Environmental and social factors influencing the spatiotemporal variation of archaeological sites during the historical period in the Heihe River basin, northwest China by Shi, Zhilin, Chen, Tingting, Storozum, Michael J., Liu, Fengwen

“…In the Western Xia-Yuan period (AD 1038–1368), people mainly settled in the lower reaches of the Heihe River basin and only returned to the middle reaches of the Heihe River basin during the Ming and Qing dynasties (AD 1368–1912). Although climate change and the local environment affected human activities in Heihe River basin, geopolitical events, such as forced mass migrations, are more responsible for influencing the distribution of archaeological sites over the past 2000 years.…”
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An in-depth study of software library upgrade dependency issues by Teo, Dave Hwa Tao

“…This final year project will be an extension of a previous study done by my senior, Nicholas Yeo Ming Jie (Project ID: SCSE21-0215), which had proposed a method to detect these vulnerabilities using Concrete Syntax Tree (CST) generated by parsing projects using LibCST. …”
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Ternary blend organic bulk heterojunction photovoltaics based on incorporation of low bandgap materials by Ling, Jin

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Friction stir processing of 3D-printed metal composites by Lim, Dalton Jun Jie

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Nebular dominated galaxies: insights into the stellar initial mass function at high redshift by Cameron, AJ, Katz, H, Witten, C, Saxena, A, Laporte, N, Bunker, A

“…Modelling the UV turnover with a DLA requires extreme column densities (𝑁HI > 1023 cm−2 ), and simultaneously explaining the high 𝑓esc,Ly𝛼 requires a fine-tuned geometry. In contrast, modelling the spectrum as primarily nebular provides a good fit to both the continuum and emission lines, motivating scenarios in which (a) we are observing only nebular emission or (b) the ionizing source is powering extreme nebular emission that outshines the stellar emission. …”

Evaluation of the safety and immunogenicity of different COVID-19 vaccine combinations in healthy individuals: study protocol for a randomized, subject-blinded, controlled phase 3... by Poh, Xuan Ying, Lee, I. Russel, Lim, Clarissa, Teo, Jefanie, Rao, Suma, Chia, Po Ying, Ong, Sean W. X., Lee, Tau Hong, Lin, Ray J. H., Ng, Lisa F. P., Ren, Ee Chee, Lin, Raymond T. P., Wang, Lin-Fa, Renia, Laurent, Lye, David C., Young, Barnaby Edward

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High-performance and low-complexity implementation of fixed-coefficient FIR filters by Lou, Xin

“…Moreover, though the product-accumulation line of TDF FIR filters contribute significant amount of delay, it is omitted in most of the existing works. …”
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Low magnetic field exposure alters prostate cancer cell properties by Lange, Sigrun, Inal, Jameel, Kraev, Igor, Dart, Dafydd Alwyn, Uysal-Onganer, Pinar

“…This study investigated the effects of LMF exposure (20 nT) by magnetic shielding on the prostate cancer cell line PC3 compared to the prostate epithelial cell line PNT2 under short-term (4 h) conditions. …”
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Understanding customer retrials in call centers: preferences for service quality and service speed by Hu, K, Allon, G, Bassamboo, A

“…<p><strong> Managerial implications:</p></strong> First, our research highlights the importance of recognizing customers’ off-line decisions, which are impacted by online service offerings and, in turn, affect future online service operations. …”

Members’ participation, empowerment and sustainability of self-help groups in Kano City, Nigeria by Ibrahim, Abdul-Aziz

“…Despite the potential of SHGs, there are certain factors that restrained the sustainability of these groups. In line with this, the study examined the relationship between group member’s participation, empowerment, member’s perception towards leadership and group cohesion, and sustainability of self-help groups. …”
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A generalized solution to verify authorship and detect style change in multi-authored documents by Leekha, Rohan, Vandam, Courtland

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Dual-phase microporous polymer nanofilms by interfacial polymerization for ultrafast molecular separation by Lee, Tae Hoon, Balcik, Marcel, Wu, Wan-Ni, Pinnau, Ingo, Smith, Zachary P

“…Fine-tuning microporosity in polymers with a scalable method has great potential for energy-efficient molecular separations. …”
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A multiplicative Nakagami speckle reduction algorithm for ultrasound images by Yu, Chengpu, Zheng, Cishen, Xie, Lihua

“…A 2D total variation regularized Nakagami speckle reduction algorithm is derived based on the maximum a posteriori estimation framework, which performs well in restoring piecewise-smooth reflectivity and preserving fine details of the image. The proposed algorithm is verified by a series of computer-simulated and real ultrasound image data. …”
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A communal furniture informed by the deprivation of Mauritian beach by Fok Kow, Fok-Chi-Seng

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Life and dyeing : floral escapes by Teng, Yu Qing

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Beyond the beautiful garden city by Koh, Kevin Jing Sen

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A 9-bit, 1.08ps resolution two-step time-to-digital converter in 65 nm CMOS for time-mode ADC by Kong, Junjie, Henzler, Stephan, Schmitt-Landsiedel, Doris, Siek, Liter

“…The proposed TDC uses body-biasing in the fine TDC to obtain the resolution of the entire TDC, which is simulated to be 1.08 ps. …”
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Of dreams and reality : chance on graphic design. by Chu, Tracey Shao Han.

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Hierarchical document representation for summarization by Tey, Rui Jie

“…HIWESTSUM is very light in weight with parameter size over 10 times smaller than current existing models that fine-tune BERT for summarization. Moreover, the proposed model is faster than SOTA models with shorter training and inference time. …”
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Soil-water characteristic curves of sands by evaporation method by Lee, Yong Wei

“…The comparison shows that low-cost resistive moisture sensors are more reliable than low-cost capacitive sensors. The SWCCs of fine and coarse sands determined from the evaporation method are comparable to the SWCCs determined from the Tempe cell method.…”
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