Essays on development economics by Wang, Wen

“…The estimation results remain robust when subjected to further checks and sensitivity tests. In addition, we consider alternative channels including pathogen stress, historical population density and colonization, which may also influence the degree of institutionalized democracy via the cultural dimension of collectivism / individualism. …”
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Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…In addition, a practical phase retrieval framework is proposed for multi-frequency phase shifting method to accurately calculate the absolute phase and automatically identify invalid phase points via a thresholding and criterion checking process. For dynamic application, only a single frame of data is available to retrieve the wrapped phase and then unwrap it. …”
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Genome-wide transcriptome profiling reveals molecular response pathways of Trichoderma harzianum in response to salt stress by Yang, Qihong, Mao, Zhenchuan, Hao, Yali, Zheng, Shijie, Zhao, Jianlong, Li, Yan, Yang, Yuhong, Xie, Bingyan, Ling, Jian, Li, Yanlin

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Analysis and modelling of urban sprawl process and its spatiotemporal patterns in tripoli metropolitan area, Libya by Abdulhadi, Abubakr Albashir

“…Kappa statistic index of agreement technique was also used to check the validity of the CA– Markov chain model and the proposed hybrid models in terms of quantity and location. …”
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Scheduling and resource optimization in rail operations : models and algorithms by Birhade, Mahendra Pandharinath

“…Railway resources such as tracks, overhead equipment, locomotives, passenger and freight cars require huge capital investments and long lead time for procurement and installation. …”
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Physical unclonable function based solutions to unification of user, device and data authentication by Zheng, Yue

“…At a time of rampant public media manipulation and ease of fake image/video fabrication, verification of benign and malicious image transformations is necessary but not sufficient for fact checking of visual artefacts presented in the court of law. …”
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Towards robust sensing and recognition : from statistical learning to transfer learning by Yang, Jianfei

“…Secondly, current domain adaptation methods require careful manual hyper-parameter tuning, which is not realistic for unmanned systems such as smart cars. To stabilize the training of adversarial domain adaptation, Max-margin Domain-Adversarial Training (MDAT) is developed in this thesis to realize stable convergence without cumbersome manuals. …”
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Health monitoring, lifetimes estimation, and thermal management of IGBT-based power converters by Mohamed Halick Mohamed Sathik

“…Normally, mean time to failure (MTTF) is used to check the reliability of power electronic components. …”
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Effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy and Reiki therapy on adolescents with depressive disorders inTehran, Iran by Charkhandeh, Mansoureh

“…Pearson Chi Square analysis to check any significant association although the demographic variables (gender, age, parental education, medical problems, living arrangements and family income) between there group (CBT, Reiki and control). …”
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