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The communicative function of public spaces
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Taylor and Francis
, 2018 , Book chapter)
The study of urban spaces has attracted increasing attention over past decades partly due to the symbolic role attached to them and their use by social movements. City squares and other prominent urban spaces are becoming ...
Overview of the CLEF-2018 checkthat! lab on automatic identification and verification of political claims
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Springer Verlag
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. In its starting year, the lab featured two tasks. Task 1 asked to predict which (potential) claims ...
The role of statistics in data-centric engineering
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
We explore the role of statistics for Big Data analysis arising from the emerging field of Data-Centric Engineering. Using examples related to sensor-instrumented bridges, we highlight a number of issues and challenges. ...
Design and synthesis of novel thioethers derived from 1,5-diphenyl-6-thioxo-6,7-dihydro-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-4(5H)-ones as antiangiogenic agents
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Bentham
, 2018 , Article)
Background: In attempts to discover new antiangiogenic entities, a novel series of thioethers derived from 6-thioxo-6,7-dihydro-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine-4(5H)ones was considered and designed. Methods: Virtual screening ...
Fabrication and characterization of size-selected Cu nanoclusters using a magnetron sputtering source
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
Copper nanoclusters are used widely in applications such as glucose and gas sensors. A physical method is used to produce copper nanoclusters utilizing an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) system. Using a quadrupole mass filter ...
Mix and match: Collaborative expert-crowd judging for building test collections accurately and affordably
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CEUR-WS
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Crowdsourcing offers an affordable and scalable means to collect relevance judgments for information retrieval test collections. However, crowd assessors may showhigher variance in judgment quality than trusted assessors. ...
Integrated assortment planning and store-wide shelf space allocation: An optimization-based approach
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This paper investigates retail assortment planning along with store-wide shelf space allocation in a manner that maximizes the overall store profit. Each shelf comprises a set of contiguous segments whose attractiveness ...
Impact of Surfactant on the Retention of CO2 and Methane in Carbonate Reservoirs
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American Chemical Society
, 2018 , Article)
Enhanced gas recovery methods such as foamed CO2 are recommended for depleted gas reservoirs. Viscoelastic surfactant (VES) is a form of a surfactant used for forming CO2 foam. In this study, the impact of VES on CH4 and ...
Flipping introductory programming class: Potentials, challenges, and research gaps
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Association for Computing Machinery
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
This paper discusses the suitability of adopting flipped classroom model as instructional method to teach introductory computer programming courses at higher education. It explores how the potentials of this model can be ...
Synthesis and Characterization of Polyaniline, Poly(3-fluoroaniline), and Poly(aniline-co-3-fluoroaniline) Derivatives Obtained by Chemical Oxidative Polymerization Methods
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Taylor and Francis Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
The syntheses of thermally stable, conducting polyaniline, poly(3-fluoroaniline), and poly(aniline-co-3-fluoroaniline) derivatives by chemical oxidative polymerization methods are described. By varying the mol% of ...