The many faces of natural theology: diverse projects, distinct roles, and the pursuit of clarity by Baker-Hytch, MRO, Mallary, M

“…The term ‘natural theology’ provokes a variety of reactions, spanning from whole-hearted endorsement to passionate rejection. …”

Sustainable structural design optimization - prestressed concrete beams by Ng, Kok Hang

“…Subsequently, a case study was carried out to determine the optimum beam span length for an expressway bridge that will result in the lowest overall EC for the bridge system. …”
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Droplet wetting and evaporation on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces by Phonkrit, Boonchuaysream

“…The droplets also experience contact line pinning-depinning during the CCA and mixed modes on patterned substrates. …”
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Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment-Coronagraph (PICTURE C) by Cook, T., Cahoy, K., Chakrabarti, S., Douglas, E., Finn, S. C., Kuchner, M., Lewis, N., Marinan, A., Martel, J., Mawet, D., Mazin, B., Meeker, S. R., Mendillo, C., Serabyn, G., Stuchlik, D., Swain, M.

“…The mission described here is capable of spectrally imaging debris disks and exozodiacal light around a number of stars spanning a range of infrared excesses, stellar types, and ages. …”
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Design of a pneumatic launcher and glider by Pang, Shiuh Woon.

“…The size of this glider is about 150mm for the wing span and 200mm for the fuselage. The whole system of this design was based on the pneumatic power and the aerodynamics of a fixed wing. …”
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Major program value creation and capture: the S3 framework for assessing and minimizing risk propagation to maximize opportunities for value creation by Armanios, D, Ventresca, MJ, Itani, MK, McCulloch, M

“…Large-scale, mission-critical initiatives are increasingly deployed through major programs, or assemblies of projects that span and situate across sectors, industries, and/or geographies. …”

Linguistic distance and market integration in India by Fenske, J, Kala, N

“…Using prices from more than 200 South Asian markets spanning 1861 to 1921, we show that linguistic distance correlates negatively with market integration. …”

Effect of negative mood on working memory in 3 to 5 year old pre-schoolers. by Revathy Pachamuthu.

“…Preschoolers also engaged in the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) and Digit and Block Span tasks. The findings did not give support to our main hypothesis, as results showed that there was no significant difference in reaction time between negative and neutral mood manipulated group in the SOPT, but additional insights were revealed.…”
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Positive mood and working memory in young preschool children. by Tang, Mavis Yi Wen.

“…However, positive mood did not significantly affect children’s working memory span. These findings suggested that positive mood elicits an additional load on underlying executive processes (inhibition) in the service of working memory, decreasing cognitive resource capacity to devote to the task at hand.…”
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DNA computation by Wang, Qi Wen.

“…The project aims to develop 4 different types of DNA computational algorithms corresponding to 4 different types of graphical combinatorial problems based on the latest research – shortest path problem with equivalent and inequivalent edge length, shortest spanning tree and assignment problem. Each developed DNA computational algorithm comes along with independent analysis section which explains the working principle lying behind the developed algorithm. …”
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AGV scheduling and routing for automated container terminals by Xu, Yan

“…The problem is solved by: (1) dynamic path planning algorithm using a space-time spanning tree, and (2) scheduler using sliding window. …”
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Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function whereas logging changes structure by Marsh, C, Turner, EG, Blonder, BW, Hemprich-Bennett, D, Riutta, T, Slade, EM, Lewis, O, Hector, A

“…We present an extensive ecosystem analysis of the impacts of logging and conversion of tropical forest to oil palm from a large-scale study in Borneo, synthesizing responses from 82 variables categorized into four ecological levels spanning a broad suite of ecosystem properties: (i) structure and environment, (ii) species traits, (iii) biodiversity, and (iv) ecosystem functions. …”

Quantitative CLTs on the Poisson space via Skorohod estimates and p-Poincaré inequalities by Trauthwein, T

“…We also apply our techniques to derive quantitative CLTs for edge functionals of the Gilbert graph, of the k-Nearest Neighbour graph and of the Radial Spanning Tree. In most cases, even the qualitative CLTs are new.…”

Mean square consensus of multi-agent systems over fading networks with directed graphs by Xu, Liang, Zheng, Jianying, Xiao, Niao, Xie, Lihua

“…It is then shown that the mean square consensusability is solely determined by the edge state dynamics on a directed spanning tree. As a result, sufficient conditions are provided for mean square consensus over fading networks with directed graphs in terms of fading parameters, the network topology and the agent dynamics. …”
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Data-driven methods to predict the stability metrics of catalytic nanoparticles by Prabhu, Asmee M., Choksi, Tej S.

“…Ab initio methods can calculate these metrics but are computationally intensive due to the large configurational space that these nanostructures span. Moreover, sub-nanometer nanoparticles are structurally flexibile under reaction conditions. …”
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Development and characterization of a microneedle-based sensor by Chan, Kenzo Zheng Long

“…With the improved functionality, this study represents a significant step forward in wearable sensor technology for personalized healthcare monitoring, with potential applications spanning medical diagnostics, drug monitoring, and public health surveillance.…”
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NeuroTribes : The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently / by Silberman, Steve, author 656044, Allen & Unwin (Online service) 656043

“…The perpetrators in Silberman’s telling are scientists, political leaders, and clinicians whose fixation on their interpretation of “normal” led to acts of deep cruelty and inhumanity against autistic people, deeds that span the spectrum from superficial to sadistic. The narrative arc is roughly chronological, stretching across time and highlighting some of the Big Non-autistic Names in autism’s long, strange and often terrible trip: Hans Asperger, Leo Kanner, Bruno Bettelheim, Bernard Rimland, Ole Ivar Lovaas, Lorna Wing. …”
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Towards a Prime Factorization of Proteins by Radev, Simeon

“…This is particularly the case in the richly complex field of protein analysis, whereby unique and novel insights into the structural organization of proteins can help illuminate their functional space, and in particular lead toward a factorization of the structural space into a set of motif building blocks, which completely span this universe. This thesis creates a new inference interface for performing such analysis, by leveraging the sequential learning process of a neural autoencoder to construct a decomposition of proteins as a hierarchical sequence of embedded representation vectors. …”
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Emotikon : audio production of the interpretation of human emotion through soundscape and music by De Cotta, Timothy Alexander, Long, Lyndsey Liting

“…We wanted to appeal to the various feelings of the listener in five songs that spanned a range of musical genres, and more ambitiously, try to manipulate how the listener was feeling in a short period of time.…”
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Survival of mammoths (Mammuthus sp.) into the Late Pleistocene in Southwestern British Columbia (Vancouver Island), Canada by Termes, L, Keddie, G, Hebda, R, Trask, P, Arbour, V, Speller, C, Paskulin, L, Ramsey, C, Richards, MR

“…We undertook radiocarbon dating on all specimens and were able to obtain dates (due to preservation) on 16 of these remains, including re-dating a previously dated mammoth using newer radiocarbon extraction methods. The mammoth dates span a wide range, from >47,500 to 18,000 radiocarbon years BP (uncalibrated). …”