Audio coding application by Chan, Gary Xin Hao

“…It can be said that the MP3 coding method is one of the best out there due to the different stages in the Mp3 compression method. …”
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Green concrete incorporating local waste material by Kok, Pooi Yee.

“…In this project, another recycled material, Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBS) to substitute certain percentage of cement. 80% GGBS was mixed with varies size and proportion of RCF was designed and properties tested according to varies tests. …”
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Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan by Laporte, J

“…Focusing on the development of Azerbaijan’s events industry in the 2000s and 2010s, the article uses available evidence and process tracing techniques to develop the hypothesis that Azerbaijan’s elites sought out hosting rights, at least in part, to diversify their sources of private rents. …”

Chen Wen Hsi: more than Chinese painting by Lee, Ju-Lyn

“…These are followed by findings on his other involvements in exhibitionary activities, such as being part of selection panels for exhibitions, with focus on a 1976 exhibition he “organised” and “hosted”, and the two galleries he owned. …”
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'Women in an extraordinary time': the transnational network and educational spaces of the Canadian Eiwa Girls' mission schools in 1920s and 1930s Japan by Dugal, A

“…The students, graduates, missionaries, and Japanese educators of these three institutions were physically and intellectually part of a transnational network of Christian women and organizations in 1920s and 1930s Japan. …”

The sound of metal: amateur brass bands in southern Benin by Hoh, LM

“…<p>This thesis contributes an empirically informed understanding of postcolonial experience and musical expression in West Africa through an ethnographic study of amateur brass bands (<em>fanfares</em>) in the Republic of Benin. …”

Lions select larger prey in a Central African protected area with increasingly effective management by Fraticelli, C, Zayed, AA, Leirs, H, Bauer, H

“…Scarcity of large prey in many West and Central African ecosystems has been described as leading to a preference for hunting smaller prey in smaller groups. …”

Joint client-and-sample selection for federated learning via bi-level optimization by Li, Anran, Wang, Guangjing, Hu, Ming, Sun, Jianfei, Zhang, Lan, Tuan, Luu Anh, Yu, Han

“…Extensive experiments comparison against eight state-of-the-art baselines on six real-world datasets in the presence of data noise and heterogeneity shows that FedMW-CSS achieves up to 28.5% higher test accuracy, while saving communication and computation costs by at least 49.3% and 1.2%, respectively.…”
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Optimized volume models of earthquake-triggered landslides by Xu, Chong, Xu, Xiwei, Shen, Lingling, Yao, Qi, Tan, Xibin, Kang, Wenjun, Ma, Siyuan, Wu, Xiyan, Cai, Juntao, Gao, Mingxing, Li, Kang

“…Two data fitting methods, i.e. log-transformed-based linear and original data-based nonlinear least square, were employed to the 4 models. Results show that original data-based nonlinear least square combining with an optimized model considering length, width, height, lithology, slope, peak ground acceleration, and slope aspect shows the best performance. …”
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Online estimation of key battery states for management of vanadium redox flow battery by Wei, Zhongbao

“…To address this issue, the first part of this thesis proposes to use an online adaptive battery model to reproduce the battery dynamics accurately. …”
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Non-linear Log-Sobolev Inequalities for the Potts Semigroup and Applications to Reconstruction Problems by Gu, Yuzhou, Polyanskiy, Yury

“…We show that to have a non-trivial reconstruction probability the branching number of the tree should be at least $$\begin{aligned} \frac{\log q}{\log q - \log (q-1)} = (1-o(1))q\log q. …”
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Design and simulation of periodic dielectric waveguide splitter by Ng, Kah Sheng.

“…The simulation results show that Y-Shaped is the worst performer of the three while the 90° bend is produce the best result.…”
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Organic solar cells : simulations and optimization by Zhu, Zhenjie

“…A final conclusion for the optimised organic solar cell is give out to have the best power conversion efficiency tandem organic solar cell.…”
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Comparison product optimization performance of fed-batch fermentation processes for penicillin G production by Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Arshad, Ahmad

“…Comparison of these two different approaches was discussed and it was found this single step ahead DMC algorithm shown a best result with an optimization procedure.…”
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Estimating branchwood biomass of a tropical hill-forest stand by Ibrahim, Sulong

“…Branchwood biomass was estimated as a part of a complete project in estimating the total biomass of a tropical hill forest stand. …”
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Performance comparison among silicon-based arrayed waveguide grating with Rowland and Confocal configuration by Li, Zhenyu, Zou, Jun, Zhu, Huihui, Zhang, Haitao, Cai, Hong, Yang, Z. C., Jin, Yu Feng, Hao, Y. L., Liu, Ai Qun

“…With comparison, experimental results show that the AWG with Rowland configuration in combination with constant period along the tangent line to its grating pole for arrayed waveguides has the best cross talk.…”
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Singapore retail industry by Chia, Ellina Hui Sun, Lim, Jenny, Quek, Joanna Geok Lian

“…One information obtained has been integrated to provide a profile of the industry - tracing its historical beginnings, forces that shaped the industry, and challenges ahead. In part two of the report, an exploratory survey was conducted to examme how consumers use shopping malls in Singapore. …”
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Understanding sudden larch death – from epidemiology to host resistance by Dun, H

“…Older stands with >95% mortality had occasional very healthy trees at least seven years after first reported infection. …”

Investigations into high resolution imaging and contouring for diagnostic bio-applications by Valiyambath, Krishnan Mohankumar

“…It was found that the central pixel in each of the fiberlet image are the optimal scan points as it gave the best contrast and the least offset in the scan image compared with other pixels within the fiberlet. …”
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Pareto Adaptive Robust Optimality via a Fourier–Motzkin Elimination lens by Bertsimas, Dimitris, ten Eikelder, Stefan C. M., den Hertog, Dick, Trichakis, Nikolaos

“…A worst-case optimal solution pair of here-and-now decisions and wait-and-see decisions is PARO if it cannot be Pareto dominated by another solution, i.e., there does not exist another worst-case optimal pair that performs at least as good in all scenarios in the uncertainty set and strictly better in at least one scenario. …”
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