What the proposed United States' ban on TikTok really conceals by Tan, Sean

“…In consideration of perceived national security risks, a bill signed into law by US President Joe Biden in April 2024 would require TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the social media service to an American parent company or face a potential ban. …”
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China & the Middle East: Tilting Towards Iran? by James, Michael Dorsey

“…President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Middle East, the first by a Chinese leader in seven years, saw the signing of billiions of dollars worth of agreements with Saudi Arabia and Egypt and a ten-fold expansion of trade with Iran over the next ten years. …”
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Strategies to modulate Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor properties for low temperature transparent transistors by Kulkarni, Mohit Rameshchandra

“…Such surface modifications can achieve a change in the carrier concentration by change in work function or shifting- pinning of the Fermi level, or additional field generated due to dipoles created at the surface. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of graphene and carbon nanotube reinforced bioceramic nanocomposites by Hu, Huanlong

“…The reinforcing mechanism was due to the lubrication and pinning effects of rGO, which resulted in high resistance to penetration, elastic recovery capability, low-cycle fatigue resistance, and microcrack propagation inhibition properties. …”
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Unstoppable Wallets: Chain-assisted Threshold ECDSA and its Applications by Zyskind, Guy, Yanai, Avishay, Pentland, Alex

“…Our protocols minimize the write-complexity for threshold ECDSA key-generation and signing, while reducing communication and computation overhead. …”
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Three-dimensional flow structures and vorticity control in fish-like swimming by Zhu, Q., Wolfgang, M.J., Yue, D.K.P., Triantafyllou, M.S.

“…Two distinct vorticity interaction modes are identified: the first mode results in high thrust and is generated by constructive pairing of body-generated vorticity with same-sign tail-generated vorticity, resulting in the formation of a strong thrust wake; the second corresponds to high propulsive efficiency and is generated by destructive pairing of body-generated vorticity with opposite-sign tail-generated vorticity, resulting in the formation of a weak thrust wake.…”
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The contemporary age of square stepping exercise on cognitive and cohesion among older adults by Low, Kimmy Yi Ting

“…JASP paired t-test and Wilcoxon sign-rank test were used to analyse the acute effect of cognitive and social functions. …”
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Soliton Resolution for the Energy-Critical Nonlinear Wave Equation in the Radial Case by Jendrej, Jacek, Lawrie, Andrew

“…This equation has a unique (up to sign and scale) nontrivial, finite energy stationary solution W, called the ground state. …”
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Study on designer surface plasmon resonators by Gao, Fei

“…Near-field experiments verify this sign reversal phenomenon. Chapter 4 studies two vertically stacked two-dimensional resonators. …”
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Bursting on a vortex tube with initial axial core-size perturbations by Ji, Lingbo, Van Rees, Wim M.

“…The simulations show that when two twist waves of opposite handedness meet the core expands radially, forming a pair of local ringlike structures with opposite-signed azimuthal vorticity through a process termed vortex bursting. …”
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Collision between soliton and polarization domain walls in fiber lasers by Hu, Xiao, Ma, J., Zhao, Luming, Guo, Jun, Tang, Dingyuan

“…We report on the experimental observation of coexistence of solitons and polarization domains, as well as features of soliton collision with polarization domain walls (or kink solitons) in a single mode fiber laser. Depending on the sign of cavity dispersion, either bright or dark solitons have been formed in our fiber laser. …”
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Simple QED- and QCD-like models at finite density by Pawlowski, Jan M., Stamatescu, Ion-Olimpiu, Zielinski, Christian

“…In this paper we discuss one-dimensional models reproducing some features of quantum electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics at nonzero density and temperature. Since a severe sign problem makes a numerical treatment of QED and QCD at high density difficult, such models help to explore various effects peculiar to the full theory. …”
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Heegaard floer correction terms and dedekind-rademacher sums by Jabuka, Stanislav, Robins, Sinai, Wang, Xinli

“…Additionally, we find an obstruction for the equality and equality with opposite sign, of two correction terms of the same lens space. …”
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The effect of China's weak institutional environment on the quality of Big 4 audits by Ke, Bin, Lennox, Clive S., Xin, Qingquan

“…Finally, companies listed only in China have larger signed abnormal accruals than do companies cross-listed in Hong Kong. …”
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Unveiling the facade of blog posts to reveal subjective well-being : an exploratory study. by Ou, Zhiqi., Tan, Justine Yi Ting., Tan, Jessie Zi Xi.

“…Our two main findings demonstrate that eight out of 11 of the regressions involving the objective ranking as the main independent variable show the objective ranking having the correct expected sign at at least the 10% significance level. As for the subjective ranking, 11 out of 13 of the regressions show it having the correct expected sign at at least the 10% significance level. …”
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Horizontal control of unmanned aerial vehicle to facilitate landing by Manikandan, Harikrishnan.

“…This method uses an IP camera attached beneath the UAV which transmits images continuously to the ground computer, which processes the image to calculate the error in the position of the UAV with respect to a ground landing sign. This error is then corrected by sending the appropriate control signal to the UAV using a Radio Controller (RC) which is connected to the ground computer, where the value of the correction signals are calculated. …”
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Robustly interrogating machine learning-based scoring functions: what are they learning? by Durant, G, Boyles, F, Birchall, K, Marsden, B, Deane, CM

“…Results: In this work, we compared the performance of a diverse set of popular MLBSFs (RFScore, SIGN, OnionNet-2, Pafnucy, and PointVS) to our proposed baseline models that can only learn dataset biases on a range of benchmarks. …”

China's changing trade pattern by Ren, Li

“…Some argue that the huge amount of trade surplus is a clear sign of undervalued renminbi and unfair price competitiveness. …”
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Real-time video streaming in large-scale collaborative virtual environment by Wang, Yingli.

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Holographic entropy inequalities and multipartite entanglement by Hernández-Cuenca, Sergio, Hubeny, Veronika E., Jia, Hewei F.

“…In attempting to interpret the corresponding sign-definite quantities as correlation measures, we also obtain a no-go result: the superbalance property of holographic entropy inequalities turns out to preclude them from being monotonic under partial tracing. …”
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