Sampling-based approaches for image and video matting by Ehsan Shahrian Varnousfaderani

“…A new objective function is used to force those foreground and background samples to be picked that are generated from well-separated distributions. …”
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四面楚歌下的同志再现：李碧华和陈凯歌对《霸王别姬》的改写 = Representations of the besieged “Comrade” : Li Bihua's and Chen Kaige's adaptations of the Peking Opera “Farewell My Concubine”... by 許维贤 Hee, Wai Siam

“…It was at the historical juncture when foreign gunboats shattered the Qing regime’s belief in China as the world’s center that the Peking Opera was picked and named as the quintessential representative of Chinese Culture. …”
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Development of single seedling nursery tray for the System of Rice Intensification by Zubairu, Usman Bashar

“…It was made with 924 cone shape seed pickers for attachment of individual seeds and dropping the seeds into 924 SRI tray holes. The fastest picking and dropping level was reported at 150 g/L of tapioca and water solution. …”
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Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy for the Manipulation and Elucidation of Correlated Quantum Materials by Allington, Clifford

“…To this end, experimental efforts to demonstrate and understand the interplay between different degrees of freedom in a material (spin, charge, lattice, and orbital) are essential for progressing in this direction. …”
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Improving the charge separation and collection at the buffer/absorber interface by double-layered Mn-substituted CZTS by Lie, Stener, Sandi, Mario Indra, Tay, Ying Fan, Li, Wenjie, Tan, Joel Ming Rui, Bishop, Douglas M., Gunawan, Oki, Wong, Lydia Helena

“…In this study, Cu2MnxZn1-xSnS4 (CMZTS) thin film were fabricated by a sol-gel spin coating technique to understand the effect of Mn on the device performance. …”
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Engineering quantum control with optical transitions induced by twisted light fields by Zanon-Willette, Thomas, Impens, François, Arimondo, Ennio, Wilkowski, David, Taichenachev, Aleksei V., Yudin, Valeriy I.

“…These field gradients are manipulated by the mutual action of orbital and spin angular momentum of the light beam and are used in presence of tunable vector and tensor polarizabilities. …”
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Laser-based 3D printing using bessel beams for tissue engineering applications by Liew, Andy Wen Loong

“…High resolution fibers down to 25 μm were printable using the BB technique, a significant improvement compared to conventional microfluidics and wet spinning techniques, and the capability to tune the fabricated fiber diameter based on mathematical models was also demonstrated. …”
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Induction of z-conformation in ribosomal RNA by Z-DNA binding domain Zα of the human double-stranded RNA deaminase I (ADAR1) by Zhao, Jing

“…In order to provide theoretical foundations for the analysis of NMR spectral responses of ZαADAR1 to ribosomes we attempted to extend the conventional NMR relaxation theory to include a semi solid-state treatment of nuclear spin dynamics in large complexes. The main challenge to the classical NMR theory arises when one of the binding partners is so large that in the chemical shift time scale of solution NMR (milliseconds) it can be considered as practically static or solid-state-like. …”
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Effect of different lead precursors on planar perovskite solar cells by Martin

“…The hydrate water inside the lead acetate precursor has no bad effect on the perovskite formation. 3. Increasing the spin coat speed (to 3000rpm for 30 seconds) can improve the uniformity of perovskite film and further current density of solar cells. 4. …”
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Conformational changes involved in signal transduction in avian cryptochromes by Gehrckens, AS

“…To further investigate the interaction surface, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy was used, more specifically double electron-electron resonance, to complement the previously acquired data with cysteine-residue-dependent distance measurements using nitroxide spin labels. The findings on dimerisation are presented in chapter 5.…”

Influence of calcination temperature on nickel oxide nanoparticles synthesized by thermal treatment by Manal, Ahmed Hashem

“…The magnetic properties were also investigated by electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy, which confirmed the presence of unpaired electrons. …”
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Novel self-cleaning PVDF/MoO3/ZnO/GO dual layer hollow fiber photocatalytic membrane with excellent photocatalytic performance of EDCs removal and energy storage capability by Zakria, Hazirah Syahirah, Borhamdin, Suhaila, Ismail, Nurul Jannah, Peechmani, Prakash, Moslan, Mohd. Shahrizan, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, A. Rahman, Mukhlis, Jaafar, Juhana, Puteh, Mohd. Hafiz, Rajamohan, Natarajan, Hashim, Norbaya, Kerisnan@Krishnan, Nirmala Devi, Yahaya, Nasehir Khan E. M., Idris, Alias

“…Ternary MoO3/ZnO/GO was synthesized using hydrothermal method and was embedded on the surface of dual layer hollow fiber membrane by dry-wet spinning method by varying the GO loading at 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 wt%. …”

Defect chemistry in 2D atomic layers for energy photocatalysis by Di, Jun, Hao, Gazi, Jiang, Wei, Liu, Zheng

“…In 2D atomic layers, even infinitesimal amounts of defects can unlock the great potential that exists for tailoring the carrier concentration, electronic states, spin nature, and so on. The specific defects can introduce defect energy levels into the band gap and extend the light absorption. …”
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Electro spun dual structured and three-dimensional biodegradable scaffolds for bone and cartilage tissue engineering by Vidya Chamundeswari Narasimhan

“…This study makes use of single electrospinning equipment to electro spray and electro spin the dual structured scaffold. The polymeric scaffold is made from a combination of PLGA/PCL (poly lactide co glyceride/poly capro-lactone) blend in a ratio of 1:1. …”
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Challenges and applications to operando and in situ TEM imaging and spectroscopic capabilities in a cryogenic temperature range by Tyukalova, Elizaveta, Vas, Joseph Vimal, Ignatans, Reinis, Mueller, Aaron David, Medwal, Rohit, Imamura, Masaaki, Asada, Hironori, Fukuma, Yasuhiro, Rawat, Rajdeep Singh, Tileli, Vasiliki, Duchamp, Martial

“…Such studies are promising for studying the pinning of the ferroelectric and magnetic domains versus temperature, spin-polarized current, and externally applied magnetic field to better manipulate the domain walls. …”
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Synthesis and optical study of lead halide perovskites for opto-electronic applications by Ha, Son Tung

“…In the early day of perovskite research, the most conventional method to prepare sample is via either spin-coating or thermal evaporation method. These methods usually result in polycrystalline film with many pin-holes and defects. …”
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21W.747 Rhetoric, Fall 2002 by Strang, Steven M.

“…Understanding rhetoric, then, is our best defense against its abusers-- e.g., political "spin doctors," advertisers, demagogues, apologists for immoral business practices, and hate mongers. …”
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Solution processed transition metal oxides selective contacts for Si heterojunction solar cells by Lu, Chenjin

“…In this work, we have first prepared hole selective contacts using solution processed MoOx (s-MoOx) by spin-coating and physical evaporated MoOx (e-MoOx) by electron beam evaporator. …”
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