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. …”

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. …”

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

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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

“…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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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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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

“…Originality/value: This is the very first attempt to investigate the adoption of YouTube shorts information and formulating behavioural intentions to utilise it for ecotourism destination selection.…”

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. …”

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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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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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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Development of 3D-printed customized facial padding for burn patients by Ahmad Fozi, Muhammad Aiman, Salleh, Mohamed Najib, Ismail, Khairul Azwan

“…Design/methodology/approach To carry out this study, a full-face head garment was fabricated by a local occupational therapist, and pressure measurements were conducted to establish the pressure exerted by this head garment and to determine the zero pressure region. …”
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Stability analysis for heat transfer flow in micropolar hybrid nanofluids by Nur Hazirah Adilla, Norzawary, Siti Khuzaimah, Soid, Anuar, Mohd Ishak, Muhammad Khairul Anuar, Mohamed, Khan, Umair, Sherif, El Sayed M., Pop, Ioan Mihai

“…The friction factor is higher for the branch of the first solution and lower in the second branch due to the higher magnetic parameters, while the opposite behavior is seen in the case of the local heat transfer rate. Originality: the novelty of this model is that it finds multiple solutions in the presence of Cu and Al2O3 nanoparticles and also performs the stability analysis. …”
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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. …”

A lifecycle analysis of complex public procurement: an agency-institutional theory perspective by Forster, Rick, Lyons, Andrew, Caldwell, Nigel, Davies, Jennifer, Sharifi, Hossein

“…Defence is the focal case and is compared with cases in the Nuclear, Local Government and Health sectors. Findings and practical implications: The study provides a framework for undertaking a lifecycle analysis to understand the challenges and capabilities of complex, public-sector buyers. …”
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