Using shock tube species time-histories in Bayesian parameter estimation: Effective independent-data number and target selection by Chen, Huaibo, Ji, Weiqi, Cassady, Séan J, Ferris, Alison M, Hanson, Ronald K, Deng, Sili

“…The influence of target selection is investigated by comparing LastP and C-1. LastP outperformed C-1 slightly, which can be attributed to the fact that larger discrepancies observed between experimental data and model predictions of the last point can increase the weights of likelihood functions. …”
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Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi by Chen, Sherry Yong, Kenstowicz, Michael J.

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Green logistics practices in Malaysian food-based manufacturing industry by Hussin, Hilda

“…Logistics has been regarded as a key determinant to business performance over the past 50 years. However, the increase in environmental concerns over pollution, climate change, congestion, waste disposal, and resource depletion among others have triggered an increased attention from the government and society. …”
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ABCDM : an Attention-based Bidirectional CNN-RNN Deep Model for sentiment analysis by Basiri, Mohammad Ehsan, Nemati, Shahla, Abdar, Moloud, Cambria, Erik, Acharya, U. Rajendra

“…Sentiment analysis has been a hot research topic in natural language processing and data mining fields in the last decade. Recently, deep neural network (DNN) models are being applied to sentiment analysis tasks to obtain promising results. …”
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Experimental investigation of impact response of composite plates/panels by Gan, Jia Li

“…Comparisons of results are made between past year FYP students and other journal papers. …”
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Design of slender concrete column using chinese design code GB50010-2010 by Chen, Qiaofen

“…Total of 150 columns which were tested by other researchers in the past have been selected for the analysis. Their eccentricity to depth ratios e/h range from 0 to 0.75, length to depth ratios L/h range from 14.697 to 50, percentages of reinforcements As/(bh) range from 0.8884% to 5.24%, actual concrete strengths fcu range from 16.7MPa to 106.7MPa, and actual yield strengths of steels fy range from 206MPa to 625MPa. …”
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Traffic management proposed electronic road pricing system by Ho, Eng Foo, Lim, Choon Fong, Poh, Leong Wee

“…First, the study looks at the policies from the past to present and into the future. Essentially, it includes the concept planning (1971), Area Licensing Scheme, (ALS, 1975), whole-day ALS or Manual Road Pricing system, (MRP , 1994) and Proposed Electronic Road Pricing System, ERP (1997) . …”
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Design of slender reinforced concrete column using Indian design code and Chinese design code (dual project) by Tan, Xesman Zhong Hong

“…This writer has selected 152 columns that were experimented by past researchers. In this report, all 152 columns will be evaluated in four different aspects, factored and unfactored with IS 456: 2000 and factored and unfactored with BS EN 1992. …”
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Econometric analyses of liquefied petroleum gas and product tanker shipping markets by Bai, Xiwen

“…This research starts with a review of past work on tramp shipping freight market modeling, identifying the major trends and methods in each topic. …”
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The legacy of polders: Diagnosing complex flooding processes and adaptation options in the coastal region of Bangladesh by Adnan, MSG

“…</p> <p>By analysing complex coastal flood processes and adaptation options spatially and quantitatively, this thesis provides new evidence to the effectiveness of the past (polders), and potential future (TRM) adaptation options. …”

The first person pronoun in archaic Chinese, with a note on duplex characters by Benedict, Paul K.

“…The widely represented *nga, from Chepang, Chang (Northern Naga), and Trung (Nungish) on the north(/west) and Tujia (west-central China) on the east to Burmese-Lolo on the south(/east), as our "mouse," is at times firmly in the paws of our TM "cat": Waling (Kiranti) angka < *-nga-ga '1 p. prn.' …”
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UNCLOS and its Limitations as the Foundation for a Regional Maritime Security Regime by Sam, Bateman

“…The paper concludes that uncertainty in the law of the sea is likely to grow and that State practice in East Asia, under the influence of domestic politics and regional tensions, may well continue to diverge from more traditional views of the law. …”
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A Descriptive Analysis of Housing Affordability in Malaysia by Musaddad, Hafirda Akma, Maamor, Selamah, Zainol, Zairy

“…Therefore, this paper tends to discuss the descriptive analysis of housing affordability containing several variables (House Price, Household Income, Household Expenses, Land Cost, Population, Inflation, Interest rate and Rental Rate) used in this study for the sample of East Coast Region (Kelantan, Terengganu, and Pahang),Central Region (Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, and Negeri Sembilan), Southern Region (Melaka and Johor), Northern Region (Perlis, Kedah, Penang and Perak), and also East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak).…”
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Development of a generic framework for dynamic website design by Huang, Dongli

“…as our platform and our basic framework to start with. At last, two Joomla! components were developed and installed. …”
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The impacts of new shipping routes/ passages : a study on the impact of the expansion of the Panama Canal on various shipping sectors by Ong, Randolph Jian Jie

“…As container carriers seek to deploy larger vessels to lower slot costs, there has been no tangible increase in volume experienced on the US East Coast ports. Freight rates for shipments from Asia to East Coast has also became costlier than the West Coast. …”
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The militarisation of central Asia – a new great game? by Pardesi, Manjeet S

“…Captain Arthur Connolly of the British East India Company coined the phrase, ‘The Great Game’, in mid-1800s, to describe the contest for supremacy between Czarist Russia and Victorian England in Central Asia. …”
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Temporal Telepresence: Immersive Interfaces for TeleAbsence by Pillis, D.

“…To store the past in a simulation may enable greater understanding of ourselves, our stories, and our histories. …”
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Modal tense: if and wish by Crowley, Paul

“…I show how previous proposals for X-marking cannot satisfy these desiderata, making them insufficient for a unified account. Lastly, I introduce a hypothesis that all varieties of morphology that can be used as X-marking cross-linguistically-including past, imperfective, plural and habitual-are vacuous in both their X-marked and ordinary uses.…”
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Multirate Linear Quadratic Gaussian controllers for linear time-invariant systems by Chua, Say Yong.

“…In the last decade and particularly the last several years, multirate digital control has been an area of active and prominent research. …”
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On zero-dimensional polynomial systems and their applications to the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem by Yun, Yang

“…We give an upper bound of the last fall degree of the Weil descent system of $\mathcal{F}$ from $k$ to $k'$, which depends on $q$, $m$, the last fall degree of $\mathcal{F}$, the degree of $\mathcal{F}$ and the number of solutions of $\mathcal{F}$, but not on $n$. …”
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