The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. Spanning the interwar period to the post-communist era, their works register, mediate and work through the lived experiences of a constantly changing (semi)periphery, marked by visions and plans of accelerated progress, technological advancement, and triumphant sovereignty. …”

Practices, attitudes and motives for domestic waste recycling by Aini, M. S., Fakhru'l-Razi, A., Lad, S. M., Hashim, A. H.

“…The 15 000 tonnes of garbage produced daily are thrown into 230 landfills nationwide, where 80% of them have only two years of life span left. Although recycling programmes were launched as early as 1990, only 5% of the wastes are recycled. …”

Estimation of crown characters and leaf biomass from leaf litter in a Malaysian canopy species, Elateriospermum tapos (Euphorbiaceae) by Osada, Noriyuki, Takeda, Hiroshi, Kawaguchi, Hideyuki, Furukawa, Akio, Awang, Muhamad

“…Leaf fall rate was estimated to be 2.0-28.1 kg per tree per year in the five trees of various heights, and was greater in taller trees. Since leaf life span was smaller for taller trees, leaf biomass was estimated to be 2.6-30.5 kg per tree, and was also greater in taller trees. …”
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Preserving Mojiang Hani hand weaving techniques: understanding complexity for culture and sustainable development by Mingquan, Liu, Yahaya, Siti Rohaya, Chunli, Guo, Yan, Huang

“…Mojiang, located in the southern region of Yunnan Province, China, serves as the historical abode of the industrious and intellectually rich Hani community, boasting a heritage spanning thousands of years. The traditional costumes of the Mojiang Hani people stand as integral bearers of their national culture, adorned with intricately handwoven elements. …”
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Quality seaport : model building and empirical validation by Phang, Louise Foong Hung.

“…The survey was sent out to a total of 350 Freight Forwarders, Shipping Lines and Cargo Owners who are main users of the Singapore Port that we are focusing our study on for simplification purposes. …”
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A radio frequency tagging continuous-wave optical spectrometer with megahertz refreshing rate by Ren, Xiaojing, Hsieh, Chao-Mao, Malik, Mohammad O. A., Su, Joshua Weiming, Liu, Quan

“…Optical spectrometers capable of fast spectral measurements are useful in many fields spanning from industrial manufacturing to scientific research. …”
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Electronic band structure and optical gain of GaNxBiyAs1−x−y/GaAs pyramidal quantum dots by Song, Zhi-Gang, Bose, Sumanta, Fan, Wei-Jun, Li, Shu-Shen

“…The effective band gap falls as we increase the composition of nitrogen (N) and bismuth (Bi) and with an appropriate choice of composition we can tune the emission wavelength to span within 1.3 μm–1.55 μm, for device application in fiber technology. …”
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Long term surface deformation of Soufrière Hills volcano, Montserrat from GPS geodesy : inferences from simple elastic inverse models by Herd, Richard A., Strutt, Michael H., Ryan, Graham., Widiwijayanti, Christina., Voight, Barry., Mattioli, Glen.

“…Campaign and continuous GPS geodetic measurements on Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat are reported from 1995 to 2009, spanning three dome growth and repose episodes. Uniform elastic half-space inversions were used to examine how crustal pressure sources evolved by inverting subsets of all available 3D site data for any given episode using a single Mogi-source. …”
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Tax Incentives, Common Institutional Ownership, and Corporate ESG Performance by Huang, Chengjie, Zhou, Hang, Wan Ahmad, Wan Norhayati, Saad, Ram Al Jaffri, Zhang, Xinrui

“…Drawing upon panel data spanning from 2010 to 2021 at the level of China's A-share listed companies and grounded in the context of accelerated depreciation policy for fixed assets, this study commitment to both identify and empirically test the presence of a significant positive correlation between tax incentives and corporate ESG performance. …”
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涂涂写写 = Alchemy of color and brushwork by Ng, Woon Lam

“…To me, lines and brushworks are meant to define forms, while colors seek to emotionally enrich the image. …”
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Injectable cell transplantation system for cytokine-based cancer immunotherapy by Gerard Nathanael Adrianus.

“…The construct was able to exert toxicity to two malignant cell lines, MCF-7 and HepG2, but no effect was observed in HeLa and H1229 cells. …”
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Evaluation and selection of rice mutants for high yield and quality fodder production by Abisola, Oladosu Yusuff

“…Evaluation over two locations, mutant lines ML21, ML10, ML4, ML6 and ML9 performed better in terms of yield production compared to other mutants. …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…The Flexible Job Scheduling problem aims at determining the starting times of flexible jobs that do not have to be started immediately at their arrivals to minimize the span of all the jobs, where the span is the time duration in which at least one job is running. …”
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EITPose: Wearable and Practical Electrical Impedance Tomography for Continuous Hand Pose Estimation by Kyu, Alexander, Mao, Hongyu, Zhu, Junyi, Goel, Mayank, Ahuja, Karan

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Crowd estimation in images by Pui, Chin See

“…Crowd counting technologies, have in recent times, seen an upsurge in popularity due to the wide range of practical applications they offer, spanning from safety monitoring to disaster management, and public space design, among others. …”
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Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…The initial 80% of the dataset, spanning from 2005 to 2009, is designated for model training. …”
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Development of communication links between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV traffic management (UTM) systems via the cellular network by Holmberg, Carl Oswald

“…The usefulness of such vehicles span many areas, as it advantageously aids in areas ranging from, agricultural monitoring, surveillance and even to goods delivery. …”
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Heat transfer study of a cold plate with fractal designs by Ow Yong, Daniel Zhao Yi

“…A new experiment rig was built and experimental investigations were carried out using the rig for the entire span of the project. A test on the reliability of the experiment rig was conducted using the numerical simulation software “COSMOL Multiphysics”. …”
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The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…Its 1956 production of <em>La Traviata</em> was the first opera produced by non-white people in South Africa, and initiated an operatic career that spanned twelve opera seasons and ten operas. The group was under the administration of white directors and received funding from the apartheid government. …”

Investigating the Applicability of the Peak Density Thickness Parameter over the Equatorial Region by Shammat, Mohamed O., Reinisch, Bodo W., Galkin, Ivan, Erickson, Philip J., Weitzen, Jay A., Rideout, William C.

“…A comprehensive analysis of electron density profiles measured by the Jicamarca ISR, spanning 1997 to 2020, was conducted using the Madrigal database to extract the PDT parameter for the F2 layer. …”
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