Compensation committee and executive compensation in Asia by Lee, Kin-Wai

“…The positive association between the level of CEO compensation and CEO power is attenuated by the proportion of independent directors on the compensation committee and the equity ownership held by external block-holders. Furthermore, CEO pay-performance sensitivity is lower in firms with powerful CEOs. …”
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CanSat, satellite in a soda can by Koh, Jian Cheng

“…Each year, CanSat competitions are held and many participants from over the world joined. …”
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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain by Griffith, JI, James, HF, Ordoño, J, Fernández-Crespo, T, Gerritzen, CT, Cheung, C, Spros, R, Claeys, P, Goderis, S, Veselka, B, Snoeck, C

“…Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recently excavated passage tomb (megalithic monument) that held a minimum number of 25 individuals. This study analysed the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotope ratios of 18 individuals, in a multi-tissue sampling study (successional tooth enamel sampling, incremental dentine sampling, and bulk bone collagen sampling). …”

The Straits Times and political leaning: coverage of six Singapore general elections, 1968 - 1997. by Neo, Wee Guan., Soo, Daphne Li Fern.

“…The objective of this study was to content analyse the news coverage of six Singapore general elections held between 1968 and 1997.…”
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Application of dynamic programming in the minimal superpermutation problem by Ong, Linus Hong Jun

“…We show our attempts to bound the minimal superpermutation on n symbols using dynamic programming, namely a variant of the Held{Karp algorithm. A reduction of the search space by introducing certain restrictions to was also done to improve the running time.…”
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An election doomed to cause harm? by Garfinkle, Adam

“…Although several presidential elections in American history have been troubled procedurally, no election looks as doomed to cause trouble as the one to be held, presumably, on 3 November 2020.…”
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Multi-path region mining for weakly supervised 3D semantic segmentation on point clouds by Wei, Jiacheng, Lin, Guosheng, Yap, Kim-Hui, Hung, Tzu-Yi, Xie, Lihua

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Lotte Reiniger re-imagined by Kang, Fabian Yong Sheng

“…The installation comprise two parts, Hier kommt die U-Bahn, a series of ball-point pen drawings of ‘real world’ 1920s Berlin in an exterior white-cube space; as well as Ein Abenteuer im Wunderwald, an interactive silhouette animation interface inside a black-box space. …”
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Velocity measurement by electrical capacitance tomography: A simulative study by Ahmad Latiffi, Aryani, Zulkiffli, Noorul Adharina

“…Three cases with different position of PMMA ball in ECT sensor was studied coupled with noise added in the range 5% to 20%. …”
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How to Hold a Grudge : From Resentment to Contentment- the Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life / by Hannah, Sophie, 1971- author 649175

“…Bearing a grudge is too negative, right? Wrong! Grudges, when held correctly, are an essential part of a healthy psychological diet. …”

Advances in Design, Simulation and Manufacturing VII : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange, DSMIE-2024, Ju... by International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange (7th : 2024 : Pilsen, Czech Republic), Ivanov, Vitaliĭ, editor 656010, Pavlenko, Ivan, editor 656011, Edl, Milan, editor 656012, Machado, José, 1972-, editor 656014, Xu, Jinyang, 1987-, editor 656015

“…Based on the 7th International Conference on Design, Simulation, Manufacturing: The Innovation Exchange (DSMIE-2024), held on June 4-7, 2024, in Pilsen, Czech Republic, this second volume of a 2-volume set provides academics and professionals with extensive information on technologies, trends, challenges, and practice-oriented experience in all the above-mentioned areas.…”
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Simulation of a manufacturing system for low volume high mix manufacturing (A) by Hu, Juntian

“…This project is to build a Festo line manufacturing simulation system, which has been already set practically in delta lab. Discrete event simulation is used to manage event-driven systems which transits state depend on event occurred rather than time. …”
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EEG-based dominance level recognition for emotion-enabled interaction by Liu, Yisi., Sourina, Olga.

“…EEG signal can be divided into the delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma waves based on their frequency bands. …”
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Understanding liver transplantation outcomes through the lens of its tissue-resident immunobiome by Prosser, AC, Klenerman, P, Lucas, M

“…TRLs are especially enriched in the liver, with every TRL subset represented, including liver-resident natural killer cells; tissue-resident memory B cells; conventional tissue-resident memory CD8, CD4, and regulatory T cells; and unconventional gamma-delta, natural killer, and mucosal-associated invariant T cells. …”

Perovskite-metal-oxide-based advanced oxidation technology for water treatment application by Leiw, Ming Yian

“…The perovskite SFO metal oxide particles were prepared by a combined high temperature and high-energy ball milling process and their physicochemical properties were characterized systematically. …”
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Semi-autonomous control of an unmanned aerial vehicle by Huang, Zhen

“…Radio Control Transmitter have been used to transmit video back to the ground station and remotely control the UAV of change flight mode, drop ball as well as turn on LED. In total, 4 scoring factors Smart (10 points), Aerial Platform (25 points), Mission Accomplished (65 points) and Presentation (10 points) are taken into consideration for the championship award, and our team has successfully won 2 medals: Bronze Medal in Championship Award and Silver Medal in Best Platform Award in the Semi- autonomous Category.…”
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Linear controller for the NXT ballbot with parameter variations using linear matrix inequalities by Wang, Yu

“…Unlike the traditional robot that has arms and wheels and is just like a mimic of human, ballbot is a robot who could achieve dynamic stability by balance itself on a ball. Its unique mechanism and performance shed some light on creative robot design and analysis. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigation of deep cold rolling on Ni-based super alloy by Lee, Zi Kang

“…Deep Cold Rolling (DCR) is a mechanical surface treatment (MST) process whereby a hydrostatically suspended ball distorts the component surface plastically through mechanical interaction. …”
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Distributed momentum based multi-agent optimization with different constraint sets by Zhou, X, Ma, Z, Zou, S, Margellos, K

“…To achieve this goal, we propose a novel distributed heavy-ball algorithm that combines the subgradient tracking technique with a momentum term related to history information. …”

Language models as hierarchy encoders by He, Y, Yuan, Z, Chen, J, Horrocks, I

“…Our method situates the output embedding space of pre-trained LMs within a Poincaré ball with a curvature that adapts to the embedding dimension, followed by training on hyperbolic clustering and centripetal losses. …”