Impact of the ballast water management convention on the maritime industry (technical impact) by Yeo, Kai Teng

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Blockchain opportunities in the maritime industry liner industry by Muhammad Imran Md Zin

“…Since the introduction of blockchain technology in 2017 by IBM-Maersk, it has grown to multiple blockchain initiatives in less than 3 years. Moreover, the usage of digital currency was introduced through the technology itself. …”
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中国成年人文化程度与体格指标的长期变化关系 by Tan, Y, Shen, Z, Yu, C, Guo, Y, Bian, Z, Pei, P, Du, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Lyu, J, Li, L

“…Both body weight and waist circumference (WC) increased with age. From age 25 years to baseline survey (mean age 45.2±6.5), the mean weight change per 5-year was (1.70±2.63) kg for men and (1.27±2.10) kg for women. …”

Risk analysis of sulfur dioxide (SO2) exposure to public health around Kolaka district nickel processing plant by Azis, Sheril Dribisce, Azizah, R., Jalaludin, Juliana

“…Results and Discussion: EHRA results show an inhalation rate of 0.63 m3/hour, with an exposure time of 24 hours/day, an exposure frequency of 365 days/year, and exposure durations of 25 years for real-time projections and 30 years for lifetime projections. …”
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Novel bisisoquinolines : synthesis, resolution and application in asymmetric Henry reaction by Yao, Qiong Ji

“…Condition for synthesis of the anticipated 1,3-disposed bisisoquinolines and its derivatives have been established. Racemic symmetric 1,3-disposed bisisoquinolines was prepared through classical double Bischler-Napieralski reaction followed by reduction with Sodium cyanoborohydride. …”
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Dental resin monomer enables unique NbO2/carbon lithium-ion battery negative electrode with exceptional performance by Ji, Q, Gao, X, Zhang, Q, Jin, L, Wang, D, Xia, Y, Yin, S, Xia, S, Hohn, N, Zuo, X, Wang, X, Xie, S, Xu, Z, Ma, L, Chen, L, Chen, G, Zhu, J, Hu, B, Müller-Buschbaum, P, Bruce, PG, Cheng, L

“…The results suggest that the NbO2/carbon nanohybrid bearing high capacity, long cycle life and low gas-evolution is promising for lithium storage applications.…”

Soft law, hard stakes? State commitment to non-binding international instruments and the case of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Villeneuve, L

“…Whilst the advantages and appeal of soft law have been widely studied, with its effects explored in both International Relations (IR) and International Law (IL) scholarship, states’ behaviour on commitment to soft law per se has remained underexplored. …”

Modelling and integrating of experimental analysis for predicting the parameters of kenaf fibre-reinforced concrete beam-column joint by Ayeni, Ige Samuel, Mohamad Jamaludin, Yatim, Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah

“…The intricate interactions between material composition, geometrical factors, and load-bearing capacities make it difficult to optimise the design of structural parameters of KFRC beam-column joints. …”
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Nuptiality in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia by Dommaraju, Premchand, Agadjanian, Victor

“…Marriage age began to increase in the years following independence and there are no signs of any reversal. …”
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A new computational framework for log-concave density estimation by Chen, Wenyu, Mazumder, Rahul, Samworth, Richard J.

“…Despite great progress in recent years on the statistical theory of the canonical estimator, namely the log-concave maximum likelihood estimator, adoption of this method has been hampered by the complexities of the non-smooth convex optimization problem that underpins its computation. …”
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FAIM : an antagonist of Fas-killing and beyond by Huo, Jianxin, Xu, Shengli, Lam, Kong-Peng

“…The function of FAIM has been extensively studied in the past 20 years, with its primary role being ascribed to be anti-apoptotic. …”
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An experimental evaluation of point-of-interest recommendation in location-based social networks by Liu, Yiding, Pham, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Cong, Gao, Yuan, Quan

“…Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is an important service to Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) that can benefit both users and businesses. In recent years, a number of POI recommender systems have been proposed, but there is still a lack of systematical comparison thereof. …”
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Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management by Alfeo, Antonio Luca, Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Lizarribar Carrillo, Yago, Grignard, Arnaud, Alonso Pastor, Luis, Sleeper, Dylan T., Cimino, Mario G.C.A., Lepri, Bruno, Vaglini, Gigliola, Larson, Kent, Dorigo, Marco, Pentland, Alex ('Sandy')

“…Swarm robotics systems have been attracting an increasing amount of attention in the past years and they are expected to become one of the main driving factors for innovation in the field of robotics. …”
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Parallel computing in experimental mechanics and optical measurement : a review (II) by Wang, Tianyi, Qian, Kemao

“…However, in pursuit of higher image resolutions for higher accuracy, the computation burden of optical techniques has become much heavier. Therefore, in recent years, heterogeneous platforms composing of hardware such as CPUs and GPUs, have been widely employed to accelerate these techniques due to their cost-effectiveness, short development cycle, easy portability, and high scalability. …”
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Laplacian Regularized Subspace Learning for interactive image re-ranking by Zhang, Lining., Wang, Lipo., Lin, Weisi.

“…Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has attracted substantial attention during the past few years for its potential applications. To bridge the gap between low level visual features and high level semantic concepts, various relevance feedback (RF) or interactive re-ranking (IR) schemes have been designed to improve the performance of a CBIR system. …”
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Starting and Scaling a Set-Based Design Method for a Maritime System of Systems: Designing a Modern Warship by Page, J. E., Higgins, C. J., Seering, W. P.

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India's counter-terrorism policy: through the lens of federalism. by Manaswini Ramkumar

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Tourism Event Analytics with Mobile Phone Data by Leng, Yan, Noriega, Alejandro, Pentland, Alex

“…Tourism has been an increasingly significant contributor to the economy, society, and environment. …”
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Understanding lived experiences of bereaved parents of children with chronic life-threatening Illness : towards a culture-specific and meaning-oriented narrative E-writing interven... by Dutta, Oindrila

“…In Singapore, while deaths among children and youths (age<19) have been steadily declining over the past decade, the number of child deaths caused by chronic conditions has increased by about 27% from 120 in 2014 to 152 in 2016. …”
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Practice of journalism in Macau in transition period. by Tang, Cheng U.

“…This paper examines the history and 1998 status of the press in Macau a year before its handover from Portugal to China. …”
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