Sustainable structural design optimisation of steel truss by Wicaksana, Enrian

“…The study finds that span2/height ratio turns out to be an important parameter although it is not as commonly used as span/height ratio. …”
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Surviving the economic crisis in distribution and warehousing business by Chai, Guan Sheng

“…Therefore, the financial excesses of subprime loans origins from the United States in year 2008 have turned into a full-scale global economic downturn, threatening the world trade through a credit crisis. …”
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The impact of the solar energy on the load profile of the building by Zhang, Jun

“…Unlike fossil fuels such as oil and natural gases, the silicon sheets – known as solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, harness the sun’s energy, turning it into electricity, while emitting minimal greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. …”
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Design and development of a charging station for electric vehicles by Hui, Jia Junn.

“…As the world is turning towards green renewable energy, electric vehicle (EV) is gaining popularity and the big players are starting to roll out more EVs. …”
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Investigation of power and transportation networks for future connection of electric vehicles (EV) by Soh, Desmond Junhao

“…CO2 are the main causes of global warming, it lets light energy from the sun in but doesn’t let all of the heat energy out which in turns let causes the average temperature on Earth to raise. …”
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3D localization for unmanned vehicles using visual inputs by Mou, Wei

“…The term visual odometry is chosen for its functional similarity with wheel odometry which incrementally estimates the position of a robot by counting the number of turns of its wheels over time. Similarly, visual odometry estimates the position of the robot by integrating its motion changes inferred from the images that captured by the on-board cameras. …”
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Do built environment factors have different effects on ridesourcing usage before and after the COVID-19 pandemic? by Jin, T, Cheng, L, Wang, S, Cao, J, Schwanen, T, Witlox, F

“…The positive effect of land use mix before the pandemic also turns into a negative effect after the pandemic. …”

On the total synthesis of complex alkaloids by Shennan, BDA

“…From this point, attention turns to the final ring and, grappling with unprecedented levels of steric hindrance, a successful route is developed which employs the intramolecular S_N2 reaction of an alkyl triflate with a carboxylic acid.…”

Nebular dominated galaxies: insights into the stellar initial mass function at high redshift by Cameron, AJ, Katz, H, Witten, C, Saxena, A, Laporte, N, Bunker, A

“…The nebular-only scenario could arise if the ionising source has ‘turned off’ more recently than the recombination timescale (∼1,000 yr), hence we may be catching the object at a very specific time. …”

Delay-and-pay: prolonging pharmaceutical patent protection without paying the ‘price’ by Foss-Solbrekk, K

“…</p> <br> <p>After discussing the incentives behind the delay-and-pay strategy, the thesis turns to the ‘how’. It starts by showing how actors now protect medicines with large patent portfolios comprising several different patents, which lays the basis for the structure of subsequent chapters. …”

Governance in international trade beyond the state: Collective agency, the actorness of trading blocs, and institutional learning by Stiller, KT

“…The character of international cooperation is changing, turning increasingly complex, authoritative, and informal. …”

A landscape of conflict? Rural fortifications in the Argolid (400 – 146 BC) by Blomley, AM

“…</p> <br> <p>In chapters 5–7, the study turns to the analysis of the Late Classical and Hellenistic rural fortifications in the Argolid. …”

Potting in the pandemic: investigating pottery skill development and its wellbeing impacts in Covid-19 Britain by O'Brien, CRK

“…The Covid-19 lockdowns in Britain during 2020 and 2021 deprived people of access to studios and workshops in which we typically understand the learning and practising of skilled crafts to occur through working amongst others with materials. In response, people turned to online video tutorials, social media, printed materials, and pre-made kits, to learn at home outside of the physical and social structures offered by the classroom or studio. …”

How content attributes of short video influence online purchase intention: the mediating role of perceived value by Fan, Wenjing, Osman, Syuhaily, Zainudin, Norzalina, Pinyi, Yao

“…As the short video sector flourishes, increasing businesses are turning to these platforms for marketing purposes. …”
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Scheduled activity energy-aware distributed cluster- based routing algorithm for wireless sensor networks with non-uniform node distribution by Nokhanji, Nooshin

“…It identifies the redundant sensor nodes, whose sensing coverage area are also covered completely by their direct neighbors and turns off them. In order to schedule the activity of these sensor nodes and to avoid creation of coverage holes, a distributed self-inactivation approach is proposed, in which the redundant sensor nodes work alternatively based on their residual energy. …”
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Optimal locally repairable codes via elliptic curves by Li, Xudong, Ma, Liming, Xing, Chaoping

“…In this paper, we make use of rich algebraic structures of elliptic curves to construct a family of q-ary optimal locally repairable codes of length up to q+2√(q). It turns out that locality of our codes can be as big as 23 and distance can be linear in length.…”
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The hierarchy of Davydov’s Ansätze: from guesswork to numerically “exact” many-body wave functions by Zhao, Yang

“…Momentum-space projection of these solitary waves turned up to be accurate variational ground-state wave functions for the extended Holstein molecular crystal model, lend ing unambiguous evidence to the absence of formal quantum phase transitions in the Holstein systems. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Variations of the Solar Radiation Observed in Singapore by Jayaraman, Ramkumar, Maskell, Douglas Leslie

“…Thus, to properly understand the dynamic fluctuations observed in the output energies of large solar farms and PV arrays, it becomes necessary to perform a high-resolution temporal and spatial measurement of solar radiation. It turns out that performing such high-resolution measurements is often cost-prohibitive. …”
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Sputtered PdO decorated TiO2 sensing layer for a hydrogen gas sensor by Lee, Jeong Hoon, Kwak, Seungmin, Lee, Jin-Hyung, Kim, Inho, Yoo, Yong Kyoung, Lee, Tae Hoon, Shim, Young-Seok, Kim, Jinseok, Lee, Kyu Hyoung

“…Using an in situ TiO2/Pd multilayer annealing process at 550°C for 1 hour, we observed that Pd turns into PdO by Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) depth profile and confirmed decorated PdO on TiO2 sensing layer from scanning electron microscope (SEM) and atomic-force microscope (AFM). …”
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Surface molecular doping of all-inorganic perovskite using zethrenes molecules by Arramel, Pan, Hu, Xie, Aozhen, Hou, Songyan, Yin, Xinmao, Tang, Chi Sin, Hoa, Nguyen T., Muhammad D. Birowosuto, Wang, Hong, Dang, Cuong, Rusydi, Andrivo, Wee Andrew T. S., Wu, Jishan

“…The photoluminescence behavior of the underlying perovskites upon differing molecular doping conditions was examined. It turns out that the charge transfer dynamics of thermally-evaporated OZ-TIPS molecule exhibited a faster average lifetime than that of the HZ-TIPS case suggesting the importance of the biradical state in the former molecule. …”
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