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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Improving the strength and microstructure of reactive magnesia based concrete blocks by Pu, Liyun

“…A very limited amount of work has been reported on the carbonation degree, performance and durability of MgO cement concrete under various conditions. The main goal of this research is to (i) enhance the carbonation, mechanical performance and microstructural development of MgO cement concrete containing different additives, (ii) evaluate the stability of the formed phases under various conditions involving high temperatures and aggressive environments, and (iii) provide a comparison between commercial and lab scale blocks in terms of performance and microstructure. …”
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Correlation-based estimation of cutting force coefficients for ball-end milling by Dhupia, Jaspreet Singh, Girsang, Irving P.

“…This method can be applied on measured cutting force data over any small interval of time that need not contain information of the time instant when the cutting tool enters the workpiece, which has been the main requirement in the conventional method. This allows a quick estimation of the cutting force coefficients regardless of the chosen cutting conditions and tool-workpiece material, which is often the case in industrial machining processes. …”
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On the algebraic structure of quasi-cyclic codes IV : repeated roots by Ling, San, Niederreiter, Harald, Sole, Patrick

“…A trace formula for quasi-cyclic codes over rings of characteristic not coprime with the co-index is derived. The main working tool is the Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform (GDFT), which in turn relies on the Hasse derivative of polynomials. …”
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New structures and materials for next generation photonic technology by Mei, T., Zhang, Dao Hua, Tang, Dingyuan, Yuan, Xiaocong, Chen, Tupei

“…We present the main results achieved in light source, light manipulation and imaging and sensing in our competitive research program. …”
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Existence and uniqueness of solutions for delay boundary value problems with p-Laplacian on infinite intervals by Wei, Yuming, Wong, Patricia Jia Yiing

“…As an application, an example is given to demonstrate the main results.…”
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Flipped classrooms and translation technology teaching: a case study by Toto, Piero

“…One of the main aims of translation technology teaching is to ensure that, through sufficient in-class practice with the tools, students develop translator competence (Kiraly, 2006) so as to be marketable and competitive in the translation industry once they graduate. …”
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Lessons for biosecurity education from the International Nuclear Security Education Network by Magne, Iris, Ibbotson, Olivia, Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

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Friendship and publishing in Geoffrey Brito’s Sol meldunensis: a collaborative gift book from Cirencester Abbey for Geoffrey, abbot of Malmesbury, 1246–60 by Dunning, ANJ

“…This compilation forms the main production unit of Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.6.42. …”

Coherent terahertz Smith-Purcell radiation generated by the microbunched electron beam by Zhang, H

“…<p>The main objective of the thesis is to investigate the generation of coherent terahertz (THz) Smith-Purcell radiation using microbunched electron beams. …”

Imagining post-fossil tourism mobilities with Norwegian tourists by Hopkins, D, Landa-Mata, I, Kr Steen Jacobsen, J, Farstad, E, Higham, J

“…Sustainable mobility has become a catch-all term to describe forms, modes, policies and practices of mobility that are thought to have a lower environmental footprint and/or fewer social exclusions than the contemporary mobility system which is reliant on fossil fuels and private ownership. As a result, its main application has been in urban mobility contexts, often focused on everyday commuting journeys. …”

Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints by Avlijaš, S, Gartzou-Katsouyanni, K

“…Instead, we argue there is much to learn from firm-centered approaches about how the main economic decision-makers, namely, firms, engage with the constraints and opportunities that they face. …”

Augmenting images of non-rigid scenes using point and curve correspondences by Bartoli, A, von Tunzelmann, E, Zisserman, A

“…We propose an integrated method for non-rigid factorization and thin-plate spline interpolant estimation using point and curve correspondences over multiple views. The main novelties lie in the introduction of curves into the non-rigid factorization framework and in a direct global solution for the registration map, obtained by minimizing the registration error over all points and curves while taking all the images into account. …”

Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications by Whitehouse, H

“…My response is structured aroundfive main headings, as summar-ized in the following table for ease of reference. …”

Splatter image: ultra-fast single-view 3D reconstruction by Szymanowicz, S, Rupprecht, C, Vedaldi, A

“…We apply Gaussian Splatting to monocular reconstruction by learning a neural network that, at test time, performs reconstruction in a feed-forward manner, at 38 FPS. Our main innovation is the surprisingly straightforward design of this network, which, using 2D operators, maps the input image to one 3D Gaussian per pixel. …”

Technological transmission of knowledge in Neolithic northwestern China: mineralogical and chemical analyses of Yangshao and Majiayao painted ware by Spataro, M, Hein, A

“…The analyses were carried out to detect differences or similarities in the chaînes opératoires of ceramic production at the three sites, in particular, to examine the clay types selected to make the three main categories of wares for which Yangshao and Majiayao are known, namely painted fine wares, burnished fine wares, and unpainted coarse wares. …”

An Elekes–Rónyai theorem for sets with few products by Mudgal, A

“…Given $n \in \mathbb{N}$, we call a polynomial $F \in \mathbb{C}[x_{1},\dots ,x_{n}]$ degenerate if there exist $P\in \mathbb{C}[y_{1}, \dots , y_{n-1}]$ and monomials $m_{1}, \dots , m_{n-1}$ with fractional exponents, such that $F = P(m_{1}, \dots , m_{n-1})$. Our main result shows that whenever a polynomial $F$, with degree $d \geq 1$, is non-degenerate, then for every finite, non-empty set $A\subset \mathbb{C}$ such that $|A\cdot A| \leq K|A|$, one has $$ \begin{align*} &amp;amp; |F(A, \dots, A)| \gg |A|^{n} 2^{-O_{d,n}((\log 2K)^{3 + o(1)})}. …”

What is that I hear? An interdisciplinary review and research agenda for non‐native accents in the workplace by Hideg, I, Shen, W, Hancock, S

“…Second, we organize and integrate extant research findings using a 2 × 2 framework that incorporates the two main theoretical perspectives used to explain the effects of accents—stereotypes and processing fluency—and the two primary categories of workplace outcomes examined—interpersonal (i.e., others' evaluations of speakers with non-native accents, such as hiring recommendations) and intrapersonal (i.e., non-native-accented speakers' own evaluations and experiences, such as sense of belonging). …”

Heights via anabelian geometry and local Bloch-Kato Selmer sets by Betts, L

“…To this end, we present three main theorems giving such a description in terms of the Q_l and Q_p-pro-unipotent etale realisations when the base field is p-adic, and in terms of the R-pro-unipotent Betti–de Rham realisation when the base field is archimedean.…”

Glass box and black box machine learning approaches to exploit compositional descriptors of molecules in drug discovery and aid the medicinal chemist by Robson, B, Cooper, R

“…These points are demonstrated by blind test comparison of two main types of BB methods and a probabilistic “Glass Box” (GB) method new outside of medicine, but which appears well suited to the above. …”