Entangled entitlements and Shuar tsantsa (shrunken heads) by Van Broekhoven, LNK

“…The chapter discusses the reasons for, and public reactions to, the taking off display of 120 human remains in the Summer of 2020 at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. One side of “Treatment of Dead Enemies” case-displays included a supposedly “iconic” display of the Shuar shrunken heads or tsantsa, that anecdotally was the Museum's number one attraction. …”

Doping in perovskite nanocrystals, perovskite solar cells with organic carrier transport layers, and Selenium solar cells by Liu, Wenbo

“…Here, a series of small molecule organic materials with varied functional side chains have been applied as the electron transport layers (ETL) for perovskite materials. …”
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Smart nanomicelles with bacterial infection-responsive disassembly for selective antimicrobial applications by Pranantyo, Dicky, Kang, En-Tang, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…We synthesized a cationic chitosan derivative and an anionic chitosan derivative – specifically an α-poly(L)lysine side-grafted chitosan (CS-PLL) and an anionic citraconyl anhydride (CA) modified polylysine side graft for chitosan (CS-PLL-CA). …”
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Hydrogen refueling stations and carbon emission reduction of coastal expressways: a deployment model and multi-scenario analysis by Wang, Zhe, Wang, Dongxing, Zhao, Fan, Han, Fenghui, Ji, Yulong, Cai, Wenjian

“…In addition, carbon emission reduction results of hydrogen supply chain network show that the carbon emission reduction per unit hydrogen production is 15.51 kgCO2/kgH2 at the production side. The CO2 emission can be reduced by 68.3 kgCO2/km and 6.35 kgCO2/kgH2 per unit mileage and per unit hydrogen demand at the application side, respectively. …”
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华教观的差异 ：马来西亚国民中学与华文独立中学比较研究 = Difference views Of Chinese education in Malaysia national schools and Chinese private schools by Ng, Jun Xiong

“…Although Chinese education and national education system exist side-by-side in Malaysia, their coexistence has not always been harmonious. …”
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Unravelling the degradation pathways and charging mechanism in the Li-O2 battery: the role of singlet oxygen by Zor, C

“…This finding should redirect the focus of LOB research from avoiding ¹O₂ to developing electrolytes inert towards peroxide and peroxide-derived side products for an electro/chemically stable cell. …”

Lessons From President Moon Jae In’s Housing Policy and The Road to Affordable Home Ownership in Seoul, South Korea by Cho, Kibong

“…Finally, it describes the necessary path towards mitigating the housing affordability crisis that has been created in Seoul using both supply and demand side arguments.…”
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Design and development of UAV for robotx challenge by Yong, Xun Hao

“…The author’s responsibilities is to build and develop the UAV system, which includes the mechanical and software side of the UAV…”
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Digital data transmission over non-linear satellite channels by Quah, Kian Wah.

“…The source of this interference could include a cross-polarized signal emanating from the satellite or adjacent satellites, side-lobe interference from the ground station transmitting to a nearby satellite, inter-modulation products and Gaussian noise. …”
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Control design for regulation of blood pressure during postoperative hypertension by Meng, Xianghong.

“…Great caution is required to handle the wide range of sensitivities to the drug, and over-dose of drug could cause serious toxic side effects on the patient. Therefore, there is a need to devise methods such as using control algorithms that can effectively regulate the drugs automatically. …”
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Study on statistical correlation exploitation in distributed video coding by Sun, Jin.

“…Distributed video coding (DVC), i.e., lossy compression with receiver side information, enables low-complexity video encoding where the bulk of the computation is shifted to the decoder.However, compared to conventional motion-compensated interframe coding, distributed video coding (DVC) has a worse rate-distortion performance according to the existing works. …”
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Load classification and reshape for energy management of a power grid by Abbas, Mohamed Ameer

“…Based on the classified load, we help to reshape the demand profile of the household to carter to better power management on the grid side. Through the historical data, the possible pattern and suggested ways of reshaping the load profile is presented.…”
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Incorporating thermoelectric effect with solar power into solar panel by Lim, Esmund Qun Kai

“…Through the use of Seebeck effect, this thermal energy is harvested using a thermoelectric device that generates electricity by the temperature difference obtained from each side of the device. By incorporating a power management system to it, the voltage generated from the Peltier module can be maintained at 5 V to charge low power device.…”
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Data analytics of air pollution data by Kam, Jia Hao

“…Other sources or air pollution consists of gases and suspended small solid particles called particulate matter. Road side monitoring stations as well as weather monitoring stations routinely measure the concentration of both and are published daily on the website of the National Environment Agency. …”
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Political outcomes of aid by Cruz, C, Labonne, J, Wright, A

“…These consequences can result from mismatched priorities between aid agencies and recipients, the need to accommodate various actors within domestic governments at the national and local level, and strategic attempts on either side to manipulate aid projects for their benefit. …”

Fundamental petroleum fiscal considerations by Johnston, D, Johnston, D

“…There is a heated debate – currently particularly intense in Mexico and India – over a fundamental feature of global agreements. On one side are those who believe basic ‘profits-based’ structures – found in the world’s production-sharing contracts (PSCs) and royalty/tax systems (R/Ts) – are the best. …”

Coping with peripheralization in small cities. What is the role of human agency? by Bosák, V, Slach, O, Paszová, L, Hýllová, L, Mykhnenko, V, Krtička, L, Nováček, A

“…<p>The growing process of metropolization has revealed its flip side in the last decade in the form of increasing social problems in peripheral regions. …”

The Cognitive Underpinnings of Legal Complexity by Martínez, Eric

“…Chapter II approaches the question from the comprehender side, documenting the cognitive and linguistic factors that make legal documents difficult to understand for non-lawyers. …”
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Adjoint-state differential arrival time tomography by Tong, Ping, Li, Tianjue, Chen, Jing, Nagaso,Masaru

“…Numerical examples demonstrate that the ATT-CS method is a valuable tool for imaging receiver-side fine-scale velocity structures. Conversely, the ATT-CR method is well suited for resolving source-side velocity structures. …”
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Development of red/near-infrared fluorescent molecules and macromolecules for biomedical applications by Yang, Cangjie

“…The hydrophobic layer of side chain was used to physically entrap drugs for chemotherapy. …”
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