Fullwave modeling of coplanar-waveguide discontinuities for applications in filter design and metamaterial characterization by Gao, Jing

“…Typical discontinuities characteristics are an integral part of practical circuit design. Therefore, a good understanding of their circuit behavior is essential for design success. …”
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On language attrition : lexical access in Singaporean English-Chinese bilinguals by Toh, Xiao Xuan

“…The results also established grounds for attributing at least part of the language processing difficulties in migrants to language attrition, since lexical access difficulties were found in the early bilinguals whose language disuse did not coincide with the acquisition of a new language.…”
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Death and the doctor: the museum as a tool for understanding the needs of the dying by Harris, J, Moyse, A, Hadley, G, Frampton, S, Dempsey, A, Hordern, J, Saunders, K, Lane, R, De Luca, G

“…Over the past several years, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has been part of a multi- disciplinary team examining the question of how we train medical students to deal with those parts of their profession which are concerned primarily with the humanity of their patients. …”

PUERTO RICO : A NATIONAL HISTORY / by Meléndez Badillo, Jorell A., author 656083

“…The creation of the Puerto Rican Commonwealth in 1952 involved using a number of institutions to create the notion of cultural nationalism that was detached from the island's colonial status, included Puerto Ricans in the diaspora and was not contingent on obtaining national sovereignty. The last part of the book focuses on more recent developments from the neoliberal turn in the 1990s to current (and likely future) socio-economic and environmental crises"--…”
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Extensive stimulus repetition leads older adults to show delayed functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation by Miyakoshi, Makoto, Matsuo, Kayako, Wu, Chiao-Yi, Suzuki, Atsunobu, Nakai, Toshiharu, Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…The average cortical responses to the first eight (Repetitions 1-7) and the last eight (Repetitions 12-19) presentations out of 20 were compared within each group. …”
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Looking deep at people: towards understanding and generating humans in images with deep learning by de Bem, RA

“…A significant effort has been devoted to these tasks by the research community along the last decades, greatly motivated by a large number of potential applications, like surveillance, human-machine interaction, action and behaviour recognition, motion capture, video reenactment, and computer graphics animation. …”

Electrical characterization of bias temperature instability in MOSFETs with the ultrathin SiON and la-doped HfSiO gate dielectrics by Du, Guoan.

“…The initial stage of the project involved the development of a new ultra-fast switching (UFS) method for the measurement of the bias temperature instability (BTI) phenomenon in state-of-the-art MOSFETs. …”
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Examining the adoption of electromobility concepts across social contexts for energy transition by K?hlke, Julia, Lechowicz, Adam, Fabikun, Oluwole, Bashir, Noman, Souza, Abel, Shenoy, Prashant, Lehnhoff, Sebastian

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Effects of high loading rate on reinforced concrete beams by Fujikake, Kazunori, Adhikary, Satadru Das, Li, Bing

“…The majority of past research on reinforced concrete (RC) beams has focused on their behavior under static and relatively slow loading rates, while limited attention has been paid to the corresponding behavior under high loading rates. …”
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Self-healing characterizations of polyurea/polyurethane coating & its formulation optimization by Sim, Celine (Shen Silin)

“…Polyurethane has always been the more popular coating among other polymers because of its lower cost of raw materials, easy fabrication and fast curing time. Although polyurea is known to cost more, it has even shorter curing time. …”
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Marta Czok URBE by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Ionescu, Georgiana, Czok, Marta

“…Alongside this polyptych, four works from 2011-2012 (Life of An Average Caesar, Once Upon a Time, What For and C'era una Volta) offer food for thought on Rome's imperial past, with a subtle ironic vein, for which the historical treasures of the past become the dust on which we walk now. …”
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Quantitative analysis of coronary artery from computed tomography angiography images by Cui, Hengfei

“…The fast marching method is first applied to calculate the timecrossing map. …”
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Use of bamboo in construction by Quek, Ming Hui.

“…For the past 45 years, the world population has increase drastically from 1.90 billion in 1955 to 62 billion in 2000. …”
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Using shock tube species time-histories in Bayesian parameter estimation: Effective independent-data number and target selection by Chen, Huaibo, Ji, Weiqi, Cassady, Séan J, Ferris, Alison M, Hanson, Ronald K, Deng, Sili

“…The influence of target selection is investigated by comparing LastP and C-1. LastP outperformed C-1 slightly, which can be attributed to the fact that larger discrepancies observed between experimental data and model predictions of the last point can increase the weights of likelihood functions. …”
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Promoting Health Equity Through Preventing or Mitigating the Effects of Gentrification: A Theoretical and Methodological Guide by Cole, Helen V.S., Anguelovski, Isabelle, Triguero-Mas, Margarita, Mehdipanah, Roshanak, Arcaya, Mariana

“…Despite methodological challenges, and mixed results from existing quantitative research, qualitative evidence to date points to the role of gentrification processes in exacerbating health inequities. Here we discuss past methodological and theoretical challenges in integrating the study of gentrification with public health research. …”
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IFA/1 : an interactive airline fleet assignment model by Duchesne de Lamotte, Herve

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Forgery localization in images by Nur Dilah Binte Zaini

“…Each facial part is used to train a random forest classifier respectively. …”
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Android smartphone-based participatory sensing by Agustian, Robert

“…Tourism industry has been booming since the past decades. People around the world are increasingly engaging in traveling activities due to the more affordable price of tourism. …”
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Use of DSRC and other sensor signals for vehicular localization by Gong, Yi Lin

“…The V2X communication can be performed over Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) technology. In past days, the most common method of localization is using Global Positioning System (GPS). …”
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Photoluminescence study of graphene quantum dots (GOD's) embedded into SiO2 matrix by M Tanda Erapanni Sukumar

“…GQDs have been at centre of attention for researchers for the past couple of years. However, most of the optical researches are done while GQDs are in liquid phase, which makes it impossible to be part of alternative lighting source in solid phase. …”
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