Development of a repair service locator Android application by Jiang, Jessie Jielin

“…Users can enter their search using the product brand name or service outlet name, to find the repair service centers and also their locations in Singapore. …”
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Sparse machine learning methods for financial signal processing by Pucha Srinivasa Sai Chakravarthy

“…Current active research in portfolio optimization is for finding efficient mathematical techniques that solve mean – variance optimization problem efficiently and accurately with less computation burden. …”
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Video surveillance for intelligent transportation system by Liu, Jiamin

“…Our major contribution is to find a way that is not consuming too many computational powers as machine learning to detect and classify the vehicle. …”
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Petri net-based efficient determination of optimal schedules for transport-dominant single-arm multi-cluster tools by Yang, Fajun, Wu, Naiqi, Qiao, Yan, Zhou, Mengchu, Su, Rong., Qu, Ting

“…It is a great challenge to find an optimal one-wafer cyclic schedule for a single-arm multicluster tool that is widely adopted in semiconductor fabrication. …”
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Feeling disconnected from others : The effects of ambient darkness on hedonic choice by Huang, Irene Xun, Dong, Ping, Labroo, Aparna A.

“…This research documents a novel effect of ambient lighting on consumer choice. We propose and find that ambient darkness (vs. brightness) can result in consumers feeling disconnected from others. …”
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Leveling the playing field: the selection and motivation effects of tournament prize spread information by Cardinaels, Eddy, Chen, Clara Xiaoling, Yin, Huaxiang

“…Thus, the availability of prize spread information produces a separation of employees based on ability. We also find that employees exert more effort when they can select into a tournament than when they are randomly assigned to one (which proxies for an environment where prize spread information is absent). …”
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Organizational complexity and audit report lag in GCC economies: the moderating role of audit quality by Khan, Faisal, Abdul-Hamid, Mohamad Ali, Fauzi Saidin, Saidatunur, Hussain, Shatha

“…Second, for robustness purposes, the study applies the propensity score matching technique. Findings This research study finds that the firms’ complexity increases ARL. …”
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Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality by Alexander, James

“…The study considers the emergence of drill music, county lines and the lowering of the threshold of when weapons are used to explore the isolated social environments so many young people find themselves in. …”
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Beam heating explains critical current suppression measured during ion irradiation of REBCO tapes by Devitre, Alexis, Fischer, David, Riva, N., Rae, M., Kortman, Lauryn, Woller, Kevin, Fisher, Zoe, Short, Michael, Whyte, Dennis, Hartwig, Zachary

“…As such, accelerator-based facilities aiming to reproduce the operation of REBCO magnets in a nuclear fusion environment should find strategies to minimize interface thermal resistance. …”
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Technological transmission of knowledge in Neolithic northwestern China: mineralogical and chemical analyses of Yangshao and Majiayao painted ware by Spataro, M, Hein, A

“…Thirty-eight Neolithic sherds from Yangshao and Majiayao period contexts were analysed via polarised light microscopy and by scanning electron microscope used with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM–EDX). …”

EEG-based attention recognition using machine learning by Sun, Haoqi

“…Attention is constantly required in many daily life tasks. Attention-related behavior, such as driving distraction, has been reported as a major reason in traffic accidents. …”
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21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2003 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…Du Bois wrote that "…the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." A century after Du Bois penned those words, most Americans would agree that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the color line remains one of our most pressing social issues. …”
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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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Crossing and intersecting families of geometric graphs on point sets by Álvarez-Rebollar, J. L., Cravioto-Lagos, J., Marín, N., Solé-Pi, O., Urrutia, J.

“…Let S be a set of n points in the plane in general position. Two line segments connecting pairs of points of S cross if they have an interior point in common. …”
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Graph embeddings on gene ontology annotations for protein-protein interaction prediction by Zhong, Xiaoshi, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

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Associations between attainment of incentivised primary care indicators and incident diabetic retinopathy in England : a population-based historical cohort study by McKay, Ailsa J., Gunn, Laura H., Sathish, Thirunavukkarasu, Vamos, Eszter, Nugawela, Manjula, Majeed, Azeem, Molina, German, Sivaprasad, Sobha

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Spatio-temporal analysis of the main dengue vector populations in Singapore by Sun, Haoyang, Dickens, Borame L., Richards, Daniel, Ong, Janet, Rajarethinam, Jayanthi, Muhammad E. E. Hassim, Lim, Jue Tao, Carrasco, L Roman, Aik, Joel, Yap, Grace, Cook, Alex R, Ng, Lee-Ching

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Increasing nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is associated with sex-dependent differences in early childhood growth: the GUSTO mother-offspring cohort study by Ong, Judith, Sadananthan, Suresh Anand, Soh, Shu-E, Ng, Sharon, Yuan, Wen Lun, Aris, Izzuddin M., Tint, Mya Thway, Michael, Navin, Loy, See Ling, Tan, Kok Hian, Godfrey, Keith M., Shek, Lynette P., Yap, Fabian, Lee, Yung Seng, Chong, Yap Seng, Chan, Shiao-Yng

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Interleukin-26 (IL-26) is a novel anti-microbial peptide produced by T cells in response to staphylococcal enterotoxin by Woetmann, Anders, Alhede, Morten, Dabelsteen, Sally, Bjarnsholt, Thomas, Rybtke, Morten, Nastasi, Claudia, Krejsgaard, Thorbjørn, Andersen, Mads Hald, Bonefeld, Charlotte M., Geisler, Carsten, Givskov, Michael, Odum, Niels

“…Staphylococcus aureus is an enterotoxin producing, Gram-positive pathogen, which is a major cause of soft tissue infections and life-threatening bacteremia and sepsis. Here we show that (i) skin T cells in chronic wounds infected with S. aureus express interleukin-26 (IL-26) in situ, (ii) staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) trigger IL-26 expression in T cell lines and primary skin T cells, and (iii) IL-26 triggers death and inhibits biofilm formation and growth of S. aureus. …”
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Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

“…New technologies are redefining the beginning and end of life, raising religious, spiritual, and existential quandaries about whether and when to turn off the machines and “play God.” …”
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