Uncertainties of glacial isostatic adjustment model predictions in North America associated with 3D structure by Li, Tanghua, Wu, Patrick, Wang, Hansheng, Steffen, Holger, Khan, Nicole S., Engelhart, Simon E., Vacchi, Matteo, Shaw, Timothy Adam, Peltier, W. Richard, Horton, Benjamin Peter

“…We quantify GIA prediction uncertainties of 250 1D and 3D glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) models through comparisons with deglacial relative sea‐level (RSL) data from North America and rate of vertical land motion ( urn:x-wiley:00948276:media:grl60497:grl60497-math-0001) and gravity rate of change ( urn:x-wiley:00948276:media:grl60497:grl60497-math-0002) from GNSS and GRACE data, respectively. …”
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Development and implementation of a 3d-HDR brachytherapy program for cervical cancer in a sub-Saharan African centre by Joseph, A, Balogun, O, Adegboyega, B, Salako, O, Irabor, OC, Ajose, A, Adeneye, S, Alabi, A, Ohazurike, E, Ogamba, CF, Oladipo, A, Fagbemide, O, Habeebu, M, Puthoff, D, Onitilo, A, Ngwa, W, Nwachukwu, C

“…This report documents the implementation of the first three-dimensional high-dose-rate (3D-HDR) brachytherapy service for cervical cancer in Nigeria.…”

Making public transport the choice mode by Tan, Siew Fong

“…Today, 12% of Singapore’s land area has been used for transport. As our population and economy grows, there would be an increasing demand for transportation. …”
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Optimization and scheduling for a large-scale urban transportation system involving human factors by Zhang, Yi

“…Clearly, developing an efficient public transport system is definitely indispensable in order to solve serious traffic issues with a limited land supply and exploding transport demands. Therefore, this thesis focuses on solving the above issues by designing adaptive traffic signal controllers for both vehicles and pedestrians and developing optimal dispatching and operating strategies for public transport systems. …”
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FrED Manufacturing - A Study in Affordable Manufacturing to Scale using Desktop Sized Fiber Extrusion Device by Rosko, Rachael S.

“…Furthermore, key components of the device were quantified such as fps rate of the USB camera and motor stability which aided in understanding how diameter control and modulation can be implemented in future work. …”
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Tropical peat subsidence, nutrient losses and oil palm seedling growth due to different water table depths by Abubakar, Safiyanu Hashim

“…Agricultural development on tropical peat land, which is characterized by highly acidic in nature, low nutrients status and high water table depths has been strongly criticized by the international community. …”
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Grid optimization and demand side mangement for electric vehicles penetration in remote area by Zhang, Yixiao, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Li, Ning

“…The case studies from Sri Land highlight successful examples of distributed grid management in remote and rural areas. …”
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The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes by Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Reich, Peter B., Bardgett, Richard D., Eldridge, David J., Lambers, Hans, Wardle, David A., Reed, Sasha C., Plaza, César, Png, Kenny Guochen, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Hart, Stephen C., Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Bastida, Felipe, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Cutler, Nick A., Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hayes, Patrick E., Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Pérez, Cecilia A., Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sullivan, Benjamin W., Weber-Grullon, Luis, Williams, Mark A., Fierer, Noah

“…We propose that, regardless of soil age, changes in the environmental context, such as those associated with global climatic and land-use changes, will have important long-term impacts on the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems across biomes.…”
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Evaluating the impacts of lease decay on condominiums in Singapore: Bala's table revisited by Aw, Vernice Ming Hui, Yap, Cassandra Pin Xuan, Yap, Jun Hean

“…Our results also translate to a 1.67% long-run discount rate, lower than the implied discount rate in Bala’s Table. …”
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Electrospinning of low density PCL fibers on SLS scaffold by Leong, Yew Meng.

