Bird-Count: a multi-modality benchmark and system for bird population counting in the wild by Wang, Hongchang, Lu, Huaxiang, Guo, Huimin, Jian, Haifang, Gan, Chuang, Liu, Wu

“…This paper first evaluates various state-of-the-art (SOTA) models for crowd counting on the Bird-Count and gets poor results. The reason is that the forms, appearances, and postures among different birds are more variant than the crowd. …”
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Examining discrimination in home improvement financing (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act 2012–2016) and neighborhood health in the United States by Davis, Brigette A., Arcaya, Mariana C., Williams, David R., Metzger, Molly, Krieger, Nancy

“…Additionally, at the census tract level, home improvement loan denial rates are associated with usually getting less than 7 hours of sleep, which is associated with adverse health outcomes. …”
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Spatiotemporal assessment of water security in China: an integrated supply-demand coupling model by Liu, Bin, Zhang, Feilian, Qin, Xiaosheng, Wu, Zhe, Wang, Xiaolan, He, Yuanyuan

“…However, the ecological protection capacity was still highly insufficient, staying at an unsafe level for a long time; the security level of water resources and water ecology was still not optimistic and that of hydrological cycle was getting worse under the influence of human activities. …”
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Targeted pancreatic beta cell imaging for early diagnosis by Cong, Goh Zheng, Ghosh, Krishna Kanta, Mishra, Sachin, Gulyás, Miklós, Kovács, Tibor, Máthé, Domokos, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs

“…As type 1 and 2 diabetes are getting prevalent worldwide, we need to explore new methods for early detection of beta cell-related afflictions. …”
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Tilted biorthogonal ensembles, Grothendieck random partitions, and determinantal tests by Gavrilova, Svetlana, Petrov, Leonid

“…We also propose a procedure for getting Nanson-like determinantal tests for matrices of any size 𝑛≥, which appear new for 𝑛≥5. …”
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Quantification and ACD: Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing by Hackl, Martin, Koster-Hale, Jorie, Varvoutis, Jason

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Distributed control for voltage and current sharing islanded DC microgrids under cyber attacks by Lim, Hui Jing

“…Technology has improved drastically over the years and people are getting more dependent on them and it can be dangerous as malicious entity can hack into the system, causing severe consequences in sensitive sites such as military bases and hospitals. …”
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Design of differential microstrip ring antenna by Cheong, Kai Xiang

“…The further away the higher the frequency. However, if it gets too close, the return loss was too high which was not ideal. …”
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Mobile robot localization in geometrically symmetric environments by Lyu, Yaozeng

“…With the rapid development of mobile robots in recent years, the demand for localization and positioning algorithms is getting higher and higher. Although there are already localization algorithms that can successfully localize the mobile robots in certain environments, mobile robots localization is still a challenging task in geometrically repetitive and symmetrical environments. …”
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An assimilation of experience. by Mehraj Nisha.

“…It cracked and hissed, never getting a clear reception. The old box of a transistor was bandaged on all sides with scotch tape but still managed to entertain her whenever it felt like it. …”
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Competition in two-sided market : with heterogeneous users and negative externalities. by Chen, Hongyu.

“…Increasingly, businesses and organizations are getting on this bandwagon as SNS have the ability to reach a large mass of the population and influence consumer behavior. …”
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Android smart phone based participatory sensing for smart transportation by Yee, William Wee Liang.

“…With highly accurate prediction, little or no time is wasted waiting for buses or getting stuck in traffic jams. However, the current method of prediction is not at 100% accuracy rate due to the occasional multifunctioning and ineffectiveness of Global Positioning System (GPS) device installed in every public bus. …”
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Comparative slope analysis by methods of slices and finite element analysis by Choo, Glen Ming Liang.

“…The conventional LEM which includes Ordinary Method of Slice, Bishop’s Simplified Method and Spencer Method is commonly used in geotechnical engineering when calculating FOS (Factor of Safety) in slope analysis. As technology gets more sophisticated, more advanced finite element soil analyzing programs were introduced and slowly gaining popularity in geotechnical field over the past decades. …”
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Estimation of traffic flow using sparse camera images from LTA by Ong, Justin Yang Chen.

“…With the increased number of vehicles on the road in Singapore, traffic congestion on expressways is getting more common. Motorists have to rely on EMAS, a system that provides traffic alerts by LTA. …”
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A study of shoppers' motives and profiles by Ang, Delphine Ling Ling, Seah, Beng Huey, Hee, Li Ling

“…The retail scene in Singapore is getting more aggressively competitive since the beginning of 1990s and would be expected to be more so in the near future. …”
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Enhanced microscale heat transfer in macro geometries : effect of flow field by Siew, Dennis Weng Kin

“…With technology getting more advance, there has been a strong demand for new cooling methods to remove the heat dissipated particularly from the electrical components. …”
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Data analystics for earthquake social tweets using clustering approach by Wang, Lanlan

“…People attach close attention to an earthquake when it just occured, but this attention fades with time and gets stronger again due to certain reasons. Governments should preach basic earthquake knowledge to public and do some earthquake preventive measure education. …”
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Online shopping sites crawler by Leong, Letitia Justina Si En

“…As every website is structured differently, the scraping process gets a little more complicated. In order for the web crawler to extract specific data from a website, it requires their XPaths to be specified. …”
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Big data analytics for smart transportation (2) by Chung, Maybelle Huishi

“…Data post-processing was conducted by getting the boundaries of the regions in Singapore. …”
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Design and development of a grant management system by Khoo, Thomas Jia Hao

“…The main algorithm behind this system will involve a subscriber-to-email process, which will greatly eliminate the problem of getting involved in irrelevant research grant calls. …”
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