Delivering government services online in Singapore : stepping through the screen. by Chua, Li Yan., Lum, Chune Loong., Tok, Chen Yee.

“…Delivery of information and services by Singapore's public sector through the Internet has been in place since the mid 1990s. Significant progress has been achieved and the government looks set to achieve delivery of most critical public services over the Internet by 2001. …”
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Small States and COVID-19 : Estonia's approach by Datta-Ray, Deep K.

“…Estonia’s digital infrastructure and IT savviness, developed since the mid-1990s, helped manage the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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A stochastic thunderstorm model for dynamic response assessment by School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

“…The highly localized nature of these winds generates ferocious winds at low to mid-height, deviating from the boundary layer wind profile that most building codes recognized. …”
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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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Many-sided sympathy and the science of religion in George Eliot, Vernon Lee, and Edna Lyall by Barnette, S

“…<p>Discourse on sympathy in mid-to-late nineteenth-century Britain took place in many intellectual contexts, including philosophy, aesthetics, evolutionary science, and physiological psychology. …”

Dharmakīrti versus Akalaṅka on the nature, object, and structure of perception by Nahata, S

“…<p>This thesis reconstructs and analyses the philosophical debate between the Buddhist philosopher Dharmakīrti (between mid-6th and mid-7th century CE) and the Jaina philosopher Akalaṅka (c. 8th century CE) regarding the nature, object, and structure of perception (pratyakṣa) qua source of knowledge (pramāṇa). …”

Examining the effects of relative advances in higher mobility roads over higher accessibility roads and income inequality on the relationship between car ownership and economic gro... by Poi, Alvin Wai Hoong, Law, Teik Hua, Hamid, Hussain, Mohd Jakarni, Fauzan, Ishak, Siti Zaharah, Ng, Choy Peng

“…Results revealed that passenger car ownership rate is consistently higher at most of the per capita income levels under mid-range MPA and lower income inequality conditions. …”

Power versus principle : United Nations reform in a unipolar world. by Turner, Samantha.

“…Early promise for reform lost momentum in the mid- 1990s as the United States Congress turned away from multilateralism. …”
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Characterization of broadband Wireless LAN channels by Sun, Sumei.

“…Two categories of data are recorded, one for large-scale measurements and the other, mid-scale measurements. The large scale measurements are performed in the global areas with the antenna separation ranging from 1.5m to 20m.…”
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Timor-Leste beyond 2012 : a turning point by Mallika Naguran

“…As it enters into the second decade of self-rule, with a change of governing powers mid-year and with UN Peacekeepers gone by year-end, will Timor-Leste make it on its own?…”
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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. …”

China's defence budget – the trend of the ascending numbers by Jash, Amrita

“…Incremental and sustained defence spending, with targets like modernisation in 2027, 2035, and mid-century, demonstrates this commitment. The lack of transparency about China’s real numbers raises concerns about its intentions, and therefore its increasing defence budget calls for caution.…”
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Effects of resonant tunneling on intrinsic linewidth of quantum cascade lasers by Liu, T., Wang, Q. J.

“…The quantum Langevin analysis for QCLs show that coupling strength and dephasing rate strongly affect the linewidth of THz QCLs in incoherent resonant-tunneling transport regime, but induce insignificant influence for mid-infrared QCLs due to strong coupling.…”
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The role of Holocene relative sea-level change in preserving records of subduction zone earthquakes by Dura, Tina, Engelhart, Simon E., Vacchi, Matteo, Horton, Benjamin Peter, Kopp, Robert E., Peltier, William Richard, Bradley, Sarah

“…In near-field regions that were located beneath northern hemisphere ice sheets (e.g., western Vancouver Island), RSL fall from a mid-Holocene highstand has limited prehistoric earthquake records to the last 1 ka. …”
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