Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…Communication between these devices is the highest energy consuming operation and hence, needs to be efficient to sustain their operations in a network over long periods. Additionally, devices may join, leave or move across the network in an ad-hoc manner. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…Even without having any instance-related ground-truth, we design an approach to break point clouds into raw fragments and find the most confident samples for learning instance centroids. …”
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Digital Anatomy : Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality / by Uhl, Jean-François, editor 643187, Jorge, J. A. (Joaquim Armando), editor 643188, Lopes, Daniel Simões, editor 643190, Campos, Pedro F., editor 643191

“…Recent studies show that Virtual (VR), Augmented (AR), and Mixed-Reality (MR) can improve both retention and learning outcomes. Readers will find relevant tutorials about three-dimensional reconstruction techniques to perform virtual dissections. …”

Promoting Sustainable Management Through Technological Innovation / by Sahdev, Supriya Lamba, 1984-, editor 656388, Krishnan, Chitra, 1983-, editor 656389, Hassan, Ahdi, 1991-, editor 654727, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…Business leaders will find practical guidance to integrate sustainable practices and leverage technological innovation in their organizations. …”
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Essays on merchant-generated contents and merchant-to-merchant spillovers in e-commerce platform by Zhang, Xueli

“…Retailers have incentives to exaggerate their product quality to attract more consumers, but with the option of returns, retailers should reconsider it, since consumers might return the product if they find the real product quality is lower than the retailer-displayed quality. …”
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Advanced control of wind power systems by Dang, Dinh Quy

“…The cost function with constraints is then minimized in every sampling time to find optimal control input updates to the plant. …”
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Twitter vs Facebook : analysis of Australian open tennis fan page by Ferozd Raisyad Razhif Roshein

“…The Australian Open (AO) is an international professional tennis tournament that is held annually in the month of January. It is a two-week long event and the first of four grand slam tennis tournaments of the season. …”
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Dismantling silos: The case for an integrated approach to address childhood determinants of lifelong brain health by Raju, Ravikiran M, Tsai, Li-Huei

“…Early-life environments have an immense influence on long-term health outcomes. We have started to elucidate the mechanisms underlying this association but have made little progress in reducing the disease burden of environmentally mediated neurological and psychiatric illness. …”
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Building a Scalable Electrification Infrastructure in Logistics by Alam, Muhammad Ashhad

“…This work develops analytics-based solutions to support and assess the electrification of long-haul logistics operations, by applying the methods to PepsiCo’s operations in Texas.…”
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Meals matter by Feng, Yuxin

“…Meals Matter, therefore, aims to guide young Singaporeans toward healthier eating through three steps: learning key nutrition information, putting it into practice, and cultivating long-term habits of consuming varied, balanced meals by tracking.…”
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A note on the Tibetan kinship terms khu and zhang by Nagano, Sadako

“…Tibetan kinship terminology is an important topic, not just for learning about the language and culture of Tibet, but also for learning about the languages and cultures of other Sino-Tibetan peoples. This subject has long been discussed from the standpoints of culural anthropology, history and linguistics. …”
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Regression assisted evolutionary optimization by Ayyappan, Murugan

“…As some industrial applications involve complex calculations to evaluate a single solution, optimization takes an intractably long time to complete. The aim of this project is to reduce the number of these evaluations during an optimization run, which would in turn reduce the computational time of the evolutionary optimization. …”
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Tool use and hand preference in Macaca fascicularis aurea. by Tan, Virnice Pinlin.

“…Tool use among long-tailed macaques in natural environments has been limited to anecdotal reports. …”
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Personal positioning and location inferences by Niu, Xudong.

“…SPs represent the “hotspots” which the user visits frequently and/or dwell for relatively long period of time, while trajectories reflect how the user traverses among the SPs. …”
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Investigation of the spectral and electrical accelerated degradation characteristics of semiconductor injection lasers grown by molecular beam epitaxy by Yoon, Soon-Fatt.

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Tourism : a catalyst for warmer China-Taiwan relations. by Li, Yuanyi.

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Processing-properties relationship of nanostructured Ni-Fe-Mo magnetic materials by Shen, Yanping

“…Mo atoms were substituted into the FeNi3 phase, and destroyed the long-range FeNi3 lattice to form short-range order. …”
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Investigate the efficiency and effectiveness of material handling in a pharmaceutical factory by Cen, Yizhe

“…Simulation-based analysis and financial analysis were performed to prove that the additional forklift truck solution was more cost-effective in the short run and the conveyor solution was better suited in the long run.…”
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Development of fiber optic strain sensor system for smart structure applications by Ong, Lin Seng, Seah, Leong Keey, Chai, Gin Boay

“…However, as a result of external perturbation or disturbances, the light that passes through the optical fiber changes one or more of its characteristics or properties such as intensity, phase, state of polarization, wavelength or reflective index. As long as we are able to detect these changes and relate them to the changes of external perturbations we can transform the optical fiber into a sensor to detect those perturbations. …”
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Arranged Spaces by Poh, Janice Esther

“…Traditional provision shops have been around Singapore for quite a long time. Recognised as a vanishing trade and essential to Singapore’s heartland heritage, National Heritage Board (NHB) has been led to commission a research team to document a portion of the shops in 2011. …”
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