The Whole Picture : The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it / by Procter, Alice, author 656024, Octopus (Online service) 656025

“…In The Whole Picture , art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries. …”
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Activated Sludge : Developments and Sustainable Solutions / by Gray, Nicholas F., author 370661, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…Over recent decades it has been constantly modified and retrofitted to treat ever higher loads or improve effluent standards which have often resulted in even greater carbon emissions. …”
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Engineering Mechanical Counter Pressure Spacesuits and Compression Garments: Active Pressurization and Design for Mobility by Kothakonda, Akshay

“…Nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) models that can be used to analyze the deformation of these fabrics under suited movements have been developed. Results from these simulations are hoped to aid in designing the fabric in a such a way that sustains circumferential tension of 2 the 2W-SMP and minimizes mechanical work during movements. …”
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Sampling from convex sets with a cold start using multiscale decompositions by Narayanan, Hariharan, Rajaraman, Amit, Srivastava, Piyush

“…Therefore, the rapid mixing of a wide variety of random walks on convex bodies has been studied. Many proofs of rapid mixing of such random walks however require that the initial distribution of the random walk is not too different from the target distribution π K . …”
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Geochemical heterogeneity in the Hawaiian plume : constraints from Hawaiian volcanoes and Emperor seamounts by Huang, Shichun

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How to learn Chinese characters? Exploring the effectiveness of different learning methods in young Singaporean children by Toh, Wendy Hwee Bin

“…Through this research, evidence regarding the differential effects of the learning modes has been gathered to help us understand which methods better cater to the learning needs of different groups of learners.…”
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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

“…The downward counterfactual framework relies first on identifying a past event, which may or may not have been considered a major disaster. After an event has been identified, historical parameters from the past event are relaxed in order to identify small changes that result in downward, worsening consequences. …”
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The biggest challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic on gender-related work from home in biomedical fields—world-wide qualitative survey analysis by Bezak, Eva, Carson-Chahhoud, Kristin V., Marcu, Loredana G., Stoeva, Magdalena, Lhotska, Lenka, Barabino, Gilda A., Ibrahim, Fatimah, Kaldoudi, Eleni, Lim, Sierin, Da Silva, Ana Maria Marques, Tan, Peck Ha, Tsapaki, Virginia, Frize, Monique

“…(1) Background: This paper aims to present and discuss the most significant challenges encountered by STEM professionals associated with remote working during the COVID-19 lockdowns. (2) Methods: We performed a qualitative analysis of 921 responses from professionals from 76 countries to the open-ended question: "What has been most challenging during the lockdown for you, and/or your family?" …”
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Extended features based random vector functional link network for classification problem by Malik, Ashwani Kumar, Ganaie, M. A., Tanveer, M., Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam

“…Random vector functional link (RVFL) network has been successfully employed in diverse domains such as computer vision and machine learning, due to its universal approximation capability. …”
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One-class knowledge distillation for face presentation attack detection by Li, Zhi, Cai, Rizhao, Li, Haoliang, Lam, Kwok-Yan, Hu, Yongjian, Kot, Alex Chichung

“…Face presentation attack detection (PAD) has been extensively studied by research communities to enhance the security of face recognition systems. …”
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Growth and physical properties of organic semiconducting single crystals by Tan, Ke Jie

“…Numerous high quality mono-component and charge-transfer (CT) binary-component molecular single crystals have been grown using solution phase and gas phase methods. …”
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Investigating the neural substrates of Chinese character processing by Wu, Chiao-Yi

“…Most of the existing models of language have been based on alphabetic languages; however, growing evidence has shown that character language processing, such as Chinese, might recruit differentiated brain networks due to its unique linguistic features. …”
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Study on localized ion transportation phenomena in YSZ at high temperature by Ng, Chee Seng

“…Much of the research effort has been focused on lowering the operating temperature of SOFC for wider material selection and reduction on the thermal related damage when operating at high temperature. …”
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Non-invasive nanosensor monitoring of mRNA expression for regenerative medicine application by Wiraja, Christian

“…Thus far, various approaches involving wide ranges of cell and biomaterial types have been proposed and validated at the bench-side (laboratory). …”
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Investigation of two dimensional floquet topological insulator using microwave network by Hu, Wenchao

“…“Topological photonics” has also been realized with resonator lattices and waveguide lattices subsequently. …”
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Spatial and subcellular gene expression patterns in myogenic differentiation and muscle pathology by Chwalenia, KM

“…Canonically, microRNAs have been considered to function only in the cytoplasm. …”

The blue green algal bloom in the nearshore waters of Cukai bay facing the South China Sea by Shamsudin, Lokman

“…Since the early 1990's, large areas of mangrove forest along the nearshore waters of Cukai bay had been cleared to give way for the development of aquaculture activities, human settlement and setting up of new small scale fish processing industries. …”
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Mitogenic activity of mesenchymal stem cells on hematopoietic stem cells via cellular analysis and gene expression by Mohadeseh, Hashem Boroojerdi

“…Although the intimate interaction between HSC and MSC is not fully elucidated but it has been confirmed that such communication is mandatory for the uninterrupted hematopoiesis. …”
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Cloud Spark Cluster to analyse English prescription big data for NHS intelligence by Fernando, Sandra, Sowinski-Mydlarz, Viktor, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…This study also contributes descriptive statistics and machine learning models of prescription data trends using Cloud Spark engine, and PySpark technology that has not been used in this context before. This study illustrates regions as well as GP practices in terms of reimbursement cost, drug consumption level, the type of the drug, and the disease type; varied demand for dispensed chemical substances over the years; shows what diseases have increased or decreased over the years as well as the total cost and its trends.…”
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Machine learning in additive manufacturing : state-of-the-art and perspectives by Wang, Chengcheng, Tan, Xipeng, Tor, Shu Beng, Lim, C.S.

“…On the production of AM, ML is able to assist practitioners in pre-manufacturing planning, and product quality assessment and control. Moreover, there has been an increasing concern about data security in AM as data breaches could occur with the aid of ML techniques. …”
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