A study on Stevedoring companies and their operations in Singapore : break bulk shipping segment by Ng, Donovan Chun Hong

“…Considering the importance of stevedores’ contribution to the seamless functioning of our ports, this paper aims to study the development of stevedoring operations in the break bulk shipping segment in Singapore over time and find out the relevance of break bulk stevedores in the rapidly changing environment of break bulk shipping. …”
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Detecting Phantom Data Usage on Smartphones with Analysis of Contextual Information by Jiang, Shiqi, Zhou, Pengfei, Li, Mo

“…We investigate about 400 real PDU issues and find the causes of PDU are not only the exceptions of applications, for example, software bugs or malware, but also the user’s personalized misuse. …”
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The emergence of compositional grammars in artificial codes by Hong, Fuhai, Lim, Wooyoung, Zhao, Xiaojian

“…In a communication game with no conflict of interest, the sender sends a message that is an arbitrary string from available symbols with no prior meaning to indicate an abstract geometrical figure to the receiver. We find strong evidence from the laboratory for the emergence of compositional grammars in the subjects' common codes that facilitate learning efficiency. …”
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Government Transparency and Perceived Social Equity: Assessing the Moderating Effect of Citizen Trust in China by Wu, Wei, Ma, Liang, Yu, Wenxuan

“…Using large sample citizen survey data from 36 major cities in China, we find that government transparency is positively related to perceived social equity. …”
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A structural interpretation of the aftershock "cloud" of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake by Liu, Jing, Sieh, Kerry, Hauksson, Egill

“…We analyze the spatial relationship of relocated aftershocks to the principal rupture planes of the Mw 7.3 1992 Landers mainshock from a structural point of view. We find that the aftershocks constitute primarily a several-kilometer-wide damage zone centered on the mainshock rupture planes. …”
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Achieving faster handovers in mobile WiMAX networks by Lu, Qi, Ma, Maode

“…In the handover process, scanning is required to find a suitable target BS, and network re-entry is needed to establish the new connection. …”
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A novel low-waveguide-crossing floorplan for fat tree based optical networks-on-chip by Wang, Zhehui, Xu, Jiang, Wu, Xiaowen, Ye, Yaoyao, Zhang, Wei, Liu, Weichen, Nikdast, Mahdi, Wang, Xuan, Wang, Zhe

“…The average number of waveguide crossings per optical path in the optimized floorplan is 87% less than that in traditional floorplan for a 64-core CMP. We also find the optimal aspect ratio of cores to minimize the end-to-end delay. …”
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Scheduling nonlinear divisible loads in a single level tree network by Suresh, Sundaram, Run, Cui, Kim, H. J., Robertazzi, T. G.

“…The problem of finding optimal load fraction is a computationally intensive task. …”
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Health and safety performance of UK universities and how to improve it by Kuzmina, Olga, Searle, Douglas

“…Health and Safety professionals in the universities may find it useful to reflect on these findings and the identified best practices in order to improve the H&S performance in their own organisations.…”
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Cluster-based energy-efficient routing protocol in next generation sensor networks by Kumar, Sunil, Shankar, Achyut

“…NGNs, composed of diverse intelligent nodes with varying battery power and computational capacity, find applications in IoT, agriculture, and commercial sectors. …”
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RanDumb: random representations outperform online continually learned representations by Prabhu, A, Sinha, S, Kumaraguru, P, Torr, PHS, Sener, O, Dokania, PK

“…Extending our investigation to popular exemplar-free scenarios with pretrained models, we find that training only a linear classifier on top of pretrained representations surpasses most continual fine-tuning and prompt-tuning strategies. …”

At your service! The role of tax havens in international trade with services by Hebous, S, Johannesen, N

“…The analysis employs a unique firm-level dataset with detailed information about&nbsp;service trade&nbsp;and foreign affiliates for virtually all&nbsp;multinational firms&nbsp;in Germany. We find patterns consistent with profit shifting in service categories such as&nbsp;intellectual property&nbsp;(patents and trademarks),&nbsp;<em>headquarter services</em>(administration, management and advertizing),&nbsp;<em>information services</em>(data processing and storage) and&nbsp;financial services&nbsp;(investment, lending and money management). …”

Bacterial phylogenetic reconstruction from whole genomes is robust to recombination but demographic inference is not by Hedge, J, Wilson, DJ

“…Since many researchers continue to use phylogenetics for recombining bacteria, it is important to understand how recombination affects the conclusions drawn from these analyses. We find that whole-genome sequences afford great accuracy in reconstructing evolutionary relationships despite concerns surrounding the presence of recombination, but the branch lengths of the phylogenetic tree are indeed badly distorted. …”

Do UN peace operations help forcibly displaced people? by Costalli, S, Di Salvatore, J, Ruggeri, A

“…Using matched samples, we find that the unfolding of the outflows and inflows processes are affected by different features of UN missions. …”

Cytoophidium complexes resonate with cell fates by Li, Y, Liu, J

“…Ura7), Glt1, and Prs5 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We find that multiple cytoophidia can be assembled into cytoophidium complexes by docking one after another. …”

Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests by Pinho, BX, Melo, FPL, ter Braak, CJF, Bauman, D, Maréchaux, I, Tabarelli, M, Benchimol, M, Arroyo-Rodriguez, V, Santos, BA, Hawes, JE, Berenguer, E, Ferreira, J, Silveira, JM, Peres, CA, Rocha‐Santos, L, Souza, FC, Gonçalves-Souza, T, Mariano-Neto, E, Faria, D, Barlow, J

“…Combining floristic and functional trait data for 1,207 tree species across 271 forest plots, we find that forest loss consistently caused an increased dominance of low-density woods and small seeds dispersed by endozoochory (winner traits) and the loss of distinctive traits, such as extremely dense woods and large seeds dispersed by synzoochory (loser traits). …”

Current affairs: a security measurement study of CCS EV charging deployments by Szakály, M, Köhler, S, Martinovic, I

“…In our evaluation, we examine 325 chargers manufactured between April 2013 and June 2023, and installed as late as May 2024 by 26 manufacturers across 4 European countries. We find that only 12% of the charging stations we analyzed implement TLS at all, leaving all others vulnerable to attacks that have already been demonstrated many years ago. …”

Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom by Giuliani, LM, Warner, E, Campbell, GA, Lynch, J, Smith, AC, Smith, P

“…This paper examines challenges and opportunities in selecting suitable soil health metrics. We find that standardisation can facilitate widespread monitoring of soil health, with benefits for stakeholders and user groups. …”

Variation in the social composition of the uk academic elite: the underlay of the two – or three – cultures? by Bukodi, E, Goldthorpe, J

“…Snow’s discussion of the social underlay of the cultural disjunction that he saw between the natural sciences and the humanities, while also considering how the social sciences fit in. We find that there is support for Snow’s position at the time of his writing. …”

Emergent constraints indicate slower increases in future global evapotranspiration by Chai, Y, Yue, Y, Slater, L, Miao, C

“…Combining multiple observational datasets into a Hierarchical Emergent Constraint framework, we find the raw CMIP6 models overestimate future annual ET growth rates. …”