Learning from success, not catastrophe: using counterfactual analysis to highlight successful disaster risk reduction interventions by Rabonza, Maricar, Lin, Yolanda C., Lallemant, David

“…This approach uses counterfactual modelling of a past hazard event with consequences made worse (i.e. downward counterfactual) by the absence of the mitigation intervention. …”
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新加坡离散华文作家研究 1945-1980 = a study on Singapore diasporic Chinese writers 1945-1980 by 孫惠敏 Sun, Huey Min

“…This study focuses on three core themes – their love for China, love for Singapore and their identity as Singapore Chinese diasporas, and discusses the impact of China and Singapore and the places they had resided in on them in the years between 1945 and 1980, including how they had communicated their past, present and hope for the future through their written works. …”
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2023 roadmap for materials for quantum technologies by Becher, Christoph, Gao, Weibo, Kar, Swastik, Marciniak, Christian D., Monz, Thomas, Bartholomew, John G., Goldner, Philippe, Loh, Huanqian, Marcellina, Elizabeth, Goh, Johnson Kuan Eng, Koh, Teck Seng, Weber, Bent, Mu, Zhao, Tsai, Jeng-Yuan, Yan, Qimin, Huber-Loyola, Tobias, Höfling, Sven, Gyger, Samuel, Steinhauer, Stephan, Zwiller, Val

“…This roadmap identifies some of the key challenges and provides insights on material innovations underlying a range of exciting quantum technology frontiers. Over the past decades, hardware platforms enabling different quantum technologies have reached varying levels of maturity. …”
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Exploring molecular complexity by N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis: new activation and reaction diversity by Liu, Yonggui, Wang, Yanyan, Wu, Xingxing, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…The development of catalytic synthetic approaches towards molecular complexity from simple materials continues to be an ultimate goal in synthetic chemistry. Over the past decades, N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) organocatalysis has been extensively investigated to provide opportunities for a vast number of novel chemical transformations. …”
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Investigating customers' continuous trust towards mobile banking apps by Che, Maohao, Say, Ashley Sze Yee, Yu, Han, Zhou, Qingji, Shu, Jared, Sun, Wen, Luo, Xi, Xu, Hong

“…By studying trust in mobile banking past the initial adoption stage, we provide evidence to support the theoretical framework of investigating mobile banking continuous trust from the three constructs—mobile app (perceived ease of use, privacy assurance, security features), organisation (reputation, customer support), and customer (prior experience).…”
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Greater soil carbon losses from secondary than old-growth tropical forests by Raczka, Nanette Christine, Ho, Qian Yi, Srinivasan, Vupasana, Lee, Ming Yang, Ko, Chung-Wing, Königer, Madeleine, Chua, Terence, Binny, Delia, Ngo, Kang Min, Andersen, Kelly M.

“…While old-growth forests typically contain larger stores of C aboveground than secondary forests, past research has found varied results for belowground soil C storage and fluxes between tropical forest types. …”
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Academic achievement inspired machine learning methods for student grade prediction and at-risk detection by Wei, Qiu

“…To this end, sustained efforts have been focused on leveraging prior grades attained in consecutive (past) semesters to predict grades of pilot courses that have been registered in the upcoming or current semester. …”
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Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: evidence from the PATH study by Behrooz, Leili, Xie, Wubin, Goghari, Aboli, Robertson, Rosemarie, Bhatnagar, Aruni, Stokes, Andrew, Hamburg, Naomi M.

“…In the multivariable models adjusted for relevant covariates, combustible cigarette users (adjusted odds ratio, AOR=1.77; 95% CI: 1.56–2.01) and dual users (AOR=2.22; 95% CI: 1.61–3.05) had higher odds of reporting ever having chest pain, as well as having chest pain in the past 30 days. Conversely, exclusive e-cigarette users had similar odds of reporting chest pain compared to non-users (AOR=1.03; 95% CI: 0.69– 1.54) and lower odds than combustible and dual users. …”
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团派与中共派系政治 = “Tuan Pai” and factionalism in Chinese politics by 卢凌之 Lu, Lingzhi

“…探究团派浮沉，对于观察当代中共高层派系政治的走向提供了重要且即时的参考价值。 Over the past decade when former CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao was in office, it was a phenomenon that many CCYL cadres began to occupy key position within Party or the Government, this phenomenon is noted as an emergence of a new faction named “TuanPai”. …”
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EEG based brain signal analysis on stress level by Ng, Yu Xin

