A high efficiency buck converter for IoT sensors by Mo, Mingwei

“…With the surge in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, from smart homes to Industry 4.0 and healthcare, there's a critical need for power-efficient DC-DC converters to support the wide operational spectrum of IoT devices, especially those powered by Li-ion batteries. …”
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System optimization of an absorption refrigeration system by Chan, Ryan Yaowei

“…Most conventional air-conditional unit used in homes and offices are high power consumption. Hence, contributing to the high cost in electricity bills. …”
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The Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Pillar 2: interventions and evidence by Fretheim, A, Onakpoya, I, Bartoszko, J, Jones, M, Gandini, S

“…Furthermore, the widespread nosocomial transmission in hospitals and long-term care homes and its devastating effects on the elderly require a better understanding of the role of the built environment as a risk factor. …”

Using smart energy meter data to design better policy: prepayment meter customers, fuel poverty and policy targeting in Great Britain by Fawcett, T, Palmer, J, Terry, N, Boardman, B, Narayan, U

“…Using smart meter data has enabled identification of groups in extreme need: 7 % of households use scarcely any energy, and no gas, for heating; 4 % self-disconnect for at least 240 h per year. More homes self-disconnected from gas during cold periods than at other times, despite the greater need for heating. …”

Adjustable wind selectivity in shearwaters implies knowledge of the foraging landscape by Harris, S, Bishop, C, Bond, S, Fernandes, P, Guilford, T, Lewin, P, Padget, O, Robins, P, Schneider, W, Waggitt, J, Wilmes, S, Cordes, L

“…First, shearwaters exhibit lower wind selectivity during homing movement when constrained to target-driven navigation toward the colony. …”

Furniture form innovation and human–machine comfort evaluation model based on genetic algorithm by Yifan, Bai, Kamarudin, Khairul Manami, Alli, Hassan

“…Customers are no longer content material to buy fixtures in bulk, preferring as an alternative to choose pieces that are extra suitable to their own necessities and people in their homes, to higher fulfill primary demands and cope with problems like cramped quarters. …”
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The Properties of Whiteness by Williams, Darien Alexander, Delgado, Laura Humm, Cameron, Nicholette, Steil, Justin

“…Drawing on archival analysis of documents regarding early 20th-century municipal segregation ordinances and legal analysis of court decisions regarding property and land use law, this study makes three primary contributions to the literature. First, it homes in on the origins of a persistent thread of a racialized collective right to exclude at the neighborhood scale, exercised by White residents through some of the United States’ earliest land use regulations. …”
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How Much Does It Really Cost? A Dynamic Approach to Building Retrofit Costs for Decarbonization Pathways by Kirkeby, Amanda

“…Several cost models are applied to a case study of 13,000 residences in Oshkosh, WI to predict costs for homeowners to retrofit their homes with three different upgrade packages. A willingness to pay analysis is then performed with upfront cost predictions from different models, illustrating the impact a more robust cost model may have in providing more realistic predictions of an upgrade strategy’s techno-economic success. …”
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Dissonances in care: childhood, well-being, and the politics of welfare in Japan by Chapman, CR

“…Japanese child welfare is a disaggregated system; I emphasize polyvocality to illuminate the nuances between varied spaces of care practice, ranging from casework agencies to the side streets of group homes. Caseworkers prioritized objectivity by eschewing rapport with children, psychologists valued a professional, lived relationship, and caregivers esteemed strong affective bonds irrespective of proximity. …”

A service evaluation of the implementation of a novel digital intervention for hypertension self-monitoring and management system in primary care (SHIP): protocol for a mixed metho... by Smith, A, Tucker, KL, Barnes, RK, Drakesmith, CW, Agwunobi, A, Bateman, PA, Forbes, A, de Lusignan, S, Ford, GA, Fujiwara, T, Hobbs, FR, Koshiaris, C, Mant, J, McKinstry, B, Pollock, S, Rice, C, Yang, Y, McManus, RJ

“…Informed by the non-adoption, abandonment, scale-up, spread, and sustainability (NASSS) framework, our analysis will identify the challenges to successful implementation and sustainability of the digital intervention in routine clinical practice and in patients’ homes. Ethics and dissemination: The analyses of pseudonymised data were assessed by the sponsor (The University of Oxford) as service evaluation not requiring individual consent and hence did not require ethical approval. …”

An encoding scheme capturing generic priors and properties of amino acids improves protein classification by Zhou, Xinrui, Yin, Rui, Zheng, Jie, Kwoh, Chee-Keong

“…The improved method is applied to protein classification at the functional level, including identifying antimicrobial peptides, screening tumor homing peptides, and detecting hemolytic peptides and phage virion proteins. …”
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Correlation of recombination and open circuit voltage in planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by Prochowicz, Daniel, Tavakoli, Mohammad Mahdi, Solanki, Ankur, Goh, Teck Wee, Sum, Tze Chien, Yadav, Pankaj

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Food environments and obesity: a geospatial analysis of the South Asia Biobank, income and sex inequalities by Atanasova, Petya, Kusuma, Dian, Pineda, Elisa, Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, De Silva, Laksara, Hanif, Abu A. M., Hasan, Mehedi, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Indrawansa, Susantha, Jayamanne, Deepal, Jha, Sujeet, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katulanda, Prasad, Khawaja, Khadija I., Kumarendran, Balachandran, Mrida, Malay K., Rajakaruna, Vindya, Chambers, John Campbell, Frost, Gary, Sassi, Franco, Miraldo, Marisa

“…Individual-level data (demographic, socio-economic, and health characteristics) were combined with exposure to healthy and unhealthy food environments measured with geolocations of food outlets (obtained through ground-truth surveys) within 300 m buffer zones around participants' homes. Multivariate regression models were used to assess association of exposure to healthy and unhealthy food environments on waist circumference, BMI, and probability of obesity for the total sample and stratified by sex and income. …”
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Human-Computer Interaction : Interaction Techniques and Novel Applications : Thematic Area, HCI 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Even... by International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (23rd : 2021 : Online) 642922, Kurosu, Masaaki, 1948-, editor 573627

Robust and efficient deep learning methods for vision-based action recognition by Xu, Yuecong

“…Vision-based action recognition, which performs action recognition based solely on RGB frames, has received strong research interest thanks to its wide applications in various fields, e.g. surveillance, smart homes, and autonomous driving. Significant progress has been made in vision-based action recognition thanks to the development of recognition technologies, particularly deep learning methods which have proven their effectiveness in visual recognition tasks, such as image classification. …”
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