Performance Guarantees for Spectral Initialization in Rotation Averaging and Pose-Graph SLAM by Doherty, Kevin J., Rosen, David M., Leonard, John J.

“…SLAM and rotation averaging are typically formalized as large-scale nonconvex point estimation problems, with many bad local minima that can entrap the smooth optimization methods typically applied to solve them; the performance of standard SLAM and RA algorithms thus crucially depends upon the quality of the estimates used to initialize this local search. …”
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Unconventional exhibitions of desire. by Ng, Hwei Yun.

“…Cixous urges women to write or remain suppressed and entrapped in their own bodies. Women have their own private language when they write through their bodies, because it is writing that is inherently female and less easily understood by men. …”
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Conflict and the formation of political beliefs in Africa by Adhvaryu, A, Fenske, J

“…Our results suggest that at the population level, the “conflict trap” in Africa is not driven by shifts in political beliefs and engagement caused by conflict exposure in childhood.…”

Mechanisms and Implementation of Thermo-Optical Annealing in Silica Fiber Sensors for Radiation-Induced Attenuation Mitigation by Legoupil, Aurelien Y. M.

“…For the pure silica core and F-doped cladding fibers studied, the RIA spectrum obtained is decomposed into known radiation-induced defect absorption bands, highlighting the key role of self-trapped holes in RIA at telecommunication wavelengths. …”
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Nanoimprinting of nanostructured catalysts by Aravinthan, T.

“…Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas which traps heat radiated by the sun in the atmosphere and causes global warming. …”
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All-weather thermal regulation coatings by Hippalgaonkar, Kedar

“…The temperature-responsive structures have been demonstrated to radiatively cool in the summer and trap heat in the winter. Their work sets the stage for all-weather thermal regulation coatings. …”
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Eurocentric fables of international debt and China. China report by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar

“…The article outlines different trajectories of the international debt trap diplomacy, which uses debt as a tool to control resources and to undermine state and governments in countries outside the Westphalian outlook. …”
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Rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Indonesia after reformasi and its impact on national and regional order by Rafael H. Nowotamtomo

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Waffle-inspired hydrogel-based macrodevice for spatially controlled distribution of encapsulated therapeutic microtissues and pro-angiogenic endothelial cells by Pham, Chi H. L., Zuo, Yicong, Chen, Yang, Tran, Nam M., Nguyen, Dang T., Dang, Tram T.

“…The waffle-inspired grid-like micropattern of the "lock" component effectively entraps insulin-secreting microtissues in controlled locations while the interlocking design places them in a co-planar spatial arrangement with close proximity to vascular-inductive cells. …”
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Improved electrical performance of Erbium silicide Schottky diodes formed by pre-RTA amorphization of Si by Tang, L. J., Tan, Eu Jin, Pey, Kin Leong, Chi, Dong Zhi, Lee, Pooi See

“…Erbium silicide Schottky diodes formed on Si(001) substrate using rapid thermal annealing method show degraded Schottky-barrier height ϕ_Beff and ideality factor due to the presence of silicide-induced microstructural defects which are likely sources of trap states. A method to improve the ϕ_Beff and of the diodes utilizing in situ Ar plasma cleaning to induce a light amorphization of the Si(001) substrate is proposed. …”
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Histopathology of cultured sea bass (Lates calcarifer) (Centropomidae) infected with Cruoricola lates (Trematoda: Sanguinicolidae) from Pulau Ketam, Malaysia by Herbert, B.W., Shaharom, F.M., Anderson, I.G.

“…Endocardial macrphages encapsulate eggs trapped between trabeculae in the heart. The reaction to eggs in the kidneys, hepatopancreas and spleen consists of fibrocytic encapsulation. …”
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Metal-free access to β-carbolines via single-electron transfer catalyzed by a triaryl carbenium ion pair by Zhang, Zhenguo, Gu, Jun, Lv, Yongheng, Ji, Liang, Liu, Xiaoxiao, Wu, Beishen, Liu, Fang, Jia, Zhenhua, Loh, Teck-Peng

“…Mechanistic studies reveal that the trityl radical is generated via a single-electron transfer process and subsequently trapped by an oxygen molecule. In addition, the in-situ-generated reactive oxygen-centered radical is also found to be essential for the efficient dehydroaromatization process to afford the desired products.…”
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Triggering voltage for post-breakdown random telegraph noise in HfLaO dielectric metal gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors and its reliability implications by Liu, W. H., Pey, Kin Leong, Raghavan, Nagarajan, Wu, X., Bosman, Michel

“…This dependence is qualitatively analyzed using a percolation dilation model, where generation of additional traps either at different energy levels or spatial locations gives lower Vtrig at higher Igl. …”
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Age-related bone loss is associated with FGF21 but not IGFBP1 in healthy adults by Lee, Shuen Yee, Fam, Kai Deng, Chia, Kar Ling, Yap, Margaret M. C., Goh, Jorming, Yeo, Kwee Poo, Yap, Eric Peng Huat, Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh, Lim, Chin Leong

“…The RANKL concentration was 44% lower (P = 0.006), whereas TRAP5b and BAP concentrations were 36 and 31% higher (P = 0.01 and P = 0.004), respectively, in older adults than in younger adults. …”
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Determination of mosquitoes species diversity and molecular detection of West Nile virus in wild bird habitats in Perak and Selangor, Malaysia by Jafar Ali, Natasha

“…The aim of this study was identifying the diversity of mosquito species found near to the wild bird habitats and determining the presence of WNV RNA in the mosquitoes in the selected areas of West Coast Malaysia. Mosquitoes were trapped by using CDC Light Trap baited with carbon dioxide followed by sex and species identification with morphological and taxonomic keys under stereomicroscope. …”
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Bond and electronic relaxation dynamics of graphene, gold clusters, and water ice by Zhang, Xi

“…Size-dependent surface bond contraction, potential well depression, electron and energy entrapment and valence band polarization of Au nanoclusters and nanocages were also verified by DFT calculations and BOLS-TB analysis. …”
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Composite material production of nonmetallic printed circuit board waste with recycled high density polyethylene by Muniyandi, Shantha Kumari

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Interpretation of an anomalous peak in low-temperature photoluminescence measurements of bulk GaAs[sub 1−x]N[sub x] on GaAs by Cheah, Weng Kwong, Fan, Weijun, Yoon, Soon Fatt, Loke, Wan Khai, Liu, R., Wee, A. T. S.

“…The band-anticrossing model is used to identify the origins of the two peaks and we propose a model to explain the RTA observations by the concept of increased confinement in areas of higher N concentrations by trapped N localized states. The peak is due to the accumulation of N content near the GaAs/GaAsN interface. …”
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High flux strontium atom source by Feng, C. H., Robert, P., Bouyer, P., Canuel, B., Li, Jianing, Das, Swarup, Kwong, Chang Chi, Wilkowski, David, Prevedelli, M., Bertoldi, A.

“…Our approach involves velocity-dependent transverse capture of atoms using a two-dimensional magneto-optical trap. To enhance the atomic flux, we employ tailored magnetic fields that minimize radial beam expansion and incorporate a cascaded Zeeman-slowing configuration utilizing two optical frequencies. …”
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Study of Multilevel High-Resistance States in HfOx-Based Resistive Switching Random Access Memory by Impedance Spectroscopy by Li, H. K., Chen, T. P., Hu, S. G., Liu, P., Liu, Y., Lee, P. S., Wang, X. P., Li, H. Y., Lo, G. Q.

“…On the other hand, R is observed to decrease with DC bias, which can be attributed to the barrier lowering effect of the Coulombic trap well in the Poole-Frenkel emission model.…”
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