A two-level approach for multi-robot coordinated exploration of unstructured environments by Senarathne, P. G. C. N., Wang, Danwei

“…Exploration strategies for indoor/structured environments can ensure a balanced distribution of robots by explicitly assigning robots to distinct regions in the environment. However, unstructured environments do not support partitioning of environments to distinct regions, thus requires an alternative way of ensuring the balanced distribution of the robots. …”
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Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans by Suvilehto, JT, Glerean, E, Dunbar, RIM, Hari, R, Nummenmaa, L

“…They were asked to color, on separate trials, the bodily regions where each individual in their social network would be allowed to touch them. …”

Efficient visual search of videos cast as text retrieval by Sivic, J, Zisserman, A

“…This requires a visual analogy of a word which is provided here by vector quantizing the region descriptors. The final ranking also depends on the spatial layout of the regions. …”

Quantifying Emissions and Costs of Geologic Hydrogen: An Integrated Lifecycle Emissions and Techno-economic Approach by Blackford, Timothy

“…It also studies the impact of the United States regime of production tax credits for hydrogen, finding that the fivefold increase in the magnitude of credits for meeting employment conditions is generally more impactful than lowering emissions intensity. …”
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Repulsive Casimir effect in Chern insulators by Tiang, Bi Hong

“…The high temperature regime may diminish the hall conductivity and it tends to generate attractive Casimir force. …”
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Machining of 2D materials by ultrasonic embossing by Er, Kenwealth Quan Sheng

“…By shrinking the size of 2D materials toward nanoscale, it will allow us to access their properties in quantum regime. Herein, the author explores a novel ultrasonic embossing method that has the capability to imprint graphene nanostructures on silver and copper substrates. …”
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Non-Hermitian extension of the Haldane model induced by non-reciprocal hopping by Law, Yi Khing

“…The complexities of the non-Hermitian regime and the new degrees of freedom it introduces in band topology are then delved into. …”
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Predictors of weight loss in overweight Singaporean males in the Singapore Adult Metabolism Study (SAMS). by Tay, Yu Juan.

“…The intervention comprised of diet modification through meal replacements, group and individual nutritional education and counselling sessions, as well as prescribed and supervised exercise regime. After intervention, there was a significant reduction in mean body weight (-7.95 ± 3.45 kg), Skinfold fat composition (-3.24 ± 3.357 %) and DEXA fat composition (-2.93 ± 2.93 %). …”
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Anomalous high-magnetic field electronic state of the nematic superconductors FeSe 1 − x S x by Bristow, M, Reiss, P, Haghighirad, A, Zajicek, Z, Singh, S, Wolf, T, Graf, D, Knafo, W, McCollam, A, Coldea, A

“…Near the nematic end point, we find an extended temperature regime with ∼ T 1.5 resistivity, different from the behavior found near an antiferromagnetic critical point. …”

The radial spreading of volcanic umbrella clouds deduced from satellite measurements by Prata, F, Prata, A, Tanner, R, Grainger, RG, Borgas, M, Aubry, TJ

“…At the onset of neutral buoyancy, the radial spreading is better explained by a stronger dependence on time of A ⇠ C, rather than C 2/3, C 3/4 or C 2/9. This flow regime exists on the order of minutes and has not been observed previously in satellite data. …”

Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters by Rose, G

“…Many critical accounts of this visual and volumetric regime are attentive to the forms of corporealised human life that emerge in relation to the picturing of various volumes. …”

Using algorithms to improve knowledge work by Amaya, J, Holweg, M

“…We also find that the ability to sustain any improvement depends on the adjustment of the knowledge regime—the practices and structures that sanction knowledge. …”

Variational model with image denoising fitting term for boundary extraction of breast ultrasound images by Badrulhisam, Nurdina, Ismail, Nurhuda, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

“…A variational model was used to extract or segment the breast ultrasound (BUS) image boundary in order to find a closed curve line of the abnormality region for further diagnosis. …”
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Why has Singapore not achieved a full democratic transition, despite economic growth? A comparative case study of Singapore and Taiwan by Nur Shahira Binte Shahromey

“…However, Singapore, which has Southeast Asia’s highest GDP per capita, has not achieved a full democratic transition and is considered a hybrid regime. Many scholars have labelled Singapore’s political system “competitive authoritarian” or an “illiberal democracy”. …”
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Privacy: a political approach by Bogue, RC

“…It can thus be shown that a commitment to democracy entails a commitment to certain privacy rights—a finding that circumvents the difficulty in establishing a common basis for privacy protections by appealing to all citizens who live under democratic regimes. In abandoning familiar understandings of privacy, the political approach to privacy does away with the problematic emphasis on consent, adapts privacy to an ever-changing surveillance environment, addresses prominent critiques of privacy rights, and provides a common basis of justification for future privacy legislation. …”

Understanding Dengue Virus Capsid Protein Interaction with Key Biological Targets by Faustino, André F., Martins, Ivo C., Carvalho, Filomena A., Castanho, Miguel A. R. B., Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Santos, Nuno C.

“…Dengue epidemics now reach temperate regions due to globalization of trade and travel and climate changes. …”
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Observation of vector solitons supported by third-order dispersion by Guo, Jun, Hu, Xiaonan, Song, Yu Feng, Shao, Guo Dong, Zhao, Lu Ming, Tang, Ding Yuan

“…Operating the fiber laser in either the net normal or net anomalous dispersion regime, we found that both dark-bright and antidark-bright vector solitons could be simultaneously formed as a result of incoherent cross-polarization phase modulation. …”
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The use of paleomagnetic analysis to assess nonbrittle deformation within the San Andreas fault zone by Sieh, Kerry, Nagy, Elizabeth A.

“…A recently developed paleomagnetic extraction technique successfully permits sample collection from unconsolidated sediments. Traditional measurement and demagnetization procedures can subsequently be performed, and several studies have already shown that soft-sediment samples yield reliable magnetic polarity information. …”
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Forgery localization in images by Nur Dilah Binte Zaini

“…In this project, a universal feature set is created to detect 10 information-preserving manipulation types in regions of image. The proposed information-preserving forgery localisation method is training a simple supervised machine learning model with the universal feature set to identify forged regions in post-JPEG compressed images. …”
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How can small satellites improve the weather forecast in Southeast Asia and Singapore in a context of climate change? by Toh, Xin Yi

“…Therefore, accurate weather forecasting is crucial in the tropical region. However, achieving accurate weather forecasts in Southeast Asia has challenges. …”
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