Tangible Telepresence: Distributed and Synchronous Tangible Interfaces for Enhancing Interpersonal Connectedness over Time and Space by Choi, Kyung Yun

“…Insights from these projects contribute to a deeper understanding of TeleTangibles' design space and the factors influencing their effectiveness in promoting interpersonal connectedness and social presence. The main contributions of this thesis are threefold: First, it extends real-time synchronous remote interaction to include asynchronous interaction through time-delayed responses, allowing individuals to adjust their levels of connectedness and enabling smooth transitions between interaction modes. …”
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Kazhdan-Laumon Categories and Representations by Morton-Ferguson, Calder

“…We then study the braid group action on D superscript b (G/U) (the main ingredient in Kazhdan and Laumon’s construction) and show that it categorifies the algebra of braids and ties, an algebra previously studied in knot theory; we then use this to provide conceptual and geometric proofs of new results about this algebra. …”
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Small molecule motion within and through organic nanomaterials: an anthology by Kaser, Sam

“…Chapter 1 provides a holistic introduction to key background for the main body chapters, Chapters 2-4. The work outlined in the Chapters 2 and 3 was completed under the supervision of Prof. …”
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Refining Hardware of Desktop Fiber Extrusion Devices for Affordable Manufacturing and Novel Fiber Prototyping by Glasser, Kaili

“…This thesis encompasses two main objectives: enhancing the hardware design and assembly processes for the final 2024 educational FrED model, and developing an alternative design for an advanced FrED version suitable for academic lab settings to rapidly prototype synthetic fibers. …”
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In Tension: Computational exploration of the design space of tensile network structures by Burke, Adam T.

“…To address this limitation, I introduce a new tool set consisting of two main components, Ariadne and Theseus. These components take advantage of automatic differentiation of objective functions for efficient tensile network simulation and provide a user interface for architects, engineers, and other designers as a plugin for a commonly used 3d modeling software. …”
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15.912 Technology Strategy, Spring 2005 by Henderson, Rebecca

“…This is not a course in how to manage product or process development. The main focus is on the acquisition of a set of powerful analytical tools which are critical for the development of a technology strategy as an integral part of business strategy. …”
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Bagan Mural project : building a robust digital library on Wordpress by Chia, Yew Boon, Ng, Kiak Peng

“…This would lower the barriers for librarians who are keen to offer digital content management services but are deterred by the complexity of elaborate content management systems. 2) There should be adequate communication between the librarians and the faculty member involved so that a storage platform fully customized to his needs can be created. 3) In providing an alternative to traditional content management systems, it is important that the social media tools do not distract users from the main content but add value to the user experience.…”
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Block pilot based channel estimation and high-accuracy signal detection for GSM-OFDM systems on high-speed railways by Gong, Bo, Gui, Lin, Luo, Sheng, Guan, Yong Liang, Liu, Zilong, Fan, Pingzhi

“…In this paper, generalized spatial modulation-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing is introduced to wireless communication system on high-speed railways for the first time. There are two main challenges to be tackled. On the one hand, channel estimation is difficult as small number of subcarriers are activated; on the other hand, as both the dimensions of the channel matrix and the number of nonzero elements of the unknown signals are large, the matching based and the compressive sensing based signal detectors may not work effectively. …”
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Simulation of train induced forced wind draft for generating electrical power from Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) by Chilugodu, Nikhita, Yoon, Yong-Jin, Chua, Kah Soon, Datta, Dhruv, Baek, Jong Dae, Park, Taezoon, Park, Woo-Tae

“…The understanding of the vertical profile of wind speed specifications of wind turbines, has led to an invention of a unique idea of integrating a hydraulic lift in the main body of the wind turbine to maximize its potential of harvesting wind energy at greater altitudes due to increase in wind speed by 6%. …”
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Insights on the solubilization products after combined alkaline and ultrasonic pre-treatment of sewage sludge by Lin, Leonard, Ng, Wun Jern, Tian, Xinbo, Wang, Chong, Trzcinski, Antoine Prandota

