Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous vehicles by Diluka Moratuwage

“…Unfortunately almost all those algorithms inherit above mentioned issues from their single-vehicle counterpart. In the recent years an alternative solution based on the finite set statistics (FISST) has been proposed as a radically different alternative solution to the mono-SLAM problem. …”
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Essays in dynamic pricing, channel control and channel competition by Song, Boqian

“…Dynamic pricing has been successfully applied in the travel, hospitality, retail and entertainment industries to boost revenue and profits. In recent years, the popularity of the Internet and advances in information technology allow sellers to integrate dynamic pricing into their service bundling/unbundling strategy as well as multi-channel distribution strategy. …”
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Active control of wakes and vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder at Re = 100 by Wang, Chenglei

“…For years appropriate control methods have been actively sought to mitigate vortex-induced vibration (VIV) through either altering the shedding frequency or completely eliminating the vortex shedding. …”
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Soundfield control using loudspeaker array by Li, Renshi

“…Control of loudspeaker arrays have been studied in the past few years for a wide variety of applications. One of such application is to control a pre-defined listening environment to achieve audible and inaudible zones so as to gain a personalized and immersive sound experience. …”
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Essays on social responsibility in the marketplace : an experimental economic analysis by Wang, Yan

“…The idea of market exchange dates back to the ancient world, as evidenced, for example, by ancient bazaars. Over the years, along with the development of the market economy, there have been many cases where sellers or buyers do not take responsibility for external costs generated by their activities, and these costs have instead been passed on to society. …”
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Advanced code reuse attacks against modern defences by Wang, Chenyu

“…In this thesis, I will introduce the development of code reuse attacks in recent years together with control flow integrity (CFI). …”
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Dietary fiber intake and risk of advanced and aggressive forms of prostate cancer: a pooled analysis of 15 prospective cohort studies by Sidahmed, E, Freedland, SJ, Wang, M, Wu, K, Albanes, D, Barnett, M, van den Brandt, PA, Giles, GG, Cook, MB, Giovannucci, E, Haiman, CA, Larsson, SC, Key, TJ, Loftfield, E, Männistö, S, McCullough, ML, Milne, RL, Neuhouser, ML, Platz, EA, Perez-Cornago, A, Sawada, N, Schenk, JM, Sinha, R, Tsugane, S, Visvanathan, K, Wang, Y, White, KK, Willett, WC, Wolk, A, Ziegler, RG, Genkinger, JM, Smith-Warner, SA

“…<h4>Participants/setting</h4>There were 842 149 men followed for up to 9 to 22 years between 1985 and 2009 across studies.<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>The primary outcome measures were advanced (stage T4, N1, or M1 or PC mortality), advanced restricted (excluded men with missing stage and those with localized PC who died of PC), and high-grade PC (Gleason score ≥8 or poorly differentiated/undifferentiated) and PC mortality.…”

Childhood bullying and mental health: understanding risk, resilience, and the role of anti-bullying interventions by Guzman Holst, C

“…While most children and young people experience low and stable trajectories of bulling victimisation and/or perpetration throughout the school years, a few experience chronic and increasing levels of victimisation and/or perpetration (Barker et al., 2008). …”

Large-scale profiling of antibody reactivity to glycolipids in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome by Thomma, RCM, Halstead, SK, de Koning, LC, Fehmi, J, Rinaldi, S, IGOS consortium

“…<br> In total, 1413 patients from the observational International Guillain-Barré syndrome Outcome Study (0-91 years, 60.3% male) and 1061 controls (healthy, family, infectious, vaccination, other neurological disease) were included. …”

Impact of media literacy on soft drink consumption among adolescents in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohammad Shahid, Nur Nadirah

“…A total of 500 questionnaires were distributed to adolescents aged between 13 to 18 years old at selected secondary schools in Klang Valley. …”
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Design and Implementation of Active Antennas for IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring System by MUSA, UMAR, MOHD SHAH, SHAHARIL, A. MAJID, HUDA, AHMAD MAHADI, ISMAIL, A. RAHIM, MOHAMAD KAMAL, YAHYA, MUHAMMAD SANI, ZAINAL ABIDIN, ZUHAIRIAH

“…The experimental data are obtained from ten participants with ages ranging between 18 and 40 years old for 10-minutes duration with a 1-minute step size which implies 10 samples. …”
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Design and Implementation of Active Antennas for IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring System by MUSA, UMAR, MOHD SHAH, SHAHARIL, A. MAJID, HUDA, MAHADI, ISMAIL AHMAD, A. RAHIM, MOHAMAD KAMAL, YAHYA, MUHAMMAD SANI, ZAINAL ABIDIN, ZUHAIRIAH

“…The experimental data are obtained from ten participants with ages ranging between 18 and 40 years old for 10-minutes duration with a 1-minute step size which implies 10 samples. …”
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Effect of antimicrobial agents on biofilm cells and invitro development of resistance in planktonic cells of pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 by Balasankar Meera Priyadarshini

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Low complexity spectrum sensing for cognitive radio enabled aeronautical communication systems by Koodathumkal Mathew Libin

“…The proposed technique does not incur dedicated hardware blocks for noise variance estimation, leading to an efficient hardware implementation of the scheme without significant resource overheads. …”
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Exploiting LoRaWAN for efficient and resilient IoT networks by Gu, Chaojie

“…The physical coupling of the two planes may lead to undesirable consequences. For example, when a node loses connections with its neighbors, the controller cannot reach the node anymore. …”
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Hybrid free space optics/radio frequency communication for next generation wireless networks by Sharma, Shubha

“…Attenuation due to fog, misalignment, and pointing errors are other major factors, which can cause FSO link failure. These factors lead to the variation in laser beam strength at the receiver that affects the link range and the system reliability. …”
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A study of atmospheric gradient for the analysis of weather events and prediction of rainfall in the tropical region by Naha Biswas, Anik

“…The atmospheric gradient in the surrounding region converges at the location of precipitation which is also an indication of atmospheric convergence leading to a vertical updraft of warm air. The gradient magnitude exhibits negligible shift in values between rainy and non-rainy hours while forecasting precipitation over a region. …”
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Detection of road markings for advanced driver assistance by Suchitra Sathyanarayana

“…A study on the relationship between the block-size and the quality of SLEM was conducted to identify appropriate block settings leading to successful extraction of lane markings despite noisy edge pixels such as tree shadows. …”
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Novel method of probe design for characterising unclassified microbial taxa in wastewater by Tan, Shi Ming

“…One apparent advantage is the broadening of our knowledge on the prokaryotic tree of life, which can subsequently lead to the design of more accurate PCR primers and FISH probes. …”
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Evaluation of diabetic wound healing properties of moringa oleifera lam using in vitro and in vivo wound models by Muhammad Amali, Abubakar

“…Therefore, may serve as a lead in drug discovery for diabetic wound healing.…”
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