Deliberation in the Russian state Duma: from a seat of discussion to a tool of autocracy, 1996-2021 by James, N

“…Why do legislators continue to engage in parliamentary floor activities under authoritarian regimes when policy decisions and voting outcomes are often predetermined before reaching the debate stage? …”

Audio watermarking by Ho, Shuet Mun, Ng, Ling Mei

“…This non-blind watermarking algorithm is based on both time and frequency base modulation. Segments of the file are compressed or expanded by adding or removing samples in the frequency domain. …”
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Polariton and Photon Laser by Ohadi, H., Kammann, E., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Lagoudakis, K. G., Kavokin, A. V., Lagoudakis, P. G.

“…We report on the simultaneous observation of spontaneous symmetry breaking and long-range spatial coherence both in the strong- and the weak-coupling regime in a semiconductor microcavity. Under pulsed excitation, the formation of a stochastic order parameter is observed in polariton and photon lasing regimes. …”
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Nanoscale interfaces made easily by Zhao, Weijie, Xiong, Qihua

“…A practically simple method has been reported, based on the cyclical switching of gaseous reagents.…”
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Molecular engineering of biomolecule-based functional nanodots for biomedical applications by Xu Victor Hesheng

“…Nonetheless, the preparation of these nanomaterials is often challenging, involving tedious multistep synthesis and expensive reagents. In addition, the fabrication usually utilises harsh and toxic reagents which are hazardous towards human and environmental health. …”
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Calcium fluoride for nucleophilic fluorination by Patel, C

“…The application of this technology for preparing fluorinating reagents well-documented for aromatic fluorination is then presented. …”

Treatment options to support the elimination of Hepatitis C: an open label, factorial randomised controlled trial by Cooke, G, Le Manh, H, Flower, B, McCabe, L, Vu Thu Kim, H, Vo Thi, T, Dang Trong, T, Nguyen Thanh, D, Le Thanh, P, Dao Bach, K, Nguyen Thi Chau, A, Pham Ngoc, T, Vu Thu Thu, H, Dang Thi, B, Nguyen Kim, T, Ansari, A, Le Ngoc, C, Vo Minh, Q, Nguyen Thi Ngoc, P, Le Thi, T, Nguyen Bao, T, Kestelyn, E, Kingsley, C, Van Doorn, R, Rahman, M, Pett, S, Thwaites, G, Barnes, E, Day, J, Nguyen Van Vinh, C, Walker, AS

“…No randomised trials have compared these regimens and high cure rates may be achievable with shorter durations of therapy.…”

An interactive control architecture for interpersonal coordination in mirror game by Zhai, Chao, Chen, Michael Z. Q., Alderisio, Francesco, Yu. Uteshev, Alexei, Di Bernardo, Mario

“…In this work, an interactive control architecture based on velocity segments is developed to generate the human-like trajectories in the mirror game, a simple yet effective paradigm for studying interpersonal coordination, and the existence of velocity segments possessing a prescribed signature is theoretically guaranteed. …”
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Self-similar sketch by Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…The resulting collection of segments constitutes a "sketch" of the image. This is applied to the task of estimating vanishing points, horizon, and zenith in standard benchmark data, obtaining state-of-the-art results. …”

The Enggano-Dutch word list derived from Helfrich's (1916) “Nadere Bijdrage Tot de Kennis van Het Engganeesch” by Rajeg, GPW

“…This version (0.1.1) now includes the word list in a tab-separated file (.tsv) that has the following features (in the columns): (a) common/standardised transcription, also in segmented format (Columns form_common_transcription and form_common_segments); (b) phonemic transcription in segmented format (Column form_ipa_segments); (c) Indonesian translation of the English gloss using the deeplr R package (Column indonesian). …”

Effects of individual research practices on fNIRS signal quality and latent characteristics by Bizzego, Andrea, Carollo, Alessandro, Lim, Mengyu, Esposito, Gianluca

“…Two datasets were generated: ALL dataset (segments with bad and good data quality) and GOOD dataset (segments with good quality). …”
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Forces on oscillating uniform and tapered cylinders in a crossflow by Hover, F. S., Techet, A. H., Triantafyllou, M.S.

“…Calculation of the cross-correlation coefficient between forces at the two ends of the uniform cylinder reveals five distinct regimes as a function of the nominal reduced velocity Vrn: two regimes, for low and high values of Vrn, and far away from the value of VrS corresponding to the Strouhal frequency, show small correlation; two regimes immediately adjacent to, but excluding, VrS show strong correlation, close to 1; surprisingly, there is a regime containing the Strouhal frequency, within which correlation is low. …”
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Character-aware audio-visual subtitling in context by Huh, J, Zisserman, A

“…Second, we show that the speaker of short segments can be determined by using the temporal context of the dialogue within a scene. …”

Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…A torque-driven, five segments (two thigh segments, two shank segments and one trunk segments) forward dynamics simulation model is first used to study the human posture and passive stabilizing device control. …”
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Biosensors: alcohol and glucose detection by Liu, Shuhui

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Drug interaction between acetyltanshinone IIA and rapamycin in breast cancer cells by Wong, De Pin

“…Developing in vitro drug combination study is essential for the development of new and effective combination regimens. In this project, the objective is to investigate the synergistic potential between two anti breast cancer agent, rapamycin and acetyltanshinone IIA (ATA) in breast cancer cells. …”
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Promoting Singapore as a premier tourist destination by Koh, Hui Ling, Lim, Karen Wee Peng, Tan, Fiona Lay Choo

“…In addition , greater marketing efforts are aimed at emerging niche segments such as students, cruise and business visitors. …”
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An anatomical study to control the movement of a beetle's hind leg through electrical stimulation of muscles by Yeong, Jun Hao

“…The experimental results shows that, the muscles that control a particular segment of the leg have to reside in the previous segment and the musculature structure in the femur allows greater translating of power during walking as compared to other segments of the hind leg. …”
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Is social media really that effective for communicating budget policies to citizens? – a case study of the Singapore budget 2018 by Chin, Zhao Wei

“…Citizen feedback is collected using an online public survey, of which demographical factors such as age, educational qualifications and employment status were cross-tabulated and suggest that social media avenues such as Facebook may not be the best way to communicate budget policy to certain segments of the population. Moreover, there is a risk of investing too much focus on social media, such that other segments of the population may be neglected. …”
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Characterisation of progenitor cells in human atherosclerotic vessels by Torsney, E, Mandal, K, Halliday, A, Jahangiri, M, Xu, Q

“…In the present study, a range of normal and atherosclerotic human arteries were collected from patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. Segments of internal mammary artery (normal controls), and segments of proximal ascending aorta with visible fatty streak were analysed. …”