The Impact of Different Level of Education Towards Acceptance of Islamic House Financing by Abd Aziz, Noriza, Abu Bakar, Azizi, Abd Aziz, Ibrahim, Yusuff, Noraini, Ahmad Musadik, Siti Hajar Salwa

“…customers provide an opportunity for the consumers to survey for the best deals in house financing. These competitions pose a challenge to the banks to maintain their profit levels. …”
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Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…This thesis deals with the influence of `ultramafic' rocks over the climate of planets. …”
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A differential covariance matrix adaptation evolutionary algorithm for real parameter optimization by Ghosh, Saurav, Das, Swagatam, Roy, Subhrajit, Minhazul Islam, S. K., Suganthan, P. N.

“…Though CMA-ES has emerged itself as a very efficient global optimizer, its performance deteriorates when it comes to dealing with complicated fitness landscapes, especially landscapes associated with noisy, hybrid composition functions and many real world optimization problems. …”
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Detection of latent fingerprint using optical technique by Seah, Leong Keey., Ong, Lin Seng., Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham.

“…Sensitive detection techniques are needed when dealing with very weak fluorescence signals from the test samples. …”
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Low complexity and low power FIR filter design by Ye, Wenbin

“…Therefore, the research in this thesis deals with the issues of designing multiplierless FIR filters to minimize the hardware cost and power consumption. …”
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Suitability of battery electric vehicles and opportunity charging for urban freight transport : an evaluation framework by Teoh, Tharsis Ghim Han

“…The evaluation framework proposed here deals with the gaps in existing studies, as well as proposes a novel method to evaluate electric mobility for urban freight transport in terms of operational, financial, and environmental suitability. …”
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Tunnel face stability in non-homogeneous soil by Khezri, Nima

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Creations artistiques et resilience à la Covid-19 (2020): La contribution des artistes plasticiens Camerounais by Fandio Ngahane, R

“…A qualitative analysis was carried out of the works dealing with Covid-19, produced by a sample of Cameroonian artists representing a range of artistic expressions (drawing, painting, installation, performance) and pioneers in the fight against the Coronavirus. …”

Advanced active noise control headphone: algorithm and implementation by Shen, Xiaoyi

“…This thesis presents some algorithms and implementations for dealing with these difficulties and improving the noise reduction performance of ANC headphones. …”
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Exploring semantic information for deep image aesthetics assessment by Hou, Jingwen

“…However, existing works on deep IAA have not sufficiently discussed how to improve deep IAA models by dealing with the connections between diverse image contents and limited aesthetic labels. …”
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Learning a closed-loop policy for scooping task by Lau, Wei Quan

“…Developing a closed-loop policy for scooping task which involves dealing with deformable objects like food is not trivial as there is a lack of physics models, which makes classical planning approaches difficult. …”
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History education for transitional justice: how students understand and construct historical legacies in the post-apartheid South African history classroom by Robinson, N

“…The South African history curriculum – a focus of this study – deals extensively with large-scale past abuses, but does not require students to reflect on whether these past abuses have lasting effects.…”

Towards formal verification of Bayesian inference in probabilistic programming via guaranteed bounds by Zaiser, F

“…The remainder of the thesis deals with imperative probabilistic programs limited to linear operations and discrete observations. …”

Codesign of quantum error-correcting codes and modular chiplets in the presence of defects by Lin, Sophia Fuhui, Viszlai, Joshua, Smith, Kaitlin N., Ravi, Gokul Subramanian, Yuan, Charles, Chong, Frederic T., Brown, Benjamin J.

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Three-dimensional scour at submarine pipelines by Wu, Yushi.

“…Four non-dimensional parameters are identified from dimensional analysis and their effects examined systematically with careful variable control. Stage II deals with the study of the mechanics of scouring at the span shoulder of the pipeline. …”
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A medical image-based computer-aided diagnosis system for musculoskeletal disease and disorder. by Chuah, Tong Kuan

“…Having established the ability to classify subjects with and without BML, the thesis then deals with the development of an automated segmentation algorithm for the bone in knee MRI, by proposing a new termination criterion and an initialization strategy for active contours. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Zou, Kunru

“…We find drops in price discounts of privatization deals and jumps in efficiency for privatized SOEs when local politicians lose connections to Central Committee members around the retirement age cut-offs.The second essay studies the real and social impacts of debt contracting by exploring the effect of loan covenants on borrowing firms’ CSR (corporate social responsibility) performance. …”
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Content-based image retrieval with statistical machine learning. by Zhang, Lining.

“…Moreover, the new method can also lean a distance metric but performs more effectively and efficiently when dealing with high-dimensional data. The effectiveness of CPSL in exploiting the RF log data to improve the performance of CBIR has been demonstrated by a large number of empirical studies.…”
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论汉魏六朝挽歌与悼亡诗的生死主题 = Theme on life and death in elegy and lament poetry of Han, Wei and six dynasties by 郑慧萍 Teh, Hui Ping

“…Next, it explores reasons and definitions of theme on life and death in Han Dynasty and Six Dynasties. The second chapter deals with spaces, mode of narration and theme on life and death in elegies. …”
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A product conceptualization strategy based on crowd-innovation by Chang, Danni

“…Thirdly, crowdsourcing responses are often in large numbers and in various formats, which leads to further difficulties in dealing with crowdsourced conceptual designs. Specific issues, such as how to incorporate crowdsourcing to facilitate concept generation for the creation of innovative concepts, how to implement concept evaluation and selection in a crowdsourcing environment, and how to verify crowdsourced conceptual designs further in terms of innovativeness, have to be addressed well. …”
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