The 2005 PASCAL visual object classes challenge by Everingham, M, Zisserman, A, Williams, CKI, Van Gool, L, Allan, M, Bishop, CM, Chapelle, O, Dalal, N, Deselaers, T, Dorkó, G, Duffner, S, Eichhorn, J, Farquhar, JDR, Fritz, M, Garcia, C, Griffiths, T, Jurie, F, Keysers, D, Koskela, M, Laaksonen, J, Larlus, D, Leibe, B, Meng, H, Ney, H, Schiele, B, Schmid, C, Seemann, E, Shawe-Taylor, J, Storkey, A, Szedmak, S, Triggs, B, Ulusoy, I, Viitaniemi, V, Zhang, J

“…Four object classes were selected: motorbikes, bicycles, cars and people. Twelve teams entered the challenge. …”

Analysis of mobile sources of air pollution by Chan, Jeffrey Si Yao

“…Mobile sources are buses, cars, trucks, motorcycles, ships and aeroplanes. …”
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Preparation of graphene - based photocatalyst for environmental application by Chong, Ying Yan

“…In this study, a hybrid nanocomposite Graphene-based photocatalyst (GO-COOH-CuS-Ag) was synthesised via a facile two-phase (toluene-water) method, with the incorporation of carboxylic acid functionalised graphene oxide sheets (GO-COOH), silver (Ag) nanoparticles, and copper sulfide (CuS) nanoplates that were synthesised individually. …”
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Blood Runs Cold / by Barclay, Alex, author 582003

“…When an FBI agent is found dead on the white slopes of Quandary Peak in Colorado, a brilliant but volatile agent is drafted in from Denver to lead the investigation. As she fights personal demons, pressure from Washington and dwindling leads, the case stalls and her career falters. …”

Frail Line by Er, Kia Hui, Ong, Grace Xi Wei, Ho, Baofei, Tan, Jit Quan, Boithar, Faizal

“…Frail Line is a story about the changed dynamics of a father-daughter relationship after a separation of many years. The daughter is a hair dresser with long hair, she cuts her hair after the breakup with her boyfriend. …”
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Fragmentation of white phosphorus by a cyclic (alkyl)(amino)alumanyl anion by Koshino, Kota, Kinjo, Rei

“…Structural and electronic features of the latter were fully characterized by standard spectroscopic means, X-ray diffraction analysis, and computational studies, which revealed that 2 bears highly polarized Al (δ+) and P (δ-) and relatively short Al-P bonds, indicative of the σ-donating and π-accepting nature of CAAAl groups.…”
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Will a crude oil price band stabilise the market by Fattouh, B

“…Also by increasing uncertainty, volatility in oil prices could derail investment in alternative energy sources. Finally, there are fears that speculative activity can cause oil prices to overshoot and may choke off economic recovery.…”

Nanoscale interfaces made easily by Zhao, Weijie, Xiong, Qihua

“…Methods for making interfaces between atomically thin sheets of materials might open the way to a range of nanotechnologies. …”
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Impact of the internet on the travel industry in Singapore. by Goh, Junfeng., Koh, Pei Shi., Tan, Eugene Jun Hao.

“…Other problems were increased work due to a need for frequent website updates and the increased need to pacify consumer fears regarding security issues. Interestingly, the consumer survey revealed that websites were not able to provide certain features consumers valued, such as personal advice, or making the purchase largely hassle free, without a need for lengthy administrative procedures. …”
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Secure image encryption based on an ideal new nonlinear discrete dynamical system by Lin, M. Rongming, Ng, Teng Yong

“…Transcendental functions are introduced together with modulo operations which physically represent discontinuous time-varying nonlinearities, leading to extremely complex chaotic behavior that is highly sensitive to system parameters and initial conditions, both of which are considered as the key for the cryptosystem. …”
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Design of a GaN-based power converter by Pek, Jonas

“…Many applications, including hybrid and plug-in electric cars, solar power inverters, automotive motor drives, and aerospace, would benefit from GaN systems. …”
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Robust wireless baseband coding for advanced built-in tire monitoring system by Wang, Jiaming

“…A tire monitoring system is an essential part of cars and other traffic vehicles to help people know the working condition of tires. …”
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A visual category filter for Google Images by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…</p> <p>We demonstrate the method on image sets returned by Google’s image search for a number of object categories including bottles, camels, cars, horses, tigers and zebras.</p>…”

Weakly supervised scale-invariant learning of models for visual recognition by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…The flexible nature of the model is demonstrated by results over six diverse object categories including geometrically constrained categories (e.g. faces, cars) and flexible objects (such as animals). …”

Implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm for vehicle routing by Pang, Jacquelyn Jiaqi

“…However, to simulate specific conditions, it requires MATLAB (COM programming) to give specific commands to the cars in VISSIM. My project is to implement Dijkstra’s algorithms via COM programming to find the shortest path between any two locations.…”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The principle requires those responsible for environmental damage or imminent threats of damage to bear the necessary costs of remediation and prevention. …”
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Factual approach for tropical forest parameters measurement and monitoring: future option with a focus on synergetic use of airborne and terrestrial lidar technologies by Bazezew, Muluken N., Hussin, Yousif A., Kloosterman, Evert H., M. Hasmadi, Ismail

“…This approach contributes to the development of efficient techniques for forest monitoring systems and bears the potential to extend the modelling options from remote sensing data to understory layer trees.…”

Processing dewatered sewage sludge using electro-kinetic (EK) technology by Tan, Jeremy Wee Chuang.

“…Sludge dewatering applications have gained prominence in the wastewater treatment industry in recent years. Currently, the dewatered sludge from sewage treatment plants contains high water content (around 80%), which is not suitable for its immediate use or disposal. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of Arabic Rhetoric in the translation and transcreation of literary texts by Al Zahrawi, Rasha T., Syed Abdullah, Syed Nurulakla, Brahimi, Tayeb, Abdullah, Muhammad Alif Redzuan, Mustapha, Nik Farhan

“…In recent years, ‘transcreation’ has emerged in translation, integrating linguistic, cultural, and creative reinterpretation. …”
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Effect of lubrication on the nano-structure of soft metals by Peh, Jasper Jun Ming

“…The fabrication will be carried out by imprint anodized aluminum oxide template aluminum sheets. Anodized aluminum oxide is chosen due to its repeatability and range of pore diameters. …”
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