SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems. by Boccaletti, Anthony, Schneider, Jean, Traub, Wes, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Stam, Daphne, Gratton, Raffaele, Trauger, John, Cahoy, Kerri, Snik, Frans, Baudoz, Pierre, Galicher, Raphael, Reess, Jean-Michel, Mawet, Dimitri, Augereau, Jean-Charles, Patience, Jenny, Kuchner, Marc, Wyatt, Mark, Pantin, Eric, Maire, Anne-Lise, Vérinaud, Christophe

“…By 2020/2022, present and near-term instruments will have found several tens of planets that SPICES will be able to observe and study in detail. …”
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Feasibility Analysis of On-Orbit Debris Detection Using Commercial Star Trackers by Shtofenmakher, Allan, Balakrishnan, Hamsa

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Vehicle Routing Problem Formulation for Efficient Tracking of Objects in Low Earth Orbit by Shtofenmakher, Allan, Balakrishnan, Hamsa

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VoxCap: FFT-accelerated and Tucker-enhanced capacitance extraction simulator for voxelized structures by Wang, Mingyu, Qian, Cheng, White, Jacob K., Yucel, Abdulkadir C.

“…By doing so, it reduces the memory requirement of these tensors from hundreds of gigabytes to a few megabytes and the CPU time required to obtain Toeplitz tensors from tens of minutes (even hours) to a few seconds for very large scale problems. …”
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A high efficiency buck converter for IoT sensors by Mo, Mingwei

“…When the system is activated for data collection and processing, the load current may spike to tens of milliamperes. Thus, it's essential for the DC-DC converter to accommodate a broad spectrum of load currents, ensuring versatility and reliability in various operational states. …”
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Slip along the San Andreas fault associated with the great 1857 earthquake by Sieh, Kerry

“…These records, together with dendrochronological evidence, suggest that the rupture occurred along 360 to 400+ km of the fault, including several tens of kilometers of the currently creeping reach in central California. …”
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Magnetic field amplification in laser-produced plasmas by Meinecke, J

“…Radio-Synchrotron emission and Faraday Rotation measurements have revealed that clusters, filaments, and voids are all magnetised from a few <em>nG</em> to tens of <em>μG</em>. When integrated over the whole universe, this magnetic energy represents a sizeable component of the cosmic energy budget, making magnetic fields essential players in the dynamics of luminous matter in the universe.…”

Populism in foreign policy by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…Highlighted are the breadth of critical and discursive approaches on populism that scholars of populism and foreign policy can use, particularly because they have been applied successfully to cases outside of Europe, where populists have long held political power and have influenced foreign policy in practice. …”
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Aircraft noise, overheating and poor air quality in London primary schools' classrooms by Montazami, Azadeh

“…The overall findings of this thesis have been developed to draw the attention of school designers' to the current and future potential conflicts between the comfort factors in schools' classrooms. …”
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Developing a Household Flood Vulnerability Index for Managing the Risk of Flood Disasters (S/O 13584) by Hassan, Sallahuddin, Abu Bakar, Arpah, Othman, Zalila, Khalid, Mohamad Sukeri, Abu Talib, Mansor

“…Accordingly, the significant indicators have been determined through the systematic review, availability and accessibility of data. …”
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Punching shear strength analysis of corroded reinforcement concrete slab by Fu, Yibin

“…Therefore, thorough theoretical and experimental studies on the punching shear resistance of reinforced concrete have been the focus in recent studies. Design parameters such as size, column rectangularity, flexural reinforcement ratio, concrete compressive strength and span-depth ratio have been studied extensively over the recent years. …”
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Legal translation and ISO standards : a case study by See, Tingting

“…Moreover, there has been no research endeavours undertaken to examine patrons’ expectations of legal translation and their views with regards to costs and quality of legal translation. …”
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The changing nature of Chinese business in Africa : the case of Cape Verde by Horta, Loro

“…Many tend to associate China's presence in Africa with a frenetic search for natural resources such as oil and gas. …”
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Demand response management for home automation system by Qiu, Danqing.

“…With the high development of science and technology nowadays, household buildings tend to be more intelligent and energy saving have become an inevitable trend in today’s industrial society. …”
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Empowering animals through technology: enhancing animal agency in the sound environment by French, Fiona, Potkin, Dominique, Evans, Neil, Hirskyj-Douglas, Ilyena, Jalali, Azadeh, Kleinberger, Rébecca, Kriengwatana, Pralle, Nager, Ruedi, Serah Iyasere, Oluwaseun, Shafiei Sabet, Saeed, Spierings, Michelle

“…However, there is very limited evidence about how these sound environments – and the acoustic variables within them – might improve or degrade conditions for most animals. Studies tend to view the sound environment as something ‘beyond the control’ of the animal, or as a variable that must be manipulated by humans while observing its impacts, often treating all animals in a population as equivalent. …”
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A Fifty Million Dollar Piece of Dirt: Somerville as a Case Study in Development by Aizman, Asya

“…Through interviews with residents, activists, and senior city officials, I present a story of a city attempting to rectify its progressive values with the forces of neoliberalism, which it seems unable—and unwilling—to stop.…”
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Tweens' online privacy risks and the role of parental mediation by Faber, Ronald J., Shin, Wonsun, Huh, Jisu

“…A survey conducted with 381 parent-tween dyads in Korea revealed that, while parental mediation was not directly associated with tweens' information disclosing behaviors, parent-tween disagreement on restrictive mediation was: tweens' inaccurate perception of what parents do to limit their access to commercial Web sites seems to be positively related to tweens' information disclosure on the Web.…”
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Visualisation of a ship's behaviour in seaways by Tan, Ee Hua

“…Additionally, with further development, the Unreal Engine seems to have the ability to produce better simulations. …”
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Underpricing of initial public offerings in Singapore. by Lee, Wah Seng., Tay, Lim Hock.

“…However, there is no observed trend on the amount of underpricing for each year between 1987 to 1994, except that the amount of underpricing at the 1st and 90th trading days seems to have a downward trend from 1992 to 1994.…”
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Investigation of the effects of commensurability on friction between concentric carbon nanotubes by Zhu, Chunzhang, Shenai, Prathamesh Mahesh, Zhao, Yang

“…However, this perception seems paradoxical as commensurability is found to have negligible effect on the energy dissipation in double-walled carbon nanotube (DWNT) based oscillators. …”
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