BLIQUE-TMI : blind quality evaluator for tone-mapped images based on local and global feature analyses by Jiang, Qiuping, Shao, Feng, Lin, Weisi, Jiang, Gangyi

“…High dynamic range (HDR) image, which has a powerful capacity to represent the wide dynamic range of real-world scenes, has been receiving attention from both academic and industrial communities. Although HDR imaging devices have become prevalent, the display devices for HDR images are still limited. …”
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Do we need ramsey taxation? Our existing taxes are largely corrective by Yan, Eric, Feng, Qu, Ng, Yew-Kwang

“…In this paper, a theoretical model is built to make a comparison between the social optimality attained by an income tax and the individual optimality attained without an income tax. …”
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Mechanochemical synthesis of corannulene flanked n-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) precursors and preparation of their metal complexes by Hum, Gavin, Muzammil, Ezzah M., Li, Yongxin, García, Felipe, Stuparu, Mihaiela Corina

“…Green metrics and energy consumption comparison were performed for both routes revealing ball-milling generation of these compounds to be an environmentally greener technique to produce such precursors compared to conventional solvent-based methods. …”
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Effect of mild-temperature and high-temperature pasteurisation on physicochemical properties, bioactive compound, antioxidant activity and microbiological qualities of reconstitute... by Kong, T.Y., Hasnan, N.Z.N., A., Nur Diyana, I.M., Nurin-Zulkifli, Basha, R.K., Abdul Ghani, N.H., Aziz, N.A.

“…These findings suggested that both HTP and MTP are able to meet the microbiological safety and comparable physicochemical qualities. …”
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Qualitative and quantitative accuracy evaluation of 18f-fdg PET/CT with TOF and NON-TOF system on beta value in BPL reconstruction by Hui, Ng Suk

“…Q.Clear was investigated for beta values ranging from 100 to 2000. Both BPL and OSEM reconstructions were acquired with and without TOF information for comparison. …”
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Salivary α-amylase as a marker of stress reduction in individuals with intellectual disability and autism in response to occupational and music therapy by Poquérusse, J., Azhari, Atiqah, Setoh, Peipei, Cainelli, S., Ripoli, C., Venuti, P., Esposito, Gianluca

“…Results: In comparison to control sessions, occupational therapy significantly dampened rises in sAA levels while music therapy significantly decreased baseline sAA levels, highlighting the ability of both types of therapy to reduce stress and by proxy contribute to enhancing overall well-being. …”
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Multiple introductions of NRCS-A Staphylococcus capitis to the neonatal intensive care unit drive neonatal bloodstream infections: a case-control and environmental genomic survey by Lees, EA, Gentry, J, Webster, H, Sanderson, N, Eyre, D, Wilson, D, Lipworth, S, Crook, D, Wong, THN, Mark, A, Jeffery, K, Paulus, S, Young, BC

“…Reads from all samples were mapped to a hybrid assembly of a local sterile site strain, forming a complete UK NRCS-A reference genome, for outbreak analysis and comparison with 826 other S. capitis from the UK and Germany.…”

Multiple signatures of a disease in potential biomarker space : getting the signatures consensus and identification of novel biomarkers by Ow, Ghim Siong, Kuznetsov, Vladimir Andreevich

“…Practically, our results suggest that there is a stronger association of the IGF1 signature genes with the 70 BC rGSSs, than for the obesity-associated signature. Furthermore, both SC and SN genes, in both signatures could be considered as perspective prognostic biomarkers of BCs that stratify the patients onto low or high risks of cancer development.…”
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Uncertainty-Inclusive Contrastive Learning for Leveraging Synthetic Images by Cai, Fiona X.

“…We evaluate the effectiveness of UniCon-learned representations against traditional supervised contrastive learning, both with and without synthetic images. Across three different finegrained classification datasets, we find that the learned representation space generated by the UniCon loss function leads to significantly improved downstream classification performance in comparison to supervised contrastive learning baselines.…”
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Effect of coupling in steel/aluminium laminate subjected to tensile load and bending load by Pak, Jun Wei

“…It was found that for both types of load, by increasing the number of plies, the structural stiffness of the laminate increases.…”
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Mechanical characterization of an endoprosthesis. by Tan, Xue Yu.

“…The implant on reconstructed mandibles was subjected to minimal stress and the resected region of the reconstructed mandibles experienced a significant higher stress during the in vitro experimental tests. Comparison of FEM and in vitro strain measurement also demonstrated a consistency in both quantitative and qualitative data with only a deviation of 8.76 % in the stress recorded.…”
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Diffusion of polyethylene oxide in montmorillonite : single molecule study of polymer nanocomposite by Jefri Sanusi Teguh

“…PEO moved faster in the amorphous region but it moved slowly near the crystal as reflected by the comparison of diffusion coefficient in both regions. …”
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Study of islet amyloid polypeptide aggregation and its inhibition mechanisms. by Wei, Lei.

“…The insulin binding region is composed of the same amino acids in amyloidogenic human IAPP and soluble rat IAPP (with the sole exception of His/Arg-18), implying the same binding mode for both hormones. This His/Arg-18 mutation results in reduced affinity binding of human IAPP to insulin in comparison to rat IAPP as it is detected by surface plasmon resonance biosensor analysis.…”
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Characterization of harbor seal whisker by MAHESWARI BALAN.

“…However, the decrease was insignificant. The comparison between the theoretical and experimental values showed that there was a disagreement between both values, which was believed to have been caused by non-ideal conditions in the experiments and the reductive assumptions made for the theoretical model. …”
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Aerodynamics of marine vessels by Muhammad Al-Muzakkir Kamsani.

“…The existence and location of a circulation phenomenon was observed both in ANSYS FLUENT analysis and water tunnel test. …”
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Small-scale wind energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials by Zhao, Liya

“…Wind energy is ubiquitous in both outdoor and indoor environments, yet small-scale energy harvesting aimed to harness power from wind with low speed (<10m/s) has received only limited attention. …”
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Implementation and experimental tests of illumination normalization using local variance in logarithmic domain by Lin, Meijia

“…This report present the implementation and experimental test of illumination normalization using local variance in logarithmic domain and comparison with other approach. The result of experiments on both CMU-PIE and Yale B will indicate the quality of the illumination Normalization method in this project, which help researcher to improve illumination normalization on facial detection area in future.…”
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Performance and optimization of nanofiltration membrane bioreactor (nf-mbr) for treatment of municipal wastewater by Gunawan, Albert Ardy

“…The increasing threats to water resources has highlighted the potential of wastewater reclamation processes to supplement both domestic and industrial demands. Conventional wastewater treatments, which have traditionally involved the use of activated sludge process, are limited by the large tank volume and the limit in separating suspended solids. …”
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Efficient cyclic routing of unmanned aerial vehicles by Ong, Chao Jian

“…This report shall illustrate both the algorithm design and how it works, and at the same time, gather data for comparison between the new algorithm and the one proposed by Lim to show how the new algorithm improves the efficiency of the planned cyclic route.…”
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Calibration of the basic reinforced concrete design provision (Calibration of bond stress-slip models for unconfined reinforced concrete) by Cheah, Yi Ning

“…This project aims to provide a comprehensive comparison among the seven deterministic bond stress-slip models developed in the past researches, and thus, further enhance their applicability by establishing the bond-slip statistical cloud models. …”
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