How do you predict your future movement and locations? by Ko, Zhan Hong

“…The data collection process spanned over a total duration of two and a half months from the 1st of January to the 15th of March. …”
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Effects of the layers of foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Leo, Sin Chyuan

“…This study will also include a sand dike model of 40m base depth, 10m span across at the top of the dike and a height of 5m. …”
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Fragment screening for stabilizers and binders to human DJ-1 by Oh, Xu Xuan

“…Currently, treatments are only available to alleviate the span of symptoms but not to cure the morbidity. This project focuses on finding ligands to increase the stability of DJ1 where its anti-oxidant properties help to reduce the rate of dopaminergic neurons degeneration, delaying onset of PD. …”
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Noise influences on restorative effects in a tropical urban green space by Tan, Shi Ying

“…Performance on the Digit Span Backwards test was used to analyse cognitive restoration while Profile of Mood States- Short Form scale and Restorative State Scale were used for affective and restorative state restoration analysis. …”
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Ultra durable concrete for sustainable construction by Teng, Susanto, Sabet Divsholi Bahador, Lim, Darren Tze Yang

“…Residential structures and important civil structures are typically designed for a life span of 50 and 100 years respectively. However, the life expectancy of structures can be increased to several hundred years with careful planning and proper design. …”
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Conflict and contract use in cross-cultural buyer–supplier relationships: the role of cultural context by Roehrich, J, Sarafan, M, Squire, B, Lawson, B, Bouazzaoui, M

“…Conflict is common within global supply chains, especially where the buyer and supplier span different cultures. In such settings, formal contracts assume an important role in providing a common language that specifies each party's roles, responsibilities, and liabilities. …”

Hyperbolic volume estimates via train tracks by De Capua, A

“…In this thesis we describe how to estimate the distance spanned in the pants graph by a train track splitting sequence on a surface, up to multiplicative and additive constants. …”

The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. Spanning the interwar period to the post-communist era, their works register, mediate and work through the lived experiences of a constantly changing (semi)periphery, marked by visions and plans of accelerated progress, technological advancement, and triumphant sovereignty. …”

Practices, attitudes and motives for domestic waste recycling by Aini, M. S., Fakhru'l-Razi, A., Lad, S. M., Hashim, A. H.

“…The 15 000 tonnes of garbage produced daily are thrown into 230 landfills nationwide, where 80% of them have only two years of life span left. Although recycling programmes were launched as early as 1990, only 5% of the wastes are recycled. …”

Estimation of crown characters and leaf biomass from leaf litter in a Malaysian canopy species, Elateriospermum tapos (Euphorbiaceae) by Osada, Noriyuki, Takeda, Hiroshi, Kawaguchi, Hideyuki, Furukawa, Akio, Awang, Muhamad

“…Leaf fall rate was estimated to be 2.0-28.1 kg per tree per year in the five trees of various heights, and was greater in taller trees. Since leaf life span was smaller for taller trees, leaf biomass was estimated to be 2.6-30.5 kg per tree, and was also greater in taller trees. …”
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Preserving Mojiang Hani hand weaving techniques: understanding complexity for culture and sustainable development by Mingquan, Liu, Yahaya, Siti Rohaya, Chunli, Guo, Yan, Huang

“…Mojiang, located in the southern region of Yunnan Province, China, serves as the historical abode of the industrious and intellectually rich Hani community, boasting a heritage spanning thousands of years. The traditional costumes of the Mojiang Hani people stand as integral bearers of their national culture, adorned with intricately handwoven elements. …”
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A radio frequency tagging continuous-wave optical spectrometer with megahertz refreshing rate by Ren, Xiaojing, Hsieh, Chao-Mao, Malik, Mohammad O. A., Su, Joshua Weiming, Liu, Quan

“…Optical spectrometers capable of fast spectral measurements are useful in many fields spanning from industrial manufacturing to scientific research. …”
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Electronic band structure and optical gain of GaNxBiyAs1−x−y/GaAs pyramidal quantum dots by Song, Zhi-Gang, Bose, Sumanta, Fan, Wei-Jun, Li, Shu-Shen

“…The effective band gap falls as we increase the composition of nitrogen (N) and bismuth (Bi) and with an appropriate choice of composition we can tune the emission wavelength to span within 1.3 μm–1.55 μm, for device application in fiber technology. …”
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Long term surface deformation of Soufrière Hills volcano, Montserrat from GPS geodesy : inferences from simple elastic inverse models by Herd, Richard A., Strutt, Michael H., Ryan, Graham., Widiwijayanti, Christina., Voight, Barry., Mattioli, Glen.

“…Campaign and continuous GPS geodetic measurements on Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat are reported from 1995 to 2009, spanning three dome growth and repose episodes. Uniform elastic half-space inversions were used to examine how crustal pressure sources evolved by inverting subsets of all available 3D site data for any given episode using a single Mogi-source. …”
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Tax Incentives, Common Institutional Ownership, and Corporate ESG Performance by Huang, Chengjie, Zhou, Hang, Wan Ahmad, Wan Norhayati, Saad, Ram Al Jaffri, Zhang, Xinrui

“…Drawing upon panel data spanning from 2010 to 2021 at the level of China's A-share listed companies and grounded in the context of accelerated depreciation policy for fixed assets, this study commitment to both identify and empirically test the presence of a significant positive correlation between tax incentives and corporate ESG performance. …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…The Flexible Job Scheduling problem aims at determining the starting times of flexible jobs that do not have to be started immediately at their arrivals to minimize the span of all the jobs, where the span is the time duration in which at least one job is running. …”
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EITPose: Wearable and Practical Electrical Impedance Tomography for Continuous Hand Pose Estimation by Kyu, Alexander, Mao, Hongyu, Zhu, Junyi, Goel, Mayank, Ahuja, Karan

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Crowd estimation in images by Pui, Chin See

“…Crowd counting technologies, have in recent times, seen an upsurge in popularity due to the wide range of practical applications they offer, spanning from safety monitoring to disaster management, and public space design, among others. …”
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Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…The initial 80% of the dataset, spanning from 2005 to 2009, is designated for model training. …”
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Intermittent demand forecasting by Mishra, Prerna.

“…The project paper deals with comparative assessment of the of forecast for “in-sample” as well as “out of sample” periods derived by various methods of intermittent demand forecasting on historical data set of fifteen hundred products for a span of twenty four months obtained by several numerical modelling tools – classical to contemporary and evaluate the superiority of models by comparison of achievement of different methods in respect of degree of accuracy of forecast for future periods and judge the robustness of forecasting methodology.…”
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