Global norms in regional institutions : lessons from the African Union and ASEAN by Lotze, Walter, Stensland, Andreas, Ng, Joel

“…Acceptance of global norms by regional organisations is only the beginning of a long process of institutionalisation, as cases in the African Union (AU) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) demonstrate. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…In August, Mexico completed far-reaching energy reform; many in the industry had long hoped for this, but it had seemed politically unthinkable even after President Enrique Peña Nieto had submitted his proposal to the legislature a year earlier.…”

Automation and the displacement of labor by capital: asset pricing theory and empirical evidence by Knesl, J

“…Empirically, I find that firms with high share of displaceable labor have negative exposure to technology shocks. A long-short portfolio sorted on this variable mimics macroeconomic measures of technology shocks. …”

Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 97

“…The editors have endeavoured to provide commentary on the political and economic context for energy developments, while also inviting recognized specialists to comment on the host of issues – from long-term upstream oil issues to Russia’s domestic electricity market – that are sometimes neglected by big-picture analysis.…”

The GCC states need to focus on green actions, not climate vulnerabilities by Luomi, M

“…In terms of sustainable energy, the Gulf has come a long way since 2008. Resource efficiency programmes, alternative energy projects, clean technology research, sustainable building codes, public transport systems, and green economy strategies are now part of everyday news in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. …”

Managing oil palm plantations more sustainably : large-scale experiments within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme by Luke, Sarah H., Advento, Andreas Dwi, Aryawan, Anak Agung Ketut, Adhy, Dwi Nugroho, Ashton-Butt, Adham, Barclay, Holly, Dewi, Jassica Prajna, Drewer, Julia, Dumbrell, Alex J., Edi, Eycott, Amy E., Harianja, Martina F., Hinsch, Julie K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kurniawan, Candra, Kurz, David J., Mann, Darren J., Matthews Nicholass, Kirsty J., Naim, Mohammad, Pashkevich, Michael D., Prescott, Graham W., Ps, Sudharto, Pujianto, Purnomo, Dedi, Purwoko, Rizky Rajabillah, Putra, Syafrisar, Rambe, T. Dzulfikar S., Soeprapto, Spear, Dakota M., Suhardi, Tan, David J. X., Tao, Hsiao-Hang, Tarigan, Ribka Sionita, Wahyuningsih, Resti, Waters, Helen S., Widodo, Rudi Harto, Whendy, Woodham, Christopher R., Caliman, Jean-Pierre, Slade, Eleanor M., Snaddon, Jake L., Foster, William A., Turner, Edgar C.

“…In this paper we introduce the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme: a long-term research collaboration between academia and industry in Sumatra, Indonesia. …”
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Synthesizing photorealistic images with deep generative learning by Zheng, Chuanxia

“…To mitigate this issue, in Chapter 5 I propose treating image completion as a directionless sequence-to-sequence prediction task, and deploy a transformer to directly capture long-range dependencies in the encoder in a first phase. …”
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Structure and interaction of telomeric and telomerase RNA G-quadruplexes. by Martadinata, Herry.

“…Multiple G-quadruplex structures can be formed along the long human TERRA sequences. Our study showed the “beads-on-a-string” arrangement of G-quadruplexes in long human TERRA. …”
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How did ancient human activities influence the properties and development of soil?—a case study of the Yangshao Village cultural relic site, Henan Province by Zha, Lisi, Wang, Wenjing, Zhong, Junhong, Su, Yiqi, Chang, Dandan

“…At the same time, the coarse-grained matter was affected by the plowing activities and mostly decomposed into fine particles, and the content of clay particles reached an extreme value. …”
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Black-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits by Casper, Stephen, Ezell, Carson, Siegmann, Charlotte, Kolt, Noam, Curtis, Taylor Lynn, Bucknall, Benjamin, Haupt, Andreas, Wei, Kevin, Scheurer, Jérémy, Hobbhahn, Marius, Sharkey, Lee, Krishna, Satyapriya, Von Hagen, Marvin, Alberti, Silas, Chan, Alan, Sun, Qinyi, Gerovitch, Michael, Bau, David, Tegmark, Max, Krueger, David, Hadfield-Menell, Dylan

