Dynamic request redirection and elastic service scaling in cloud-centric media networks by Tang, Jianhua, Tay, Wee Peng, Wen, Yonggang

“…Applying our proposed strategy to a YouTube request trace data set shows that our strategy outperforms various benchmark strategies. …”
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Controlled synthesis of cubic and hexagonal phase lanthanide doped NaYF4 up-converters by Ho, John Chun Wan.

“…Co-precipitation using sodium fluoride (NaF) and yttrium, ytterbium and erbium nitrates in presence of disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (Na2-EDTA) was deployed to synthesize cubic NaYF4:Yb,Er nanocrystals followed by annealing to enable the cubic to hexagonal phase transition at high temperature. Hexagonal with trace amounts of cubic NaYF4:Yb,Er crystals with narrow size distribution are produced. …”
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New insights into transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) formation from precursor materials at various Na+/Ca2+ ratios by Meng, Shujuan, Liu, Yu

“…Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) are planktonic, organic microgels which play significant roles in cycling of carbon and trace elements, aggregation of particles, feeding and accommodating microbes as well as development of biofilms. …”
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Slip deficit in central Nepal: omen for a repeat of the 1344 AD earthquake? by Bollinger, L., Tapponnier, Paul, Sapkota, S. N., Klinger, Y.

“…By contrast, the 1344 or 1408 AD earthquake may have ruptured the MFT up to the surface in central Nepal between Kathmandu and Pokhara, east of the surface trace of the great 1505 AD earthquake which affected western Nepal. …”
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Behavior of the southernmost San Andreas fault during the past 300 years by Sieh, Kerry, Williams, Patrick L.

“…In view of its long-term behavior, the occurrence of creep along the surficial trace of the fault in the Coachella Valley is of particular interest. …”
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Petrogenesis of Permian high-Mg diorites in the northern margin of the North China Craton: Evidence of crust–mantle interaction by Li, M, Xu, X, Palin, RM

“…This paper presents zircon and titanite U–Pb and bulk −rock major element, trace element, mineral major element and Sr–Nd–Pb–Hf isotope data for newly discovered Xinhure high-Mg diorite from the northern margin of the North China Craton (NCC). …”

Joyce's Blake: troubling idealism by Harder, M

“…Quotations from and references to Blake occur across Joyce’s writing and in his early reception, but these have not received comprehensive study. I trace Blake’s role within Joyce’s shifting conceptions of artistic ambition. …”

Language and ‘postcolonial shame': the politics of policy, curriculum and classroom practices in urban India by Gupta, M

“…Overall, the thesis seeks to trace the creation of a ‘linguistic habitus’ of shame for students through their interactions with the school, the home and the world outside. …”

An Optimal Tradeoff between Entanglement and Copy Complexity for State Tomography by Chen, Sitan, Li, Jerry, Liu, Allen

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The Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters at High Spatial Resolution with Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) by Russell, Helen R., Lopez, Laura A., Allen, Steven W., Chartas, George, Choudhury, Prakriti Pal, Dupke, Renato A., Fabian, Andrew C., Flores, Anthony M., Garofali, Kristen, Hodges-Kluck, Edmund, Koss, Michael J., Lanz, Lauranne, Lehmer, Bret D., Li, Jiang-Tao, Maksym, W. Peter, Mantz, Adam B., McDonald, Michael, Miller, Eric D., Mushotzky, Richard F., Qiu, Yu, Reynolds, Christopher S., Tombesi, Francesco, Tozzi, Paolo, Trindade-Falcão, Anna, Walker, Stephen A., Wong, Ka-Wah, Yukita, Mihoko, Zhang, Congyao

“…AXIS will untangle the interactions of winds, radiation, jets, and supernovae with the surrounding interstellar medium across the wide range of mass scales and large volumes driving galaxy evolution and trace the establishment of feedback back to the main event at cosmic noon. …”
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Envisioning Water: Sustainability and Future-Making in Dubai and Los Angeles by Christidi, Nadia

“…Throughout the dissertation, I trace the plans, projects, and policies being introduced in this vein to consider how ‘sustainability’ initiatives play out and get negotiated through the socio-political and political economic structures in the two cities to unique effects. …”
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Accelerating Practical Engineering Design Optimization with Computational Graph Transformations by Sharpe, Peter D.

