An investigation into real-time surface crack classification and measurement for structural health monitoring using transfer learning convolutional neural networks and Otsu method by Mazleenda Mazni, Mazleenda Mazni, Husain, Abdul Rashid, Shapiai, Mohd. Ibrahim, Ibrahim, Izni Syahrizal, Devi Willieam Anggara, Devi Willieam Anggara, Zulkifli, Riyadh

“…Incorporating the Otsu method for image segmentation, our system accurately assesses individual crack sizes. …”
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Simulations of radiatively cooled magnetic reconnection driven by pulsed power by Datta, Rishabh, Crilly, Aidan, Chittenden, Jeremy P., Chowdhry, Simran, Chandler, Katherine, Chaturvedi, Nikita, Myers, Clayton E., Fox, William R., Hansen, Stephanie B., Jennings, Chris A., Ji, Hantao, Kuranz, Carolyn C., Lebedev, Sergey V., Uzdensky, Dmitri A., Hare, Jack D.

“…In this paper, we perform two- and three-dimensional simulations to model the MARZ (Magnetic Reconnection on Z) experiments, which are designed to access cooling rates in the laboratory necessary to investigate reconnection in a previously unexplored radiatively cooled regime. These simulations are performed in GORGON, an Eulerian two-temperature resistive magnetohydrodynamic code, which models the experimental geometry comprising two exploding wire arrays driven by 20 MA of current on the Z machine (Sandia National Laboratories). …”
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Exchange bias and magnetoresistance effects in Ni50Mn50-yXy (X = In, Sn) alloys by Wang, Baomin

“…The large negative magnetoresistance is observed within the transformation regime across the first-order magnetic transition, which is correlated to the magnetic-field-induced phase transformation from antiferromagnetic martensite to ferromagnetic austenite. …”
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Essays in interactional dynamics of financial markets by Chen, Zhenxi

“…Chapter 5 applies Markov-regime switching technique to show the existence of inter-market traders whose trading decision is based on the fundamental value of foreign market under a two-market framework. …”
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Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan : the role of post-conflict reconstruction by Sadia Sulaiman

“…Subsequently, the Taliban-led insurgents re-emerged as a potent force by exploiting the Afghan people’s discontent, which arose from the absence of security, especially in the South and East of Afghanistan and the failure to rebuild the country’s economy, as a result of which the weak Karzai regime lost its legitimacy. The international community’s failure to make headway in reconstructing post-Bonn Afghanistan helped the Taliban to draw material and human resources for their movement from the disgruntled population. …”
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The road to federalism : finding the middle ground in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka by Breen, Michael Gerard

“…In particular, when the secession risk is moderate, and when minority ethnic groups have a demonstrable infrastructural capacity, there are incentives for regime change agents from the dominant ethnic group to align with minority ethnic groups to pursue mutual goals of federalism and democratic reform. …”
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Inter-organizational competition in humanitarian governance by Corsini, C

“…<p>In a world where humanitarian crises are increasing in severity and frequency, the humanitarian system is often described as a ‘competitive marketplace,’ an international regime densely populated by diverse actors – UN organizations, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private entities, governments, and civil society – all vying for scarce resources from a limited pool of fatigued donors (Weiss 2013). …”

100 THz optical switching with plasmonic metamaterial by Venkatram, Nalla, Stefano, Vezzol, João, Valente, Sun, Handong, Nikolay, Zheludev

“…Finally we evaluate the effect of non linearities, showing that the best coherent modulation is obtained in a very low power regime. We also evaluate the wavelength dependent coherent modulation; maximum modulation is at plasmonic peak.…”
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An Investigation of the Reliability of the Taiwan Earthquake Model PSHA2015 by Wang, Yu‐Ju, Lee, Ya‐Ting, Chan, Chung‐Han, Ma, Kuo‐Fong

