The potential use of local index of biological integrity for tropical river assessment by Arman, Nor Zaiha

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Deep Reinforcement Learning in complex environments by Nardelli, N

“…Secondly, in a single-agent version of the same problem, we investigate how DRL can be used to develop a set of parameter-efficient differentiable planning modules to solve path-planning tasks with complex environment dynamics and variable map sizes. We show that the modules enable learning to plan when the environment also includes stochastic elements, providing a cost-efficient learning system to build low-level size-invariant planners for a variety of interactive, hard navigation problems. …”

Multiple introductions of NRCS-A Staphylococcus capitis to the neonatal intensive care unit drive neonatal bloodstream infections: a case-control and environmental genomic survey by Lees, EA, Gentry, J, Webster, H, Sanderson, N, Eyre, D, Wilson, D, Lipworth, S, Crook, D, Wong, THN, Mark, A, Jeffery, K, Paulus, S, Young, BC

“…Reads from all samples were mapped to a hybrid assembly of a local sterile site strain, forming a complete UK NRCS-A reference genome, for outbreak analysis and comparison with 826 other S. capitis from the UK and Germany.…”

Estimating building vulnerability to volcanic ash fall for insurance and other purposes by Jenkins, Susanna F., Magill, C. R., Wilson, T. M., McMullan, K., Kandlbauer, J., Blong, R. J., Grasso, P.

“…For insurance purposes, the current building typologies provided for use with vulnerability functions are too detailed to map to the relatively limited information on building types that is typically available to insurers. …”
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Unifying serverless and microservice workloads with SigmaOS by Szekely, Ariel, Belay, Adam, Morris, Robert, Kaashoek, M. Frans

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Lane-aware image enhancement for lane detection in rain (part B - communications) by Tian, Zichen

“…Besides, RVPGNet features in four innovative combination layers and algorithms: 1) To save computational resources, a new information combination layer, called the 4-tiling layer, was proposed and applied; Two new feeding schemes, called 2) N-map layer and 3) 2-D Gaussian feeding layer, were designed to utilize the vanishing point better and avoid training being trapped at the saddle point; 4) The network is implemented in Caffe framework and currently under construction in PyTorch framework. …”
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Picosecond charge localization dynamics in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ perovskite probed by infrared-activated vibrations by Stallhofer, Klara, Nuber, Matthias, Cortecchia, Daniele, Bruno, Annalisa, Kienberger, Reinhard, Deschler, Felix, Soci, Cesare, Iglev, Hristo

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Quantifying uncertainties in tropical cyclone wind hazard assessment due to synthetic track stochastic variability for Southeast Asia by Jian, Wei, Lo, Edmond Yat-Man, Stojanovski, Pane, Pan, Tso-Chien

“…Such insights enable better understanding on the key drivers of sensitivities in the probabilistic hazard maps. Our study complements the conventional hazard assessment using synthetic TC tracks by explicitly assessing the uncertainties from the underlying stochastic event catalogue. …”
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Induction of z-conformation in ribosomal RNA by Z-DNA binding domain Zα of the human double-stranded RNA deaminase I (ADAR1) by Zhao, Jing

“…ZαADAR1 mut also lacks the ability to induce Z-conformation in DNA and RNA. We also mapped the binding interfaces of ZαADAR1 to Z-DNA, Z-RNA and E.coli ribosomes, and found them to be identical. …”
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Air distribution and thermal comfort for active chilled beam systems by Wu, Bingjie

“…The full-scale distributions of air speed, temperature and humidity are mapped. Based on the data, the thermal comfort is comprehensively evaluated with indices of air diffusion performance index, predicted mean vote, draught rate and vertical air temperature difference. …”
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Complexities of the San Andreas fault near San Gorgonio Pass : implications for large earthquakes by Yule, Doug, Sieh, Kerry

“…This association enables us to construct a structure contour map of the fault plane. The large step in the base of seismicity downdip from the SGP-GH-CVB fault system probably reflects a several kilometers offset of the midcrustal brittle-plastic transition. …”
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Spin-ice physics and phase transitions in cadmium cyanide by Coates, CS

“…This thesis explores the structural ice analogue cadmium cyanide, Cd(CN)2, a cubic negative thermal expansion (NTE) material, in which the orientation of cyanide ions maps onto the spin orientation in spin-ices. Cd(CN)₂ is shown here to display spin-ice physics at room temperature. …”

Whole genome sequence and annotation dataset of rare actinobacteria, Barrientosiimonas humi gen. nov., sp. nov. 39 T from Antarctica by Chong, Sin Yee, Azmi, Aida Azrina, Cheah, Yoke Kqueen

“…Clusters of Orthologous Group (COG) functional classification revealed metabolism-related genes were highly enriched and mostly mapped to amino acid transport metabolism, transcription, energy production, and conversion. …”
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Environmental and social assessments of an Island Marine Park in Malaysia by Mohd Noor, Mohd Iqbal

“…The social network study focused on the discrete ties patterns for these villages and how these patterns can be used to manage the tourism network for the island. Network maps can help policy makers and implementing agency in planning and monitoring changes in tourism suppliers’ arrangements by providing a unique methodological frame for collecting and organizing data. …”
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Analyzing the contribution of WhatsApp in enhancing English writing skills among undergraduate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners: A systematic review by Khurram, Shugufta, Palpanadan, Sarala Thulasi, Ali Chachar, Zulfiquar

“…This systematic review of the literature aims to provide an overview of social media, specifically WhatsApp, as a tool for learning English writing skills in existing literature. This review maps the experiences of learners with learning outcomes related to writing skills as they relate to WhatsApp. …”
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Designing for Connection with Inner Processes by Mindel, Jessica Rachel

“…Prototypes include Sjuzet, a compass that anchors the latent space of a user's creative writing to a local map in order to prompt reflection as a user physically wanders through memories, and Pull It Together, a material speculation on textile swatches whose wear and tear modulates to correspond to invisible sociocultural tensions. …”
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Learning-based robot navigation in dynamic environments: from indoor scenes to human crowd scenes by Jiang, Haoge

“…To counter more dynamic indoor situations, our improved work named iTD3-CLN was proposed, which is a DRL-based low-level motion controller, that mainly focuses on map-less autonomous navigation in indoor dynamic scenes. …”
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Crystallographic Correlations with Anisotropic Oxide Ion Conduction in Aluminum-Doped Neodymium Silicate Apatite Electrolytes by An, Tao, Baikie, Tom, Wei, Fengxia, Pramana, Stevin S., Schreyer, Martin K., Piltz, Ross O., Shin, J. Felix, Wei, Jun, Slater, Peter R., White, Timothy John

“…Consequently, the bond valence sum (BVS) of the Si (4.20) is larger than the formal valence. Fourier difference maps of the Al-doped crystals contain regions of excess scattering, suggesting the possible lowering of symmetry or creation of superstructures. …”
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Streamlining Organizational Processes Through AI, IoT, Blockchain, and Virtual Environments / by Hernandez Hernandez, Marisol, 1971-, editor 655965, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

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Circularly polarized antennas and phased arrays for 5G applications by Hu, Yiyun

“…A 1×8 beam scanning array is designed and fed by a special unaligned differential method, which improves the isolation of neighboring ports and makes the radiation direction map more symmetric. The gain of the antenna unit is 7.68 dBi, and the lowest axial ratio is 0.75 dB. …”
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