Psychosocial predictors of self-reported medical adherence in patients with heart failure over 6 months : an examination of the influences of depression, self-efficacy, social supp... by Shen, Biing-Jiun, Maeda, Uta

“…Background Poor adherence to medical regimens is a serious problem that interferes with heart failure (HF) patients’ disease management and contributes to poor clinical outcomes. …”
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Clostridium difficile bacteriophage finding under normal and iron-limited conditions for the isolation of potential siderophore receptor-specific phages by Lim, Edsel Yong Xun

“…Phage therapy, known for its specificity of action, has emerged as a promising candidate for combating CDI, offering the potential to circumvent gut microbiome dysbiosis associated with conventional antibiotic regimens. However, research on Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) phage hunting has been relatively limited. …”
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Pursuing business opportunities in life sciences logistics in Vietnam : a case study of TNT by Chang, Meng Yi, Khoo, Malinda, Indrawati, Marini, Regina

“…This paper attempts to understand how TNT introduces a new service offering, the Clinical Express service, for a niche market segment, the life sciences industry, and how TNT exploits the opportunities available to launch the new service offering in a specific market, Vietnam.…”
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Extremely versatile deformability beyond materiality : a new material platform through simple cutting for rugged batteries by Kim, Kee-Bum, Lee, Young-Joo, Costa, Avelino, Lee, Yu-Ki, Jang, Tae-Sik, Lee, Myoung-Gyu, Joo, Young-Chang, Oh, Kyu Hwan, Song, Juha, Choi, In-Suk

“…The hierarchy and number of segmentations are the key parameters of the deformation mechanism for auxetic cut shape-reconfigurable battery systems. …”
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Dynamics of localized waves in one-dimensional random potentials : statistical theory of the coherent forward scattering peak by Lee, Kean Loon, Miniatura, Christian, Grémaud, Benoît

“…Going beyond the perturbative regime, we address here the long-time dynamics of the CFS peak in a one-dimensional random system and we relate this novel interference effect to the statistical properties of the eigenfunctions and eigenspectrum of the corresponding random Hamiltonian. …”
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Effect of strong electric fields on material responses : the Bloch oscillation resonance in high field conductivities by Singh, Satyvir, Battiato, Marco

“…We then extend the method to strong electric fields and show how the responses are deviated from the low-field ones and the transition to a dampened Bloch oscillation regime. Most importantly, we report the observation of a new regime induced by the resonance between the standard low-field response and Bloch oscillations.…”
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One-shot yield-cost relations in general quantum resource theories by Takagi, Ryuji, Regula, Bartosz, Wilde, Mark M.

“…Although it is well known that the amount of resources that can be asymptotically distilled from a quantum state or channel does not exceed the resource cost needed to produce it, the corresponding relation in the non-asymptotic regime hitherto has not been well understood. Here, we establish a quantitative relation between the one-shot distillable resource yield and dilution cost in terms of transformation errors involved in these processes. …”
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High-intensity two-frequency photoassociation spectroscopy of a weakly bound molecular state : theory and experiment by Kon, W. Y., Aman, J. A., Hill, J. C., Killian, T. C., Hazzard, Kaden R. A.

“…We investigate two-frequency photoassociation of a weakly bound molecular state, focusing on a regime where the AC Stark shift is comparable to the halo-state energy. …”
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Cavity-length optimization for high energy pulse generation in a long cavity passively mode-locked all-fiber ring laser by Shum, Perry Ping, Wu, Kan, Wong, Jia Haur, Aditya, Sheel, Li, Nanxi, Xue, Jin, Ouyang, Chunmei

“…However, a long cavity operating in the anomalous dispersion regime also leads to pulse broadening, which reduces the average pulse power. …”
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Organic ferroelectric memory devices based on resistive switching by Damar Yoga Kusuma

“…This approach accelerates the switching kinetics as polarization reversal shifts from the nucleation-limited regime to the growth-limited regime. On the other hand, mutual combination of SAM’s fixed dipole and ferroelectric’s polarizable dipole is employed to realize ferroelectric field effect transistor devices with tailored operational parameters, reduced charge trapping and improved retention stability. …”
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Elementwise overparameterisation for single and multi-task learning by Ribli, Vincent

“…In the field of autonomous vehicles, computer vision is used to solve multiple tasks such as semantic segmentation and object tracking. This can be challenging as the tasks need to be done at a high performance within a given latency threshold. …”
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Automatic and efficient long term arm and hand tracking for continuous sign language TV broadcasts by Pfister, T, Charles, J, Everingham, M, Zisserman, A

“…<br> Our contributions are (i) a co-segmentation algorithm that automatically separates the signer from any signed TV broadcast using a generative layered model; (ii) a method of predicting joint positions given only the segmentation and a colour model using a random forest regressor; and (iii) demonstrating that the random forest can be trained from an existing semi-automatic, but computationally expensive, tracker. …”

Discovering objects and their location in images by Sivic, J, Russell, BC, Efros, AA, Zisserman, A, Freeman, WT

“…It is demonstrated that this extended vocabulary gives a cleaner image segmentation. Finally, the classification and segmentation methods are applied to a set of images containing multiple objects per image. …”

Development of a vision-based gesture human-computer interface by Lim, Chun Ping.

“…With a few reasonable assumptions, this stage was achieved with 3 image processing techniques, namely background subtraction by codebook method, skin segmentation and contour convexity finding. To enhance the robustness of the system, a variant codebook method had been created to be used in skin segmentation. …”
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Hardware efficient algorithms and architectures for burst communications in cognitive radios by Syed Naveen Altaf Ahmed

“…To evaluate the proposed segmented schemes in terms of implementation hardware complexity, FPGA synthesis is conducted and results are presented.…”
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Purchasing behaviour of the Japanese visitors, an application of the theory of planned behaviour. by Yong, Yoon Mei.

“…Japanese visitors are an important segment of visitors that have contributed significantly to Singapore's annual receipts of visitors' expenditures. …”
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Pushing the limits of quantifying complexity by Ho, Matthew Shu Hui

“…Then, we shift into the quantum regime to study the analogous counterpart of the classical epsilon machine, known better as the quantum epsilon machine. …”
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Gender systems in the Putin autocracy by Wood, Elizabeth A.

“…How, this article asks, have the masculinist cultural and political practices of the Putin regime undermined democratic practices and engagement broadly speaking? …”
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Design and development of image processing algorithms for quantitative road traffic data analysis by Krishnalal Puthiya Veettil.

“…Results comparison between different segmentation methods was performed to check the best detection method. …”
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Investigation of the image processing algorithms for medical applications by Nurul Hidayah Abdul Manan

“…Different segmentation techniques are used (i.e. K-means clustering, Fuzzy-C means clustering and Hierarchical clustering) to evaluate the performance.…”
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