“…The classification result using the Support Vector Machine(SVM) indicated that the combination of the EEG power ratio of Beta band over Theta band and the EEG power difference between Beta band and Alpha band generated the best average classification accuracy of 77.53% in a 3-level stress classification. Comparing to the past studies, it has a higher accuracy than [2] and a lower accuracy than [1]. …”
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A unified framework of active transfer learning for cross-system recommendation by Zhao, Lili, Pan, Sinno Jialin, Yang, Qiang

“…In the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been successfully applied to recommender systems employed in many e-commerce companies, such as Amazon, eBay, Netflix, etc., which aim to provide personalized recommendations on products or services. …”
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Air distribution and thermal comfort for active chilled beam systems by Wu, Bingjie

“…During the past few decades, the active chilled beam (ACB) system has become increasingly prevalent worldwide as a promising air conditioning and mechanical ventilation (ACMV) system. …”
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Investigating protein adsorption at solid-liquid interfaces towards the development of functional biomaterial coatings by Park, Jae Hyeon

“…While most of the experimental layouts are in reference to past studies, the methods were reinforced with modern techniques, and speculations were minimized through data verification via complimentary pairing of analytical devices. …”
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Probabilistic verification beyond context-freeness by Li, G

“…Firstly, it establishes the decidability of the Almost-Sure Termination (AST) and Positive Almost-Sure Termination (PAST) properties for rPTSA, and develops methods for quantitatively analysing termination probability and expected termination time. …”

The association between hip morphology parameters and 19-year risk of end-stage osteoarthritis of the hip in caucasian females: a case-control study by Nicholls, AS

“…<p>Over the past decade, measures of hip morphology have been recognised as biomechanical risk factors for the development of osteoarthritis (OA) in the hip. …”

The epidemiology of periportal fibrosis and relevance of current Schistosoma mansoni infection within the context of repeated mass drug administration: a population-based, cross-se... by Ajayi, S, Nabatte, B, Mpooya, S, Tinkitina, B, Opio, CK, Kabatereine, NB, Chami, G

“…Periportal fibrosis likelihood linearly increased with age from age 5 years to age 25 years, non-linearly increased from age 26 years to age 45 years, attenuated or remained unchanged from age 46 years to age 60 years, and steadily decreased past 60 years of age. History of liver diseases, HIV, and ultrasound-detected chronic hepatitis or early cirrhosis-like disease were associated with more than two-times increased periportal fibrosis likelihood.…”

Impact of media literacy on soft drink consumption among adolescents in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohammad Shahid, Nur Nadirah

“…Results revealed that 36% of respondents drank a minimum of 1 can, bottle or glass of soft drink for the past seven days and possessed good level of media literacy (45.1%). …”
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Towards the Realization of National Automotive Policy (NAP): Modelling the Malaysian Consumers’ Purchase Behavioral Intention towards Energy Efficient Vehicles (EEVs) (S/O 14165) by Mohd Noor, Nor Azila, Mohd Fadhil, Faudziah Hanim, Md Isa, Filzah, Salleh, Hayatul Safrah, Muhammad, Azli

“…Malaysian Automotive Association disclosed that energy efficient vehicles have enjoyed tremendous sales growth in the past few years after the introduction of duty exemptions. …”
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Atmospheric characterization of cold exoplanets using a 1.5-m coronagraphic space telescope by Maire, Anne-Lise, Galicher, Raphael, Boccaletti, Anthony, Baudoz, Pierre, Schneider, Jean, Stam, Daphne, Cahoy, Kerri, Traub, Wes

“…We find that the characterization of the main planetary properties (identification of molecules, effect of metallicity, presence of clouds and type of surfaces) would require a median signal-to-noise ratio of at least 30. In the case of a solar-type star <10 pc, SPICES will be able to study Jupiters and Neptunes up to -5 and -2 AU respectively, because of the drastic flux decrease with separation. …”
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Efficient optimization of network metrics in large uncertain graphs by Saha, Arkaprava

“…As an example, the well-known social network Twitter alone has at least 187 million users and 132 billion connections as of now, and these numbers keep on increasing. …”
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