A Sufficient Condition for k-Contraction of the Series Connection of Two Systems by Ofir, Ron, Margaliot, Michael, Levron, Yoash, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

“…The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnections of contracting sub-systems yield an overall contracting system. …”
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Phononic and structural response to strain in wurtzite-gallium nitride nanowires by Loh, G. C., Teo, Edwin Hang Tong, Tay, Beng Kang

“…The thermal conductivity of the nanowires is linearly dependent on the uniaxial strain in both compressive and tensile regimes, and shows no significant dissimilitude for the same amount of strain exerted on the two types of nanowire. …”
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An Optimal MPC Algorithm for Subunit-Monge Matrix Multiplication, with Applications to LIS by Koo, Jaehyun

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Office of Back of House by Bilal, Ekin

“…Back of house (BoH) is dictated by an obscured regime of maintenance processes, and by leveraging these currently unexamined spaces, OoBoH believes that they can become the site for tactical design interventions and new visions of maintenance culture. …”
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Freezing behaviour of impact droplet on cooled super-hydrophilic mesh and silicon wafer by Chang, Chern Jie

“…The results are clustered graphically to produce a regime map that may allow prediction of freezing behaviour in future scenarios. …”
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CFD simulation of impeller stirred tank reactors by Tay, Ming Hui.

“…While in the turbulent regime, multiple vortices, chaotic flow pattern and strong radial impeller discharge were observed. …”
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Identification and validation of immune correlates of protection against malaria infection by Lee, Qian Qi

“…We compared between the two differential sets of serum, taken from protected and non-protected individuals who had undergone the immunisation regime, to identify antigens which could be used for vaccine development. …”
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Rational choice theory and religion: the case of Turkey by Fox, Jonathan, Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…Also, while the motivation for transitioning from a secular regime to a religious monopoly may be due to a desire for religious legitimacy, the nature and timing of this transition may be influenced by the rise or decline of other bases for legitimacy. …”

The Hierarchy of Victimhood: Prisons and States’ Responsibility to Protect Every Victim of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking by Jovanović, M, Topp, V, Fluhr, F

“…This positive development in the UK’s anti-slavery regime is overshadowed by its increasingly restrictive immigration legislation, which leaves those without lawful residence and victims involved in criminal offences excluded from the support and assistance otherwise guaranteed by domestic and international law. …”

Who reads the trade marks register? by Burrell, R, Handler, M

“…It will be seen that from a trade mark perspective there is reason to conclude that coffee is definitely a non-alcoholic beverage in Australia, is definitely not a non-alcoholic beverage under the European trade mark regime, and may or may not be such a beverage in the UK. …”

Dual-frequency vortex-induced vibrations of long flexible stepped cylinders by Li, Ang, Mentzelopoulos, Andreas, Triantafyllou, Michael S., Fan, Dixia

“…Therefore, we experimentally studied the problem of dual-frequency VIV of a stepped flexible cylinder, viz., a large-aspect ratio flexible cylinder consisting of two segments with different diameters and rigid cylinder forced vibration experiments. …”
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Embracing the New Norms: The Role of Ar Rahnu Yapeim During COVID-19 (S/O 14958) by Md Nor, Mohd Zakhiri, Mohamad, Ani Munirah, Hussain, Mohammad Azam, Mohd Nasir, Nor Ashikin

“…This teaching case discovered that YaPEIM's Rahnu Care product was based on societal segments and needs. This is because the customer pays rental of safekeeping box based on ijarah al khadamat contract, which they entered into first before the contract of tawarruq, the migration from qard to tawarruq does not change the wage fee. …”
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Tailored text augmentation for sentiment analysis by Feng, Zijian, Zhou, Hanzhang, Zhu, Zixiao, Mao, Kezhi

“…Extensive experiments on simulated low-data regimes demonstrate that TTA yields notable improvements over six strong baselines. …”
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Simulated training on interventional diagnostic device by Chiang, Patricia Wei Yin.

“…Catheter-heart-wall interaction is modeled through geometrical intersections between heart-wall plane and catheter segment and iterative adjustments progressing from the pivot to the catheter tip. …”
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Human face recognition using line edge information by Gao, Yong Sheng.

“…LEM and the proposed generic Line Segment Hausdorff Distance measure provide a new way for face coding and recognition.…”
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Exploring human computation via interactive online application by Lee, Ming Hua.

“…Subsequently, these tags will help to segment an arbitrary image into appropriate sub-images, each depicting an object with meaningful labels. …”
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The Red Box Project : a campaign to engage Singaporean youth in total defence by Kam, Collin Siu Leong, Lai, Jared Yi Qiang, Lim, Xuan'an

“…Beyond achieving the output objectives in terms of the quantity of donations collected and volunteers recruited, the Project provides a strong case study for the examination of the potential and effectiveness of youth-oriented causes as a tool for reaching the youth segment with a government message. We discuss the results of our campaign and subsequently the insights that these results provide into the state of understanding,appreciation and internalization of Total Defence among Singaporean youth. …”
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Optimization of petrochemical supply chain by Foo, Dan Yu Yao.

“…There is limited research on optimizing the maritime transportation segment of the supply chain. There is even lesser literature on the overall optimization of the petrochemical supply chain with considerations to the interaction between refineries and transportation providers. …”
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Analysis and future outlook of tanker sector in intra-asia shipping by Ng, Alvin Yong Han

“…Of the 4 major energy commodities traded, crude oil and oil products are classified under the tanker market segment due to their mode of transportation. The aim of this report is to analyze the current trade patterns in the tanker market followed by identifying the future opportunities, threats and uncertainties of intra-Asia tanker shipping. …”
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Structural basis for the ligand-dependent activation of heterodimeric AHR-ARNT complex by Diao, X, Shang, Q, Guo, M, Huang, Y, Zhang, M, Chen, X, Liang, Y, Sun, X, Zhou, F, Zhuang, J, Liu, S, Vogel, CFA, Rastinejad, F, Wu, D

“…Our findings further reveal the structural underpinnings of a ligand-driven activation mechanism, whereby a segment of the AHR protein undergoes a structural transition from chaperone engagement to ARNT heterodimer stabilization, to generate the transcriptionally competent assembly. …”