Development of anaerobic immobilized-cell processes for biohydrogen production by Zhang, Zhenpeng

“…A major drawback of the cell immobilization is the long startup period, which generally requires a few months for the development of hydrogen-producing granules or biofilms. …”
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SNR enhancement in OTDR using pulse coding by Xie, Yi.

“…So the high spatial resolution and long dynamic range can’t be obtained simultaneously. …”
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Allianz's success factors in the European market and their challenges faced in China. by Chin, Chee Meng., Koh, Teck Chee., Li, Heng., Saqlain Javed.

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Network resource management to transport pre-stored video across broadband networks by Fu, Huirong.

“…MPEG variable bit rate (VBR) encoded video is known to exhibit long-range dependent behavior and significant multiple-time-scale rate variability but with consistent image quality. …”
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Three-dimensional analyses of deep excavations in clay by Teo, Yi Wei.

“…The assumption for this analysis is that the length of the excavation is infinitely long. Thus, it does not take into account of the length of the excavation. …”
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A novel polymer quantum dot derived from poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and its application for sensing and optical imaging by Xu, Qian

“…However, they suffer from several intrinsic drawbacks like rapid photo-bleaching making it difficult to carry out long-term imaging. Semiconductor quantum dots (semi-QDs) have been regarded as alternatives, but they may possess some limitations, including cytotoxicity, carcinogenicity, and too-large size. …”
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Chasing the Elusive Militant in Indonesia: The Wonosobo raid to capture Noordin M Top by Astuti, Fatima

“…The police order on the inhabitants to surrender was met with gunfire. After an hour-long gunfight, the resistance ended with two suspects dead and one captured. …”
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Global norms in regional institutions : lessons from the African Union and ASEAN by Lotze, Walter, Stensland, Andreas, Ng, Joel

“…Acceptance of global norms by regional organisations is only the beginning of a long process of institutionalisation, as cases in the African Union (AU) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) demonstrate. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…In August, Mexico completed far-reaching energy reform; many in the industry had long hoped for this, but it had seemed politically unthinkable even after President Enrique Peña Nieto had submitted his proposal to the legislature a year earlier.…”

Automation and the displacement of labor by capital: asset pricing theory and empirical evidence by Knesl, J

“…Empirically, I find that firms with high share of displaceable labor have negative exposure to technology shocks. A long-short portfolio sorted on this variable mimics macroeconomic measures of technology shocks. …”

Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 97

“…The editors have endeavoured to provide commentary on the political and economic context for energy developments, while also inviting recognized specialists to comment on the host of issues – from long-term upstream oil issues to Russia’s domestic electricity market – that are sometimes neglected by big-picture analysis.…”

The GCC states need to focus on green actions, not climate vulnerabilities by Luomi, M

“…In terms of sustainable energy, the Gulf has come a long way since 2008. Resource efficiency programmes, alternative energy projects, clean technology research, sustainable building codes, public transport systems, and green economy strategies are now part of everyday news in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. …”

Ocular blood flow measurements in healthy white subjects using laser speckle flowgraphy by Luft, Nikolaus, Wozniak, Piotr A., Aschinger, Gerold C., Fondi, Klemens, Bata, Ahmed M., Werkmeister, René M., Schmidl, Doreen, Witkowska, Katarzyna J., Bolz, Matthias, Garhöfer, Gerhard, Schmetterer, Leopold

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Biogeochemical cycling and environmental footprints of peatland-derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean in Southeast Asia by Zhou, Yongli

“…In addition, studies of the biogeochemical cycling of terrigenous DOC have so far mainly focused on latitudes outside of the tropics, which results in very limited knowledge about the terrigenous DOC cycling in tropical seas. …”
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Mechanical performance and microstructural development of MgO-SiO2-H2O systems by Sonat, Cem

“…In line with this interest, the main goal of this study was to analyse the mechanical performance and microstructural development of MgO-SiO2-H2O systems and evaluate the stability of the formed phases under various conditions. …”
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Managing oil palm plantations more sustainably : large-scale experiments within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme by Luke, Sarah H., Advento, Andreas Dwi, Aryawan, Anak Agung Ketut, Adhy, Dwi Nugroho, Ashton-Butt, Adham, Barclay, Holly, Dewi, Jassica Prajna, Drewer, Julia, Dumbrell, Alex J., Edi, Eycott, Amy E., Harianja, Martina F., Hinsch, Julie K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kurniawan, Candra, Kurz, David J., Mann, Darren J., Matthews Nicholass, Kirsty J., Naim, Mohammad, Pashkevich, Michael D., Prescott, Graham W., Ps, Sudharto, Pujianto, Purnomo, Dedi, Purwoko, Rizky Rajabillah, Putra, Syafrisar, Rambe, T. Dzulfikar S., Soeprapto, Spear, Dakota M., Suhardi, Tan, David J. X., Tao, Hsiao-Hang, Tarigan, Ribka Sionita, Wahyuningsih, Resti, Waters, Helen S., Widodo, Rudi Harto, Whendy, Woodham, Christopher R., Caliman, Jean-Pierre, Slade, Eleanor M., Snaddon, Jake L., Foster, William A., Turner, Edgar C.

“…In this paper we introduce the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme: a long-term research collaboration between academia and industry in Sumatra, Indonesia. …”
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Synthesizing photorealistic images with deep generative learning by Zheng, Chuanxia

“…To mitigate this issue, in Chapter 5 I propose treating image completion as a directionless sequence-to-sequence prediction task, and deploy a transformer to directly capture long-range dependencies in the encoder in a first phase. …”
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Structure and interaction of telomeric and telomerase RNA G-quadruplexes. by Martadinata, Herry.

“…Multiple G-quadruplex structures can be formed along the long human TERRA sequences. Our study showed the “beads-on-a-string” arrangement of G-quadruplexes in long human TERRA. …”
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Towards practical data-driven predictive maintenance: a robust and generalizable deep learning approach by Mohamed Ragab Mohamad Adam

“…The focus of this thesis is on two main tasks of predictive maintenance: fault diagnosis and fault prognosis (i.e., Remaining Useful Life Estimation (RUL)) tasks. …”
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A bin-packing based heuristic for the integrated inventory and vehicle routing problem by Yang, Yang

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