VToonify: controllable high-resolution portrait video style transfer by Yang, Shuai, Jiang, Liming, Liu, Ziwei, Loy, Chen Change

“…The resulting fully convolutional architecture accepts non-Aligned faces in videos of variable size as input, contributing to complete face regions with natural motions in the output. Our framework is compatible with existing StyleGAN-based image toonification models to extend them to video toonification, and inherits appealing features of these models for flexible style control on color and intensity. …”
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Reclaimed seawater discharge – desalination brine treatment and resource recovery system by Tu, Wei Han, Zhao, Ya, Chan, Wei Ping, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…With the proliferation of reverse osmosis technology, seawater reverse osmosis desalination has been heralded as the solution to water scarcity for coastal regions. However, the large volume of desalination brine produced may pose an adverse environmental impact when directly discharged into the sea and result in energy wastage as the seawater pumped out is dumped back into the sea. …”
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Impact of China's financial development on the sustainable development goals of the Belt and Road Initiative participating countries by Li, Chenggang, Zhao, Gang, Koh, Keumseok Peter, Xu, Zhenci, Yue, Mu, Wang, Weiyan, Tan, Yuanyuan, Wu, Liang

“…China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to strengthen regional economic and policy cooperation and achieve the rapid development among the participating countries. …”
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Duplex stem-loop-containing quadruplex motifs in the human genome: a combined genomic and structural study by Lim, Kah Wai, Jenjaroenpun, Piroon, Low, Zhen Jie, Khong, Zi Jian, Ng, Yi Siang, Kuznetsov, Vladimir Andreevich, Phan, Anh Tuan

“…Among these, 48 508 SLQS were strand-specifically located in genic/promoter regions, with the majority of genes displaying a low number of SLQS. …”
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Examining the effects of relative advances in higher mobility roads over higher accessibility roads and income inequality on the relationship between car ownership and economic gro... by Poi, Alvin Wai Hoong, Law, Teik Hua, Hamid, Hussain, Mohd Jakarni, Fauzan, Ishak, Siti Zaharah, Ng, Choy Peng

“…(MPA is calculated by dividing the total length of higher mobility roads [tolled expressways, national highways, and other main road networks serving medium- to high-speed traffic] by the total length of higher accessibility roads [secondary and regional road networks] in that country in a specific year.) …”

Modification of Agro-wastes Reinforced onto the PET Fabric for Decolorisation of Palm Oil Mill Effluent by Suradi, Siti Samahani, Kamaruzaman, Muhammad Zarif Hazim, Mohd Dali, Muhammad Izz Zakwan, Abu Bakar Sidik, Dilaeleyana, Bujang, Hazirah, Abdullah, Nurmina, Hairom, Nur Hanis Hayati, Dzinun, Hazlini, Rosley, Rozainita

“…The SEM micrographs and the change of peaks at regions 1650 cm-1, 1450 cm-1, 1210 cm-1, and 990 cm-1 in composites' spectroscopies demonstrate the different patterns of these calcinated samples are various patterns that impart the strength of the composite fabric surface functionality and hydrophobicity. …”
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Latest Trends in Renewable Energy Technologies : Select Proceedings of NCRESE 2020 / by National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment (2020 : Online), organiser 642879, Vadhera, Shelly, editor 642885, Umre, Bhimrao S., editor 642886, Kalam, Akhtar, editor 495444

Design of energy efficient distillation columns for separation of oxygenates process by Mohd Faris, Mustafa, Norazana, Ibrahim, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Kamarul, Asri Ibrahim, Mohd Kamaruddin, Abd Hamid

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Stranding Risk for Underactuated Vessels in Complex Ocean Currents: Analysis and Controllers by Doering, Andreas, Wiggert, Marius, Krasowski, Hanna, Doshi, Manan, Lermusiaux, Pierre F.J., Tomlin, Claire J.

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“The Past We Step Into and How We Repair It” by Williams, Rashad, Steil, Justin

“…Problem, research strategy, and findings Anti-racist futures in urban and regional planning require repairing the White supremacist harms that have structured our metropolitan areas and patterns of living. …”
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Effects of Tip Clearance and Surface Roughness on Small-Scale Turbopump Impeller Performance by Ruecker, Kinjal A. L.

