Automation acceptance for sustainable digital daily life by Vrain, E, Wilson, C

“…While various daily life activities have seamlessly integrated automation, such as bill payments and streaming recommended entertainment, those with substantial energy impacts, like home energy management, face challenges in gaining end-user acceptance. …”

Discovering objects and their location in images by Sivic, J, Russell, BC, Efros, AA, Zisserman, A, Freeman, WT

“…The model is applied to images by using a visual analogue of a word, formed by vector quantizing SIFT-like region descriptors. The topic discovery approach successfully translates to the visual domain: for a small set of objects, we show that both the object categories and their approximate spatial layout are found without supervision. …”

What Dicey forgot by Barber, NW

“…For over a century, Dicey’s account of the rule of law dominated constitutional scholarship and, like any successful academic exercise, has not lacked critics. …”

Exploring China’s cyber sovereignty concept and artificial intelligence governance model: a machine learning approach by Hung, HT

“…Dissatisfied with the status quo, some developing countries like China embrace another governance concept called cyber sovereignty, which advocates more state control. …”

Derivation of a rotation curve model based on time of events theory and its application on samples of several spiral galaxies by Azeez, Jazeel H., Fadhil, Sadeem Abbas, Zamri Zainal Abidin

“…The findings showed that the bulge plays a limited role for the galaxies with large extensions like IC 2574 and NGC 3198, where the dark matter in the halo region controls and determines the shape of the diagram of the rotation curves in these galaxies. …”
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Asynchronous wood formation in young Acacia mangium planted in Malaysia by Ogata, Yoshiyuki, Nobuchi, Tadashi, Fujita, Minoru, Sahri, Mohammed Hamami

“…The objective of this report is to show the asynchronous wood formation from the observation of indistinct, ring-like structures. Young Acacia mangium planted in Malaysia was investigated for asynchronous wood formation anatomically and macroscopically. …”
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Analysing the project delay causes and improving quality using multi-project strategies. by Azman, Nur Amirah Syahirah, Ramlie, Faizir, Wan Muhamad, Wan Zuki Azman, Abu, Mohd. Yazid, Harudin, Nolia

“…The clients and contractors gave the same importance to factors like poor communications and governmental approvals in projects that were successful (had a time delay of less than 10%). …”
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Smuggling of Migrants in Malaysia: The Case Study of Illegal Immigrants in the Northern Region by Ajis, Mohd Na'eim, Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Keling, Mohamad Faisol

“…The data sample of this study are taken from 54 illegal immigrants who are being detained at the Immigration Detention Centre at Sik, Kedah and also those who settled in several districts in the Northern part of the Peninsular Malaysia. Relevant authorities like Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Malaysia Immigration Department and Border Ranger Regiment, are being interviewed. …”
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21W.747 Rhetoric, Fall 2002 by Strang, Steven M.

“…Understanding rhetoric, then, is our best defense against its abusers-- e.g., political "spin doctors," advertisers, demagogues, apologists for immoral business practices, and hate mongers. …”
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Promoting Sustainable Management Through Technological Innovation / by Sahdev, Supriya Lamba, 1984-, editor 656388, Krishnan, Chitra, 1983-, editor 656389, Hassan, Ahdi, 1991-, editor 654727, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…The world is currently grappling with unprecedented environmental and social challenges that jeopardize our ability to achieve a sustainable future for all. Issues like climate change, resource depletion, and social inequality require urgent and effective action. …”
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Exciton Dynamics and Anisotropy in 2D Metal Organochalcogenolate Semiconductors by Lee, Woo Seok

“…This finding can be generalized to other blue-emitting 2D AgSePh-R compounds which exhibit either AgSePh-like or AgSePh-F₂(2,3)-like absorption spectra. Overall, this thesis advances the understanding of the structure-composition-excitonic property relationships in these emerging hybrid semiconductors, paving the way for future investigations into this exciting material family.…”
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Bacteria-mediated anti-cancer therapy by Bhave, Madhura Satish

“…Traditional cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy continue to have limited efficacy due to phenomena like tumor hypoxia and multi-drug resistance. …”
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Modulation and control strategies for neutral-point-clamped converters by Beniwal, Neha

“…NPC converters are widely employed in grid integration of renewable energy sources like solar and wind energy, high-power motor drives, shunt active power filters, etc. …”
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Effect of surface albedo of urban fabrics on urban climate in tropical area by Long, Yongping

“…The resulting urban heat island (UHI) effect can be harmful to urban residents. In tropical regions like Singapore, the direct influence would be heat stress in the outdoor environment and higher energy consumption by air-conditioning. …”
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Pre-failure strain localization in siliclastic rocks: a comparative study of laboratory and numerical approaches by Bianchi, Patrick, Selvadurai, Paul Antony, Zilio, Dal Luca, Vásquez, Antonio Salazar, Madonna, Claudio, Gerya, Taras, Wiemer, Stefan

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Interaction-mediating sequences within class I viral fusion glycoproteins : their roles in viral infection and in applications by Zhang, Simin

“…These putative self-binding peptides contain five core octapeptide consensus sequences, among which the octapeptide GINITNFR was predicted to form β-zipper-mediated amyloid-like fibrils. The peptide C6 containing this sequence was subsequently shown to oligomerize and form amyloid-like fibrils. …”
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Discrete geodesic graphs by Fang, Zheng

“…As discrete surfaces are not able to generalize like parametric surfaces, computing the distance metric requires complex models and provides with huge possibilities to algorithm design. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…It is found that the wave transmission decreases as barriers shift from plate-like to membrane-like and its material has higher viscosity. …”
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Language dynamics in the agricultural sector: Determining language use and choices in a Malaysian organization by Sareen Kaur Bhar, A/P Lakhbir Singh, Zuraina, Ali, Norshima, Zainal Shah

“…These findings provide insights into language use in agricultural companies in multilingual countries like Malaysia, emphasizing the need for continuous language training to bridge proficiency gaps.…”
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Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility by Loaiza Saa, Isabella, Novak, Matej, Morales, Alfredo J., Pentland, Alex

“…A recent example is the Venezuelan migration crisis across South America, which particularly affects neighboring countries like Colombia. Creating an effective response to the crisis is a challenge for governments and international agencies, given the lack of information about migrants’ location, flows and behaviors within and across host countries. …”
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