The new "rare metal age" : new challenges and implications of critical raw materials supply security in the 21st century by Umbach, Frank

“…When Beijing threatened to restrict China’s export of rare earths (widely used in numerous important civilian and military technologies) to the United States at the end of May 2019, the world was reminded of China’s rare earths export disruption in the autumn of 2010 amid a maritime territorial conflict between China and Japan. …”
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Impact of cellular interference on uplink UAV communications by Tan, Ernest Zheng Hui, Madhukumar, A. S., Sirigina, Rajendra Prasad, Krishna, Anoop Kumar

“…Thus, interference mitigation techniques may have to be considered when multi-UAV networks are operating at low altitudes in areas with cellular networks.…”
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Choice as an engine of independence : implications for employee voice and managerial decision making by Nanakdewa, Kevin

“…Research on the choice mindset found that even when people engaged in the same behaviors, the extent to which they construed their actions as choices varied greatly. …”
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Data analysis of local scour around abutment in compound channel by Zhang, Ruixin

“…When building bridge structures in natural rivers, intricate local water flows, and the geological evolution of river beds will have a tremendous adverse impact on the safety of the bridge. …”
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A thesis of stillness : a study of Edmund Yeo’s Aqérat by Lee, Cheryl Julia

“…The modern valorisation of mobility is a means of envisioning a future in a time when a future cannot be inferred – a means which, as recent mobility studies have highlighted, is accessible only to a privileged few. …”
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Spatial and temporal localization of cell wall associated pili in Enterococcus Faecalis by Choo, Pei Yi

“…In addition, the older hemisphere of mid-division cells was completely saturated with Ebp, while at the newer hemisphere, Ebp appeared as two foci directly adjacent to the newly synthesized PG. When cell wall synthesis was inhibited by ramoplanin, an antibiotic that inhibits lipid II, new Ebp was still deposited at the cell surface. …”
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Influence of presumed influence on thinness as a beauty ideal for girls. by Soh, Wai Siong.

“…It was interesting that when it comes to the influence on the desire to be thin, we could only see that the “influence of self” has an impact on the desire to be thin. …”
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The imagination of eco-disaster : post-disaster rebuilding in Asian cinema by Chu, Kiu-Wai

“…To contemporary film viewers, the ‘psychic numbing’ effect is apparent, and it does not apply merely to our perception of numbers, statistics, the big data. It can also be seen when we are bombarded with similar kinds of images over and over again; in this case, the large-scale tsunami, the hurricanes, the earthquake and all the exaggerated destruction scenes in recent disaster movies have become clichés no matter how realistic and intense the shots are made. …”
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Data-driven adaptive control for laser-based additive manufacturing with automatic controller tuning by Chen, Lequn, Yao, Xiling, Chew, Youxiang, Weng, Fei, Moon, Seung Ki, Bi, Guijun

“…System identification is not required even when process conditions are changed, which reduces the controller implementation time and cost for end-users.…”
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Semi-CNN architecture for effective spatio-temporal learning in action recognition by Leong, Mei Chee, Prasad, Dilip K., Lee, Yong Tsui, Lin, Feng

“…Our semi-CNN architecture achieved an average of 16-30% boost in the top-1 accuracy when evaluated on an input video of 16 frames.…”
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Ratio-of-distance rigidity theory with application to similar formation control by Cao, Kun, Han, Zhimin, Li, Xiuxian, Xie, Lihua

“…This paper develops a ratio-of-distance (RoD) rigidity theory to study when a framework can be uniquely determined by a set of RoD constraints up to similar transformations (translation, rotation, scaling, and reflection). …”
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Eigenspace-based minimum variance beamformer combined with sign coherence factor : application to linear-array photoacoustic imaging by Shamekhi, Sadaf, Periyasamy, Vijitha, Pramanik, Manojit, Mehrmohammadi, Mohammad, Mohammadzadeh Asl, Babak

“…In this study, we combined the Eigen-space based minimum variance (EIBMV) beamformer with the sign coherence factor (SCF) and show the ability of these methods for noise reduction when they are used in combination with each other. …”
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NOx measurements in vehicle exhaust using advanced deep ELM networks by Ouyang, Tinghui, Wang, Chongwu, Yu, Zhangjun, Stach, Robert, Mizaikoff, Boris, Huang, Guang-Bin, Wang, Qijie

“…Using extreme learning machine (ELM) algorithms with an exceptionally fast learning speed when dealing with big data problems next to excellent generalization abilities, a deep learning network for regressing NOx concentrations was implemented. …”
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Potential of liquefied natural gas cold energy recovery on board ships by Baldasso, Enrico, Mondejar, Maria E., Mazzoni, Stefano, Romagnoli, Alessandro, Haglind, Fredrik

“…The results of the study indicate that the greatest fuel savings can be attained when the vessel is powered by a low pressure fuel supply system, reaching up to 2.4%, and that the most promising solution for recovering the cold energy is its use in the organic Rankine cycle unit. …”
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Thermal and mechanical assessments of the 3D-printed conformal cooling channels : computational analysis and multi-objective optimization by Shen, Suping, Kanbur, Baris Burak, Zhou, Yi, Duan, Fei

“…According to these parameters, the multi-objective optimization study is performed and the best trade-off point is found at the channel diameter of 2.5 mm, coolant temperature of 297 K, and the flow rate of 1 L/min when all the objectives have equal weights in the optimization problem.…”
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Using AI for music source separation by Lee, Jasline Jie Yu

“…Lastly, the computational efficiency of the model can be improved when an uncompressed dataset and BiGRU is used. …”
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Sproutly : plantable packaging by Dhanusha Surendran

“…As such, the packaging germinates when planted. The main findings show that supermarkets are flooding the planet with single-use plastics to portion out products conveniently and cheaply for consumption. …”
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Helping out-groups in times of crisis : application of the Benjamin Franklin Effect to intergroup contexts by Quek, Jing Xuan

“…The Benjamin Franklin Effect (BFE) seems to be one promising mechanism to encourage such changes. It predicts that when one performs a favor for someone whom they have neutral or negative feelings for, one would increase their liking for and be more likely to do another favor for that person again. …”
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Design of a battery-operated portable DC power supply. Part 1 : voltage output control by Saw, Khai Guan

“…Batteries are a main source of DC power supply when it comes to delivering constant DC voltage to these electronic devices. …”
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Gaussian Process Learning-based Probabilistic Optimal Power Flow by Pareek, Parikshit, Nguyen, Hung D.

“…The simulation results on 14-bus and 30-bus systems show that the proposed method provides reasonably accurate solutions when compared with Monte-Carlo Simulations (MCS) solutions at different levels of uncertain renewable penetration and load uncertainties. …”
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