Factor-√2 Acceleration of Accelerated Gradient Methods by Park, Chanwoo, Park, Jisun, Ryu, Ernest K.

“…Abstract The optimized gradient method (OGM) provides a factor- $$\sqrt{2}$$ 2 speedup upon Nesterov’s celebrated accelerated gradient method in the convex (but non-strongly convex) setup. …”
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Factors influencing insurance purchasing behaviour in Singapore. by Loh, Michele Xiang Jun., Ong, Lawrence Hui Boon., Soh, Yi An.

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Factors affecting the extent of retirement planning in Singapore. by Law, Boon Huey., Kwek, Jenny Chiew Ling., Sim, Sei Lin.

“…The aim of this research is to determine the significant factors that affect one's extent of retirement planning. …”
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Societal factors and the inescapability of Chinese female oppression by Wang, Carmen Onggo Jiawen

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Sexting in Singapore : psychosocial risk and protective factors by Low, Joey

“…This study suggested sexting is commonly used in Singapore and there are various psychosocial risk factors that may contribute to understanding the behaviour. …”
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Critical success factors in business transformation outsourcing. by Lammoth, Fabien.

“…Identify critical success factors for business transformation outsourcing (BTO) from the perspective of the client in an outsourcing arrangement, by empirically testing using a survey methodology. …”
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Kabul Suicide Attack: Growing IS Factor in Afghanistan by Rathore, Shahzeb Ali, Mahmood, Sara

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China's growing military transparency: the domestic factor by Li, Mingjiang

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Factors affecting longevity of foreign direct investments. by Chua, Pamela Wan Leng., Kwek, Yi Shin., Ng, Bee Keng.

“…This paper examines the longevity of foreign direct investments under the influence of mode of entry, firm specific and environment-specific factors. Hypotheses are developed on cultural distance, mode of entry(start-ups versus acquisitions), type of product expansion and firm size.…”
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Factors affecting the performance of hotels in Beijing, China. by Kwik, Angeline Wan Yin., Tang, Ming Yang., Wong, Loo Yee.

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Prevalence and risk factors for suicide attempts in prison by Favril, L, Shaw, J, Fazel, S

“…We aimed to synthesise the evidence on prevalence and risk factors for suicide attempts during incarceration. …”

Investigating factors contributing to enhancer-promoter interaction by Cornell, LJ

“…These include accessibility and recruitment of transcription factors and co-factors to enhancer and promoter elements within the context of chromatin; compatibility of enhancer-promoter pairs; and the extent to which interactions are constrained by the 3D structure of the genome. …”

Wind power load factor in the United Kingdom by Constable, J, Aoyama, H

“…These load factors are published in a convenient and where necessary corrected form by the Renewable Energy Foundation. …”

Bayes factors for logistic (mixed effect) models by Silvey, C, Dienes, Z, Wonnacott, E

“…Second, many implementations of Bayes factors have a substantial technical learning curve. …”

Pediatric rhinosinusitis: its predisposing factors and management by Subha, Sethu Thakachy

“…This study aims to evaluate the predisposing factors, and management of pediatric rhinosinusitis patients. …”
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Ensemble incremental learning Random Vector Functional Link network for short-term electric load forecasting by Qiu, Xueheng, Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam, Amaratunga, Gehan A. J.

“…A hybrid incremental learning approach composed of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) and Random Vector Functional Link network (RVFL) is presented in this work. …”
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Received signal strength based indoor positioning using a random vector functional link network by Cui, Wei, Zhang, Le, Li, Bing, Guo, Jing, Meng, Wei, Wang, Haixia, Xie, Lihua

“…In this work, a random vector functional link network based approach is introduced to address these issues. …”
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Alleviation of off-target effects from vector-encoded shRNAs via codelivered RNA decoys by Mockenhaupt, Stefan, Grosse, Stefanie, Rupp, Daniel, Bartenschlager, Ralf, Grimm, Dirk

Subjects: “…Adeno-associated viral vector…”
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Lights, camera, and action : vertebrate skin sets the stage for immune cell interaction with arthropod-vectored pathogens by Chong, Shu Zhen., Evrard, Maximilien., Ng, Lai Guan.

“…Despite increasing studies targeted at host-pathogen interactions, vector-borne diseases remain one of the largest economic health burdens worldwide. …”
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Numeric metrics for capturing variations in flow fields: an improvement towards a robust comparison of vector fields by Nowruzi, M, Baker, S, Leach, F, Fang, X

“…Quantifying the similarity of velocity vector fields is a critical task across numerous applications within fluid mechanics research, such as computational fluid dynamics validation and quantifying the levels of variability in a flow field. …”