A systematic review of transanal total mesorectal excision: is this the future of rectal cancer surgery? by Simillis, C, Hompes, R, Penna, M, Rasheed, S, Tekkis, PP

“…One death was reported and the peri-operative morbidity rate was 35%. The anastomotic leakage rate was 6.1% and the reoperation rate was 3.7%. …”

Dry bulk freight market analysis and forecast under the yield management framework by Wu, Mengxia.

“…To put simply, yield management is profit maximization which is realized by subtracting costs from revenue. On one hand, a model of dry bulk freight rate is generated by a holistic study of dry bulk sea transport demand over supply which collectively set the freight level through capacity utilization ratio (CUR). …”
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Publication of share recommendations in Lianhe Zaobao : testing for market response by Foo, Bin Gee, Tan, Tuan Kiong, Tan, Yin Hoon

“…These recommendations could constitute second-hand information as clients of brokerage firms are usually provided with the recommendations ahead of publication in the press. …”
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Ball game measurement and analysis on Android by Ng, Wei Kang

“…Singapore is having the slowest growth rate in the last decade. Beside facing the slow growth rate, the citizen population aged 65 and above have also increase from 11.7% to 12.4% within a year from 2013 to 2014 [1] . …”
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On List-Decodability of Random Rank Metric Codes and Subspace Codes by Ding, Yang

“…Otherwise, the list size can be exponential and hence no polynomial-time list decoding is possible. On the other hand, for arbitrary 0 <; ρ <; 1 and E > 0, with E and ρ being independent of each other, with high probability, a random rank metric code with rate R = (1 - ρ)(1 - bρ) - can be efficiently list-decoded up to a fraction ρ of rank errors with constant list size O(1/E). …”
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Fast photoacoustic imaging systems using pulsed laser diodes: a review by Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Pramanik, Manojit

“…Such lasers are expensive, bulky, and imaging speed is limited because of low pulse repetition rate. In recent years, the semiconductor laser technology has advanced to generate high-repetitions rate near-infrared pulsed lasers diodes (PLDs) which are reliable, less-expensive, hand-held, and light-weight, about 200 g. …”
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Nanostructured transition metal oxide (TMO) for electrochemical devices by Khoo, Eugene

“…As a result, higher electrochemical activity can be achieved and hence higher capacitance and rate capability. On the other hand, the electronic conductivity was shown to be improved through doping conductive metal into the oxide lattice. …”
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The paradoxes of wind power by Keay, M

“…It is the trend in site economics that now seems to be predominating, in the UK at any rate, as the focus of development moves offshore. …”

A low complexity reconfigurable non-uniform filter bank for channelization in multi-standard wireless communication receivers by Darak, Sumit Jagdish, Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad, Lai, Edmund Ming-Kit

“…The channelizer operates at the highest sampling rate in the digital front end of receiver and hence power efficient low complex architecture is required for cost-effective implementation of channelizer. …”
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Task-orientated human-robot teleoperation using wearable sensors by Teoh, Yee Seng

“…The wearable IMU sensors are mounted on one of the human arm to measure the real time position and orientation data of human arm, and hand. From there, 6-DOF human hand motions can be related to the 6-DOF robot arm’s end effector motions. …”
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Influence of membrane active layer properties and support layer properties on organic and inorganic fouling in pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) process by Tan, Joelyn Yi Ying

“…The results showed that CTA membranes had the smallest flux decline rate during humid acid fouling and scaling in the short run while TFC membrane had the highest flux decline rate. …”
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Predictive model for heat stress-related symptoms among steel mill workers in East Java, Indonesia by Nurhartonosuro, Imam Munajat, Md Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri, Mohd Suadi Nata, Dayana Hazwani, Karuppiah, Karmegam, Ng, Yee Guan, Pramudya Ananta, Gede

“…Conclusion: With these values in hand, ones can predict whether workers will be exposed to heat stress work environment. …”
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Noise coupling analysis in integrated circuit packaging by Fernandus, Wylie

“…Therefore, signal overshoot, undershoot, and ringing waveforms due to the high data rates will happen which referred as signal errors.…”
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Compositionally graded alloys fabricated using the laser powder bed fusion technique by Wei, Siyuan

“…Two types of grain morphologies and chemical segregation bands, which are either rich in Ni or in CoCrMo alloy, were observed. …”
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Physical layer algorithms and architectures for accurate detection and classification in cognitive radios by Narendar Madhavan

“…The new mobile broadband technology is rapidly growing towards a fifth generation (5G), as there is an increasing demand for high data rate devices. The advent of new wireless communication services renders the electromagnetic spectrum congested. …”
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Thermoeconomic analysis and optimization of the small scale power generation and carbon dioxide capture system from liquefied natural gas by Kanbur, Baris Burak, Xiang, Liming, Dubey, Swapnil, Choo, Fook Hoong, Duan, Fei

“…To better show the advantage of the proposed design in the real environment, a Singapore case study is conducted, and the highest exergetic efficiency and CO2 capture ratio are seen in December with 3.84 and 25.70%, respectively. On the other hand, the levelized product cost presents its minimum value in May with 14.96 $/s whereas the condensed water rate has the highest rate in May as well.…”
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A solid‐state fibriform supercapacitor boosted by host – guest hybridization between the carbon nanotube scaffold and MXene nanosheets by Yu, Chenyang, Gong, Yujiao, Chen, Ruyi, Zhang, Mingyi, Zhou, Jinyuan, An, Jianing, Lv, Fan, Guo, Shaojun, Sun, Gengzhi

“…However, the synergistic interaction between conductive filaments and active nanomaterials remains a crucial challenge, especially when hydrothermal or electrochemical deposition is used to produce a core (fiber)-shell (active materials) fibrous structure. On the other hand, although 2D pseudocapacitive materials, e.g., Ti3 C2 T x (MXene), have demonstrated high volumetric capacitance, high electrical conductivity, and hydrophilic characteristics, MXene-based electrodes normally suffer from poor rate capability owing to the sheet restacking especially when the loading level is high and solid-state gel is used as electrolyte. …”
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Brokers and informed traders: dealing with toxic flow and extracting trading signals by Cartea, A, Sánchez-Betancourt, L

“…The flow of the noise trader is uninformative and the broker trades with the noise trader at a profit, on average. On the other hand, the informed trader has privileged information about the trend in the price of the asset, so the broker trades with the informed trader at a loss, on average. …”

Natural language processing in urology: automated extraction of clinical information from histopathology reports of uro-oncology procedures by Huang, Honghong, Lim, Fiona Xin Yi, Gu, Gary Tianyu, Han, Matthew Jiangchou, Fang, Andrew Hao Sen, Chia, Elian Hui San, Bei, Eileen Yen Tze, Tham, Sarah Zhuling, Ho, Henry Sun Sien, Yuen, John Shyi Peng, Sun, Aixin, Lim, Jay Kheng Sit

“…We achieved an accuracy rate of between 61.2% and 99.0% using our algorithm. …”
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Transport properties of CO2 and CH4 in hollow fiber membrane contactor for the recovery of biogas from anaerobic membrane bioreactor effluent by Rongwong, Wichitpan, Wongchitphimon, Sunee, Goh, Kunli, Wang, Rong, Bae, Tae-Hyun

“…The increase of liquid velocity increased mole fraction of CH4 in the gas outlet but decreased the rate of CH4 recovery. On the other hand, applying vacuum conditions to decrease gas pressure enhanced the rate of CH4 recovery but lower the CH4 mole fraction in the product gas.…”
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