Object recognition using deep learning features by Zhu, Daiqing

“…Different parameters are explored and analysis is carried out to determine which approaches achieve the highest accuracy. …”
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AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE / by Jeffrey Archer, author 507936

“…Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi…thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of enthralling short stories. From Germany comes Masterpiece, the tale of a priceless oil painting that has remained in the same family for over 200 years, until… To the Channel Islands, and Members Only, where a golf ball falls out of a Christmas cracker and a young man’s life will never be the same again… To Italy, where a young man trying to book a hotel room ends up in bed with the receptionist, unaware that she… To England, where, in High Heels, a woman explains to her husband why a pair of designer shoes couldn’t have gone up in flames because… Some of these stories will make you laugh. …”

Audio coding application by Chan, Gary Xin Hao

“…Only with the data and values can we further appreciate the psychoacoustic model in the Mp3 coding and why Mp3 coding is one of the best, if not the best compression methods out there. A comparison of Mp3 coding with the some what earlier method which is known as Perceptual Coding will also be discussed in the chapters to come. …”
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Swimming in Data by Douglass, Katherine, Lamb, Augustus, Lu, Jerry, Ono, Ken, Tenpas, William

“…The air is thick with anticipation as the noise of the crowd gradually fades and tunnel vision sets in. …”
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Novel automobile barrier by Soo, Chee Wai.

“…In order to prevent this horrifying incident from happening, a collaboration between the Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore) and National University of Singapore in organizing Novel Automobile Barrier Challenge (NAB) by gathering young talents to come out with a novel solution and also encourage tertiary students to handle engineering problem with innovative mind.…”
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Sold To Be A Wife : ONLY A DETERMINED FOSTER CARER CAN STOP A TERRIFIED GIRL FROM BECOMING A CHILD BRIDE / by Hartley, Maggie, author 656233

“…But the worst is yet to come when it emerges that Shazia is the victim of FGM. …”

Digging up flowers by Seo, Jasmine Lijuan

“…In the event of her father’s death, Clori has the best-laid plans to get out of her father’s shadow and prove herself worthy inside a cutthroat illustration company, but things soon stop going according to script. …”
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Development of hybrid robot-gripper for picking foods by Tee, Isaac

“…This project will focus on the development of soft robotic grippers with additional features for food handling, such as a 2nd degree of freedom to enable more options for actuation, and different picking methods, such as scooping of food with a soft robotic gripper to cater to types of food that come in small pieces or food with sauce. The soft robotic gripper is made out of different kinds of silicone rubbers throughout the course of the project, and the grippers are actuated using compressed air flowing through internal air chambers, pumping in compressed air between 70kPa to 120kPa. …”
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A build-and-learn pedagogical framework for engineering outreach by Thng, Jing Rong

“…It is recommended that future work on this project can focus more on the useful and innovative application of the robotic kits with several possible ideas and implementations being point out in this report.…”
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Study of planning and operational aspects of tidal in-stream power generation by Mahda J. Jahromi

“…Despite the limited literature in marine energy systems, when it comes to wind energy and its pertaining technologies, this takes a completely different toll. …”
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The discourse of tradition and modernity in contemporary Indian culture by Ahuja Richa

“…In this paper, I argue that the binary between tradition and modernity does not exist in the context of the Hindu/Indian society, but rather, the Indian society has come to appropriate these concepts to suit their culture.…”
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Tibetan wa-zur and Laufer’s law by Jacques, Guillaume

“…However, Hill (2006) pointed out that this law seems to be contradicted by the existence of a genuine -wa rhyme in Old Tibetan: unless Old Tibetan -wa has a distinct origin, the sound law *-wa > -o cannot be valid. …”
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Costly information acquisition, social networks, and asset prices : experimental evidence by Halim, Edward, Riyanto, Yohanes Eko, Roy, Nilanjan

“…Social communication crowds out information production as a result of an agent's temptation to free ride on the signals purchased by her neighbors. …”
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Under one roof : lesbians and their Malay Muslim families by Hafizah Syed Ismail

“…The dilemma these women face is with regards to the support and acceptance they would lose should they choose to come out publicly about their sexual orientation. …”
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Foot clearance measurement by Chia, Roy Hao Wen

“…With many different devices out in the market such as motion camera, ultra-wide band sensors, accelerometers and etc. this papers looks towards ultrasonic sensors to obtain accurate data for foot clearance measurement. …”
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The future of nuclear power in India: a question of liability law by Sengupta, A

“…However, several years on, much of this envisaged trade and investment has yet to come to fruition. Nuclear power remains on the agenda; India’s new government (elected in May 2014) urged the Department of Atomic Energy to triple nuclear power generation capacity from the current 5.7 GW (out of a total installed capacity of over 200 GW) to 17 GW by 2024. …”

London Met presents at Arsenal accessibility and inclusion event, alongside Google Pixel & Microlink by Fernando, Sandra, Lewis, Jane, Nyby, Josefine, Yu, Qicheng

“…Emirates Stadium played host to local partners, businesses, and disabled communities who came together to share experiences and knowledge, and learn about some of the solutions and actions that can be taken to improve outcomes in work for disabled people. It comes a year on from research published by London Met and Islington Council that showed over half of disabled people in the borough are out of work, a problem facing the UK.…”
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The sinusoidal traversable wormhole. by Fu, Ganwei.

“…In this research I have managed to come out with a periodically safe geodesic which exists for one and a half cycle. …”
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User interfaces for predicting, evaluating and visualizing protein complexes by Lai, Kwan Cheng

“…As protein complexes are key entities to carry out many important biological functions. A newly introduced computational approach, an algorithm, called InteHC, uses four different data sources to achieve very good performance for predicting protein complexes. …”
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Control system development of an autonomous surface vehicle by Chia, Jonathan Mien Hong

“…During the selection of each module, the author is to also understand the working principle behind each component to gain better insight on how the component could be implemented on the autonomous surface vehicle and come out with an overall system block diagram.After the selection of each component, the author begins to test the component. …”
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