Micropipette aspiration of a living cell by Badjo, Wenna

“…Using the viscoelastic model, it was found that PDMS 20:1 will result in higher stiffness of cell and the longer the cell is cultured on the substrate, the stiffer the cell, however this is only apply for the span of 7 days. On the other hand, no substantiate conclusion is drawn from the elastic modulus. …”
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Effect of a circular tunnel in the foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Yeong, Siang Phong

“…A dry sand dike of 12 m crest span, 60 m base width and 8 m height is selected as the model in this study. …”
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Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment by Albini, D, Ransome, E, Dumbrell, AJ, Pawar, S, O’Gorman, EJ, Smith, TP, Bell, T, Jackson, MC, Woodward, G

“…While substantial empirical evidence has accumulated in recent years on such changes, we still lack general insights due to a limited coverage of warming scenarios that span spatial and temporal scales of relevance to natural systems. …”

Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications by Whitehouse, H

“…Theprocess has involved various theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and advances,discussed in this book review forum from a variety of novel angles. Contributors span a broadrange of disciplines, including cognitive and evolutionary anthropology (Atran, Burdett, Lanman,Stanford), history (Larson, Martin), philosophy (McCauley), religious studies (Wood) and compu-ter science (Lane). …”

WiFi and vision multimodal self-supervised learning for human activity recognition by Tang, Shijie

“…In this context, we propose a novel Multimodal Pretrain fine-tune (MPF) network architecture for device-free human activity recognition using commercial WiFi-enabled IoT devices and cameras. …”
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Utilization of oil contaminated sand for green asphalt concrete production by Ng, Ye Han

“…The objective of this research is to study the feasibility of Oil Contaminated Sand (OCS) usage as a replacement of certain percentage of fine aggregates in Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) for road construction. …”
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Z8-Kerdock codes and pseudorandom binary sequences by Lahtonen, Jyrki, Ling, San, Sole, Patrick, Zinoviev, Dmitrii

“…We study the binary sequences of period n - 1 obtained from their cyclic version by using the most significant bit (MSB)-map.The relevant Boolean functions are of degree 4 in general. The linear span of these sequences has been known to be of the order of m4. …”
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Properties of copper slag concrete by Zhang, Weide

“…This report investigated the mechanical properties of high strength concrete incorporating copper slag as fine aggregates. The rising need for alternative fine aggregates substitution of sand is essential due to its high materials cost and the emphasis on sustainable concrete. …”
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Automated teller machines in Singapore by Soh, Yong Chee, Phua, Alice Loo Huay, Tan,Yang Leng

“…Activation of ATMs can also be enhanced by substituting the present A TM card and PIN system with either voice recognition, retina recognition or thumbprints. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…With enough data, pre-trained Transformer-based sequence-to-sequence models can be fine-tuned and achieve strong performance on abstractive summarization benchmarks. …”
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Leveraging linguistic knowledge to enhance low-resource NLP applications by Zhu, Zixiao

“…Specifically, 1. In the promptless fine-tuning paradigm, we first focus on fine-tuning word embeddings for task-related words, thereby enriching the conceptual knowledge available to compositional neural networks during feature learning in emotion recognition. …”
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Finite element analysis of a free-standing concrete sea-wall as alternative to traditional land reclamation by Harris, Raymond

“…Furthermore, a 3D caisson seawall model is used in the analysis so that the stiffness of the cellulated structure can be properly accounted for. The caisson seawall spans 40 m long to 28 m wide. It is connected on its longer side continuously so that it forms a wall barrier in which 20 m of seawater level will be drained from the usable side. …”
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Towards robust monocular depth estimation in the wild by Zheng, Zhenkai

“…Experiments will be conducted on several models trained during the span of the project and both quantitative and qualitative evaluations will be performed. …”
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Additive manufacturing by Yeong, Wai Yee

“…Applications of AM can be multidisciplinary and span across many fields of study. The research projects featured in this primer are categorised into seven research areas: (1) Aerospace & Defence (2) Biomedical & Food Printing (3) Building & Construction (4) Marine & Offshore (5) AI in Part Design & Manufacturing (6) Novel Materials & 3D Microstructure Engineering (7) Beyond 3D Printing. …”
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Behaviour of steel and polyproylene fibers in high strength concrete subjected to elevated temperature by Khoo, Li Ying.

“…Concrete are widely used in the construction industry and with the increase in demand of high strength properties and long life span, High Strength Concrete (HSC) is more commonly used as compared to other types of concretes. …”
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Intelligent reconstruction of pipe system for BIM enabled maintenance by Xie, Hang

“…With the help of BIM, planning and design such as life span, energy cost, requirement for space and structure efficiency for construction will become much simpler. …”
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Design implementation low energy fast fourier transform/inverse fast fourier transform (FFT/IFFT) processor based on asynchronous-logic by Chong, Kwen Siong

“…The circuits designed herein span from microcells and macrocells to a complete 128-point radix-2 decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform/Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (FFT/IFFT) processor for energy-critical audio applications, including hearing aids. …”
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All-optical processing technologies for next generation optical networks by Wang, Dawei

“…All-optical processing technologies span many research areas, which include optical buffering, optical logic gates, optical wavelength conversion/multicasting, optical signal regeneration, ultra-fast optical switching, optical signal modulation format conversion, de-multiplexing of optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) signal, optical data exchange, and etc. …”
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Popular safe haven assets, do they really exist for stock markets? Analysis on gold, Japanese yen and Swiss franc. by Liu, Chang., Ho, Pauline., Xu, Qiong.

“…The aim of this paper is to examine the existence of the three assets’ safe haven and hedging properties for stock markets, across 13 countries over a span of 17 years (1996-2012). Employing GARCH model on daily equity return data, we establish empirically proven results on their safe haven status. …”
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Fiscal deficit and inflation: an empirical measure in view of Pakistan by Khan, Aurangzeb, Siddiqi, Masood Mashkoor, Khan, Ameerzeib, Khan, Shahbano

“…For this purpose, an Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) is applied to time series data time span from 1971 to 2021, collected from various national and international reports and economic issues. …”
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