“…The strengthened secondary flow at higher surface roughness increases mixing of the blade tip leakage flow with the blade passage flow, leading to larger regions of blockage. Increasing the surface roughness from an Rₐ value of 1 µm to 10 µm results in a 4% loss in impeller efficiency. …”
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Historicity and the contemporary theatre of Kuo Pao Kun and Krishen Jit by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…And a part of the 1980s was a sense that earlier regional formations of modern art that had eradicated traditional cultural forms as backward needed to be rethought. …”
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Influence of court surfaces on impact cushioning during basketball lay-up by Quek, Raymond Kai Kiat

“…Peak contact force, peak pressure and pressure-time integral were measured in eight regions: hallux, lesser toes, medial, central and lateral forefoot, medial and lateral arch and the heel. …”
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Novel algorithms for inferring granger causality using biological data by Furqan, Mohammad Shaheryar

“…Biological network diagrams provide a natural means to characterize the association between biological entities such as genes, proteins, or brain regions. The understanding of these biological networks provides a range of information from systematic behaviours to disease susceptibility and its treatment. …”
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Identifying stakeholders in the land use management process and related critical factors in ASEAN by Tulus Tambunan

“…Sustainable LUM acts in a multilevel governance structure between an operational project level and a strategic level of rural/regional/national economic development management, which means dissolving the often-occurring conflict between short-term and long-term orientation within the planning process. …”
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Reform of the international financial architecture : how can Asia have a greater impact in the G20? by Rana, Pradumna B.

“…The paper makes the case for Asian countries (i) lobbying for the formalisation and regularisation of ASEAN Chair’s and ASEAN Secretary-General’s participation in the G20 Summits, (ii) holding policy dialogue meetings of an “expanded” ASEAN+3 (regular 13 members plus India, Australia and New Zealand) just prior to the G20 Summits for coordinating policies and developing common positions to support the ASEAN representatives at the G20 Summits and (iii) supporting and joining the informal Global Governance Group (3G) convened by Singapore under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) to coordinate Asian perspectives with developing countries in other regions of the world. Once the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) is established in Singapore (by May 2010), AMRO can take over the task of convening the policy dialogue meetings of the “expanded” ASEAN+3 to support participation of the ASEAN Chair and the ASEAN Secretary- General in the G20 Summits.…”
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Detection of low frequency artemisinin resistance mutations, C469Y, P553L and A675V, and fixed antifolate resistance mutations in asymptomatic primary school children in Kenya by Osoti, V, Wamae, K, Ndwiga, L, Gichuki, PM, Okoyo, C, Kepha, S, Keitany, K, Kandie, R, Aricha, S, Kiplagat, R, Mwandawiro, C, Bejon, P, Snow, RW, Ochola-Oyier, LI

“…Conclusion: The genomic surveillance of asymptomatic school children in Kenya provides an early warning signal of at least 1 of the 3 validated artemisinin resistance mutations circulating in all regions in Western Kenya sampled except Homa Bay and Kisii Counties. …”

A decision-led evaluation approach for flood forecasting system developments: an application to the Global Flood Awareness System in Bangladesh by Hossain, S, Cloke, H, Ficchi, A, Gupta, Speight, L, Hassan, A, Stephens, E

“…The changes in model structures influence the model performance in a complex and varied way and forecast skill needs further investigation across regions and decision-making criteria. Understanding the skill changes between different model versions is important for decision-makers; however, focused case studies such as this should also be used by model developers to guide future changes to the system to ensure that they lead to improvements in decision-making ability.…”

MIGHTEE: the continuum survey Data Release 1 by Hale, CL, Heywood, I, Jarvis, MJ, Whittam, IH, Best, PN, An, F, Bowler, RAA, Harrison, I, Matthews, A, Smith, DJB, Taylor, AR, Vaccari, M

“…We find a typical sample variance of 10-20percnt for 0.3 and 0.5 sq. deg. sub-regions at S1.4 ≤ 200 μJy, which increases at brighter flux densities, given the lower source density and expected higher galaxy bias for these sources.…”

Obama's energy policy: the crucial role of coal in the US climate legislation by Robinson, D

“…Producers and consumers of coal and of coal-based electricity (i.e. the ‘coal lobby’, including companies, workers and consumers of different sizes in these sectors and more generally citizens in the regions where the companies operate) are the main losers from climate legislation; compensating them and helping them to prepare for the future has come at a price.…”