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Evolution of GIS-based rural electrification planning models and an application of OnSSET in Nigeria
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 2022 This study carries out an in-dept overview of GIS-based rural electrification planning models with a trace to their historical evolutions. The study focuses on web-based and desktop-based models that have been developed and used extensively in rural ...
Salisu Isihak +2 more
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017 World experts of different disciplines, from molecular biology to macro-ecology, recognize the value of cave ecosystems as ideal ecological and evolutionary laboratories. Among other subterranean taxa, spiders stand out as intriguing model organisms for their ecological role of top predators, their unique adaptations to the hypogean medium
Stefano Mammola +2 more
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Spider Silk for Tissue Engineering Applications
Molecules, 2020 Due to its properties, such as biodegradability, low density, excellent biocompatibility and unique mechanics, spider silk has been used as a natural biomaterial for a myriad of applications.
S. Salehi, K. Koeck, T. Scheibel
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Sparse Image Reconstruction for the SPIDER Optical Interferometric Telescope
, 2021 The concept of a recently proposed small-scale interferometric optical imaging device, an instrument known as the Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER), is of great interest for its possible applications in ...
McEwen, Jason D., Pratley, Luke
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Spider Diagrams: A Diagrammatic Reasoning System [PDF]
, 2001 Spider diagrams combine and extend Venn diagrams and Euler circles to express constraints on sets and their relationships with other sets. These diagrams can be used in conjunction with object-oriented modelling notations such as the Unified Modeling ...
Gil, Joseph +4 more
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Improved Image Captioning via Policy Gradient optimization of SPIDEr [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2016 Current image captioning methods are usually trained via maximum likelihood estimation. However, the log-likelihood score of a caption does not correlate well with human assessments of quality.
Siqi Liu +4 more
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Second-order Nonlinear Optical Microscopy of Spider Silk [PDF]
, 2017 Asymmetric $\rm \beta$-sheet protein structures in spider silk should induce nonlinear optical interaction such as second harmonic generation (SHG) which is experimentally observed for a radial line and dragline spider silk by using an imaging ...
Hien, Khuat Thi Thu +3 more
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Resistance status of the carmine spider mite, Tetranychus cinnabarinus and the twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae to selected acaricides on strawberries. [PDF]
, 2015 The carmine spider mite, Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval) and the twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, are serious pests of strawberries and many other horticultural crops.
Bi, Jian-Long +3 more
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Ground spider communities in experimentally disturbed Mediterranean woodland habitats [PDF]
, 2011 The protected Mediterranean woodland habitats in Israel are undergoing tree encroachment, resulting in loss of open patches with herbaceous vegetation. We suggested that this process results in a ground spider community dominated by shade-loving species.
Angel, Noa, Assaf, Nirit, Lubin, Yael
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BMC Health Services Research, 2014 BackgroundQualitative systematic reviews are increasing in popularity in evidence based health care. Difficulties have been reported in conducting literature searches of qualitative research using the PICO search tool.
A. Methley +4 more
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