Town centre recovery report by Jamieson, Claire

“…Following a review of literature, learnings from past moments of crisis and the subsequent recovery of the high street have been translated into today's context. A series of five case are then explored through interviews, exploring each local authority's approach to strategic planning, leadership and governance, funding, community engagement and delivery. …”
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Minimal design of a synthetic cilium by Moreau, C, Walker, BJ, Soto, D, Goldman, DI, Gaffney, EA, Poon, RN, Wan, KY

“…Our numerical and experimental investigations reveal that such differential stiffness can sustain planar bending waves far along flexible filaments, in stark contrast to the uniform-stiffness case which requires more sophisticated control. In particular, we establish basal actuation as a viable, parsimonious mechanism for generating high-amplitude planar bending waves. …”

Learning-augmented priority queues by Benomar, Z, Coester, C

“…In this study, we investigate the design of priority queues within the learning-augmented framework, where algorithms use potentially inaccurate predictions to enhance their worst-case performance. We examine three prediction models spanning different use cases, and we show how the predictions can be leveraged to enhance the performance of priority queue operations. …”

Beginning with the spiritual life by Wynn, MR

“…At the core of any Christian understanding of the nature of the good or worthwhile human life will stand a conception of neighbour love, and so a consideration of Aquinas's views on the nature of spiritual goods might very naturally start here, with his account of neighbour love. The case that concerns Aquinas is not quite so straightforward as that of harm, but it is not too difficult to think of parallels between the example that he gives and morally significant truths concerning the past.…”

Modelling, exploration and optimization of hardware accelerators for deep learning applications by Dutt, Arko

“…Area-constrained and energy-delay pareto optimization of DNN-accelerators is presented as case-studies. Cases show efficient choice of memory and compute resources through accelerated Pearl-based simulations. …”
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Signal processing for cooperative cognitive radio networks by Rabiee, Ramtin

“…We then extend our analyses to the case of medium-traffic primary networks. Although the analyzed period might be very short, it is most likely that the status of the primary user alters during the duration. …”
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Direct observation of resonant energy transfer in lanthanide complexes from multidisciplinary perspectives by Chen, Xuebo

“…Photosensitized energy transfer (EnT) phenomena occur frequently in a variety of photophysical and photochemical processes and have been treated traditionally with the donor-acceptor distance dependent Förster and Dexter models. However, in special case incorrect arguments and formulae were often employed by ignoring energy resonance conditions and selection rules of state-to-state transition, especially for the sensitive intramolecular EnT of lanthanide complexes bearing a uniform donor-acceptor distance. …”
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QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS : Practical Strategies / by Bazeley, Pat, author 624687

“…Grounded in the reality of doing research, this second edition: • Presents visual and text-based methods for analysis, using manual and digital tools • Inspires confidence as you code, connect and interrogate observational, text and visual data • Showcases best practice and helps you navigate real-life dilemmas using case studies of research from across the social sciences. …”
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Business Research Methods / by Bell, Emma, 1968-, author 200397, Bryman, Alan, author 172014, Harley, Bill, author 655243, Oxford University Press (Online service) 655242

“…For the sixth edition, the 'Research in Focus' features provide a greater global range of examples, including new case studies from China, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and India, all of which demonstrate how fascinating and essential research can be. …”
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Youth at Risk : A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents / by Capuzzi, David, editor 296803, Gross, Douglas R., editor 296809, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Developmental in its orientation, the text moves from population definition and identification, to causal factors and issues most often identified with placing youth at risk, to a prevention–intervention paradigm specifically created for teens. Illustrative case studies and enlightening sidebars enhance reader self-awareness, promote self-study and skill development, and aid in the comprehension of the concepts and applications of chapter material. …”
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The Future of Service-Learning : New Solutions for Sustaining and Improving Practice / by Strait, Jean R., 1965-, editor 656157, Lima, Marybeth, 1965-, editor 656195, Furco, Andrew, editor 656196, Taylor & Francis Group (Online service) 645650

