Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India by Anushka Rege

“…The forests within the Sawantwadi-Dodamarg landscape in southern Maharashtra are mostly privately owned and are being cleared for monoculture cashew expansion, posing a unique conservation challenge. …”
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Priorities to inform research on marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia by Omeyer, Lucy C. M., Duncan, Emily M., Aiemsomboon, Kornrawee, Beaumont, Nicola, Bureekul, Sujaree, Cao, Bin, Carrasco, Luis R., Chavanich, Suchana, Clark, James R., Cordova, Muhammad R., Couceiro, Fay, Cragg, Simon M., Dickson, Neil, Failler, Pierre, Ferraro, Gianluca, Fletcher, Stephen, Fong, Jenny, Ford, Alex T., Gutierrez, Tony, Shahul Hamid, Fauziah, Hiddink, Jan G., Hoa, Pham T., Holland, Sophie I., Jones, Lowenna, Jones, Nia H., Koldewey, Heather, Lauro, Federico M., Lee, Charlotte, Lewis, Matt, Marks, Danny, Matallana-Surget, Sabine, Mayorga-Adame, Claudia G., McGeehan, John, Messer, Lauren F., Michie, Laura, Miller, Michelle A., Mohamad, Zeeda F., Nor, Nur Hazimah Mohamed, Müller, Moritz, Neill, Simon P., Nelms, Sarah E., Onda, Deo Florence L., Ong, Joyce J. L., Pariatamby, Agamuthu, Phang, Sui C., Quilliam, Richard, Robins, Peter E., Salta, Maria, Sartimbul, Aida, Shakuto, Shiori, Skov, Martin W., Taboada, Evelyn B., Todd, Peter A., Toh, Tai Chong, Valiyaveettil, Suresh, Viyakarn, Voranop, Wonnapinij, Passorn, Wood, Louisa E., Yong, Clara L. X., Godley, Brendan J.

“…Knowledge of these aspects will help support actions which currently suffer from transboundary problems, lack of responsibility, and inaction to tackle the issue from its point source in the region. Being profoundly affected by marine plastic pollution, Southeast Asian countries provide an opportunity to test the effectiveness of innovative and socially inclusive changes in marine plastic governance, as well as both high and low-tech solutions, which can offer insights and actionable models to the rest of the world.…”
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Compositionally graded alloys fabricated using the laser powder bed fusion technique by Wei, Siyuan

“…Therefore, metal AM is still in its nascent stage, with the exploration of new alloy chemistries and/or fabrication of components with unique functional and/or mechanical properties being relatively unexplored. The combination of in-situ alloying and compositionally graded alloy is promising to accelerate the composition screening/alloy designing for AM, as it can rapidly examine the printability, micro-/meso-structure, and properties of the AM-produced parts and therefore shorten the time span between conceptualization of new alloys and their deployment in service. …”
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Singlish与文化和国族认同： 以目的论分析网络视频 "Singapore Bootcamp" 和 "The Ah Bengs" 的 Singlish 翻译策略 = Singlish and national identity: a study on the Singlish translation of "Singapore Bootcamp" an... by 曹清雯 Cao, Qingwen

“…Apart from English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, Singlish is regarded as the fifth official language by locals. Singlish came into being in the 1970s under the collision of many languages, and with the development of time, it has become a tool of communication. …”
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Digital twin and AI enabled predictive maintenance in building industry by Hu, Wei

“…Indoor climate, particularly air quality, directly impacts occupant well-being, comfort, and productivity and can be an essential indicator of system failures or inefficiencies. …”
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Modeling and optimization of photovoltaic systems under partially shaded and rapidly changing conditions by Jiang, Lian Lian

“…Limitations to existing parameter extraction and modeling techniques for PV systems resulted in the scope of this thesis being extended to also cover these topics. In Chapter 1, the PV system is introduced and the motivations for the research on this topic are presented. …”
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Design of a supply- and temperature-invariant capacitive sensor interface for low power applications by Arup Kocheethra George

“…The proposed CDC is suitable for a stand-alone operation requiring no redundant circuit blocks such as regulation/reference circuits. Being a mostly digital architecture, the proposed CDC can operate in an ultra-low supply voltage. …”
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Critical events detection and management in complex networks by Yu, Yi

