"--…”
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Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks / by Sze, Vivienne, author 656123, Chen, Yu-Hsin, author 656124, Yang, Tien-Ju, author 656125, Emer, Joel S., author 656126

“…The book includes background on DNN processing; a description and taxonomy of hardware architectural approaches for designing DNN accelerators; key metrics for evaluating and comparing different designs; features of DNN processing that are amenable to hardware/algorithm co-design to improve energy efficiency and throughput; and opportunities for applying new technologies. Readers will find a structured introduction to the field as well as formalization and organization of key concepts from contemporary work that provide insights that may spark new ideas.…”
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Ethics and Law for School Psychologists : A Vignette-Based Workbook / by Whalen, Angela, author 655199, Diamond, Elena, author 655200, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…The authors bridge the gap between ethics and law coursework and real-world ethical and legal dilemmas by offering opportunities for practice applying robust decision-making models to vignettes and cases distilled from the authors' experiences in practice. Readers will also find: Explanations of the DECIDE ethical-legal decision-making framework for approaching practice dilemmas; Worksheets illustrating the problem-solving process for school psychology practitioners; Structured role plays for practicing difficult conversations with administrators, colleagues, parents, and others. …”
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Who2chat: A Social Networking System for Academic Researchers in Virtual Social Hours Enabling Coordinating, Overcoming Barriers and Social Signaling by Park, Soya, Song, Jaeyoon, Karger, David R., Malone, Thomas W.

“…Our results highlight that the interface allowed users to find relevant researchers and helped them feel confident in joining conversations. …”
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The relationship between ridehailing and public transit in Chicago: A comparison before and after COVID-19 by Meredith-Karam, Patrick, Kong, Hui, Wang, Shenhao, Zhao, Jinhua

“…Furthermore, using spatial regression, we find that an increased tendency of TNC trips to substitute transit is related to a lower proportion of elderly people, greater proportion of peak-period TNC travel, greater transit network availability, a higher percentage of white population, and increased crime rates. …”
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The cognitive and neural basis of complex decision-making in the primate brain by Ramadan, Mahdi F.

“…In chapter two, I train two monkeys on the task and find that monkeys also adopt a hierarchical and revision strategy to solve the task, like humans. …”
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Cooperation and Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning by Aloor, Jasmine, Nayak, Siddharth Nagar, Dolan, Sydney, Balakrishnan, Hamsa

“…For goal coverage scenarios, we find that, on average, the proposed model yields a 14% improvement in efficiency and a 5% improvement in fairness over a baseline model that is trained using random assignments. …”
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Beam heating explains critical current suppression measured during ion irradiation of REBCO tapes by Devitre, Alexis, Fischer, David, Riva, N., Rae, M., Kortman, Lauryn, Woller, Kevin, Fisher, Zoe, Short, Michael, Whyte, Dennis, Hartwig, Zachary

“…As such, accelerator-based facilities aiming to reproduce the operation of REBCO magnets in a nuclear fusion environment should find strategies to minimize interface thermal resistance. …”
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Spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter near a Chern insulator : interplay of time-reversal symmetry breaking and Van Hove singularity by Lu, Bing-Sui, Arifa, Kathee Zathul, Hong, Xing Ru

“…We also study the impact of a Van Hove singularity on the surface-induced correction to the transition rate, finding that it can enhance its amplitude by a few orders of magnitude compared to the case where the conductivity is set to its static value. …”
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Multiscale microstructural heterogeneity and mechanical property scatter in Inconel 718 produced by directed energy deposition by Yeoh, Yong Chen, Macchi. Guido, Jain, Ekta, Gaskey, Bernard, Raman, Sudharshan, Tay, Grace, Verdi, Davide, Patran, Alin, Grande, Antonio Mattia, Seita, Matteo

“…We also find that standard heat treatments employed on Inconel 718 are not suitable to homogenize the microstructure. …”
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Supply chain performance with target-oriented firms by Chen, Lucy Gongtao, Tang, Qinshen

“…We also investigate the role of outside option and retailer-type misidentification and find that both can alleviate the retailer’s disadvantage of being target-oriented.…”
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Traffic management proposed electronic road pricing system by Ho, Eng Foo, Lim, Choon Fong, Poh, Leong Wee

“…The survey aims to look at their travel pattern, to find out about their perceived impacts of the ERP's implementation, to determine their awareness and . …”
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Heat transfer performance in the longitudinal corrugated fin and oval tube compact heat exchangers by Gholami, Ahmadali

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An improvised three-dimensional slope stability analysis based on limit equilibrium method by using particle swarm optimization by Kalatehjari, Roohollah

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Accelerating convolutional neural networks through enhanced designs by Gennari do Nascimento, M

“…Our second paper, NUQ, proposes an algorithm to find the optimal bitwidth of each layer of a CNN. …”

Early detection of reduced artemisinin susceptibility in plasmodium falciparum using novel phenotypic indicators by Xiong, Aoli

“…This observation indicated a potential link between the acquisition of artemisinin resistance and DNA damage repair. …”
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Enhancing spectrum efficiency through hybrid-duplex systems for aeronautical communications by Tan, Ernest Zheng Hui

“…On the contrary, severe shadowing on the desired link leads to higher outage probability at the FD-GS, despite SI mitigation measures. …”
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