Machine learning techniques for the prediction of indoor gamma-ray dose rates - strengths, weaknesses and implications for epidemiology by Kendall, GM, Appleton, JD, Chernyavskiy, P, Arsham, A, Little, MP

“…However, the range of predicted indoor gamma ray dose rates is much smaller than that of the measurements. It is probable that epidemiological studies using such predictions will have lower statistical power than those based on direct measurements.…”

Urban resilience: a 21ˢᵗ century challenge by Nanthini, S.

“…Cities are now home to more than half the global population. As the urban population continues to increase amid the intensification of the effects of climate change, urban disasters are set to affect more people than ever before. …”
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A study of five derivatives markets in the Asia-Pacific Basin by Lai Ping, Lim, Yuan Yih, Sim, Maggie Yun Bee

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Lane detection algorithm for autonomous vehicle using machine learning by Wu, Guan Jie

“…From the experiments, accuracy of SegFormer is higher than SCNN by 0.35% on TuSimple dataset while being 4 times faster than SCNN in inference speed. …”
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Development of low cost, highly stable and active water splitting photocatalysts for hydrogen production by Goh, Simon Chun Kiat

“…The photocatalyst system was stable for more than 5 cycles ofharvest-redispersion recycling test. …”
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Optimization in liner industry with new sulphur cap regulation by Yan, Zirui

“…Shipping carries more than 90% of the world’s cargo volume, which plays an essential part in the worldwide trade. …”
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Evaluation of environmental parameters and economic efficiency of integrated farming system on acidic soil and saltwater intrusion in the coastal area: a case study of Mekong Delta... by Ha, Vo Van, Di, Huynh Ba, Nha, Duong Van, Phuoc, Nguyen Van

“…The results showed that an integrated farming system reduced soil salinity, but increased soil pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and organic matter content more than rice monoculture farming. In addition, this system improved pH, reducing salinity, temperature, and TDS of water more than rice monoculture farming. …”
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Energy expenditure in relation to activity of lesser mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus) by ., Darlis, Abdullah, N., Liang, J.B, Purwanto, B.

“…Male mouse deer consumed more dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM) and gross energy (GE) than female. The time for each activity of male and female mouse deer kept in RC and OD was similar. …”
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Crowd-sourced idea filtering with Bag of Lemons: the impact of the token budget size by Lukumon, Gafari, Klein, Mark

“…The idea behind this approach (BOL) is that it asks the crowd to distribute a fixed budget of tokens that eliminate bad ideas rather than select good ones. In this paper, we explain why BOL works better than other filtering methods using empirical experiments (with n = 850 subjects). …”
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Investigating the acceptance and use of Wikipedia as a major information source by Jiang, Tao

“…As of April 2008, there were more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 10,000,000 articles in more than 250 languages, and still growing. …”
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Falling for Rachel / by Roberts, Nora, 1950- author 465662

“…Public defender Rachel Stanislaski is not what he has in mind—until he discovers there’s a lot more to the beautiful, coolheaded attorney than meets the eye…and finds himself falling for her, hook, line and sinker.…”

Global sporting events : battlegrounds for human rights by Dorsey, James M.

“…With the London Olympics less than two months away major global sporting events are increasingly proving to be Middle Eastern battlegrounds for human rights rather than an expensive way for countries to boost their prestige and sense of national pride.…”
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Exoplanet Albedo Spectra and Colors as a Function of Planet Phase, Separation, and Metallicity by Cahoy, Kerri, Marley, Mark, Fortney, Jonathan

“…We also predict that giant exoplanets receiving greater insolation than Jupiter will exhibit higher equator-to-pole temperature gradients than are found on Jupiter and thus may exhibit differing atmospheric dynamics. …”
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Impact of innovation on performance of shipping companies in Singapore by Nah, Laura Yan Ling

“…Singapore’s maritime industry contributes approximately 7% of her GDP and employs over 100,000 people in more than 5,000 different establishments from various sectors of the industry. …”
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Give your money and lose your friend : the roles of social exclusion and money anthropomorphism in charitable giving by Kho, Mandon Jin Cheng

“…Firstly, we predicted that when money is not anthropomorphized, our participants would be more likely to donate money if they have been primed with social exclusion than if they have not been. Secondly, we predicted that when participants are primed with social exclusion, they would be less likely to donate money when they are induced to anthropomorphize money than if they have not been. …”
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Comparison of current and former sport event volunteers motivation in Singapore by Leong, Su En

“…They are also generally older than former volunteers. Gender appeared to have an effect on volunteer motivation while age did not. …”
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Discrimination in the Equilibrium Search Model with Wage-Tenure Contracts by Fang, Zheng, Sakellariou, Christos

“…It is proven that minority workers have a higher unemployment rate than majority workers; discriminating firms make lower profit than non-discriminating firms; offers to minority workers by non-discriminating firms are consistently superior to those by discriminating firms, and at the same wage level, majority workers almost always experience a faster wage increase than the minority workers.…”
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Identification of FGF receptor-binding peptides for cancer gene therapy by Maruta, F, Parker, AL, Fisher, KD, Hallissey, MT, Ismail, T, Rowlands, DC, Chandler, LA, Kerr, DJ, Seymour, LW

“…The phage showed up to 9-fold more accumulation in the tumor than in adjacent regions of normal tissue, whereas control phage showed less than 2-fold. …”

The size inherited age effect on radiocarbon dates of alluvial deposits: redating charcoal fragments in a sand-bed stream, Macdonald River, NSW, Australia by Wood, R, King, F, Esmay, R, Chen, Q, Schneider, L, Dotte-Sarout, E, Fallon, S, Fryirs, K, Gillespie, R, Blong, R

“…This study returns to a sample from the Macdonald River to date individual charcoal fragments and finds the inherited age may be more than 1700 years (mode 250 years) older than the collection date. …”

Host susceptibility to Lernaea cyprinacea L. and its treatment in a large aquarium system by Shariff, M., Kabata, Z., Sommerville, Christina

“…Approximately 17% carried a mean of less than 10 parasites and 22% carried a mean of more than 10 parasites. …”