Beyond “make” or “buy”: evaluating value‐for‐money in public service delivery by Shiva, M, FitzGerald, C, Carter, E, Airoldi, M

“…We set out a framework consisting of conceptual models and the corresponding decision tree to allow comparison across alternative sourcing strategies, considering both the associated transaction costs and&nbsp;<em>transaction benefits</em>. …”

Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…Quality-guided phase unwrapping technique is reviewed with a comparison on quality definitions and guiding strategies. …”
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Wireless measurement of elastic and plastic deformation by a metamaterial-based sensor by Ozbey, Burak, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Kurc, Ozgur, Erturk, Vakur, Altintas, Ayhan

“…The experiments are further repeated in the presence of a concrete block between the antenna and the probe, and it is shown that the sensing system is capable of functioning through the concrete. The comparison of the wireless sensor measurement with those undertaken using strain gauges and extensometers reveals that the sensor is able to measure both the average strain and the relative displacement on the rebar as a result of the applied force in a considerably accurate way. …”
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Large eddy simulations of turbulent circular wall jets by Zhang, Shuai, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung, Zhao, Bing

“…Turbulent circular wall jets have been extensively investigated both experimentally and numerically in the past decades. …”
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Efficient convex optimization for energy-based acoustic sensor self-localization and source localization in sensor networks by Li, Shuangquan, Yan, Yongsheng, Wang, Haiyan, Shen, Xiaohong, Leng, Bing

“…The energy reading has been an efficient and attractive measure for collaborative acoustic source localization in practical application due to its cost saving in both energy and computation capability. The maximum likelihood problems by fusing received acoustic energy readings transmitted from local sensors are derived. …”
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Phonological acquisition process in hearing-impaired children: a systematic review by Jhanani S.Nagaraja, Badrulzaman Abdul Hamid, Nashrah Maamor

“…Lastly, final consonant deletion is a common phonological process that both normal and hearing-impaired children undergo at their early stages of hearing. …”
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SeaScan: An Energy-Efficient Underwater Camera for Wireless 3D Color Imaging by Naeem, Nazish, Rademacher, Jack, Patnaik, Ritik, Boroushaki, Tara, Adib, Fadel

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Independence test for high dimensional data based on regularized canonical correlation coefficients by Yang, Yanrong, Pan, Guangming

“…As an empirical application, cross-sectional dependence of daily stock returns of companies between different sections in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is detected by the proposed test.…”
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Seafarers' mental health and wellbeing - pose covid and beyond by Lim, Priscilla Jia Qian

“…Findings: Results revealed that while both technostress creators and inhibitors have a positive relationship with burnout, only technostress inhibitors significantly impact burnout. …”
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Analysis of user influence in slashdot by Tan, Qian Ting.

“…The ties represent the interdependency between users, which can be both an implicit and explicit type of relationship. …”
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Online and offline social contact survey data analysis by Foo, Amanda Kar Wee.

“…Surveys were randomly distributed to assess the number of social contacts for both weekdays and weekends at different locations. …”
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Sita and Surpanakha : blurring the distinction between good and evil women in Valmiki’s Ramayana by Chandrika Mohan

“…While a superficial understanding of the female characters in the Ramayana enables us to classify them neatly into good or evil categories, a deeper study of them show that many similarities exist between the good and evil characters, and especially so in the comparison of Sita and Surpanakha. As Paula Richman keenly observed, “both women loved Rama but were rejected and mistreated by him; he ordered Surpanakha mutilated and Sita banished”. …”
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The changing purposes of physical sites of World War II memory : a study of Japan and Singapore by Chiam, Joel Sheng Hao

“…Thus, a chronological comparison approach will be undertaken, using the case studies of Japan and Singapore’s physical representations of World War II, to analyse the agendas of these actors, both governmental and non-governmental, who were involved in the construction and sponsorships of these sites. …”
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A techno-economic analysis of communication in low-voltage islanded microgrids by Neal, DC, Rogers, DJ, McCulloch, M

“…The study concludes that investment in a low bit rate, medium latency (1 kbps per customer, 100 ms) communication system has significant economic benefit to both customer and utility by enabling services such as automatic meter reading and demand side management. …”

Harvesting image databases from the Web by Schroff, F, Criminisi, A, Zisserman, A

“…A multimodal approach employing both text, metadata, and visual features is used to gather many high-quality images from the Web. …”

Overturning of No-Tension Towers by Moir, Katherine

“…The theoretical predictions for both rectangular and cylindrical towers are validated experimentally by tilting masonry model towers until failure. …”
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A 9.87 nW 1 kS/s 8.7 ENOB SAR ADC for implantable epileptic seizure detection microsystems by Do, Anh Tuan, Lam, Chun Kit, Tan, Yung Sern, Yeo, Kiat Seng, Cheong, Jia Hao, Yao, Lei, Tan, Meng Tong, Je, Minkyu

“…The ADC is powered by a single supply voltage of both analog and digital circuits to avoid using the level-shifters. …”
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BLIQUE-TMI : blind quality evaluator for tone-mapped images based on local and global feature analyses by Jiang, Qiuping, Shao, Feng, Lin, Weisi, Jiang, Gangyi

“…High dynamic range (HDR) image, which has a powerful capacity to represent the wide dynamic range of real-world scenes, has been receiving attention from both academic and industrial communities. Although HDR imaging devices have become prevalent, the display devices for HDR images are still limited. …”
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Do we need ramsey taxation? Our existing taxes are largely corrective by Yan, Eric, Feng, Qu, Ng, Yew-Kwang

“…In this paper, a theoretical model is built to make a comparison between the social optimality attained by an income tax and the individual optimality attained without an income tax. …”
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Mechanochemical synthesis of corannulene flanked n-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) precursors and preparation of their metal complexes by Hum, Gavin, Muzammil, Ezzah M., Li, Yongxin, García, Felipe, Stuparu, Mihaiela Corina

“…Green metrics and energy consumption comparison were performed for both routes revealing ball-milling generation of these compounds to be an environmentally greener technique to produce such precursors compared to conventional solvent-based methods. …”
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