Energy-efficient dedicated DCT processor for wireless image sensor node systems by Tang, Tao.

“…In this study, several fast DCT algorithms are studied and compared. Classical fast DCT algorithms such as the l l-multiplication 8-point DCT algorithm are able to reduce the numbers of addition and multiplication so that the required computation can be minimized, thereby improving on the energy efficiency. …”
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Historicity and the contemporary theatre of Kuo Pao Kun and Krishen Jit by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…Historicity for Kuo and Jit is not the modernist desire to reconstruct the fragments of the past into a whole, and is not centrally about the representation of the past (though that occurs), but is in the first instance the need to capture the past’s fragments in order to conceive a fuller sense of the present’s multicultural opportunities.…”
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THE MAYFLY / by Hazel, James, author 656313

“…A murderous plan conceived in the past. A reckoning seventy years in the making . . . …”

Vectors of power and specters of control. by Tan, Jonathan Wei Peng.

“…Looking through the territorial changes over the past 17 years unveiled a keen sense of malleability of the landscape in the hands of the ruling powers. …”
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Development of mobile phone application for health monitoring by Neo, Shi Xiong

“…During the past few years, the development of smart phone dramatically changed the usage model of handheld device. …”
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Application of stock selection strategies on the Singapore market by Li, Xinhao

“…Past research has shown that Value strategy can achieve higher returns as compared to Growth strategy. …”
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To generate greater economic benefits from visiting ships by Li, Tianyang

“…In order for Singapore to generate more economic benefits from visiting ships, past research papers, journals and reports used to focus on mainly two areas. …”
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Thermal uniformity analysis of a hybrid battery pack using integrated phase change material, metal foam, and counterflow minichannels by Najafi Khaboshan, Hasan, Kadirgama, Kumaran, Ramasamy, Devarajan, Talele, Virendra, Zhao, Peng, Tyagi, Harsh, Miljkovic, Nenad

“…The primary goal of the work is to investigate BTMS architectures which can enhance thermal uniformity and prevent critical temperature rise in a high-voltage battery pack under fast discharging and real-world driving cycle. Four BTMS designs are compared. …”
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Similarity Joins of Sparse Features by Metwally, Ahmed, Shum, Michael

“…FastScalableSparseJoiner effectively prunes candidate pairs, and efficiently distributes the computation of partial results for load-balancing across executors. …”
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Monitoring the Wobbe Index of Natural Gas Using Fiber-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy by Sandfort, Vincenz, Trabold, Barbara M., Abdolvand, Amir, Bolwien, Carsten, Russell, Philip St. J., Wöllenstein, Jürgen, Palzer, Stefan

“…The fast and reliable analysis of the natural gas composition requires the simultaneous quantification of numerous gaseous components. …”
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Scalable near identical image and shot detection by Chum, O, Philbin, J, Isard, M, Zisserman, A

“…We focus primarily on scalability to very large image and video databases, where fast query processing is necessary. Both methods are designed so that only a small amount of data need be stored for each image. …”

Food safety controls during bulk food preparation-an observational analysis by Hartantyo, Sri Harminda Pahm, Selvaraj, Renuka, Ho, Jiaying, Oh, Jia Quan, Er, Jun Cheng, Li, Angela, Aung, Kyaw Thu

“…Past infringements did not negatively impact the current execution of food safety measures nor the microbial quality of food. …”
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Acquiring cultural knowledge through passive exposure. by Lee, Sau-Lai.

“…Past research has shown that people register frequency of occurrence of events automatically and they have very accurate knowledge about the relative social distribution of knowledge in their own community. …”
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Fibre Bragg grating based system for real-time railway monitoring by Li Jing

“…Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensor technology has created considerable interest in both academic institutions and industrial sectors over the past few years. In particular, there are potentially huge benefits to transportation industry especially the railways. …”
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Average velocity of grains moving over a channel bed by Song, Chengwei

“…This report is aimed to study the velocities of different sizes particle grains in several channel conditions varied in flow volume, angles of the slopes. In the past century, there were many excellent and precise experiments around the relationship between shear velocity and grain velocity. …”
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Seeing god makes me feel immoral : the role of anthropomorphic god concepts in moral emotions by Yap, Yu Xiang

“…Past studies have shown that people have a tendency to imbue supernatural entities like God with human mental capacities such as intentions, emotions, goals, and desires. …”
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Side channel attack on mobile devices using machine learning by Muhammad Jazeel Meerasah

“…Secondly , a much larger dataset is also used to compare how the model fairs compared to the past project that was done. Supervised learning model, Support Vector Machine(SVM) is used to train the model using the improved dataset . …”
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Hunting and the social lives of Southern Africa’s first farmers by Jones, M, Kapumha, R, Chirikure, S, Marshall, F

“…Analytical models that distinguish foraging from food production remain popular, but scholars are beginning to recognize greater variability in the ways people understood and engaged with animals in the past. In southern Africa, researchers have observed that wild animals were economically and socially important to recent agropastoral societies. …”

Septic patients with cancer : do prehospital antibiotics improve survival? A sub-analysis of the PHANTASi trial by Panday, Rishi Nannan, Wang, S., Schermer, E. H., Cooksley, T., Alam, N., Nanayakkara, P. W. B.

“…Results: 357(13.4%) of the 2658 included patients had cancer in the past five years, of which, 209 (58.5%) were included in the intervention and 148 (41.5%) usual care groups; 28-day mortality was significantly higher in patients who were diagnosed with cancer in the past five years than those without cancer in the past five years: 15.2% vs. 7.1%, respectively (p < 0.001). …”
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Self-harm-related mental imagery: a content analysis study of imagery reported by young people referred to mental health services by Susi, K, Stewart, A, Knowles Bevis, R, Hawton, K

“…All but one participant (98.2%) reported images related to self-harm, with 53 (96.4%) reporting future-oriented self-harm images, 53 (96.4%) reporting past-oriented images, and 52 (94.5%) reporting both. …”