The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

“…The United States' rebalancing to Asia, initially depicted as a "pivot" to the Pacific, is less a swing away from the Middle East and West Asia than a shift of U.S. focus to East Asia, following the winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. …”
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India’s ‘gas renaissance’ - rhetoric versus reality by Sen, A

“…<p>Most general discussion on the future of the market for internationally traded gas focuses on the ‘swing towards Asia’ – specifically, China and India are highlighted as major drivers of demand. …”

WiFi and vision multimodal self-supervised learning for human activity recognition by Tang, Shijie

“…In this context, we propose a novel Multimodal Pretrain fine-tune (MPF) network architecture for device-free human activity recognition using commercial WiFi-enabled IoT devices and cameras. …”
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Utilization of oil contaminated sand for green asphalt concrete production by Ng, Ye Han

“…The objective of this research is to study the feasibility of Oil Contaminated Sand (OCS) usage as a replacement of certain percentage of fine aggregates in Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) for road construction. …”
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Skeletal myotubes expressing ALS mutant SOD1 induce pathogenic changes, impair mitochondrial axonal transport, and trigger motoneuron death by Martínez, Pablo, Silva, Mónica, Abarzúa, Sebastián, Tevy, María F., Jaimovich, Enrique, Constantine-Paton, Martha, Bustos, Fernando J., van Zundert, Brigitte

“…We report that conditioned media from mutSOD1 myotubes (mutSOD1-MCM), but not from control myotubes (NTg-MCM), induced robust death of primary MNs in mixed spinal cord cultures and compartmentalized microfluidic chambers. …”
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Improved virtual keyboard design for P300-based brain-computer interface by Tay, Abel Ping Liang.

“…Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brainstem stroke, brain or spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophies, multiple sclerosis, and numerous other diseases impair the neural pathways that control muscles or impair the muscles themselves. …”
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Unraveling the Dynamics of Mental and Visuospatial Workload in Virtual Reality Environments by Bernal, Guillermo, Jung, Hahrin, Yassı, İsmail Emir, Hidalgo, Nelson, Alemu, Yodahe, Barnes-Diana, Tyler, Maes, Pattie

“…Our findings indicate a broadband increase in EEG power just prior to a helper event, followed by a spike of visuospatial engagement (parietal alpha and beta 0-1-3 s) occurring concurrently with a decrease in mental workload (frontal theta 2&ndash;4 s), and subsequent decreases in visuospatial engagement (parietal theta at 14 s) and physiological arousal (HRV at 20 s). …”
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Analysis and reduction of mismatch in silicon neurons by Shuo, Sun, Basu, Arindam

“…The method presented allows the corrected neurons to compute both rate codes and spike time codes in a mismatch resilient fashion…”
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A high efficiency buck converter for IoT sensors by Mo, Mingwei

“…When the system is activated for data collection and processing, the load current may spike to tens of milliamperes. Thus, it's essential for the DC-DC converter to accommodate a broad spectrum of load currents, ensuring versatility and reliability in various operational states. …”
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Synaptic devices towards neuromorphic electronics by Datta, Indira

“…Area Transfer curves, gate voltage hysteresis loops, and multilevel resistance modulation were studied, and biological functions including long-term potentiation and Depression (LTP and LTD), Excitatory and Inhibitory Postsynaptic Current (EPSC and IPSC), Spike Amplitude and Duration Dependent Plasticity (SADP and SDDP), Paired Pulse Facilitation and Depression (PPF and PPD), and repeated learning and forgetting curves were emulated by our novel device. …”
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Modeling of functional materials : perovskite solar cells by Aruj Shukla

“…However, for a more holistic analysis of perovskite light harvesters as replacement to the existing TiO2 nano particles, a more nuanced modeling and analysis which incorporates a study of transport properties such as trapping effects (for further spike in efficiency), photo catalytic reaction kinetics and surface & bulk defects (for easier fabrication) is demanded as an integral part of future research plans.…”
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The impacts of US Fed interest rate liftoff on Southwest Asia stock markets, sovereign bond and currencies by Ooi, Teik Khim

“…Based on the more reliable model I (using FFF), it implies the negative effect of spike in VIX dominated the positive effect from lower market expectation on interest rate lift-off, which led to decline in ASEAN financial market during 2015 A SEAN slump.…”
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High wavenumber coherent structures in low re apg-boundary-layer transition flow—a numerical study by Lo, Edmond Yat-Man, Chen, Weijia

“…Both parts are imbedded at the primary Λ-vortex stage and spatially coincide with the spike region and high shear layer. The tip part is associated with the later first ring-like vortex, while the rear part with the remainder of the Λ-vortex. …”
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Time to fill up India’s strategic oil reserves by Narula, K

“…Although oil stocks are generally not released to manage oil prices (the IEA’s intention is to stabilize the market and release stocks only in case of physical shortages), it may be possible to use the stored oil to offset a spike in oil prices, especially for developing countries which have administered oil prices.…”

Modelling Malaysia air quality data using Bayesian Structural Time Series models by Aeshah Mohammed, Mohd Aftar Abu Bakar, Mahayaudin M. Mansor, Noratiqah Mohd Ariff

“…The BSTS model integrates three main techniques: The structural model, which employs the Kalman filter approach to model trend and seasonality components; spike and slab regression for variable selection; and Bayesian model averaging to estimate the best-performing prediction model while accounting for uncertainty. …”
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Properties of copper slag concrete by Zhang, Weide

“…This report investigated the mechanical properties of high strength concrete incorporating copper slag as fine aggregates. The rising need for alternative fine aggregates substitution of sand is essential due to its high materials cost and the emphasis on sustainable concrete. …”
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Automated teller machines in Singapore by Soh, Yong Chee, Phua, Alice Loo Huay, Tan,Yang Leng

“…Activation of ATMs can also be enhanced by substituting the present A TM card and PIN system with either voice recognition, retina recognition or thumbprints. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…With enough data, pre-trained Transformer-based sequence-to-sequence models can be fine-tuned and achieve strong performance on abstractive summarization benchmarks. …”
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Leveraging linguistic knowledge to enhance low-resource NLP applications by Zhu, Zixiao

“…Specifically, 1. In the promptless fine-tuning paradigm, we first focus on fine-tuning word embeddings for task-related words, thereby enriching the conceptual knowledge available to compositional neural networks during feature learning in emotion recognition. …”
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Influence of mesh sizes and orientations on expanded aluminium sheets on tensile performances by Nik Ismail, N A, Roslan, M N, Ismail, A E, El Bakri, H M

“…According to the results of the experiment, specimens with fine mesh have higher tensile stress, which is 44.90 MPa for fine mesh specimens with a 30° orientation, compared to medium and coarse mesh sizes, which have the lowest strength, which is 7.06 MPa for coarse mesh specimens with a 60° orientation. …”
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