An Investigation into Practical Aluminum Scrap for Emergency Power Fuel in Disaster Response Situations by Blanks, Lauren J.

“…Protracted time between the disaster and the restoration of critical infrastructure, like the power grid, can extend beyond hours or days. …”
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An overview of stock trading with sentiment analysis by Tang, Yi Qwan

“…The findings indicate that FinBERT, tailored for the financial sector, significantly outperforms other models, achieving up to a 63% return on investment. …”
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Efficient optimization of network metrics in large uncertain graphs by Saha, Arkaprava

“…Graphs constitute an omnipresent data structure that can model objects and their relationships in a wide variety of real-world applications like social networks and geo-spatial road networks. …”
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Members’ participation, empowerment and sustainability of self-help groups in Kano City, Nigeria by Ibrahim, Abdul-Aziz

“…With regards to this finding the researcher concluded that, community members’ involvement in self-help groups has leads to empowerment in the self-help group. …”
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2D/3D staircase detection and localization by Wang, Sisong

“…This thesis introduces a novel set of PCA-based Haar-like features which extends the classical Haar-like features from local to global domain and are extremely efficient at rejecting non-object regions at the early stages of the cascade. …”
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Preparation of low-dimensional materials for plasmonic bio-sensing by Das, Chandreyee Manas

“…We particularly focused on ARC materials like titania and silica and Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDC) materials like WS2, MoS2, WSe2 and MoSe2. …”
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Exploring Malaysian public universities Japanese language students' views on the effects of LGBT elements in anime and manga by Paee, Rokiah, Abdul Rashid, Roswati, Ahmad, Normah, Mamat, Roslina

“…There were 56 (37%) male and 94 (63%) female respondents. Findings: 34 (22.7%) respondents mentioned anime and manga titles that have LGBT elements, with some titles fitting under the LGBT genre. …”
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Swallow me (Again) by Qin, Ai Xin

“…swallow me (Again) is a time-based, multi-media installation that seeks to present an abstraction and exploration of the Mother Wound (the inter-generational pain passed between women in a line of inheritance) through the ritualisation of physical motions in sculptural interaction.    …”
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Modeling of plasma motion in a toroidal solenoid by Tu, Yuqiang.

“…Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc (FCVA) deposition technique has received extensive attention recently due to its unique feature: vacuum arc is generated at one end of a toroidal solenoid filter, in which those ions and electrons in the arc follow the force line of the magnetic field and pass through, while those neutral particles moving in straight lines are filtered away, and a "purified" plasma is obtained at the other end. …”
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Study of power flow control by unified power flow controller by Yam, Chien Meng

“…In recent years, energy, environment, right-of-way, and capital cost issues have delayed the construction of both generation facilities and new transmission lines, while the demand f o relectric power has continued to grow. …”
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Fabrication and spectroscopic properties of transparent Yb:YAG laser ceramics by Luo, Dewei, Zhang, Jian, Xu, Changwen, Yang, Hao, Qin, Xianpeng, Ma, Jan, Tang, Dingyuan

“…The in-line transmittance of the sample reaches 84% at 1100 nm wavelength. …”
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Promoting industry in Brussels: a good city has industry by Clossick, Jane, Brearley, Mark

“…This document was published by London Metropolitan University as part of the School of Art, Architecture & Design series: AAD Practice Research Portfolios. Brussels, like London, is squeezed for land with limited space for new development. …”
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Oxford-IIIT TRECVID 2010 – notebook paper by Juneja, M, Chandra, S, Parkhi, OM, Jawahar, CV, Vedaldi, A, Marszalek, M, Zisserman, A

“…The two methods yielded a significantly different performance depending on the feature, as expected by their design: The χ²-SVM can be used for all feature types, including scene-like features such as Cityscape, Nighttime, Singing, but is outperformed by the object detector for object-like features, such as Boat or ship, Bus, and Person riding a bicycle. …”

Image-driven simplification with single viewpoint by Tan, Cheen-Hau, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…The proposed single viewpoint simplification runs an estimated twenty-five times faster than the original method at comparable to better quality.…”
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Shear behaviour of steel members and beam-to-column joints under elevated temperatures by Qian, Zhenhai

“…In this study, the beam web shear component of a joint has first been simplified into an equivalent girder web panel subjected to shear force. Five series of beams have been tested at both ambient and elevated temperatures, without thermal restraints. …”
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An empirical study of material damage insurance rates for property risks. by Goh, Chiaw Gek.

“…It was hypothesised that the fire insurance rates in Singapore are the lowest while the incurred loss ratios are comparable, and that while the rates in all the five countries have decreased, the loss ratios have not increased correspondingly.…”
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Demographic factors and their correlations with loss aversion and framing effects. by Huang, Wei., Ng, Qunkai., Lee, Candice Li Fen.

“…The purpose of this study was to understand more about the correlations between five demographic factors (i.e. level of income, level of education, age, race and gender) and individuals’ level of financial loss aversion. …”
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Bit-error rate simulation for frequency-hopped multiple-access systems over fading channels by Le, Thi Ngoc Anh.

“…In this report, bit-error-rate (BER) performance of a fast frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift-keying (FFH/BFSK) system using diversity-combining over multiple-access interference (MAI), partial-band jamming (PBJ), additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and fading channels is presented. Five diversity-combining methods utilized in BER simulation to counter MAI and PBJ effects are square-law linear combining, product combining, hard-decision majority-vote (HDMV), self-normalizing and clipper receivers.…”
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The deaf divide by Kham, Priscilla, Tan, Josephine Wen Hui, Tay, Eileen Kai Ying, Tay, Qiao Wei

“…The Singapore School for the Deaf, home to five decades of Deaf culture and history, is set to close in 2016. …”
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Predicting statistics performance beyond statistics anxiety by Kwek, Kenneth Shuan Gui

“…A total of 115 participants completed a questionnaire which included five measures adapted from PALS, MSLQ, CSSE, LRE and STARS. …”
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