Competitive intrinsically motivated agents for resource allocation by Zhao, Guopeng

“…In particular, agent’s behaviors in the pursuit of needs address each of the three questions individually: The need of competence drives agents to adapt to the dynamically changing environment, by a constant pursuit of good performance and new skills; The need of relatedness enables agents to provide reliable solutions from unevenly distributed information, by advocating collaborations with other agents to collect and synthesize information; The need of autonomy steers agents in systematically integrating various strategies and behaviors by encouraging them to make their own decisions proactively. …”
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Prevalence of West Nile virus in domesticated mammals (cattle, goat, horse and pig) in selected areas of Peninsular Malaysia by Mohammed, Mohammed Nma

“…The horses were from Cheras (n=4) and Putrajaya (n=3). There were no significant differences between sex and location with the WNV molecular positivity (p > 0.05). …”
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Crushing of braced tubes by Ho, Teng Chye.

“…Another part of the project was to determine energy absorption behavior of origami tubes fabricated using polypropylene sheets. The crushing test revealed a difference in the trend of the force vs displacement curves as the test was repeated. …”
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Bottom up electro deposition and flat surface finishing in micro-trench metal filling process by Guan, Aaron Zhi Xiong.

“…The electroplated sample were embedded in acrylic cold mounting resin, then cut and polished using Minitom with EXTEC diamond wafer blade (4") and variable speed grinder-polisher (ECOMET 6, BUEHLER) with abrasive sheets (EXTEC) of grit range from 400 to 4000.…”
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Building up a web-based e-lifestyle application by Guo, Linjing.

“…All visitors can send feedback form, and information sharing form to NetLife system.The web application was mainly implemented using Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), JavaScript and Structure Query Language (SQL) at the server side, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) at the client side. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of protein-based tissue scaffold by Ko, Kok Wei.

“…And the spectra recorded from the structural analysis indicated the presence of secondary structures (α-helices and β-sheets) in amide I, II, III regions of protein. …”
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Characterizing Direct Product Testing via Coboundary Expansion by Bafna, Mitali, Minzer, Dor

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Center potential by Tan, Hu Soon

“…To ensure the safety and trustworthiness of tutors, this application incorporates a rigorous verification process, which includes background checks, identity verification, and qualification validation. …”
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Application development on an Android smart-phone by Udit Batra

“…The application intercepts all incoming messages and checks them for a certain password which uniquely identifies the owner. …”
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Evaluation and fabrication of damaged composite material using non-destructive testing by Lai, Abigail Jang Wai

“…Since composites are extensively employed in many areas, it is important to determine the existence of surface and sub-surface defects before production and during regular maintenance checks. As time goes on, wear and tear occur to a material. …”
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Experiences, perceptions and ethical considerations of the malaria infection study in Thailand by Naemiratch, B, Kulpijit, N, Ruangkajorn, S, Day, NPJ, Prachumsri, J, Cheah, PY

“…We found that although compensation was a motivation for participation, this was secondary to it being beneficial to self (health checks; link to health networks; building merit) and others (medical research contribution; altruism). …”

Three essays on frictions of trade by Li, W

“…The analysis is based on an adapted gravity model with several alternative specifications for robustness checks. The result suggests that improvements on the road network lead to trade expansion on both intensive and extensive margins, but the effects vary across the regions. …”

Mediation effects of language anxiety and prior learning experience on academic speaking challenges and strategies among Libyan students in Malaysian universities by Halali, Ahlam Ali Salim, Ismail, Lilliati, Abd Samad, Arshad, Razali, Abu Bakar, Noordin, Nooreen

“…Field notes and member checks were used for validation. Correlational procedures, structural equation modeling (SEM), and bootstrapping resampling analyses were conducted to examine the relationships between variables, validate study models, and test research hypotheses. …”
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Scalable optical manufacture of dynamic structural colour in stretchable materials by Miller, Benjamin Harvey, Liu, Helen, Kolle, Mathias

“…Here, by adapting Lippmann photography5, we report an approach for producing large-area, structurally coloured sheets with a rich and easily controlled design space of colour patterns, spectral properties, angular scattering characteristics and responses to mechanical stimuli. …”
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Leveraging Multi-Stage Machine Learning Pipelines for Extracting Structured Key-Value Pairs from Documents by Pyo, Bryan

“…This thesis discusses several pipelines that have been developed to extract data in the form of key-value pairs from specification sheets describing mechanical parts achieving accuracies ranging from 80% to 100% depending on the pipeline and the target documents and key-value pairs.…”
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Three-dimensional structure of human β-defensin 28 via homology modelling and molecular dynamics by Kwak, Sang Kyu, Chen, Wenwen, Tay, Derrick Kok Sing, Leong, Susanna Su Jan

“…In comparison with circular dichroism experimental data as well as stabilities of β-sheets and α-helix, HBD-28 with a reliable 3D structure was found.…”
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Fabrication and characterization of flexible-conductive nanocomposites by Lau, Jun Jie

“…The active electrodes were fabricated from 3D porous MnO2 assembled from cross-walled and interconnected sheet-architectural MnO2 on CNF based paper substrates. …”
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Influence of nanoclay on the morphology of polypropylene foam by Chan, Weng Wan

“…Extrusion allows for high volume production of various items such as sheets, tubes and films. The thermoplastic foams are lightweight, have a high strength to weight ratios and good thermal and acoustic insulation. …”
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Experimental determination of dust cloud deflagration parameters of selected hydrogen storage materials: Complex metal hydrides, chemical hydrides, and adsorbents by Khalil, YF

“…These insights are also critical for designing adequate safety features such as explosion relief venting and isolation devices and for supplementing missing data in materials safety data sheets.…”

Elevated temperature material properties of a new high-chromium austenitic stainless steel by Liang, Yating, Manninen, Timo, Zhao, Ou, Walport, Fiona, Gardner, Leroy

“…A total of 164 tensile coupons extracted from both cold-rolled and hot-rolled sheets were tested; 80 coupons were tested isothermally with temperatures ranging from 25 °C to 1100 °C, and 84 were tested anisothermally with stress levels ranging from 10% to 90% of the material 0.2% proof stress at room temperature. …”
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