Structural integrity assessment of rail steel failure modes and mechanism by Liu, Yang

“…Rail steels are susceptible to fatigue failures resulting in rail breaks that can lead to unplanned downtime and safety concerns in railway operations. The main concern of the structural integrity in the rail track system is rail breaks resulting from fatigue failures of continuously welded rail structures, particularly, the thermite welded rail joints. …”
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Unveiling the facade of blog posts to reveal subjective well-being : an exploratory study. by Ou, Zhiqi., Tan, Justine Yi Ting., Tan, Jessie Zi Xi.

“…In this exploratory study to form a bridge between existing methods to gauge the well-being of people and the usage of social media as a data source, we find that there are substantial links between the subjective and objective well-being of people and the feelings expressed by people in blogs. Our two main findings demonstrate that eight out of 11 of the regressions involving the objective ranking as the main independent variable show the objective ranking having the correct expected sign at at least the 10% significance level. …”
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The role of ports in supply chain disruption management by Loh, Hui Shan

“…Therefore, this study has two main purposes: to study the magnitude of port-related supply chain disruption (PSCD) threats; and to examine the application of a management model which could minimize the disruptive potential of ports on supply chains. …”
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Efficient algorithms for embedded optimisation-based control by Dang, Van Thuy

“…System of linear equations with the saddle point type is the main computational load in some MPC-tailored algorithms. …”
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Spin-ice physics and phase transitions in cadmium cyanide by Coates, CS

“…Ice-rules-obeying states are characterised by an absence of long range order, leading to a manifold of degenerate ground states, extensive residual entropy and exotic excitations; in spin-ices, these excitations correspond to topological defects in the form of effective magnetic monopoles. The main barrier to experimentation and application of these topological defects is the extremely low temperatures (~ 1 K) at which the spin-ice correlations develop. …”

Unravelling the degradation pathways and charging mechanism in the Li-O2 battery: the role of singlet oxygen by Zor, C

“…In the LOB literature, ¹O₂ is mainly detected and quantified using DMA, a ¹O₂ trap. …”

Component-based security under partial compromise by Dehnel-Wild, M

“…</p> <p>We finish with two main conclusions. First, the time is now right for formal methods. …”

Frailty trajectories preceding dementia in the US and UK by Ward, DD, Flint, JP, Littlejohns, TJ, Foote, IF, Canevelli, M, Wallace, LMK, Gordon, EH, Llewellyn, DJ, Ranson, JM, Hubbard, RE, Rockwood, K, Stolz, E

“…</p> <p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Frailty was the main exposure, with participants&rsquo; degrees of frailty quantified using retrospectively calculated frailty index scores.…”

Mortality rates among patients successfully treated for hepatitis C in the era of interferon-free antivirals: population based cohort study by Hamill, V, Wong, S, Benselin, J, Krajden, M, Hayes, PC, Mutimer, D, Yu, A, Dillon, JF, Gelson, W, Velásquez García, HA, Yeung, A, Johnson, P, Barclay, ST, Alvarez, M, Toyoda, H, Agarwal, K, Fraser, A, Bartlett, S, Aldersley, M, Bathgate, A, Binka, M, Richardson, P, Morling, JR, Ryder, SD, Barnes, E

“…Drug and liver related causes of death were the main drivers of excess mortality. These findings highlight the need for continued support and follow-up after successful treatment for hepatitis C to maximise the impact of direct acting antivirals.…”

Towards practical data-driven predictive maintenance: a robust and generalizable deep learning approach by Mohamed Ragab Mohamad Adam

“…The focus of this thesis is on two main tasks of predictive maintenance: fault diagnosis and fault prognosis (i.e., Remaining Useful Life Estimation (RUL)) tasks. …”
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Benchmarking Pavement Environmental Performance Using Data-Driven Modeling and Policy by Vaidyanath, Varsha

“…This paper addresses how a new pavement evaluation system and policy framework might drive better solutions to reduce carbon emissions, from a climate change standpoint. The main components include: establishing why current pavement rating systems and current policy are not sufficient, performing a data-driven analysis with a grading and scorecard system to assess, compare, and summarizing pavement design quality, and proposing an effective policy framework to implement the system.…”
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Intel’s Fall from Grace by Cusumano, Michael

“…Intel's decline has two main causes, apart from the innovations at Nvidia. …”
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Existence and stability of periodic solution to delayed nonlinear differential equations by Gu, Xiang, Wang, Huicheng, Wong, P. J. Y., Xia, Yonghui

“…The main purpose of this paper is to study the periodicity and global asymptotic stability of a generalized Lotka-Volterra’s competition system with delays. …”
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Heteroatom modified graphenes : electronic and electrochemical applications by Pumera, Martin

“…Here, we discuss doping of graphene-based materials with main group heteroatoms (s and p blocks). We will also discuss the application of such doped graphenes in electronic, sensing, and energy storage/generation devices.…”
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Globalization and environmental quality : insights from 128 countries by Le, Ha Chi

“…Fixed Effects (FE) is employed as the main estimation technique while panel Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) and Driscoll-Kraay (D-K) standard errors estimations are employed as robustness check. …”
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Crosslinkable vegetable oil based natural materials for packaging applications by Ker, Adonica Yan Ting

“…Combustion of plastics during disposal contributes to air pollution, and low practicality in plastic recycling is the main issue associated with non-degradable plastic usage. …”
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合(Hé) Harmony : emblematic furniture informed by broken home and perseverant heart by Yang, Tongchen

“…Consequently, I would like to find out ways of incorporating both remedial utility and beauty of conventional revealed joints with my Chinese heritage such as fortunate motifs, auspicious ornamentations and venerated forms. The main goal of this project is to convey a means of revitalisation.…”
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Privacy-preserving auction using multi-party computation (II) by Koh, Benny Hock Kiong

“…This investigation consists of two main phases. We first develop an infrastructure where the multi-party computation can be carried out. …”
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Negative refraction in hyperbolic metamaterials by Mao, Tailai

“…This report also discusses the effects of isofrequency contour by using different surface graphene conductivity models. There are two main parts to this project, the first part will discuss the fundamental concepts of negative refraction in metamaterials, while the second part of this project will concentrate on the differences of results between using different surface graphene conductivity models.…”
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Dialack by Foo, Jasmine

“…The objectives of the project involve exposing the younger generation to the beauty of dialects via a more active approach whereby content in dialects will be delivered on the online platforms they frequent before engaging them in the actual learning process, unlike existing works which are more passive in nature. The main deliverables will be motion graphics in and about dialects on online platforms to raise awareness.…”
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