“…For densely populated faults in southwestern Taiwan, the assessed hazard level is more sensitive to the maximum magnitude of earthquakes than it is to the slip rate of active faults, creating concern for the possibility of larger earthquakes due to multiple‐segment ruptures in this area, which has not yet been considered in the TEM PSHA2015. …”
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Novel mutation G324C in WNT1 mapped in a large Pakistani family with severe recessively inherited Osteogenesis Imperfecta by Kausar, Mehran, Saima Siddiqi, Muhammad Yaqoob, Sajid Mansoor, Makitie, Outi, Asif Mir, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Foo, Jia Nee, Anees, Mariam

“…SNP array data revealed homozygous segments > 1 Mb in length accounting for 2.1–12.7% of the genome in affected individuals and their siblings and a single 6,344,821 bp homozygous region in all affected individuals on chromosome 12q12-q13. …”
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Impacts of ancillary services on airline revenue management by Lu, Yuxuan(Aeronautics scientist)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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EyeTrAES: Fine-grained, Low-Latency Eye Tracking via Adaptive Event Slicing by Sen, Argha, Bandara, Nuwan, Gokarn, Ila, Kandappu, Thivya, Misra, Archan

“…EyeTrAES then applies lightweight image processing functions over accumulated event frames from just a single eye to perform pupil segmentation and tracking (as opposed to gaze-based techniques that require simultaneous tracking of both eyes). …”
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An investigation on correlation between linguistic features and personality traits : a case of Singapore Twitter users. by Yew, Chee Soon.

“…Breaking down these corpuses into segments of 1,000 words, the usage of linguistic features by each subject was calculated. …”
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Food choice motivations and perceptions of healthy eating: a cross-sectional study among consumers in the UAE by Cheikh Ismail, L, Osaili, TM, Obaid, RS, Hashim, M, Ahmed, M, Al-Fayadh, F, Farah, A, Sad, H, Alghanem, H, Mohamad, MN, Saleh, ST, Al Daour, R, Masuadi, E, Stojanovska, L, Ali, HI, Al Dhaheri, AS

“…This study aimed to examine the food choice motivations and perceptions of healthy eating among adults in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and to segment consumers based on their motivations. Methods: A web-based, cross-sectional study was conducted among adults in the UAE (n = 1209). …”

Comparative effects of domain-specific human monoclonal antibodies against LGI1 on neuronal excitability by Sell, J, Rahmati, V, Kempfer, M, Irani, SR, Ritzau-Jost, A, Hallermann, S, Geis, C

“…Kv1.1 channel clustering at the axon initial segment (AIS) was quantified by immunocytochemistry and structured illumination microscopy techniques.…”

Understanding Drivers of Deforestation using Games on Spatial Networks by Seby, Jean-Baptiste

“…Interestingly, we identify a regime shift (or phase transition) as the local network effect and level of coupling between activities vary. …”
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Imaging the wakes of jets with energy-energy-energy correlators by Bossi, Hannah, Kudinoor, Arjun S., Moult, Ian, Pablos, Daniel, Rai, Ananya, Rajagopal, Krishna

“…We find that hadrons originating from wakes are the dominant contribution to the three-point correlator in the kinematic regime in which the three points are well-separated in angle, forming a roughly equilateral triangle. …”
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A reformulation of additive models by Wozniakowski, Alex

“…Yet, the traditional methodology neglects the means to explicitly incorporate prior knowledge into the fit of an additive model, which is of great practical importance in regression tasks, especially in the low training example regime, where entirely data-driven learning is not always feasible. …”
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Electrical characterization of bias temperature instability in MOSFETs with the ultrathin SiON and la-doped HfSiO gate dielectrics by Du, Guoan.

“…Under certain stress voltage and temperature, the number of E'δ centers is saturated because the reaction of pre-existing oxygen vacancies at shallow regime reaches its dynamic balance. On the other hand, lengthening of the stress time allows the generation of deeper hole trap states arising greater structural relaxation through increased interaction with lattice phonons. …”
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Modeling, optimization and thermal characterization of micropillar evaporator based high performance silicon vapor chamber by Wei, Mengyao

“…Investigation on wettability performance of micropillar structures was not systematically extended to a high temperature regime. In this thesis, we developed three semi-analytical models in predicting the capillary-limited dryout heat flux of uniform evaporators, biporous evaporators and sealed silicon vapor chambers. …”
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