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MegaTE: Extending WAN Traffic Engineering to Millions of Endpoints in Virtualized Cloud by Miao, Congcong, Zhong, Zhizhen, Xiao, Yunming, Yang, Feng, Zhang, Senkuo, Jiang, Yinan, Bai, Zizhuo, Lu, Chaodong, Geng, Jingyi, He, Zekun, Wang, Yachen, Zou, Xianneng, Yang, Chuanchuan

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Ecological forces affecting microbial eukaryotes in the coastal ocean by Gomez, Annika L.

“…In this thesis, I investigate the effect of specific top-down and bottom-up forces at fine scales of time, location, and taxonomy, uncovering mechanisms by which nutrient limitation and viral infection affect marine protistan communities. …”
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Laboratory studies of atmospheric photochemistry in indoor and outdoor environments by Goss, Matthew B.

“…Secondary organic aerosol (SOA), fine particulate matter formed through indirect photochemical reactions, influences the climate and contributes to air pollution harmful to human health. …”
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Effects of hysteresis on steady-state infiltration in unsaturated slopes by Tami, Denny, Rahardjo, Harianto, Leong, Eng Choon

“…The slope model consisted of a 400 mm thick fine sand layer overlying a 200 mm thick gravelly sand layer at a slope angle of 30°. …”
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Surface molecular doping of all-inorganic perovskite using zethrenes molecules by Arramel, Pan, Hu, Xie, Aozhen, Hou, Songyan, Yin, Xinmao, Tang, Chi Sin, Hoa, Nguyen T., Muhammad D. Birowosuto, Wang, Hong, Dang, Cuong, Rusydi, Andrivo, Wee Andrew T. S., Wu, Jishan

“…The average molecular orientation as determined by near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) suggests that the HZ-TIPS molecular plane is generally lifted with respect to the perovskite surface. …”
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A two-stage outlier filtering framework for city-scale localization using 3D SfM point clouds by Cheng, Wentao, Chen, Kan, Lin, Weisi, Goesele, Michael, Zhang, Xinfeng, Zhang, Yabin

“…Second, we apply a geometry-based outlier filter to generate a set of fine-grained matches with a novel data-driven geometrical constraint for efficient inlier evaluation. …”
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The function of the WRI1-TCP4 regulatory module in lipid biosynthesis by Kong, Que, Yang, Yuzhou, Low, Pui Man, Guo, Liang, Yuan, Ling, Ma, Wei

“…Interaction of TCP4 with AtWRI1, which results in a reduction of AtWRI1 activity, represents a newly discovered mechanism that enables the fine-tuning of plant oil biosynthesis.…”
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Optimizing selenization conditions of Cu2CdSn(S,Se)4 by Wong, Jia Mian

“…Previous research has shown that varying heating rate and annealing time can reduce the fine grain layer, improving device’s overall efficiency. …”
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Salient object detection by fusing local and global contexts by Ren, Qinghua, Lu, Shijian, Zhang, Jinxia, Hu, Renjie

“…In addition, an attention-guided hierarchical network architecture is designed to capture fine-grained spatial details by transmitting contextual information from deeper to shallower network layers in a top-down manner. …”
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Ectomycorrhizal community composition, diversity, and their environmental drivers across common UK temperate woodlands by Ong, Wei Sern

“…The main variables identified to influence ECM community composition (pH, vegetation species richness) were also different from the variables identified to influence ECM richness (vegetation proportions, fine root biomass). Overall, our findings contribute towards developing a more comprehensive assessment of ECM communities and their driving factors in the context of common UK woodlands habitats.…”
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