State and Dynamics Estimation in an Outdoor Multi-Drone Slung Load System by Merton, Harvey

“…Real world testing shows errors of 0.2 m and 5 ◦ respectively. Applying extended Kalman filter and unscented Kalman filter formulations, simulated position estimates average around an error of 0 m, while the error noise magnitude is only 6% of the cable length at 0.06 m. …”
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Synthesis of α-methylene-δ-valerolactone and its selective polymerization from a product mixture for concurrent separation and polymer production by Khechfe, Alexander A, Eckstrom, Francesca D, Chokkapu, Eswara Rao, Baston, Lucas A, Liu, Bowei, Chen, Eugene Y-X, Román-Leshkov, Yuriy

“…MgO, CaO, and BaO supported on silica (∼5 wt%) were active for MVL production (613 K, 0.4 kPa DVL, 1.2 kPa FA, 101 kPa total pressure). …”
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Cooperation and Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning by Aloor, Jasmine, Nayak, Siddharth Nagar, Dolan, Sydney, Balakrishnan, Hamsa

“…For goal coverage scenarios, we find that, on average, the proposed model yields a 14% improvement in efficiency and a 5% improvement in fairness over a baseline model that is trained using random assignments. …”
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An encoding scheme capturing generic priors and properties of amino acids improves protein classification by Zhou, Xinrui, Yin, Rui, Zheng, Jie, Kwoh, Chee-Keong

“…Compared with the traditional methods using task-specific designed features, CFreeEnS improves the predicting accuracy, with an increase ranging from 5.54% to 14.14%. The results indicate that the improved CFreeEnS, free from dependence on carefully designed features, is promising in capturing generic priors and essential properties of amino acids, thereby serving as an automated feature engineering method for protein sequences.…”
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Experimental study of single- and two-phase heat transfer of fractal-like structures by Mak, Joel Tse Hoi

“…These channels were semi-circular, with a diameter ratio of 2−13, a length ratio of 0.5 and a bifurcation angle of 25˚. A multichannel parallel design consisting of four horizontal channels was used as a comparison. …”
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Scaffold-mediated non-viral delivery platform for CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing by Chin, Jiah Shin, Chooi, Wai Hon, Wang, Hongxia, Ong, William, Leong, Kam W., Chew, Sing Yian

“…To evaluate the genome-editing efficiency of this platform, U2OS.EGFP cells were used as the model cell type. pDOPA coating was essential in allowing Cas9:sgRNA lipofectamine complexes to adhere onto the scaffolds with a higher loading efficiency, while laminin coating was necessary for maintaining cell viability and proliferation on the pDOPA-coated fibers for effective gene editing (21.5% editing efficiency, p < 0.001). Importantly, U2OS.EGFP cells took up Cas9:sgRNA lipofectamine complexes directly from the scaffolds via reverse transfection. …”
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Africa Digest : Trends and issues in business Vol. 18 by Burger, Johan

“…This report addresses developments on the involvement of countries from the Middle East in Africa. 5. Developments for MTN, Africa’s largest telecoms company - MTN Group is Africa’s largest telecoms company. …”
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Study on the impact of connected automated vehicle position on mixed traffic flow stability by Tan, Kenneth Chiao Wee

“…This is followed by creating traffic stream scenarios in which positions of CAVs and HDVs are specifically generated for 5-vehicle and 10-vehicle mixed traffic streams. …”
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Development of a 3D vehicle driving simulator (cross platform simulation of CAV) by Feng, Zhen

“…The technique has shown promise in terms of enhancing traffic flow stability, safety, and fuel efficiency. Even when only 5% of vehicles are autonomous, previous studies have shown a 40% improvement in traffic flow efficiency and up to a 28% reduction in fuel usage. …”
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1-D settlement characteristics of unsaturated soils by Li, Bing.

