The battle for Asia in crude oil markets: an easier road ahead for India? by Sen, A

“…Even though the drop in prices is unlikely to last (given the high cost on the supply side) and prices are likely to pick back up to at least the US$80–100 per barrel range in the coming years, India will remain in a privileged position compared to a few years ago, as the continued growth of US tight oil means producers from all around the world will still focus on Asia to sell their crude. …”

Learning to detect partially overlapping instances by Arteta, C, Lempitsky, V, Noble, JA, Zisserman, A

“…For example, our detector can pick a region containing two or three object instances, while assigning such region an appropriate label. …”

QoS provisioning by power control for video communication via satellite links by Ma, Ting, Lee, Yee Hui, Winkler, Stefan, Ma, Maode

“…Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed power control solution and its ability to sustain video quality levels in spite of rain fades.…”
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Altruism and natural selection in a variable environment by dos Santos, M, Downing, PA, Griffin, AS, Cornwallis, CK, West, SA

“…Hamilton's rule provides the cornerstone for our understanding of the evolution of all forms of social behavior, from altruism to spite, across all organisms, from viruses to humans. …”

The Search of Best Practices of Malaysian Halal Cosmetics Industry to Improve Firm Performance by Md Sin, Mohammad Aizat, Razalli, Mohd Rizal, Mohamed Ismail, Risyawati

“…In addition, Halal principles, Halal certification, Halal logo, and Halal safety can be used as Halal compliance benchmarks. In spite of high level of awareness on Halal cosmetics among the Malaysian population, the integrity of the final product is still questionable. …”
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Longitudinal associations of clinical and biochemical head injury biomarkers with head impact exposure in adolescent football players by Zuidema, Taylor R., Bazarian, Jeffrey J., Kercher, Kyle A., Mannix, Rebekah, Kraft, Reuben H., Newman, Sharlene D., Ejima, Keisuke, Rettke, Devin J., Macy, Jonathan T., Steinfeldt, Jesse A., Kawata, Keisuke

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Evolutionary origin of the chordate nervous system revealed by amphioxus developmental trajectories by Dai, Y, Zhong, Y, Liu, H, Pan, R, Yuan, L, Du, J, Li, M, Wang, X, Shi, C, Liu, G, Zhu, P, Shimeld, S, Zhou, X, Li, G

“…Our results show three developmental origins for the vertebrate nervous system: an anterior FoxQ2-dependent mechanism that is deeply conserved in invertebrates, a less-conserved route leading to more posterior neurons in the vertebrate spinal cord and a mechanism for specifying neuromesoderm progenitors that is restricted to chordates. …”

Development of a counter-UAV system by Tang, Wen Yue

“…Upon testing, the firing pin mechanism was found to be unable to reliably puncture the CO2 canister, even after improvements. …”
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Lessons from a retrospective look at India’s upstream sector by Elango, P

Dengue death rate higher among women than men in Bangladesh by Roney, Miah, Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi, Mohd Aluwi

“…Given the atypical seasonality of the epidemic and the sudden spike in cases early on, it is noteworthy that mosquito and potential hotspot densities were at an all-time high throughout the previous years.…”
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Design and development of extreme learning machine symposium web portal by Chiang, Yu Hui.

“…In recent years, it has been observed that there is a spike in interest in the development of web based conference management systems. …”
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Mean-field approximation for networks with synchrony-driven adaptive coupling by Fennelly, N, Neff, A, Lambiotte, R, Keane, A, Byrne, A

“…In place of the less tractable spike-timing-dependent plasticity, we employ recently validated phase-difference-dependent plasticity rules, which adjust coupling strengths based on the relative phases of θ-neuron oscillators. …”

Implementation of Vision-Based Navigation for Pedestrian Environments by Anderson, Connor William

“…The tracking module of this pipeline is able to correctly localize pedestrians within 0.4 meters in simple scenarios and 0.6 meters in challenging multi-pedestrian stress testing cases inside of a 12 meter space in spite of limited field of view and relying on only inexpensive RGB camera images. …”
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Strengthening, exhaustification, and rational inference by Asherov, Daniel, Fox, Danny, Katzir, Roni

“…By varying the scenarios in which an expression such as “Pick the crate with a banana” is evaluated, we show that the strengthening of “crate with a banana” within the scope of the definite article parallels the entailments of “crate with only a banana” (with an overt exhaustivity operator, ‘only’). …”
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Classification on big data set using data analytics techniques by Chung, Ka Wai

“…Existing word dictionaries are based on old literature text and documents and are unable to pick up slang used by users of the internet, as well as languages that are an amalgamation of different dialects and languages such as Singlish. …”
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Web-based development for serious game in education by Tan, Zarn Yao

“…However, it can be a tedious process for beginners to pick up this topic as the concepts are mostly abstract. …”
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Study and analysis of soft grippers for assembly tasks by Tan, Hong Wei

“…Through rigorous testing and evaluation, the gripper not only demonstrated proficiency in handling clothing in thin and flexible packaging, but it also managed to pick up tightly stacked items and grasp a wide variety of objects with diverse geometries. …”
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Application of COLD-PCR for improved detection of EGFR mutations in clinical samples. by Zhang, Zhi Xuan.

“…As such, this project was carried out to find out whether COLD-PCR would pick up low level mutant alleles that were missed by regular PCR. …”
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Final year project by Feng, Xiang

“…The idea in this project is to pick a musical performance from a musical recording, and convert it into a symbolic representation. …”
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Scratch based graphical programming online guide/exam system by Chan, Bryan Hong Ming

“…As such, more and more students from different background are trying to pick up Computer Science. Some students may have no issue picking up programming while others may have difficulty and lose interest in programming. …”
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