Mapping the extent and exploring the drivers of cocoa agroforestry in Nigeria, insights into trends for climate change adaptation by Koralewicz, A, Vlcek, J, Oliveras-Menor, I, Hirons, M, Akinyugha, A, Sikiru Olowoyo, O, Oluyemi, M, Owen, O

“…Remote sensing leveraging tasseled cap indices for Sentinel 2 data were used to delineate cocoa agroforestry from full-sun systems. …”

Mapping the extent and exploring the drivers of cocoa agroforestry in Nigeria, insights into trends for climate change adaptation by Koralewicz, A, Vlcek, J, Menor, IO, Hirons, M, Akinyugha, A, Olowoyo, OS, Ajayi-Ebenezer, M, Owen, O

“…Remote sensing leveraging tasseled cap indices for Sentinel 2 data were used to delineate cocoa agroforestry from full-sun systems. …”

Essays on the measurement of leverage and risk of banking institutions by Yong, Vincent Gan Beng

“…The index is aptly named the Capital Leverage Index or CapLev. It is also further shown how we can apply the methodology in constructing a new systemic risk measure, the Systemic Marginal Leverage Index or SysLev. …”
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In memory of Aureliano's ice. by Ho, Jia Xuan.

“…Going through the chain of events leading to the fateful encounter, he does not remember the acrobats with gold-capped teeth or the jugglers with six arms, nor the thousand more inventions so ingenious and unusual that his father wanted to invent a memory machine so that he could remember them all; in the critical moments right before his death, the other events are fleeting, yet “for the first time since his youth he knowingly fell into a trap of nostalgia and relived that prodigious afternoon of the gypsies when his father took him to see ice” (García Márquez 266-267). …”
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Antiferromagnetic half-skyrmions and bimerons at room temperature by Jani, H, Lin, J-C, Chen, J, Harrison, J, Maccherozzi, F, Schad, J, Prakash, S, Eom, C-B, Ariando, A, Venkatesan, T, Radaelli, PG

“…Here we realize a family of topological antiferromagnetic spin textures in α-Fe2O3—an Earth-abundant oxide insulator—capped with a platinum overlayer. By exploiting a first-order analogue of the Kibble–Zurek mechanism20,21, we stabilize exotic merons and antimerons (half-skyrmions)8 and their pairs (bimerons)16,22, which can be erased by magnetic fields and regenerated by temperature cycling. …”

Molecular identification and effect of salt-tolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on the biochemical aspect and growth of rice by Chompa, Sayma Serine, Ali Tan, Kee Zuan, Amin, Adibah Mohd, Hun, Tan Geok, Ahmad Ghazali, Amir Hamzah, Sadeq, Buraq Musa, Akter, Amaily, Rahman, Md Ekhlasur, Rashid, Harun Or

“…‘Pokkali’ rice plants inoculated with single Bacillus tequilensis and B. aryabhattai isolates were compared with consortium and non-inoculated plants while salinity was increased and by irrigation with tap water (control), 30 mM (5 dS m-1) and 60 mM (10 dS m-1) NaCl. …”
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On the largest product-free subsets of the alternating groups by Keevash, Peter, Lifshitz, Noam, Minzer, Dor

“…We solve this problem for large n $n$ , showing that the maximum size is achieved by the previously conjectured extremal examples, namely families of the form { π : π ( x ) ∈ I , π ( I ) ∩ I = ∅ } $\left \{ \pi :\,\pi (x)\in I, \pi (I)\cap I=\varnothing \right \} $ and their inverses. …”
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Synergizing strategies: integrating fundamental, technical and news analysis for stock evaluation in energy & commodity market by Fang, Qian

“…We handpicked nine stocks with prospects based on market cap, dividend yield and 10-year average annual returns. …”
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Soft-biometrics based people description in surveillance systems by Ong, Glen Hong Ting

“…The selected traits are the presence of spectacles, cap and the pattern of top worn by subjects. As this project is required to detect these traits, three different classifiers are needed. …”
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EN06 computational environmental hydraulics : pre-treatment filter modeling by Krishnan Moorthi, Pavithra

