Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters by Rose, G

“…Many critical accounts of this visual and volumetric regime are attentive to the forms of corporealised human life that emerge in relation to the picturing of various volumes. …”

Using algorithms to improve knowledge work by Amaya, J, Holweg, M

“…We also find that the ability to sustain any improvement depends on the adjustment of the knowledge regime—the practices and structures that sanction knowledge. …”

Research on Guqin composition in Mainland China in the 1950s and 1960s: some works of Yu Shaoze [ 喻绍泽] by He, Zeng, Chiat, Loo Fung

“…Under the guidance of the cultural policies advocated by the new regime, they created a considerable number of new guqin compositions that reflected the characteristics of the times. …”
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Electricity sector deregulation and consumer protection: assessing the imperatives of a competition: Assessing the imperatives of a competition law and competition regulatory autho... by Usman, Dahiru Jafaru, Yaacob, Nurli, A. Rahman, Aspalella

“…Literature abounds on the high risk of the electricity sector deregulation and the susceptibility of the deregulated electricity markets to manipulations and abuse by the electricity service providers.For better and fair market operations and the protection of consumers’ interest, the paper adopts the doctrinal research approach and assesses the imperatives of competition law and competition structures in the deregulated Nigerian electricity market.The paper found that the Nigerian experiment took off without the necessary consumer protection structures such as a competition law and competition regulatory agency leaving the electricity consumers at the mercy of the electricity service providers.The paper concludes that the country urgently needs a comprehensive competition regime to guarantee consumer benefits and to prevent substituting public monopoly with a private monopoly in the new Nigerian electricity market.…”
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Evidence-based roadmap for geoheritage conservation in southeast Arabia: Inventory, evaluations, and communicating geocultural connections by Sayama, K

“…Nevertheless, geoheritage conservation remains a low priority in this region, with sporadic initiatives implemented over the last 20 years, and very little academic attention.…”

The influence of mode dominance and traveling waves on flexible cylinder flow-induced vibration by Ma, Leixin, Resvanis, Themistocles L., Vandiver, J. Kim

“…Moreover, extending the region of analysis from the power-in region near the high flow speed end to the whole pipe in linearly sheared flows, low frequency and high-frequency excitation, acting concurrently, are routinely found to exist.…”
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1 × N (N = 2, 8) Silicon selector switch for prospective technologies at the 2 μm waveband by Sia, Brian Jia Xu, Li, Xiang, Qiao, Zhongliang, Guo, Xin, Zhou, Jin, Littlejohns, Callum G., Liu, Chongyang, Reed, Graham T., Wang, Wanjun, Wang, Hong

“…This is due to the promising infrastructural developments at the wavelength region (hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber, thulium-doped fiber amplifier) near 1.9 μm. …”
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Re-imagining the global humanitarian system : emerging dynamics in the Asia-Pacific by Caballero-Anthony, Mely, Cook, Alistair David Blair, Chen, Christopher Zhiming

“…Having reviewed the humanitarian affairs literature, conducted interviews with humanitarian personnel, and participated in humanitarian forums in the region, this article analyses the current humanitarian landscape in Southeast Asia and the wider region, to highlight the under-appreciated actors in the humanitarian space in the Asia-Pacific.…”
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Photonic crystal enhanced lasers by Oon, KaiXiang.

“…This project studied the research work of VCSEL and also the active region of VCSEL. The aim of this project is to have a better understanding of VCSEL in terms of strain over at its active region. …”
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Contribution of rare chromosome 22q11.2 copy number variants to non-syndromic bicuspid aortic valve by DiGregorio, H, Mansoorshahi, S, Carlisle, SG, Tovar Pensa, C, Watts, A, McNeely, C, Sabate-Rotes, A, Yetman, A, Michelena, HI, De Backer, JFA, Mosquera, LM, Bissell, MM, Andreassi, MG, Foffa, I, Hui, DS, Caffarelli, A, Kim, YY, Citro, R, De Marco, M, Tretter, JT, McBride, KL, Body, SC, Milewicz, DM, Prakash, SK

“…Results: Rare duplications and deletions within the 22q11.2 region, particularly involving genes associated with cardiac development, were identified in 7.4% of EBAV probands. …”

Trans-free vanaspati containing ternary blends of palm oil-palm stearin-palm olein and palm oil-palm stearin-palm kernel olein by Nor Aini, I., Che Maimon, C. H., Hanirah, H., Zawiah, S., Che Man, Y. B.

“…From the differential scanning calorimetry thermograms, samples in set B showed a high peak at the low-melting region as well as a high peak at the high-melting region. …”
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Heavy metals distribution in mangrove leaves in various sudanese coastal zones at the red sea by Mohammad Khalil, Rabha Khalil, Solangi, Kashif Ali, Alhassan, Abdullahi Bala, Khan, Waseem Razzaq, Aljahdali, Mohammed Othman

“…Mangrove ecosystem contamination, especially in the Red Sea region, has caused major concerns on a worldwide scale. …”
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The quad's public goods approach: countering the BRI by Muhammad Faizal Bin Abdul Rahman

“…These goods, which China has been providing via the BRI, are increasingly salient to the domestic and economic needs of regional countries. By offering alternative sources of these goods, the Quad is taking a soft approach to offset China’s influence in the region.…”
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Adaptive motion video coding for low bit rate video conferencing by Das Sanjib Kumar

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance detection by pyrosequencing method by Goh, Mei Ling

“…The commonly known mutations on the 81-bp core region of rpoB were sequenced in two reactions to obtain quality reads. …”
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Optimization of empty container repositioning through coordination among vessels by Yu, Chang

“…Accumulations of empty containers are found in the developed region while shortages of containers are common in the developing region. …”
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Video Google: efficient visual search of videos by Sivic, J, Zisserman, A

“…This requires a visual analogy of a word which is provided here by vector quantizing the region descriptors. The final ranking also depends on the spatial layout of the regions. …”

Image classification using random forests and ferns by Bosch, A, Zisserman, A, Munoz, X

“…To this end we combine three ingredients: (i) shape and appearance representations that support spatial pyramid matching over a region of interest. This generalizes the representation of Lazebnik et al., (2006) from an image to a region of interest (ROI), and from appearance (visual words) alone to appearance and local shape (edge distributions); (ii) automatic selection of the regions of interest in training. …”

Why renewable energy could be a chance for the GCC economies by El-Katiri, L

“…Today’s wealth, visible in the global capital cities Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City, is as much the result of the region’s unique gift of natural resources as it is of historical leadership in the use of these resources in promoting the region’s unparalleled economic development. …”

Inferring electrospray emission characteristics from molecular dynamics and simulated retarding potential analysis by Schroeder, Madeleine, Gallud, Ximo, Petro, Elaine, Jia-Richards, Oliver, Lozano, Paulo C

“…Insights gained from this simulation process are discussed in the context of currently unexplained electrospray emitter behavior and experimental results including the presence of tetramers and trimers in the beam and fragmentation rates in high electric field regions.…”
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