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International Migration Review, EarlyView., 2017 This article argues that an “invisibility bargain” constrains migrants’ identities and political participation, demanding their economic contributions plus political and social invisibility in exchange for tolerance of their presence in the host country.
Jeffrey D. Pugh
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DDNet: Dual-path Decoder Network for Occlusion Relationship Reasoning [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Occlusion relationship reasoning based on convolution neural networks consists of two subtasks: occlusion boundary extraction and occlusion orientation inference. Due to the essential differences between the two subtasks in the feature expression at the higher and lower stages, it is challenging to carry on them simultaneously in one network.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Data centers, the material backbone of smart cities, power the digital economy and advanced digital services. Metaphors of ‘the cloud’ and ‘cloud computing’ obscure the massive computing and storage infrastructures, the resource flows and the land uses they mediate.
Jochen Monstadt, Katherine Saltzman
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Pharmaceutics, 2019 Non-biodegradable materials with a low swelling capacity and which are opaque and occlusive are the main problems associated with the clinical performance of some commercially available wound dressings.
Mónica C. Guadarrama-Acevedo +13 more
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Semi-occlusive dressing therapy versus surgical treatment in fingertip amputation injuries: a clinical study. [PDF]
Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg, 2023 Pastor T +5 more
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Death and Nationalism's Moral Imperative: The Battle for Britain, Industry and the ‘Left Behind’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with how nationalism is convened and condensed in this moment by exploring the function of loss and death and their centrality to nationalism's articulation. The discussion attempts to make sense of how death possesses an ideological currency that wields an alluring quality and equips nationalism with a moral imperative.
Bethan Harries
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MirrorFlow: Exploiting Symmetries in Joint Optical Flow and Occlusion Estimation [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Optical flow estimation is one of the most studied problems in computer vision, yet recent benchmark datasets continue to reveal problem areas of today's approaches. Occlusions have remained one of the key challenges. In this paper, we propose a symmetric optical flow method to address the well-known chicken-and-egg relation between optical flow and ...
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Multi‐Modal Instrument Performances (MMIP): A Musical Database
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Musical instrument performances are multimodal creative art forms that integrate audiovisual elements, resulting from musicians' interactions with instruments through body movements, finger actions, and facial expressions. Digitizing such performances for archiving, streaming, analysis, or synthesis requires capturing every element that shapes
T. Kyriakou +2 more
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Nail Regeneration of an Allen III Fingertip Amputation After a Dog Bite Using the Semi-occlusive Dressing Technique: A Case Report and Literature Review. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Georgoulis DJ +4 more
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Treatment of fingertip injuries with the semi-occlusive dressing
, 2020 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)
Quadlbauer, S +7 more
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