Should investors care where private equity managers went to school? by Fuchs, F, Füss, R, Jenkinson, T, Morkoetter, S

“…In particular, we explore three potential channels of how their educational background may influence fund performance: (i) institutional quality, (ii) individual performance, and (iii) academic variety. We find that a combination of top-tier education and work experience identifies individual performance in the management team. …”

Stability improvement and control optimization of isolated two-stage AC-DC-DC converter systems by Feng, Fan

“…The analysis results offer instructive implications to fine-tune the design rules of the DAB converters. …”
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Realising the non-Hermitian skin effect with a nonlinear circuit by Lo, Hsuan

“…Our findings indicate the presence of a phase transition in the free energy and topological winding number of the equivalent GP equation, emphasizing the importance of driving voltage in the manifestation of NHSE. …”
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Relationship between the level of haptoglobin and diabetic vascular complications by Mak, Song Wen

“…A hemodynamic microfluidic chip system was implemented with the combination of caspase-3-based FRET biosensor cell line with microfluidic chip system which allows real time endothelial cell apoptosis. …”
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Melonic limits of the quartic Yukawa model and general features of melonic CFTs by Fraser-Taliente, L, Wheater, J

“…We identify the flows between the melonic and prismatic fixed points in the bosonic and fermionic sectors, finding an apparent line of fixed points in both. …”

Topological phase transition in quasi-one-dimensional bismuth iodide Bi 4 I 4 by Zhao, WX, Yang, M, Du, X, Li, YD, Zhai, KY, Hu, YQ, Han, JF, Huang, Y, Liu, ZK, Yao, YG, Zhuang, JC, Du, Y, Zhou, JJ, Chen, YL, Yang, LX

“…By tracking the temperature evolution of the (100) surface states, we unveil a thermal hysteresis of the surface gap in line with the α-β structural phase transition. Our findings directly evidence a temperature-induced topological phase transition from WTI to HOTI in Bi4I4, which paves the way to its potential applications at room temperature.…”

Distilling crowd knowledge from software-specific Q&A discussions for assisting developers’ knowledge search by Chen, Chunyang

“…I first build a basic software-specific knowledge graph including thousands of software-engineering terms and their associations by association rule mining and community detection. Then, I enrich the knowledge graph with more fine-grained relationships i.e., analogy among different third-party libraries. …”
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Molecular characterization of microbial interactions with labile dissolved organic matter by Halloran, Kathryn H.

“…This substrate selectivity is likely driven by transporter specificity. The distinct fate of these structurally similar molecules emphasizes the importance of compound-specific characterization of labile DOM. …”
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Robust Control For Underwater Vehicle Systems With Time Delays by Triantafyllou, Michael S ., Grosenbaugh, Mark A.

“…The methodology is applicable to undenvater vehicle systems that exhibit time delays, including tethered vehicles that are positioned through the movements of a surface ship and autonomous vehicles that are controlled through an acoustic link. An example, using full-scale data from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s tethered vehicle ARGO, demonstrates the developments.…”
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Smart non-contact thermometer with ESP32 and modular components by Chng, Wee Ping

“…A microcontroller, ESP32, will be the heart of this project, which will be complemented with modular components – GM65 Barcode Scanner and MLX90614 Infrared Temperature Sensor. The GitHub link for this project is: https://github.com/DevilRulerEx/fyp-smart-thermometer…”
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Model predictive control for single-phase active neutral point clamped converter by Ang, Ming Yang

“…This algorithm has three main goals: to ensure that the converter provides a stable and clean current to the grid, to maintain balanced voltages across the converter's DC-link capacitors for optimal functioning, and to minimise switching events within the converter to enhance overall efficiency and thermal performance.…”
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MANET test-bed implementation and performance analysis by Cai, Ruojun

“…Many routing protocols have been developed for accomplishing this task. Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol is a well known proactive routing protocol, which is undergoing extensive research under the auspices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). …”
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The greening of the offshore and marine industry. by Wee, Shi Hao., Leong, Pei Ling., Kong, Justin Jude Tse Sen.

“…This paper aims to study what drives the formation of green alliances, analyse the role of green alliances in an organization’s corporate strategy and in contributing to sustainability as a whole as well as to elucidate the link between green alliances and global citizenship. …”
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Implementation of rateless coding on off the shelf commercial smartphone by Cheong, Benjie Yi Da

“…With the rapid increase of number of people having a camera smartphone, visible light communication (VLC) as a form of short range communication over screen-camera link emerges as a viable option. However, the reliability of the transmission is affected by several factors: the environment at which the transmission is taking place, camera performances, human factors such as trembling and the lack of a feedback channel. …”
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The role of personality in the family stress model on mothers : an Asian context by Chong, Bryan Wei Ren

“…This study had two aims: testing the link between income-stress-parenting behaviours-child outcomes as proposed by the family stress model and testing the moderating role of personality. …”
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Lights and sounds : effects of congruence and musical sophistication on auditory and visual perception by Aw, Justus Jinyue

“…Research has also shown that musical training improves pitch perception, and the current research was carried out to establish if there is a link between the two. A measure of musical sophistication was also used in place of time spent taking music lessons; this was done in order to capture other elements that encapsulated engagement with music beyond formal training and practice. …”
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Simulation and analysis of 3D-printed flexure mechanisms by Kwek Muhammad Danial Bakhtiar

“…The reason is that compliant mechanism deviates away from conventional rigid-link mechanisms because it involves mobility from the deflection of its flexure members than just movable joints only. …”
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A concise review of gold nanoparticles-based photo-responsive liposomes for controlled drug delivery by Mathiyazhakan, Malathi, Wiraja, Christian, Xu, Chenjie

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What can we learn from Police data about timeliness in rape and serious sexual offence investigations in England and Wales? by Lovett, Jo, Hales, Gavin, Kelly, Liz, Khan, Aneela, Hardiman, Margaret, Trott, Louise

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Topological radicals, IX. Relations in ideals of C*-algebras by Kissin, Edward, Shulman, Victor, Turovskii, Yuri

“…Our third aim is to study the link between the radicals of relations ≪P in the lattices IdA and the topological radicals on A.…”
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