Neurobiology of culturally common maternal responses to infant cry by Rigo, Paola, Bornstein, Marc H., Putnick, Diane L., Esposito, Gianluca, Swain, James E., Suwalsky, Joan T. D., Su, Xueyun, Du, Xiaoxia, Zhang, Kaihua, Cote, Linda R., De Pisapia, Nicola, Venuti, Paola

“…Complementary functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analyses of brain responses to their own infants’ cries in 43 new primipara US mothers revealed enhanced activity in concordant brain territories linked to the intention to move and to speak, to process auditory stimulation, and to caregive [supplementary motor area (SMA), inferior frontal regions, superior temporal regions, midbrain, and striatum]. …”
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BOR2G: Building Optimal Regularised Reconstructions with GPUs (in cubes) by Tanner, M

“…Using a separate 2.2 km urban sequence, our pipeline consistently identifies error-prone regions in the image-based dense reconstruction.</p>…”

Unconventional warfare to counter insurgency : U.S. army special forces in contemporary combat by Jouke Christiaan Valk

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Global positioning system data acquisition for tectonic monitoring by Lee, Kok Wee.

“…Unfortunately, current monitoring systems are costly and are mostly located at active regions. The proposition of this project is to build a low cost GPS array system suitable for monitoring ground deformity. …”
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Investigation of the spectral and electrical accelerated degradation characteristics of semiconductor injection lasers grown by molecular beam epitaxy by Yoon, Soon-Fatt.

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Towards a theory of syntactic workspaces: neighbourhoods and distances in a lexicalised grammar by Krivochen, D

“…We analyse the consequences of conceptualising ‘syntax’ as a set of operations that affect local regions of the workspace, defining directed graphs.…”

Breaking invisible barriers: does fast internet improve access to input markets? by Demir, B, Javorcik, B, Panigrahi, P

“…Using the expansion of fiber-optic networks and firm-to-firm transaction data, we find that better connectivity shifts input sourcing to well-connected regions and diversifies supplier networks. We estimate a spatial equilibrium model with endogenous network formation and rational inattention and find that high-speed internet reduced information acquisition and communication costs. …”

Object class recognition by unsupervised scale-invariant learning by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…An entropy-based feature detector is used to select regions and their scale within the image. In learning the parameters of the scale-invariant object model are estimated. …”

Immediate structured visual search for medical images by Simonyan, K, Zisserman, A, Criminisi, A

“…In contrast to existing systems that retrieve images that are globally similar to a query image, we enable the user to select a query Region Of Interest (ROI) and automatically detect the corresponding regions within all returned images. …”

Viewpoint invariant texture matching and wide baseline stereo by Schaffalitzky, F, Zisserman, A

“…We describe and demonstrate a texture region descriptor which is invariant to affine geometric and photometric transformations, and insensitive to the shape of the texture region. …”

The cost of mass gatherings during a pandemic by Phalippou, L, Zhang, D

“…In June 2020, the U.S., unlike other regions of the world, faced a surge in cases of COVID-19. …”

Impact of fiscal spending, financial inclusion on financial stability by Duan, Chengyonghui, Soh, Wei Ni

“…This study serves as a reference for designing fiscal expenditure measures and improving financial stability in the region.…”
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Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…The problem is that lower oil revenues also affect industry, forcing operators to review their investment portfolios to focus on the best regimes and geological prospects.</p> <p>The region’s recent positive developments are taking place against a background where a large number of countries in the region (including Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guyana, and Suriname) have fallen out of favour with oil and gas investors, in some cases for a number of years. …”

Molecular insights into evolution, mutations and receptor-binding specificity of influenza A and B viruses from outpatients and hospitalized patients in Singapore by Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius, Zhou, Xinrui, Lau, Suk Hiang, Rashid, Shamima, Teo, Jasmine S. M., Lee, Hong Kai, Koay, Evelyn S., Chan, Kwai Peng, Leo, Yee Sin, Chen, Mark I. Cheng, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Chow, Vincent T.

“…Results: The phylogenetic trees of the 8 gene segments revealed that the outpatient and inpatient strains overlapped with representative global and vaccine strains. …”
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A multi-scale attributes attention model for transport mode identification by Jiang, Guiyuan, Lam, Siew-Kei, He, Peilan, Ou, Changhai, Ai, Dihao

“…The MSAA model relies on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to capture the spatial correlation of different trajectory segments, and utilizes attention mechanism to select the most suitable local attributes on the different trajectory scales that can effectively characterize the various transport modes. …”
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Behaviorally informed digital campaigns and their association with social media engagement and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belize by Daga, Giuliana, Kossuth, Lajos, Boruchowicz, Cynthia, Lopez Boo, Florencia, Largaespada Beer, Natalia

“…However, lack of trust in the vaccine and fear of side effects in regions like the Caribbean resulted in a low uptake despite enough vaccine supply. …”
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In vivo positron emission tomography imaging of mitochondrial abnormalities in a mouse model of tauopathy by Barron, Anna M., Ji, Bin, Fujinaga, Masayuki, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Suhara, Tetsuya, Sahara, Naruhiko, Aoki, Ichio, Tsukada, Hideo, Higuchi, Makoto

“…A marked reduction in 18F-BCPP-EF uptake was observed in hippocampal and forebrain regions of TauTg mice, colocalizing with regions of tauopathy, neuronal damage and neuroinflammation. …”
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Holocene relative sea-level histories of tropical islands by Tan, Fangyi

“…In this thesis, I produced quality-controlled, high-resolution Holocene RSL data from tropical regions that have insofar been lacking. I produced a standardised, quality-controlled database of published Holocene RSL data from mid Pacific islands, which had been formerly used to validate GIA models and infer ice-equivalent sea-level changes. …”
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Noise matters in image restoration: from synthetic degradation to real-world challenges by Guo, Lanqing

“…In the third work, we exploit the non-shadow regions as contextual information, aiding in the restoration of shadow regions through a customized transformer network tailored to handle partial and non-uniform degradation. …”
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Surface water sensitivity to climate variability by Paltan-Lopez, H

“…This includes explaining the snowpack characteristics that determine timing and magnitude of river flow peaks in snow-dominated regions. Also, by quantifying the inter-annual variability driven by Atmospheric Rivers, this thesis found that this form of moisture transport contributes to 22% of total global annual runoff and their variability importantly drives hydrological extremes in various global locations. …”