A lean FPGA soft processor built using a DSP block by Fahmy, Suhaib A., Maskell, Douglas L., Cheah, Hui Yan, Kulkarni, Chidamber

“…In the last decade, signal processing has become one of the main driving applications for FPGA adoption, so FPGA vendors tailored their architectures to such applications. …”
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Area ratio effects to the performance of air-cooled ejector refrigeration cycle with R134a refrigerant by Jia, Yan, Cai, Wenjian

“…Through enlarging the designed area ratios by connecting the replaceable nozzles with a main body, optimum area ratios under air-conditioning working conditions are studied experimentally. …”
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Exploration of critical external partners of Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) firms for delivering green building projects in Singapore by Li, Yuanyuan, Chen, Po-Han, Teo, Chee Chong, Ding, Rong Gui, Chew, David Ah Seng

“…Green Building involves many parties and has attracted attention recently. In this paper, the main external actors for Green Building were explored based on literature review. …”
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Global convergence of online BP training with dynamic learning rate by Zhang, Rui, Xu, Zong-Ben, Huang, Guang-Bin, Wang, Dianhui

“…The online backpropagation (BP) training procedure has been extensively explored in scientific research and engineering applications. One of the main factors affecting the performance of the online BP training is the learning rate. …”
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Blind drawing: investigation into screen location tracking for computer aided interactive drawing by Fernando, Sandra

“…One of the main problems faced by blind learners is lack of drawing technologies that support images and diagram drawing without the help of a sighted support worker. …”
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Initiation, marketing and branding of smart city projects: a study of decision processes by Vijaygopal, Rohini, Bennett, Roger, Savani, Sharmila

“…Interviewees were asked to relate stories of how decisions had been reached, which stakeholders had been prioritised, the extent of citizen co-creation in project initiation and branding, and the main difficulties involved. An argumentative narrative discourse methodology was employed to analyse the interview transcripts, which revealed a number of disparities between the suggestions of extant place branding literature and current practice where smart city projects were concerned.…”
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The novel application of the lightning process to treat long COVID in primary care: case report by Finch, Fiona, Parker, Phil, Nollett, C., Burns, S.

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A comprehensive survey of fake review detection technology by Quyyam, Tayybaha, Qicheng, Yu

“…The survey also offers future research directions and an easy way to find datasets, carry out pre-processing, and extract multiple features. One of the main directions in the future is to combine review content with business, product, and reviewer behavior to improve the efficiency of FRD.…”
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“Virtual encounters: the making and manifestations of Deleuze’s Bergsonism” by Lundy, Craig

“…The publication date of Deleuze’s book on Bergson is therefore somewhat misleading, for the main features of Deleuze’s encounter with Bergson were in fact formulated much earlier.…”
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Marta Czok PERMANENT COLLECTION by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig

“…, and finally to the room titled People, which in fact could represent all the work of Marta Czok, since the artist, in her paintings, analyses the human dimension in all its facets, from everyday life to the key moments in history. All the main themes treated by Marta Czok across her career are therefore presented here, through some of her most emblematic works. …”
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Harry Potter and the SPELL against bullying by McKeown Jones, S

“…Leveraging this success and the potential for the storyline to act as a moral guide, we developed and tested SPELL, a scientificallydriven anti-bullying intervention based on the Harry Potter novels. The main goal of this intervention was to foster children and adolescents’ willingness to intervene in response to bullying episodes. …”

Perceived climate risk and stock prices: an empirical analysis of pricing effects by Ameur, HB, Dao, D, Ftiti, Z, Louhichi, W

“…The perceived climate risk is measured based on the climate change sentiment of the Twitter dataset with 16 million unique tweets in the years 2010-2019. One of the main advantages of our proxy is that it allows us to capture both physical and transition climate risks. …”

New techniques for automated architectural reconstruction from photographs by Werner, T, Zisserman, A

“…It is demonstrated that convincing texture mapped models are generated which include the main walls and roofs, together with inset windows and also protruding (dormer) roof windows.…”

Development and validation of a reading in science holistic assessment (RISHA): a Rasch measurement study by Cheung, KKC, Pun, JKH, Fu, X

“…Researchers in science education lacks valid and reliable instruments to assess students’ disciplinary and epistemic reading of scientific texts. The main purpose of this study was to develop and validate a Reading in Science Holistic Assessment (RISHA) to assess students’ holistic reading of scientific texts. …”

Simultaneous reconstruction of spatial frequency fields and field sample locations by Haines, R

“…</p> <p>The thesis has two main aims - to provide statistical tools for the linguists who collected the data, and to meet the computational and inferential challenge of simultaneously locating large numbers of feature vectors. …”

Tower companies vs. mergers in mobile networks by Koutroumpis, P, Masselos, K

“…Tower companies own almost three quarters of the mobile telecom installations globally and continue to grow. The main driver of this change is linked to the reduction of capital expenditures by operators and the increasing sharing of infrastructure by tower companies that improves their assets’ tenancy ratios. …”

Adaptive average arterial pressure control by multi-agent on-policy reinforcement learning by Hong, X, Ayadi, W, Alattas, KA, Mohammadzadeh, A, Salimi, M, Zhang, C

“…Following this, an observer is incorporated into the main controller to improve performance and stability by estimating states and disturbances. …”

Comparison of physics, chemistry and biology teachers’ perceptions of nature of science and domains of science by Kaya, E, Erduran, S

“…FRA inherently considers both domain-general and domain-specific features of NOS, and thus, it is an appropriate framework to address the main research problem about different subject teachers’ perceptions of NOS. …”

Harnessing social tipping dynamics: a systems approach for accelerating decarbonization by Eker, S, Wilson, C, Höhne, N, McCaffrey, MS, Monasterolo, I, Niamir, L, Zimm, C

“…Our approach has three main components: a systems outlook involving interconnected feedback mechanisms; directed data collection for empirical evidence and monitoring tipping dynamics ; and global, integrated, descriptive modeling to project future dynamics and provide ex ante evidence for tipping interventions. …”

Imagining justice in the Athenian lawcourt: Aeschines and others by Westwood, G

“…It then focuses on two late fourth-century texts, the prosecution and main defence speeches from Aeschines’ prosecution of Ctesiphon in 330 BCE: Aeschines 3, Against Ctesiphon, and Demosthenes 18, On the Crown. …”