AXES at TRECVID 2012: KIS, INS, and MED by Aly, R, Mcguinness, K, Chen, S, O'Conner, NE, Chatfield, K, Parkhi, OM, Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A, Fernando, B, Tuytelaars, T, Oneata, D, Douze, M, Revaud, J, Schwenninger, J, Potapov, D, Wang, H, Harchaoui, Z, Verbeek, J, Schmid, C

“…As in our TRECVid 2011 system, we used nearly identical search systems and user interfaces for both INS and KIS. …”

Analytical determination of permeability of porous fibrous media with consideration of electrokinetic phenomena by Yang, J., Liao, K., Zhu, Q. Y., Xie, M. H., Chen, Y. Q.

“…The analytical results show that when the dimensionless electric resistance number is small and the porosity is large, the dimensionless total flow rate shows a nearly uniform distribution. When the dimensionless electric resistance number is large, the resistant effects of the electrical double layer (EDL) become so significant that the superficial velocity decreases. …”
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Natural IgG antibodies provide innate protection against ficolin-opsonized bacteria by Panda, Saswati, Zhang, Jing, Tan, Nguan Soon, Ho, Bow, Ding, Jeak Ling

“…For nearly five decades since its discovery, the role of natural IgG, which pre‐exists in neonates and uninfected individuals, has remained unclear due to the general perception that natural antibodies lack affinity for pathogens. …”
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Light-induced microfluidic chip based on shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites by Wang, Wenxin, Liu, Xianbin, Xu, Wei, Wei, Hongqiu, Liu, Yanju, Han, Yu, Jin, Peng, Du, Hejun, Leng, Jinsong

“…The shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites display excellent light-induced shape memory property with recovery ratio of nearly 100% in visible light. The crosslinked network of light-induced shape memory gold nanoparticles/poly (vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites forms by aldol reaction, esterification, and/or hydrogen bonding of poly (vinyl alcohol), glutaraldehyde, and gold nanoparticles. …”
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Simplified algebraic estimation technique for sensor count reduction in single-phase converters with an active power buffer by Yuan, Huawei, Li, Sinan, Tan, Siew-Chong, Hui, Ron Shu-Yuen

“…With this method, the sensor count can be reduced by 50%, while achieving a nearly 20-times computational time reduction as compared to that of the conventional method.…”
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Three dimensionals α-Fe2O3/polypyrrole (Ppy) nanoarray as anode for micro lithium ion batteries by Lai, Linfei, Yang, Huanping, Lim, San Hua, Zhen, Yongda, Yu, Ting, Shen, Zexiang, Lin, Jianyi, Liu, Jilei, Zhou, Weiwei

“…A relatively high specific capacity of 0.42 mA h/cm2 can be achieved at 0.1 mA/cm2 even after 100 charge/discharge cycles, with a plateau potential of 1 V and nearly 100% Coulombic efficiency, suggesting the feasibility to use this unique 3D nanostructured hybrid composite for microbattery in both small and large scale applications.…”
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Cylindrical surfaces enable wavelength-selective extinction and sub-0.2 nm linewidth in 250 μm-gap silicon Fabry–Pérot cavities by Malak, Maurine, Marty, Frédéric, Pavy, Nicolas, Peter, Yves-Alain, Liu, Ai Qun, Bourouina, Tarik

“…This approach outperforms the first design in terms of Q-factor, of nearly 9000 for around 250 μm-long cavity, which suggests its potential use for biochemical sensing and analysis as well as cavity enhancement applications requiring high Q.L values.…”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Moreover, from the principal customers’ perspective, a higher level of environmental risk lowers a supplier firm’s probability of being selected relative to its industry peers by its potential customer. Conditional on an ongoing relationship with principal customers, supplier firms with high environmental risk have lower sales to principal customers and shorter relationship durations. …”
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Health economic aspects of childhood excess weight by Onyimadu, O

