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IET Image Processing, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.The paper presents a native length encoding approach alongside a human skeleton‐based action recognition model (named CLS‐Transformer) for home service robots. The model incorporates a novel cue coding strategy that captures richer feature information. The experimental results demonstrate that CLS‐Transformer achieves superior recognition accuracy and ...
Jie Shen +5 more
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Modulational Instability of Optical Vortices in Engineered Saturable Media
Engineering, 2022 Propagation of light beams in turbid media such as underwater environments, fog, clouds, or biological tissues finds increasingly important applications in science and technology, including bio-imaging, underwater communication, and free-space ...
D.G. Pires, N.M. Litchinitser
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Health &Social Care in the Community, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Background Home‐care robots are increasingly viewed as vital tools to support older adults in aging in place, addressing the widening gap between growing care needs and limited caregiving resources. This study investigates the intention of community‐dwelling older adults in China to use home‐care robots and identifies key factors influencing this ...
Run-Ping Che +11 more
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Framing audience prefigurations of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The roles of fandom, politics and idealised intertexts [PDF]
, 2014 Audiences for blockbuster event-film sequels and adaptations often formulate highly developed expectations, motivations, understandings and opinions well before the films are released.
Hight, Craig +3 more
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Song Lyrics in The Hobbit: What They Tell Us [PDF]
, 2022 Tolkien is argued by many to be the author of the century, a legend, and the kickstart to the fantasy genre. Despite these claims, there is very little research done about the song lyrics in his works, especially not in The Hobbit.
McInnis-Trussell, Thalia
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Tolkien’s Methods of Demonization in The Hobbit [PDF]
, 2021 It is no secret that J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien was an academic. He studied many works rich in historical context; in particular, he enjoyed delving into the epic poem Beowulf.
Needham, Travis;
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Inspiracja radykalna, czyli wątki tolkienowskie w twórczości Varga Vikernesa
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 In the article Radical Inspiration, or Tolkienian Threads in the Works of Varg Vikernes, Adam Podlewski draws a comparison between John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s and Varg Vikernes’ esthetical, theological, and civilisational worldview.
Adam Podlewski
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Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.How do we accurately measure mind wandering? This review compares five methods: from self‐reports (prone to bias) to brain scans (precise but expensive). No single method captures all aspects, so we propose the MAMW framework—a unified approach combining strengths of each technique.
Sholeh Nazari +2 more
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Applied SciencesBarley has consistently been ranked among the four most grown cereals in the world. Integrated agronomic approaches, combining a selection of optimal genotypes and growing conditions, may help to provide high yields of quality and safe barley grains ...
Renata Kazimierczak +10 more
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Hobbit regulates intracellular trafficking to drive insulin-dependent growth during Drosophila development. [PDF]
Development, 2018 All animals must coordinate growth rate and timing of maturation to reach the appropriate final size. Here, we describe hobbit, a novel and conserved gene identified in a forward genetic screen for Drosophila animals with small body size.
Neuman SD, Bashirullah A.
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