Combining detection dogs and camera traps improves minimally-invasive population monitoring for the cheetah, an elusive and rare large carnivore by Verschueren, S, Hofmann, T, Schmidt-Küntzel, A, Kakove, M, Munyandi, B, Bauer, H, Balkenhol, N, Leirs, H, Neumann, S, Cristescu, B, Marker, L

“…We surveyed a cheetah population within the Acacia savanna biome of central-east Namibia, employing various search strategies and camera trap configurations. …”

Serological cross-reactivity between Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus and Nairobi sheep disease virus glycoprotein C by Maze, EA, Booth, G, Limon, G, Belij-Rammerstorfer, S, Tchakarova, SR, Alexandrov, T, Browning, C, Wilsden, G, Ludi, AB, Charleston, B, Lambe, T

“…CCHFV and NSDV cocirculating in small ruminant populations across South Asia and East Africa. Cross-reactivity to viruses of the Orthonairovirus genus can potentially interfere with serological assays when employed for serosurveillance in regions where two or more genus members overlap in their distribution. …”

Associations between snoring, body mass index and coronary artery diseases: observational and mendelian randomization study in Asia by Zhu, Y, Lan, Y, Lv, J, Sun, D, Pei, P, Yang, L, Millwood, IY, Walters, RG, Chen, Y, Du, H, Wang, J, Yang, X, Stevens, R, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Yu, C

“…We aimed to estimate the causal associations between snoring and CAD among East Asian people, and the effects independent of BMI. …”

Uncertainty quantification framework for combined statistical spatial downscaling and temporal disaggregation for climate change impact studies on hydrology by Rajendran Queen Suraajini

“…Singapore has witnessed the increased flood events which occurred in a short period of time in the recent past and the documental increasing trend in the rainfall amount is in agreement with the IPCC report. …”
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PUERTO RICO : A NATIONAL HISTORY / by Meléndez Badillo, Jorell A., author 656083

“…This resulted in the proliferation of unsuccessful slave revolts and, in 1868, an insurrection that declared the Republic of Puerto Rico, which only lasted 48 hours. Puerto Rico's major regime change came in 1898 with the US occupation. …”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…DL relies on supervised learning, i.e., the network gets trained on pre-defined dataset to solve practical problems on new data. In the last decade, there has been a surge in using DL al- gorithms for biomedical imaging. …”
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Structured sparse representations for supervised and unsupervised learning by Zeng, Yijie

“…Therefore, building a scalable data representation has become a critical part of the ML processing pipeline, where there has been a huge amount of work addressing on this topic in the past. This thesis focuses on a specific data representation technique named sparse coding (SC) which has been found effective for natural signals such as images. …”
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How Stories Change Us : A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real Life / by Reese, Elaine, author 655966

“…Yet reading fictional books and reminiscing about the past both play a special role in children's and adolescents' learning and development, so should be fostered from a young age. …”
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Investigating correlation between cryptocurrency prices and Twitter sentiment using XLNet by Lee, Nicholas Qin Shan

“…Stock market prediction has been one of the most widely researched and lucrative topics over the past few decades. Researchers and computer scientists have used many different artificial intelligence techniques in order to predict the volatile ebbs and flows of the stock market. …”
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Study of construction productivity & conduct of literature review, design of survey questionnaire, analyse technology application to improve productivity for optimum performance in... by Ang, Pei Wen

“…The Singapore’s construction industry contributes to about 5% of the country’s GDP but has generated a low productivity record over the past 5 years. Various measures and legislations were put in place to enhance productivity. …”
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Evaluating the performance of agricultural tractor engine using cottonseed oil biodiesel by Adnan, Fattah Khalid, Muhamad, Mat Noor, Abdulrahman, Ribwar Kermanj, Badruddin, Irfan Anjum, Kamangar, Sarfaraz

“…The energy demand has been significantly increasing around the world in the last century. Conventional fossil fuels as one of the sources has been highly demanded due to its negative environmental effect. …”
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Gender systems in the Putin autocracy by Wood, Elizabeth A.

“…Over the last 23 years, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s autocracy has revealed a set of interlocking gender systems that have come to the fore particularly vividly since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. …”
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Identification of a humanized mouse model for functional testing of immune-mediated biomaterial foreign body response by Doloff, Joshua C, Ma, Minglin, Sadraei, Atieh, Tam, Hok Hei, Farah, Shady, Hollister-Lock, Jennifer, Vegas, Arturo J, Veiseh, Omid, Quiroz, Victor M, Rakoski, Amanda, Aresta-DaSilva, Stephanie, Bader, Andrew R, Griffin, Marissa, Weir, Gordon C, Brehm, Michael A, Shultz, Leonard D, Langer, Robert, Greiner, Dale L, Anderson, Daniel G

“…Foreign body giant cell formation, often unobserved in mice, was also prominent. Last, high-resolution microscopy coupled with multiplexed antibody capture digital profiling analysis supplied spatial resolution of rejection responses. …”
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Nipah: The history, and future, of one of the world’s most lethal viruses by Viveros, Alex Gabriel

“…Researchers have spent the last two decades studying the virus’ transmission in bats and how the virus spills over into humans. …”
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Experimental investigations on heat and mass transfer performances of a liquid desiccant cooling and dehumidification system by Ou, Xianhua, Cai, Wenjian, He, Xiongxiong, Zhai, Deqing

“…The last decades have witnessed the growth interest in Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification Systems (LDDS). …”
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Simulation of Organic Rankine Cycle - quasi-steady state vs dynamic approach for optimal economic performance by Pili, Roberto, Romagnoli, Alessandro, Jiménez-Arreola, Manuel, Spliethoff, Hartmut, Wieland, Christoph

“…Computer-based simulations of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) have been extensively used in the last two decades to predict the behaviour of existing plants or already in the design phase. …”
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Risk breeds risk aversion by He, Tai-Sen, Hong, Fuhai

“…In the first six rounds, subjects were randomly assigned to a high-, moderate-, or low-risk environment, which differed in the variances of the lotteries they were exposed to. In the last six rounds, subjects in all treatments made decisions on an identical set of lotteries. …”
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New circular polarization selective surface by Ren, Zhilin

“…In order to break the size bottleneck of miniaturization design by conventional antenna design method, a phase shifter coupled with microstrip line structure is added to further improve the bandwidth and thickness performance. At last, the AR bandwidth increases from 8.77% to 61.58%. …”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…Furthermore, the predicted data are compared with the experimental fatigue life, and the proposed novel method is verified. At last, the parametric studies are discussed to investigate the variation trend of predicted performance and fatigue life with the important parameters of ML models.…”
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Parental involvement in developmental disabilities across cultures by Gianluca Esposito

“…Method: According to PRISMA guidelines, we searched for articles indexed in EBSCOhost, PsycINFO, and PubMed published within the last decade for one culture (i.e., Mainland China, Taiwan, and Turkey), using the following keywords: family/parent involvement/engagement, developmental disability/disabilities, young child/children, EI/ECSE, and culture. …”
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