Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration by Salganik, Matthew J., Lundberg, Ian, Kindel, Alexander T., Ahearn, Caitlin E., Al-Ghoneim, Khaled, Almaatouq, Abdullah, Altschul, Drew M., Brand, Jennie E., Carnegie, Nicole Bohme, Compton, Ryan James, Datta, Debanjan, Davidson, Thomas, Filippova, Anna, Gilroy, Connor, Goode, Brian J., Jahani, Eaman, Kashyap, Ridhi, Kirchner, Antje, McKay, Stephen, Morgan, Allison C., Pentland, Alex, Polimis, Kivan, Raes, Louis, Rigobon, Daniel E., Roberts, Claudia V., Stanescu, Diana M., Suhara, Yoshihiko, Usmani, Adaner, Wang, Erik H., Adem, Muna, Alhajri, Abdulla, AlShebli, Bedoor, Amin, Redwane, Amos, Ryan B., Argyle, Lisa P., Baer-Bositis, Livia, Buchi, Moritz, Chung, Bo-Ryehn, Eggert, William, Faletto, Gregory, Fan, Zhilin, Freese, Jeremy, Gadgil, Tejomay, Gagne ́, Josh, Gao, Yue, Halpern-Manners, Andrew, Hashim, Sonia P., Hausen, Sonia, He, Guanhua, Higuera, Kimberly, Hogan, Bernie, Horwitz, Ilana M., Hummel, Lisa M., Jain, Naman, Jin, Kun, Jurgens, David, Kaminski, Patrick, Karapetyan, Areg, Kim, E. H., Leizman, Ben, Liu, Naijia, Moser, Malte, Mack, Andrew E., Mahajan, Mayank, Mandell, Noah, Marahrens, Helge, Mercado-Garcia, Diana, Mocz, Viola, Mueller-Gastell, Katariina, Musse, Ahmed, Niu, Qiankun, Nowak, William, Omidvar, Hamidreza, Or, Andrew, Ouyang, Karen, Pinto, Katy M., Porter, Ethan, Porter, Kristin E., Qian, Crystal, Rauf, Tamkinat, Sargsyan, Anahit, Schaffner, Thomas, Schnabel, Landon, Schonfeld, Bryan, Sender, Ben, Tang, Jonathan D., Tsurkov, Emma, van Loon, Austin, Varol, Onur, Wang, Xiafei, Wang, Zhi, Wang, Julia, Wang, Flora, Weissman, Samantha, Whitaker, Kirstie, Wolters, Maria K., Woon, Wei Lee, Wu, James, Wu, Catherine, Yang, Kengran, Yin, Jingwen, Zhao, Bingyu, Zhu, Chenyun, Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Engelhardt, Barbara E., Hardt, Moritz, Knox, Dean, Levy, Karen, Narayanan, Arvind, Stewart, Brandon M., Watts, Duncan J., McLanahan, Sara

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Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis... by Reitsma, M. B., Kendrick, P. J., Ababneh, E., Abbafati, C., Abbasi-Kangevari, M., Abdoli, A., Abedi, A., Abhilash, E. S., Abila, D. B., Aboyans, V., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., Adebayo, O. M., Advani, S. M., Aghaali, M., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, S., Ahmadi, K., Ahmed, H., Aji, B., Akunna, C. J., Al-Aly, Z., Alanzi, T. M., Alhabib, K. F., Ali, L., Alif, S. M., Alipour, V., Aljunid, S. M., Alla, F., Allebeck, P., Alvis-Guzman, N., Amin T. T., Amini, S., Amu, H., Amul, G. G. H., Ancuceanu, R., Anderson, J. A., Ansari-Moghaddam, A., Antonio, C. A. T., Antony, B., Anvari, D., Arabloo, J., Arian, N. D., Arora, M., Asaad, M., Ausloos, M., Awan, A. T., Ayano, G., Aynalem, G. L., Azari, S., B, D.B., Badiye, A. D., Baig, A. A., Bakhshaei, M. H., Banach, M., Banik, P.C., Barker-Collo, S. L., Bärnighausen, T. W., Barqawi, H. J., Basu, S., Bayati, M., Bazargan-Hejazi, S., Behzadifar, M., Bekuma, T. T., Bennett, D. A., Bensenor, I. M., Berfield, K. S. S., Bhagavathula, A. S., Bhardwaj, N., Bhardwaj, P., Bhattacharyya, K., Bibi, S., Bijani, A., Bintoro, B. S., Biondi, A., Birara, S., Braithwaite, D., Brenner, H., Brunoni, A. R., Burkart, K., Butt, Z. A., Caetano dos Santos, F. L., Car, Josip, Cárdenas, R., Carreras, G., Carrero, J. J., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Cattaruzza, M. S. S., Chang, J. C., Chen, S., Chu, D. T., Chung, S. C., Cirillo, M., Costa, V. M., Couto, R. A. S., Dadras, O., Dai, X., Damasceno, A. A. M., Damiani, G., Dandona, L.

