Grouting in rock cavern - a case study by Chew, Wei Kwang

“…At the first step, based on past studies and existing relationship, we determined the parameters to be used in this study to be water ingress rate, water ingress pressure, drill hole depth, w/c ratio of grout, rock quality designation, Q-value, rock mass rating, cohesion, friction angle, deformation modulus, tensile strength and hydraulic conductivity. …”
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Calibration of the basic reinforced concrete design provision (Calibration of bond stress-slip models for unconfined reinforced concrete) by Cheah, Yi Ning

“…This project aims to provide a comprehensive comparison among the seven deterministic bond stress-slip models developed in the past researches, and thus, further enhance their applicability by establishing the bond-slip statistical cloud models. …”
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Suppression of multiple-access interference for code-division multiple-access systems by Gao, Ruobin

“…Over the past few decades, code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems have been widely used for military and commercial applications. …”
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Key developments in ionic liquid crystals by Alvarez Fernandez, Alexandra, Kouwer, Paul H. J.

“…The first one is based on the multi-billion-dollar flat panel display industry, whilst the latter quickly developed in the past decades into a family of highly-tunable non-volatile solvents. …”
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3D reconstruction of building models based on 2D floorplans using statistical analysis by Gasiorowski, Pawel, Vassilev, Vassil

“…With the rapid advancement of image processing, computer vision and graphics technologies over the past few years we are at the point where it is feasible to reconstruct and visualize the interiors of a building in three-dimensional space for several case scenarios. …”
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A principles-led approach to information assurance and governance in local government by Brett, Mark

“…This practice-based paper explores a principles-led approach to cyber information governance for local authorities (LAs) in England and Wales, while linking it to a corporate information governance regime to support cyber security and resilience. Over the past 15 years the author has worked with several LA regional cyber security groups known as WARPs (Warning, Advice and Reporting Points). …”

Death and the doctor: the museum as a tool for understanding the needs of the dying by Harris, J, Moyse, A, Hadley, G, Frampton, S, Dempsey, A, Hordern, J, Saunders, K, Lane, R, De Luca, G

“…Over the past several years, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has been part of a multi- disciplinary team examining the question of how we train medical students to deal with those parts of their profession which are concerned primarily with the humanity of their patients. …”

Forecasting the UK top 1% income share in a shifting world by Castle, JL, Doornik, JA, Hendry, DF

“…UK top income shares have varied hugely over the past two centuries, ranging from more than 30% to less than 7% of pre-tax national income allocated to the top 1 percentile. …”

PLAbDab-nano: a database of camelid and shark nanobodies from patents and literature by Gordon, G, Greenshields-Watson, A, Agarwal, P, Wong, A, Boyles, F, Hummer, A, Lujan Hernandez, A, Deane, C

“…The volume of academic literature and patents related to nanobodies has risen significantly over the past decade. Here, we present PLAbDab-nano, a nanobody complement to the Patent and Literature Antibody Database (PLAbDab). …”

Kick-starting the shale boom in Argentina? The new reforms in context by Mares, DR

“…Not only has the country been a major supplier of natural gas to neighbouring Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, and Bolivia in the past, but its domestic use is so large that it has become an important importer of natural gas via pipeline from Bolivia and it has built two LNG import facilities. …”

Collective effect of self-learning and social learning on language dynamics: a naming game approach in social networks by Wen, T, Chen, Y-W, Lambiotte, R

“…However, there are always irregular exceptions to regular rules, with one of the most notable being the past tense of verbs in English. In this work, a naming game approach is developed to investigate the collective effect of social behaviours on language dynamics, which encompasses social learning, self-learning with preference and forgetting due to memory constraints. …”

Eddy transport with a beta effect: a joint experimental and numerical study by Qian, C

“…Annulus measurements in the f-plane configuration do not support the assumption of down-gradient diffusion of temperature and this result is consistent with past simulation studies. The hypotheses of energetic constraints in the GEOMETRIC parameterization theory are not rejected but the data distribution is not as approximately linear as the tests with a beta effect. …”

Institutionalizing US-ROK-Japan trilateral cooperation: recent progress and future prospects by Govella, K

“…Over the past two years, there has been dramatic progress in cooperation among the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the United States. …”

Phenomenological study on the psychological well-being of tahfiz students by Adzim, Afa Fauzul, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Badayai, Syaidatun Nazirah Abu Zahrin

“…The other psychological functions also reflect a desire to grow in becoming a better person, accept one’s strengths, weaknesses, the past, manage daily activities, self-autonomy and establish positive relationships with others. …”
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A proposed framework of job resources influencing work engagement towards academics of public universities in Beijing and Shanghai in China by Sun, Mengmeng, Kanjanapathy, Malini, Mohamed Saat, Maisarah

“…Over the past, work engagement underwent a rigorous verification process in different occupational background. …”
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Effect of Malaysian Manufacturing Firm's Flexibility and New Product Performance by Teoh, Bak Aun, Abu, Noor Hidayah

“…In addition, manufacturing flexibility has been receiving attentions over the past decades as firm’s flexibility-related functional capabilities are internal competencies and resources of the firm. …”
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GPU-based commonsense reasoning for real-time query answering and multimodal analysis by Tran, Ha Nguyen

“…Secondly, in order to reason and retrieve information on rule-based knowledge bases, the thesis introduces gSparql, a fast and scalable inference and querying method on mass-storage RDF data with rule-based entailment regimes. …”
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Computational inverse design of non-intuitive illumination patterns to maximize optical force or torque by Lee, Yoonkyung E., Miller, Owen D., Reid, McMahon Thomas Homer, Johnson, Steven G, Fang, Xuanlai

“…The nonconvex optimization is efficiently performed by combining a compact cylindrical Bessel basis representation with a fast boundary element method and a standard derivative-free, local optimization algorithm. …”
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A cross-scale framework for evaluating flexibility values of battery and fuel cell electric vehicles by Liu, Ruixue, He, Guannan, Wang, Xizhe, Mallapragada, Dharik, Zhao, Hongbo, Shao-Horn, Yang, Jiang, Benben

“…Here we show that the flexibility reduction after considering battery degradation is quantified by at least 4.7% of the minimum system cost and enlarged under fast charging and low-temperature scenarios. Our findings imply that energy policies and relevant management technologies are crucial to shaping the comparative flexibility advantage of the two transportation electrification pathways. …”
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Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration by Schneiders, Eike, Fourie, Christopher, Celestin, Stanley, Shah, Julie, Jung, Malte

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