Management and outcomes of thoracic sarcomas - a collaboration between Orthopaedic Oncology and cardiothoracic surgery: seven-year clinical data from a tertiary referral centre by Shamsi, ZA, Paraoan, V, Kim, C, Saifuddin, SR, Cosker, TDA, Whitwell, D, Gibbons, CLMH, Stavroulias, D, DiChiara, F

“…Introduction: Sarcomas are rare cancers originating from mesenchymal tissues, manifesting in diverse anatomical locations, but notably in connective tissue, muscles and the skeleton. …”

Routing in mobile ad hoc networks with periodic broadcasts by Li, Geng Zhen.

“…Many ad hoc networks utilize hello message to determine local connectivity. The factors that influence the utility of hello messages based on Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) were investigated by many researchers. …”
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Characterizing 4-string contact interaction using machine learning by Erbin, Harold, Fırat, Atakan Hilmi

“…This allows us to solve for local coordinates and compute their associated mapping radii numerically. …”
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The economic cost of sea level rise on Singapore by Dong, Wenzhen, Gu, Xin, Li, Wenjin

“…We modified the sea-level rise cost function originally proposed by Frankhauser and apply it to a set of local data. …”
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Southeast Asia initiative to combat SARS-CoV-2 variants (SEACOVARIANTS) consortium by Nhu, LNT, Chambers, M, Chantratita, N, Cheah, PY, Day, NPJ, Dejnirattisai, W, Dunachie, S, Grifoni, A, Hamers, RL, Hill, J, Jones, EY, Klenerman, P, Mongkolsapaya, J, Screaton, G, Sette, A, Stuart, D, Tan, CW, Thwaites, G, Thanh, VD, Wang, L-F, Tan, LV, SEACOVARIANTS Consortium

“…Funded by Wellcome, the Southeast Asia initiative to combat SARS-CoV-2 variants (SEACOVARIANTS) consortium aims to develop and apply a multidisciplinary research platform in Southeast Asia (SEA) for rapid assessment of the biological significance of SARS-CoV-2 variants, thereby informing coordinated local, regional and global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. …”

Jurisdictional approaches to high conservation value area designation using regulatory instruments: an Indonesian pilot project by Padmanaba, Michael, Sloan, Sean, Watts, John D., Irawan, Silvia, Lee, Janice Ser Huay, Pasaribu, Katryn N., Wiratama, Cokorda Gde Wisnu, Watson, Ellen, Utami, Nadia Putri

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Unknowing a southern life: writing around the abyss by Collins, K

“…A more recent companion to these objects is the museum catalogue, which contains information about where they originated, their local names (in these two cases, unknown), the materials from which they were made and processes through which they were created. …”

Integrating disaster governance in Timor-Leste : opportunities and challenges by Cook, Alistair David Blair, Suresh, Vishalini, Nair, Tamara, Foo, Yen Ne

“…This article seeks to understand disaster governance in Timor-Leste through a particular investigation into its emergency preparedness and disaster response operations. These are coordinated by the government, international agencies, and local organisations. …”
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Structural Emergency Control Paradigm by Vu, Thanh Long, Chatzivasileiadis, Spyros, Chiang, Hsiao-Dong, Turitsyn, Konstantin

“…In response to emergency situations, load shedding is a prevailing approach where local protective devices are activated to cut a suitable amount of load to quickly rebalance the supply demand and hopefully stabilize the system. …”
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AR card game design & implementation by Emmanuelle Vania

“…A prototype stage of the game has been developed in which players will be able to set up a local multiplayer match, load AR content and perform actions according with cards of their choice. …”
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The removal of Irish paupers from Britain: 1819 to the early twentieth century by Darwen, Lewis, MacRaild, Donald M.

“…During the nineteenth century, local officials sought to deal with their Irish pauper ‘problem’ by removing these poor migrants back to Ireland under the laws of settlement and removal. …”

Operation and control of PEM fuel cell system by Tan, Chun Xu.

“…Smart Microgrids will generate, distribute, and monitor the flow of electricity at the local community level, unlike the conventional bulk power grid. …”
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Guidance and navigation of a wheeled mobile robot by Goh, Ing Jya.

“…Changes to the mobile robot include the incorporation of a high resolution digital fluxgate compass and the replacement of the original set of onboard stepper motors. Asynchronous communication channels are established between the onboard processors to facilitate the transferring of data and a half-duplex wireless platform is set up to allow non-local control of the mobile robot from a remote computer. …”
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The cultural industries of India by Dasgupta, Rohit K., Clini, Clelia

“…The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Cultural Trends.…”

The devil is in the details: an evaluation of recent feature encoding methods by Chatfield, K, Lempitsky, V, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…A large number of novel encodings for bag of visual words models have been proposed in the past two years to improve on the standard histogram of quantized local features. Examples include locality-constrained linear encoding [23], improved Fisher encoding [17], super vector encoding [27], and kernel codebook encoding [20]. …”

Evolution, current and future developments in quality control circles : an empirical study trade unions' involvement in quality control circles in Singapore by Chow, Yvonne Chi Hong, Saraswathy D/O Shanmugam, Tan, Puay Cheng

“…Therefore, one of the purposes of this project Is to trace the origins, developments and the future role of QCCs. …”
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Police institutions and police abuse: evidence from the US by Rad, AN

“…The study employs an originally constructed index of police protections comprised of police union contract and Law Enforcement Officer Bill of Rights (LEOBR) provisions. …”

Optimal distributed control for secondary frequency and voltage regulation in an islanded microgrid by Xu, Yinliang, Sun, Hongbin, Gu, Wei, Xu, Yan, Li, Zhengshuo

“…This paper proposes an optimal distributed control strategy for the coordination of multiple distributed generators in an islanded microgrid (MG). …”
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Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement by Vickers, P, Adamo, L, Alfano, M, Clark, C, Cresto, E, Cui, H, Dang, H, Dellsén, F, Dupin, N, Gradowski, L, Graf, S, Guevara, A, Hallap, M, Hamilton, J, Hardey, M, Helm, P, Landrum, A, Levy, N, Machery, E, Mills, S, Muller, S, Sheppard, J, N. K., S, Slater, M

“…The novel methodology employed sees local coordinators, at each institution in the network, sending survey invitation emails internally to scientists at their home institution. …”

An improved genetic algorithm for multi-robot task assignment problem by Chen, Jiahao

“…The experimental results show that the improvement strategies can effectively maintain the diversity of the population, enhance the ability to jump out of the local optimum, and prevent the algorithm from premature convergence. …”
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