Maternal Death Surveillance and Response in Sudan: an evidence-based, context-specific optimisation to improve maternal care by Altijani Osman Abbakar, N

“…Analysis of the latest SHHS showed that village and community midwives [trained birth attendants] attended nearly half of all births [55.5%], followed by doctors, health visitors, and nurse-midwives [skilled birth attendants] [22.8%], and the remainder [21.7%] were not attended by a health provider. …”

Genetic analysis of normal human phenotypes within the people of the British Isles by Meena, D

“…For normal hair pigmentation, nearly all of the well documented pigmentation genes were replicated, including <em>MC1R, SLC45A2, TYR, IRF4, HERC2, KITLG</em> and <em>SLC24A4</em> and results generally agreed with studies performed in the past. …”

Electronic structures of topological materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by He, S

“…Surface states are composed of electronic states that localize near the surface and decay exponentially into the bulk, which exhibit low-dimensional band dispersions different from the bulk states. …”

An exploratory study for a new method to search for heavy neutrinos with data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by Tan, Cherlene Shu Ning

“…If the HNL search focus is placed near the seesaw limit, B and D mesons as well as kaons are viable options for producing competitive HNL mass measurements. …”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…Although, PAI provides higher imaging depth compared to optical imaging modalities, depth of PA imaging systems can further be improved by using near-infrared (NIR) waves for illuminating the sample, instead of visible light. …”
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Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning by Qu, Xinghua

“…Over the past decades, the advancements in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) have demonstrated that deep neural network (DNN) policies can be trained to prescribe near-optimal actions in many complex tasks. Unfortunately, DNN policies are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in the input states, which creates obstacles for the real-world deployments of RL agents, especially on those security-sensitive tasks. …”
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Dynamics in blue emitting metal halide perovskites for light emitting diodes by Karlsson, Max

“…Simple bandgap-tunability is easily achieved by compositional and dimensional engineering, allowing perovskite emission to span a broad wavelength region from ultraviolet to near infrared. As with previous technologies, attaining stable, bright, and pure blue light has proven difficult also in metal halide perovskites. …”
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4D printable thermally stimulated (meth)acrylate shape memory polymers with tailorable shape recovery force for vat photopolymerization by Ng, Chin Siang

“…As a light-based printer, vat photopolymerization can print thermoset SMPs with Tg near body temperature, which is difficult to achieve for other heat-based additive manufacturing technologies that print thermoplastics. …”
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Uncovering vein patterns from color skin images for personal identification in forensic investigation by Tang, Chaoying

“…All the current vein recognition systems developed by companies and research laboratories rely on near infrared (NIR) imaging devices to capture high quality vein patterns from hand and wrist, where skin is relatively thin, for commercial applications. …”
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Solution based synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles and thin films for solar cell application by Li, Zhenggang

“…With 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB) as the solvent and oleylamine (OLA) as the ligand, sub-micrometer size clusters (0 ml OLA), near-spherical shape (0.5 ml OLA), faceted (1 ml OLA), and nanoplates (2 ml OLA) CZTS nanostructures were synthesized. …”
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Modeling and optimization of photovoltaic systems under partially shaded and rapidly changing conditions by Jiang, Lian Lian

“…This classification is then used to force a conventional MPPT such as the perturb and observe (P&O) or extremum seeking control (ESC) to search near the identified MPP, resulting in the system tracking the global MPP. …”
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Rapid design exploration framework for realizing custom computing systems on FPGAs by Aung, Yan Lin

“…The KnapSim algorithm can achieve near optimal solution at significantly lower run-time compared to an existing state-of-the-art genetic algorithm based approach. …”
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Dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing liquid layers by Wei, Tao

“…The destabilizing mechanism of vapor thrust competes with the stabilizing surface tension which is not asymptotically negligible near rupture. Nonlinear evolution in (1+1)D shows that for weak mass loss and strong vapor recoil, the capillary ridges emerge around a deepening narrow valley with increasing wavelength in sessile layers, while, for Rayleigh–Taylor layers the main and secondary droplets are either partially coalesced or completely separated by a sharp dry-out point on the basis of initial condition (IC). …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…This competitive ratio closely matches a known lower bound µ on the competitiveness of any deterministic online algorithm and shows that First Fit packing is near optimal. In the clairvoyant online setting, we establish a lower bound of Ω (log µ / log log µ)^1/2 on the competitive ratio of any deterministic online algorithm. …”
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Energy-efficient hardware accelerators based on bit-serial graph and memory-centric computing architectures by Mu, Junjie

“…Besides bit-serial graph computing, near-memory computing is exploited to solve PDEs to reduce the cost of expensive data movement. …”
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Efficient circuit-designs using spintronic devices by Deb, Suman

“…Spintronics promise for efficient processing and storage of information lies in its attributes of non-volatility, excellent integration-density, near-unlimited endurance and compatibility with CMOS process-technology. …”
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The effects of atmosphere-ocean-wave coupling during tropical cyclone by Garg, Nikhil

“…The coupling modifies the low-level boundary layer structure and the physical properties of near surface flow in TCs, which subsequently affects the physical mechanisms such as convective organisation. …”
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Surface engineering to manipulate solar energy for thermal management by Fei, Jipeng

“…The metagel radiative cooler utilizes both radiative and evaporative cooling processes within an individual composite, while also exhibiting strong visible-NIR (near infrared) Mie scattering minimizes the incident solar energy, keeping surface temperature low. …”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…</p> <p>In the current context however, all editions are equally valuable potential witnesses to this ancient religious tradition. Given the recent near destruction of the entire rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum corpus, coupled with the fact that we often find numerous and substantial variants in rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum texts both transmissional (unwitting changes by copyists) and recensional (deliberate changes by editors), all editions are now invaluable sources for any research on this religious tradition, or, indeed, to any efforts to render these texts fully readable once more through careful textual editing. …”