Transduction on directed graphs via absorbing random walks by De, Jaydeep, Zhang, Xiaowei, Lin, Feng, Li, Cheng

“…We present its intimate connections to a number of existing methods, including graph kernels, graph Laplacian based methods, and spanning forest of graphs. Its computational complexity and the generalization error are also studied. …”
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Identification of electromagnetic pre-earthquake perturbations from the DEMETER data by machine learning by Xiong, Pan, Long, Cheng, Zhou, Huiyu, Battiston, Roberto, Zhang, Xuemin, Shen, Xuhui

“…This study included the analysis of satellite data spanning over six years, during which about 8760 earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to 5.0 occurred in the world. …”
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The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

“…The implications of rebalancing for the Asia-Pacific are likely to be multifaceted, spanning the diplomatic, economic, political, and security realms. …”
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Semantic matching in machine reading comprehension: an empirical study by Liu, Qian, Mao, Rui, Geng, Xiubo, Cambria, Erik

“…Matching coarse-grained context to questions, e.g., paragraphs, is more effective than matching fine-grained context, e.g., sentences and spans. We also find that semantic matching is helpful for answering who/where/when/what/how/which questions, whereas it decreases the MRC performance on why questions. …”
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Person-centred care for dementia patients (PEAR) back-end and front-end systems development by Rizwan Nusrath Fathima

“…Furthermore, as the project spanned years, the issue of the technology stack becoming outdated and thus going out of support could happen again, hence microservices architecture was opted for. …”
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Finding Bukit Brown. by Chee, Janie Alison Hui-Yen., Shiu, Pedro Pui Kar., Siti Nurbaya Rameh.

“…The first phase of redevelopment is the construction of an eight-lane road that spans 2 kilometres across Bukit Brown. The film highlights the heritage value of the cemetery and examines how different Singaporeans are coming to terms with these plans. …”
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Slip on the Superstition Hills fault and on nearby faults associated with the 24 November 1987 Elmore Ranch and Superstition Hills earthquakes, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, McGill, Sally F., Allen, Clarence R., Hudnut, Kenneth W., Johnson, David C., Miller, Wayne F.

“…Alignment arrays and creepmeters spanning several faults in southern California recorded slip associated with the 24 November 1987 Elmore Ranch and Superstition Hills earthquakes. …”
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Force transduction through the bacterial cell envelope by Williams-Jones, D

“…Through use of mutagenesis, fluorescence microscopy, and live cell assays, I demonstrate that system function can be modulated by altering the secondary structure of the periplasm spanning transducer protein, TolA. I also examine the cell-wide implications of reducing TolA function in such a manner, with respect to membrane stability and cell division (chapter three). …”

Privacy: a political approach by Bogue, RC

“…An examination of four historic reformulations of what it means to be private, spanning two thousand years of western history, confirms that privacy has shifted considerably over time and that attempts to essentialize it are misplaced. …”

Hydrophosphination as a valuable tool to chiral diphosphines and their derivatives by Teo, Ronald Hong Xiang

“…Next, the synthesis of C-chiral diphosphines from naturally occurring curcumin and derivatives was attempted and the cytotoxicity of the diphosphine metal complexes was evaluated and compared against cisplatin and curcumin in the MKN74 and MCF7 cancer cell-lines. Lastly, the challenges associated with the generation of chiral phosphine-phosphino-chalcogenide and their complexes were discussed in detail and an example of the catalytic property of the phosphine-phosphino-chalcogenide metal complexes was illustrated.…”
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Development of biomimetic 3D cancer platform for drug testing by Ker, Sia Fong

“…Hence, future work or improvement to the 3D biomimetic culture model have to be done before we could fully understand whether EMT and MET of highly invasive tumor cell lines are critically determined by the physical and material characteristics of the microenvironment.…”
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15th-century printed Italian editions of Aesopian texts by Malaspina, M

“…</p> <p>The <em>Conclusions</em> focus on the originality of certain texts created specifically for the press, on the people who played an important role in the composition and printing of Aesopian texts, on the identification of new lines of transmission in print, on the distinction and analysis of different iconographic lines of descent in the illustrated editions, and on the discovery of noteworthy cases of provenance evidence, which suggest how the consumption of Aesopian Italian incunables transversely engaged people at different social and cultural levels.…”

Wolbachia-mosquito interactions and engineered female-specific lethality for Aedes-arbovirus control by Molloy, JC

“…No effective lines were produced but I suggest future design alterations.…”

Racism, prejudice and cultural stereotypes in British Asian fiction by Tan, Ivan Lye Hwee

“…Instead, they contain silver linings of a hope for the future that a critical reader can glean upon deeper analysis.…”
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Cryptographically Secure Shield for Security IPs Protection by Ngo, Xuan Thuy, Danger, Jean-Luc, Guilley, Sylvain, Graba, Tarik, Mathieu, Yves, Najm, Zakaria, Bhasin, Shivam

“…This shield is based on the lightweight block cipher and independent mesh lines to ensure the security against probing attacks of the hardware located behind the shield. …”
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The stomatopod dactyl club : a formidable damage-tolerant biological hammer by Weaver, James C., Milliron, Garrett W., Mershon, William J., DiMasi, Elaine, Kisailus, David, Miserez, Ali, Evans-Lutterodt, Kenneth, Herrera, Steven, Gallana, Isaias, Swanson, Brook, Zavattieri, Pablo

“…Consisting of a multiphase composite of oriented crystalline hydroxyapatite and amorphous calcium phosphate and carbonate, in conjunction with a highly expanded helicoidal organization of the fibrillar chitinous organic matrix, these structures display several effective lines of defense against catastrophic failure during repetitive high-energy loading events.…”
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Microstrip bandpass filters using triple-mode patch-loaded cross resonator by Zhang, Runqi, Zhu, Lei

“…Two prototype filters with open-ended and stub-loaded coupled-lines are designed and fabricated to verify the design principle and to further suppress the lowest harmonic passband, respectively. …”
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Development of metal complexes for specific targeting G-quadruplexes and the application studies by He, Lei

“…In this thesis, firstly Ru and Pt complexes were developed as the binders/stabilizers to target specific GQ topology in various cancerous cell lines. The complexes express excellent anticancer potency and GQ-dependent luminescence for intracellular tracking of RNA GQ. …”
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Planning time-optimal and smooth trajectories under kinodynamic constraints by Edgar, Leonardo

“…It is compared to the state-of-the-art shortcutting method based on parabolas and straight lines. The results show that the proposed shortcutting algorithm is robust and capable of producing efficient trajectories while satisfying the robot’s kinodynamic constraints.…”
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Analysis of neural stem cell self-renewal and differentiation using in vivo RNAi in drosophila. by Wong, Jian Xiang.

“…In this study, we screened a collection of 500 RNAi lines and identified a number of mutants in the process. …”
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