Interference suppression for frequency-hopped multiple-access receiver by Chitra, Bhupathy

“…In this dissertation, bit error rate performance results of Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK), Fast Frequency Hopped/ Binary Frequency Shift Keying (FFH/BFSK) and Fast Frequency Hopped Multiple Access (FFH/MA) under Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN), Rician and Rayleigh channels are studied. …”
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A scalable variational inference approach for increased mixed-model association power by Loya, H, Kalantzis, G, Cooper, F, Palamara, PF

“…We applied Quickdraws to 79 quantitative and 50 binary traits in 405,088 UK Biobank samples, identifying 4.97% and 3.25% more associations than REGENIE and 22.71% and 7.07% more than FastGWA. Quickdraws had costs comparable to REGENIE, FastGWA and SAIGE on the UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform service, while being substantially faster than BOLT-LMM. …”

A generalized stereotypical trust model by Fang, Hui, Zhang, Jie, Sensoy, Murat, Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat

“…Stereotypical trust modeling can be adopted by a buyer to effectively evaluate trustworthiness of a seller who has little or no past experience in e-marketplaces. The buyer forms trust stereotypes based on her past experience with other sellers. …”
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Open source cyber incidents intelligence gathering by Tiong, Ryan Jun Hua

“…As Theodore Roosevelt said, “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.”. …”
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China’s ADIZ : South China Sea next? by Bitzinger, Richard A.

“…China’s establishment of an air-defence identification zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea has been criticised as destabilising to the regional status quo and a threat to freedom of navigation. …”
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South Korea’s maritime challenges : between a rock and a hard base by Euan, Graham

“…While domestic opposition still overhangs the construction of a new base on Jeju island, Seoul-Beijing diplomatic strains are meanwhile playing out in a lesser known East China Sea boundary dispute.…”
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Global norms in regional institutions : lessons from the African Union and ASEAN by Lotze, Walter, Stensland, Andreas, Ng, Joel

“…Acceptance of global norms by regional organisations is only the beginning of a long process of institutionalisation, as cases in the African Union (AU) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) demonstrate. This is complicated where norms originate outside a regional institution, yet the opportunity for reform is now present.…”
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Observations on the ecology and social organization of the green monkey, Cercopithecus sabaeus, in Senegal by Dunbar, RIM

“…The ecology and social organization of green monkeys is compared with that of populations of C. aethiops studied in East Africa and they are found to be similar.…”

Designing shallow foundation to Eurocode 7 by Neo, Chee Wei

“…British Codes and Standards (BS) have been used in practice for many years and for the past few years, it is use co-existence with Eurocodes (EC) for the past few years. …”
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Learning from nature : experimental observation of mimosa pudica by Zhang, Yi

“…Mimosa pudica is famous for its fast leaf-closing movement to defend against predators. …”
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Sages, smokers, sojourners : the religion of the void in China and Southeast Asia by Soh, Esmond Chuah Meng

“…This thesis discusses the institutions, beliefs, and the rituals of the Zhenkongjiao in East and Southeast Asia throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. …”
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Distribution and cycling of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in peatland-draining rivers and coastal waters of Sarawak, Borneo by Martin, Patrick, Cherukuru, Nagur, Tan, Ashleen S. Y., Sanwlani, Nivedita, Mujahid, Aazani, Müller, Moritz

“…South-East Asia is home to one of the world's largest stores of tropical peatland and accounts for roughly 10% of the global land-to-sea dissolved organic carbon (DOC) flux. …”
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E-cigarette (EC) and heated tobacco product (HTP) use in the United Arab Emirates, an emerging EC and HTP market: a cross-sectional analysis of the International Tobacco Control (I... by Leinberger-Jabari, A, Ahmad, A, Lindson, N, Oke, J, Hartmann-Boyce, J, Fong, G, El-Shahawy, O, Raghib, A, Sherman, S

“…<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> E-cigarettes (ECs) and heated tobacco products (HTPs) are recent arrivals to the nicotine product market in the Middle East, which are rapidly growing in popularity in the region. …”

Use of hormone replacement therapy and risk of breast cancer: nested case-control studies using the QResearch and CPRD databases by Vinogradova, Y, Coupland, C, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…The risk associated with past long term oestrogen-progestogen use, however, remained increased (1.16, 1.11 to 1.21). …”

Cheaper Than A Funeral: Considering Ibogaine’s Psychedelic Journey and Therapeutic Potential by Daly, Noah

“…The past decade has seen a surge of interest in psychedelic compounds as therapeutic medicine. …”
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Does disability modify the association between poor mental health and violence victimisation over adolescence? Evidence from the CoVAC cohort study in Uganda by Carter, DJ, Pitcairn, CFM, Eldred, E, Knight, L, Nakuti, J, Mirembe, A, Atuhaire, L, Allen, E, Bhatia, A, Naker, D, Parkes, J, Devries, K

“…The relationships between early mental health difficulties and both mental health difficulties in later adolescence and past year violence are stronger in young people with functional difficulties. …”

Vision enhancement using artificial intelligence techniques by Yu, Xiaohan

“…Proposed papers show limitations dealing with both fast moving cameras and pretty heavy rain. In the former paper, their main idea was to create a method to achieve perfect frame alignment. …”
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Distributed multicasting algorithm for real time multimedia traffic by Quan, Huo Sheng.

“…In the past, very few network applications involved multiple users and none of them had QoS (Quality and Service) requirements. …”
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Protestant masculinities : a study of Christian men’s sensibilities. by Woo, Darren Hon Fai.

“…Past literature have shown that the presentation of Protestant and masculine selves are relatively straightforward when considered separately. …”
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Overcoming cultural barriers to capture a market by Dominic Michael Stoeckler, Kishan Golyan, Miao, Xin, Samir Mowla

“…China has gone through an amazing growth spurt over the past 30 years, and with a population of 1.3 billion people, it represents a vast potential market for businesses the world over. …”
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