PCBleed: Fuzzing for CPU Bugs Through Use of Performance Counters by Muradyan, Natalie

“…In recent years, the increasing complexity of hardware designs has given rise to a growing array of vulnerabilities and security threats, as exemplified by instances such as Spectre, Microarchitectural Data Sampling, and Zenbleed. …”
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Salt to Scale: The Seasoning of Buildings by Battikha, Christina

“…Yet, with a continuous desire to force materials into designs, humanity has never ceased to disregard the active strength of a material to perform with time. The next twenty years align with a future of salt in the form of a dynamic, preservative, and corrosive mineral that shall never expire from Earth’s crust. …”
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Multidimensional profiling of the Toxoplasma gondii proteome by Herneisen, Alice Lydia

“…Although components of secondary messenger signaling pathways are conserved among apicomplexans and higher eukaryotes, 800 million years of divergence from existing model organisms precludes identification of parasite-specific secondary messenger responses or a priori reconstruction of their signaling pathways. …”
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Age- and Sex-Based Developmental Biomarkers in Eye Movements by Carrick, Frederick Robert, Hunfalvay, Melissa, Bolte, Takumi, Azzolino, Sergio F., Abdulrahman, Mahera, Hankir, Ahmed, Antonucci, Matthew M., Al-Rumaihi, Nouf

“…Results: This study represented a large sample size of 23,557 subjects, with 11,871 males and 11,686 females representing ages from birth through 80 years of age. We observed statistically significant differences for all eye movement functions between males and females. …”
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Rhetorical contestation and the mediterranean migration crisis, 2013-2018 by He, Wendy Qingli

“…I seek to shed new light on this policy outcome by exploring the dynamics of rhetorical contestation taking place in the context of the Mediterranean migration crisis over the course of five years (2013 to 2018). Specifically, I analyse the criticisms which were directed at the EU by a non-governmental organisation, Amnesty International (AI) and its use of ‘naming and shaming’ against the EU and Italy, a key frontline member state embroiled in the crisis. …”
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Object tracking using surveillance camera by She, Hanqing

“…In recent years, due to the wide demand for multi-object tracking applications, many effective multi-object tracking methods have been produced. …”
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A simulation tool for concentrated solar power based on micro gas turbine engines by Mazzoni, Stefano, Cerri, Giovanni, Chennaoui, Leila

“…New and clean efficiency of these Stirling engines is typically of 30–40%. Yearly average efficiency, during the system operations, is significantly reduced to 10–15% due to the Stirling engines high maintenance costs and poor reliability issues. …”
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The new "rare metal age" : new challenges and implications of critical raw materials supply security in the 21st century by Umbach, Frank

“…When Beijing threatened to restrict China’s export of rare earths (widely used in numerous important civilian and military technologies) to the United States at the end of May 2019, the world was reminded of China’s rare earths export disruption in the autumn of 2010 amid a maritime territorial conflict between China and Japan. In the past few years, the worldwide attention cast on the future supply security of rare earths and other critical raw materials has increased in the United States, the European Union, Japan and other countries owing to the global expansion of “green technologies” (including renewable energy sources, electric vehicles and batteries, and smart grids) and digitalisation as well as equipment and devices embedded with artificial intelligence. …”
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Unified information fusion network for multi-modal RGB-D and RGB-T salient object detection by Gao, Wei, Liao, Guibiao, Ma, Siwei, Li, Ge, Liang, Yongsheng, Lin, Weisi

“…The use of complementary information, namely depth or thermal information, has shown its benefits to salient object detection (SOD) during recent years. However, the RGB-D or RGB-T SOD problems are currently only solved independently, and most of them directly extract and fuse raw features from backbones. …”
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Characteristics and injury patterns of road traffic injuries in urban and rural Uganda—a retrospective medical record review study in two hospitals by Temizel, Selin, Wunderlich, Robert, Leifels, Mats

“…According to the 1683 medical records reviewed, the mean age of trauma patients in the dataset under investigation was 30.8 years with 74% male. The trauma in-hospital mortality was 4% while prevalence of traumatic injuries is 56.4%. …”
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Multi-criteria thermoeconomic and thermodynamic assessments of the desalination-integrated two-phase liquid-immersion data center cooling system by Kanbur, Baris Burak, Wu, Chenlong, Duan, Fai

“…The payback period is found 3.72 years that means the proposed system is economically feasible for real applications. …”
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Lessons in ecology and conservation from a tropical forest fragment in Singapore by Lum, Shawn, Ngo, Kang Min

“…As might be expected, declines in plant, invertebrate, bird, and mammal diversity occurred not only historically but also across two surveys made about 20 years apart. In other ways Bukit Timah proved surprising. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of novel biodegradable thermoplastic elastomers by Widjaja, Leonardus Kresna

“…These versatile polymers have been used as implant materials for over 20 years but when they biodegrade in the body, the diamines produced are highly toxic. …”
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SERS-based substrate for biological sensing applications by Goh, Douglas Wenda

“…Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy has emerged in recent years as one of the leading ideal optical techniques in analysing vibrational information from molecular bonds of molecules. …”
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Wavelength tuning of the soft-approached whispering gallery mode microlasers for display and sensing by Yang, Shancheng

“…Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities and microlasers have attracted enormous research attentions in recent years due to the high quality factors, small mode volumes, enhanced light-matter interactions, and abundant applications in various fields such as optoelectronics, biological and chemical sensing, high-quality lasers, nonlinear studies, etc. …”
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Strategies of colour and lighting design in the cinematography of Christopher Doyle by Peh, Colin Jin Wei

“…The main findings will show the relationships between colour and space, colour and character motion, colour and mood throughout Christopher Doyle’s consistent visual style and his wide variety of works over the past twenty-five years. The study of these 5 feature films by renowned Directors Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yi Mou, Tan Bee Thiam and Phillip Noyce will also showcase a detailed visual analysis of various narrative styles. …”
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Ocular blood flow measurements in healthy white subjects using laser speckle flowgraphy by Luft, Nikolaus, Wozniak, Piotr A., Aschinger, Gerold C., Fondi, Klemens, Bata, Ahmed M., Werkmeister, René M., Schmidl, Doreen, Witkowska, Katarzyna J., Bolz, Matthias, Garhöfer, Gerhard, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…Methods: This cross-sectional study included 80 eyes of 80 healthy, non-smoking white subjects of Western European descent between 19 and 79 years of age. A commercial LSFG instrument was applied to measure ocular blood flow at the optic nerve head (ONH) three successive times before and after pharmacological pupil dilation. …”
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A circular ferrofluid driven microchip for rapid polymerase chain reaction by Sun, Yi, Kwok, Yien Chian, Nguyen, Nam-Trung

“…In the past few years, much attention has been paid to the development of miniaturized polymerase chain reaction (PCR) devices. …”
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Book review : The political economy of heaven and earth in Ghana / Charles Prempeh by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…For example, Zambia was declared a ‘Christian nation’ over 30 years ago. Nigeria’s politics have been significantly influenced by Christians, notably Pentecostals, for more than two decades. …”
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L’urgenza del suono come espressione propria: conversazione con Anna Oxa by Ammaturo, Francesca Romana

“…The interviewer enters into a dialogue with the heroine of her teenage years, Anna Oxa, by weaving together personal and academic elements, presenting a relational account of an encounter with a celebrity who has long been the subject of the interviewer’s interest and admiration.…”
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