Study on mechanical behaviors of cable-supported ribbed beam composite slab structure during construction phase by Qiao, W. T., Zhao, Ming Shan, An, Q., Wang, D.

“…The standard construction method of CBS including five steps and two key phases are proposed in this paper. …”
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Effects of statistical sampling errors on flood-damage-reduction project evaluation by Su, Hsin-Ting, Tung, Yeou-Koung

“…The influence of the model parameter uncertainty on the project evaluation results is examined through an example FDR project with five design alternatives in which flood magnitude follows a Gumbel distribution.…”
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Full-reference image quality assessment by combining features in spatial and frequency domains by Tang, Zhisen, Zheng, Yuanlin, Gu, Ke, Liao, Kaiyang, Wang, Wei, Yu, Miaomiao

“…Extensive experimental results on the five benchmark databases indicate that the proposed method precedes all the state-of-the-art image quality assessment metrics in terms of prediction accuracy. …”
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Bacteria and archaea on Earth and their abundance in biofilms by Flemming, Hans-Curt, Wuertz, Stefan

“…Most bacteria and archaea on Earth (1.2 × 10³⁰ cells) exist in the 'big five' habitats: deep oceanic subsurface (4 × 10²⁹), upper oceanic sediment (5 × 10²⁸), deep continental subsurface (3 × 10²⁹), soil (3 × 10²⁹) and oceans (1 × 10²⁹). …”
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The effects of ALA accreditation standards on library education programs accredited by the American Library Association by Mounce, Michael E.

“…Out of the forty-nine recipients, there were twenty-five respondents (51 percent). Conclusions drawn from the study were that the six ALA accreditation standards combined were perceived as having more influence overall than the individual standards. …”
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Ontology-based big data analysis for orchid smart farming by Kaewboonma, Nattapong, Chansanam, Wirapong, Buranarach, Marut

“…The ontology design and development process comprises: (1) Ontology design: the domain ontology provide vocabularies for concepts and relations within the orchid domain, and information ontology which specifies the record structure of databases; (2) Ontology development, which consists of five processes: (i) defining the scope, (ii) investigating the existing ontologies and plan to reuse, (iii) defining terms and its relations, (iv) create instances, and (v) implementation and evaluation. …”
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Smart hand gesture sensing with millimeter wave radar and machine learning by Sang, Jiajun

“…An innovative way of “democratic voting” of machine learning will be introduced, where the prediction results will follow the majority out of five machine learning model predictions. This method effectively improves the credibility and accuracy of the algorithm.…”
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Dry bulk freight market analysis and forecast under the yield management framework by Wu, Mengxia.

“…First of all, the fitness of yield management in dry bulk shipping is examined against the five classical yield management characteristics and the fitness is proved. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of protein-based tissue scaffold by Ko, Kok Wei.

“…The SF scaffolds were prepared and fabricated via freeze drying method for five different sets of SF concentration - (5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, 15%) wt/wt. …”
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A cross country analysis of private benefits of control by Toh, Ting Jun, Wiranegara, Cynthia, Abdullah Al Azad Adnan

“…We construct a measure of the private benefits of control in five countries and based on seven control transactions between 1984 and 2006. …”
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Imagined contact theory : a study of the relationship between the use of weibo and perceived discrimination amongst chinese immigrants in Singapore. by Chia, Alvin Zhao Yuan., Tan, Sie Mun., Tan, Lisa Xin Qi., Woo, Zhen Wei.

“…As part of the research, a five-week campaign sought to engage young Chinese immigrants aged 16 to 35 living in Singapore. …”
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Educational simulator for the MIPS processor by Neo, Gerald Wei Sheng

“…A typical smartphone nowadays carry the processing power of a desktop five years ago. This is all made possible due to growth in VLSI design. …”
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Effects of video-based technology to improve performance of a soccer player’s direct free kick by Tan, Mark Mu Zhou

“…Thirty male soccer players (Mean (SD): 23.3 (1.5) years) completed 30 direct free kicks achieving maximum points consisting between zero to five. …”
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Efficient feedforward categorization of objects and human postures with address-event image sensors by Chen, Shoushun, Akselrod, Polina, Zhao, Bo, Carrasco, Jose Antonio Perez, Linares-Barranco, Bernabe, Culurciello, Eugenio

“…Compared to state-of-the-art bio-inspired categorization methods, the proposed algorithm requires less hardware resource, reduces the computation complexity by at least five times, and is an ideal candidate for hardware implementation with event-based circuits.…”
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Measurement invariance of the higher-order model of Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) across child age, gender, parental anxiety, and pandemic period in England by Creswell, C, Reardon, T, Spence, S, Zhou, S

“…The Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS) is a parent-report scale measuring young children’s anxiety symptoms involving five specific anxiety symptoms (separation anxiety, physical injury fears, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalised anxiety) that load on a higher-order factor representing general anxiety shared by all specific anxiety symptom subtypes. …”

Alternative splicing in the DBD linker region of p63 modulates binding to DNA and iASPP in vitro by Lotz, R, Osterburg, C, Chaikuad, A, Weber, S, Akutsu, M, Machel, AC, Beyer, U, Gebel, J, Löhr, F, Knapp, S, Dobbelstein, M, Lu, X, Dötsch, V

“…We further demonstrate that this binding site is removed in a splice variant of p63 where a stretch of five amino acids is replaced with a single alanine residue. …”

The Basic Needs in Games Scale (BANGS): a new tool for investigating positive and negative video game experiences by Ballou, N, Denisova, A, Ryan, R, Rigby, CS, Deterding, S

“…The scale was validated and evaluated over five studies with a total of 1246 unique participants. …”

Structural and interactional studies of the cobalamin-dependent enzyme human methionine synthase by Ferreira, D

“…The enzyme methionine synthase (MTR) is a modular five-domain protein that utilises cobalamin (Cbl) as a cofactor to perform a methyl transfer from methyltetrahydrofolate (MeTHF) to homocysteine (Hcy), producing tetrahydrofolate (THF) and methionine (Met). …”

Rethinking semi-supervised medical image segmentation: a variance-reduction perspective by You, C, Dai, W, Min, Y, Liu, F, Clifton, DA, Zhou, SK, Staib, L, Duncan, JS

“…Finally, we experimentally validate our approaches on eight benchmarks, i.e., five 2D/3D medical and three semantic segmentation datasets, with different label settings, and our methods consistently outperform state-of-the-art semi-supervised methods. …”

Can biosecurity on farms reduce bovine tuberculosis risks in cattle in England? a review of observational and literature-based evidence by Voller, C, Perrin, LD, Gibbens, JC, Delahay, RJ, Heasman, L, Vial, F, Prosser, A, Heard, J, Robertson, A, Brunton, L, Enticott, G, Donnelly, C, Downs, SH

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Thirty-three papers with 117 effect estimates met the inclusion criteria and were grouped according to a five-point biosecurity plan. There was consistent evidence for lower TB risk from reducing contact with neighbouring herds and from preventing cattle at higher TB risk entering herds. …”