Inference for autoregressive and moving average models with extreme value distribution via simulation study by Samuel, Bako Sunday

“…Time series analysis has emerged as one of the most important statistical discipline and it has been applied in different fields over the years. Literature reviews show that independent identical distributed Gaussian random variables is not suitable for modelling extreme events. …”
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A behaviour-based analytical malware detection framework for android smartphones by Damshenas, Mohsen

“…The fact is that today, after more than seven years of initial Android release, there are still malwares spreading in official Android markets. …”
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Development of an integrated scheduling model for handling equipment in automated port container terminals by Sadeghian, Syed Hamidreza

“…Automated Lifting Vehicle (ALV) is one of the automatic vehicles that has been introduced during recent years and can be used in container terminals. Using ALVs, due to their ability in lifting a container from the ground by themselves, can decrease the delay of loading and unloading tasks in automatic container terminals. …”
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Antibiotic sensitivity of selected bacteria and microbiological quality of Lactobacillus-fed broiler meat in comparison with commercial broiler meat by Tan, Stephanie Yin Yi

“…The use of probiotics to replace antibiotics in poultry feed had been introduced in recent years. It is believed that probiotics may give the same overall health effect to livestock, without the undesirable development of antibiotic resistance to vital antibiotics. …”
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Nature and effects of Chinese outward foreign direct investments. by Tjoenneland, Tor Erik.

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Starting and Scaling a Set-Based Design Method for a Maritime System of Systems: Designing a Modern Warship by Page, J. E., Higgins, C. J., Seering, W. P.

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India's counter-terrorism policy: through the lens of federalism. by Manaswini Ramkumar

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The Arabisation of Islam the observation of Arab culture as authoritative Islamic norms amongst Muslims in Singapore & its implications. by Muhammad Ridzwan Bin Rahmat

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Space weather radiation effects on geostationary satellite solid-state power amplifiers by Lohmeyer, W. Q., Cahoy, K. L.

“…In order to understand and mitigate the effects of space weather on the performance of geostationary (GEO) communications satellites, we analyze 16 years of archived telemetry data from Inmarsat, the UK-based telecommunications company. …”
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Modeling the Future Space Debris Population and Orbital Capacity by Jang, Daniel

“…Many models have been proposed over the years to quantify the risk of collisions between resident space objects, including the seminal paper by Kessler that described the runaway conditions for which LEO could become unusable. …”
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Associations between health literacy and health care utilization and mortality in patients with coexisting diabetes and end-stage renal disease : a prospective cohort study by Griva, Konstantina, Loong, Russel K. L., Nandakumar, Mooppil, Rajeswari, Moothathamby, Khoo, Eric Y. H., Lee, Vanessa Y. W., Kang, Augustine W. C., Osborne, Richard H., Brini, Stefano, Newman, Stanton P.

“…Results A total 221 participants [median age: 59 years, 61.6% men, 54.8% Chinese] were recruited. …”
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Sustaining antimicrobial stewardship in a high-antibiotic resistance setting by Ng, Tat Ming, Heng, Shi Thong, Chua, Boon Hou, Ang, Li Wei, Tan, Sock Hoon, Tay, Hui Lin, Yap, Min Yi, Quek, Jason, Teng, Christine B., Young, Barnaby Edward, Lin, Ray, Ang, Brenda, Lee, Tau Hong, Lye, David C.

“…During the same period, the mean monthly patient days increased from 33929 in 2007 to 45603 in 2018, and the proportion of patients older than 65 years increased from 45.5% in 2007 to 56.6% in 2018. …”
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Surface reconstruction on spinel oxides for oxygen evolution reaction by Luo, Songzhu

“…In recent years, burgeoning energy demand has precipitated a marked increase in fossil fuel consumption, elevating greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbating the global climate crisis. …”
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Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous vehicles by Diluka Moratuwage

“…Unfortunately almost all those algorithms inherit above mentioned issues from their single-vehicle counterpart. In the recent years an alternative solution based on the finite set statistics (FISST) has been proposed as a radically different alternative solution to the mono-SLAM problem. …”
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NMR structure and activity relationship of defensin-analogous peptides by Bai, Yang

“…In recent years, strains of bacteria with resistance to conventional antibiotics have been emerging at an alarming rate leading to the urgency of designing a new generation of antimicrobials. …”
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Essays in dynamic pricing, channel control and channel competition by Song, Boqian

“…Dynamic pricing has been successfully applied in the travel, hospitality, retail and entertainment industries to boost revenue and profits. In recent years, the popularity of the Internet and advances in information technology allow sellers to integrate dynamic pricing into their service bundling/unbundling strategy as well as multi-channel distribution strategy. …”
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Active control of wakes and vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder at Re = 100 by Wang, Chenglei

“…For years appropriate control methods have been actively sought to mitigate vortex-induced vibration (VIV) through either altering the shedding frequency or completely eliminating the vortex shedding. …”
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Soundfield control using loudspeaker array by Li, Renshi

“…Control of loudspeaker arrays have been studied in the past few years for a wide variety of applications. One of such application is to control a pre-defined listening environment to achieve audible and inaudible zones so as to gain a personalized and immersive sound experience. …”
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Advanced code reuse attacks against modern defences by Wang, Chenyu

“…In this thesis, I will introduce the development of code reuse attacks in recent years together with control flow integrity (CFI). …”
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Dietary fiber intake and risk of advanced and aggressive forms of prostate cancer: a pooled analysis of 15 prospective cohort studies by Sidahmed, E, Freedland, SJ, Wang, M, Wu, K, Albanes, D, Barnett, M, van den Brandt, PA, Giles, GG, Cook, MB, Giovannucci, E, Haiman, CA, Larsson, SC, Key, TJ, Loftfield, E, Männistö, S, McCullough, ML, Milne, RL, Neuhouser, ML, Platz, EA, Perez-Cornago, A, Sawada, N, Schenk, JM, Sinha, R, Tsugane, S, Visvanathan, K, Wang, Y, White, KK, Willett, WC, Wolk, A, Ziegler, RG, Genkinger, JM, Smith-Warner, SA

“…<h4>Participants/setting</h4>There were 842 149 men followed for up to 9 to 22 years between 1985 and 2009 across studies.<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>The primary outcome measures were advanced (stage T4, N1, or M1 or PC mortality), advanced restricted (excluded men with missing stage and those with localized PC who died of PC), and high-grade PC (Gleason score ≥8 or poorly differentiated/undifferentiated) and PC mortality.…”