Detection of simultaneous structural problems using multiple structural health monitoring techniques by Yang, Lu

“…Civil infrastructures are built for long-term use spanning several decades. After the construction, cracks, wear and tear, fatigue, creep, etc., will appear anytime during their life span, which significantly affects the capacity of the structure to bear loads. …”
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Uncovering the ideology of familialism on families with special needs child : from a mother’s perspective by Leow, Renee Yi Ting

“…With the entrance of a special needs child into the family, it is a life long process for the family to manage every aspect of their well being, especially when the child is totally dependent. …”
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Design and development of intelligent knee brace for monitoring daily activities by Lim, Wen Xi

“…However, due to being engrossed in what they are doing, people can often forget that they need to get up after long period of time. This project explores the design and development of an intelligent knee brace that can detect sitting and standing positions, and remind the user to get up and move around after sitting down for 30 minutes. …”
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Super-resolution optical microscopy (simulation study) by Ong, Nicholas Shi Hong

“…This Final Year Project report will provide insight into the Light microscopy technique on how the light are being affected by the changes within the microscope with simulations between Sphere and Elliptic Microbeads to generate ultra-long Photonic Nanojet with a simple, cost effective and easily implemented via the microscope hence it is able to gain enormous attention for super- resolution imaging. …”
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Further properties and a fast realization of the iterative truncated arithmetic mean filter by Miao, Zhenwei, Jiang, Xudong

“…It shows that this filter outperforms the median filter in attenuating not only the short-tailed Gaussian noise but also the long-tailed Laplacian noise. A fast realization of the ITM filter is proposed. …”
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Mixed-Deciduous Beam (Wood Awards 2023) by Fereday, George

“…By utilising multiple species of hardwood in a single building product, the Mixed-Deciduous Beam is designed to maximise potential of the UK’s varied hardwood resource, promote regenerative forestry practices and ensure long-term carbon storage by diverting these valuable woods away from firewood or biomass. …”
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Empty-bucket techniques for spill-quality improvement at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron by Arrutia Sota, PA, Fraser, MA, Hagmann, G, Kain, V, Papotti, G, Spierer, A, Velotti, FM, Burrows, PN, Piandani, R

“…Synchrotrons can provide long spills of particles by employing resonant extraction where the circulating beam is slowly ejected over thousands to millions of turns by exploiting the amplitude growth caused by a transverse resonance. …”

On political tradition and ideology: Russian dimensions of practical Zionism and Israeli politics by Rabkin, Y, Yadgar, Y

“…Later, those who found themselves in Poland after Versailles became familiar with parliamentary rituals, even though the Polish state did not enjoy democracy for long. We suggest that this seemingly distant history continues to manifest itself in the political culture of contemporary Israel. …”

Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the Le Chatelier principle by Dekel, E, Quah, JK-H, Sinander, L

“…We use this insight to prove a general Le Chatelier principle: under the ordinal complementarity assumptions, if short-run adjustment is subject to a monotone cost, then the long-run response to a shock is greater than the short-run response. …”

Experimental archaeology and the study of early medieval farming by Hamerow, H, Kropp, C, Bogaard, A

“…Ros Faith has long advocated for the need to understand the practicalities of early medieval farming ‘on the ground’ and how these shaped the lived experience of peasant communities. …”

Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes by Coşar, AK, Demir, B, Ghose, D, Young, N

“…A quantitative exercise using a workhorse model of spatial equilibrium implies heterogeneous effects across locations, with aggregate real income gains reaching 2–3% in the long-run. Reductions in travel times increased local employment-to-population ratio but had no effect on local population. …”

Beam studies using a Cherenkov diffraction based beam position monitor for AWAKE by Spear, B, Burrows, PN, Pakuza, C, Senes, E, Mazzoni, S, Lefevre, T, Wendt, M

“…A beam position monitor based on Cherenkov diffraction radiation (ChDR) is being investigated as a way to disentangle the signals generated by the electromagnetic fields of a short-pulse electron bunch from a long proton bunch co-propagating in the AWAKE plasma acceleration experiment at CERN. …”

Multipass steering protocols at Jefferson lab by Bodenstein, RM, Tiefenback, MG

“…Perturbations include lens misalignments (including long-term ground motion), BPM offsets, and focusing and steering from RF fields inside the cavities. …”

Aspects of the management of cheetahs, Acinonyx jubatus jubatus, trapped on Namibian farmlands by Marker, L, Dickman, AJ, Mills, M, Macdonald, D

“…Most of the cheetahs were trapped in groups, and cheetahs’ relative sociality leads to the easy removal of entire social units. Long-term monitoring must include detailed consideration of these indiscriminate removals, as they involve many cheetahs, fluctuate between years, often go unreported, and are likely to have a serious impact on cheetah populations outside protected areas.…”

Sustainable antimicrobial resistance surveillance: time for a global funding mechanism by Painter, C, Limmathurotsakul, D, Roberts, T, van Doorn, HR, Mayxay, M, Lubell, Y, Day, NPJ, Turner, P, Ashley, EA

“…This high cost is not sustainable without a long-term global financing mechanism.…”

It’s the state, indeed! How state capacity facilitates social equality in authoritarian regimes by Vaccaro, A, Panaro, AV

“…Further analysis though suggests that the overall effect of state capacity dissipates in the long run.…”

Glucokinase activity in diabetes: too much of a good thing? by Ashcroft, FM, Lloyd, M, Haythorne, EA

“…Because glucose must be metabolised to stimulate insulin release it was initially argued that drugs that stimulate glucokinase (the first enzyme in glucose metabolism) would enhance insulin secretion in diabetes. However, in the long term, glucokinase activators have been largely disappointing. …”

Renewables in GCC countries: the next frontier? by Haug, M

“…The GCC countries may find that long-term commitment, flexibility, and localization of policies may offer cost effective or efficient solutions to this dilemma.…”

Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work by Humphries, J, Schneider, B

“…Development economists have long studied the relationship between gender equality and economic growth. …”

The representation dynamic and the “normalization” of group differences by Carvalho, J-P, Pradelski, BSR

“…When there are multiple career stages, underrepresentation can escalate at senior levels long after “glass ceilings” have disappeared. Underrepresentation disappears as economic returns rise and/or group identification weakens.…”