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]. …”

Control and operation of DC microgrids by Adhikari, Sujan

“…Energy storages can generate profit upon charging them when local electricity price lowers and can be discharged when the price is high. …”
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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. …”

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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Environmental audit in Singapore by Chua, Boon Hua

“…Environmental auditing originated in the United States and spread its influence to many industrialized countries. …”
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Reduced cell and stack modeling of planar solid oxide fuel cells by He, Zhongjie

“…When performing spatial smoothing for model reduction, there is no loss in physical information except that the local pointwise information is replaced with spanwise averaged counterparts. …”
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Episcopacy and parochialism in early South African Anglicanism: Bishop Robert Gray and the antecedent churches of the Cape Colony, 1806-72 by Bester, M

“…</p> <p>Anglicanism in the Cape Colony prior to Gray was a state-dominated minority denomination established under a system of colonial ordinances. Its ten churches, mostly founded by local mercantilist and socially aspirant élites, were controlled by commercially motivated investorshareholders. …”

Macroevolutionary history of Neotropical vegetation during the Cenozoic: a palynological perspective from Colombia by De La Parra Bonilla, G

“…In contrast, the lack of correlation between origination and extinction suggest that extinction is not controlled by origination. …”

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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They acclaimed, I used: an investigation of traveller’s behavioural intention to use YouTube shorts for selection of ecotourism destination by Sharma, Nidhi, Arora, Nilesh

“…It will additionally help the local economy and conveys a message to travellers about responsible travel behaviour when selecting or visiting ecotourism destination. …”

Measuring dynamical uncertainty with Revealed Dynamics Markov Models by Bramson, Aaron, Baland, Adrien, Iriki, Atsushi

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Soft-finite-element-method-driven multiphysics airfoil optimization by Nguyen, VD, Naharro, P-S, Peña, J-M, Jerusalem, A

“…The soft finite element method (SoftFEM) was recently developed as an efficient black-box engineering optimization framework combining population-based evolutionary global optimization and a local search technique using a hybrid self-adaptive strategy. …”

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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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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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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Magnetism in graphene oxide induced by epoxy groups by Lee, Dongwook, Seo, Jiwon, Zhu, Xi, Cole, Jacqueline M., Su, Haibin

“…Destroying the epoxy group with heat treatment or chemical treatment diminishes magnetism in the material. Local density approximation calculation results well reproduce the magnetic moments obtained from experiments, and these results indicate that the unpaired spin induced by the presence of epoxy groups is the origin of the magnetism. …”
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A novel design of power-efficient reconfigurable multiplier targeting at increasing the throughput of the CGRA by Li, Jiaxu

“…Edge computing emphasizes local computations on devices, particularly using Software-Defined Chip (SDC) such as the Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture (CGRA), renowned for its superior energy efficiency and adaptable reconfiguration attributes. …”
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Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…However, for housing price data sets with multiple features and irregular price changes, the original TF shows the weakness that its self-attention calculation method is insensitive to local information, making the model susceptible to outliers and causing potential optimization problems. …”
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