Design of a battery-operated portable DC power supply. Part 1 : voltage output control by Saw, Khai Guan

“…Whether in homes, schools, or workplaces, our daily routines rely heavily on various types of electronic equipment running on DC voltage. Batteries are a main source of DC power supply when it comes to delivering constant DC voltage to these electronic devices. …”
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Content-aware personalised rate adaptation for adaptive streaming via deep video analysis by Gao, Guanyu, Dong, Linsen, Zhang, Huaizheng, Wen, Yonggang, Zeng, Wenjun

“…One common case is that the user may expect higher quality for the parts of video content that are more interesting or informative so as to reduce overall subjective quality loss. This creates two main challenges for such a problem: First, how to determine which parts of the video content are more interesting? …”
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A distributed control scheme of thermostatically controlled loads for the building-microgrid community by Wang, Yu, Tang, Yi, Xu, Yan, Xu, Yinliang

“…In this paper, thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs), e.g., air conditioners, are utilized to mitigate the photovoltaic and load variations in a building-microgrid community, so that the whole community can provide ancillary services, e.g., fulfilling the power dispatch order from the main grid. First, a distributed control scheme with a two-layer hierarchical communication graph is proposed. …”
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Modeling entity and event relations in scientific documents for supporting knowledge discovery and organization by Wu, Yejun

“…The paper then proposes a combined entity and event relationship model based on the strengths of the existing event ontologies. Five main kinds of entity and event relationships are identified from an oil spill document set. …”
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Design and optimization of conformal cooling channels for injection molding : a review by Kanbur, Baris Burak, Shen, Suping, Duan, Fei

“…This review study presents the main design steps of CCCs as follows: (1) a background of the CCC fabrication process is projected, (2) the thermal and mechanical models are presented with respect to the 1D analytical model, (3) the CAE-supported design criteria are discussed for the 3D models of CCCs and relevant mold materials, (4) some of the illustrative CAE simulations are explained in detail according to the computational thermal and mechanical objectives, and (5) the single- and multi-objective optimization procedures are defined. …”
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Across the conceptual divide? Chinese migration policies seen through historical and comparative lenses by van Dongen, Els

“…The article posits the following three main points. First, literature on the Global South is valuable for theorizing Chinese migration policies in that it highlights emigration and development rather than immigration as in the “migration state” (Hollifield). …”
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Crowd-based people detection using deep learning by Chen, Lei

“…Specifically, this challenge is broken into two main difficulties: multi-scale problems and occlusion problems. …”
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Predicting EPL results with Elo rating, league simulation and machine learning prediction model by Ching, Kai Teng

“…Even past results may be skewed as there are home teams and away teams in football matches and past results sometimes may be skewed towards having a weaker opponent. The main objective of this project is to explore different techniques that are logical to try and predict the outcome and scores of football matches that happen in the English Premier League, with Machine Learning , Elo rating and League simulation.The different techniques and hypotheses will be tested and the accuracy of the results will be tested for all different techniques to see which of the system works the best and in which types of conditions. …”
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G-induced loss of consciousness for fighter pilots by Foo, Jonathan Zhi Bao.

“…As G-LOC is one of the main factors contributing to aviation accidents resulting in loss of pilot lives and aircraft worth millions of dollars, there is a strong interest in this research. …”
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Study of vector antennas by Zeng, Yong

“…Study has shown that DOA estimation using vector sensors outperforms that using traditional antenna arrays. This project mainly studied vector antennas in DOA estimations. …”
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Process control of water treatment facilities using machine learning method by Tey, Shiyang

“…Previous studies utilized NGBoost (NGB) which is a gradient boosting model (GBM) which outputs probabilistic predictions as the main algorithm to perform anomaly detection. Probabilistic predictions were used to estimate uncertainties to aid in the judgement of a model’s prediction. …”
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Eikonal equation-based earthquake location by Li, Xiaoyan

“…We developed a new earthquake relocation method based on Eikonal equation, which efficiently bridges the gap between the background velocity model and the evolution of seismic wave front.The main parts of this thesis include brief introduction of earthquake location methods, introduction of mathematic principles of earthquake relocation, introduction and explanation of Eikonal-Equation based earthquake location method and its application in both synthetic and realistic catalog data. …”
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New model for identifying critical success factors influencing BIM adoption from precast concrete manufacturers' view by Phang, Thomas C. H., Chen, Chen, Tiong, Robert Lee Kong

“…From the survey responses of 53 respondents from the PC industry in various countries including Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, China, Korea, Taiwan, the Middle East, and Finland, the study successfully identified a total of eight CSFs, which are regarded as the main contributions this research makes to the body of knowledge. …”
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Realization of exact tracking control for nonlinear systems via a nonrecursive dynamic design by Zhang, Chuanlin, Yang, Jun, Wen, Changyun, Wang, Lei, Li, Shihua

“…This paper investigates a novel nonrecursive tracking control law design for a class of nonlinear systems via dynamic output feedback. As the main contribution of this paper, a global nonrecursive tracking design procedure is first proposed to render a simple construction of a realizable output feedback control law, whose gain selections follow the conventional pole placement approach while the stability margin can be guaranteed via a sufficiently large scaling gain. …”
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Effect of iron (III) oxide concentration on the performance of meta-resonators embedded in cementitious matrix by Sum, Yee Loon, Rheinheimer, Vanessa, Soong, Boon Hee, Paulo J. M., Monteiro

“…Efforts are currently underway to improve the performance of small electric antennas and resonator-based antennas embedded in the civil infrastructure. One of the main limitations of these small antennas is that they have narrow bandwidths which limit their use when embedded in concrete. …”
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Digital health eco-systems: an epochal review of practice-oriented research by Stephanie, Lena, Sharma, Ravi S.

“…The year 1998 was deemed a significant starting point for the literature search because it marked the introduction of the term e-health. The main objective of this review is to track the evolution of digital health and the conspicuous developments in the field - crucial steps to get a grasp of the key issues involving the delivery of healthcare. …”
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Detection of crop fields in Ukraine using S1_MSI index by Vaishnavi, Inbanathan

“…Empirical studies also show that the temporal characteristics of vegetative indices are one of the main features that help to detect a cropland. Hence, this feature was extracted for the classification. …”
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Experimental study for evaluating the performances of thermoelectric generator under steady-state and dynamic conditions by Chiang, Trevor Kai Teng

“…However, in recent years, with the growing demand for sustainable and clean energy sources, there has been a surge in research interest towards the development of thermoelectric generators due to their ability of converting waste heat into electrical power. The main objective of this project is to conduct an experimental investigation into TEG’s operational cycle from transient to steady-state, and to evaluate the TEG’s performance parameters (power and efficiency) for various pulsing and non-pulsing periods. …”
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Experimental investigation on the dynamics of an Organic Rankine Cycle evaporator with large-mass fins for the purpose of reducing heat input fluctuations by Jiménez-Arreola, Manuel, Wieland, Christoph, Romagnoli, Alessandro

“…Waste heat recovery from energy-intensive processes using Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is a promising effective method to reduce large quantities of energy waste and emissions in the planet. However, one of the main technical challenges that remain for its widespread implementation is related to the intermittent and fluctuating nature of the thermal power available from waste heat sources. …”
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Implementation of enterprise resource planning for improving enterprise value chain by Chew, Jian You.

“…Studies on past examples revealed that the uncertainties and evolving environment in an ERP project had been the main culprits of failures. This project studies an effective decision support framework for adopting an ERP system, introducing active management in dealing with uncertainties to minimize risk of failure. …”
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