Essays on development economics by Wang, Wen

“…Using data on suitability of land for wetland rice cultivation as the proxy for rice farming culture, our analysis shows that there is a negative correlation between institutionalized democracy and rice farming culture at the country level. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for physiologically controlled therapy in neural systems by Marks, VS, Piper, RJ, Van Rheede, JJ, Benjaber, M, Green, AL, Tisdall, MT, Denison, TJ

“…The utility of such a bidirectional application is exemplified by the success of the NeuroPace responsive neuro stimulation (RNS) device in the reduction of seizures [1] and pivotal trials of spinal cord stimulation for chronic leg pain using evoked compound action potentials to facilitate a homeostatic feedback system [2] .…”

Extreme learning machine based speaker recognition by Hu, Zongjiang.

“…It can be used in many fields such as banking by telephone, voice dialling, voice mail, and security control for secret information areas. …”
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Optimum Location of Biomass Waste Residue Power Plant in Northern Region: Economic and Environmental Assessment by Mohd Shafie, Shafini, Othman, Zakirah, Hami, Norsiah

“…The most potential biomass resources that are available in the northern region of Malaysia are chosen, namely rice straw, rice husk, garden waste, corn residue, sugarcane bagasse, and coconut residue. …”
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The role of post-pyrolysis carbon dioxide capture in hydrogen recovery from waste-derived pyrolysis gas by Wang, Yuxin, Veksha, Andrei, Ong, Joel, Ueki, Yasuaki, Yoshiie, Ryo, Naruse, Ichiro, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Normalized rate constants K for CO2 capture by CaO, determined by the grain model, varied between 0.0001 and 0.0006 min−1, revealing the feedstock-specific effectiveness of CaO. …”
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Sorption of Cr(VI) and Cu(II) in aqueous solution by ethylenediamine modified rce hull by Tang, P.L., Lee, C.K., Low, K.S., Zainal, Z.

“…The sorption characteristics of Cr(VI) and Cu(II) by ethylenediamine modified rice hull from single and binary metal ion solutions were evaluated under various experimental conditions. …”

SongGen: Framework for Controllable AI Song Generation through Interactive Songwriting and Artist Emulation by Arora, Ajay

“…Future development aims to incorporate voice-based interaction and real-time voice conversion, enabling music artists to guide fans in creating personalized songs.…”
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Design of wideband low-loss reconfigurable reflectarray antenna by Zhang, Xiran

“…It proposes an RRA design that integrates a PIN diode with air gap. The switch of the reconfigurable unit is directly mounted on the reflective element, reducing the loss introduced by the switching device. …”
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Development of optical transceiver by Sim, Sebastian Shih Wei.

“…For PIN photodiodes, the epitaxial layer was introduced to the structures to act as an intrinsic layer. …”
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Establishment and characterisation of CRTC1 knockout in rodent hippocampal neurons by Koh, Tyler Bo Kai

“…A preliminary study on the effects of neurons lacking CRTC1 expression indicate an increase in spine area and length while the distribution and density of spines remain unaltered.…”
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Optimized core design of a supercritical carbon dioxide-cooled fast reactor by Handwerk, Christopher S. (Christopher Stanley), 1974-

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Micro-systems mechanics Vol. IV by Lin, Rongming, David J. Ewins

“…With the ever-increasing need for larger capacity of hard disk drives (HDDs), conventional servo mechanism - voice coil motor (VCM) - has become a main barrier for higher areal density recording (over 50Gb/in2). …”
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Rehabilitating coastal agriculture and aquaculture after inundation events : spatial analysis of livelihood recovery in post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia by Daly, Patrick, Halim, Agus, Nizamuddin, Ardiansyah, Hundlani, Divya, Ho, Ezra, Mahdi, Saiful

“…This paper presents GIS time-series land-use analysis of satellite images to quantify the recovery of rice cultivation and aquaculture following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in coastal communities in Aceh, Indonesia. …”
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Monitoring of group discussion using Android apps by Hamdi Hamzah

“…Monitoring any group can be done using non-verbal (facial expressions, body languages, gestures, etc ) or/and verbal (voice tone, voice pitch,...etc) signals. Despite the impressive advancements in video-audio signal processing, analyzing different aspects of human interaction as empathy, hostility, (dis-)agreement, flirting, dominance, superiority, inferiority, etc. remains very challenging. …”
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Classification of helicopters for passive radar - theoretical studies and measurements by Qiao, Na

“…Instead of testing using stimulating blades, we testing an air fan in the north spine campus to see if interference exist whether will affect our result.…”
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Automatic test chip set by Chin, Edward Hsi Ling.

“…In this project, the fundamental functions and basic circuitry of an universal pin electronics are investigated and designed.…”
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Driven Factors to Sustainable Paddy Farming Production in Malaysia by Mohd Zahari, Fadhilah, Othman, Zakirah, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Salleh, Nurul Azita

“…These include the inadequate supply and increasing cost of rice production. The farmers play a significant role to ensure that the supply of organic products meets the demand of the market, hence understanding the motivation for their practices is crucial. …”
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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust : Third International Conference, HCI-CPT 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Event, July 24-29... by HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust (Conference) (3rd : 2021 : Online) 643239, Moallem, Abbas, editor 630807

A 1-bit 16×16 reconfigurable intelligent surfaces array for C-band by Zhang, Yucheng

“…RIS array is achieved by combining a number of basic elements together with PIN diodes which control the on and off state of RIS units. …”
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Behind every domain there is a shift: adapting distortion-aware vision transformers for panoramic semantic segmentation by Zhang, J, Yang, K, Shi, H, ReiB, S, Peng, K, Ma, C, Fu, H, Torr, PHS, Wang, K, Stiefelhagen, R

“…Third, aside from Pinhole-to-Panoramic ( Pin2Pan ) adaptation, we create a new dataset (SynPASS) with 9,080 panoramic images, facilitating Synthetic-to-Real ( Syn2Real ) adaptation scheme in 360∘ imagery. …”