Field programmable gate array-based acceleration of shortest-path computation by Jagadeesh, George Rosario, Srikanthan, T.., Lim, C. M.

“…This study presents an FPGA-based distributed architecture for solving the single-source shortest-path problem in a fast and efficient manner. The proposed architecture is based on the Bellman-Ford algorithm adapted to facilitate early termination of computation. …”
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Preliminary study on the characteristics of FO/PRO hollow fiber membranes by Chen, Yunfeng.

“…With rapid development of industrialization and fast expansion in global population, there is an increasing need for sustainable energy and clean water resources. …”
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Design and development of a charging station for electric vehicles by Hui, Jia Junn.

“…The challenge comes in when fast charging station comes into the picture as it will put more load on the power grid. …”
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Dynamic in vivo imaging of small animal brain using pulsed laser diode-based photoacoustic tomography system by Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Pramanik, Manojit

“…To examine the ability for dynamic imaging, we monitored the fast uptake and clearance process of indo-cyanine green in the rat brain. …”
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Robust Transceiver Design Based on Interference Alignment for Multi-User Multi-Cell MIMO Networks With Channel Uncertainty by Xie, Xianzhong, Yang, Helin, Vasilakos, Athanasios V.

“…At receivers, we propose a practical interference alignment based on the fast and robust Fast Data Projection method subspace tracking algorithm to achieve the receive beamformer under channel uncertainty. …”
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Contextual Predictability and Phonetic Reduction by Martin, Kinan R.

“…We train instances of GPT-2 on different context directions (past, future, and bidirectional) and context sizes (bigram vs. sentence) to provide measures of conditional word predictability, then use linear regression to quantify their correlation with a measure of phonetic reduction (word duration). …”
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The redirected gesture in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa by Lee, Cheryl Julia

“…In particular, I propose that, contrary to most critics’ straightforward reading of the Mundys’ dance in Act 1 as one of Michael’s memories, it is in fact an aesthetic gesture located at the intersection of the past and present, of reality and the imagination, of the self and the other. …”
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The role of mainstreamness and interdisciplinarity for the relevance of scientific papers by Thurner, Stefan, Liu, Wenyuan, Klimek, Peter, Cheong, Siew Ann

“…Here we use the bibliographic coupling network, derived from all physics papers that were published in the Physical Review journals in the past century, to try to identify them as mainstream, out-of-the-box, or interdisciplinary. …”
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Influenza messaging is better than no messaging at all : an experimental assessment of the effects of goal framing and affected-person framing on influenza vaccination attitudes an... by Kong, Wei Yi

“…The persuasiveness of goal framing on preventive behaviors has been established in past research but its effect on vaccination is inconsistent, and highlighting recipients of health benefits or consequences was suggested to moderate framing effects. …”
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Establishing the association between traditional tobacco, e-cigarette and dual use and mental health problems among high school students: results from a 2022 behavioral surveillanc... by Thepthien, BO, Tinn, CS, Sharma, R

“…This study examined the association among past-year use of conventional cigarette (CC), e-cigarette (EC), dual use (using both CC and EC), with presence of substance use (i.e., alcohol use and marijuana use), having friends and family members who use cigarettes, and mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety, psychological distress (PD), problem gambling (PG) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)). …”

Salient keypoint detectors and compact feature descriptors for 3D perception by Prakhya, Sai Manoj

“…The second part of the thesis focusses on 3D feature description, in which, we firstly propose a fast real valued low dimensional 3D descriptor, then the first binary 3D descriptor in literature and lastly, a set of even lower bitrate 3D descriptors, which are extremely fast to compute, match yet still offer better performance. …”
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Food environments and obesity: a geospatial analysis of the South Asia Biobank, income and sex inequalities by Atanasova, Petya, Kusuma, Dian, Pineda, Elisa, Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, De Silva, Laksara, Hanif, Abu A. M., Hasan, Mehedi, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Indrawansa, Susantha, Jayamanne, Deepal, Jha, Sujeet, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katulanda, Prasad, Khawaja, Khadija I., Kumarendran, Balachandran, Mrida, Malay K., Rajakaruna, Vindya, Chambers, John Campbell, Frost, Gary, Sassi, Franco, Miraldo, Marisa

“…Interpretation: The results suggest the availability of fast-food outlets influences obesity, especially among female and lower-income groups. …”
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120 children of UMPSA staff participated in Exploring Mathematics Programme by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…PEKAN, 21 December 2023 - A total of 120 participants consisting of the children of Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) staff participated in the Exploring Mathematics Programme held at both campuses for four sessions starting last Monday.…”
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Taliban await US withdrawal from Kabul by Sajjad Ashraf

“…US Secretary of State John Kerry and President Hamid Karzai announced in Kabul last week that the two sides are close to a much-delayed deal on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA). …”
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Development and investigation of bileaflet heart valve prostheses by Ramesh Veerappan

“…Artificial heart valves are in use the last four decades. They seem to be gaining ever increasing popularity though they are prone to have problems such as thrombosis and haemolysis. …”
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The relationships between irrational beliefs, self-esteem and public and private self-consciousness in adults by Lee, Janice Niann Tsyr

“…Thirdly, there is a positive relationship between irrational beliefs and public and private self-consciousness. The fourth and last hypothesis is that there are no gender differences in self esteem, irrational beliefs and public and private self-consciousness.…”
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3D interactive internet application based on VRML by Gao, Bo

“…Second aspect is on finding out all advantages and disadvantages of VRML by comparing it with other 3D authoring languages and formats. Last and the most important aspect is on proposing a set of non-proprietary mechanisms and the ways of implementation for creating a shared multi-user VRML environment.…”
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Pinch. by Koh, Kim Joo., Manoj Prabhoda Chandran.

“…With millions of dollars suddenly at stake for the now underworld players, the film takes a violent surreal turn when the twosome head out for one last heist.…”
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Study of goods vehicles in intermodal supply chain by Chng, Jing Feng.

“…Being widely utilised for first and last mile freight, road transportation is as critical a link as any in an intermodal supply chain. …”
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Piracy in the South China Sea : maritime ambushes off the Mangkai passage by Frecon, Eric

“…But what about surrounding areas such as Anambas Islands in the South China Sea? Attacks occured last year in this outlying place and the growing danger there deserves as much attention.…”
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