The effect of inter-municipal cooperation on social assistance programs: evidence from housing allowances in England by Elston, T, Bel, G, Wang, H

“…For other types of local public service, like refuse collection and utilities provision, inter-municipal cooperation has proven capable of reducing the cost of subnational policy implementation, especially for smaller municipalities. …”

Developing and validating a digital literacy assessment: bridging the digital divide among adolescents in Sabah, Malaysia by Shakira Arbine, Mohamad Shukri Abdul Hamid

“…Despite growing up in a digital era, many youths in Tawau demonstrate limited skills in essential software like Microsoft Office, highlighting a significant digital divide. …”
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The role of ion exchange in the passivation of In(Zn)P nanocrystals with ZnS by Cho, Deok-Yong, Xi, Lifei, Boothroyd, Chris, Kardynal, Beata, Lam, Yeng Ming

“…This substantial atomic exchange is very likely to be the reason for the improved photoluminescence behavior of the core-shell particles compare to In(Zn)P-only NCs as S can passivate the NCs surfaces.…”
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High field dynamic nuclear polarization methods: Microwave sources and mechanisms by Mardini, Michael

“…Moreover, as amplifier and resonator technologies continue to develop, it is likely that pulsed DNP will emerge at high fields and overtake continuous-wave DNP in absolute sensitivity enhancement as well.…”
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Self-healing materials for flexible electronic devices by Tiwari, Naveen

“…With the onset of flexible and wearable electronics, devices are now put on places like the human body and various curved surfaces which doesn’t have any regular shape and sizes. …”
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Relationship between synoptic scale meteorology, aircraft parameters, and observable contrails by Barbosa, Maria Paula

“…Long-lasting or "persistent" contrails are line-shaped clouds that form when airplanes fly through cold and humid parts of the atmosphere that are ice-supersaturated. …”
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Risk prediction models to guide antibiotic prescribing : a study on adult patients with uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infections in an emergency department by Wong, Joshua Guoxian, Aung, Aung-Hein, Lian, Weixiang, Lye, David Chien, Ooi, Chee-Kheong, Chow, Angela

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Public bus transit service modeling and optimization: from conventional to autonomous vehicles by Tian, Qingyun

“…In the first part, this thesis proposes a novel tri-level model for a transit service operation design problem that primarily determines the optimal bus line frequency setting. Unlike the existing studies, the strategy choices of passengers in presence of congested common lines are explicitly considered. …”
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Anti-leukaemic and chemotherapy supportive effects of berberis vulgaris l. Fruit crude extract on in vitro and in vivo models by Saedi, Tayebeh Azam

“…For the in vitro method, cytotoxic effects of BVFCE were evaluated using MTT assay to determine the IC50 values and compare with non-leukaemic cell line (The 3T3 cell). Observation of the morphological changes in the treated leukaemic cell lines with BVFCE and Doxorubicin (Doxo) was examined using inverted microscope. …”
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REVENGE IN VIOLENT HUES / by Nadiah Zakaria, author 655918

“…Hidden within the enchanted forests of Gemerlapan, a Reflection inside the Mirror of 1990s Alor Setar, the enemy is quick to claim the throne like moths to a flame. Amalia Maganti can communicate with ghosts ever since the mysterious death of her father six years ago. …”

User Profiling Based on Nonlinguistic Audio Data by Shen, Jiaxing, Cao, Jiannong, Lederman, Oren, Tang, Shaojie, Pentland, Alex

“…User profiling refers to inferring people’s attributes of interest (AoIs) like gender and occupation, which enables various applications ranging from personalized services to collective analyses. …”
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Empowering Community-Driven Determination of Values for Language Models by Raman, Deepika

“…Emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are often developed in Western contexts and carry implicit values, from developer choices or underlying training data, which are not adequately representative of the diverse contexts in which they are deployed. …”
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“Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle by Chin, Yao-Wei, Lau, Gih Keong

“…The clicking mechanism is integrated in a thorax-like compliant mechanism, which buckles and consequently produces a large wing stroke when driven by an electric motor. …”
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Development of an RF positioning system by Rege, Laukik Jayesh

“…This is due to the GNSS signal being obstructed and reflected by objects like tall buildings. Similarly, GNSS does not work accurately in indoor environments like tunnels, parking garages etc. …”
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Self-assembly for supply chains by Yee, Gabriel Qi Ming

“…In a similar fashion, the real-world processes of specifying objectives, tasks, and principles are like the specifying of environmental condi-tions when designing self-assembly systems. …”
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Analysis and implementation of National Security Agency (NSA) suite B : Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement algorithm by Tan, Vincent Soon Heng.

“…This is especially true and useful for applications like mobile devices which are typically limited in terms of their CPU processing speed, power and network connectivity. …”
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High speed AES encryption IC design by Dong, Haokun

“…Threshold implementation could enhance the performance by dividing sensitive information, like the secret key and intermediate values, into multiple shares. …”
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2D/3D staircase detection and localization by Wang, Sisong

“…This thesis introduces a novel set of PCA-based Haar-like features which extends the classical Haar-like features from local to global domain and are extremely efficient at rejecting non-object regions at the early stages of the cascade. …”
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Study of wireless body area network by Xuan, Zhi Yang.

“…However, there are some issues related to the energy of this wearable system, like inconvenience of changing battery. Therefore, developing energy efficient WBAN system is also a hot research topic. …”
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People tracking in video by Siah, Wee Kiat.

“…For example, identify potential terrorist in public places like railway stations or spotting enemies in military context to facilitate the planning of battle order. …”
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