Understanding critical variables contributing to competitive advantages of international high-speed railway contractors by Niu, Yanliang, Deng, Xiaopeng, Zhang, Limao, Duan, Xiaochen

“…The results indicated that the top six ranked variables are (1) None Accident History, (2) Eligibility & International Criteria, (3) Contract Reputation, (4) Marketing Strategy, (5) Risk Management Capability, and (6) Technical Responsiveness. …”
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3D interaction design and application development by Lim, Kian Teck

“…The proposed research used inexpensive commercially available devices such as steering wheel device and P5 data game glove to provide the visual and tactile interface for the 3D environment. …”
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The genetic and epigenetic architecture of sexual dimorphism in tilapia by Wan, Zi Yi

“…Analysis of brain transcriptomes identified 124, 55 and 2706 sex-biased genes at 5, 30 and 90 days post hatch, respectively. The pro-opiomelanocortin (pomc) gene, which was female-biased in the brain, was selected for functional analysis. pomc knock-out zebrafish showed faster growth and higher sensitivity to feeding compared to wildtype. …”
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Visual facts : a cross-platform program fact visualization tool by Liu, Mingyu

“…The project was successfully completed after evaluating its functionalities against the requirements. Nevertheless, Chapter 5 discusses the limitations of the developed application and offers recommendations of future work that can be done for enhancement.…”
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Effects of rainfall infiltration and hysteresis on the settlement of shallow foundations in unsaturated soil by Jeong, Sangseom, Kim, Yongmin, Park, Hyundo, Kim, Jaehong

“…In addition, wetting SWCC analysis produced a slight larger settlement, up to 5% more than that produced by drying SWCC. Therefore, appropriate SWCCs (i.e., drying or wetting) should be used in numerical analysis in accordance with the conditions of the soils underneath the shallow foundations.…”
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Next generation electrolytes for sodium ion battery by Do, Minh Phuong

“…For thermal safety, IL-based full cell Na0.6Mn0.9Co0.1O2/Na2.55V6O16 is capable to operate at elevated temperature and safer than organic-based cell in calorimetry tests with lower onset temperature and self-heating rate. …”
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ConvNet-based visual place recognition under appearance changes for unmanned vehicles by Li, Heshan

“…Then, I evaluatedtheirabilitiesof generalizationby applying them on the revisited image retrieval testing datasets roxford5k and rparis6k. And byintroducing indicator mAP and mP@, their overall performancesarebetter evaluated and compared. …”
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Krishnamurti's case : child guardianship and sexuality in colonial India by Tan, Fidellithy

“…This thesis examines the 1912 Besant v. Narayaniah case as a microhistory of colonial anxieties over perceived sexual deviance, race relations and class in India. …”
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Development of high-intensity ultrasonic wave surface cleaning by Tan, Wei Xin

“…The average surface roughness of additive manufactured Ti6Al4V and cobalt chrome were improved by around 10% and 22% respectively. …”
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A wideband low-profile antenna by Tay, Terence Han Jun

“…The proposed design will be carried out in the Ansoft High-Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS v2018). In which various tools available allowed for the quick modifications of designs and simulations. …”
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Construction of hole-transported MoO₃₋ₓ coupled with CdS nanospheres for boosting photocatalytic performance via oxygen-defects-mediated Z-scheme charge transfer by Wu, Yan, Wang, Hou, Tu, Wenguang, Wu, Shuyang, Chew, Jia Wei

“…The CdS/MoO₃₋ₓ composite allowed for higher visible-light photocatalytic performance for enhanced removal of methylene blue and tetracycline with an efficiency of 97.6% and 85.5%, respectively. The improved performance of the CdS/MoO₃₋ₓ composite was found to be mainly attributable to the remarkable charge carrier separation and transfer between CdS and MoO₃₋ₓ based on the favorable hole-transporting nature and oxygen deficiencies of MoO₃₋ₓ. …”
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Pyrolyzed sludge-based carbon-like powder additive for wireless power transmission by Jevoncia, Bryan

“…The fabricated transformer core attained a flux density of 54.5 mT and a relative differential permeability as high as 73.4 with 90% weight fraction of carbon-like powder inclusion.…”
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Power- and area-efficient analog-to-digital conversion for in-memory computing by Wu, Yiheng

“…-step at a supply voltage of 0.8V and a sampling rate of 10 MS/s.…”
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Motion context network for weakly supervised object detection in videos by Jin, Ruibing, Lin, Guosheng, Wen, Changyun, Wang, Jianliang

“…Experiments are carried out on ImageNet VID, which shows that our MC-Net significantly improves the performance of the image based baseline method (37.4% mAP v.s. 29.8% mAP).…”
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Synthesis of chiral sulfinate esters by asymmetric condensation by Zhang, Xin, Ang, Esther Cai Xia, Yang, Ziqi, Kee, Choon Wee, Tan, Choon-Hong

“…By contrast, chiral sulfur functional groups are often neglected as pharmacophores1-3, although sulfoximine, with its unique physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties4,5, has been recently incorporated into several clinical candidates. …”
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Dumbbell-shaped block copolymers for the fabrication of anisotropic soft actuators by Pan, Houwen Matthew, Chan, Jonathan Kai Bin, Sarkar, Jit, Goto, Atsushi

“…Dumbbell-shaped comb block copolymers (BCPs) with poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) side chains were crosslinked via poly(butyl acrylate) (PBA) to form actuators that exhibited reversible actuation, fast response (5 min), a high anisotropic swelling strain (51% in the x-axis and 98% in the y-axis), and bending on the z-axis in an organic solvent. …”
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Short-wave infrared cavity resonances in a single GeSn nanowire by Kim, Youngmin, Assali, Simone, Joo, Hyo-Jun, Koelling, Sebastian, Chen, Melvina, Luo, Lu, Shi, Xuncheng, Burt, Daniel, Ikonic, Zoran, Nam, Donguk, Moutanabbir, Oussama

“…In contrast to impressive progress on light confinement and stimulated emission in III-V and II-VI semiconductor nanowires, there has been no experimental demonstration showing the potential to achieve strong cavity effects in a bottom-up grown single group-IV nanowire, which is a prerequisite for realizing silicon-compatible infrared nanolasers. …”
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Multi-key fully homomorphic encryption from NTRU and (R)LWE with faster bootstrapping by Xu, Kexin, Tan, Benjamin Hong Meng, Wang, Li-Ping, Aung, Khin Mi Mi, Wang, Huaxiong

“…Our experiments indicate that gate bootstrapping in our scheme for 2 parties takes 0.18 seconds, which is faster than with Chen et al. by around 5.3 times, but unfortunately does not scale beyond that. …”
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Fairness testing of machine translation systems by Sun,Zeyu, Chen, Zhenpeng, Zhang, Jie, Hao, Dan

“…Leveraging FairMT, we conduct an empirical study on three leading machine translation systems-Google Translate, T5, and Transformer. Our investigation uncovers up to 832, 1,984, and 2,627 unfair translations across the three systems, respectively. …”
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Stock prices of weapon companies and political conflict. by Ho, Clarrisa Yen Yee., Pek, Ruo Wei.

“…This finding is corroborated by results from regressions on raw returns and cumulative abnormal returns around a 5-day window. We gather that conflict date and intensity show opposing effects, with positive returns for conflict intensity dominating for the 3 significant companies in the top 10. …”
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