“…Third, it presents a novel technique to automatically trace sparsity through certain external black-box functions by exploiting IEEE 754 handling of not-a-number (NaN) values. …”
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Environmental perspectives of recycling various combustion ashes in cement production – a review by Yin, Ke, Ahamed, Ashiq, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Herein, recycling various combustion ashes, such as municipal solid waste incineration fly ashes (MSWI FA), municipal solid waste incineration bottom ashes (MSWI BA), coal fly ashes (CFA), coal bottom ashes (CBA), blast furnace slags (BFS), biomass ashes (BIOA), sewage sludge ashes (SSA) and different co-combustion ashes (CCA), were comprehensively reviewed, from environmental perspectives combined with statistical data analysis (e.g. bulk components, trace metals, leaching potential, and etc.), to quantitatively explore their feasibility during cement production. …”
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3D deep learning on medical images : a review by Singh, Satya P., Wang, Lipo, Gupta, Sukrit, Goli, Haveesh, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs

“…In recent years, three-dimensional (3D) CNNs have been employed for the analysis of medical images. In this paper, we trace the history of how the 3D CNN was developed from its machine learning roots, we provide a brief mathematical description of 3D CNN and provide the preprocessing steps required for medical images before feeding them to 3D CNNs. …”
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Efficient computation of the Nagaoka–Hayashi bound for multiparameter estimation with separable measurements by Conlon, Lorcán O., Suzuki, Jun, Lam, Ping Koy, Assad, Syed Muhamad

“…One such bound is the Holevo Cramér–Rao bound on the trace of the mean squared error matrix. The Holevo bound is an asymptotically achievable bound when one allows for any measurement strategy, including collective measurements on many copies of the probe. …”
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Evaluating surrogate correlation models and iodinated haloacetic acid formation of iodinated contrast media after LPUV/Cl₂, LPUV/NH₂Cl, and LPUV/H₂O₂ by Lopez-Prieto, Israel J., Daniels, Kevin D., Wu, Shimin, Snyder, Shane Allen

“…Iodinated X-ray contrast media (ICM) are a class of pharmaceuticals that are ubiquitously found at trace levels (μg/L) in wastewater, surface water, groundwater, and drinking water. …”
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Stigma-making and narrative ethics in Singaporean cultural representations of HIV and AIDS by Hyder, Sophia

“…The first chapter uncovers the origins of Singaporean stigma, tracing it to western notions of decadence and deviance. …”
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GBGVD: growth-based geodesic Voronoi diagrams by Qi, Yunjia, Zong, Chen, Zhang, Yunxiao, Chen, Shuangmin, Xu, Minfeng, Ran, Lingqiang, Xu, Jian, Xin, Shiqing, He, Ying

“…Based on the observation, we develop an unfolding technique to compute the ordinary points of the GVD, as well as a growth-based technique to stretch the traced bisector segments such that they finally grow into a complete GVD. …”
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中国盗墓小说研究 ：以《鬼吹灯》为探讨中心 = Research on Chinese Tomb-raiding novel : taking “Candle in tomb” as an example by 王莹 Wang, Ying

“…This paper is been divided into three main points. First, to trace the source of tomb-raiding narration, to understand the tomb-raiding narration in Chinese classical literature and its social value at the time. …”
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Effectiveness and user experience of nose and throat swabbing techniques for SARS-CoV-2 detection: results from the UK COVID-19 National Testing Programme by Futschik, ME, Kulasegaran-Shylini, R, Blandford, E, Harper, S, Chapman, D, Turek, E, Agrawal, S, Phillips, V, Fordham, H, Chan, L, Kidd, M, Dodgson, A, Klapper, PE, Sudhanva, M, Vipond, R, Hopkins, S, Peto, T, Tunkel, S, Fowler, T

“…Background: The UK’s National Health Service Test and Trace (NHSTT) program aimed to provide the most effective and accessible SARS-CoV-2 testing approach possible. …”