The passive voice in scientific writing. The current norm in science journals by Leong, Ping Alvin

“…Passives were typically used in main clauses, followed by relative and adverbial clauses. …”
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A discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for the no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem with the total tardiness criterion by Tasgetiren, M. Fatih., Pan, Quan-Ke., Suganthan, P. N., Oner, Adalet.

“…Secondly, some novel methods of calculating the total tardiness from makespan are introduced for the no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem. Finally, the main contribution of the paper is due to the fact that a novel speed-up method for the insertion neighborhood is developed for the total tardiness criterion. …”
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Femtosecond laser-induced graphene for flexible electronics by Le, Truong-Son Dinh

“…Exploration of these novel methodologies may pave the way for the development and commercialization of high-performance graphene-based flexible electronics. The main objective of this research is three-fold: (1) establishment of an effective methodology for the direct fabrication of graphene and its composites on thin, flexible, and heat-sensitive substrates/precursors using femtosecond laser, (2) comprehension of the structures and properties of the produced materials, and (3) development of applications in flexible electronics to demonstrate technological capability.…”
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Real time multiple object tracking using deep features and localization information by Karunasekera, Hasith, Zhang, Handuo, Wang, Han

“…Location measure is calculated using the predicted object location and bounding box, while the appearance measure is from the last feature layer from the detection network. Main focus in this work is to propose a tracking framework that can be used in real time automated vehicle guiding applications, by striking a balance between computational complexity and tracking accuracy. …”
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Machine learning in additive manufacturing : state-of-the-art and perspectives by Wang, Chengcheng, Tan, Xipeng, Tor, Shu Beng, Lim, C.S.

“…Lastly, it concludes with a section summarizing the main findings from the literature and providing perspectives on some selected interesting applications of ML in research and development of AM.…”
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How to optimize the supply and allocation of medical emergency resources during public health emergencies by Wang, Chunyu, Deng, Yue, Yuan, Ziheng, Zhang, Chijun, Zhang, Fan, Cai, Qing, Gao, Chao, Kurths, Jurgen

“…The solutions to the supply and allocation of medical emergency resources during public health emergencies greatly affect the efficiency of epidemic prevention and control. Currently, the main problem in computational epidemiology is how the allocation scheme should be adjusted in accordance with epidemic trends to satisfy the needs of population coverage, epidemic propagation prevention, and the social allocation balance. …”
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Data-driven adaptive control for laser-based additive manufacturing with automatic controller tuning by Chen, Lequn, Yao, Xiling, Chew, Youxiang, Weng, Fei, Moon, Seung Ki, Bi, Guijun

“…Experimental validations show improvements in the geometric accuracy and melt pool consistency of controlled samples. The main advantage of the proposed controller is that it can adapt to DED processes with different part shapes, materials, tool paths, and process parameters without tweaking. …”
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Exploring translation strategies for Chinese dialogue and buzzwords based on 星星上的花（The Flower on the Stars） by Wan, Wenyi

“…During the translation process, two main problems are found: on the one hand, the problem concerning the grasp of language style and register, and the corresponding problem of how to choose words in the face of diverse texts; on the other hand, the problem of how to translate Chinese buzzwords in English. …”
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Development of blockchain-based platform for vehicle-vehicle, vehicle-grid and grid-vehicle energy trading by Tan, Edmund Yong Kian

“…Using the P2P energy trading concept and a blockchain platform such as Ethereum, it can benefit prosumers as the main advantage of Ethereum is that it has smart contract which allows transaction to be done automatically. …”
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Urban intensity parameterisation by Noor Azzy Zulkifli

“…To determine the monthly electricity consumption in Singapore by planning area, electricity data from the Singapore Energy Statistics 2018 by the Energy Market Authority (EMA) (2018) as well as the land use plan in the Master Plan 2014 by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) (2014) were used as the main data sources. The calculations for the electricity consumption were further divided into four sectors which were Households, Transport-related, Industrial-related and Commerce & Services-related. …”
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Sproutly : plantable packaging by Dhanusha Surendran

“…As such, the packaging germinates when planted. The main findings show that supermarkets are flooding the planet with single-use plastics to portion out products conveniently and cheaply for consumption. …”
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Design of a battery-operated portable DC power supply. Part 1 : voltage output control by Saw, Khai Guan

“…Whether in homes, schools, or workplaces, our daily routines rely heavily on various types of electronic equipment running on DC voltage. Batteries are a main source of DC power supply when it comes to delivering constant DC voltage to these electronic devices. …”
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Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles in Singapore by Ong, Hui Ying

“…Thus, this project aims to analyse the extent of influence of factors – cost of owning an electric vehicle, availability of charging infrastructure, brand and variety of electric vehicles, charging time and driving range of electric vehicles, and environmental impacts of electric vehicles, on the demand for electric vehicles and thus carry out a forecast for the demand. The main mode of data collection is through a survey conducted online to gather responses of people’s attitudes towards electric vehicles and their knowledge of electric vehicle related government policies. …”
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Content-aware personalised rate adaptation for adaptive streaming via deep video analysis by Gao, Guanyu, Dong, Linsen, Zhang, Huaizheng, Wen, Yonggang, Zeng, Wenjun

“…One common case is that the user may expect higher quality for the parts of video content that are more interesting or informative so as to reduce overall subjective quality loss. This creates two main challenges for such a problem: First, how to determine which parts of the video content are more interesting? …”
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A distributed control scheme of thermostatically controlled loads for the building-microgrid community by Wang, Yu, Tang, Yi, Xu, Yan, Xu, Yinliang

“…In this paper, thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs), e.g., air conditioners, are utilized to mitigate the photovoltaic and load variations in a building-microgrid community, so that the whole community can provide ancillary services, e.g., fulfilling the power dispatch order from the main grid. First, a distributed control scheme with a two-layer hierarchical communication graph is proposed. …”
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Modeling entity and event relations in scientific documents for supporting knowledge discovery and organization by Wu, Yejun

“…The paper then proposes a combined entity and event relationship model based on the strengths of the existing event ontologies. Five main kinds of entity and event relationships are identified from an oil spill document set. …”
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Design and optimization of conformal cooling channels for injection molding : a review by Kanbur, Baris Burak, Shen, Suping, Duan, Fei

“…This review study presents the main design steps of CCCs as follows: (1) a background of the CCC fabrication process is projected, (2) the thermal and mechanical models are presented with respect to the 1D analytical model, (3) the CAE-supported design criteria are discussed for the 3D models of CCCs and relevant mold materials, (4) some of the illustrative CAE simulations are explained in detail according to the computational thermal and mechanical objectives, and (5) the single- and multi-objective optimization procedures are defined. …”
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Across the conceptual divide? Chinese migration policies seen through historical and comparative lenses by van Dongen, Els

“…The article posits the following three main points. First, literature on the Global South is valuable for theorizing Chinese migration policies in that it highlights emigration and development rather than immigration as in the “migration state” (Hollifield). …”
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Crowd-based people detection using deep learning by Chen, Lei

“…Specifically, this challenge is broken into two main difficulties: multi-scale problems and occlusion problems. …”
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Predicting EPL results with Elo rating, league simulation and machine learning prediction model by Ching, Kai Teng

“…Even past results may be skewed as there are home teams and away teams in football matches and past results sometimes may be skewed towards having a weaker opponent. The main objective of this project is to explore different techniques that are logical to try and predict the outcome and scores of football matches that happen in the English Premier League, with Machine Learning , Elo rating and League simulation.The different techniques and hypotheses will be tested and the accuracy of the results will be tested for all different techniques to see which of the system works the best and in which types of conditions. …”
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