Collision between soliton and polarization domain walls in fiber lasers by Hu, Xiao, Ma, J., Zhao, Luming, Guo, Jun, Tang, Dingyuan

“…Depending on the sign of cavity dispersion, either bright or dark solitons have been formed in our fiber laser. Under suitable laser operation conditions, they could even coexist with polarization domains and collide with the domain walls. …”
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Low power PWM based sensor readout circuit by He, Shengyu

“…The feedback loop in this continuous-time autozero nulling architecture has been amended to consume less power. The function of this technique with these two kinds of amplifiers is verified. …”
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Decentralized control of distributed energy resources in electric distribution grid by Zhang, Jiyue

“…In this dissertation, an equivalent model of the distribution grid with multiple DERs in discrete-time phasor mode has been developed, along with model of building and its demand profiles, as well as irradiance profile of solar energy. …”
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The growing pains of e-commerce business in Africa by Gopaldas, Ronak

“…E-Commerce has long been touted as Africa’s next high-growth market. …”
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A cost-effective optimized design of a 3D NAND staircase integration flow by Zhang, Jinzhi

“…In the new generation of 3D NAND manufacturing technology, the cleaning step reaction environment has been upgraded, and the more critical etch-stop layer in this structure is no longer exhumated as it was in the old-generation technology. …”
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Modelling spatial correlation in earthquake-induced damage and its impact on regional loss estimation by Nguyen, Michele, Loos, Sabine, Lallemant, David

“…While correlation in ground motion intensity and its effect on earthquake damage has been well-documented, there is a widely held yet insufficiently examined view, that there are other sources of spatial correlation in damage not accounted for. …”
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Longitudinal associations of clinical and biochemical head injury biomarkers with head impact exposure in adolescent football players by Zuidema, Taylor R., Bazarian, Jeffrey J., Kercher, Kyle A., Mannix, Rebekah, Kraft, Reuben H., Newman, Sharlene D., Ejima, Keisuke, Rettke, Devin J., Macy, Jonathan T., Steinfeldt, Jesse A., Kawata, Keisuke

“…Consequences of subconcussive head impacts have been recognized, yet most studies to date have included small samples from a single site, used a unimodal approach, and lacked repeated testing.…”
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Topological phenomena at defects in acoustic, photonic and solid-state lattices by Lin, Zhi-Kang, Wang, Qiang, Liu, Yang, Xue, Haoran, Zhang, Baile, Chong, Yidong, Jiang, Jian-Hua

“…Although these two classes of topological phenomena have generally been treated separately, recent experimental advancements have begun to probe their intricate and surprising interactions, in solid-state materials as well as in metamaterials. …”
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Teenagers and videoconference fatigue: a preliminary analysis from an affordance-based approach by Lee, Chei Sian, Li, Benjamin Junting, Wu, Qian

“…While research on factors contributing to VCF has been conducted among university students, there is limited research on younger students (especially teenagers). …”
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Tutorial on prescriptive analytics for logistics: what to predict and how to predict by Tian, Xuecheng, Yan, Ran, Wang, Shuaian, Liu, Yannick, Zhen, Lu

“…Accordingly, various prescriptive analytics frameworks have been developed to predict different parts of uncertain optimization problems, including the uncertain parameter, the combined coefficient consisting of the uncertain parameter, the objective function, and the optimal solution. …”
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Mobile robots autonomous exploration through deep reinforcement learning by Yin, Hanqiu

“…The mobile robot autonomous exploration problem has been a hot research topic among scholars. The traditional robot autonomous exploration problem usually contains steps such as frontier detection, frontier clustering, navigation point assignment and so on. …”
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Gavin Jones’ scholarship on divorce in Asia: understanding trends, patterns, and implications by Dommaraju, Premchand, Hu, Shu

“…Jones' insights into Asia's demographic shifts have been invaluable, and his legacy will continue to influence demographers for generations to come.…”
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The promises and challenges toward mass customization of healthcare services by Ma, Shuang, Zhang, Xiaojin, Chen, Songlin

“…Mass customization has been proven to be an effective strategy to fulfill customers’ individual specific needs with high efficiency and low cost in the manufacturing industry. …”
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2D/3D staircase detection and localization by Wang, Sisong

“…To adapt the framework to the context of staircase detection, modifications have been made on the scanning scheme, multiple detections integrating scheme and the final detection evaluation metrics. …”
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A context-aware approach for business-to-business collaboration by Tan, Puay Siew

“…To realise this context-aware approach, several issues have been addressed: • Understanding and identifying relevant context in B2B collaborations, thereby formulating an appropriate B2B Context Model, • Identifying a relevant context representation and reasoning technique to process the model, and • Developing a method to support decision making, based on a given context of collaboration.…”
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Database for dynamic properties of Singapore soils by Leong, Eng Choon.

“…The characterization of soil stiffness over a large strain range for Singapore soils has not been done extensively. This project investigated the stress-strain behaviour of a number of Singapore soils. …”
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Enrichment of SWNT species with chemical approaches and mechanism investigation by Pan, Xiaoyong

“…A series of pyrene derivatives were synthesized and their separation effects on SWNTs based on the electronic properties and diameters have been demonstrated. To overcome the problem enforced by the poor dispersion with the amide-functionalized pyrene derivatives, a series of Polymethacrylates with pendant aromatic functional groups were investigated for their selectivity in SWNTs separation. …”
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Region-based shape control for multi-robot systems by Hou, Paul Saing.

“…While many methods have been proposed, the positions of the robots or relative positions between robots in the formation must be defined in order for the robots to form a specific shape. …”
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Membrane distillation : module design and modeling by Yang, Xing

“…This thesis provides a comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art of MD technology with focuses on some areas that need to be further investigated or strengthened, such as novel membranes and improved membrane module design with the aid of mathematical modeling, which may offer strategies to address the challenges.A preliminary study of the performance improvement of the hollow fiber-based direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system has been conducted. The original hydrophobic polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) hollow fiber and two modified membranes (unmodified, plasma modified and chemically modified) were used and compared. …”
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Anisotropic conductive adhesive for micro joining in semiconductor interconnects application (solder alternative for fine pitch & environment friendly IC packaging) by Goh, Chin Foo

“…Microelectronic packaging has been accelerating towards adoption of novel solutions that offer lower cost, higher electrical performance, and better reliability. …”
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