Novel method of probe design for characterising unclassified microbial taxa in wastewater by Tan, Shi Ming

“…Shimingles; distinct clades were in line with two draft genomes recovered through genomic binning. …”
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Improving the diagnostic yield of whole genome sequencing: neurodevelopmental and epilepsy disorders by Hashim, M

“…These findings expand our knowledge of the genetic basis of these disorders. …”

Stability improvement and control optimization of isolated two-stage AC-DC-DC converter systems by Feng, Fan

“…This can help engineers find a more stable modulation scheme of the DAB converter in practical cascaded applications. …”
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Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…We evaluate DeCoRIC on the Contiki simulation platform and compare it against state-of-the-art clustering solutions. We find that DeCoRIC improves the power efficiency of the network by at least 70% and extends its life- time by at least 42% over existing solutions while making the network adaptable and resilient to faults. …”
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Engineered terahertz emission from spintronic heterostructures: amplitude, phase and chirality by Agarwal, Piyush

“…This thesis aims to identify and answer a few of them by unveiling efficient spin manipulation methods. The main findings of the thesis are divided into two parts. …”
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The evolution and fate of waste plastics in landfills subject to physical and biochemical processes — implications for microplastics by Lu, Xuhong

“…Nonetheless, a substantial volume of plastics becomes plastic waste (PW), with a significant portion finding its way to landfills. Microplastics (MPs), a recently identified group of pollutants with dimensions below 5 mm, raise apprehensions about potential toxicity and their ability to transport other contaminants like heavy metals through adsorption and dissociation mechanisms. …”
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Managing oil palm plantations more sustainably : large-scale experiments within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme by Luke, Sarah H., Advento, Andreas Dwi, Aryawan, Anak Agung Ketut, Adhy, Dwi Nugroho, Ashton-Butt, Adham, Barclay, Holly, Dewi, Jassica Prajna, Drewer, Julia, Dumbrell, Alex J., Edi, Eycott, Amy E., Harianja, Martina F., Hinsch, Julie K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kurniawan, Candra, Kurz, David J., Mann, Darren J., Matthews Nicholass, Kirsty J., Naim, Mohammad, Pashkevich, Michael D., Prescott, Graham W., Ps, Sudharto, Pujianto, Purnomo, Dedi, Purwoko, Rizky Rajabillah, Putra, Syafrisar, Rambe, T. Dzulfikar S., Soeprapto, Spear, Dakota M., Suhardi, Tan, David J. X., Tao, Hsiao-Hang, Tarigan, Ribka Sionita, Wahyuningsih, Resti, Waters, Helen S., Widodo, Rudi Harto, Whendy, Woodham, Christopher R., Caliman, Jean-Pierre, Slade, Eleanor M., Snaddon, Jake L., Foster, William A., Turner, Edgar C.

“…—one of the most widespread and important tropical crops—offers substantial potential for developing wildlife-friendly management strategies because of its long rotation cycles and tree-like structure. Although there is awareness of the need to increase sustainability, practical options for how best to manage oil palm plantations, for benefits to both the environment and crop productivity, have received little research attention. …”
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On poisson vector graphics : displacement mapping, vectorization and color transfer by Fu, Qian

“…Our future direction is to explore more significative applications of PVG, associated with state-to-art technologies like deep-learning techniques.…”
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Synthesizing photorealistic images with deep generative learning by Zheng, Chuanxia

“…Part 3 combines recognitive learning and the latest generative modeling into a holistic scene decomposition and completion framework, where a network is trained to decompose a scene into individual objects, infer their underlying occlusion relationships, and moreover imagine what the originally occluded objects may look like, while using only a single image as input. In Chapter 6, the aim is to derive a higher-level structural decomposition of a scene, automatically recognizing objects and generating intact shapes as well as photorealistic appearances for occluded regions, without requiring manual masking as in Part 2. …”
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4D printable thermally stimulated (meth)acrylate shape memory polymers with tailorable shape recovery force for vat photopolymerization by Ng, Chin Siang

“…This enables the SMP to recover back to its original shape by itself, just like most elastomers. The most common additive manufacturing technology to 4D print these SMPs is vat photopolymerization. …”
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Leveraging linguistic knowledge to enhance low-resource NLP applications by Zhu, Zixiao

“…Within this paradigm, fixed-prompt LM tuning wraps input sentences into a template, allowing the PLM to engage in tasks like masked language prediction or inference understanding. …”
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Signal processing for cooperative cognitive radio networks by Rabiee, Ramtin

“…Although the analyzed period might be very short, it is most likely that the status of the primary user alters during the duration. …”
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Synaptic plasticity in VLSI : a floating-gate approach by Gopalakrishnan, Roshan

“…Computationally T-STDP has advantages like replicating rate based plasticity experiments and detecting third order input correlations. …”
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Cloud detection and attenuation modelling in tropical region by Yuan, Feng

“…In a tropical country like Singapore, more than 80% of observed clouds are thick cumulus/cumulonimbus clouds that are heavy with high liquid water content, and consequently accounts for a significant amount of attenuation on satellite signals. …”
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“文章四友”新论：以李峤、崔融之应用文书写为探讨中心 = New perspectives on “Wenzhang siyou” : focus on Li Qiao and Cui Rong’s practical prose by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

“…Secondly, CUI is very good at parallelism just like Lianzhu 連珠style. Thirdly, especially tending three-word sentence makes his syntax more changeable. …”
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Edible Bird's Nest treatment effects on subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes and synovial fluid proteome profiles in an osteoarthritis rabbit model by Syed Sulaiman, Sharifah Zakiah

“…Protein expression showed action of several proteins involved in bone resorption inhibition and resolution of inflammation via several signalling pathways which includes toll-like receptor (TLR) and NF-κB signalling pathways.…”
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Adaptive management framework for growth response analysis of tomato in controlled environment plant production systems by Shamshiri, Ramin

“…An adaptive management framework (AMF) was developed and used in this study for defining and determining foundation classes (climate control parameters) and objects (tomato crop at different growth stages and light condition) in a bioproduction system like CEPPS. The flexible architecture of the framework with a self-tuning configuration database enables it to work with different culture classes and objects within which many specific scenarios may be modeled and analyzed. …”
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Characterization of exopolysaccharides from probiotic Lactobacillus strains isolated from traditional Malaysian foods by Suliman, Eilaf Suliman Khalil

“…LAB are used for the production of several industrially interesting metabolites such as bioactive peptides, antibacterial compounds, aroma compounds, and cells wall component like exopolysaccharides (EPS). EPS are generally related to all forms of polysaccharides that are present outside of the microbial cell wall. …”
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InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors on Si for RF applications by Xing, Weichuan

“…Also, device geometries including gate length, line-to-space ratio of the nanostripchannel and gate-to-source distance have been studied. …”
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Low complexity spectrum sensing for cognitive radio enabled aeronautical communication systems by Koodathumkal Mathew Libin

“…Wideband spectrum sensing is essential to find the different possible spectral holes in the frequency spectrum of interest. …”
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