Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…For the general case where jobs can have arbitrary sizes, we first establish a non-trivial lower bound on the optimal solution. Based on this lower bound, we develop a 5-approximation algorithm in the offline setting. …”
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Essays on merchant-generated contents and merchant-to-merchant spillovers in e-commerce platform by Zhang, Xueli

“…Retailers have incentives to exaggerate their product quality to attract more consumers, but with the option of returns, retailers should reconsider it, since consumers might return the product if they find the real product quality is lower than the retailer-displayed quality. In the model, an online retailer offers a product with both vertical and horizontal attributes, sets a price, and displays quality to consumers. …”
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Wage premium in Singapore. by Tan, Ruo Hui., Tan, Yan Yu., Lee, Wai Meng.

“…(ii) The contingent valuation method, on the other hand, uses hypothetical situations to elicit contingent values. …”
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Advanced control of wind power systems by Dang, Dinh Quy

“…Wind power system control especially for variable speed operation of wind turbine has been carried out in several decades; and the research activities are still on-going with more concern recently. …”
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Harvest age and planting density effects on yield and quality of two kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus l.) Varieties for fibre and animal feed by Mohammad Yusoff, Masnira

“…The tensile strength of the fibre from MHC 123 (101.7 MPa) was higher than that of V 36 (59.8 MPa). Fibre from MHC 123 absorbed less water (116%) compared to V 36 (124.3%). …”
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Investigation on the role of Sb doping on grain growth and properties of solution-processed CuIn(S,Se)2 by Ho, John Chun Wan

“…Metastable wurtzite nanoparticles were successfully synthesized at much lower temperature, with a dual amine solvent under excess sulfur environment. …”
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Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…The key step in the operation of this kind of hybrid optoelectronic devices is the interfacial charge transfer between carbon nanomaterials and semiconductors nanoparticles. …”
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Smart material based on magnetorheological elastomer and its 3D printing by Bastola, Anil K.

“…Lastly, this study explores the techniques to lower the range of the magnetic field needed for the current MRE-based systems. …”
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Pnictogen-halide semiconductors for photovoltaics by Liu, P

“…The intensity of indoor light sources is approximately three orders of magnitude lower than 1-sun illumination [2, 3]. …”

Mechanically durable and damage resilient dielectric elastomer actuators by Tan, Matthew Wei Ming

“…However, these rigid robots lack compliance and adaptability, making them unsafe for human interactions and operating under unpredictable conditions. This has led to the emergence of soft robots that are composed of materials with similar moduli as biological materials. …”
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A study on dual topic models and bayesian topic model inference by Rugeles, Daniel

“…On this dataset, LDA assigns the users to the clusters and the clusters represent probability distributions over the set locations. In contrast, the dual LDA assigns the locations to the clusters and the clusters represent probability distributions over the set of users. …”
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Genetic and observational associations of nuclear magnetic resonance-measured lipid-related traits and atherosclerotic cardiovascular mortality in the Mexico City Prospective Study by Wang, Y

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> Blood lipids, particularly low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and other apoB-containing particles, play a central role in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD). …”

Molecular and immunological profiling of Bartonella spp. in shelter cat population in Peninsular Malaysia by Alias, Nurul Najwa Ainaa

“…In addition, this study observed the presence of more than one species in cat’s fleas, while only B. henselae was detected in the cat hosts. …”
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Therapeutic effects of Cosmos caudatus kunth leaf extract in the prevention and treament of obesity in sprague dawley rats by Abdul Rahman, Hafeedza

“…This study showed the antiobesity effects of C. caudatus through inhibition of lipase activity as demonstrated by the increase in fecal fat content and also the positive effects on other obesity biomarkers measured. It also successfully demonstrated the ability of NMR based metabolomics in unraveling therapeutic effects of C. caudatus and further provides biochemical insights into the metabolic alterations associated with obesity. …”
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Accelerated discovery of new catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction by Mahmoud G. Ahmed

“…However, the efficiency of overall process is limited by the sluggish kinetics of water oxidation reaction or oxygen evolution reaction (OER). As a result, large overpotential values are required to drive the reaction which in turn cause an inevitable rise in the energy consumption and lead to lower energy conversion efficiencies. …”
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Differences in the effectiveness of individual-level smoking cessation interventions by socioeconomic status by Theodoulou, A, Fanshawe, TR, Leavens, E, Theodoulou, E, Wu, AD, Heath, L, Stewart, C, Nollen, N, Ahluwalia, JS, Butler, AR, Hajizadeh, A, Thomas, J, Lindson, N, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…We summarised all evidence in effect direction plots and categorised the intervention impact on health equality as: positive (evidence that the relative effect of the intervention on quit rates was greater in lower rather than higher SES groups), possibly positive, neutral, possibly neutral, possibly negative, negative, no reported statistically significant difference, or unclear. …”

Graph representation learning by Zhang, Xinyi

“…Graph embedding based methods aims to embed graph data into lower dimensional space during which the graph representations are learned by preserving predefined proximity. …”
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A combined numerical and experimental approach to investigations of body-freedom flutter on flying wings by Ang, Elijah Hao Wei

“…The ANN controller offers several advantages over the LQG controller, including the elimination of the need for a Kalman filter for full state estimation and its non-linear nature as a controller.…”
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A machine-learned approach for reducing airborne delays and environmental impact in terminal manoeuvring area using extended arrival management by Lim, Zhi Jun

“…These efforts focus on departures and en-route operations, overlooking TMA congestion and arrival stream management. …”
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In-situ infrared spectroscopy studies of surface reactions over irradiated photocatalysts by Gong, Dangguo

“…However, no major breakthrough is forthcoming as yet and other approaches are attracting serious interest, e.g., sensitization by narrow-band gap semiconductors, decoration with nanoparticulate metals having plasmon resonance absorption, or organic polymers less susceptible to photo-bleaching than conventional dyes. …”
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