Radio science measurements of atmospheric refractivity with Mars Global Surveyor by Cahoy, Kerri, Hinson, David, Tyler, G. Leonard

“…Refractivity is proportional to neutral density at low altitudes and electron density at high altitudes, with a transition at ~75 km. We use weighted least squares to decompose zonal refractivity variations into amplitudes and phases for observed wave numbers k=1-4 over the entire altitude range and use the results to analyze atmospheric structure and dynamics. …”
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HLO : half-kernel laplacian operator for surface smoothing by Pan, Wei, Lu, Xuequan, Gong, Yuanhao, Tang, Wenming, Liu, Jun, He, Ying, Qiu, Guoping

“…Given a vertex v, HLO first finds all pairs of its neighboring vertices and divides each pair into two subsets (called half windows); then computes the uniform Laplacians of all such subsets and subsequently projects the computed Laplacians to the full-window uniform Laplacian to alleviate flipping and degeneration. The half window with least regularization energy is then chosen for v. …”
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COVID-19 and global governance: waking up to a safe new world by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…Yet, as the collateral damage unfolds, the response has been astounding for at least two reasons. First, the difference in national responses to COVID-19, even among developed countries, could not be more stark. …”
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Thermochromic smart windows with highly regulated radiative cooling and solar transmission by Wang, Shancheng, Zhou, Yang, Jiang, Tengyao, Yang, Ronggui, Tan, Gang, Long, Yi

“…RC has been widely researched on walls and roofs but rarely on windows while windows are the least energy-efficient part of buildings. Moreover, in the current smart window design, consideration of tunable RC is missing. …”
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Building fabric improvement and heat pump deployment: a set of policy conundrums by Killip, G, Topouzi, M, Fawcett, T

“…Setting minimum quality standards for deployment, and a policy framework which allows for local decision-making within nationally (and internationally) determined targets is likely to be part of the answer. This paper sets out the challenge for policy in devolution and coordination, providing a set of unresolved conundrums that future policy needs to meet. …”

Low diversity of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in endangered Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) by Ismail, Nurul Adilah, Christina, Seok Yien Yong, Simon, Yung Wa Sin, Annavi, Geetha

“…Within the DRB gene, 24 codons were found to be under selection where 10 are part of the codons forming the Antigen Binding Site. …”

Ameliorative effect of α-tocopherol and tocotrienol-rich palm oil extract on menopause-associated mood disorder in ovariectomized mice by Liang, Gengfan, Kow, Audrey Siew Foong, Lee, Yu-Zhao, Yusof, Rohana, Tham, Chau Ling, Ho, Yu-Chung, Lee, Ming Tatt

“…Our findings suggested that α-tocopherol and tocotrienol-rich palm oil extract alleviated menopause-associated mood disorder, at least in part, by modulating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. …”
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Post-Asian financial crisis : banking reforms in Indonesia. by Yeo, Wee Poh.

“…In 1997, the Asian Financial Crisis hit Southeast and East Asia. Before the Asian Financial Crisis, there appeared few indications to warn of an impending catastrophic economic crisis in Indonesia. …”
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Modeling downward counterfactual events : unrealized disasters and why they matter by Lin, Yolanda C., Jenkins, Susanna F., Chow, Jun Rui, Biass, Sébastien, Woo, Gordon, Lallemant, David

“…Disaster risk research’s reliance on past events has proved inadequate when it comes to extreme events. …”
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Speeding up deep neural network training with decoupled and analytic learning by Zhuang, Huiping

“…The analytic learning trains neural networks in an exceedingly fast fashion as the training is completed within one single epoch. …”
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Beyond-the-Ice: Designing Games for Facilitating Deeper Conversations by Lee, Cassandra

“…In this age of constant communication, we’ve never been more connected, yet all of our numerous, fast, and convenient connections lack the depth and intimacy we truly crave. …”
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Drawing memories. by Chang, Jerly Wei Kiang.

“…The film tells a simple and heart wrenching story about a little boy who is brought back to the last reminiscence of his mother. It illustrates a little boy's pain and sorrow of not being able to let go of the death of his mother and how he eventually was able to pick up the courage to move on after given the opportunity to see his mother for the very last time. …”
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A brief on Saudi Arabia’s Energy Efficiency Program (SEEP) by Bin Salman Al-Saud, A

“…The Kingdom has witnessed unprecedented economic and industrial development in the last decades, which has led to an increase in the Kingdom’s domestic energy consumption. …”

Public opinion trend analysis on nuclear energy via aspect-based sentiment analysis methods by Huang, Fan

“…The second part was preprocessing the three collected datasets and applying the category auto labelling algorithm to generate tweets with related aspect categories. …”
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The stalks of the motor A1A0 ATP synthase come into the focus : structural insight into subunits E, F and H by Gayen, Shovanlal

“…The stalk parts have an important role for the regulation of this class of enzymes and are separated into a central part (C:D:F) and peripheral parts (Ex:H2:aN). …”
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Investigation of effects of supercavitation on flow by Yeo, Chee Siang

“…Lastly, the results obtained in this project also show that the drag coefficient is affected by the cavitation condition and cavitator angles. …”
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Adipose tissue fatty acid composition, serum lipids, and serum alpha-tocopherol in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients living on the island of Crete by Nikolakakis, N, Kounali, D, Tornaritis, M, Anastassou, A, Papadakis, E, Kassotakis, G, Kafatos, A

“…Both CAPD patients and controls had been residents of Crete for at least the last 10 years.</p> <br> <p><strong>Main Outcome Measures:</strong> Adipose tissue was aspirated, and a 12-hour fasting blood sample was collected for determination of serum lipid parameters and serum α-tocopherol levels; dietary data from a 3-day recall were recorded.…”

ESRDC ship notional baseline Medium Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) architecture thermal simulation and visualization by Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos, Chalfant, Julie, Vargas, J. V. C., Souza, J. A., Hovsapian, R., Ordonez, J. C., Chiocchio, T.

“…This work presents a fast visualization and thermal simulation tool developed as part of the Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium (ESRDC) funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that is capable of providing quick responses during early stages of ship design. …”
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Fault-tolerant computation meets network coding: optimal scheduling in parallel computing by Li, Congduan, Zhang, Yiqian, Tan, Chee Wei

“…Specifically, we determine the optimal redundancy-failure rate tradeoff to incorporate redundancy into parallel computing units running multiple-precision arithmetics, like the Chinese Remainder Theorem, that are useful for applications such as asymmetric cryptography and fast integer multiplication. Inspired by network coding in distributed storage for disk failures, we propose coding matrices to strategically map partial computation to available computing units, so that the central unit can reliably reconstruct the results of any failed machine without recalculations to yield the final correct computation output. …”
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Prioritising conservation areas in Southeast Asia: highlighting zoological biodiversity hotspots and assessing spatiotemporal patterns of the felids guild by Chiaverini, L

“…Specifically, biodiversity hotspots have originally been identified as those global areas containing at least 0.5% or 1,500 of the World’s vascular plant species as endemic and that have lost at least 70% of their primary vegetation. …”