“…On the other hand, electrospinning with the same duration of 1min produces a higher density scaffold while varying acceleration voltage to 15kV and feed rate of 10ml/h; 8-10um fibers were obtained. …”
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Effect of inflammation on apolipoprotein A-1(apoA-1) secretion by intestinal cells. by Yu, Kenneth.

“…This study has shown that ApoA-l secretion in intestinal cells is constitutive; however, the rate of apoA-l secretion is increased by as high as 5-times the constitutive secretion rate when the cells are exposed to anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin and paracetamol. …”
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Prioritising conservation areas in Southeast Asia: highlighting zoological biodiversity hotspots and assessing spatiotemporal patterns of the felids guild by Chiaverini, L

“…These, in turn, lead to direct exploitation of habitats and species, land use degradation and climate change. Southeast Asia is one of most biodiverse region, but it has also experienced extraordinary human population and economic growths in the last decades, leading to pristine habitat loss and deforestation rates among the highest globally. …”

Optically reversible electrical soft-breakdown in wide-bandgap oxides — a factorial study by Zhou, Yu, Ang, Diing Shenp, Kalaga, Pranav Sairam

“…Light in the range of ∼400–700 nm is found to have relatively little influence on the reversal rate. On the other hand, light intensity, oxygen content and temperature, each of them has a clear impact; a stronger light intensity, an oxide that is richer in oxygen content and a reduced temperature all speed up the reversal process substantially. …”
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Biogeochemical cycling and environmental footprints of peatland-derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean in Southeast Asia by Zhou, Yongli

“…Each year, 0.2–0.25 Pg C of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is delivered from land to ocean by riverine transport. This riverine flux of terrigenous DOC alone is sufficient to support the turnover of the entire oceanic DOC pool, which means that terrigenous DOC can in theory dominate the DOC pool in the ocean. …”
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Expanding-window BATS code for scalable video multicasting over erasure networks by Xu, Xiaoli, Zeng, Yong, Guan, Yong Liang, Yuan, Lei

“…With random linear network coding (RLNC) applied at the intermediate nodes the information received by the destinations is determined by the associated channel rank distributions based on which we obtain the optimal achievable code rate at the source node. We show that although a concatenation of priority encoded transmission (PET) with RLNC achieves the optimal code rate it incurs prohibitive high coding complexity. …”
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Modeling and compensation of asymmetric piezo-actuated flexure-based system hysteresis by Zhou, Chao

“…Using functions of rates as the properties of operators and two observers, the RDPI model can model and compensate for the asymmetric and rate-dependent system hysteresis. …”
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Visible light communication systems supporting wireless data access and indoor positioning applications by Yang, Helin

“…Besides illumination, LEDs are also used for visible light communications (VLC) and visible light positioning (VLP). On the one hand, VLC has been emerging as a promising candidate for indoor wireless communications due to its supporting high-speed data rate, economic, electro-magnetic interference free and high security, compared with traditional radio-frequency (RF) systems. …”
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MIMO visible light communication system with enhanced performance by Han, Junyao

“…In several cases, it utilizes higher order modulation technique to increase transmission rate, but on the other hand it leads to being more susceptible to bit error. …”
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Prototyping wireless pulse oximeter by Ng, Kimberly Jin Jin

“…It implies that with wireless data transmission technology, there will be less administrative work for the healthcare providers; It reduces the risks involved for hardcopy data storage, reducing space usage and time involved in retrieving patient data and that the nurses could better utilize the time to perform other works in hand. Lastly, the graphic user interface (GUI) of this wireless pulse oximeter is designed in such a way that when blood oxygenation (SpO2), pulse rate (BPM) or perfusion index (PI) dropped below a pre-determined value, an alarm would be sound to alert the doctor and nurses. …”
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A systematic review of transanal total mesorectal excision: is this the future of rectal cancer surgery? by Simillis, C, Hompes, R, Penna, M, Rasheed, S, Tekkis, PP

“…One death was reported and the peri-operative morbidity rate was 35%. The anastomotic leakage rate was 6.1% and the reoperation rate was 3.7%. …”