Common Grounds in Shared Waters Integrated Design for Negotiating Equitable Development in Gosabara-Mokarsagar by Mehta, Dhwani

“…This thesis, therefore, aims to ensure equitable representation for all stakeholders, particularly disempowered fisherfolk, by an integrative design approach of forging a network of multiple ‘common grounds.’ …”
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EMS of hybrid AC/DC micro grid by Zhao, Yi

“…The fast development of renewable resources draws much attention to the dc grid, because most electricity comes from renewables is dc. …”
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RES.LL-005 D4M: Signal Processing on Databases, Fall 2012 by Kepner, Jeremy

“…Search, social media, ad placement, mapping, tracking, spam filtering, fraud detection, wireless communication, drug discovery, and bioinformatics all attempt to find items of interest in vast quantities of data. …”
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Why the rule of law? A historical perspective by Pirie, F

“…The paradox is that we believe in the rule of law and that we insist it should constrain power in practical and effective ways to be worth creating at all.…”

On the robustness of average losses for partial-label learning by Lv, Jiaqi, Liu, Biao, Feng, Lei, Xu, Ning, Xu, Miao, An, Bo, Niu, Gang, Geng, Xin, Sugiyama, Masashi

“…In PLL, identification-based strategy (IBS) purifies each PL on the fly to select the (most likely) TL for training; average-based strategy (ABS) treats all candidate labels equally for training and let trained models be able to predict TL. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Feigin, VL, Abate, MD, Abate, YH, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Lacey, B, Newton, CRJ

“…<p><b>Findings</b></p> In 2021, stroke was the third most common GBD level 3 cause of death (7·3 million [95% UI 6·6–7·8] deaths; 10·7% [9·8–11·3] of all deaths) after ischaemic heart disease and COVID-19, and the fourth most common cause of DALYs (160·5 million [147·8–171·6] DALYs; 5·6% [5·0–6·1] of all DALYs). …”

Structural and mechanistic studies of herpes virus proteins by Patel, Vidhi Kanaiyalal

“…Herpes Simplex Viruses (HSV) 1 and 2 are the most prevalent amongst the eight known human herpes viruses (HHV). All herpes viruses have a characteristic life cycle, divided into latent and lytic phases. …”
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Policy reform to deliver safely managed drinking water services for schools in rural Bangladesh by Fischer, A, Hope, R, Thomson, P, Hoque, S, Alam, M, Charles, K, Achi, N, Nowicki, S, Hakim, S, Islam, M, Salehin, M, Bradley, D, Ibrahim, M, Chowdhury, M

“…<p>This report draws on research from 150 primary and secondary schools in Chandpur district to analyse the status of drinking water services, in terms of access, quality, quantity, functionality, and costs.…”

Poverty and meritocracy in Singapore by Ang, Jonathan Choong Yew, Chua, Joyce Hui Ping, Zhang, Alethea Shimin

“…This is reflected in the emphasis on the importance of hard work and self-reliance, where one should not solely rely on government assistance. This paper draws upon these responses to discuss the implications of meritocracy as a value system and recommends some solutions to remedy the unintended consequences of implementing this system across all facets of life.…”
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Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery by Bel, G, Elston, T

“…This we undertake for the case of solid waste collection in Catalonia, using environmental protection as our focal performance standard. Drawing on two waves of data (for 2000 and 2019) for 186 municipalities that together use all four combinations of public, private, single and cooperative service delivery, we show that superior environmental performance was initially confined to conventional cooperations involving only public production. …”

Recovery of 3D shapes from 2D sketches by Liu, Yang

“…The objective of this research is to recover 3D freeform surfaces depicted in a single line drawing, with the aim of taking conceptual design sketches and converting them into 3D models. …”
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Biointerface design for vertical nanoprobes by Elnathan, Roey, Barbato, Maria Grazia, Guo, Xiangfu, Mariano, Anna, Wang, Zixun, Santoro, Francesca, Shi, Peng, Voelcker, Nicolas H., Xie, Xi, Young, Jennifer L., Zhao, Yunlong, Zhao, Wenting, Chiappini, Ciro

“…Vertical nanoprobes have substantially improved our ability to control and characterize the intracellular environment, guide biophysical stimuli with nanoscale precision to defined cell compartments, stimulate and record the electrical activity of cells, and transport hard-to-deliver drugs. These capabilities are enabling substantial advances in bioelectronics, spatiotemporally resolved molecular diagnostics, and cell and gene therapy — all underpinned by the design versatility of the nanoprobe biointerface. …”
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Duration of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae carriage in hospital patients by Mo, Yin, Hernandez-Koutoucheva, Anastasia, Musicha, Patrick, Bertrand, Denis, Lye, David C., Ng, Oon Tek, Fenlon, Shannon N., Chen, Swaine L., Ling, Moi Lin, Tang, Wen Ying, Barkham, Timothy, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Cooper, Ben S., Marimuthu, Kalisvar

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Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Bhattacharjee, NV, Schumacher, AE, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Graham, SM, Lacey, BWH, Maude, RJ, Runghien, T, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Uncertainty from past data inputs and model estimation was propagated throughout analyses by taking 1000 draws for past and present fertility estimates and 500 draws for future forecasts from the estimated distribution for each metric, with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) given as the 2·5 and 97·5 percentiles of the draws. …”

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Vollset, SE, Ababneh, HS, Abate, YH, Lacey, BWH, GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

“…Forecasts for the reference scenario found that health will improve in the coming decades, with all-cause age-standardised DALY rates decreasing in every GBD super-region. …”

BLUE OCEAN SHIFT : BEYOND COMPETING - PROVEN STEPS TO INSPIRE CONFIDENCE AND SEIZE NEW GROWTH / by Kim, W. Chan, author 318022, Mauborgne, Renée, author 387551, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

“…Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. …”
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My research career by Ma, Xueliang

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An analysis of heavy silicone oil treatment for inferior proliferative vitreoretinopathy by Hammer, M, Ie, A, Eibenberger, K, Auffarth, GU, Xue, K

“…The number of glaucoma drugs were increased in 45% of patients during Densiron tamponade. …”

涂涂写写 = Alchemy of color and brushwork by Ng, Woon Lam

“…I consider brushworks and lines as drawing, and the process of filling colors as painting. …”
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Questioning the Herderian ideal by Mishra, Pritipuspa, Tan, Ying Ying

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