“…Input parameters were limited to four particle sizes with the same concentration values and the headloss was capped at an appropriate value. The results of the code were also analysed in this report. …”
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Effects of rapid thermal annealing on structural, magnetic and optical properties of Ni-doped ZnO thin films by Zhao, Xing, Liu, Erjia, Ramanujan, Raju Vijayaraghavan, Chen, Jingsheng

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Comparison of models to predict incident chronic liver disease: a systematic review and external validation in Chinese adults by Cong, X, Song, S, Li, Y, Song, K, MacLeod, C, Cheng, Y, Lv, J, Yu, C, Sun, D, Pei, P, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Millwood, I, Wu, S, Yang, X, Stevens, R, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Kartsonaki, C, Pang, Y

“…Models with high discrimination (C-index ≥ 0.70) in CKB were as follows: (1) general population: Li-2018 and Wen 1–2012 for HCC, CLivD score (non-lab and lab) and dAAR for CLD; (2) hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected individuals: Cao-2021 for HCC and CAP-B for CLD. In CKB, all models tended to overestimate the risk (O:E ratio 0.55–0.94). …”

Comparison of models to predict incident chronic liver disease: a systematic review and external validation in Chinese adults by Cong, X, Song, S, Li, Y, Song, K, MacLeod, C, Cheng, Y, Lv, J, Yu, C, Sun, D, Pei, P, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Millwood, I, Wu, S, Yang, X, Stevens, R, Chen, J, Li, L, Kartsonaki, C, Pang, Y, Chen, Z

“…Models with high discrimination (C-index ≥0.70) in CKB were: (1) general population: Li-2018 and Wen 1-2012 for HCC, CLivD score (non-lab and lab) and dAAR for CLD; (2) hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected individuals: Cao-2021 for HCC and CAP-B for CLD. In CKB, all models tended to overestimate the risk (O:E ratio 0.55-0.94). …”

Research on Traditional Village Spatial Differentiation from the Perspective of Cultural Routes: A Case Study of 338 Villages in the Miao Frontier Corridor by Zhao, Weiqi, Xiao, Dawei, Li, Jing, Xu, Ziyu, Tao, Jin

“…However, with the increasing pressure of heritage conservation and sustainable development, there is growing attention on how traditional villages can tap into their cultural continuity and distinctiveness. …”
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Inferring passenger responses to urban rail disruptions using smart card data: A probabilistic framework by Mo, Baichuan, Koutsopoulos, Haris N, Zhao, Jinhua

“…This study proposes a probabilistic framework to infer passengers’ responses to unplanned urban rail service disruptions using smart card data in tap-in-only public transit systems. We first identify 19 possible response behaviors that passengers may have based on their decision-making times and locations (i.e, the stage of their trips when an incident happened), including transferring to a bus line, canceling trips, waiting, delaying departure time, etc. …”
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Transcriptomics of manually isolated Amborella trichopoda egg apparatus cells by Flores-Tornero, María, Proost, Sebastian, Mutwil, Marek, Scutt, Charles P., Dresselhaus, Thomas, Sprunck, Stefanie

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Behaviors of floating droplet by Kan, Kah Hou

“…Investigation reveals the formation and transition of flow pattern and vorticity originates from the complex thermo-solutal Marangoni convection induced by the evaporating cap. A droplet forming two stable axis-symmetrical counter circulating flow during evaporation is seen to collapse into a large rotating vortical flow non-periodically. …”
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Preparation of graphene - based photocatalyst for environmental application by Chong, Ying Yan

“…Pure CuS nanoplates and oleylamine-capped Ag nanparticles were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method, using copper ethyl xanthate and silver nitrate respectively. …”
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Indefinite metamaterials for optical applications by Bisht, Ankit

“…Further, fabrication of diffraction-limited objects for both Superlensing (slits on film) and hyperlensing (slits on curved Cr-caps) are presented. These results are important for making progress in the realization of real-time bio-molecular imaging systems, eliminating the need for near-field scanning, destructive electron microscopy and various image post-processing techniques.…”
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The GCSE attainment gap: assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew, Guinn, James, Kent, Aubrey

“…Using the National Pupil Database and a full cohort of UK pupils (N=590,092), our analysis tracked a sample of 1,490 pupils permanently excluded in year 11 of the English education system in 2018/19. Using capped GCSE points as the academic attainment variable, we find that permanently excluded pupil scores were nearly 25 points lower than their non-permanently excluded peers. …”
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