Exchange rate prediction using computational intelligence by Kurniawan, Nikolas

“…The best performance in terms of RMSE is the RVFL model with 1000 neurons and 6 input features when it is used with the decomposed price data. When the best algorithms are applied to all of the currency pairs used in the project, most of them have an RMSE value of less than 0.1 and direction accuracy around 80% given that all the previous values are known. …”
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Design and development of small scale index matching tunnel by Tan, Yu Tiong

“…Suitable design and sodium thiosulfate is used, to overcome the issue of rapid oxidation of the sodium iodide solution when it is exposed to the atmosphere. Then, the results of the experiment are cross-checked with the theoretical equations, an analysis is being accounted for the difference in result. …”
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Press start to play : video games and the imagined realities of the cold war by Koh, Kevin Shao Jie

“…This was a time during the Cold War when arcade gaming grew in popularity, signifying an era when video games integrated themselves into popular culture. …”
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In Defence of Freedom of Speech and Against the Publication of Certain Cartoons by Hedges, Paul

“…This paper argues that while offence to others does not breech free speech, when considering cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, we cannot ignore the geopolitical context. …”
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Scalable cascade inference for semantic image segmentation by Sturgess, P, Ladický, L, Crook, N, Torr, PHS

“…However when working in a more general setting where the number of classes could easily reach tens of thousands, sub-linear complexity is desired. …”

Standard forms: modernism, market research, and “Howl” by Steel, C

“…Before he was a famous poet, Allen Ginsberg was a market researcher. He stopped only when he managed to persuade his employer to automate his job out of existence (using one of the commercial computers that had first become available four years earlier); the resultant unemployment benefits enabled him to write “Howl.” …”

Financial optimization problems by Law, SL

“…Using this relationship, we can obtain the solution of one when we have the solution of another. In Chapter 3, we generalize the results of chapter 2. …”

Towards ILP-based LTLf passive learning by Ielo, A, Law, M, Fionda, V, Ricca, F, De Giacomo, G, De Giacomo, G, Russo, A

“…This hinders their applicability when examples involve many atomic propositions or when the target formula is not small. …”

CountGD: multi-modal open-world counting by Amini-Naieni, N, Han, T, Zisserman, A

“…We make three contributions: first, we introduce the first open-world counting model, COUNTGD, where the prompt can be specified by a text description or visual exemplars or both; second, we show that the performance of the model significantly improves the state of the art on multiple counting benchmarks – when using text only, COUNTGD is comparable to or outperforms all previous text-only works, and when using both text and visual exemplars, we outperform all previous models; third, we carry out a preliminary study into different interactions between the text and visual exemplar prompts, including the cases where they reinforce each other and where one restricts the other. …”

Asymmetric projection of introspection reveals a behavioural and neural mechanism for interindividual social coordination by Miyamoto, K, Harbison, C, Tanaka, S, Saito, M, Luo, S, Matsui, S, Sankhe, P, Mahmoodi, A, Lin, M, Trudel, N, Shea, N, Rushworth, MFS

“…When we collaborate with others to tackle novel problems, we anticipate how they will perform their part of the task to coordinate behavior effectively. …”

Oil discoveries and protectionism: role of news effects by Perez-Sebastian, F, Raveh, O, van der Ploeg, F

“…Our baseline estimates indicate that a giant oil field discovery induces a rise of approximately 13% in the average tariff over the course of 10 years; this increase is approximately 2.5 times larger during the pre-production period when the oil discovery represents a pure news shock.…”

Examining teachers’ brain functional connectivity during reflection: A preliminary study. by Md. Said, Fatini, Al-Naimi, Taha Mahmoud, A. Samah, Narina, Sha’ameri, Ahmad Zuri

“…The initial findings suggest that the brain’s pre-frontal area (Fp1) was activated when the reflective thinking process was believed to be taking place. …”

Staphylococci of the Skin: Consequences for Host Health by Khadka, Veda D.

“…On healthy adults with an intact skin barrier, the skin microbiome is relatively diverse and stable. When the skin barrier is disrupted – either by daily stressors or genetic factors – the composition of the microbiome abruptly shifts to a less diverse state with an abundance of Staphylococci. …”
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Deformed Fréchet law for Wigner and sample covariance matrices with tail in crossover regime by Han, Yi, Han, Yi

“…When the law of a ij is regularly varying with index α ∈ ( 0 , 4 ) , then the largest eigenvalue has a Fréchet distribution. …”
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Thermal conductivity variations with composition of gelatin-silica aerogel-sodium dodecyl sulfate with functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotube doping in their composites by Mahesh, Sachithanadam, Joshi, Sunil Chandrakant

“…Silica aerogels are very light, highly porous nanomaterial with large internal surface area possessing excellent thermal insulation that may get affected when the binders and additives used in aggregation. …”
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From cellular automata to agent-based models : addressing urban issues by Quek, Wei Liang

“…Using various forms of microscopic modelling, we seek to address two issues in urban systems: congestion when processing a large number of vehicles, and the persistence of bus bunching. …”
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Numerical investigations on an improved counterflow double-channel micro combustor fueled with hydrogen for enhancing thermal performance by Zuo, Wei, E, Jiaqiang, Lin, Rongming

“…(b) The improved combustor achieves the largest thermal enhancement at the hydrogen/air equivalence ratio of 0.6, when the hydrogen/air equivalence ratio is ranged from 0.9 to 0.5. …”
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Beat the beam: an applied research study on sunscreen usage habits amongst young adults in Singapore by Yeo, Cassandra Jia Xi, Ow Yong, Gladys Xin Yi, Ho, Wen San, Galistan, Tessa Yu-Ting

“…Some notable key findings were that the influencer who utilised the photoaging AR filter had a higher credibility compared to when she did not, while organisations have a lower credibility when they utilised the filter compared to when they do not. …”
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Transient amplification of broken symmetry in elastic snap-through by Wang, Qiong, Giudici, Andrea, Huang, Weicheng, Wang, Yuzhe, Liu, Mingchao, Tawfick, Sameh, Vella, Dominic

“…A snap-through bifurcation occurs when a bistable structure loses one of its stable states and moves rapidly to the remaining state. …”
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‘On-demand’ soft tissue adhesives by Mogal, Vishal Tukaram

“…The functionalized alkyl and aryl diazirine polyester films when tested for shear adhesion to ex-vivo swine aorta tissues, showed 450±50 mN/cm2 and 476±50 mN/cm2 adhesion strength when activated for 10 min and 2 min respectively using 0.5±0.1 mW/cm2 UV light of 365 nm. …”
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