Package and board level reliability modeling of advanced CSP pakages for telecommunication applications by Tee, Tong Yan

“…These technology requirements are possible with the recent development of advanced Chip Scale Packages (CSPs), such as thin-profile fine-pitch Ball Grid Array (TFBGA), Quad-Flat-No-lead (QFN), and wafer-level CSP (WL-CSP). …”
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Low temperature Cu-Cu thermo-compression bonding with temporary passivation of self-assembled monolayer and its bond strength enhancement by Ang, X. F., Wei, J., Leong, K. C., Tan, Chuan Seng, Lim, Dau Fatt

“…Self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of alkane-thiol is formed on copper (Cu) thin layer coated on silicon (Si) wafer with the aim to protect the surface against excessive oxidation during storage in the room ambient. …”
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Do behavioral drivers matter for healthcare decision-making during crises? A study of low-income women in El Salvador during the COVID-19 pandemic by Lara, Pedro B., Daga, Giuliana, Kossuth, Lajos, Boo, Florencia L.

“…However, we find these associations are less robust compared to the decisions they make for themselves. …”
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Coseismic and postseismic slip of the 2005 Mw8.6 Nias‐Simeulue earthquake : spatial overlap and localized viscoelastic flow by Qiu, Qiang, Feng, Lujia, Hermawan, Iwan, Hill, Emma M.

“…We thus run many synthetic tests and models with various setups to find features that consistently appear in all our models, which we consider as robust. …”
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The impact of repeated notifications and notification checking mode on investors' reactions to managers’ strategic positive title emphasis by Chen, Wei, Tan, Hun-Tong, Wang, Elaine Ying

“…Consistent with our expectations, we find that repetition not only dampens the negative content incongruency effect but also amplifies the positive title impression effect. …”
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Homeland engagement and host-society integration: A comparative study of new Chinese immigrants in the United States and Singapore by Zhou, Min, Liu, Hong

“…Finally, we find that homeland engagement generally benefits integration into host societies. …”
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Three essays on the funds allocation of U.S. Firms by Shih, Chia Mei

“…We examine the spending patterns of these proceeds and find that firms do not have a greater tendency to spend option proceeds than they do with other equity proceeds. …”
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Galaxy bias in the era of LSST: perturbative bias expansions by Nicola, A, Hadzhiyska, B, Findlay, N, García-García, C, Alonso, D, Slosar, A, Guo, Z, Kokron, N, Angulo, R, Aviles, A, Blazek, J, Dunkley, J, Jain, B, Pellejero, M, Sullivan, J, Walter, CW, Zennaro, M

“…While we find that we can reduce the complexity of the bias model for HEFT without compromising fit accuracy, this is not generally the case for the perturbative models. …”

How are cognitive maps formed and encoded in humans? by Glitz, L

“…We investigate map learning using maps consisting of discrete images. We find that the spatial sampling of transitions during training affects participants’ retention as well as multi-step inference ability. …”

THE MAYFLY / by Hazel, James, author 656313

“…When his attacker is found murdered the next day, Priest becomes a suspect and the only way to clear his name is to find out about the mysterious House of Mayfly - a secret society that people will kill for. …”

The Effects of Spending Rules and Asset Allocation on Non-Profit Endowments by Halem, Zachery M., Lo, Andrew W, Matveyev, Egor, Quraishi, Sarah

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Smallest job completion time heuristics for yard crane dispatching in container terminals by Ching, Yu Xin.

“…Indeed, the computational results show that the proposed heuristic can find effective solutions for the scheduling problem.…”
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Implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm for vehicle routing by Pang, Jacquelyn Jiaqi

“…Services like Uber and Grab, have been finding the most optimum way to make their services less costly so as the increase their profit margin. …”
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Design a 16-bit Low power multiplier by Gu, Bin

“…By the comparison of the result, we are going to find a better design for low power consumption. …”
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Effect of gap resonance between moored ships by Tay, Kenny Zhi Xian

“…Mooring operations accident is the most common and dangerous operation onboard ship. It is essential to find ways to minimize it to reduce the number of fatality and injuries onboard ship. …”
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Heterogeneities in landed costs of traded grains and oilseeds contribute to unequal access to food by Verschuur, J, Vittis, Y, Obersteiner, M, Hall, JW

“…Here we quantify the landed cost for six grain commodities across 3,500 administrative regions, capturing regional cost differences to produce grain and transport it across international borders. We find large heterogeneities in the costs of imported grain, which are highest in Oceania, Central America and landlocked Africa. …”

Growth and optimization of III-V semiconductor solar cell structures. by Lim, Kuo Hou.

“…In this thesis, MBE and micro fabrication processes are used to fabricate 1×1cm^2 single junction homoface GaAs thin film solar cells. Solar spectrum is used to explain and relate it with the material band gap. …”
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Nanoscale Origins of Thermal Transport Phenomena for Hybrid Layered Perovskites by Dahod, Nabeel S.

“…These materials, solid crystals composed of alternating layers of atomically thin organic and inorganic subphases, possess novel optical and electronic properties that make them particularly suited for use in devices including solar cells, LEDs, flexible electronics, and even lasers. …”
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Titanium dioxide/agglomerated-free reduced graphene oxide hybrid photoanode film for dye-sensitized solar cells photovoltaic performance improvement by Abu Bakar Suriani, Muqoyyanah, Azmi Mohamed, Mamat, M. H., Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Mohd Khairul Ahmad, Abdul Khalil, H. P. S., Marwoto, Putut, Muhammad Danang Birowosuto

“…The produced TC14-rGO was also hybridized with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), which then coated by thin platinum (Pt) NPs (TC14-rGO_MWCNTs/Pt) and used as counter electrode (CE) thin film. …”
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Wafer-scale growth of vertical-structured SnSe₂ nanosheets for highly sensitive, fast-response UV–Vis–NIR broadband photodetectors by Chen, Zhiyong, Xiong, Lei, Li, Guangyuan, Wei, Lei, Yang, Chunlei, Chen, Ming

“…Owing to the strong light–matter interactions, 2D semiconducting thin films have shown their great potential in the development of high-performance ultraviolet–visible–near infrared (UV–Vis–NIR) broadband photodetectors (PDs). …”
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