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. …”

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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Six Crimson Cranes / by Lim, Elizabeth, author 655947, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Weaving together elements of The Wild Swans, Cinderella, the legend of Chang E, and the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Elizabeth Lim has crafted a fantasy like no other, and one that will stay with readers long after they've turned the last page.…”
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Narrative Power : The Struggle for Human Value / by Plummer, Kenneth, author 654982, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…The modern world is in crisis and long-standing narratives are being challenged in four major directions: through deep inequalities, global state complexities, digital risks, and the ever-emerging contingencies of time. …”
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Non-destructive Testing and Repair of Pipelines / by Barkanov, Evgeny N., editor 655999, Dumitrescu, Andrei, editor 656000, Parinov, Ivan A., 1956-, editor 656002

“…Presenting results obtained in the European Commission's INNOPIPES FRAMEWORK 7 programme, it develops long-range ultrasonic and phased array technologies for pipeline diagnostics, and explores their interactions with discontinuities and directional properties of ultrasonic antenna array. …”
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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies : Discover risk mitigation strategies for modern threats to your organization / by Rains, Tim, author 656361, Youngblood, Timothy, writer of foreword 656362, Packt Publishing (Online service) 656336

“…In this edition, you'll examine long-term trends in vulnerability disclosures and exploitation, regional differences in malware infections and the socio-economic factors that underpin them, and how ransomware evolved from an obscure threat to the most feared threat in cybersecurity. …”
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The Europa Imaging System (EIS) Investigation by Turtle, E. P., McEwen, A. S., Patterson, G. W., Ernst, C. M., Elder, C. M., Slack, K. A., Hawkins, S. E., McDermott, J., Meyer, H., DeMajistre, R., Espiritu, R., Seifert, H., Niewola, J.

“…The NAC will also perform observations at long range to search for potential erupting plumes, achieving 10-km pixel scale at a distance of one million kilometers. …”
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Volumetric enhancement of Raman scattering for fast detection based on a silver-lined hollow-core fiber by Chu, Qian, Jin, Zhiqiang, Yu, Xingtao, Li, Caoxin, Zhang, Weihua, Ji, Wenbing, Lin, Bo, Shum, Perry Ping, Zhang, Xuping, Wang, Guanghui

“…Hollow-core fiber-based Raman cell with long interaction length can achieve high detection sensitivity, but it also suffers from low flow rate, bulky high-pressure equipment and light coupling structure, which also restricts its application for fast detection. …”
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Punching shear strength analysis of corroded reinforcement concrete slab by Fu, Yibin

“…Sea levels are rising due to climate change, hence this parameter is of increasing importance for structures under long term corrosive environment. There will be a significant decline in the shear strength resistance in the long run. …”
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Manganese phosphate coated Li[Ni0.6Co0.2Mn0.2]O2 cathode material : towards superior cycling stability at elevated temperature and high voltage by Chen, Zhen, Kim, Guk-Tae, Guang, Yang, Bresser, Dominic, Diemant, Thomas, Huang, Yizhong, Copley, Mark, Behm, Rolf Jürgen, Passerini, Stefano, Shen, Zexiang

“…Nickel-rich Li[Ni0.6Co0.2Mn0.2]O2 is considered to be the next step forward towards the realization of high-energy lithium-ion batteries and has, thus, attracted intensive attention recently. However, achieving long-term cycling stability at elevated temperatures and voltages still remains a formidable challenge for practical applications. …”
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A collision risk assessment method for runway threshold management : a case study of Singapore Changi Airport by Ang, Haojie, Cai, Qing, Alam, Sameer

“…However, many runways suffer from long runway thresholds due to safety constraints in face of approach path obstacles, which leads to reduction in Landing Distance Available (LDA), thereby reducing runway capacity. …”
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Cold atoms laboratory in a hollow core fiber by Leong, Wui Seng

“…To avoid diffraction, I load cold atoms into a hollow-core fiber (HCF) and demonstrate four major experiments inside the fiber: inertia-sensitive Mach-Zehnder atom interferometer, long-lived quantum spin coherence, light storage and creation of an array of Schr\"odinger cat states. …”
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The cancellation heuristic in intertemporal choice shifts people's time preferences by Sengupta, Arjun, Savani, Krishna

“…The findings indicate that two features of human psychology-diminishing marginal utility and the cancellation heuristic-can be simultaneously utilized to nudge people to make decisions that would be better for them in the long run.…”
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Strong metal-support interaction boosts activity, selectivity, and stability in electrosynthesis of H₂O₂ by Zhang, Junming, Ma, Jun, Choksi, Tej S., Zhou, Daojin, Han, Shaobo, Liao, Yen-Fa, Yang, Hong Bin, Liu, Dong, Zeng, Zhiping, Liu, Wei, Sun, Xiaoming, Zhang, Tianyu, Liu, Bin

“…However, large overpotential and poor long-term stability still prohibit their usage in many reactions (e.g., oxygen evolution/reduction). …”
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Seismic loss dynamics in three Asian megacities using a macro-level approach based on socioeconomic exposure indicators by Sarica, Gizem Mestav, Pan, Tso-Chien

“…Our framework can be used to trigger discussions between scientific community and decision-makers for better long-term risk reduction and risk awareness strategies.…”
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Balancing waiting times in sequential servers appointment system using distributionally robust optimization by Goh, You Hui

“…To investigate the opposite effect of incentivizing long waits, we derive another DRO model that uses a piecewise linear concave waiting cost function. …”
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Construction of human digital twin model based on multimodal data and its application in locomotion mode identification by Zhong, Ruirui, Hu, Bingtao, Feng, Yixiong, Zheng, Hao, Hong, Zhaoxi, Lou, Shanhe, Tan, Jianrong

“…Data acquisition system is built to dynamically acquire and update the body state data and physiological data of the human body and realize the digital expression of multi-source heterogeneous human body information. A bidirectional long short-term memory and convolutional neural network (BiLSTM-CNN) based network is devised to fuse multimodal human data and extract the spatiotemporal features, and the human locomotion mode identification is taken as an application case. …”
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论包公形象在不同文本中的呈现方式 ：以陈州粜米故事为例 = An investigation on the representations of Magistrate Bao in different operatic texts on the story of “selling rice at Chen Zhou”... by 欧思敏 Au, Sze Mien

“…This paper investigates different representations of Magistrate Bao in different texts such as Yuan drama “Bao Dai Zhi Chen Zhou Tiao Mi”, Ming dynasty “Singing narrative on Bao Long Tu’s ‘Selling rice in Chen Zhou’” (Xin Kan Quan Xiang Shuo Chang Bao Long Tu Chen Zhou Tiao Mi Ji), Qing dynasty popular fiction “San Xia Wu Yi”, as well as folk operas “Chen Zhou Yuan” and “Bao Gong Gan Lu”.…”
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