The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…<p>The Eoan Group, founded in 1933 in Cape Town, was South Africa’s first and only all-coloured opera, dance and theatre company. Its 1956 production of <em>La Traviata</em> was the first opera produced by non-white people in South Africa, and initiated an operatic career that spanned twelve opera seasons and ten operas. …”

Spoofing speech detection using temporal convolutional neural network by Xiao, Xiong, Li, Haizhou, Tian, Xiaohai, Chng, Eng Siong

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Dynamical Pose Estimation by Yang, Heng, Doran, Chris, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

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Attractiveness of container shipping as an investment asset class - perspective from an equity investor with investment horizon of 5 years by Tan, Ryan Kye Han

“…This is the first of three volumes focusing on assessing the attractiveness of stock investment in public container shipping companies through a quantitative analysis of historical data. All data used in the course of research was retrieved from reputable and databases and reports by Bloomberg Intelligence, Clarksons Research, TradeWinds, and the U.S. …”
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Effects of membrane chlorination on performance of reverse osmosis and nano-filtration membranes by Ho, Yung Lin.

“…Biological fouling is a perennial problem associated with membrane technology and disinfection is used to reduce the phenomenon to prolong the life span of membranes. However, chlorine has been known to be chemically aggressive towards high performance aromatic polyamide membrane. …”
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Isentropic diagnostics of mean circulation and water vapour budget for the Asian monsoon by Lee, Shao Yi

“…Although expressions of the circulation and water vapour budget were complicated by the combination of sectoral means and isentropic ground intersections, all boundary terms were found to have good physical meaning. …”
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Fault localization of a long power cable by Guo, Guoqiang

“…The main fault that was examined is an open circuit fault. All measurements were corroborated via counterchecking of passive components and a simulation tool. …”
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Thermomechanical coupling during large strain deformation of polycarbonate: experimental study by Song, P, Chapman, D, Graham, A, Trivedi, A, Siviour, C

“…Compression experiments are performed using a screwdriven machine, a hydraulic machine, and a long split Hopkinson bar, all instrumented with a high-speed infrared camera to measure temperature rises at strain rates between 0.01 and 2600 s-1 at a starting temperature around 20 &deg;C. …”

Income change and sympathy for right-wing populist parties in the Netherlands: the role of gender and income inequality within households by Roll, Y, De Graaf, N

“…Finally, we hypothesise that this gender disparity can be interpreted by considering who contributes most to the household income. All these hypotheses are grounded in gender socialisation and economic dominance theories. …”

The effect of C:P ratio of plant residues added to soils of contrasting phosphate sorption capacities on P uptake by Panicum maximum (Jacq.) by Umrit, Gunshiam, Friesen, Dennis K.

“…The fractional percentage of P derived from residues increased with increasing P content of residues at all cuttings. Similarly, L-values were consistently greater on residue-treated soils. …”
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Dynamic spectrum allocation for heterogeneous cognitive radio networks with multiple channels by Zhang, Wenjie, Sun, Yingjuan, Deng, Lei, Yeo, Chai Kiat, Yang, Liwei

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A tri-level typhoon-DAD robust optimization framework to enhance distribution network resilience by Hou, Hui, Wu, Wenjie, Zhang, Zhiwei, Wei, Ruizeng, Wang, Lei, He, Huan, Dong, Zhao Yang

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A functionally arranged phononic crystal rod enabling ultra-wideband vibration attenuation and orderly frequency distillation by Lou, Jia, Fan, Hui, Yang, Jie, Zhang, Aibing, Du, Jianke

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A simplified weak coupling dynamic analysis method for running safety evaluation of train on bridges under earthquake excitation by Zhu, Zhihui, Gong, Wei, Zhou, Gaoyang, Yang, Yaowen, Jiang, Lizhong

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Mxene titanium carbide-based biosensor : strong dependence of exfoliation method on performance by Chia, Hui Ling, Mayorga-Martinez, Carmen C., Antonatos, Nikolas, Sofer, Zdeněk, Gonzalez-Julian, Jesus J., Webster, Richard David, Pumera, Martin

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Transduction on directed graphs via absorbing random walks by De, Jaydeep, Zhang, Xiaowei, Lin, Feng, Li, Cheng

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The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

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Impedance controlled human–robot collaborative tooling for edge chamfering and polishing applications by Kana, Sreekanth, Lakshminarayanan, Srinivasan, Mohan, Dhanya Menoth, Campolo, Domenico

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Semantic matching in machine reading comprehension: an empirical study by Liu, Qian, Mao, Rui, Geng, Xiubo, Cambria, Erik

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Experimental and numerical investigation on precast CECFST column-to-column connections subjected to axial and eccentric compression by Zhu, Gaoming, Tan, Kang Hai

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