An assimilation of experience. by Mehraj Nisha.

“…She seemed to be hoping to wake up the music in it; cajoling it to at least crackle a song or a voice. Anything to the numbing sound of her grandma’s gasping breaths. …”
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Digital wavefront recording, reconstruction and 3D display by Qian, Kemao

“…It only needs two fringe patterns, comparing with traditional phase-shifting technique which needs at least three fringe patterns. 2. For phase analysis, a spatially adaptive strategy for windowed Fourier transform was proposed and compared with the spatially fixed strategy and their respective advantages and disadvantages were revealed, which was useful for reliable phase analysis. 3. …”
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Energy saving control of robot by Chan, Chee Siang.

“…SCARA Robot energetic consumption comparison will to make in this research to figure out which controller will consume least energy in doing a similar tasks. Research of robotics aims to realize some aspects of human functions into a mechanical system. …”
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In memory of Aureliano's ice. by Ho, Jia Xuan.

“…For a man with seventeen sons, thirty odd wars under his belt and a relatively dysfunctional family, the fact that Colonel Aureliano Buendía figures his experience with ice as the defining moment in his life is intriguing to say the least. Going through the chain of events leading to the fateful encounter, he does not remember the acrobats with gold-capped teeth or the jugglers with six arms, nor the thousand more inventions so ingenious and unusual that his father wanted to invent a memory machine so that he could remember them all; in the critical moments right before his death, the other events are fleeting, yet “for the first time since his youth he knowingly fell into a trap of nostalgia and relived that prodigious afternoon of the gypsies when his father took him to see ice” (García Márquez 266-267). …”
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Legionella pneumophila filamentous morphological form and the generation of novel spherical form upon interaction with protozoan hosts by Chan, Sock Hoai

“…Our investigation showed that filamentation cannot be neatly pegged to a single dominant factor but is promoted under a concerted influence of environmental conditions leaning towards (i) higher than ambient temperatures, at 37-42°C, (ii) static fluid movement, and (iii) with at least a minimal organic content of 5% buffered yeast extract, or equivalent. …”
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Study of wave forces on small-scale structural elements by Tan, Yong Ming.

“…A close examination of the resultant strains of different targets shows that the elevated stilt target experienced the least amount of strain, followed by an angled-oriented target. …”
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上古汉语的名物化现象再探 = The study on nominalization of archaic Chinese by 沈源源 Shen, Yuan Yuan

“…Words with syntactic function were classified as verbs while words without/with least syntactic function were classified as nouns. …”
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Variable selection in parametric and semiparametric models by Lin, Bingqing

“…Since the proposal of the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) (Tibshirani, 1996) and the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) method (Fan and Li, 2001), there have been extensive developments on model selection based on penalized log-likelihood and the computational issues of solving these problems in linear models. …”
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Sensitivity analysis on river discharge from uncertainties in basin and rainfall parameters by Toh, Amos Yu Heng

“…A change in 20% of the landuse can increase the peak discharge by at least 80m3/s which represent a great percentage increase from the baseline. …”
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On-chip droplet characterisation using impedance-based measurement by Low, Jerome Fang Yao

“…This concentration was subsequently used to ensure that the impedance measurements recorded were for droplets containing at least a single cell. It was also demonstrated that impedance-based measurements can be used for droplet characterisation. …”
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Condition monitoring of thermal comfort and energy efficiency for indoor environment of buildings by Chua, Andy Bing Zhong

“…In the context of this study, the vapour compression refrigeration system consumed the least amount of energy per annum and resulted in the lowest amount of total costs per annum. …”
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Data preparation and visualization of heavy vehicular movement for traffic prediction by Chong, Ji Shen

“…This will enable city planners to identify which roadways are prone to congestions during which periods and how to divert which type of traffic via which route that best enable the least travelling time. This report aims to characterise movements of various types of vehicle from their raw GPS data to filter, pre-process, calculate and visualise the movement of those vehicles in such a manner that will aid in the prediction of their movements. …”
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Fire resistant geopolymer concrete incorporating local alkali-silica reactive rocks (ST-27) by Poh, Tian Han

“…Concrete samples using various mix design were tested in groups of at least 3 to cater for consistency, these samples undergo compressive strength test and high heat testing using the furnace and the results were compared and analysed.…”
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A vision based system for modern transportation system by Zhang, Zhicheng

“…That is equivalent to approximately of 3,700 people dying on the roads every day. 123 countries had come together, representing 6 billion people and implemented laws that meet the best practice for at least one of the five key behavioural risk factors contributing to the road accident. …”
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Computational study of power conversion and luminous efficiency performance for semiconductor quantum dot nanophosphors on light-emitting diodes by Erdem, Talha, Nizamoglu, Sedat, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…We present power conversion efficiency (PCE) and luminous efficiency (LE) performance levels of high photometric quality white LEDs integrated with quantum dots (QDs) achieving an averaged color rendering index of ≥90 (with R9 at least 70), a luminous efficacy of optical radiation of ≥380 lm/Wopt a correlated color temperature of ≤4000 K, and a chromaticity difference dC <0.0054. …”
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Homoclinic solutions for a class of second order nonautonomous singular Hamiltonian systems by Zhang, Ziheng, Liao, Fang-Fang, Wong, Patricia J. Y.

“…≥ 3 and (HS) is nonautonomous (neither periodic nor almost periodic), we show that (HS) possesses at least one nontrivial homoclinic solution. Our main hypotheses are the strong force condition of Gordon and the uniqueness of a global maximum of 𝑊??? …”
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What are the intensities and line-shapes of the twenty four polarization terms in coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy? by Niu, Kai, Lee, Soo-Ying

“…The conventional CARS term with sharp vibrational lines is the dominant term, with intensity at least one order of magnitude larger than the other terms.…”
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Inductance and resistance measurement method for vessel detection and coil powering in all-surface inductive heating systems composed of outer squircle coils by Kilic, Veli Tayfun, Unal, Emre, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…Results show that in an induction hob for various coil geometries it is possible to detect a vessel’s presence, to identify its material type and to specify its position on the hob surface by considering inductance and resistance of the coil measured on at least two different frequencies. The studied method is important in terms of enabling safe, efficient and user flexible heating in an all-surface inductive heating system by automatically detecting the vessel’s presence and powering on only the coils that are loaded by the vessel with predetermined current levels.…”
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Formation and characterization of magnetron sputtered Ta–Si–N–O thin films by Xu, S., Chen, Z., Yan, H., Li, L., Ho, F. Y., Liang, M. H., Pan, J. S.

“…At elevated temperatures, all films show good thermal stability to at least 800 °C, while film with high Si concentration is largely amorphous at 900 °C because of highly stable TaSixOy compounds. …”
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Source localization by TDOA with random sensor position errors - Part II : mobile sensors by Qu, Xiaomei, Xie, Lihua

“…For the purpose of source localization, we have proposed a constrained weighted least squares (CWLS) source localization method in our companion paper, which uses static sensors by accounting for random uncertainties in sensor positions. …”
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