Our weapons, our problem: arms exports, democracy and civil society in Brazil and the UK by de Moraes, RF

“…The causal mechanism is in part explained by activities conducted by norm entrepreneurs, whose emergence is facilitated by the existence of institutions commonly found in democratic countries, especially a system of checks and balances, contested elections, and political and civil liberties. …”

Bus Ride Index – a refined approach to evaluating road surface irregularities by Nguyen, Teron, Lechner, Bernhard, Wong, Yiik Diew, Tan, Jun Yew

“…Many studies on ride comfort have focused on cars and trucks, but their results are not applicable to buses, which are characterised by inherently different vehicle dynamics. …”
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Visual place recognition for autonomous robots using deep learning by Huang, Yifeng

“…In addition, self-driving cars require precise, light and comfortable shapes to operate in order to achieve their portability. …”
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Sensor fusion for object detection under adverse weather by Soh, Brandon Jian Zheng

“…The innovative strides in AV technology, from self-driving cars to autonomous delivery drones, have captured widespread attention and are poised to reshape the future of mobility. …”
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Modelling and analysis of lubricated piston skirt-cylinder sub-systems in internal combustion engines by Amirun Rasyid Abu Bakar

“…As such, a with a good knowledge of all three variables together, which are modal operating crank velocities of the vehicle, dynamic viscosities of the lubricant and the clearance specifications of the car engine, will allow car owners to maximise the efficiency and performance of their machine.…”
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Data preparation and visualization of heavy vehicular movement for traffic prediction by Chong, Ji Shen

“…Hence the road often taken by such buses can be determined to be similar to regular cars and vehicles. This meant that there are a wider range of alternate routes available for these private buses.…”
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Thermodynamic modelling and performance study of an engine waste heat driven adsorption cooling for automotive air-conditioning by Ali, Syed Muztuza, Chakraborty, Anutosh

“…From the simulation results, it is found that the exhaust energy of a six cylinder 3000 cc private car is able to produce nearly 3 kW of cooling power for the car cabin. …”
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Security challenges in automotive hardware/software architecture design by Sagstetter, Florian, Lukasiewycz, Martin, Steinhorst, Sebastian, Wolf, Marko, Bouard, Alexandre, Peyrin, Thomas, Poschmann, Axel, Chakraborty, Samarjit, Harris, William R., Jha, Somesh.

“…State-of-the-art automotive architectures are highly heterogeneous and complex systems that rely on distributed functions based on electronics and software. As cars are getting more connected with their environment, the vulnerability to attacks is rapidly growing. …”
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Dynamic drug combination methods for suppressing bacterial antibiotics resistance adaptation by Bhone, Myint Kyaw

“…In this study, the effects of using conventional antibiotics in combination with phytochemicals were studied by using checker board methods and time-kill assays using 12 S. aureus strains. …”
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What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future by Graeff, Erhardt

“…U.S. states have passed laws to address self-driving cars on public roads (Marcus 2012). And nearer the subject of this paper, the legality of search engine bots (web crawlers) has been openly questioned on grounds of intellectual property protection and trespassing (Plitch 2002). …”
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Examining the adoption of electromobility concepts across social contexts for energy transition by K?hlke, Julia, Lechowicz, Adam, Fabikun, Oluwole, Bashir, Noman, Souza, Abel, Shenoy, Prashant, Lehnhoff, Sebastian

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An optimal scheduling scheme for electric vehicles in smarts grids by Teh, Xiu Yi

“…Over the past ten years, the use of electric cars has risen rapidly. While charging a huge amount of electric vehicles at the same time or during peak hours might affect the electrical grid because of the sudden surge of electric demand. …”
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Lane-aware image enhancement for lane detection in rain (part A) by Zeng, Lanning

“…In this project, we mainly developed two methods to detect objects on the road, such as trucks, passenger cars, road signs, etc. The first method is to use Faster R-CNN algorithm to test rainy images; the second method is to use SDD algorithm to test dataset. …”
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Development of a 3D vehicle driving simulator (cross platform simulation of CAV) by Feng, Zhen

“…An autonomous vehicle (AV), often known as a driverless car, is a vehicle that can perceive its surroundings and navigate safely without the need for human intervention. …”
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Research on electric vehicle charging safety warning model based on back propagation neural network optimized by improved gray wolf algorithm by Zhang, Liang, Gao, Tian, Cai, Guowei, Koh, Leong Hai

“…However, as the number of new energy cars grows, new energy vehicle safety concerns are becoming more evident, posing a major threat to drivers' lives and property and limiting the industry's growth. …”
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Lightscape application with light stencils by Lee, King Hung

“…After they press the capture button in the app, they will be asked to put the tablet in a tablet frame on the robot car and locate the robot car. Next, the tablet will flash a testing light stencil and the camera will capture that. …”
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A build-and-learn pedagogical framework for engineering outreach by Thng, Jing Rong

“…Both the robot car designs are control via Bluetooth using Android mobile applications. …”
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Multi-omics analysis and modelling of T cell immunity and interferon signalling pathways for engineered T cell therapy by Pavillet, CE

“…An agent-based model is developed to explore the effect of CAR tuning on on-target off-tumour toxicity and therapy efficacy. …”

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

“…In recent years, auto-driving is becoming a hot topic. Auto-driving cars utilize in-vehicle cameras to capture the surrounding environment images and use algorithms to extract useful information from images. …”
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FPS-Net: a convolutional fusion network for large-scale LiDAR point cloud segmentation by Xiao, Aoran, Yang, Xiaofei, Lu, Shijian, Guan, Dayan, Huang, Jiaxing

“…Scene understanding based on LiDAR point cloud is an essential task for autonomous cars to drive safely, which often employs spherical projection to map 3D point cloud into multi-channel 2D images for semantic segmentation. …”
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