Minority ethnic pupils in the longitudinal study of young people in England (Extension report on performance in public examinations at age 16) by Strand, S

“…There is evidence that many ethnic groups make stronger educational progress during Key Stage 4 (KS4) than they do during KS3 (Strand, 2006; Demie and Strand, 2006; Wilson et al, 2005). …”

Near-term deployment of novel carbon removal to facilitate longer-term deployment by Nemet, GF, Gidden, MJ, Greene, J, Roberts, C, Lamb, WF, Minx, JC, Smith, SM, Geden, O, Riahi, K

“…<p>Scenarios&mdash;which account for the costs of and interactions among different mitigation options&mdash;show that we will need to remove hundreds of gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere over the course of the century to limit warming to well below 2&deg;C, make efforts to limit it to 1.5&deg;C, and ensure the sustained well-being of our planet. …”

Framework of key success criteria for high performance and sustainable ports - port management perspective by Lee, Nicole Jia Ying

“…Methodology: Triangulation approach is employed, beginning with a broad-to-narrow literature review to derive preliminary KSC that make up the Conceptual Framework. Following which, interviews were conducted with three interviewees who are well versed in port management in order to make revisions to the framework, yielding the Revised Framework. …”
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Formal Privacy Proof of Data Encoding: The Possibility and Impossibility of Learnable Encryption by Xiao, Hanshen, Suh, G. Edward, Devadas, Srinivas

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Interface and surface cation stoichiometry modified by oxygen vacancies in epitaxial manganite films by Li, Zhi Peng, Bosman, Michel, Yang, Zhen, Ren, Peng, Wang, Lan, Zhu, Weiguang, Dong, Zhili, Foo, Yong Lim, Cao, Liang, Yu, Xiaojiang, Ke, Chang, Breese, Mark B. H., Rusydi, Andrivo

“…This finding suggests that the oxygen pressure serves as a tuning parameter for the interfacial dead layers and, hence, for control over device properties.…”
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Modification of PVDF hollow fiber membrane with ZnO structure via hydrothermal for enhanced antifouling property in membrane distillation by Tai, Zhong Sheng, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Tajul Arifin, Nur Dhuhaa, Mohd. Hisam, Nur Aina Shazana, Muhamad Iqbal, Rendy, Ab. Rahman, Mazlinda, Wan Mustapa, Wan Nurul Ffazida, Kadirkhan, Farahdila, Puteh, Mohd. Hafiz, Jaafar, Juhana, A. Rahman, Mukhlis

“…This membrane demonstrates a flux of 4.0 kg/m2h and excellent salt rejection (>99.9 %) in direct contact MD (DCMD) when treating a 35 g/L saline solution. …”

Fibre Bragg grating based system for real-time railway monitoring by Li Jing

“…Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensor technology has created considerable interest in both academic institutions and industrial sectors over the past few years. In particular, there are potentially huge benefits to transportation industry especially the railways. …”
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All about VLAD by Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A

“…These two methods set a new state-of-the-art over all benchmarks investigated here for both mid-dimensional (20k-D to 30k-D) and small (128-D) descriptors. …”

Enhancing exemplar SVMs using part level transfer regularization by Aytar, Y, Zisserman, A

“…In CBIR applications, where the aim is to retrieve instances of the same object class in a similar pose, the EE-SVM is able to tolerate increased levels of intra-class variation and deformation over E-SVM, and thereby increases recall. <br> We make the following contributions: (a) introduce the EE-SVM objective function; (b) demonstrate the improvement in performance of EE-SVM over E-SVM for CBIR; and, (c) show that there is an equivalence between transfer regularization and feature augmentation for this problem and others, with the consequence that the new objective function can be optimized using standard libraries. …”

Actuator disk methods for tidal turbine arrays by Hunter, W

“…At first glance one might imagine that tidal stream energy can be treated as wind with appropriate adjustment for fluid properties of water over air, and account taken of the harsher offshore environment; both waves and turbulence.…”

Cyanobacteria blooms in tropical reservoirs by Quek, Geraldine Wei Shan.

“…This study focused on the analysis of changes over time in growth rate and microcystin content of varied phosphorous and iron level for Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806 (Access No CS548) and Anabaena flos-aquae lemmermannii (Access No. …”
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Learning to become ignorant: Improving the quality of epistemic knowledge in science education by Tan, Michael, Koh, Teck Seng

“…In considering goals for science education, it is conventional to make arguments for the utility of scientific knowledge for a variety of purposes. …”
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Design of slender concrete column using chinese design code GB50010-2010 by Chen, Qiaofen

“…Regular reviews and amendments of slender concrete column design in GB50010-2010 shall be made by professional bodies if necessary…”
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Rediscovering Homo sapiens in international politics: evolution and rationality’s missing link by Johnson, D

“…Human decision-making and behavior does not match the definition of either “rationality” or “non-rationality,” and is much better described as “adaptive rationality,” honed over the millennia to compete strategically for survival and reproduction under conditions of uncertainty. …”

The study of demand response programs for energy management in microgrids by Koh, Samantha Yuan Yun

“…In this report, a numerical simulation will be performed over a load profile to make a comparison with a model where demand response program is incorporated. …”
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Money-income and credit-income relationships during the pre- and the post-liberalization periods: evidence from Malaysia by Azali, M., Matthews, K.G.P.

“…After the liberalization of financial market, however, money as well as credit innovations were proven to make significant contribution to the output fluctuation.…”

Development of a fiber optic gradient hydrophone by Mei, Suo Hai.

“…Fiber optic hydrophones have been under development since 1970s, and have been proven to have many advantages over their traditional counterparts, such as PZT hydrophones. …”
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Optimizing Wildfire Suppression: A branch-and-price-and-cut approach by Wachspress, Jacob

“…In periods of intense, synchronous wildfire activity, fire system managers must make rapid fire prioritization decisions over a disperse geographic area with limited suppression resources. …”
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Autonomy Work: Personhood, Expertise, and Activism of Disabled AI Data Workers in China by Wu, Di

“…The study draws on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork, conducted over three years, with disabled activists, disabled workers, employment advocates, tech company staff, and government officials. …”
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Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Ramapurath Chemmencheri, S

“…Their struggles for land and decent work continue perpetually over generations in spite of several decades of development intervention at the sub-national level. …”