Russia and the return of history by Desker, Barry

“…Riding on the back of the sharp increases in oil prices, Russia is reasserting its big power status. …”
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Design of frequency response masking filters using window techniques by Leow, Siok Hua.

“…Thorough simulations for different bandwidth and window functions demonstrate the feasibility in using frequency response masking method with windowing to achieve sharp filters with acceptable ripples.…”
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Screen content image quality assessment and processing by Guo, Heng

“…SCIs usually contain a large amount of sharp edges, hence the perception of SCIs are quite different from that of natural images. …”
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Non-uniform deblurring for shaken images by Whyte, O, Sivic, J, Zisserman, A, Ponce, J

“…Most existing deblurring methods model the observed blurry image as the convolution of a sharp image with a uniform blur kernel. However, we show that blur from camera shake is in general mostly due to the 3D rotation of the camera, resulting in a blur that can be significantly non-uniform across the image. …”

EXCELLENT SHEEP : The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life / by Deresiewicz, William, 1964-, author 655683

“…Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that culminates in the skewed applivations Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale's admissions committee. …”

Cracking Common Notions Relating Egg Strength to Impact Orientation by Sutanto, Antony

“…The chicken egg possesses a shell structure that is conventionally thought to be strongest when loaded on its vertical poles, particularly the sharp end, which resembles a structural arch. This notion has influenced educational activities such as the "egg drop challenge", where participants typically orient the egg with its sharp end facing downwards to improve its chances of resistance to fracture upon impact. …”
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Exponential tail local Rademacher complexity risk bounds without the Bernstein condition by Kanade, V, Rebeschini, P, Vaškevičius, T

“…The local Rademacher complexity framework is one of the most successful general-purpose toolboxes for establishing sharp excess risk bounds for statistical estimators based on empirical risk minimization. …”

Query lower bounds for log-concave sampling by Chewi, Sinho, de Dios Pont, Jaume, Li, Jerry, Lu, Chen, Narayanan, Shyam

“…In this work, we establish the following query lower bounds: (1) sampling from strongly log-concave and log-smooth distributions in dimension ≥ 2 requires Ω(log) queries, which is sharp in any constant dimension, and (2) sampling from Gaussians in dimension (hence also from general log-concave and log-smooth distributions in dimension) requires Ωe(min( √ log,)) queries, which is nearly sharp for the class of Gaussians. …”
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Macroscopic models of superconductivity by Chapman, SJ

“…We then describe the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity, in which the sharp interface is `smoothed out' by the introduction of an order parameter, representing the number density of superconducting electrons. …”

Instrumented indentation studies on metallic and SMART materials by Vedala Narasimha Kumar

“…The objective is to conduct instrumented indention experiments with both spherical and sharp indenters on commonly available ductile metals.…”
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One-pot microfluidic fabrication of micro ceramic particles by Zhou, Chenchen, Liang, Shuaishuai, Qi, Bin, Liu, Chenxu, Cho, Nam-Joon

“…In the quest for miniaturization across technical disciplines, microscale ceramic blocks emerge as pivotal components, with performance critically dependent on precise scales and intricate shapes. Sharp-edged ceramic microparticles, applied from micromachining to microelectronics, require innovative fabrication techniques for high-throughput production while maintaining structural complexity and mechanical integrity. …”
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SnO2 nanorod arrays : low temperature growth, surface modification and field emission properties by Huang, Hui, Lim, Chiew Keat, Tse, Man Siu, Guo, Jun, Tan, Ooi Kiang

“…The Ni nanocrystal with sharp tips and edges act as additional field emission sites to SnO2 nanorods and thus the Ni/SnO2/SiO2/Si outperforms other samples due to the synergistic effects of good conductivity and hierarchical sharp apexes. …”
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The stock price behaviour of Chinese markets : a preliminary study by Ang, Fui Siong, Neo, Chiw Ern, Tung, Puay Koon

“…This research examines the daily return behaviour of the four China share indices: the Shanghai A-share Index, the Shanghai B-share Index, the Shenzhen A-share Index, and the Shenzhen B-share Index. …”
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CPF and retirement income in 2030. by Chan, Ka Yan., Foo, Chu Fang., Ng, Danny Siang Hock.

“…Singapore is facing the problem of an ageing population due to the sharp decline in fertility rate and increase in life expectancy. …”
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An image processing approach to feature-preserving B-spline surface fairing by Kawasaki, Taro, Jayaraman, Pradeep Kumar, Shida, Kentaro, Zheng, Jianmin, Maekawa, Takashi

“…Reverse engineering of 3D industrial objects such as automobiles and electric appliances is typically performed by fitting B-spline surfaces to scanned point cloud data with a fairing term to ensure smoothness, which often smooths out sharp features. This paper proposes a radically different approach to constructing fair B-spline surfaces, which consists of fitting a surface without a fairing term to capture sharp edges, smoothing the normal field of the constructed surface with feature preservation, and reconstructing the B-spline surface from the smoothed normal field. …”
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What are the intensities and line-shapes of the twenty four polarization terms in coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy? by Niu, Kai, Lee, Soo-Ying

“…The conventional CARS term with sharp vibrational lines is the dominant term, with intensity at least one order of magnitude larger than the other terms.…”
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Terahertz topological photonics for on-chip communication by Yang, Yihao, Yamagami, Yuichiro, Yu, Xiongbin, Pitchappa, Prakash, Webber, Julian, Zhang, Baile, Fujita, Masayuki, Nagatsuma, Tadao, Singh, Ranjan

“…However, conventional approaches to terahertz waveguiding suffer from sensitivity to defects and sharp bends. Here, building on the topological phase of light, we experimentally demonstrate robust terahertz topological valley transport through several sharp bends on the all-silicon chip. …”
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Overdamped Brownian dynamics in piecewise-defined energy landscapes by Gray, Thomas H., Yong, Ee Hou

“…A general expression for ⟨Deff⟩ in terms of U(x) and p(Q) is derived and then applied to three types of energy landscape: flat sections, smooth maxima, and sharp maxima. All three cases display a transition between subdiffusive and diffusive behavior at a=1, and a reduction to free diffusion as a→∞. …”
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Numerical modelling of detonation reaction zone of nitromethane by EXPLO5 code and wood and kirkwood theory by Štimac, Barbara, Chan, Serene Hay Yee, Kunzel, Martin, Muhamed Suceska

“…The measured particle velocity profile of NM shows the existence of a sharp spike followed by a rapid drop over the first 5-10 ns (fast reaction). …”
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Exploring opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence research for islamic ethical guidelines by Aliff, Nawi, Nor Yazi, Khamis, Mohd Faiz, Yaakob, Mohd Al Adib, Samuri, Zakaria, Gamal Abdul Nasir

“…The findings were coded in juxtapositions that led to the discussion on the need for an Islamic frame of reference in ethically guiding AI-related research. Maqasid al-Shari‘ah is recommended as the parameter and to be integrated with other disciplines to tackle the wide-ranging ethical issues in AI to protect human rights and interests, particularly in the global Muslim community. …”
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