A review of high-speed rotating HP turbine heat transfer and cooling studies over the last decade in the Oxford Turbine Research Facility by Falsetti, C, Beard, PF, Cardwell, DN, Chana, KS

“…Major upgrades include: (i) a combustor simulator able to produce engine radial and circumferential temperature profiles and inlet swirl simultaneously to study combustor-turbine interaction, (ii) fully film-cooled HP turbine designs and 1.5 stage configurations with a low-turning strut, (iii) novel rotor casing effusion cooling concepts, (iv) an advanced in-shaft data acquisition electronics system. …”

Development of genetic algorithm-based fuzzy rules design for metal cutting data selection by Wong, S.V, Hamouda, A.M.S

“…The situation would be more complicated if there were a further increase in the number of inputs and/or outputs. The fuzzy rules (Turning Handbook of High-Efficiency Metal Cutting, General Electric Co., Detroit) were selected based on trial and error and/or intuition. …”
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Efficient 3D reconstruction through enhanced PatchMatch techniques for accelerated point cloud generation by Feng, Wenwen, Ali, Siti Khadijah, Rahmat, Rahmita Wirza O. K.

“…To meet this demand, researchers have turned to multi-view stereo (MVS) reconstruction methods that utilize low-altitude multi-angle oblique aerial images. …”
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A Novel Discrete Filled Function Algorithm in Solving Discrete Optimization Problems (S/O: 12408) by Woon, Siew Fang, Karim, Sharmila, Mohamad, Mohd Saiful Adli

“…At the initial stage, an auxiliary function is introduced in discrete filled function method which turns the local minimizer of the original function to be a local maximizer. …”
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Board financial experience and efficiency-based earnings management in pre- and post-international financial reporting standards by Kweh, Qian Long, Nourani, Mohammad, Lu, Wen-Min, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong

“…However, their ability turns weaker post-IFRS. Overall, this study thus not only has important theoretical significance in that a board of directors with financial experience might and might not curb earnings management but also has an important practical contribution to decision-makers in companies regarding the effectiveness of board financial experiences in the IFRS era.…”
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A versatile light-switchable nanorod memory : Wurtzite ZnO on perovskite SrTiO3 by Bera, Ashok, Peng, Haiyang, Lourembam, James, Shen, Youde, Sun, Xiaowei, Wu, T.

“…In addition to a high and persistent photoconductivity, the ZnO/NSTO heterojunction diode can be turned into a versatile light-switchable resistive switching memory with highly tunable ON and OFF states. …”
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Constructing self-supporting surfaces with planar quadrilateral elements by Ma, Long, Yao, Sidan, Zheng, Jianmin, Liu, Yang, Zhou, Yuanfeng, Xin, Shi-Qing, He, Ying

“…For each face with small curvature difference, we compute a stretch matrix that turns the principal directions into a pair of conjugate directions. …”
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Using machine learning to generate novel hypotheses: increasing optimism about COVID-19 makes people less willing to justify unethical behaviors by Sheetal, Abhishek, Feng, Zhiyu, Savani, Krishna

“…Because past research on antecedents of unethical behavior has not provided a clear answer, we turned to machine learning to generate novel hypotheses. …”
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Prediction and prevention of disproportionally dominant agents in complex networks by Lera, Sandro Claudio, Pentland, Alex, Sornette, Didier

“…If the system state is within or close to the WTA regime, we show how to efficiently control the system back into a more stable state along a geodesic path in the space of fitness distributions. It turns out that the common measure of penalizing the most dominant agents does not solve sustainably the problem of drastic inequity. …”
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Tools for Mapping the Links Between Stimuli, AffectiveStates, and Behavior through Whole-Brain Imaging inZebrafish Larvae by Zhang, Caroline Lige

“…Traditionally, researchers have turned to functional imaging to delve into the neural mechanisms that drive both behavior and decision making. …”
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Driving mechanism development for autonomous hospital bed by Tan, Jia Liang

“…The usage of sensors to negotiate turns autonomously was also explored in the project. …”
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Development of an ultrasonic decellularization process for porcine oesophagus by Toh, Amoz Jin Kai

“…In the pursuit for suitable oesophageal replacements after an esophagectomy procedure, medical science has turned to regenerative medicine, specifically the aspect of tissue engineering. …”
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Enhanced thermal energy storage based on phase change materials with enhanced structures by Sek, Mun Pin

“…In almost all industrial processes, more than half of the input energy is turned into waste heat. One method to better harness thermal energy involves storing the waste heat energy using thermal energy storage devices filled with Phase Change Materials (PCMs). …”
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The incidence of perfect moments: acoustic eloquence and narrative terroir in modern fiction by Tan, Ignatius Lu Wei

“…Where such fictions frequently exhibit moments of extraordinary musicality within the medium of language, I posit that the terroir of music production finds equivalence in the semantics of the modern novel. Turning this lens towards three novels: Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008), and Samuel Beckett’s How It Is (1964), this thesis will demonstrate that the curation of this terroir of semantic meaning imposes itself as a structural and circumstantial binding condition on the acoustics of language in the modern novel, and thus forms an essential component in the cadences of its sounds and musicality of its words.…”
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Design of high electromagnetic compatibility wireless power transfer system for wireless motors by Zhang, Xiongce

“…Subsequently, amounts of turns, pitch, and material of the coils are varied to test their impact on the coupling coefficient. …”
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Mary Wollstonecraft : a feminist and/or misogynist of her time? by Ong, Charissa Xiu Ling.

“…However, as it becomes clear that the achievement of social equality and the reformation of family structures would not be possible in the absence of equal gender rights, Wollstonecraft turns to focus on arguing for female rights. Despite the flaws that can be found in Wollstonecraft’s arguments, it is clear that she has indeed made valuable contributions to modern feminist thought. …”
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Machine learning attack on hardware implementation of one-way function by Lauw, Andri Renardi

“…This project attempts to attack Arbiter PUF with several machine learning algorithms and compare their performance to obtain the most effective learning algorithm against this type of PUF. It turns out that Support Vector Machine (SVM) is the most effective learning algorithm among all the six algorithms tested (Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting, Neural Network, and SVM) to attack the PUF in terms of effectiveness and efficiency, which has prediction accuracy of 99% with relatively small amount of training data. …”
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Drafting ‘Anon’ and killing anon: Virginia Woolf and the genesis of English literary language by Phillips, J

“…This chapter examines the unfinished drafts of the literary history that Virginia Woolf worked on in the final year of her life, a project that Woolf variously termed ‘Reading at Random’ and ‘Turning the Page’ but which has come to be known by the dual title of ‘Anon’ and ‘The Reader.’ …”

Terms of debate: consensus definitions to guide the scientific discourse on visual distraction by Liesefeld, HR, Lamy, D, Gaspelin, N, Geng, JJ, Kerzel, D, Schall, JD, Allen, HA, Anderson, BA, Boettcher, S, Busch, NA, Carlisle, NB, Colonius, H, Draschkow, D, Egeth, H, Leber, AB, Müller, HJ, Röer, JP, Schubö, A, Slagter, HA, Theeuwes, J, Wolfe, J

“…Our discussions revealed striking heterogeneity and we had to invest much time and effort to increase our mutual understanding of each other’s use of central terms, which turned out to be strongly related to our respective theoretical positions. …”

Gettysburg by Smith, AIP

“…What was it about this three-day struggle in July 1863 in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania that made it seem the "turning point of the war", or the "high-water mark" of the Confederate rebellion? …”