Retention in second year computing students in a London-based university during the post-Covid-19 era using learned optimism as a lens: a statistical analysis in R by Chrysikos, Alexandros, Bamford, Neal

“…Furthermore, a slight increase in the least optimistic students was observed. Returning to in person interaction with classmates and lecturers could be a major factor in reducing the minimum score compared to the previous year’s study (2021). …”
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Boronic acid and nitrofuranyl derivatives as potential therapeutics by Dey, AL

“…However, the desired NInC proved unstable and the studies on ester hydrolysis of these novel NInCs suggest that a suitable ester prodrug of these potential drug conjugates may be promising in a clinical setting. Last but not least, it is hoped that a handful of these potentially novel therapeutics could further be developed into leads or drug candidates either in Oxford or elsewhere in an attempt to tackle the ever-increasing antibacterial resistance. …”

On a problem of El-Zahar and Erdős by Nguyen, T, Scott, A, Seymour, P

“…First, a strengthening: we can ask for one of the two subgraphs to have large chromatic number: that is, for all <i>t</i>, <i>c</i> ≥ 1 there exists <i>d</i> ≥ 1 such that if <i>G</i> has chromatic number at least <i>d</i>, and does not contain the complete graph <i>K_t</i> as a subgraph, then there are anticomplete subgraphs <i>A</i>, <i>B</i>, where <i>A</i> has minimum degree at least <i>c</i> and <i>B</i> has chromatic number at least <i>c</i>.…”

South African real estate investment trusts prefer Tuesdays by Ajayi, Oluwaseun Damilola, Gavu, Emmanuel Kofi

“…Generally, Wednesday was found to be the least profitable day to invest in all REIT classifications because it had the least average daily return. …”
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Exploring the development of a firewall using Windows filtering platform by Pang, Willy Boon Tee.

“…A firewall is also required to have learning mode, allowing the user the ability to block or allow an application to connect upon its initial execution. Last but not least, a firewall has to be able to save its data so it can be retrieved easily. …”
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Catastrophic risk analysis and management for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure systems by Qian, Qiyu

“…Such strategy is developed based on an in-depth understanding of the project’s risk exposure derived from catastrophe model, layered risk financing portfolio setup decided by concession agreement, cost and benefit analysis between different risk financing instruments and mitigation efforts, and last but not least, a good understanding of dynamic financial demand.…”
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Design of slender concrete column using chinese design code GB50010-2010 by Chen, Qiaofen

“…Data analyses reveal that loading capacity of slender column decreases with the increase of e/h, and the reduction of strength tends to be lesser for higher e/h; slender column tends to have less loading capacity with the increase of L/h, and the reduction of strength is lesser for high L/h; slender concrete column can be strengthened by installing more reinforcements, i.e. higher percentage of reinforcement; last but not least, use of higher strength concrete and steel result in a stronger slender concrete column. …”
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Design of slender reinforced concrete column using Indian design code and Chinese design code (dual project) by Tan, Xesman Zhong Hong

“…In addition, this lower compressive strength will decrease even further when the column has a low e/h ratio. Last but not least, column with a lower e/h ratio will yield a higher load carrying capacity. …”
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Motor adaptation with passive machines: A first study on the effect of real and virtual stiffness by Tommasino, Paolo, Melendez-Calderon, A., Burdet, E., Campolo, Domenico

“…Several studies conducted over the last two decades used active robotic manipulanda to generate force fields capable of perturbing the baseline trajectories of both healthy and impaired subjects. …”
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Econometric analyses of liquefied petroleum gas and product tanker shipping markets by Bai, Xiwen

“…Specifically, the relationship among very large gas carrier (VLGC) market variables, VLGC freight rate dependency with product price arbitrage and oil prices, and VLGC vessel destination choices have been studied. Last but not least, a disaggregate approach has been used to study the freight relationships across major routes for the product tanker market. …”
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Holocene rate of slip and tentative recurrence interval for large earthquakes on the San Andreas fault, Cajon Pass, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, Weldon, Ray J.

“…Combined with the historic record, this investigation indicates that the last major earthquake at Cajon Creek was probably near the beginning of the 18th century. …”
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Archaia Phusis: the original nature of the soul in Plato’s Middle Dialogues by Körner, H

“…Do we desire our fully realized state because it ‘belongs’ (is <em>oikeion</em>) to us or because it is good? Last but not least, what do we make of the fact that immortality and the theory of recollection seem to play no role in the <em>Symposium</em>? …”

Using shock tube species time-histories in Bayesian parameter estimation: Effective independent-data number and target selection by Chen, Huaibo, Ji, Weiqi, Cassady, Séan J, Ferris, Alison M, Hanson, Ronald K, Deng, Sili

“…The influence of target selection is investigated by comparing LastP and C-1. LastP outperformed C-1 slightly, which can be attributed to the fact that larger discrepancies observed between experimental data and model predictions of the last point can increase the weights of likelihood functions. …”
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How many online workers are there in the world? A data-driven assessment by Kässi, O, Lehdonvirta, V, Stephany, F

“…Approximately 19 million of them have obtained work through the platform at least once, and 5 million have completed at least 10 projects or earned at least $1000. …”

Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…We find that DeCoRIC improves the power efficiency of the network by at least 70% and extends its life- time by at least 42% over existing solutions while making the network adaptable and resilient to faults. …”
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萧红与萧军的革命意志 ：比较《生死场》与《八月的乡村》的女性身体刻画 = Revolutionary will of Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun : comparison of body portrayed between “The Field of Life and Death” and “Village in August”... by 李慧仪 Lee, Huiyi

“…Next, a comparison between the two works would be done to uncover the revolutionary will of both Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun, through the body metaphor of both works. Last but not least, an analysis will be given to explain the underlying difference of their revolutionary will. …”
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Temperature and burning history affect emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosol particles from tropical peatland fire by Kuwata, Mikinori, Kai, Fuu Ming, Yang, Liudongqing, Itoh, Masayuki, Gunawan, Haris, Harvey, Charles F.

“…Tropical peatland burning in Asia has been intensifying over the last decades, emitting huge amounts of gas species and aerosol particles. …”
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Multi-linear regression models for traffic prediction in large-scale networks by Zhao, XinYue

“…Various methods have been practice in the traffic forecasting study and some algorithms that used in other fields like In this paper we apply 3 multi-linear regression models on the speed data collected from 266 road segments in Singapore, which are Partial Least Square, High-Order Partial Least Square and N-way Partial Least Square model. …”
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Development of a generic framework for dynamic website design by Huang, Dongli

“…as our platform and our basic framework to start with. At last, two Joomla! components were developed and installed. …”
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Online estimation of key battery states for management of vanadium redox flow battery by Wei, Zhongbao

“…To address this problem, a novel technique which integrates the Frisch scheme based bias compensating recursive least squares (FBCRLS) with a SOC observer is proposed to enhance the model identification and SOC estimate. …”
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