“…Further chapters offer a new blueprint for funding to achieve sustainability; examples of international service learning from a European perspective; a case study and framework for using on-line formats to extend the reach of a program; raise the urgent issue of the experiences and contributions of underrepresented students; and present the rationale and processes for developing effective student-led evaluation of programs.…”
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Impact of Global University Ranking Systems on Developing Countries / by Onyancha, Omwoyo Bosire, editor 656278, Adeyinka, Tella, 1972-, editor 656280, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

“…The contributions made in the book will be in the form of case studies that will offer in-depth reports on the subject domain; full research papers that will investigate a specific thematic area on university ranking systems; and conceptual papers that will synthesise existing studies. …”
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Creating a Solar-Powered Drip Irrigation Optimal Performance model (SDrOP) to lower the cost of drip irrigation systems for smallholder farmers by Grant, Fiona, Sheline, Carolyn, Sokol, Julia, Amrose, Susan, Brownell, Elizabeth, Nangia, Vinay, Winter, Amos G.

“…SDrOP improves on previous design optimization frameworks by taking in all location-dependent parameters as inputs, which makes the model independent of case specifics and, therefore, broadly applicable. …”
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Enhanced procurement and production strategies for chemical plants : utilizing real-time financial data and advanced algorithms by Sikorski, Janusz J., Inderwildi, Oliver, Lim, Mei Qi, Garud, Sushant S., Neukäufer, Johannes, Kraft, Markus

“…Herein, the algorithm is applied to two scenarios that serve as case studies: conversion of natural gas to methanol and crude palm oil to biodiesel. …”
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Blockchain-enabled peer-to-peer energy trading and resilient control of microgrids by Veerasamy, Veerapandiyan, Hu, Zhijian, Qiu, Haifeng, Murshid, Shadab, Gooi, Hoay Beng, Nguyen, Hung Dinh

“…To avoid the privacy threat during this case, we further propose to integrate FL with local differential privacy (LDP) to secure against the false data injection attack from the eavesdropper. …”
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An exploration of factors which contribute to the effectiveness of national campaigns in Singapore from a social design perspective by Tan, Wei Wen

“…For the purpose of investigation, this study has a three-pronged approach; It looks at the message, then at the messenger, then its intended audience. First, case studies of national campaigns crafted in Singapore were studied to see if they fulfilled conditions of success required for effecting behaviour change. …”
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Decision support system for front-end product development by Zhai, Lianyin

“…Finally, an integrated prototype decision support system composed of the aforementioned three decision support tools has been implemented and demonstrated using a case study. The results of the case study have shown that the decision support system developed is able to facilitate decision-making activities in the front-end product development process by handling the uncertainty, nonlinearity, subjectivity and contradictive objectives in a systematic and effective way, and provide more insights into the analyzed results, which will benefit a product development process in many aspects including improved product quality, more satisfied customers, and reduced product development cost and time.…”
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On strong semismoothness and superlinear convergence of complementarity problems over homogeneous cones by Nguyen, Hai Ha

“…Finally, we consider the possible way of generalize the lemma in Chapter 3 to the case of homogeneous cones, when we cannot get the implicit formula for the smoothing approximation, by using the graphical convergence of monotone mappings.…”
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Design and Control of a Mechatronic Tracheostomy Tube for Automated Tracheal Suctioning by Do, Thanh Nho, Seah, Tian En Timothy, Phee, Soo Jay

“…They cause difficulties to control the exact position of the catheter tip. For the former case, we develop an approximate model of backlash and a direct inverse scheme to enhance the system performances. …”
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Securing reform? Post-election power sharing and security sector reform in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Togo, 2006-2013 by Noyes, A

“…</p> <p>The dissertation uses the method of structured, focused comparison to build and apply the theoretical propositions to the cases of Kenya, Togo, and Zimbabwe. Using process tracing and the logic of most-similar comparisons, I conduct two sets of cross- and within-case comparisons, utilizing elite interviews as the primary tool for data collection. …”