Computer vision and sensor fusion towards better facilities management system for smart buildings by Arumugam, M Logaraj

“…Furthermore, the ever-increasing energy consumption coupled with the cost factor and the immense carbon footprint that Singapore has been facing in this modern era of demographic slowdown and economic restructuring also brings another glaring challenge to this industry. …”
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“Materials Science” Challenges in the Additive Manufacturing of Industrial Parts by Hascoet, Jean-Yves, Marya, Surendar, Marya, Manuel, Singh, Virendra

“…Additive Manufacturing (AM), somewhat like fusion welding, brings into play: (1) complex and interacting physical phenomena such as heat and mass transfer, phase changes (including melting, solidification, allotropic transformations and diffusion phenomena such as epitaxial growth, grain growth), (2) a number of process variables associated to the moving heat source (e.g., its power, power distribution, relative speed, size, all affecting energy density), its paths (e.g., linear, circular, oscillatory), and added metal feed rate via powder, wire, or ribbon, all controlling deposit dimensions, aspect-ratios, and properties, including defects. …”
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Solidarity as a transformative practice by Cipollitti, PE

“…In Chapter 2, I consider a question familiar from feminist debates: whether and how a cohesive political unity can make sense of the divergent experiences, interests, and needs of the social groups it brings together. I argue that acknowledging and mitigating the relations of asymmetric power that exist between solidary agents is a precondition for unity. …”

'Remaking Greater Britain': Cecil Rhodes and imperial politics, 1880-1902 by Hunt, DM

“…Rhodes is positioned as a case study for how settler states and their leaders related to Britain as the centre of imperial power and decision making and shows that Rhodes envisaged a closer constitutional arrangement for the British Empire, based on the principles of ‘Greater Britain’. This brings new emphasis to the political exchange between London and the settler states which has been explored less by the British world school in recent decades than other areas such as culture, identity and migration. …”

A comparison of soil sampling procedures used to monitor soil fertility in permanent pastures by Friesen, DK, Blair, GJ

“…The deposition of dung and urine onto grazed pasture brings about marked variation in the chemical status of soils which contributes to this variability. …”

Loopholes. by Li, Yvonne Meini., Law, Georgina Wan Yi., Phua, Geraldine Soo Yee.

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Rapid prototying for distributed control systems using IEC-61499 function blocks and XML-XSL based code generation by Mullamitha Mohammedi Abbas.

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The Portevin-Le Chatelier effect of Cu-2.0Be alloy during hot compression by Zhu, Daibo, Wu, Na, Liu, Yang, Liu, Xiaojin, Jiang, Chaohua, Jiang, Yanbin, Zhao, Hongyun, Cui, Shuhui, Xie, Guilan

“…As the strain rate increases, the dislocations outpace the diffusion speed of the solute atoms, limiting their ability to effectively pin the dislocations, resulting in lower dislocation density and serration amplitude. …”
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Compatability and equilibrium approach to slender concrete column design (dual project) by Toh, Yi Hui

“…This report evaluates and compares the proposed design method with the Australian code AS3600-2001 for slender concrete column. The failure loads of pin-end columns under short term loading and uniaxial bending are used as a pre-determined factor to analyse the data. …”
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Optimizing Disjunctive Queries with Tagged Execution by Kim, Albert, Madden, Samuel

“…However, tagged execution brings its own challenges, and the question of what tags to create is a nontrivial one. …”
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Environmental governance of transportation infrastructure under Belt and Road Initiative : A unified framework by Wang, Xueqin, Wong, Yiik Diew, Yuen, Kum Fai, Li, Kevin X.

“…While it creates a tremendous development opportunity, the unprecedented scale of TI construction also brings various challenges. In particular, the environmental impacts of the TI projects are of critical concern. …”
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Impact of implicit feedback channel in cooperative relay networks by Madhukumar, A. S., James, Ashish, Tio, Surya Dharma, Kurniawan, Ernest

“…Coordination is achieved through the use of feedback channels, which incurs significant bandwidth penalty and brings down the spectral efficiency. In order to mitigate this, one can exploit an implicit feedback channel available due to broadcast nature of relay transmissions. …”
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Against indexicality: photography as a formation of thought by Paz, A

“…<p>Guided by the question of what does photography bring into being, ‘Against Indexicality’ is a proposition to rethink the foundation of the philosophy of photography – to rethink the supposed relation of truth between the photograph and the world. …”

Sleep and circadian difficulties in schizophrenia: presentations, understanding, and treatment by Freeman, D, Waite, F

“…Giving them the therapeutic attention patients often desire brings both real clinical benefit and improves views of services. …”

The Sensory Shark: High-quality Morphological, Genomic and Transcriptomic Data for the Small-spotted Catshark Scyliorhinus Canicula Reveal the Molecular Bases of Sensory Organ Evol... by Mayeur, H, Leyhr, J, Mulley, J, Leurs, N, Michel, L, Sharma, K, Lagadec, R, Aury, J, Osborne, OG, Mulhair, P, Poulain, J, Mangenot, S, Mead, D, Smith, M, Corton, C, Oliver, K, Skelton, J, Betteridge, E, Dolucan, J, Dudchenko, O, Omer, AD, Weisz, D, Aiden, EL, McCarthy, SA

“…Finally, we combine these data with 3D synchrotron imaging and in situ gene expression analyses to explore chondrichthyan-specific traits and more general evolutionary trends of sensory systems. This approach brings to light, among others, novel markers of the ampullae of Lorenzini electrosensory cells, a duplication hotspot for crystallin genes conserved in jawed vertebrates, and a new metazoan clade of the transient-receptor potential (TRP) family. …”

Process and device characterisation of advanced SOI devices by Chan, Yeen Tat

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Foreign direct investment in Mongolia : bridging the cultural divide by Michael, Francis Caravaggio, Chen, Yan, John, Rae Philippe Cortes, Satria, Krisnandi

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Knowledge-based SPC advisory system for electronic assembly operations by Lau, Yong Ming.

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An introduction of colonial framework from watanic jurisprudence analysis: A case study on the malay states by Wan Ahmad Fauzi, Wan Husain

“…Colonisation and decolonisation are popular research subjects, but they lack legal definitions. Colonisation brings the subject of colonialism that invites broader aspects of research. …”
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Design of system for parking and repositioning of bikes in a public bike-sharing system by Siong, Jun Wei

“…The new bike-sharing system includes a proposed chain lock which offers a hybrid between the locking mechanism currently present in the bike-sharing system with docking points and dockless bike-sharing system. This proposed lock brings about a myriad of advantages such as being space efficient, has a low cost of infrastructure, self-generating docking points, promotes a more orderly parking of bikes, deter bike theft and has a lower cost of production. …”
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