Whither energy cooperation in Latin America? by Flores-Quiroga, A

“…The first, which is an expression of energy abundance, hints at the promise of integration; but the second suggests this might be wishful thinking, at least for the time being. The future of Latin American energy cooperation will depend largely on which of these two conflicting tendencies prevails.…”

No One Wants To Be A Parasitologist: The Shrinking Field of America's Least Favorite Animals by Richter, Hannah

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Islam in Late Antiquity: state-making, the Bedouin, and the end of empires by Wakeley, JM

“…Extensive use of the Islamic historical tradition has been embraced – and justified – but the thesis’s broader approach to the world into which Muḥammad was born is underpinned by the Greek and Latin sources of the Roman Empire. Comparative approaches are also employed, not least to situate Arabia in a broader late antique context and also to improve our understanding of the development of the early Islamic state.…”

Multivariable predictive control of a distillation column by Cai, Yue Bin

“…In this thesis, a state space version of Generalized Predictive Control (GPC) is studied. The main feature of this scheme is the use of the Deterministic Least Squares framework for both the controller and the state estimator designs.…”
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Globalization and environmental quality : insights from 128 countries by Le, Ha Chi

“…Fixed Effects (FE) is employed as the main estimation technique while panel Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) and Driscoll-Kraay (D-K) standard errors estimations are employed as robustness check. …”
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Geometry of single axis motions using conic fitting by Jiang, G, Tsui, H-T, Quan, L, Zisserman, A

“…We propose three new methods that are based on fitting a conic locus to corresponding image points over multiple views. The main advantage is that determining only five parameters of a conic from one corresponding point over at least five views is simpler and more robust than determining a fundamental matrix from two views or a trifocal tensor from three views. …”

Environmental, social, and governance and hierarchical network data envelopment analysis firm efficiencies of Japan Airlines' supply chain by Kweh, Qian Long, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong, Asif, Jawad, Lu, Wen-Min

“…Second, we run ordinary least squares regression analyses with 5000 bootstrap replications and determine that overall ESG and its three main elements are positively linked with firm efficiencies. …”
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Biofuel : impact on global economy. by Ho, Sarah Shu Ching., Seah, Patricia Kai Ling.

“…Fossil fuels have been our main source of energy. However, they are non-renewable, meaning they will deplete one day. …”
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Mobile apps development for NTU canteens by Chua, Joy Yun Hui

“…The main features include a basic search function where user can search for location of a particular food in NTU. …”
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Implementation of a radar prototype on an unmanned arial vehicle by Liu, Jiaqing

“…As for the system introduction, two main plans, A & B respectively, are elaborated in details regarding the principles and components. …”
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Developing strategies to retain organizational insurers using a clustering technique: evidence from the insurance industry by Kambiz, Shahroodi, Avakh Darestani, Soroush, Samaneh, Soltani, Adeleh, Eisazadeh Saravani

“…Formulating strategies to maintain policyholders is one of the main challenges for most insurance companies in Iran. …”
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Hydrogen as marine fuel – feasibility, prospects, and challenges by Tan, Helen Zhi Ying

“…Similar to all other modes of transport, fossil fuels are widely used, and they are the main cause of climate change and global warming. …”
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Unveiling the facade of blog posts to reveal subjective well-being : an exploratory study. by Ou, Zhiqi., Tan, Justine Yi Ting., Tan, Jessie Zi Xi.

“…In this exploratory study to form a bridge between existing methods to gauge the well-being of people and the usage of social media as a data source, we find that there are substantial links between the subjective and objective well-being of people and the feelings expressed by people in blogs. Our two main findings demonstrate that eight out of 11 of the regressions involving the objective ranking as the main independent variable show the objective ranking having the correct expected sign at at least the 10% significance level. …”
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Implementation of AFS approach for web data analysis by Liu, Yuyang.

“…In particular, how AFS simulates a simple real world problem is elaborated. The main work of this project concerns the transformation of AFS functions from MatLab code into Java. …”
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Analysis of total factor productivity growth in marine and offshore industry by Chia, Cheryl Xin Yu, Lin, Joyce Shi Ying, Neo, Kai Min

“…The main motivation behind this paper is to estimate the Total Factor Productivity growth (TFPG) in Marine and Offshore (M&O) industry from 1981 to 2013, and find out the determinants of estimated TFPG in this industry. …”
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Engineering education with virtual reality (Drill press machinary) by Tan, Yong Liang

“…But due to the space constraints and tide lesson schedules, not all students can get to interact with all the machineries at least before they start working in their relevant fields. …”
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Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan by Laporte, J

“…Since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, hydrocarbon exports have formed the backbone of the country’s economy and the main source of rents for ruling elites. Focusing on the development of Azerbaijan’s events industry in the 2000s and 2010s, the article uses available evidence and process tracing techniques to develop the hypothesis that Azerbaijan’s elites sought out hosting rights, at least in part, to diversify their sources of private rents. …”

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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Fabrication of a rotary MR brake and data collection by Sim, Desmond Huang De.

“…In this report, a finalized design of MR drum rotary brake which consists of 3 main sub-assemblies of external housing comprising of inner housing, rotor, coil holder, bearings and radial shaft seals can therefore ensure to achieve at least 5Nm of torque in the presence of magnetic field. …”
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Human metapneumovirus in Singapore : epidemiology, fusion-attachment protein interaction and virus-like particle assembly by Loo, Liat Hui

“…At the same time, it was also revealed that this virus had been circulating in the human population for at least 50 years. In the years that followed, an increasing number of research groups began to publish work on various aspects of HMPV. …”
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