“…This observation was also noted by Alonso et al. (1994) 5. Compressibility increases with corresponding increase in the degree of saturation (decrease in matric suction), and vice versa. 6. …”
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Leucine-rich α-2-glycoprotein 1 suppresses endothelial cell activation through ADAM10-mediated shedding of TNF-α receptor by Pang, Kuin Tian, Ghim, Mean, Liu, Chenghao, Tay, Hui Min, Fhu, Chee Wai, Chia, Rui Ning, Qiu, Beiying, Sarathchandra, Padmini, Chester, Adrian H., Yacoub, Magdi H., Wilkinson, Fiona L., Weston, Ria, Warboys, Christina M., Hou, Han Wei, Weinberg, Peter D., Wang, Xiaomeng

“…Mechanistically, LRG1 exerted its function by causing the shedding of TNFR1 via the ALK5-SMAD2 pathway and the subsequent activation of ADAM10. …”
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Sessile droplet evaporation on patterned surfaces by Ng, Aaron Chin Liang

“…The sizes of particles in the suspension fluids increases by a factor of ten sizes from 0.05μm, 0.5μm and 6μm. The substrates used are Al2O3, TiO2 flat and a patterned micro pyramid substrate. …”
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Enhancing care quality and accessibility through digital technology-supported decentralisation of hypertension and diabetes management: a proof-of-concept study in rural Bangladesh by Xie, Wubin, Paul, Rina Rani, Goon, Ian Y., Anan, Aysha, Rahim, Aminur, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Hersch, Fred, Oldenburg, Brian, Chambers, John Campbell, Mridha, Malay Kanti

“…Participants: A total of 624 participants were enrolled in the study (mean (SD) age, 59.5 (12.0); 65.1% female). Outcomes: Changes in blood pressure and blood glucose control, patient retention and patient-visit volume at the NCD clinic and community clinics. …”
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Deposition and characterisation of a diamond/Ti/diamond multilayer structure by Mallik, Awadesh Kumar, Lloret, Fernando, Gutierrez, Marina, Rouzbahani, Rozita, Pobedinskas, Paulius, Shih, Wen-Ching, Haenen, Ken

“…The cross-sectional thickness of the titanium layer can be found to vary by as much as 0.5 µm across the length of the surface, which was caused by a subsequent hydrogen plasma etching process step of the composite film conducted after Ti sputtering. …”
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Determination of soil-water characteristics curves of sands using the evaporation method by On, Roger Zhi Wei

“…The performance of low-cost capacitive and resistive sensors was compared with the more expensive ECH2O EC 5 and the TEROS 10 moisture sensors to evaluate their performance and capabilities to obtain the SWCCs. …”
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A cost-aware utility-maximizing bidding strategy for auction-based federated learning by Tang, Xiaoli, Yu, Han

“…Through extensive experiments on six commonly adopted benchmark datasets, we show that outperforms eight state-of-the-art methods, beating the best baseline by 4.39%, 4.56%, 1.33%, and 5.43% on average in terms of the total amount of data obtained, number of data samples per unit cost, total utility, and FL model accuracy, respectively.…”
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Energy saving control of robot by Chan, Chee Siang.

“…In this research, Region reaching/tracking controller[3-5] and Slotine & Li controller[6] are implements into SONY SCARA[7] separately. …”
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Synthesis of zeolite nanoreactors by Rajendran, Arvind

“…The separation of CO2/CO gas mixture was investigated by gas chromatograph (GC) and the permselectivity of CO2/CO was 3.5±0.1 with CO2 permeance of 3.6±0.3×10−8 molm−2 s−1 Pa−1 at room temperature. …”
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Offshore renminbi market. by Peh, Derrick Chin Kiat., Heng, Zoey Peishan., Sei, Sin Yee.

“…Chapter 4 explains offshore clearing of the renminbi, and examines the reasons accounting for a different renminbi foreign exchange rate onshore (CNY) and offshore (CNH). Lastly, Chapter 5 explores the future of the offshore renminbi market and presents various risk factors together with their implications.…”
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The Greek unions and the economy : a perspective. by Goh, Qianlei., Teo, Yi Qi., Loh, Candy Shu Ying.

“…A fresh round of austerity measures includes the cut down on pensions, 150,000 public sector jobs, and government spending amounting to 1.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). What exactly led to such a large public sector and huge accumulated public debt in Greece? …”
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