A review of offshore decommissioning regulations in five countries – strengths and weaknesses by Fam, Mei Ling, Konovessis, Dimitris, Tan, Hoon Kiang, Ong, Lin Seng

“…In conclusion, the majority of the regulations covering the technical section are similar within all countries studied. Major differences lie in two overarching philosophies of the framework - a prescriptive regime versus a goal-setting regime. …”
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Indonesia's direct local elections : background and institutional framework by Choi, Nankyung

“…This essay also argues that the ultimate problem with Indonesia's direct local elections lies in its attempt to implement political decentralization, volutarily or reluctantly, as a way of consolidating the country's new democracy at local levels. …”
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Proactive chatbot framework based on the PS2CLH model: an AI-Deep Learning chatbot assistant for students by Arlindo, Almada, Qicheng, Yu, Preeti, Patel

“…One of the principal novelties of the chatbot framework lies in the student lecturer/assistant facilitator. …”
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Formulation of A New Product Development Process Innovation Framework for Malaysian SMEs by Abu, Noor Hidayah, Mansor, Mohd Fitri

“…The importance of the process innovation lies in the fact that effective implementing process innovation for new product development activities can contribute directly to the success of a new product. …”
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Strong self-trapping by deformation potential limits photovoltaic performance in bismuth double perovskite by Wu, Bo, Ning, Weihua, Xu, Qiang, Manjappa, Manukumara, Feng, Minjun, Ye, Senyun, Fu, Jianhui, Lie, Stener, Yin, Tingting, Wang, Feng, Goh, Teck Wee, Harikesh, Padinhare Cholakkal, Tay, Eugene Yong Kang, Shen, Zexiang, Huang, Fuqiang, Singh, Ranjan, Zhou, Guofu, Gao, Feng, Sum, Tze Chien

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Modeling perception errors in autonomous vehicles and their impact on behavior by Piazzoni, Andrea

“…The scope of this work lies within the context of evaluating AVs' capabilities to operate under specific environmental conditions, which are known to alter the perception quality slightly. …”
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Positive traces and analytic Langlands correspondence by Klyuev, Daniil

“…In the most general setting, this problem generalizes the classical problem of describing irreducible unitary representations of real reductive Lie groups. We consider the case of Kleinian singularities of type A and provide a complete classification of positive traces. …”
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Instrumenting Observability in a Decentralized Microservice Architecture by Liu, Helen X.

“…As such, the challenge lies primarily in adapting observability solutions to a decentralized, microservice architecture found in an industry setting. …”
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Interpretable vector language models by Siow, Zi Hao

“…We associated the interpretability of a word embedding with the optimisation of various loss functions, namely Varimax, Quartimax and the l1-norm, defined on the Lie group SO(d). Our findings revealed that the l1-norm method achieved the highest level of interpretability among the three methods, because its solutions tend to have a higher proportion of matrix elements that are close to zero by promoting sparsity. …”
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Advanced detection for blu-ray disc optical recording by Lim, Melvin Heng Li.

“…Therefore, the fate of the fourth generation optical recording system may innately lie on a breakthrough in a genre of Constrained Codes superior to that of the (1,7) Code.…”
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Design and construct an uninterruptible power supply system by Wee, Wei Ze.

“…The uniqueness of this UPS lies with its non- dependence on a main supply. The charging process is through a dynamo-mounted bicycle. …”
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Surface modification of TiO2 nanostructures for visible light photocatalyst by Chen, Jia.

“…Although nano-sized TiO2 is environmental friendly and cost effective in terms of photo catalyst performances, its efficiency is low. The main barrier lies within the issues of quick recombination of electrons, holes pairs and poor absorbance of visible light. …”
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Financial reform in the Philippines by Chua, Hwee Kian, Loo, Seow Theng, Tan, Teck Ming

“…As the reforms in the financial sector is expected to spark off growth in other areas like trade and investments, the future well-being of the Philippine economy lies greatly on the success of these reforms.…”
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Magnetic nanoparticles for radar absorber application : silica coated cobalt-iron nanoparticles and silica coated iron nanoparticles by Leong, Glenn Jie Wei

“…Thus, though both CoFe2@SiO2 and Fe@SiO2 nanoparticles have the potential to be excellent RAM, however greater promise lies with the use of CoFe2@SiO2 as a RAM.…”
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UNCLOS and its Limitations as the Foundation for a Regional Maritime Security Regime by Sam, Bateman

“…The root causes of these problems lie in basic conflicts of interest between countries on law of the sea issues, the “built-in” ambiguity of UNCLOS in several of its key regimes, and the geographical complexity of the East Asian region in particular. …”
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Shortest paths without a map, but with an entropic regularizer by Bubeck, S, Coester, C, Rabani, Y

“…The deterministic competitive ratio for this problem was soon discovered to be exponential in 𝑘, and it is now nearly resolved: it lies between Ω(2 𝑘 ) and 𝑂(𝑘2 𝑘). Regarding the randomized competitive ratio, in 1993 Ramesh proved, surprisingly, that this ratio has to be at least Ω(𝑘 2 /log1+𝜀 𝑘) (for any constant 𝜀 > 0). …”

A dynamical analysis of the alignment mechanism between two interacting cells by Leech, V, Dalwadi, M, Manhart, A

“…Whether cells move towards this state (i.e., become perfectly aligned) or not is determined by where in state space the initial condition lies. We find that a separatrix splits the state space into two regions, which characterise these two different outcomes. …”

Quantum oscillations probe the Fermi surface topology of the nodal-line semimetal CaAgAs by Kwan, Y, Reiss, P, Han, Y, Bristow, M, Prabhakaran, D, Graf, D, McCollam, A, Ashok Parameswaran, S, Coldea, A

“…We interpret this as a Berry phase arising from the semiclassical electronic Landau orbit which links with the nodal ring when the magnetic field lies in the mirror (ab) plane. Furthermore, additional Berry phase accumulates while rotating the magnetic field for the second orbit in the same orientation which does not link with the nodal ring. …”

Nanostructure silver absorbance with polarized light spectroscopy (PLS) and mobile imaging by Liu, Xinzhi, Shafie, Suhaidi

“…The innovative aspect of this study lies in the validation of PLS spectral data using a mobile application developed with MIT App Inventor, which analyzes the intensity of light beams captured in images taken by a smartphone. …”

Distinguishing transcreation from translation: exploring strategies to render gender stereotypes by Zhu, Li, Ang, Lay Hoon, Sun, Yanna

“…The results suggest that the primary distinction between translation and transcreation lies in the extent to which practitioners alter the source text when creating new content. …”
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