Speech enhancement using auditory-based spectral amplitude estimators by Sekar Sathiya Narayanan.

“…The original speech signal is subjected to three types of noises, namely, white noise, pink noise and cockpit noise. The proposed estimator is applied to the noisy speech signal to obtain the enhanced speech signal and the objective measures of speech quality such as the segmental SNR (SNRseg) and the log-likelihood-ratio (LLR) are obtained. …”
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Constructing adversarial samples against deep learning-based sensing system (part II) by Lin, Beiyi

“…While previous work in defending again these malicious attacks has investigated using gradient masking to hide information of the model and audio pre-processing to reduce or distort adversarial noise, this project explores the idea of simple pink noise injection at different loudness to detect adversarial examples. …”
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vSwitch and software-defined network access control with openFlow by Nguyen, Bao Tri

“…In practice, general purpose network is usually implemented to support a wide range of tasks such as web hosting, administration servers and database, education, finance and many more. This requires the infrastructure to be built in a way which can ensure both reliable normal traffic and a certain level of security. …”
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The Rise and Fall of the Ideal City by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig

“…Curated by Jacek Ludwig Scarso with Luisa Bravo and Anna Marazuela Kim. The Renaissance concept of the Ideal City is here a provocation to critically explore the ideological connotations of the urban context and the need for social change, locally and globally. …”
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Scaling up green investment in the global south: strengthening domestic financial resource mobilisation and attracting patient international capital by Volz, Ulrich, Lo, Yuen C., Mishra, Vaibhav

“…This policy report (1) discusses challenges for private financing of climate adaptation and resilience, (2) finds that emerging countries have exported $15 trillion of capital over a 20 year period, and (3) highlights how a new breed of national development banks could be the perfect vehicle for capturing these funds and redirecting them into climate finance. …”
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Retention in second year computing students in a London-based university during the post-Covid-19 era using learned optimism as a lens: a statistical analysis in R by Chrysikos, Alexandros, Bamford, Neal

“…However, there is still a very real post pandemic effect being experienced by many students, especially around matters of hardship and finance. Finally, for those students who did attend CODE-It, 85% showed that they felt it was a worthwhile exercise. …”
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Optimizing earbud microphone performance through the use of digital filter by Tan, Kelvin Wei Wen

“…There exists a technique often used in live acoustic tuning of spaces like rooms and halls: To play Pink Noise, which is noise that has equal energy in every octave, and flatten frequency response. …”
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The Determinants of Growth In Banking Sector: Time Series Analysis of Conventional And Islamic Banking In Pakistan by Iqbal, Muhammad Saeed, Sofi, Mohd Fikri

“…The results of the empirical analysis indicated that growth in deposit, growth in GDP, and population growth are the main determinants of growth in the banking sector of Pakistan. …”
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Telephone conversation openings across languages, cultures and settings by Marquez Reiter, R., Kang, Luke Kwong Kapathy

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Macroeconomic and Firm-Specific Effects on Islamic Deposits Sustainability by Ab Rahman, Sazana, Ahmad, Nor Hayati, Che Arshad, Noraziah

“…Integrating ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles into Islamic finance presents opportunities for aligning financial activities with sustainable and ethical considerations. …”
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Systematic literature review: Lean ergonomics analysis in small & medium enterprises (SMEs) manufacturing sector by Norhana, Mohd Aripin, Fatimah, Mahmud, Lee, Khai Loon, Hussain, Suhaidah

“…Ergonomics has emerged as a significant workplace issue, negatively impacting finances due to worker absence and reduced productivity. …”
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Systematic Literature Review: Lean Ergonomics Analysis in Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Manufacturing Sector by Mohd Aripin, Norhana, Mahmud, Fatimah, Loon, Lee Khai, Hussain, Suhaidah

“…Ergonomics has emerged as a significant workplace issue, negatively impacting finances due to worker absence and reduced productivity. …”
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Financial Management : Principles and Applications / by Titman, Sheridan, author 447226, Keown, Arthur J., author 257131, Martin, John D., author 257145

“…If your professor assigns homework and tests in MyFinanceLab, it's easy to stay on track with automatic reminders and a results page that lets you see how you are doing.…”

Strategic and operational issues in sustaining community-based dementia support groups: the Get Real with Meeting Centres realist evaluation part 2 by Morton, T, Evans, SB, Swift, R, Bray, J, Frost, F, Russell, C, Brooker, D, Wong, G, Hullah, N

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Forty-two ‘context-mechanism-outcome’ statements were generated, explaining how background circumstances might trigger responses/processes to produce wanted or unwanted outcomes regarding three key areas for MC sustainability: External relationships and collaboration; Internal relationships and practices; and Finances and funding.</p> <br> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Collaboration is essential to sustaining community-based initiatives such as MCs, particularly between local community and regional level. …”

Quantifying and analysing the non-collective bargaining benefits of NTUC by Neo, Aaron Chun Boon

“…The paper also made recommendations to NTUC on how informative advertising and regular review on the benefits in accordance to preference can to reduce asymmetric information and more importantly help the union to maintain a pink state of membership numbers…”
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From ELIZA to ChatGPT: The Evolution of NLP and Financial Applications by Lo, Andrew W, Singh, Manish, ChatGPT

“…We also discuss applications of NLP in finance along with its challenges, including data scarcity and adversarial examples, and speculate about the future of NLP in the financial industry. …”
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Promoting awareness of stroke by Lee, Ching Wee

“…Stroke is the 4th most common death in Singapore and although it is a disease of the brain, it can upset the overall health of our whole body. The main objective of this health promotion project was to promote awareness of Stroke in Singapore so that the community can be educated and gain more knowledge on the health risk of Stroke. …”
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Autonomous bus in 3D simulation environments by Xiang, Zhou

“…In this dissertation, the main target was to build a 3D model in a virtual environment based on Gazebo for the target autonomous bus, where several simulated sensors such as Lidar, sonar, camera, Global Position System and Inertial Measurement Unit for sensing object's acceleration velocity will be added to the intended 3D bus model to capture real-time that are generated by simulated sensors. …”
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Discrimination in the Equilibrium Search Model with Wage-Tenure Contracts by Fang, Zheng, Sakellariou, Christos

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Rethinking relief, reconstruction and development : evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of post-disaster livelihood aid by Daly, Patrick, Mahdi, Saiful, McCaughey, Jamie, Mundzir, Ibnu, Halim, Agus, Nizamuddin, Ardiansyah, Srimulyani, Eka

“…Our results show that livelihood assistance helped people stabilize their household finances and partially restore their pre-disaster livelihoods. …”
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