Designing for policy effectiveness : defining and understanding a concept by Peters, B. Guy, Capano, Giliberto, Howlett, Michael, Mukherjee, Ishani, Chou, Meng-Hsuan, Ravinet, Pauline

“…The field of policy studies has always been interested in analyzing and improving the sets of policy tools adopted by governments to correct policy problems, and better understanding and improving processes of policy analysis and policy formulation in order to do so. …”
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Neutron emission studies from miniature and medium size plasma focus device by Singh, Rajdeep Raweet.

“…Although dense plasma focus devices have attracted the attention of scientific community since 1960’s as a copious source of fusion neutrons but in the recent years owing to spin-off in the applications of compact and portable table top neutron sources in wider domain, like noninvasive interrogation of explosives and narcotic drugs (by using Pulsed Fast/Thermal Neutron Analysis (PFTNA) technique), dark matter research, radioisotope production, medical neutron therapy and soil humidity measurements, there has been renewed interest across the globe for the development of sub-kilojoule range, low energy small plasma focus device (hereafter called ‘Miniature Plasma Focus i.e. …”
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Urban development with financially sustainable bus transit service : a case study by Chen, Shihui.

“…As the urban population grows, the demand for public transport correspondingly increases. It has been proven that high population density is related to high transport usage. …”
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Descriptor learning for efficient retrieval by Philbin, J, Isard, M, Sivic, J, Zisserman, A

“…<p>Many visual search and matching systems represent images using sparse sets of “visual words”: descriptors that have been quantized by assignment to the best-matching symbol in a discrete vocabulary. …”

On a problem of Ishmukhametov by Yamaleev, Mars, Fang, Chengling, Wu, Guohua

“…Given a d.c.e. degree d, consider the d.c.e. sets in d and the corresponding degrees of their Lachlan sets. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Finally, the third essay exploits supply chain datasets to assess each side’s ability to bring AI-enabled autonomous weapons to bear in future conventional conflicts. I find that control over the production of advanced AI chips by the United States and allies almost certainly means the United States would better exploit such weapons, if they emerged as decisive in modern warfare, within at least the next ten years. …”
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Performance and functional enhancement of artificial market psychology simulator by Akula, Mohan Kumar, 1978-

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A data-driven method for automated data superposition with applications in soft matter science by Lennon, Kyle R., McKinley, Gareth H., Swan, James W.

“…The superposition of data sets with internal parametric self-similarity is a longstanding and widespread technique for the analysis of many types of experimental data across the physical sciences. …”
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Differentially private deep learning for time series data by Dwitami, Inggriany

“…This includes providing a publicly available benchmark data sets, incorporating more models, and comparing various differentially private frameworks.…”
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Modelling and characterization of membrane fouling in osmotically-driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Lai, Li

“…With intensification of water scarcity, forward osmosis has been drawing increasing attention due to its low energy requirement and power of removing pollutants in wastewater treatment and desalination processes. …”
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Learning object categories from internet image searches by Fergus, R, Fei-Fei, L, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…We show two applications of the learned model: first, to rerank the images returned by the search engine, thus improving the quality of the search engine; and second, to recognize objects in other image data sets.…”

Incentives for teachers: a theoretical framework and a structural model by Jain, R

“…Applying the theoretical framework for structural analysis, I identify the sets of teacher heterogeneity consistent with each effort choice in the treatment and control group schools. …”

Subjective social status and calorie preference by Dayana Zaihan

“…Using taste tests that included a ranking task, paired comparisons and independent ratings of sensory properties, we found that experimentally manipulated participants who felt low (vs. high or neutral) SSS displayed slight preferences for high calorie food and differences in ability to discriminate between higher/lower calorie drinks. …”
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Enhancing local binary patterns distinctiveness for face representation by Ghahramani, Mohammad, Yau, Wei-Yun, Teoh, Eam Khwang

“…The Local Binary pattern (LBP) is a well-known feature and has been widely used for human identification. However, the amount of information extracted is limited which reduces the LBP discriminative power. …”
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Texture aware image segmentation using graph cuts and active contours by Zhou, Hailing, Zheng, Jianmin, Wei, Lei

“…Many interactive segmentation algorithms such as graph cut have been successfully developed. In this paper, we present four technical components to improve graph cut based algorithms, which are combining both color and texture information for graph cut, including structure tensors in the graph cut model, incorporating active contours into the segmentation process, and using a “softbrush” tool to impose soft constraints to refine problematic boundaries. …”
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Animation of electronic and optical processes in semiconductors by Yeo, Raymond Chin Keong.

“…The studying of Semiconductor Fundamental has always been a challenging subject. Even with comprehensive notes, students still find it hard to fully understand the concept. …”
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Arterial pulse waveform and pulse wave velocity by Yeo, Jay Sheng Quan

“…Both age and stiffness of arterial wall have long been established as cardiovascular risk factors. …”
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Identity matters ... even in maritime security : China, Japan and maritime cooperation in East Asia by Eva Pejsova

“…The rise of China has been redefining the region’s international relations and power dynamics, triggering apprehensions in the neighbourhood and beyond. …”
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Calibration of the basic reinforced concrete design provision (Calibration of bond stress-slip models for unconfined reinforced concrete) by Cheah, Yi Ning

“…Seven deterministic bond stress-slip models and 90 sets of experimental specimens that exhibited splitting failures have been collected from literature studies. …”
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Rapid controllable synthesis of branched Au superparticles: formation mechanism of toggling the growth mode and their applications in optical broadband absorption by Zhong, Shichuan, Hang, Lifeng, Wen, Lulu, Zhang, Tao, Cao, An, Zeng, Pan, Zhang, Hanlin, Liu, Dilong, Cai, Weiping, Li, Yue

“…We also exhibit the excellent properties of Au superparticles with different morphologies, such as NIR-II photothermal conversion and therapy and SERS detection. The photothermal conversion efficiency under 1064 nm laser irradiation was calculated to be as high as 62.6% and they exhibit robust photothermal therapy efficiency. …”
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