Myanmar : learning from the Philippines’ democratic transition by Trajano, Julius Cesar Imperial

“…But as demonstrated by the Philippine case, democracy alone cannot address all the challenges besetting Myanmar.…”
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Submarine trends in Asia Pacific : air-independent propulsion a game changer? by Michael Raska

“…The contending strategic realities of the Asia-Pacific region compel states to adopt innovations of their rivals. This is the case for new classes of conventional submarine designs, which incorporate an array of innovative technologies in order to maximise their survivability and lethality in diverse maritime operations.…”
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Visual hull based 3D reconstruction of shocks in under-expanded supersonic bevelled jets by Lim, Desmond Haoxiang, New, Tze How, Mariani, Raffaello, Cui, Y. D.

“…This is key to achieving accurate and high-resolution reconstructed shock waves for both axisymmetric and asymmetric test cases with an average of 2.5% error when validated against raw schlieren images. …”
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A Primer on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) / by Hair, Joseph F., Jr., 1944-, author 644188, Hult, G. Tomas M., author 209503, Ringle, Christian M., author 609755, Sarstedt, Marko, author 627541

“…Hult, Christian Ringle, and Marko Sarstedt use their years of conducting and teaching research to communicate the fundamentals of PLS-SEM with limited emphasis on equations and symbols, instead, explaining the details in straightforward language. A running case study on corporate reputation follows the different steps in this technique so readers can better understand the research applications. …”

Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication : A Guide for Research / by Brookes, Gavin (Linguist), author 629273, Collins, Luke, author 656146

“…Offering a critical review of the field, discussion of extended case studies, and practical exercises based on spoken, written and digital language data, this book: introduces the fields of health communication and corpus linguistics, and critically reviews cutting-edge studies in the burgeoning area of corpus-based health communication; describes the processes involved in planning a corpus linguistic study of health communication, including designing and building a corpus, selecting tools, and implementing techniques of analysis; demonstrates how corpus linguistic methods can - and have - been applied to the study of spoken, written and digital health communication, offering critical reflections and suggesting areas for future development. …”
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Conducting Psychological Assessment : A Guide for Practitioners / by Wright, A. Jordan, author 513562, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…All readers of this book will benefit from: 1.A primer on the overall process of psychological assessment. 2.An explanation of how to integrate the data from the administration, scoring, and interpretation phases into a fully conceptualized report. 3.Actual case examples and sample assessment cases that span the entire process. 4.Perfect for people in training programs in health service psychology, including clinical, counseling, school, and forensic programs, Conducting Psychological Assessment also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone conducting assessments of human functioning.…”
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Microfabrication and Nanofabrication : Precision Manufacturing / by Kalita, Kanak, 1988-, editor 644744, Ghadai, Ranjan Kumar, 1990-, editor 656005, Davim, J. Paulo, editor 207699

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Accelerating Practical Engineering Design Optimization with Computational Graph Transformations by Sharpe, Peter D.

“…First, it introduces the concept of code transformations as a possible foundation for an MDO framework and demonstrates their practical feasibility through aircraft design case studies. Second, it implements several common aircraft analyses in a form compatible with code transformations, providing a practical illustration of the opportunities, challenges, and considerations here. …”
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Acceleration by Stepsize Hedging: Multi-Step Descent and the Silver Stepsize Schedule by Altschuler, Jason, Parrilo, Pablo

“…The core algorithmic intuition is hedging between individually suboptimal strategiesÐshort steps and long stepsÐsince bad cases for the former are good cases for the latter, and vice versa. …”
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A constrained instantaneous learning approach for aerial package delivery robots : onboard implementation and experimental results by Mehndiratta, Mohit, Kayacan, Erdal

“…In each case study, parameter variations are learned using nonlinear moving horizon estimation (NMHE) method, and the estimated parameters are fed to the nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC). …”
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Non-uniform heat transfer suppression to enhance PCM melting by angled fins by Ji, Chenzhen, Qin, Zhen, Low, Zhenghua, Dubey, Swapnil, Choo, Fook Hoong, Duan, Fei

“…The saved PCM melting time is defined on the basis of the No Fin PCM case. It is found that saved melting time of PCMs with -15° fins increases 23.8% on the case of the 0° fins, while decreases 45.2% and 71.4% with the +15° and +30° fins. …”
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In-plane surface wave in a classical elastic half-space covered by a surface layer with microstructure by Fan, Hui, Long, Jianmin

“…Sci. 30:1279–1299, 1992), we derive the dispersion equation of the surface wave for the case that the microstructure length scale is larger than the layer thickness. …”
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Explainable data-driven optimization for complex systems with non-preferential multiple outputs using belief rule base by Chang, Leilei, Zhang, Limao

“…Case study results show that NPMO–BRB has shown superior performance in comparison with the random forest (RF), the backpropagation neural network (BPNN), the Gradient Gaussian Process (GPR), as well as multiple separate BRBs. …”
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A molecular dynamics simulation to shed light on the mechanical alloying of an Al-Zr alloy induced by severe plastic deformation by Morkina, Alina Y., Babicheva, Rita I., Korznikova, Elena A., Enikeev, Nariman A., Edalati, Kaveh, Dmitriev, Sergey V.

“…This happens because in the second case, grain boundary sliding is the main deformation mechanism, and Zr tends to remain within the interfaces. …”
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OS-FCM: a semi-supervised clustering approach to investigating consumers' usage patterns of contactless shopping-delivery (S-D) channel by Chen, Tianyi, Wong, Yiik Diew, Yuen, Kum Fai, Li, Duowei, Wang, Xueqin

“…The contributions of each potential factor to the patterns are measured by SHAP values. In the case study, two regular patterns and three outlier patterns are identified. …”
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Dynamic resource allocation for cognitive radio by Pei, Yiyang

“…Specifically, for the case of parallel channel sensing where an SU can sense multiple channels simultaneously, the sensing-access design includes the sensing strategy specifying the optimal sensing time and the access strategy determining the optimal power level upon transmission. …”
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Partially collaborative storage codes for distributed storage systems by Liu, Shiqiu

“…Erasure codes have traditionally been studied in the context of communication theory, but have also increasingly been used to ensure the reliability of distributed storage systems, since they provide a good trade-off between storage overhead (or rate) and reliability in case of storage node failures. There is however a critical difference between erasure codes for communication and for storage application: in the context of storage, reliability needs to be ensured over time. …”
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Droplet impact on superheated surfaces by Khavari, Mohammad

“…Of particular importance is the situation in which the substrate is heated above the liquid boiling point. In such case, hydrodynamic behaviors of the impacting droplets, such as spreading and possible splashing, are accompanied by boiling processes, such as liquid-vapor phase transition, bubble generation, and droplet ejection. …”
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Did BP Atone for its Transgressions? Expanding Theory on ‘Ethical Apology’ in Crisis Communication by Diers-Lawson, Audra, Pang, Augustine

“…This can easily lead researchers to draw editorial conclusions about an organization's ethics in crisis response rather than accurately describing its communicative behaviors. The case of BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico provides a prime example for the importance of accurately assessing the ethical content of an organization's crisis response because the ethics of BP's response have been discussed in news and academic sources; yet little direct examination of the ethical content in BP's response has occurred. …”
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Emergency logistics considering traffic congestion by Wang, Qingyi

“…The proposed model can assist debris flow early warning systems, and its effectiveness is verified with an illustrative case study, which also aids in generating insights and policy suggestions for improving evacuation performances. …”
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