Importance Sampling BRDF Derivatives by Belhe, Yash, Xu, Bing, Bangaru, Sai Praveen, Ramamoorthi, Ravi, Li, Tzu-Mao

“…In differentiable rendering, BRDFs are replaced by their differential BRDF counterparts which are real-valued and can have negative values. This leads to a new source of variance arising from their change in sign. …”
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Selective targeting of MYC mRNA by stabilized antisense oligonucleotides by Gill, Taylor, Wang, Haichuan, Bandaru, Raj, Lawlor, Matthew, Lu, Chenyue, Nieman, Linda T, Tao, Junyan, Zhang, Yixian, Anderson, Daniel G, Ting, David T, Chen, Xin, Bradner, James E, Ott, Christopher J

“…Treatment of MYC-expressing cancer cells with MYCASOs leads to a potent decrease in MYC mRNA and protein levels. …”
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A lamb wave approach for fatigue damage prognosis with piezoelectric transducers by Lim, Say Ian

“…Historical cases have shown that undetected fatigue cracks often leads to catastrophic failure, including the loss of lives and assets. …”
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An investigation into air traffic control communications protocols by Ang, Kenneth Patrick

“…Mental model errors are eliminated since 2D display only provides numerical data on altitude level. It also leads to a clearer interpretation of the situation at aircraft holding areas in the event of a delay to land and the landing phase of a flight and improved situational awareness which leads to quicker detection of potential conflicts. …”
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Nonlinear evolution and acceleration of unstable fuel-lean hydrogen/air flame at normal and cryogenic temperatures by Yang, L, Zhang, T, Wang, Y, Fang, X, Leach, F, Chen, Z

“…For fuel-lean hydrogen flames, DTI leads to chaotic evolution of cellular flame front. …”

Scene illumination classification based on histogram quartering of CIE-Y component by Hesamian, Mohammad Hesam

“…In addition using light temperature in all previous studies leads to have complicated and computationally expensive methods. …”
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Design of heat tunnel for a wire bonder by Goh, Swee Leong.

“…The wire bonder machine is used in semiconductor industry to connect bonding pads on silicon chips to the leads on the leadframes. The design requirement of this new system is to enable bare copper leadframe to be used in the machine. …”
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Investigating the role of self-sacrificing prosociality in intragroup and intergroup contexts by Katna, Dashalini P.

“…Parochial cooperation theories assume that strongly self-sacrificing members primarily desire and seek to achieve ingroup-favouring outcomes, and consequently become prepared to bear extreme costs to themselves. This altruism to help, however, does not always extend into intergroup contexts. …”
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Inorganic nanoparticles–driven self–assembly of natural small molecules in water for constructing multifunctional nanocapsules against plant diseases by Liu, Li-Wei, Ding, Zheng-Hao, Ren, Gang-Gang, Wang, Guang-Di, Pan, Xin, Wei, Guo-Hai, Zhou, Xiang, Wu, Zhi-Bing, Jin, Zhi-Chao, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Yang, Song

“…Additionally, both the inner cavities and outer surfaces of nanocapsules bear abundant sites and spaces that can be further tuned for loading other pesticide molecules or flexible construct complex multifunctional nanoparticles. …”
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Optimized GPU algorithms for sparse data problems by Pham, Nguyen Quang Anh

“…Many sparse datasets are large, and require parallel computing to process efficiently. But sparsity leads to a number of performance challenges. Irregularities in the size and distribution of data leads to load imbalance between threads and scattered memory accesses that strain memory systems optimized for block based accesses. …”
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Strategic Decision-Making During Cyber Conflict : The SingHealth Case by Baram, Gil, Sommer, Udi

“…Furthermore, it is not always easy to identify who is behind a given attack. So, what leads countries that were victims of cyberattacks to reveal the incidents?…”
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Reliability analysis of surface mount solder joints by Yeo, Chee Keng.

“…A no clean surface mount process for the assembly of Plastic Quad Flat Packs (PQFPs) with 15.7 mil (0.4 mm) pitch and 256 leads was established. Samples were tested under temperature range of between negative 55 degrees celcius to 125 degrees celcius to study the microstructure change and fatigue life of solder joints. …”
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Living it by Aida Azlin, Cai, Miaoqin, Chee, Wendy Wei Ling, Lee, David Ling Wei, Lee, Shuxian, Leong, Xiuming, Roseane Kalavathi

“…Being put into his father's shoes, the son experiences the tormenting trauma of the amputation, the mental nightmare of what his father is experiencing. This leads him to come into a new light, understanding his father's plight.…”
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Design and fabrication of Si nanohole structures for photovoltaic applications by Wang, Fei

“…A comprehensive study of the well-established NH fabrication process and its advantages leads to a new technique producing Si NH thin film solar cells.…”
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Rummage my heart : exploring grief surrounding the passing of a loved one by Ang, Jane Jia Ying

“…Archiving and memorializing my journey of grief; the project leads us to ponder on familial relationships, grief and closure.…”
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Multilevel path branching for digital options by Giles, MB, Haji-Ali, A-L

“…Combining this new estimator with Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) leads to an estimator with a computational complexity that is similar to the complexity of a MLMC estimator when applied to options with Lipschitz payoffs.…”

Dopamine Nation : Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence / by Lembke, Anna, Dr., author 655980, Penguin Publishing Group (Online service) 655981

“…Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain . . . and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. …”
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Sold To Be A Wife : ONLY A DETERMINED FOSTER CARER CAN STOP A TERRIFIED GIRL FROM BECOMING A CHILD BRIDE / by Hartley, Maggie, author 656233

“…Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. …”

Three essays on corporate finance and research methodology by Li, Wei

“…First, the coverage of Egan Jones Ratings (EJR) – an investor-paid CRA – leads to an increase in rated firms’ stock price informativeness. …”
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Numerical study of trapped vortex combustors characteristics in small ramjets by Chen, Song

“…The centrifugal force effects, however, generate a short recirculation zone in the main combustor and concentrate the fuel stream on the combustor axis, which leads to deteriorate fuel-air mixing.…”
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