Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch by Bauza, Maria, Bronars, Antonia, Rodriguez, Alberto

“…Importantly, it produces pose distributions and can incorporate additional pose constraints coming from other perception systems, multiple contacts, or priors. …”
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Modeling and Implementation of the U.S. Hydrogen Production Tax Credit by Giovanniello, Michael A.

“…We confirm that a system design that accounts for inter-annual VRE uncertainty comes at a cost premium — a reality ignored by the existing literature. …”
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新加坡华人的多元文化身份 : 以新加坡华族文化中心为例 = Multicultural identity of Singapore Chinese: a case study of Singapore Chinese cultural centre by 曾歆霓 Chan, Cheryl Shin Ni

“…Whenever this Centre was mentioned, one thing that comes to mind would be identity, which more often than not, people would relate it to Chineseness. …”
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Development of vision-based terrain recognition method for lower limb exoskeleton for outdoor environments by Gupta, Paluk

“…One problem that can be seen in using exoskeletons for everyday activities comes when vision-based systems fail due to conditions such as occlusions in depth maps caused due to uneven texture of surfaces, sunlit or reflective surfaces - these factors greatly affect image quality and how accurately they are classified. …”
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Stock prediction using support vector regression by Manasa, Abburu.

“…Support Vector Machine for Regression (SVM-R) has been proven to be more advantageous than BP when it comes to handling financial data. It needs fewer parameters to learn and has the potential to handle noise, randomness and chaos as will be discussed in this paper. …”
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Ordered hybrid nanoneedle arrays for gas sensing by Liu, Hai

“…The breakdown voltage of nitrogen for Pt/Si comes up with only ~7 V in contrast to ~ 30V, which is required to N2 discharge for Fe/Si hybrid nanoneedle array. …”
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Climate change: crop performance and potential by Ramlan, Mohd Fauzi

“…The rise in CO2 level that comes together with the higher temperature would certainly affect the crop performances. …”
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Asnaffood: a Model Driven Development of Mobile Application for Reducing Food Waste Amongst Local Food Producers (S/O 14671) by Abd Ghani, Nor Farzana, Abd Wahab, Alawiyah

“…However, unique to this study, when it comes to food sadaqah for the Asnaf, food producers together with the donors’ fund contribution are more than willing to give away fresh food instead. …”
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BSACI guidance for the implementation of Palforzia® peanut oral immunotherapy in the United Kingdom: a Delphi consensus study by Marrs, Tom, Patel, Nandinee, Burrell, Sarah, Rampersad, Anjali, Minshall, Eleanor, Leech, Susan, Chandratilleke, Dinusha, Dempsey, Justine, Ludman, Sian, Roberts, Graham, Michaelis, Louise Jane, Brough, Helen A., Karanam, Surendra, Batt, Rebecca, Moulsdale, Phoebe, Steifel, Gary, Tiwana, Kiran, Smith, Helen, Knight, Katherine, Vazquez-Ortiz, Marta, Vyas, Deepan, Turner, Paul J., Makwana, Nick

“…These guidance statements will be adapted in the coming years as more evidence is published and as the international experience of peanut immunotherapy evolves.…”
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中国移民在新加坡的适应与发展 ：以电视剧《雾锁南洋》为研究对象 = Chinese immigrants’ adaptation and development in Singapore : a case study of drama series The Awakening... by 刘宛姗 Low, Wan Shan

“…The Awakening was Singapore’s first full-length drama series which consisted of four chapters, chronicling the turmoil that the forefathers from China faced when they were in Singapore and the contributions they have made towards Singapore’s prosperity. …”
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Investigation on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with index modulation by Fan, Rui

“…Throughout this thesis, the implementation complexities for the proposed schemes are analyzed in respective chapters. The theoretical analysis for the index modulation systems proposed in this thesis is conducted. …”
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Childhood bullying and mental health: understanding risk, resilience, and the role of anti-bullying interventions by Guzman Holst, C

“…Understanding who is at greatest risk of being bullied and why is important for maximising the effect of anti-bullying interventions and safeguarding young people from deteriorating mental health outcomes. Across all chapters, this thesis uses an ecological approach to understand risk and resilience by considering the school context, peer-group relationships, and individual differences.…”

From External to Swap Regret 2.0: An Efficient Reduction for Large Action Spaces by Dagan, Yuval, Daskalakis, Constantinos, Fishelson, Maxwell, Golowich, Noah

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Assessment of arterial stiffness via measurement of pulse wave velocity a study for the normotensive population by Chang, Serene Wei Nee.

“…The measured waveform and published literature comes into agreement with the obtained readings and further improve the confidence of the results. i The elastic modulus of the artery is then derived from the Moens-Korteweg equation, C₀=􀶥􀜧􀝄/2􀜴􀟩 from the baPWV values. …”
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Cognitively inspired rule-plus-exemplar based pattern classification by Sit, Wing Yee

“…However, comprehensibility often comes at reduced complexity of the classifier and thus poorer generalization performance. …”
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先秦思想中音乐与情感的关系 ：以《孟子》《庄子》“乐”（lè）与 “乐” （yuè）的运用为核心 = The relations between music and emotion in Pre-Qin thought : an analysis of the usage of ‘Lè’ and ‘Yuè’ in the Mencius and the Zh... by 何昱慧 Ho, Adeline Yu Hui

“…On the other hand, although Yue（乐）could be expressed alone, the emotions that comes along with it could be analysed further. Understanding the relations between“乐” and Music and Emotions in Pre-Qin text are necessary in finding the underlying significance. …”
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Understanding the justifications for food policies through political theory: a method for public policy analysis by Thomas, O

“…Is paternalism justifiable when it comes to nutrition? What are the impacts of such interventions on health equity or free choice? …”

Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…All the three part of the work will be illustrated and explained in details in the following chapters. Moreover, a summary and future plan is clearly stated in the end of the thesis.…”
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Going on from Picasso? Late modernism and the dynamics of history by Nelson, S

“…The conditions for this kind of reorientation were historically unprecedented, grounded in the situation of the post-war United States: the advancing globalisation of the capitalist economy; the institutionalisation of modernist painting as official high culture; the political and intellectual climate of the Cold War; movements for decolonisation and advancing US neocolonialism; the demands for Civil Rights. Each of my chapters analyses a cluster of such framing factors, the legacies of which are still with us today.…”

Non-contact laser-ultrasonic subsurface thermography using waveform inversion by Hu, Lei

“…The challenge of the subsurface thermography comes from satisfying simultaneously the four requirements of 1) avoidance of the damage to measuring instruments caused by the high temperature of the heated sample, 2) compatibility with metal materials, 3) little disturbance to the target temperature field, 4) reliable data collection with high SNR. …”
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