SMARTEYE - for human posture and activity monitoring Part 2 by Lim, Jay Boon Kiat

“…The purpose of this study is to design a system that allows monitoring of the elderly within their household at all times. The report consists of three stages for monitoring – Human Detection, Human Posture Recognition, and Human Activity Recognition. …”
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Lacuna by Tng, Gabriel Yue Hao

“…In essence, the story is a light-hearted animation that draws on themes normally found in buddy-cop films. …”
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Poverty and meritocracy in Singapore by Ang, Jonathan Choong Yew, Chua, Joyce Hui Ping, Zhang, Alethea Shimin

“…This is reflected in the emphasis on the importance of hard work and self-reliance, where one should not solely rely on government assistance. This paper draws upon these responses to discuss the implications of meritocracy as a value system and recommends some solutions to remedy the unintended consequences of implementing this system across all facets of life.…”
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Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery by Bel, G, Elston, T

“…This we undertake for the case of solid waste collection in Catalonia, using environmental protection as our focal performance standard. Drawing on two waves of data (for 2000 and 2019) for 186 municipalities that together use all four combinations of public, private, single and cooperative service delivery, we show that superior environmental performance was initially confined to conventional cooperations involving only public production. …”

Recovery of 3D shapes from 2D sketches by Liu, Yang

“…The objective of this research is to recover 3D freeform surfaces depicted in a single line drawing, with the aim of taking conceptual design sketches and converting them into 3D models. …”
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Achievable PID performance using sums of squares programming by Sendjaja, Antonius Yudi, Kariwala, Vinay

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On VO vs. OV in Southeast Asia by Benedict, Paul K.

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Fitness-for-service assessment for pressurized components-general metal loss by Tan, Cheng Siong.

“…For the project, the FFS assessment will be applied to components suffering from general metal losses, which are losses arising from corrosion. First of all, the design code API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 is briefly reviewed and discussed. …”
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The elusiveness of 'interdependent obligations' and the invocation of responsibility for their breach by Urs, P

“…Since the adoption in 2001 of the International Law Commission’s ‘Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts’, attention has been increasingly drawn to the enforcement by states individually of multilateral obligations. …”

The devil is in the details: an evaluation of recent feature encoding methods by Chatfield, K, Lempitsky, V, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…This allows a consistent comparative analysis of these encoding methods. Several conclusions drawn from our analysis cannot be inferred from the original publications. …”

Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Bhattacharjee, NV, Schumacher, AE, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Graham, SM, Lacey, BWH, Maude, RJ, Runghien, T, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Uncertainty from past data inputs and model estimation was propagated throughout analyses by taking 1000 draws for past and present fertility estimates and 500 draws for future forecasts from the estimated distribution for each metric, with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) given as the 2·5 and 97·5 percentiles of the draws. …”

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Vollset, SE, Ababneh, HS, Abate, YH, Lacey, BWH, GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

“…Forecasts for the reference scenario found that health will improve in the coming decades, with all-cause age-standardised DALY rates decreasing in every GBD super-region. …”

A review of emotion sensing: categorization models and algorithms by Wang, Zhaoxia, Ho, Seng-Beng, Cambria, Erik

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Unravelling genetic heterogeneity of hepatocellular carcinoma with driver genes and subclones by Ng, Ming Hwee

“…The clonality analysis next, determined if driver genes were found in all or a subset of a tumor and thus whether it was an early or late event in tumor evolution. …”
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What Dicey forgot by Barber, NW

“…Within the United Kingdom, or, more precisely, within Britain, the eulogisation of Dicey’s rule of law was understandable, after all, the principle served as a guarantor of liberty. …”

Causal inference in health and disease: a review of the principles and applications of Mendelian randomization by Lovegrove, CE, Howles, SA, Furniss, D, Holmes, MV

“…Conventional observational epidemiological studies are subject to bias from a range of sources; MR analyses can offer an advantage in that they are less prone to bias as they use genetic variants inherited at conception as “instrumental variables”, which are proxies of an exposure. However, as with all research tools, MR studies must be carefully designed to yield valuable insights into causal relationships between exposures and outcomes, and to avoid biased or misleading results that undermine the validity of the causal inferences drawn from the study. …”

BLUE OCEAN SHIFT : BEYOND COMPETING - PROVEN STEPS TO INSPIRE CONFIDENCE AND SEIZE NEW GROWTH / by Kim, W. Chan, author 318022, Mauborgne, Renée, author 387551, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

“…Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. …”
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My research career by Ma, Xueliang

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Seoul-Hong Kong-Macau : love with an alien (1957) and postwar Korea-Hong Kong co-production by Lee, Sangjoon

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On the most energy-efficient input functions and the lowest input energy of passive linear circuits by Smunyahirun, Radit

“…The transient duration analysis is performed for three cases of increasing, decreasing and unchanging total stored energy. All these cases are analyzed comprehensively. In each case, it is further divided into two sub cases of (un)changing without and with zero crossing. …”
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