Blind deconvolution algorithms for medical ultrasound imaging by Yeoh, Wee Soon

“…These are the constrained least squares filter, the discrete nonorthogonal wavelet transform, and the symmetrical mirror wavelet solution.…”
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Contextual Predictability and Phonetic Reduction by Martin, Kinan R.

“…We train instances of GPT-2 on different context directions (past, future, and bidirectional) and context sizes (bigram vs. sentence) to provide measures of conditional word predictability, then use linear regression to quantify their correlation with a measure of phonetic reduction (word duration). …”
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The redirected gesture in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa by Lee, Cheryl Julia

“…In particular, I propose that, contrary to most critics’ straightforward reading of the Mundys’ dance in Act 1 as one of Michael’s memories, it is in fact an aesthetic gesture located at the intersection of the past and present, of reality and the imagination, of the self and the other. …”
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The role of mainstreamness and interdisciplinarity for the relevance of scientific papers by Thurner, Stefan, Liu, Wenyuan, Klimek, Peter, Cheong, Siew Ann

“…Here we use the bibliographic coupling network, derived from all physics papers that were published in the Physical Review journals in the past century, to try to identify them as mainstream, out-of-the-box, or interdisciplinary. …”
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Influenza messaging is better than no messaging at all : an experimental assessment of the effects of goal framing and affected-person framing on influenza vaccination attitudes an... by Kong, Wei Yi

“…The persuasiveness of goal framing on preventive behaviors has been established in past research but its effect on vaccination is inconsistent, and highlighting recipients of health benefits or consequences was suggested to moderate framing effects. …”
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Establishing the association between traditional tobacco, e-cigarette and dual use and mental health problems among high school students: results from a 2022 behavioral surveillanc... by Thepthien, BO, Tinn, CS, Sharma, R

“…This study examined the association among past-year use of conventional cigarette (CC), e-cigarette (EC), dual use (using both CC and EC), with presence of substance use (i.e., alcohol use and marijuana use), having friends and family members who use cigarettes, and mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety, psychological distress (PD), problem gambling (PG) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)). …”

120 children of UMPSA staff participated in Exploring Mathematics Programme by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…PEKAN, 21 December 2023 - A total of 120 participants consisting of the children of Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) staff participated in the Exploring Mathematics Programme held at both campuses for four sessions starting last Monday.…”
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Taliban await US withdrawal from Kabul by Sajjad Ashraf

“…US Secretary of State John Kerry and President Hamid Karzai announced in Kabul last week that the two sides are close to a much-delayed deal on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA). …”
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Development and investigation of bileaflet heart valve prostheses by Ramesh Veerappan

“…Artificial heart valves are in use the last four decades. They seem to be gaining ever increasing popularity though they are prone to have problems such as thrombosis and haemolysis. …”
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The relationships between irrational beliefs, self-esteem and public and private self-consciousness in adults by Lee, Janice Niann Tsyr

“…Thirdly, there is a positive relationship between irrational beliefs and public and private self-consciousness. The fourth and last hypothesis is that there are no gender differences in self esteem, irrational beliefs and public and private self-consciousness.…”
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3D interactive internet application based on VRML by Gao, Bo

“…Second aspect is on finding out all advantages and disadvantages of VRML by comparing it with other 3D authoring languages and formats. Last and the most important aspect is on proposing a set of non-proprietary mechanisms and the ways of implementation for creating a shared multi-user VRML environment.…”
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Pinch. by Koh, Kim Joo., Manoj Prabhoda Chandran.

“…With millions of dollars suddenly at stake for the now underworld players, the film takes a violent surreal turn when the twosome head out for one last heist.…”
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Study of goods vehicles in intermodal supply chain by Chng, Jing Feng.

“…Being widely utilised for first and last mile freight, road transportation is as critical a link as any in an intermodal supply chain. …”
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Piracy in the South China Sea : maritime ambushes off the Mangkai passage by Frecon, Eric

“…But what about surrounding areas such as Anambas Islands in the South China Sea? Attacks occured last year in this outlying place and the growing danger there deserves as much attention.…”
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ASEAN Plus eight defence cooperation : rise of a new player by Desker, Barry

“…The ground-breaking ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting Plus Eight convened for the first time last week. The emergence of the ADMM Plus will have implications for ASEAN and the evolving regional security architecture.…”
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Colombia’s early steps to becoming a regional energy hub by Zamora, A, Martínez, H

“…Colombia has traditionally been a leading advocate of economic and political integration in Latin America, even as it struggles internally with a civil conflict that has brought grief to its population over the last half century. The country has been proactive in the creation of all the regional economic integration bodies, including the Latin American Energy Organization, OLADE – one of the economic integration bodies that Colombia has supported and used as a lever to promote the energy integration of the continent, and its own role in the process.…”

Archaeology in Albania 2014-2024 by Gilkes, O, Melfi, M, Muka, B

“…This paper presents a review of new research being carried out within the borders of modern Albania in the last ten years. It offers a roughly geographical outline—albeit incomplete—of recent discoveries from prehistory to the middle-ages, and attempts at placing them in the wider context of current research in the field. …”

Report on professional attachment with American International Assurance. by Cheung, Wai Man.

“…This will be followed by the description of the tangible benefits of the PA program - the various projects and tasks author has been doing and learning for the past 8 weeeks.…”
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Pareto Adaptive Robust Optimality via a Fourier–Motzkin Elimination lens by Bertsimas, Dimitris, ten Eikelder, Stefan C. M., den Hertog, Dick, Trichakis, Nikolaos

“…A worst-case optimal solution pair of here-and-now decisions and wait-and-see decisions is PARO if it cannot be Pareto dominated by another solution, i.e., there does not exist another worst-case optimal pair that performs at least as good in all scenarios in the uncertainty set and strictly better in at least one scenario. …”
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Advanced diagnosis of electrical systems by Cao, Huimin

“…Two kind of faults are investigated in this project: sensor measurement error and power cell fault. “l1 regularized least-squares optimization” method is employed for sensor fault identification. …”
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