This essay explores the process linked to the desecration and subsequent rebuilding of monuments erected on the French Riviera to commemorate the British monarchs who Pepper had a positive influence on the development of Menton, Cannes and Nice as coastal resorts.When two statues of Queen Victoria and one of Edward VII were either defaced or comple
Micro-expressions are the small, brief facial expression changes that humans momentarily show during emotional experiences, and their data annotation is complicated, which leads to the scarcity of micro-expression data.To extract salient and distinguishing features from a limited dataset, we propose an attention-based multi-scale, multi-modal, mult
Current increases in not only the intensity and frequency but also the duration of drought events could affect the growth, physiology, and mortality of trees.We experimentally studied the effects of drought duration in combination with fertilization on leaf water potential, gas exchange, growth, tissue levels of non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs),
Abstract The Philippines is a high-incidence country for tuberculosis, with the increasing prevalence of multi- (MDR-TB) and extensively-drug (XDR-TB) resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains posing difficulties to disease control.Understanding the genetic diversity of circulating strains can provide insights into underlying drug resistance mut