Visual place recognition for autonomous robots using deep learning by Huang, Yifeng

“…In autonomous and unmanned aerial vehicles, visual location recognition helps to detect actual destinations and locations In order to match standard features from different angles of a scene, we propose a global feature matching method, which is separate from the current popular local feature matching method. We build attention maps from two dimensions to refine the calculation methods of residuals in VLAD, channel and spatial, and get better results than the original NetVLAD model. …”
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Financial elites and the spatial variation of inequality: examining the intersection of gender, race and class in Frankfurt, London, and New York by Kaempfer, K

“…Studies investigating the links between diversity and finance originate primarily from behavioural economics or business and management studies. …”

Floquet stroboscopic divisibility in non-Markovian dynamics by Bastidas, Victor M., Kyaw, Thi Ha, Tangpanitanon, Jirawat, Romero, Guillermo, Kwek, Leong-Chuan, Angelakis, Dimitris G.

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Designing initiatives for vulnerable families : from theory to design in Sydney, Australia by Eastwood, John Graeme, De Souza, Denise E., Shaw, Miranda, Garg, Pankaj, Woolfenden, Susan, Tyler, Ingrid, Kemp, Lynn A.

“…In applying the theory to the local situation the analysis took into account: the role of the local agencies; evidence of program effectiveness; determinants and outcomes for local children and their families; the current deployment of service resources; and insights from front-line staff and interagency partners.…”
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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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All it takes is empathy: how virtual reality perspective-taking influences intergroup attitudes and stereotypes by Chen, Vivian Hsueh-Hua, Ibasco, Gabrielle C.

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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. …”

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 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]. …”

A menu of standards for green infrastructure in England: effective and equitable or a race to the bottom? by Grace, M, Smith, A, Mell, I, Houghton, J, Neal, P

“…This paper draws on original research into the design of a menu of GI standards for England, commissioned by Natural England—a United Kingdom Government agency. …”

Combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of blood clot during microbubble-assisted sonothrombolysis by Das, Dhiman, Pramanik, Manojit

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

“…This dissertation firstly establishes the mathematical model of the MRTA problem, then proposes three improvement strategies for overcoming the shortcomings of premature convergence, high computational cost and low efficiency of the original GAHIR algorithm. Finally, multiple simulation experiments are designed on MATLAB to evaluate the performance of the improved genetic algorithm. …”
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Optimal probes for global quantum thermometry by Mok, Wai-Keong, Bharti, Kishor, Kwek, Leong Chuan, Bayat, Abolfazl

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Reduced cell and stack modeling of planar solid oxide fuel cells by He, Zhongjie

“…Good agreement between the 3D and 2D models verifies that the developed variation factors can capture the variability of mass fractions underneath ribs in the original 3D model for various cell designs with parallel flow channels. …”
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Playtime : the games we used to play campaign by Chan, Carolanne, Foo, Gina Hui Yu, Kay, Keith Jin Rui, Toh, Gordon Zi Jing

“…The supplementing appendices contain detailed documents of our research, original campaign collaterals, photographs and diagrams of our campaign.…”
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Towards energy-fairness in asynchronous duty-cycling sensor networks by Li, Zhenjiang., Mo, Li., Liu, Yunhao.

“…By utilizing the convex property, we decompose the original problem and propose a distributed algorithm, called GDSIC. …”
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Soft-finite-element-method-driven multiphysics airfoil optimization by Nguyen, VD, Naharro, P-S, Peña, J-M, Jerusalem, A

“…In this work, we first improve SoftFEM by replacing the original differential evolution by the so-called success-history-based adaptive differential evolution. …”

A memetic approach to vehicle routing problem with dynamic requests by Mańdziuk, Jacek, Żychowski, Adam

“…While particular problem encoding and memetic local optimization scheme were already presented in the literature, the novelty of this work lies in their innovative combination into one synergetic system as well as their application to a different problem than in the original works.…”
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Learning from success, not catastrophe: using counterfactual analysis to highlight successful disaster risk reduction interventions by Rabonza, Maricar, Lin, Yolanda C., Lallemant, David

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Weighted-persistent-homology-based machine learning for RNA flexibility analysis by Pun, Chi Seng, Yong, Brandon Yung Sin, Xia, Kelin

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