Regulation of coronavirus gene expression by the 5'-untranslated region. by Guo, Huiling.

“…The regulatory properties of the 5’-untranslated region (5’-UTR) of the avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) were investigated through designing of plasmids which contained different mutations within the 5’-UTR: full-length (pUTR-wt), 362- nucleotides (nts) deleted (pUTR-362del) and stem-loop 1 (SL1) disrupted (pSL1- dsmut). …”
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Region-based shape control for multi-robot systems by Hou, Paul Saing.

“…Using this region control concept, a shape control for the robots can be done at a higher level in term of inequality functions without having to define the specific positions for all the robots in the systems. …”
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A study on the impacts caused by developments in the arctic region by Yeo, Melisa Hui Mei

“…The focus of this report lies on the current, on-going and potential developments in the Arctic region. This study aims to assess the economic, environmental and technological impacts caused by the developments in Arctic. …”
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Katibah Nusantara and its threat to the Southeast Asian region by Lim, Jacinta Yinfang

“…Governments and law entorcement agencies in Southeast Asia recogmse that Katibah Nusantara, the Malay Archipelago unit for ISIS, is a threat to the region. There is an urgent and essential need to understand more about this unit. …”
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Climate change and regional defence forces : is there a connection? by Evan A. Laksmana.

“…A spate of natural disasters in Southeast Asia has underscored how vulnerable the region is to climate change. While regional militaries are often called on to address the security ramifications, few pay attention to the impacts of climate change at the strategic, institutional and operational levels.…”
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Indonesia's regional diplomacy : imperative to maintain Asean cohesion by Sebastian, Leonard C

“…Indonesia’s more aggressive stance in regional diplomacy following ASEAN’s failure to reach a consensus at last week’s ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) is motivated by its desire to maintain regional cohesion and autonomy. …”
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Yemen conflict and Arab uprising : regional fissures and repercussions by James M. Dorsey

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Introduction: Diffusionism, migration, and the archaeology of the Chinese border region by Hein, A

Observations on baboons, Papio anubis, in an arid region in Ethiopia by Aldrich-Blake, FP, Bunn, TK, Dunbar, RI, Headley, PM

Can a humanoid robot be part of the organizational workforce? A user study leveraging sentiment analysis by Mishra, Nidhi, Ramanathan, Manoj, Satapathy, Ranjan, Cambria, Erik, Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia

“…Specifically, we employ aspect extraction and sentiment analysis to analyze the data. From our framework, we detect sentiment associated to the aspects that mainly concerned the customers during their interaction. …”
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李商隐诗歌的伤春主题 = The theme of "sentiment for spring" in Li Shang-yin's poetry by 郭欣瑜 Kerk, Sin Yee

“…笔者拟结合晚唐的时代背景以及诗人的生平来做深入的文本细读与分析，以此揭示诗人的伤春情怀并非只是单纯地为春逝而伤感，更多的是他在人生中的自我实现过程，以及他对家国、仕途、情感的追求. Sentiment for spring is a sentimental feeling which caused by the time-consciousness in men. …”
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Surface wave interaction with a vertical viscoelastic barrier by Bi, Cheng, Wu, Mao See, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

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'It hurts my heart': Afghan women in London negotiating family relationships and (im)mobility regimes across borders by Ryan, Louise, López, María E., Rasa, Mursal

“…Paying attention to the specificities of spatial contexts and infrastructures in framing opportunities and obstacles to transnational care, we apply the concept of immobility regimes. Beyond a simple bi‐national focus on countries of origin and residence, we explore how the women navigate these regimes, across multiple countries and different visa regimes to arrange in‐person visits with geographically dispersed kin. …”
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Data-driven distributionally robust CVaR portfolio optimization under a regime-switching ambiguity set by Pun, Chi Seng, Wang, Tianyu, Yan, Zhenzhen

“…Methodology/Results: This paper models the nonstationarity by a regime-switching ambiguity set. In particular, we incorporate the time-varying feature of the stochastic environment into the traditional Wasserstein ambiguity set to build our regime-switching ambiguity set. …”
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A study on Stevedoring companies and their operations in Singapore : break bulk shipping segment by Ng, Donovan Chun Hong

“…The Port of Singapore is positioned as a premium global hub port in the Southeast Asia region. Besides its core involvement in container transhipment, Singapore also has a leading multipurpose port, handling break bulk and project cargos that were and will continue to be essential for the ever growing and changing industry in the nation. …”
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Optimum transmitter current distribution for dynamic wireless power transfer with segmented array by Jayathurathnage, Prasad Kumara Sampath, Alphones, Arokiaswami, Vilathgamuwa, D. Mahinda, Ong, Andrew

“…The misalignment problem is a major challenge in dynamic wireless power transfer systems with a segmented transmitter (Tx) array. Tx coils farther away from receiver (Rx) experience higher currents as compared to Tx coils nearer to Rx coil leading to higher losses and lower performances. …”
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Dual attention deep learning network for automatic steel surface defect segmentation by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao

“…Experimental results show that, compared with other deep learning models, DAN-DeepLabv3+ based on the Xception backbone exhibits the best segmentation performance under the mean intersection over union (IoU) of 89.95% and the frequency-weighted IoU of 97.34%. …”
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Hybrid UNet transformer architecture for ischemic stoke segmentation with MRI and CT datasets by Soh, Wei Kwek, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…HUT achieves higher Dice scores and reduced Hausdorff Distance scores in single-modality and multi-modality lesion segmentation. HUT outperforms the state-the-art network SPiN in the single-modality MRI segmentation on Anatomical Tracings of lesion After Stroke (ATLAS) dataset by 4.84% of Dice score and a large margin of 40.7% in the Hausdorff Distance score. …”
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Automated detection and segmentation of vertebral bodies in volumetric abdominal magnetic resonance images by Lin, Dehui.

“…Detection and segmentation of the column of vertebral bodies are intermediate steps required to identify the bone marrow which is considered as the wrongly labeled visceral adipose tissue in the assessment of abdominal obesity. …”
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Automatic segmentation of the choroid in enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography images by Tian, Jing, Marziliano, Pina, Baskaran, Mani, Tun, Tin Aung, Aung, Tin

“…This labeling process is tedious and subjective of inter-observer differences, hence, automatic segmentation of the choroid layer is highly desirable. …”
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