Breaking inside the black box: towards a dynamic evaluation framework for regional innovative capability

Abstract: Protein modeling is playing a more and more important role in protein and peptide sciences due to improvements in modeling methods, advances in computer technology, and the huge amount of biological data becoming available. Modeling tools can often predict the structure and shed some

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of SARSpreventive behaviors by people from these four areas most severely affected 1 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Cecilia Cheng, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. E-mail: c.cheng@ust.hk by SARS. Health

Few concepts are as influential or pervasive in contemporary political discourse as that of sustainability. The concept gained currency with the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, Our Common Future. Its political relevance was established at the Rio Earth Summit

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accommodate the otherwise limiting quantizer of conventional ADCs. In this thesis, we consider a different approach to CS ADC by shifting towards lower quantizer bit-depths rather than lower sampling rates. We explore the extreme case where each measurement is quantized to just one bit, representing its sign

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