Understanding Farmers' Data Collection Practices on Small-to-Medium Farms for the Design of Future Farm Management Information Systems by Friedman, Natalie, Tan, Zm, Haskins, Micah N., Ju, Wendy, Bailey, Diane, Longchamps, Louis

“…We found that farmers use their own bespoke data collection techniques instead of or in parallel to more formalized methods and often hold key observations and hypotheses in their heads rather than committing them to any data collection system at all. …”
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Properties and mechanism of strain and piezoelectricity of hybrid molecular ferroelectrics by Hu, Yuzhong

“…In this chapter, we discuss the properties and origin of the colossal shear strain (21.5%) in (PTMA) CdBr3xCl3(1-x), which is two orders of magnitude higher than general ferroelectrics and much larger than all shape memory alloys. …”
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Oxygen Vacancy Induced Room-Temperature Metal–Insulator Transition in Nickelate Films and Its Potential Application in Photovoltaics by Wang, Le, Dash, Sibashisa, Chang, Lei, You, Lu, Feng, Yaqing, He, Xu, Jin, Kui-juan, Zhou, Yang, Ong, Hock Guan, Ren, Peng, Wang, Shiwei, Chen, Lang, Wang, Junling

“…Acting as electron donors, oxygen vacancies not only stabilize the insulating phase at room temperature, but also induce a large magnetization of ∼50 emu/cm3 due to the formation of strongly correlated Ni2+ t2g6eg2 states. The bandgap opening is an order of magnitude larger than that of the thermally driven metal–insulator transition and continuously tunable. …”
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Three essays on gender wage differentials by Fang, Zheng

“…Such gaps can be partially explained by differences in productivity related characteristics, such as education and experience between men and women; the part not explained by differences in characteristics is often referred to as potential discrimination in the labor market. …”
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Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) and Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS) for photodynamic therapy monitoring. by Siti Raudhah Matyasir.

“…Partial responder has its tumour reduced less than 50% or a regrowth subsequently after therapy therefore both rStO2 and rBF might decrease but increase back starting from 3 hours post PDT. …”
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Study of cascade failures of power grids by Ng, Jason Wei Long.

“…The simulations had shown that Cascaded Load Cut-off(CLC) and Cascaded Load Overflow(CLO) are more effective in improving the robustness of the network than Adaptive-Cascaded Load Overflow(A-CLO) protection scheme. …”
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An experimental and simulation study of chip transportation behaviour in gundrilling by Tnay, Guan Leong

“…Gundrilling is a machining process to produce deep holes with length to diameter ratios greater than 10. The material removed by the gun drill known as chips have to be evacuated from the cutting zone as fast as possible, in order to prevent the chip clogging. …”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…And is it possible for us, when defining territorial strategies and policies at the local level, to turn the role of social entrepreneurs and activists into promoters of progress rather than victims of stagnation? This core idea of this book is that the Basque Country, due to its own intricacies rather than merely as a consequence of its being kidnapped and held captive by the old-fashioned Spanish and French state legal frameworks, has come, over the years, to develop many points of inertia that are inherent in its territorial policies and strategies. …”

Detection of latent fingerprint using optical technique by Seah, Leong Keey., Ong, Lin Seng., Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham.

“…The imagings of latent fingerprints on various types of surfaces were carried out using the proposed technique. Often, when fingerprints deposited on strongly fluorescing backgrounds, their separation offer a challenging problem to fingerprint experts.Experiments were carried out for imaging the latent fingerprints, which are deposited on strongly fluorescing backgrounds, even when background fluorescence lifetime is longer than that of fingerprint fluorescence. …”
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File transfer & data viewing programme of optical fiber sensors based on labview by Liang, Zimou

“…When optical fiber sensors are used in study, the data collected is often needed to be viewed from remote devices and storage in a PC other than onsite PC. …”
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Intelligent diagnostic feedback in virtual learning environment by Guo, Ruisheng

“…This research investigates the current key issues in the area of e-learning in higher education and focuses on how to provide automatic, effective and convenient online feedback to students in order to support students’ learning. In recent years, e-learning has becoming increasingly commonplace in higher education. …”
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Shaped Bessel beam singulation of glass substrates by Chia, Hao Guang

“…This makes it possible to cut thin glass less than 1mm thick because no pressure is applied to the glass during the cutting process, which is often the cause of crack propagation. …”
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The inhibitory effect of medication on the anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and brown water by Ng, Si Jia.

“…It was observed that when paracetamol presented at concentration no more than 1mM, there was no significant impact on the biogas production. …”
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The perils of a dual mandate by Cantore, C, Dhamija, V

“…Our findings indicate that under an inflation-targeting regime, price level determinacy is often the exception than the norm when the central bank pursues a dual mandate. …”

Modeling human-like non-rationality in social agents by Kochanowicz, Jaroslaw Slawomir

“…Human species is the only one capable of consistent rationality, but the scale and gravity of human non-rationality are far greater than often suspected. Cognitive biases and other non-rational influences on key decisions occur disregarding explicit reasoning or goal realization, subconsciously and often in a certainty that they did not take place. …”
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Review of compressed sensing in imaging : algorithms and applications by Raviselvam Sujithra

“…This can be done by using a measurements or sensing matrix of order m x n which is independently and identically distributed (IID) for which m<<n. …”
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Holt (Online service) 655998

“…The title derives from Sapolsky's premise that for animals such as zebras, stress is generally episodic (e.g., running away from a lion), while for humans, stress is often chronic (e.g., worrying about losing one's job). …”
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Influences of surface charges and gap width between p-type and n-type semiconductors on charge pumping by Deng, Shuo, Xu, Ran, Li, Min, Li, Lijie, Wang, Zhong Lin, Zhang, Qing

“…The amount of charge measured in the circuit, however, was observed to be 3–4 orders of magnitudes smaller than the space charge in the depletion regions of an ideal p-n (or Schottky) junction formed with the corresponding semiconductors (or metals). …”
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Anatomy, Stretching & Training for Golfers : A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting the Most from Your Golf Workout / by Striano, Philip, Dr., author 575932

“…There are few things more satisfying than a great round of golf. But the joy and thrill of golf are often marred by injuries that can bother you for weeks and ruin your game. …”

15.568B Management Information Systems: Generating Business Value from Information Technology, Spring 2003 by Weill, Peter

“…The course focuses on the business value that can be achieved rather than the details of the technology. Issues around IT governance will pervade the course. …”
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