“…In our model, similar opinion holders may form into communities yet without strict community consensus; and rather than being separated into disconnected communities, different communities remain to be interconnected by non-trivial proportion of inter-community links, allowing complex dynamics to emerge when there are changes of opinions in a certain portion of population. …”
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Synaptic plasticity in VLSI : a floating-gate approach by Gopalakrishnan, Roshan

“…Computationally T-STDP has advantages like replicating rate based plasticity experiments and detecting third order input correlations. As these rules are being proposed by neurobiologists, we as engineers try to implement them in silicon in order to employ them in complex real world applications. …”
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How balanced are you? Bilingualism and the development of attentional control in English-Mandarin preschool children by Chan, Clara Gek Hoon

“…Taken together, the studies suggest that more-balanced bilingual children (as compared to less-balanced ones) exhibit better attentional control, and this difference may be due to the differences in exposure to their languages between these two groups; the less-balanced bilinguals are exposed mostly to their dominant language, and since that context does not require as much cognitive demands, they are less likely to practice attentional control, as compared to being in a highly bilingual environment, which is more common in more-balanced bilinguals. …”
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Using dynamic assessment of writing to promote technology-enhanced learning in higher education (Abstract) [Conference paper] by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…It aimed to develop students’ professional skills, i.e., digital skills, in blended learning by promoting experiential learning, improve students’ writing performance and favourable attitudes towards learning and support their well-being in HEI especially in the post-Covid-19 era Fifty final year students participated in this project as part of their module. …”
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Brownian dynamics simulation of soft matter with hydrodynamics: methods for constrained systems and shear processing of 2D materials by Funkenbusch, William Tian

“…The most ubiquitous 2D material, graphene, for example, possesses large surface areas, tunability, and unique electrical, optical, and catalytic properties while being lightweight, strong, and flexible. This has led to graphene seeing use in separations, biomedical applications, flexible electronics, and more. …”
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Towards haptic intelligence in robots by learning from demonstration by Turlapati Sri Harsha

“…Recording the haptic data from human demonstrations helps addressing the quantitative aspect of this problem with the research challenge now being the understanding the contact task using the collected data. …”
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Holistic teaching workload allocation for research-intensive universities by Roopchandani, Arpit

“…Moreover, a consistency bias was introduced in the Hungarian Algorithm to ensure that a faculty member is assigned tutorials and labs of the course being taught by the faculty. These techniques were shown to reduce the fragmentation from 3.2 faculty members per course to 1.4 without affecting teaching effectiveness. …”
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AI techniques in CFD: leveraging physical priors with deep learning to improve on numerical solvers by Loh, Jessica Sher En

“…Finally, prior studies generally exclude complex geometries, despite them being crucial for many modern engineering design processes. …”
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新加坡华语句末语气词 ：在语料库基础上与普通话的对比统计 = Statistical comparison of Singaporean and Mainland Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study on sentence final particles... by 白欣彦 Pak, Xin Yan

“…Furthermore, the distribution of the five SFPs in SMC and MMC is similar, the main difference being the correlation with the adverb variable, genre variable and the relation with declarative sentences. …”
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Investigation of charge transport in nanofiber based solar cells by Sabba Dharani

“…Therefore one dimensional nanostructures are being explored as a replacement for nanoparticles with the aim of improving charge transport by providing a directional path for charge percolation and by reducing the surface traps and density of grain bound- aries associated with nanoparticles. …”
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Thermal effects on particle deposition in microchannels by Yan, Zhibin

“…The results show that the particle deposition rate can be reduced by 50% with increasing the flow oscillation frequency from 0 Hz to 1 Hz at elevated temperatures with the steady flow component being fixed at 1 mL/h.…”
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Efficient storage codes for non-volatile memories by Chua, Melissa Wan Jun

“…Flash memory is currently the most mature storage medium in portable electronic devices and is rapidly being introduced into mobile gadgets and data-intensive computer systems. …”
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Unsupervised bayesian generative methods by Li, Shaohua

“…In a conventional hierarchical agglomerative clustering framework, this likelihood ratio is used to decide whether to treat the two sets of papers as being authored by the same person and merge them. …”
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