Absolute deviance method for symmetrical uniform designs by Lau, Grace Chui Ting

“…There are numbers of construction methods of uniform designs or nearly uniform designs in the literature. A design with low discrepancy or a good approximation to uniform design is a nearly uniform design.The existing construction methods such as good lattice point method, optimization searching method and the cutting method exhibited their advantages. …”
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UMP Champion MTUN Treasurer Department Sports Carnival by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…PEKAN, 17 February 2023 – Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), the host team, won the MTUN Treasurer Department Sports Carnival with nearly 150 Treasurer Department staff from four Malaysian Technical University Networks (MTUN) universities for two days recently.…”
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US federal resource allocations are inconsistent with concentrations of energy poverty by Batlle, Carlos, Heller, Peter, Knittel, Christopher, Schittekatte, Tim

“…Recent data from the US Energy Information Administration reveals that nearly one in three households in the United States report experiencing energy poverty, and this number is only expected to rise. …”
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Gram-scale mechanochemical synthesis of atom-layer MoS₂ semiconductor electrocatalyst via functionalized graphene quantum dots for efficient hydrogen evolution by Hu, Bingjie, Wu, Yao, Wang, Kang, Guo, Huazhang, Lei, Zhendong, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Liang

“…Moreover, the ALMS catalyst showcases exceptional long-term durability, maintaining stable performance for nearly 200 h, underscoring its potential as a highly efficient and durable electrocatalyst. …”
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UMPSA Confucius Institute hosts international conference by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…PEKAN, 2 November 2023 – Nearly 50 lecturers and educators from across the country participated in the 2023 Malaysia Confucius Institute Conference and International Chinese Teachers Sharing Forum organized by Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) at the Banquet Hall of UMPSA Pekan.…”
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Energy optimization of air distribution and chilled water systems by Zhang, Ling

“…Currently, the most popular HVAC systems in large commercial buildings are chilled water systems, and the primary-secondary pumping chilled water loop is a tool that the HVAC engineers have been using for nearly 50 years. In this dissertation, we will only discuss the energy optimization for air distribution and chilled water systems of large HVAC systems.…”
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Driving Miss Norma : AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS AT THE END OF LIFE / by Bauerschmidt, Tim, author 655967, Liddle,Ramie, author 655968

“…But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma - newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage - rose to her full height of five feet and told the doctor, "I'm ninety years old. …”

Sphero robot controlled by using brain computer interface offline by Sun, Yaxiong

“…There is a study shown that nearly 800,000 people in the United States have a stroke every year and stroke is the No 5 cause of death in the United States, it kills nearly 130,000 people a year. [1].If a person impact stroke, she/he will lose the ability of communication and movement ability. …”
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Fatigue in multilayered steels by Kumar, Punit, Msolli, Sabeur, Jhon, Mark H., Ramamurty, Upadrasta

“…While the quasistatic tensile stress-strain responses of both the sheets are nearly-identical, fatigue strength of sheets with austenitic outer layers is substantially higher than those with martensitic layers, due mainly to the nature of residual stress distribution in the two sheets. …”
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A nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvester with magnetic oscillator by Tang, Lihua, Yang, Yaowen

“…Both experiment and simulation show the benefits from the dynamics of the magnetic oscillator. In the experiment, nearly 100% increase in the operating bandwidth and 41% increase in the magnitude of the power output are achieved at an excitation level of 2 m/s2.…”
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Equilibria, Efficiency, and Inequality in Network Formation for Hiring and Opportunity by Dwork, Cynthia, Hays, Chris, Kleinberg, Jon, Raghavan, Manish

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The Case for Decentralized Fallback Networks by Lynch, James, Liu, Ziqian, Li, Chenning, Ghobadi, Manya, Balakrishnan, Hari

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Metal-free σ-bond metathesis in 1,3,2-diazaphospholene-catalyzed hydroboration of carbonyl compounds by Chong, Che Chang, Hirao, Hajime, Kinjo, Rei

“…Kinetic and computational studies suggest that the σ-bond metathesis occurred in a stepwise but nearly concerted manner.…”
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A decade after the first full human genome sequencing : when will we understand our own genome? by Eisenhaber, Frank

“…The promises with regard to medical cures and biotechnology applications have been realized not even nearly to the expectations. Understanding the human genomes means knowing the genes' and proteins' functions and their interconnectedness via biomolecular mechanisms. …”
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Total Synthesis of Verticillin A and Application of Diazene-Directed Fragment Assembly to the Synthesis of Heterodimeric Epidithiodiketopiperazine Derivatives by Knauss, Walker

“…This is the first application of diazene-directed coupling to the synthesis of dimeric diketopiperazine alkaloids Our group’s initial route to heterodimeric ETP derivatives relied upon reductive cobalt dimerization, which produces a nearly statistical mixture of homo- and heterodimeric products. …”
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The fabrication and characterization of double waveguide ridge terahertz quantum cascade laser by Li, Jinghao

“…The double-metal waveguide is a most widely-used scheme, which can realize a nearly 100% modal confinement. The ability to make a double-metal based waveguide ridge laser is very useful. …”
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Exponentially weighted moving average control charts for monitoring increases in Poisson rate by Shu, Lianjie, Jiang, Wei, Wu, Zhang

“…A comparison of the results obtained indicates that the EWMA chart based on normalized data is nearly optimal.…”
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"Bartleby" in the evolution of the Gothic tradition. by Goh, Evan Yu Fan.

“…Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” was first published in 1853, nearly a century after Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, and sixty years after Brown’s Wieland. …”
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A throughput model for CSMA/CA with a cross-layer payload-dropping optimization by Lau, Chiew Tong, Jayabal, Raymond J.

“…For physical transceivers relying solely on preamble detection for carrier sensing, this optimization adequately mitigates the exposed node syndrome, thereby allowing nodes to enjoy nearly the maximum throughput as provided by CSMA/CA in single cell or carrier-sensing threshold (CST) isolated scenarios.…”
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Multifeature Extreme Ordinal Ranking Machine for Facial Age Estimation by Zhao, Wei, Wang, Han, Huang, Guang-Bin

“…Experimental results clearly demonstrate that the proposed approach can sharply reduce the runtime (even up to nearly one hundred times faster) while achieving comparable or better estimation performances than the state-of-the-art approaches. …”
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