“…My analyses of CPRD-HES data revealed that children living with overweight and obesity incurred significantly higher direct healthcare costs than their peers with a healthy weight. In comparison to children with healthy weight, those living with overweight generated additional costs of £133.93 and £66.32, on average, in the year preceding and following a BMI measurement, respectively, while children with obesity incurred additional costs of £115.47 and £154.51, on average, during the same periods. …”

Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…The data set used in this paper are the apartments sold-price in Toronto from 2005 to 2010, which holds nearly 81 features. This study stratifies the dataset chronologically, segregating it into training and validation sets in an 8:2 proportion. …”
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Electrochemical scrutinizing techniques on initial development of pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (PAO1) biofilms by Foo, Yu Hao

“…Bacteria are ubiquitous, forming biofilms on nearly any surface in an aqueous environment. The accumulation of biofilms on the surface of industrial equipment is natural yet often detrimental. …”
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Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber by Box, F, Moulton, DE, Vella, D, Lowe, T, Goriely, A, Thorogood, C, Bhagotra, Y

“…We demonstrate how together these mechanical features contribute to a nearly uniform distribution of seeds away from the parent plant. …”

Image segmentation with minimal human supervision by Shin, G

“…</p> <br> <p>In the first part, we demonstrate that considering a model's uncertainty in predictions can significantly reduce the number of annotations required to train a segmenter that performs nearly as well as a fully-supervised one. This finding underscores the critical role of pixels around semantic boundaries in helping the model to learn representations suitable for segmentation.…”

Ultrastable shear jammed granular material by Zhao, Yiqiu, Zhao, Yuchen, Wang, Dong, Zheng, Hu, Chakraborty, Bulbul, Socolar, Joshua E. S.

“…The stress response of these states to small imposed shear is nearly elastic, in contrast to the original shear jammed state.…”
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Progressive collapse behaviour of precast concrete structures with advanced joints by Nguyen, Van Hung

“…Secondly, the pull-out test results highlighted a pivotal role of bearing force in anchorage strength of headed bars and strain behaviour. …”
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论李世民音乐政治观对儒家礼乐思想的继承和转化 = A study on Li Shimin music-politics: inheritance and transformation of Confucian ritual and music thought by 许惠佳 Koh, Hwee Kay

“…To a certain extent, he had inherited Yueji, Confucian ritual and Music thought - which extensively covers the social influence and educational function of music to society – while at the same time, his Music-politics thought bears much resemblance to those of Ji Kang. This article hopes to explore in detail Li Shimin’s Music-politics thought, and by using Yueji as a comparison, analyses how his inheritance and transformation of Confucian Ritual and Music thought played an important role in shaping the Tang Culture.…”
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Design and investigation of block copolymers for dispersion of carbon nanotubes in polymer matrices by Liu, Chengyin

“…To further improve the tensile properties of the SWNTs/epoxy nanocomposites, we fabricated another series of PI-derived block copolymers via ring-opening polymerization initiated from hydroxyl-terminated polyimide of lactide and allyl-bearing 2-methyl-2-(allyloxycarbonyl)propylene carbonate) (MAC) to produce PLA-b-PI-b-PLA (TB1) and PMAC-b-PI-b-PMAC (TB2) which are polyester and poly(ester-carbonate)-derived, respectively. …”
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Synthesis of heavy cyanide analogs for the design of novel Prussian blue analogs by Yang, E

“…In order to provide illustrative points of comparison, analogous metal complexes bearing various strong-field ligands are also synthesized and analyzed using the same approach.…”

The redirected gesture in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa by Lee, Cheryl Julia

“…In Dancing at Lughnasa, Friel’s interplay of visibility and invisibility frees the stage mechanism from its common use of representation and makes of it a symbolic expression of human feeling. …”
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Nature-Centered Materiomics: Experimental and Computational Design by Shen, Sabrina C.

“…Industrial material production simultaneously contributes nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year, which in conjunction with solid waste accumulation and deterioration of ecological processes, threatens the livelihood of current and future generations of both human and non-human species. …”
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