Large-scale model testing of high-pressure grouting reinforcement for bedding slope with rapid-setting polyurethane by Zhang, Zhichao, Tang, Xuefeng, Liu, Kan, Ye, Longzhen, He, Xiang

“…This study proves the improvement of polymer grouting for bedding slope treatment and will contribute to the development of a fast method to protect bedding slopes from landslides.…”
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Religious and economic soft power in Ghana-Turkey relations by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Turkey’s economic soft power relationship with Ghana is exemplified by both considerable recent investments and in fast-growing bilateral trade. The overall aim of the government of Turkey is to increase the country’s influence in Ghana, part of a wider initiative to expand its regional influence in Africa. …”
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Measuring shear wave velocity using bender elements by Leong, Eng Choon, Yeo, Sir Hoon, Rahardjo, Harianto

“…The interpretation of the bender element test can be improved if two performance criteria are adopted: (1) a signal-to-noise ratio of at least 4 dB for the receiver signal, and (2) a wave path length to wavelength ratio of at least 3.33. …”
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New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

“…Of particular note is that the exhaustiveness in 3-round trail core search of at least one out-Kernel α is only experimentally verified. …”
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Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation : A Road Map From Beginning to End / by Bloomberg, Linda Dale, author 226716, Volpe, Marie, author 373853, Sage Publications (Online service) 9618

“…Fills an important gap in qualitative research literature by specifically addressing the fast-growing practice of qualitative master's studies and doctoral dissertations in colleges and universities throughout the world. …”
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Antenna systems for diversity in the next-generation mobile handphones by Hui, Hon Tat.

“…In the cellular communications environment, short term or fast fading due to multipath has a significant impact on the overall system performance. …”
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Understanding human interaction in RGB-D videos by Shi, Yuanyuan

“…The testing results show that the algorithm is able to understand human hand gestures accurately and fast.…”
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Interference suppression for frequency-hopped multiple-access receiver by Chitra, Bhupathy

“…In this dissertation, bit error rate performance results of Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK), Fast Frequency Hopped/ Binary Frequency Shift Keying (FFH/BFSK) and Fast Frequency Hopped Multiple Access (FFH/MA) under Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN), Rician and Rayleigh channels are studied. …”
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A scalable variational inference approach for increased mixed-model association power by Loya, H, Kalantzis, G, Cooper, F, Palamara, PF

“…We applied Quickdraws to 79 quantitative and 50 binary traits in 405,088 UK Biobank samples, identifying 4.97% and 3.25% more associations than REGENIE and 22.71% and 7.07% more than FastGWA. Quickdraws had costs comparable to REGENIE, FastGWA and SAIGE on the UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform service, while being substantially faster than BOLT-LMM. …”

The hazards of unconfined pyroclastic density currents: a new synthesis and classification according to their deposits, dynamics, and thermal and impact characteristics by Lerner, Geoffrey A., Jenkins, Susanna F., Charbonnier, Sylvain J., Komorowsk, Jean-Christophe, Baxter, Peter J.

“…We define four end-member unconfined PDCs: 1. fast overspill flows, 2. slow overspill flows, 3. high-energy surges, and 4. low-energy detached surges (LEDS), and review characteristics and incidents of each from historical eruptions. …”
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Quantifying the energy consumption of the water use cycle by Cardenes Trujillo, I

“…The results show that more stringent effluent standards could result in at least a doubling of electricity consumption and an increase of between 1.29 and 2.30 additional million tonnes of CO2 a year from treating wastewater in large works in the UK. …”

Design for assembly and application using Hitachi assemblability evaluation method by Mohd Naim, Zakaria

“…From this project, the component of mini radio have been reduce from 21 part to 16 part by combining some component that made from same material and not necessary component become one part. …”
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A Listeria monocytogenes aptasensor on laser inscribed graphene for food safety monitoring in hydroponic water by Cavallaro, Nicholas, Moreira, Geisianny, Vanegas, Diana, Xiang, Dong, Datta, Shoumen P. A., Gomes, Carmen, McLamore, Eric S.

“…Consumption of fresh produce, such as leafy greens, is often encouraged as part of a healthy diet. Hence, indoor facilities for hydroponic production of leafy greens are increasingly being established. …”
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The formation and evolution of Earth’s inner core by Wilson, AJ, Davies, CJ, Walker, A, Pozzo, M, Alfé, D, Deuss, A

“…Mineral physics calculations suggest that a supercooling of at least 450 K is needed to nucleate the inner core, while inferences from geophysical observations constrain the maximum available supercooling to 420 K, and more likely <100 K when satisfying constraints on long-term core-mantle evolution. …”

Vision enhancement using artificial intelligence techniques by Yu, Xiaohan

“…Proposed papers show limitations dealing with both fast moving cameras and pretty heavy rain. In the former paper, their main idea was to create a method to achieve perfect frame alignment. …”
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30 Essential Skills for the Qualitative Researcher / by Creswell, John W., author 401571, Creswell Báez, Johanna, author 655108

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FPGA-based multi-rate system design : Avalon Interface vs.Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous approach by Zou, You.

“…Avalon Interfaces is developed by Altera and it allows fast and convenient interfacing between Altera IP cores, which are also called components. …”
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Mechanical polishing of fan blade by a prototype random-orbital tool by Danaraj, Edgar Jeevan

“…After the polishing process, the part will undergo shot peening, vibratory finishing and later, painting and coating at the final stages. …”
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Hardware efficient algorithms and architectures for burst communications in cognitive radios by Syed Naveen Altaf Ahmed

“…This thesis proposes low complexity schemes and architectures for spectrum sensing, time synchronization, fast acquisition and time of arrival estimation which address the issues of robustness and hardware efficient implementation for low power consumption. …”
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Electrochemistry of modified graphene and carbon nanomaterials by Poh, Hwee Ling

“…The study is divided into three parts: a) Part 1: Influence of heteroatom functionalization on the properties of graphene, b) Part 2: Influence of synthesis methods/conditions on the properties of graphene and c) Part 3: Influence of structural differences on the properties of nanocarbons. …”
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