Ubiquitous games for learning (UbiqGames) : Weatherlings, a worked example by Klopfer, E., Sheldon, J., Perry, J., Chen, Vivian Hsueh-Hua

“…In particular, we explain the choices made to build an engaging and educational first example of this line of games, namely Weatherlings. Further, we report results from a pilot study with 20 students that suggest that students are engaged by the game and are interested in learning more about academic content topics, specifically weather and climate, after playing the game. …”
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Harmonic fields based surface and volume mapping by Xia, Jiazhi

“…After that, a global smoothing step is adopted to improve the continuity along the segmentation boundaries. In Chapter 5, we also develop another method to overcome the drawback of harmonic maps in parameterizing 3D facial expressions. …”
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Assessment of fluid responsiveness using pulse pressure variation, stroke volume variation, plethysmographic variability index, central venous pressure, and inferior vena cava vari... by Chaves, Renato C. F., Barbas, Carmen S. V., Queiroz, Veronica N. F., Serpa Neto, Ary, Deliberato, Rodrigo O., Pereira, Adriano J., Timenetsky, Karina T., Silva Júnior, João M., Takaoka, Flávio, de Backer, Daniel, Celi, Leo A., Corrêa, Thiago D.

“…Pulse pressure variation (PPV) was studied in 40 studies, mean threshold with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) = 11.5 (10.5–12.4)%, and area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) with 95% CI was 0.87 (0.84–0.90). …”
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Magnetoresistive sensor development roadmap (non-recording applications) by Zheng, Chao, Zhu, Ke, De Freitas, Susana Cardoso, Chang, Jen-Yuan, Davies, Joseph E., Eames, Peter, Freitas, Paulo P., Kazakova, Olga, Kim, Cheol Gi, Leung, Chi-Wah, Liou, Sy-Hwang, Ognev, Alexey, Piramanayagam, S. N., Ripka, Pavel, Samardak, Alexander, Shin, Kwang-Ho, Tong, Shi-Yuan, Tung, Mean-Jue, Wang, Shan X., Xue, Songsheng, Yin, Xiaolu, Pong, Philip W. T.

“…As a result, timescales for MR sensor development were established and critical milestones for sensor parameters were extracted in order to gain insight into potential MR sensor applications (non-recording). Five application areas were identified, and five MR sensor roadmaps were established. …”
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Reliability analysis and data driven modelling of railway component failure by Wang, Jinlong

“…Failure modes and mechanisms from five components were investigated which including: (1) Welded rail break failure; (2) Rotating bending fatigue test for welded rail material; (3) Train door failure; (4) Rail wear degradation failure; (5) Wheel flat degradation failure. …”
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New algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of sign detection and magnitude comparison in residue number systems by Sachin Kumar

“…Synthesis results in 65 nm CMOS technology show that the proposed design is 36.9% smaller, 7.6% faster and 45.5% more energy-efficient than the best CRT-II based magnitude comparator and at least 12.9% smaller, 7.3% faster and 20.8% more energy-efficient than the best reverse-conversion based implementation of signed integer comparator for the same five-moduli set.…”
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Comparison of text messaging data collection vs face-to-face interviews for public health surveys : a cluster randomized crossover study of care-seeking for childhood pneumonia and... by van Velthoven, Michelle Helena, Wang, Wei, Wu, Qiong, Li, Ye, Scherpbier, Robert W, Du, Xiaozhen, Chen, Li, Zhang, Yanfeng, Car, Josip, Rudan, Igor

“…The proportion of agreement was >90% for five questions; 80.0%-90.0% for five questions; 70.0%, 65.0% and 45.5%. …”
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Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank by Chen, Y, Yu, W, Lv, J, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Zhang, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Yu, C

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> In this prospective analysis, we used data from the China Kadoorie Biobank, a large and long-term cohort from five urban areas and five rural areas, using participants aged 35–70 years. …”

Relationship between synoptic scale meteorology, aircraft parameters, and observable contrails by Barbosa, Maria Paula

“…Long-lasting or "persistent" contrails are line-shaped clouds that form when airplanes fly through cold and humid parts of the atmosphere that are ice-supersaturated. …”
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Risk prediction models to guide antibiotic prescribing : a study on adult patients with uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infections in an emergency department by Wong, Joshua Guoxian, Aung, Aung-Hein, Lian, Weixiang, Lye, David Chien, Ooi, Chee-Kheong, Chow, Angela

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Public bus transit service modeling and optimization: from conventional to autonomous vehicles by Tian, Qingyun

“…In the first part, this thesis proposes a novel tri-level model for a transit service operation design problem that primarily determines the optimal bus line frequency setting. Unlike the existing studies, the strategy choices of passengers in presence of congested common lines are explicitly considered. …”
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A comparative analysis of ENCODE and Cistrome in the context of TF binding signal by Perna, Stefano, Pinoli, Pietro, Ceri, Stefano, Wong, Limsoon

“…Results: We provide evidence that data points with high signalValue(s) (top 25% of values) are more likely to be consistent between ENCODE and Cistrome in human cell lines K562, GM12878, and HepG2. In addition, we show that filtering according to said high values improves the quality of predictions for a machine learning algorithm that detects transcription factor interactions based only on positional information. …”
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When the Earth Breathes: An Anthology of Volcanic Urbanism by Carucci Alvarez, Maria Gabriela

“…Igneous landscapes, through the production of new basalt floors, rich soils and ocean intrusions, traverse and redefine property boundary lines and national coastlines, which extends beyond plan views and into sectional shifts. …”
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Experimental investigation of nonlinear forces on a monopile offshore wind turbine foundation under directionally spread waves by Ding, H, Zhao, G, Tang, T, Taylor, PH, Adcock, TAA, Dai, S, Ning, D, Chen, L, Li, J, Wang, R, Zang, J

“…The clean separation of individual harmonics enables the estimation of contributions from each harmonic. Our findings are in line with previous research, showing that nonlinear loading can constitute up to 40% of the total under certain wave conditions. …”

Developments in THz Polaritonics: Towards Integrated Nonlinear THz Spectroscopy by Sung, Eric Rueyhao

“…In a typical polaritonics experiment, the optical pump light is focused to a single line which launches THz fields with electric field strengths of approximately 10 kV/cm. …”
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A Machine Learning Based Approach to Reaction Rate Estimation by Johnson, Matthew S., Green, William H.

“…The accuracy of the algorithm is tested against the state of the art rate rules scheme in the RMG-database for five selected reaction families. The SIDT method is shown to significantly improve estimation accuracy across all reaction families and considered statistics. …”
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Hispanic Engineer’s Involvement in Corporate Diversity Networks by Chambe, Enoch

“…The study provides a detailed literature review of relevant existing research on this subject, followed by semi-structured interviews of ten participants, and a thematic analysis approach used to analyze the data into the following five themes: diversity considerations for school and job selections, employee perspective on ERGs, sense of belonging and generational differences, the meaning of inclusiveness, and continued participation. …”
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15.012 Applied Macro- and International Economics, Spring 2002 by Thurow, Lester

“…The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on historical episodes, particularly in the United States. …”
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Prospects of a multipolar international monetary order by Alam Md Whaheed

“…But in the last twenty-five years the US has been undergoing persistent current account deficit and external debts. …”
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Nurses lived experiences on the nurse-patient relationship by Koo, Alvina Min En

“…Adopting a constructivism paradigm, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five NPNs who came into frequent contact with end-of-life patients but were not trained in the provision of palliative care. …”
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