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Challenges faced by women in the corporate world by Ang, Hui Jia, Sim, Jasmine Mei Yao, Yeo, Siew Hong

“…An investigation and analysis was conducted into the three main areas: Factors enabling success, Barriers to success and Costs of success.…”
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Evaluation of bonding strength of some tropical wood species as a function of surface roughness by Tan, Hui Ling.

“…Experiments were conducted for Kapur, Meranti and Pine wood to find out the adhesion bonding strength as a function of surface roughness. …”
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Development of optical transceiver by Sim, Sebastian Shih Wei.

“…For PIN photodiodes, the epitaxial layer was introduced to the structures to act as an intrinsic layer. …”
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New algorithms and VLSI architectures for efficient RNS computations by Tay, Thian Fatt

“…In this thesis, a fast and area efficient 2^n signed integer RNS scaler for the moduli set {2^n−1, 2^n, 2^n+1} is proposed. …”
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Sporopollenin-inspired design and synthesis of robust polymeric materials by Glinkerman, Christopher M, Lin, Shaoting, Ni, Jiahua, Li, Fu-Shuang, Zhao, Xuanhe, Weng, Jing-Ke

“…Recent investigation of the molecular structure of pine sporopollenin revealed unique monomeric units and inter-unit linkages distinct from other previously known biopolymers, which could be harnessed for new material design. …”
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Design and investigation of air-cooled heat sinks using 3D printing technology by Lim, Ming Chong

“…This study presents the heat transfer performance of five pin fin heat sinks that have been fabricated using Selective Laser Melting. …”
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Design methodologies for complexity reduction of FIR filters by Faust, Mathias

“…The optimization of the number of adders required in the MCM block has been a main subject of research in many leading publications on circuits and systems, and design automation. …”
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Opportunities for decarbonization in Russia by Sharmina, M

“…Russia’s stance on climate change action is ambivalent. On the one hand, the country has both signed up to relevant international treaties and introduced domestic legislation. …”

Importance Sampling BRDF Derivatives by Belhe, Yash, Xu, Bing, Bangaru, Sai Praveen, Ramamoorthi, Ravi, Li, Tzu-Mao

“…Our method first decomposes the real-valued differential BRDF into a sum of single-signed functions, eliminating variance from a change in sign. …”
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Taxis, passengers and stable marriage-stable simultaneous assignment of taxis to passenger booking re-quests by Kümmel, Michal

“…This thesis deals with the challenge of dispatching taxis to passenger booking requests. The main contribution is the methodology which assigns and re-assigns groups of taxis to groups of passenger booking requests and reflects the interest of not just taxis but also passengers, and which produces stable assignments. …”
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Timekeeper by Ng, Yang Meng

“…Timekeeper is a short film about the chanced meeting of Hock and Anna. Hock, a retired watchmaker, enjoys collecting obsolete objects because he treasures the value in them. …”
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Modeling and optimization of ACMV systems for energy efficient smart buildings by Zhai, Deqing

“…According to Paris Protocol signed in 2015, energy efficient, smart and green buildings are imperative concerns. …”
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Stress faced by executives in Singapore. by Par, Hwee Fong., Tan, Chin Ying., Thong, Hwei Ling.

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Output regulation of linear heterogeneous multi-agent systems by Adib Yaghmaie, Farnaz

“…In the bipartite output regulation, the agents communicate over a signed structurally balanced graph and it is desired that the outputs of all agents synchronize in moduli but with different signs. …”
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Crosslinked microneedle patch to extract interstitial fluid for diagnosis by Kang, Rong Jie

“…We have also demonstrated the superior swelling ability and rapid absorption ability of our MeHA microneedle, which could gain almost 10 times its original mass in phosphate buffer saline (PBS) in 2min, while retaining it structural integrity. When only the tips of our microneedle contact water in an agarose hydrogel model, it could absorb approximately 1.5 times its original weight in 10min. …”
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A two-dimensional co-rotational Timoshenko beam element with XFEM formulation by Xu, Jin, Lee, Chi King, Tan, Kang Hai

“…Pin connections and plastic hinges produce non-smooth displacement fields in beam structures. …”
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Development of a compact PCB cooling system comprising a flexible bellow and a closed two phase thermosyphon by Lee, Boon Liang

“…The report documents the development of a flexible bellow heat sink with finned thermosyphons. The main objective of this project was to demonstrate the working principle of the thermosyphon with flexible bellow in electronic cooling. …”
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Speed up verification with hardware accelerator by Liu, Yi

“…The dissertation presents the development of the transaction level communication component to speed up Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) boot load simulation based on a co-emulation environment which integrates the simulator and the Mentor Graphics’ emulator—Veloce2. The main task of this work is to build the TBX and get the boot load test passed.…”
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