General circulation models simulate negative liquid water path–droplet number correlations, but anthropogenic aerosols still increase simulated liquid water path by Mülmenstädt, J, Gryspeerdt, E, Dipu, S, Quaas, J, Ackerman, AS, Fridlind, AM, Tornow, F, Bauer, SE, Gettelman, A, Ming, Y, Zheng, Y, Ma, P-L, Wang, H, Zhang, K, Christensen, MW, Varble, AC, Leung, LR, Liu, X, Neubauer, D, Partridge, DG, Stier, P, Takemura, T

“…We show that the latest generation of GCMs includes models that produce a negative correlation between the present-day cloud droplet number and liquid water path, a key piece of observational evidence supporting liquid water path reduction by anthropogenic aerosols and one that earlier-generation GCMs could not reproduce. …”

Lab-to-Market Design of an Electrodialysis-Based Home-Scale Water Desalination System by Floryan, Marie, Bowers, Quinn, Sternberg, Zachary, Gembali, Sahas, Goyal, Akshita, Bessette, Jonathan, Honarparvar, Soraya, Winter, Amos

“…Water scarcity is increasingly becoming a problem in India, so much so that a recently proposed piece of legislation would mandate home-scale water desalination systems to have a 60% recovery ratio [1], significantly higher than existing systems. …”
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Toward intelligent multizone thermal control with multiagent deep reinforcement learning by Li, Jie, Zhang, Wei, Gao, Guanyu, Wen, Yonggang, Jin, Guangyu, Christopoulos, Georgios

“…However, most of them either make the over-simplified assumption on thermal comfort with unsatisfied comfort performance or deal with the single-zone thermal control only with limited practical impact. A few preliminary pieces of research on multi-zone control are available, but they fail to keep pace with the latest advancements in the deep learning-based control techniques. …”
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“A wound that has been festering since 2007”: The Burma/Myanmar naming controversy and the problem of rarely challenged assumptions on Wikipedia by Luyt, Brendan

“…But this debate has other lessons for those interested in one of the world’s key pieces of information infrastructure. The paper aims to discuss these issues. …”
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Fracture toughness assessment of a solder joint using double cantilever beam specimens by Lee, Adeline Puay Chen, Lim, Zan Xuan, Yantara, Natalia, Loo, Shane Zhi Yuan, Tee, Tong Yan, Tan, Cher Ming, Chen, Zhong

“…Eutectic Sn-37Pb solder was used to join two pieces of the copper plates with controlled solder thickness. …”
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Energy efficient commercial buildings : a study of natural daylighting in the context of adaptive reuse by Crowley, John Stephen.

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Transfer optimization in complex engineering design by Tan, Alan Wei Min

“…Additionally, modern design cycles are often broken down into manageable pieces that are addressed by numerous teams working together in tandem. …”
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A 3D printed model for Singapore Changi Airport runway-taxiway for air traffic simulation and visualisation : part IV by Shahnas Farveen Mohamed Salim

“…The 3D model would be assembled from 3D printed pieces, utilizing a lego-concept. Moreover, the 3D printed Control Tower would have wireless cameras mounted on them to record and display the projection. …”
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Using AI for music source separation by Lee, Jasline Jie Yu

“…It is the task of isolating individual instrument source signals that we are interested in from a music piece. In recent years, supervised deep learning methods are known to be state-of-the-art source separation technology and can be categorised as Spectrogram-based and Waveform-based methods. …”
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Sleep monitoring by millimeter wave radar sensor by Ma, Yuchen

“…This project trends a piece of news that happened this year, in China. …”
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Detection of crop fields in Ukraine using S1_MSI index by Vaishnavi, Inbanathan

“…A classification approach using S1_MSI temporal data, which categorizes pieces of Ukrainian land to either cropland or non-cropland was proposed to detect crop fields accurately. …”
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An assimilation of experience. by Mehraj Nisha.

“…She pulled out the coffee-stained, off-white pouch and looked inside for coins, dropped a rupee into the payphone and took out a small piece of wrinkled paper from her pocket. Arundhati Roy writes in her essay ‘Confronting Empire’ about the power the people of developing nations have when confronting the corporate empire. …”
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Online game for Chinese chess by Lee, Jia Woei.

“…Research from various sources such as internet, books and journals was done to enhance in understanding of the development of an online Chinese Chess game.The results had indicated that a simple move of a chess piece involves a lot of checking and consideration on the types of moves possible. …”
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In memory of Aureliano's ice. by Ho, Jia Xuan.

“…These repeated images suggest hints of conflicting emotions, a thin line between sentimentalism and obsession, yet undeniably, there seems to be more meaning attached to this piece of memory than what is actually revealed. Possibly, José Arcadio Buendía‟s assessment of ice as “the great invention of our time” may have made a permanent imprint on Aureliano‟s memory, yet one cannot underestimate the “boiling” impact of his personal experience (18). …”
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Revisiting “conversations between father and son” by Ong, Bendini Junior Boon Kok

“…Conversations Between Father and Son (2010) was a part documentary; part obsequy; part performance piece dedicated as a tribute to Marla’s father who died in 2009. …”
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中朝古代桃花源文学比较研究 = A comparative study of peach blossom literature in ancient China and Korea by 蔡佳敏 Cai, Jiamin

“…Based on the above concerns, this paper directs its focus on the literary pieces comprising of the peach blossom imagery, and analyzes how ancient Chinese and Korean poets illustrate the peach blossom with an elaboration on the landscape, the upheaval and the retiracy, all of which are based on Tao Yuan Ming's portrayal. …”
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Run-up related to onshore tsunami flows by Sim, Shawn Yisheng

“…The trim-line recorded by surveyors is one of the most valuable pieces of information needed to determine the hydrodynamics parameters of the tsunami. …”
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Exploration of a low-cost radar and image processing by Zhang, Xingwen

“…The background information and details of how the experiments are conducted are illustrated in detail in the following section of this report. Key pieces of the coding are also included and explained in sequence.…”
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Possibilities and pitfalls? Moderate drinking and alcohol abstinence at home since the COVID-19 lockdown by Nicholls, Emily, Conroy, Dom

“…The global ‘lockdowns’ and social distancing measures triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic have brought about unprecedented social changes, including the sudden, temporary closure of licensed venues and significant modifications to leisure and drinking practices. In this piece, we argue that these changes invite researchers to consider the short and longer-term consequences in terms of continuities and changes to the practices and symbolism of alcohol consumption both within and beyond domestic spaces. …”
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Furniture form innovation and human–machine comfort evaluation model based on genetic algorithm by Yifan, Bai, Kamarudin, Khairul Manami, Alli, Hassan

“…Customers are no longer content material to buy fixtures in bulk, preferring as an alternative to choose pieces that are extra suitable to their own necessities and people in their homes, to higher fulfill primary demands and cope with problems like cramped quarters. …”
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