Missing links in The China Model by Li, Chenyang

“…We should not take this book as an apologetics for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) even though it offers both positive and negative assessments of the Chinese communist regime, as any fair-minded work should. There is a tendency among scholars to avoid discussing certain topics in order not to be perceived as politically motivated to help governments with a less than commendable reputation. …”
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Perovskite light emitting transistors by Cheng, Bryan Wei Hao

“…Improvement of PeLET transport properties and overall stability at room temperature under pulsed regime allows for effective studying of intrinsic electronic properties of hybrid perovskites.…”
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Confined biofilm culture and flow in microfluidic channel by Lim, Chun Ping

“…Microfluidics generally operates in the laminar flow regime. However, chaotic and turbulent flows can have significant effects on the structure and function of biofilms. …”
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Unconventional physical activity promotion : exploring the effectiveness of DDP yoga through sentiment analysis on Twitter by Lim, Ryan

“…While studies have examined these data on PA and public health, they have not considered observing a specific fitness regime or programme that could provide a deeper understanding of PA-related conversations. …”
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Irreverence intended? Destabilizing ‘intent’ as determinative in discourse around satire at the ECtHR by Hussain, H, Sanghi, S

“…By interpreting legal discourse around satire at the ECtHR and interrogating the suitability of prevalent tests and defences pertaining to satirical expressions, we advocate for the emergence of a shared framework within humour regimes to facilitate a relatively better communal understanding of satire and its permissible limits. …”

Effect of activation energy on detonation cellular dynamics and reinitiation behaviors by Tang, S, Zhang, S, Lai, S, Fang, X

“…The effect of activation energy in detonation attenuation is further studied through a detonation propagation over a semicylinder obstacle, where two distinct detonation attenuation regimes are captured, including unattenuated detonation transmission (ℰ=2,4E=2,4) and critical detonation reinitiation (ℰ=6,10E=6,10). …”

Digital Anatomy : Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality / by Uhl, Jean-François, editor 643187, Jorge, J. A. (Joaquim Armando), editor 643188, Lopes, Daniel Simões, editor 643190, Campos, Pedro F., editor 643191

Performance evaluation of SAFIS for benchmark problems by Sinara Vijayan.

“…Using two classification benchmark problems Image Segmentation and DNA, the selection of the optimal algorithm parameters is done and the performace of SAFIS for the classification problems is also studied with other algorithms. …”
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The effects of processing conditions on the morphology of single conjugated polymers. by Yeo, Hui Lin.

“…These emissive centers of the collapsed chain were proposed to be intrachain aggregates consisting of closely π-stacked segments, therefore possessing weak oscillator strength and an extended radiative lifetime. …”
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Design, synthesis, characterization and property study of topological structures of DNA by Li, Dawei

“…It is also shown unprecedentedly in our investigation that the size of DNA writhe could be accurately engineered by altering T-rich and A-rich segments in the target duplex DNAs. In addition, the results of our studies confirmed that the intrinsic curvatures of organismal DNAs alone could lead to the generation of duplex backbone self-crossings in their relaxed forms and the backbone self-crossings of those organismal DNAs could be readily confirmed through atomic force microscopic examination. …”
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iNEMO : a multi-sensor real-time human activity monitoring system by Mi, Ding.

“…The real-time indoor human behavior monitoring application performs above expectation. The image segmentation, objects detection, tracking and recognition process are successfully working on multiple objects application within certain effective range. …”
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The antecedents and consequences of a layered architecture of mobile handsets by Lee, Alvin Wei Ming

“…The industry is seen to be evolving into three distinct segments; Handset, Operating System and Content. This thesis will draw upon relevant literature that applies the theory of modularization to the mobile phone industry. …”
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Deepsea imaging by Quah, Sherman Kah Hou

“…Moving on, the 3 steps to understanding the transformation of histogram from normalization to equalization and lastly the segmentation. Putting the Gaussian or Normal distribution rule into place with mean and standard deviation to ensure everything is in place. …”
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PUERTO RICO : A NATIONAL HISTORY / by Meléndez Badillo, Jorell A., author 656083

“…This resulted in the proliferation of unsuccessful slave revolts and, in 1868, an insurrection that declared the Republic of Puerto Rico, which only lasted 48 hours. Puerto Rico's major regime change came in 1898 with the US occupation. …”
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Unsupervised learning based performance analysis of n-support vector regression for speed prediction of a large road network by Asif, M. T., Oran, A., Fathi, E., Xu, M., Dhanya, M. M., Mitrovic, N., Jaillet, P., Dauwels, Justin, Goh, Chong Yang

“…However, these studies focus on highways, or a few road segments. We propose a robust and scalable method using v-SVR to tackle the problem of speed prediction of a large heterogeneous road network. …”
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Modeling Electrochemical and Rheological Characteristics of Suspension-Based Electrodes for Redox Flow Cells by Majji, Madhu V, Neyhouse, Bertrand J, Matteucci, Nicholas J, Lennon, Kyle R, Mallia, Christopher T, Fenton Jr., Alexis M, Swan, James W, Brushett, Fikile R

“…Importantly, we expound relevant operating regimes—based on a subset of dimensionless groups—that inform practical operating envelopes, ultimately helping to guide FSE and cell engineering for electrochemical systems.…”
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Ultrafast modulation of exciton – plasmon coupling in a monolayer WS2 – Ag nanodisk hybrid system by Du, Wei, Zhao, Jiaxin, Zhao, Weijie, Zhang, Shunping, Xu, Hongxing, Xiong, Qihua

“…Utilizing transient absorption pump–probe spectroscopy, here we report an ultrafast modulation of the exciton–plasmon coupling in a monolayer WS2–Ag nanodisk hybrid system that displays Fano resonance at the steady-state regime. Specifically, the instant switch-off of the Fano resonance was observed upon the femtosecond pump excitation, characterized by the photoinduced absorption signal at the Fano resonance frequency. …”
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Effects of infilled wall opening on load resisting capacity of RC frames to mitigate progressive collapse risk by Qian, Kai, Lan, Dong-Qiu, Fu, Feng, Li, Bing

“…The two-bay and three-story RC frames were tested using a pushdown loading regime. It was found that the infill walls could increase the first peak load by 256%. …”
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A BIT does go a long way: the positive effect of bilateral investment treaties on China's foreign direct investment inflows by Liow, Karyn Sze Min

“…Such heterogeneous treatment effects suggest that China’s BIT policy in the 1980s was a strategic one – it selectively concluded BITs with the most promising economic partners in the early period of its BIT regime. It then gradually broadened the BIT network to more partner countries as its diplomatic relations expanded over time.…”
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Dimensionality-dependent type-II Weyl semimetal state in Mo₀.₂₅W₀.₇₅Te₂ by Li, Peiling, Deng, Ya, Hsu, Chuang-Han, Zhu, Chao, Cui, Jian, Yang, Xue, Zhou, Jiadong, Hung, Yi-Chun, Fan, Jie, Ji, Zhongqing, Qu, Fanming, Shen, Jie, Yang, Changli, Jing, Xiunian, Lin, Hsin, Liu, Zheng, Lu, Li, Liu, Guangtong

“…Here, by selecting a special sample with the thickness gradient across two- (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) regime, we show strong evidences that Mo$_{0.25}$W$_{0.75}$Te$_{2}$ is a type-II Weyl semimetal by observing the following two dimensionality-dependent transport features: 1) A chiral-anomaly-induced anisotropic magneto-conductivity enhancement, proportional to the square of in-plane magnetic field (B$_{in}$$^{2}$); 2) An additional quantum oscillation with thickness-dependent phase shift. …”
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