Power management unit for smartphone applications by Kok, Chiang Liang

“…Therefore, the key is to improve the power efficiency of the DC-DC converter which is one of the most important circuit blocks in the PMU which includes the Low Dropout regulator and bandgap reference circuit. Therefore, since the smartphone spends most of its time in the light-load condition, measures mu^t be in place to improve the light-load efficiency. …”
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Development of carbon nanotubes-reinforced polyamide 12 composite powders for 3D printing by Woon, Kun Kuan

“…Ever since the introduction of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology to this rapidly growing world, researches and studies on its practicality have been carried out so as to make sure that this technology is being made full use of in the development of countries. …”
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Synphne accelerated stroke rehabilitation system - lower limb attachments development by Than, Wai Me

“…Beside assembly parts drawing is one of the challenging tasks since student is not so familiar with the Solidworks software. …”
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Multi-view CNNS for hand gesture recognition by Dou, Yudi

“…Despite the recent progress on recognizing the hand pose of Arabic numbers from 0 to 9, the accuracy of sign language’s hand gesture recognition is still far from satisfactory since the finger articulations are more complex. …”
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Dynamics of housing markets by Tay, Darrell Jiajie

“…Also, these studies tend to each focus on a single factor. However, since housing markets consist of large number of heterogeneous agents with non-linear interactions, many have recognized the importance of studying them as complex systems. …”
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Politics in films : a historical study on film censorship and the emergence on public spaces in Singapore by Tan, Lilian

“…This research paper traces the history of film censorship in Singapore, and investigates how censorship operates as a political tool in its attempt to control the state narrative through local films and documentaries since the 1970s. Arguably, film censorship is a political tool used to influence public historical memory and eliminate alternative voices in public history. …”
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A Review of Transmission Electron Microscopy of Quasicrystals—How Are Atoms Arranged? by Li, Ruitao, Li, Zhong, Dong, Zhili, Khor, Khiam Aik

“…Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was the right tool to discover such exotic materials and has always been a main technique in their studies since then. It provides the morphological and crystallographic information and images of real atomic arrangements of QCs. …”
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Analysing transformative local leadership in Indonesia by Arifianto, Alexander Raymond

“…Since 2001, Indonesia’s political decentralisation has opened fresh avenues for a new generation of local government executives to be elected. …”
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The political economy of FDI location : why don't political checks and balances and treaty constraints matter? by Walter, Andrew

“…Although the risk of expropriation for foreign direct investment (FDI) has fallen substantially since the 1970s, political risk continues to be of concern to MNCs in many countries. …”
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Improving achievable rate for the two-user SISO interference channel with improper Gaussian signaling by Zeng, Yong, Gunawan, Erry, Guan, Yong Liang, Zhang, Rui, Yetis, Cenk M.

“…The additional degree of freedom given by the pseudo-covariance, which is conventionally set to be zero for the case of proper Gaussian signaling, provides an opportunity to improve the achievable rate by employing the improper Gaussian signaling. Since finding the optimal solution for the joint covariance matrix and pseudo-covariance matrix optimization is difficult, we propose a sub-optimal but efficient algorithm by separately optimizing these two sets of parameters. …”
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Using podcasts to cultivate learner-teacher rapport in Higher Education settings by Conroy, Dom, Kidd, Warren

“…Developing rapport with learners has presented challenges for Higher Education teaching practitioners since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly practice within synchronous/ asynchronous online learning environments. …”
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New Democracy and centre-right dominance in Greece: a new normal? by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…ND’s victory marks an unprecedented moment of centre-right dominance in Greece since 1974 and goes against the trend of the so-called ‘crisis of the centre-right’ elsewhere in Europe. …”
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Promoting industry in Brussels: a good city has industry by Clossick, Jane, Brearley, Mark

“…Brussels, like London, is squeezed for land with limited space for new development. Since 2013, Mark Brearley, Jane Clossick and colleagues at AAD Cities, have situated research in Brussels, exploring ways to promote integration of industrial activities into the urban fabric. …”
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Louise Moillon by Stevenson, Lesley

“…This illustrated biography examines some of the ways in which Moillon’s story has been represented since the revival of interest in her work and draws on recent scholarship to situate the painter in her rightful place. …”

Generating bright-field images of stained tissue slices from Mueller matrix polarimetric images with CycleGAN using unpaired dataset by Fan, J, Zeng, N, He, H, He, C, Liu, S, Ma, H

“…Recently, Mueller matrix (MM) polarimetric imaging-assisted pathology detection methods are showing great potential in clinical diagnosis. However, since our human eyes cannot observe polarized light directly, it raises a notable challenge for interpreting the measurement results by pathologists who have limited familiarity with polarization images. …”

Highlights from Faraday Discussion 172: Carbon in electrochemistry, Sheffield, UK, July 2014 by Dyatkin, B, Ash, PA, Sharma, S

“…This has been the trend since the first Faraday Discussions held in London in 1907 in London which debated "osmotic pressure", and this format clearly sets it apart from any other conference to date. …”

Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration—and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives by Dorling, D

“…In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown <br> Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all steadily declined over the last few generations. …”

An Elekes–Rónyai theorem for sets with few products by Mudgal, A

“…\end{align*} $$This is sharp since for every degenerate $F$ and finite set $A \subset \mathbb{C}$ with $|A\cdot A| \leq K|A|$, one has $$ \begin{align*} &amp;amp; |F(A,\dots,A)| \ll K^{O_{F}(1)}|A|^{n-1}.…”

Seven children inequality and Britain’s next generation by Dorling, D

“…Dorling’s seven were born in 2018, when the UK faced its worst inequality since the Great Depression and became Europe’s most socially divided nation. …”

Genomic analysis of global Plasmodium vivax populations reveals insights into the evolution of drug resistance by Ngwana-Joseph, GC, Phelan, JE, Manko, E, Dombrowski, JG, da Silva Santos, S, Suarez-Mutis, M, Vélez-Tobón, G, Tobón Castaño, A, Machado, RLD, Marinho, CRF, Nolder, D, Nosten, F, Sutherland, CJ, Campino, S, Clark, TG

“…In 106 isolates from Indonesian Papua, the epicentre of CQR, we observe an increasing prevalence of novel SNPs in the candidate resistance gene pvmrp1 since the introduction of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine. …”