Understanding human interaction in RGB-D videos by Shi, Yuanyuan

“…The testing results show that the algorithm is able to understand human hand gestures accurately and fast.…”
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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. …”

Shaman. by Lam, Yaocheng.

“…The project is based around the character of a Shaman in his dance of modernity. In the past, shamans are often religious or highly respected figures in their communities. …”
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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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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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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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Cold-formed light gauge steel for rapid deployable shelters by Wu, Hongjun.

“…In our design, self-tapping screws are also used as it is cheap, fast and easy to fix and less cost in incurred as no pre-drilled holes are needed. …”
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FPGA-based multi-rate system design : Avalon Interface vs.Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous approach by Zou, You.

“…Avalon Interfaces is developed by Altera and it allows fast and convenient interfacing between Altera IP cores, which are also called components. …”
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Predicting EPL results with Elo rating, league simulation and machine learning prediction model by Ching, Kai Teng

“…Team strength can be handicapped when the key player is injured or is forced to take an international break in favor of playing for his country. Even past results may be skewed as there are home teams and away teams in football matches and past results sometimes may be skewed towards having a weaker opponent. …”
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Machine Learning For Dummies / by Mueller, John Paul, author 321669, Massaron, Luca, author 617095, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Whether you want to learn for college or to enhance your business or career performance, this friendly beginner's guide is your best introduction to machine learning, allowing you to become quickly confident using this amazing and fast-developing technology that's impacting lives for the better all over the world…”
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A Short History of South East Asia / by Church, Peter, editor 435931

“…Founded upon a deeply perceptive observation of the late founding Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, this book brings shape to the idea that 'to understand the present and to anticipate the future, one must know enough of the past, enough to have a sense of the history of a people.' …”