Grand challenges in entomology: priorities for action in the coming decades by Luke, Sarah H., Roy, Helen E., Thomas, Chris D., Tilley, Luke A. N., Ward, Simon, Watt, Allan, Carnaghi, Manuela, Jaworski, Coline C., Tercel, Maximillian P. T. G., Woodrow, Charlie, Aown, Susmita, Banfield-Zanin, Jennifer A., Barnsley, Sarah L., Berger, Iris, Brown, Mark J. F., Bull, James C., Campbell, Heather, Carter, Ruth A. B., Charalambous, Magda, Cole, Lorna J., Ebejer, Martin J., Farrow, Rachel A., Fartyal, Rajendra S., Grace, Miriam, Highet, Fiona, Hill, Jane K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kent, Eleanor S., Krell, Frank-Thorsten, Leather, Simon R., Leybourne, Daniel J., Littlewood, Nick A., Lyons, Ashley, Matthews, Graham, Mc Namara, Louise, Menéndez, Rosa, Merrett, Peter, Mohammed, Sajidha, Murchie, Archie K., Noble, Michael, Paiva, Maria-Rosa, Pannell, Michael J., Phon, Chooi-Khim, Port, Gordon, Powell, Charlotte, Rosell, Stewart, Sconce, Francisca, Shortall, Chris R., Slade, Eleanor M., Sutherland, Jamie P., Weir, Jamie C., Williams, Christopher D., Zielonka, Natalia B., Dicks, Lynn V.

“…Entomology is key to understanding terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems at a time of unprecedented anthropogenic environmental change and offers substantial untapped potential to benefit humanity in a variety of ways, from improving agricultural practices to managing vector-borne diseases and inspiring technological advances. …”
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3D articulated skeleton extraction using a single consumer-grade depth camera by Lu, Xuequan, Deng, Zhigang, Luo, Jun, Chen, Wenzhi, Yeung, Sai-Kit, He, Ying

“…We then generate a skeleton involving a reasonable number of joints and bones with our skeletal structure extraction algorithm. …”
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Determination of mosquitoes species diversity and molecular detection of West Nile virus in wild bird habitats in Perak and Selangor, Malaysia by Jafar Ali, Natasha

“…West Nile virus (WNV) is a zoonotic and emerging arthropod-borne RNA virus from the Flaviviridae family. The virus is maintained in a sylvatic cycle between vectors and reservoirs host, the wild birds. …”
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From Sample to Answer: Innovations in sample processing and CRISPR-based diagnostics for enhanced clinical translation and field deployment by Arizti Sanz, Jon

“…We also designed and tested multiplexed diagnostic assays for the detection and differentiation of three tick-borne pathogens in clinical samples. Finally, given the inadequacy of existing sample processing methods – and their importance to nucleic acid test deployment – we developed a high throughput experimental workflow to analyze the effects of chemical reagents on diagnostic assay performance and nuclease activity in patient samples using a commercially available microfluidic platform. …”
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Using cluster analysis to reconstruct dengue exposure patterns from cross-sectional serological studies in Singapore by Sangkaew, Sorawat, Tan, Li Kiang, Ng, Lee Ching, Ferguson, Neil M., Dorigatti, Ilaria

“…Background: Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease caused by one of four serotypes (DENV1-4). …”
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Le cinéma d’Afrique noire contemporaine: une impossible décolonisation? by Fouhba, H

“…An Africa driven by "primitivity" in the 21st century, and in which witchcraft, early marriages, excision, under-schooling of young people, non-schooling of women, juvenile delinquency, absent civil documentation (marriage and birth certificates) , water-borne diseases and insalubrity… constitute the daily lot of the populations.…”

Boronic acid and nitrofuranyl derivatives as potential therapeutics by Dey, AL

“…‘Rule of 5’, there has been extensive research on lead-like compounds other than those in the realm of small molecule drug-likeness. With this borne in mind Chapter 1, Antimicrobial Peptides – a New Chasm, introduces the concept of protein-protein interactions (PPIs), which could pave the way for development of promising therapeutic agents of various properties such as pacidamycin and muraymycin which are all peptide-based antibiotics that are concerned with PPIs. …”

Experimental and numerical evaluation of aeroacoustic damping performance of in-duct double-layer orifice plates by Li, Jing

“…To benchmark the experiment, a corresponding flow borne acoustic (acoustic field does not alter the mean flow field) simulation is conducted. …”
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3D content recovery and complexity reduction by Tan, Cheen Hau

“…To alleviate this problem, we exploit the fact that human bones are rigid and constrain inter-joint distances of connected joints. …”
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《虬髯客传》的古今诠释 : 以《虬髯客传》、《虬髯翁》和《风尘三侠之红拂女》为例 = Retelling “The legend of curled beard” : examples from Tang, Ming and Contemporary... by 梁琇涵 Leong, Xiu Han

“…Different works of literature could be borne from the same plot, as different writers breathe new lives in a story through their unique understanding and analysis of the story. …”
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Self-learning shape recognition in medical images by Ma, Jingting

“…Experiments are conducted using two representative datasets, a set of 30 public CT kidneys and a set of 49 internal MRI ankle bones. Embedded into an existing segmentation framework, experimental results show that SSM built with the proposed RKPCA outperforms the state-of-the-art modeling techniques in terms of model quality and segmentation accuracy. …”
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