“…Excitation emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy analysis identified soluble microbial product-like and humic acid-like matters as the main solubilization products. Sludge anaerobic biodegradability was significantly enhanced with the simultaneous application of ALK + ULS pre-treatment. …”
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Modelling self-awareness in social robot by Zhang, Jiaheng

“…This project was able to improve this study, implementing state-of-the-art methods at each stage of sentiment and information extraction. This project’s main contributions include the implementation of Huggingface NeuralCoref for Coreference Resolution, Window method for Character Relationship Strength Analysis, Stanford CoreNLP Open Information Extraction (and post-processing method) for Direction of Sentiment and Scope of Analysis, VADER Sentiment Analysis for Sentiment Analysis, EmoLex Sentiment Analysis for Emotion Analysis. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance and research methodology by Li, Wei

“…Chapter one aims to understand whether investor-paid credit rating agency (CRA) can improve rated firms’ information transparency. It has two main findings. First, the coverage of Egan Jones Ratings (EJR) – an investor-paid CRA – leads to an increase in rated firms’ stock price informativeness. …”
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Photonic engineering technology for the development of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Zeng, Yongquan, Qiang, Bo, Wang, Qi Jie

“…However, the applications of THz QCL require good output characteristics in terms of the emission spectrum, beam quality, power efficiency, and polarization control, which are beyond the reach of the electronic engineering techniques. The main focus here is placed on photonic engineering of the THz QCLs with attention to the significant improvement of THz QCL output characteristics. …”
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Design of robot integrated restaurant by Santhosh Pandiaraj

“…With the assistance of AI, these robots are now able to carry out complex tasks as good as human beings or ever better helping to reduce their cost of production. The main issue right now would the rising cost of labour due to the shortage of manpower in Food and Beverages (F&B) industry. …”
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Is Africa’s growing public debt really crowding out private investment? by Mulangu, Francis

“…Whether debt levels are rising is not the real issue. The main concern should be on whether the returns on public investment exceed the interest rates paid on the loans that fund them. …”
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Numerical investigations on an improved counterflow double-channel micro combustor fueled with hydrogen for enhancing thermal performance by Zuo, Wei, E, Jiaqiang, Lin, Rongming

“…To make a quantitative comparison, the main results are presented as follows: (a) The improved combustor achieves the largest thermal enhancement at the hydrogen mass flow rate of 5.25 × 10−7 kg/s when the hydrogen mass flow rate is ranged from 5.25 × 10−7 kg/s to 9.8245 × 10−7 kg/s. …”
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Pedestrian heading estimation based on spatial transformer networks and hierarchical LSTM by Wang, Qu, Luo, Haiyong, Ye, Langlang, Men, Aidong, Zhao, Fang, Huang, Yan, Ou, Changhai

“…Heading error is one of the main error sources of pedestrian dead reckoning. …”
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Correlating the performance of a fire-retardant coating across different scales of testing by Ng, Yan Hao, Zope, Indraneel Suhas, Dasari, Aravind, Tan, Kang Hai

“…This manuscript explores the fundamental relationships across different scales of testing with the help of a fire-protective system based on acrylic resin with a typical combination of intumescent additives, viz. ammonium polyphosphate, pentaerythritol, and expandable graphite. One of the main outcomes of this work dictates that higher heat release rate values and larger amounts of material participating in the pyrolysis process per unit time will result in a rapid rise in steel substrate temperature. …”
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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

“…Eustasy and glacio- and hydro-isostatic adjustment are the main drivers of regional variability of Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) records. …”
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Visual analytics Usiug artificial intelligence (image recognition for fauna species in Singapore : front-end development) by Goh, Jin Wei

“…This project is a full-stack mobile application development project, and it is divided into three stages, which are deep-learning model development, back-end development, and front-end development. The main objective of the project is to identify and classify fauna species in Singapore by performing fine-grained image classification on a mobile phone. …”
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