Stock prediction using support vector regression by Manasa, Abburu.

“…SVMs can be used for both classification and regression purposes and for our research we mainly focus on regression. Support Vector Machine for Regression (SVM-R) has been proven to be more advantageous than BP when it comes to handling financial data. …”
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Synthesis and electrochemical performance of aluminum antimonide alloy anode prepared by melt spinning by Kharistal, Daniel Julian

“…We propose that the battery performance of the melt spun Al-Sb alloy is mainly influenced by the amount of AlSb phase in the structure and the ability of AlSb phase to reform itself after cycling. …”
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Performance analysis of impulse-radio ultra-wideband techniques for low-rate communications by Cui, Shan

“…After studying the systems’ characteristics, we observe that the system performance suffers mainly from two types of interference. They are narrowband interference (NBI) from existing in-band wireless services, and multiple access interference (MAI). …”
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Effects of geometrical parameters on performance of miniature centrifugal pump by Liu, Guiqin

“…For the same impeller operating at the same rotational speed, the difference between them is negligible, because the energy losses are mainly due to the volute length. For the same volute height and outlet width, the difference in the volute length is only 1% for the two methods. …”
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新加坡国庆歌曲的双语现象与国家认同建构 ：以《家》为例 = Bilingual National Day songs in Singapore and its construction of national identity : a case study on “Home”... by 郑回芯 Tay, Hui Xin

“…This study writes about the ten bilingual National Day songs from 1998 to 2009. The paper mainly dwells on the role of these ten bilingual National Day songs in the forging of national identity among netizens. …”
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Cell and tissue specific functional genomics of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis by Lledo Lara, A

“…<p>Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are chronic inflammatory diseases mainly affecting the skin and joints that result from the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. …”

Outcome assessment for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients in Singapore and Japan with initial shockable rhythm by Okada, Yohei, Shahidah, Nur, Ng, Yih Yng, Chia, Michael Y. C., Gan, Han Nee, Leong, Benjamin S. H., Mao, Desmond R., Ng, Wei Ming, Irisawa, Taro, Yamada, Tomoki, Nishimura, Tetsuro, Kiguchi, Takeyuki, Kishimoto, Masafumi, Matsuyama, Tasuku, Nishioka, Norihiro, Kiyohara, Kosuke, Kitamura, Tetsuhisa, Iwami, Taku, Ong, Marcus Eng Hock

“…We hypothesize this is mainly due to differences in the use of ECPR.…”
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How to learn Chinese characters? Exploring the effectiveness of different learning methods in young Singaporean children by Toh, Wendy Hwee Bin

“…Past research on early Chinese word reading and instruction has mainly focused on children in Mandarin-speaking societies or adult foreign/second language learners. …”
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Changes in cerebrospinal fluid balance of TNF and TNF receptors in naïve multiple sclerosis patients : early involvement in compartmentalised intrathecal inflammation by Magliozzi, Roberta, Pezzini, Francesco, Pucci, Mairi, Rossi, Stefania, Facchiano, Francesco, Marastoni, Damiano, Montagnana, Martina, Lippi, Giuseppe, Reynolds, Richard, Calabrese, Massimiliano

“…The CSF sTNF-R1-associated pattern (encompassing high levels of CXCL13, TWEAK, LIGHT, IL-35, osteopontin, pentraxin-3, sCD163 and chitinase-3-L1) was mainly related to altered T cell and B cell signalling. …”
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Public bus transit service modeling and optimization: from conventional to autonomous vehicles by Tian, Qingyun

“…A well-designed transit network can not only reduce the operation costs of operators but also reduce the travel time of passengers. This thesis mainly focuses on how to model and optimize the public transit service to improve system performance. …”
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Inclusions in calcite phantom crystals suggest role of clay minerals in dolomite formation by Farsang, Stefan, Pekker, Péter, Lampronti, Giulio I., Molnár, Zsombor, Milovský, Rastislav, Pósfai, Mihály, Ozdín, Daniel, Raub, Timothy D., Redfern, Simon Anthony Turner

“…Whereas the outer, colorless part of the phantom crystal is relatively homogeneous and cavity and inclusion-free, the inner terracotta-colored part contains abundant cavities, dolomite, hematite, goethite, titanite, phyllosilicates (mainly kaolinite and illite), and apatite inclusions and nanostructures that have formed on the walls of cavities. …”
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Sentiment analysis and summarization of movie reviews across genres. by Tun, Thura Thet.

“…The proposed approach is capable of providing better performance and more refined sentiment analysis, and summarization results compared to previous studies which focus mainly on sentiment orientation of textual units (i.e. terms, phrases, sentences, snippets or documents) or extraction of feature-opinion pairs for sentiment summarization. …”
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Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…In this thesis, the author will describe what he have done in the past two years of his studentship. He will mainly focus on the topic of laser cooling of cadmium sulfur (CdS) single crystals. …”
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Occurrence, human exposure and dynamics of phthalates in ACMV indoor environments : method development and field studies by Chen, Ailu

“…In the development of sampling and extraction method, works mainly focus on testing homemade two-bed sorbent tubes with silanized glass wool and Tenax TA as sorbents for airborne phthalate sampling. …”
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Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced biosensors by Zhang, Jinling

“…The sensitivity and specificity are mainly related to the sensing mechanism and binding characteristics. …”
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Thermodynamic study of isosteric heat at zero coverage : applications to adsorption cooling and desalination by Fan, Wu

“…Vapor compression cooling and desalination systems are mainly driven by electricity, produced by burning fossil fuels, which contributes to the global warming (GW) because of the encountered direct CO2-emissions. …”
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新加坡高校人才战略的理念建构和实践运作 - 以南洋理工大学为例 = Formulation and implementation of talent strategy in higher education : a case study of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore... by 刘宏 Liu Hong, 贾丽华 Jia Lihua, 范昕 Fan Xin

“…Despite being a small country without any natural resources, Singapore has emerged as one of the richest nations in the world, thanks in no small part to the significant role of talent strategy and human resource management policy. This article is mainly concerned with the formulation and implementation of talent strategy and its role in higher education by a detailed case of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and with the implications for China as it embarks on the process of building world-class universities. …”
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Voice conversion with parallel/non-parallel data and synthetic speech detection by Tian, Xiaohai

“…As low-dimensional features are typically used in synthetic techniques, detailed information has been abandoned in synthetic speech. This work mainly focused on the detailed information of high-dimensional features, especially their high-frequency parts, for synthetic speech detection. …”
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Effective type label-based synergistic representation learning for biomedical event trigger detection by Hao, Anran, Yuan, Haohan, Hui, Siu Cheung, Su, Jian

“…Most state-of-the-art models rely mainly on external resources such as linguistic tools and knowledge bases to improve system performance. …”
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Community noise measure via crowd sourcing by Lim, Yun Jie

“…The study shows that the noise on campus is mainly due to human and mechanical noise. By mashing the noise data with Wi-Fi log data, the results show a good positive correlation between noise level and human density in an area. …”
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