Examining twitter discourse on electronic cigarette and tobacco consumption during national cancer prevention month in 2018: topic modeling and geospatial analysis by Lu, Jiahui, Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…Background: Examining public perception of tobacco products is critical for effective tobacco policy making and public education outreach. While the link between traditional tobacco products and lung cancer is well established, it is not known how the public perceives the association between electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and lung cancer. …”
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Ecosystem productivity has a stronger influence than soil age on surface soil carbon storage across global biomes by Plaza, César, García-Palacios, Pablo, Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Barquero, Jesús, Bastida, Felipe, Png, Kenny Guochen, Rey, Ana, Bardgett, Richard D., Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

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REVENGE IN VIOLENT HUES / by Nadiah Zakaria, author 655918

“…Hidden within the enchanted forests of Gemerlapan, a Reflection inside the Mirror of 1990s Alor Setar, the enemy is quick to claim the throne like moths to a flame. Amalia Maganti can communicate with ghosts ever since the mysterious death of her father six years ago. …”

User Profiling Based on Nonlinguistic Audio Data by Shen, Jiaxing, Cao, Jiannong, Lederman, Oren, Tang, Shaojie, Pentland, Alex

“…User profiling refers to inferring people’s attributes of interest (AoIs) like gender and occupation, which enables various applications ranging from personalized services to collective analyses. …”
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Empowering Community-Driven Determination of Values for Language Models by Raman, Deepika

“…Emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are often developed in Western contexts and carry implicit values, from developer choices or underlying training data, which are not adequately representative of the diverse contexts in which they are deployed. …”
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“Clicking” compliant mechanism for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle by Chin, Yao-Wei, Lau, Gih Keong

“…The clicking mechanism is integrated in a thorax-like compliant mechanism, which buckles and consequently produces a large wing stroke when driven by an electric motor. …”
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Analysis and implementation of National Security Agency (NSA) suite B : Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement algorithm by Tan, Vincent Soon Heng.

“…This is especially true and useful for applications like mobile devices which are typically limited in terms of their CPU processing speed, power and network connectivity. …”
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High speed AES encryption IC design by Dong, Haokun

“…Threshold implementation could enhance the performance by dividing sensitive information, like the secret key and intermediate values, into multiple shares. …”
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2D/3D staircase detection and localization by Wang, Sisong

“…This thesis introduces a novel set of PCA-based Haar-like features which extends the classical Haar-like features from local to global domain and are extremely efficient at rejecting non-object regions at the early stages of the cascade. …”
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Study of wireless body area network by Xuan, Zhi Yang.

“…However, there are some issues related to the energy of this wearable system, like inconvenience of changing battery. Therefore, developing energy efficient WBAN system is also a hot research topic. …”
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People tracking in video by Siah, Wee Kiat.

“…For example, identify potential terrorist in public places like railway stations or spotting enemies in military context to facilitate the planning of battle order. …”
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iOS platform development for BSTAR system by Shi, Mengjie

“…Moreover, the manipulation of these corresponding devices like air conditioning and dehumidifier is merely available in a limited distance and space. …”
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Electrical design of signal conditioning and signal processing circuit for Rogowski coil by Francis, Antony Denisha

“…Rogowski coil is mainly used for measuring alternating currents and the frequency response of the coil is higher compared to other current sensors like Current transformer, Shunt and Hall Effect sensors. …”
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Power converter design for unmanned vessel by Yeap, Mark JIe Zhi

“…Electrical power converters are the basic important parts of certain applications like unmanned vehicles, solar, motor drives, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), etc. …”
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Control of catalytic flow reversal reactor by Kariwala, Vinay, Forbes, J. Fraser

“…We successfully implement and compare the performances of different techniques like logic control, scheduling and predictive control for safe operation of CFRR. …”
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Dictionary training for sparse representation as generalization of K-means clustering by Sahoo, Sujit Kumar, Makur, Anamitra

“…Recent dictionary training algorithms for sparse representation like K-SVD, MOD, and their variation are reminiscent of K-means clustering, and this letter investigates such algorithms from that viewpoint. …”
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International relations and foreign policy by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…As scholarly and public interest in populism increased rapidly in recent years, many researchers have turned to the previously understudied question of the international dimensions of populism. Developments like the Brexit vote in the 2016 referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Donald Trump victory in the United States (US) elections of the same year pointed to the roots of populism in dynamics that transcend national borders, like immigration and exposure to international trade. …”
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Establishing an antibody mimetic applicable to targeting in the gastrointestinal tract by Wicke, NS

“…Proteins are a valuable class of therapeutics because proteins, like antibodies or non-antibody scaffolds, can bind their targets with high selectivity and affinity. …”

Enhanced restoration of visual code after targeting ON bipolar cells compared to retinal ganglion cells with optogenetic therapy by Rogers, J, Hughes, S, Ebrahimi, A, Allen, A, Storchi, R, Lindner, M, Peirson, S, Badea, T, Hankins, M, Lucas, R

“…The cell type targeted for opsin expression will likely influence the quality of restored vision. However, a like-for-like preclinical comparison of visual responses evoked following equivalent opsin expression in the two major targets, ON bipolar (ON BCs) or retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), is absent. …”

Common visual pattern discovery and analysis by Wang, Zhenzhen

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