US and East Asia Summit : international security begins at home by Long, Joey S. R., Khan, Amos

“…The political demise of prime ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Kevin Rudd is a reminder that national leaders’ capacity to contribute to international security hinges on the stability of their domestic authority. …”
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Psychoacoustic model compensation for robust speaker verification in environmental noise by Panda, Ashish, Srikanthan, Thambipillai

“…The first database is the TIMIT database corrupted with white and pink noise and the noise estimation is fairly easy in this case. …”
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Speech enhancement using auditory-based spectral amplitude estimators by Sekar Sathiya Narayanan.

“…The original speech signal is subjected to three types of noises, namely, white noise, pink noise and cockpit noise. The proposed estimator is applied to the noisy speech signal to obtain the enhanced speech signal and the objective measures of speech quality such as the segmental SNR (SNRseg) and the log-likelihood-ratio (LLR) are obtained. …”
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Development of a system to detect hidden information in a document using steganography software by Wuan, Neng Jie

“…The accuracy of detection depends on the trained Support Vector Machine (SVM) model used, and therefore, accuracy hinges on the type of training data and test images used. …”
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Constructing adversarial samples against deep learning-based sensing system (part II) by Lin, Beiyi

“…While previous work in defending again these malicious attacks has investigated using gradient masking to hide information of the model and audio pre-processing to reduce or distort adversarial noise, this project explores the idea of simple pink noise injection at different loudness to detect adversarial examples. …”
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Modeling distance-dependent individual head-related transfer functions in the horizontal plane using frontal projection headphones by Sunder, Kaushik, Gan, Woon-Seng, Tan, Ee-Leng

“…Soc. 61, 989–1000] project the sound directly onto the pinnae from the front, and thus inherently create listener's idiosyncratic pinna cues at the eardrum. …”
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Optimizing earbud microphone performance through the use of digital filter by Tan, Kelvin Wei Wen

“…There exists a technique often used in live acoustic tuning of spaces like rooms and halls: To play Pink Noise, which is noise that has equal energy in every octave, and flatten frequency response. …”
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America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus by Desmaele, Linde

“…This debate has overlooked a crucial point: Washington’s security commitment to Europe is not only about military power but also hinges on European acquiescence to Washington’s politico-economic leadership position. …”
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Anomaly detection in aerosol jet printing via computer vision & machine learning by Ang, Ryan Wei Hao

“…Hence, this paper aims to develop, and more importantly, fine-tune, an in-situ monitoring algorithm that will be implemented into the Aerosol Jet Printing system with the help of an Object Detection Model, which hinges upon the principles of Deep Learning (DL), and Computer Vision (CV). …”
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4D printing of heat-driven self-assembly structures (Part II) by Teo, Jin Howe

“…First, the fabrication conditions of heat-driven self-assembly structures are examined. Hinges are printed with varying materials and dimensional parameters, and the resulting recovery time and the angle integrity are analysed. …”
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On fundamental aspects of quantum extreme learning machines by Xiong, W, Facelli, G, Sahebi, M, Agnel, O, Chotibut, T, Thanasilp, S, Holmes, Z

“…Notably, the expressivity of QELMs is fundamentally limited by the number of Fourier frequencies and the number of observables, while the complexity of the prediction hinges on the reservoir. As a cautionary note on scalability, we identify four sources that can lead to the exponential concentration of the observables as the system size grows (randomness, hardware noise, entanglement, and global measurements) and show how this can turn QELMs into useless input-agnostic oracles. …”

Quantifying and analysing the non-collective bargaining benefits of NTUC by Neo, Aaron Chun Boon

“…The paper also made recommendations to NTUC on how informative advertising and regular review on the benefits in accordance to preference can to reduce asymmetric information and more importantly help the union to maintain a pink state of membership numbers…”
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Perceptual distortion analysis for images by Dong, Li

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Designing a mechanism to cleave silicon wafers by Figueroa, Victor, 1982-

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The ideational approach by Busby, Ethan, Chryssogelos, Angelos, Hawkins, Eliza Tanner, Hawkins, Kirk, Littvay, Levente, Wiesehomeier, Nina

“…At all three levels, we argue that populism has a distinct impact that hinges on the intensity of populist beliefs of actors, particularly when these are in power. …”
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Impinging jet mixers: A review of their mixing characteristics, performance considerations, and applications by Devos, Cedric, Mukherjee, Saikat, Inguva, Pavan, Singh, Shalini, Wei, Yi, Mondal, Sandip, Yu, Huiwen, Barbastathis, George, Stelzer, Torsten, Braatz, Richard D, Myerson, Allan S

“…Optimal control over fast chemical processes hinges on the achievement of rapid and effective mixing. …”
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“Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle by Chin, Yao-Wei, Lau, Gih Keong

“…The thorax-like compliant mechanism can store elastic energy in flexible hinges and is good for storing kinetic energy expended during wing reversal. …”
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A proposed framework of research on the influencing factors of burnout-based on the perspective of individual work scenarios by Lu, Guangguo, Kanjanapathy, Malini, Mohamed Saat, Maisarah

“…This issue is particularly significant in the manufacturing industry where the future growth hinges on the expertise and well-being of highly skilled professionals. …”
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Translations: Designing Restorative Listening Experiences in the Age of Social Fragmentation by Obeng-Marnu, Naana

“…This thesis builds on a body of sociotechnical research at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication that draws upon "ancient wisdoms" of dialogue and listening and harnesses the power of technology to inform the design of dialogue spaces that promote deep, meaningful, and authentic conversations. Our approach hinges on the belief that society functions best when we hear and understand each other, an outcome that our work strives to advance by exposing people to the personal stories of others in ways that connect rather than divide. …”
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Developing a tongue coating index for Traditional Chinese Medicine by Choy, Meng Xuan

“…Approach 1, where L-a-b values of each tongue region were compared with those of the tongue tip, and Approach 2, where L-a-b values of each tongue region were compared with those of the ideal tongue color (Pink). Results obtained show that Approach 1 was more consistent with visual perception of post-corrected tongue images in the database. …”
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