Targeted pancreatic beta cell imaging for early diagnosis by Cong, Goh Zheng, Ghosh, Krishna Kanta, Mishra, Sachin, Gulyás, Miklós, Kovács, Tibor, Máthé, Domokos, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Gulyás, Balázs

“…The path for successful pancreatic beta cell imaging is fraught with challenges like non-specific binding, lack of beta cell-restricted targets, the requirement of probes to cross multiple lipid layers to bind to intracellular insulin. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop new imaging techniques and innovative probing constructs in the entire imaging chain of bioengineering to provide early detection of beta cell-related pathology.…”
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Fabrication of a humidity-resistant formaldehyde gas sensor through layering a molecular sieve on 3D ordered macroporous SnO₂ decorated with Au nanoparticles by Liu, Wei, Si, Xiaohui, Chen, Zaiping, Xu, Lin, Guo, Junmeng, Wei, Lei, Cheng, Gang, Du, Zuliang

“…Further, the 3MCM-48 layer protects the 3DOM Au/SnO2 layer from moisture, allowing at least 80 % of the initial response value to formaldehyde to be maintained even at> 90 % relative humidity. Hence, the proposed strategy represents, for the first time, a universal and effective way to achieve high response and moisture-resistant formaldehyde sensors and demonstrates the potential of SMO gas sensors for indoor air monitoring.…”
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Reinforced concrete column design for minimal embodied carbon emissions by Siddiq Amsyar Bin Shalan

“…However, contrary to columns under balanced condition, columns resisting purely axial loads requires higher concrete strength contribution when minimum steel reinforcement is provided, hence greater concrete volume is required to resist the same load and as such this solution may not be the most material efficient or aesthetically desirable. …”
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A robust 6-D pose tracking approach by fusing a multi-camera tracking device and an AHRS module by Wang, Zengwei, Dai, Houde, Zeng, Yadan, Lueth, Tim C.

“…However, its 6-D tracking practicability is impaired by the line-of-sight issue and the complicated tracker based on multiple markers. Hence, we implemented a custom-built hybrid tracking system consisting of four-camera equipment and a 6-D tracker comprising a single optical marker and an automatic heading reference system (AHRS). …”
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Prediction of neutralising antibodies for novel coronavirus with machine learning by Kho, Jordon Junyang

“…While neutralising antibodies have the potential to prevent future infections, traditional lab-based methods are often too time-consuming and expensive. Hence, machine learning approaches have become increasingly popular for expediting and complementing lab-based methods in the search for potential antibody candidates. …”
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Assessing ant colony optimization for inducing non-uniform population distribution for UAS risk assessment in urban environments by Gracious, John

“…Moreover, these approaches neglect to account for the dynamic shifts in population distribution over time, resulting in an imprecise assessment of third-party risks. Hence, the main objective of this research is to examine the use of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) to induce non-uniform population distribution in urbanized environments. …”
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Cooperative collision avoidance in multirobot systems using fuzzy rules and velocity obstacles by Tang, Wenbing, Zhou, Yuan, Zhang, Tianwei, Liu, Yang, Liu, Jing, Ding, Zuohua

“…Moreover, they cannot deal with uncertain sensing data and linguistic requirements (e.g., the speed of a robot should not be large when it is near to other robots). Hence, to guarantee real-time collision avoidance and deal with linguistic requirements, a distributed and hybrid motion planning method, named Fuzzy-VO, is proposed for multirobot systems. …”
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Android mobile-platform-based image reconstruction for photoacoustic tomography by Hui, Xie, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Muhamad Ar Iskandar Zulkifli, Ling, Tong, Pramanik, Manojit

“…In recent years, mobile phones are becoming so ubiquitous, and most of them encompass a higher computing ability. Hence, realizing PAT image reconstruction on a mobile platform is intrinsic, and it will enhance the adaptability of PAT systems with point-of-care applications. …”
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Rapid controllable synthesis of branched Au superparticles: formation mechanism of toggling the growth mode and their applications in optical broadband absorption by Zhong, Shichuan, Hang, Lifeng, Wen, Lulu, Zhang, Tao, Cao, An, Zeng, Pan, Zhang, Hanlin, Liu, Dilong, Cai, Weiping, Li, Yue

“…Such Au superparticles demonstrate broadband absorption from visible to near-infrared regions due to their multiple plasmonic coupling and hence they have important applications in sensors, photothermal conversion and therapy, etc. …”
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Microstructure and tensile properties of binder jet printed 17–4 precipitation hardened martensitic stainless steel by Radhakrishnan, Jayaraj, Kumar, Punit, Gan, Soo Seong, Bryl, Alexis, McKinnell, Jim, Ramamurty, Upadrasta

“…Tempering of the martensitic microstructure through a post-fabrication H1150 over-aging heat treatment improves the strain hardening capability of the alloy and hence enhances its ductility substantially due to the formation of reversed γ phase. …”
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Deep learning-enabled 3D multimodal fusion of cone-beam CT and intraoral mesh scans for clinically applicable tooth-bone reconstruction by Liu, Jiaxiang, Hao, Jin, Lin, Hangzheng, Pan, Wei, Yang, Jianfei, Feng, Yang, Wang, Gaoang, Li, Jin, Jin, Zuolin, Zhao, Zhihe, Liu, Zuozhu

“…High-fidelity three-dimensional (3D) models of tooth-bone structures are valuable for virtual dental treatment planning; however, they require integrating data from cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and intraoral scans (IOS) using methods that are either error-prone or time-consuming. Hence, this study presents Deep Dental Multimodal Fusion (DDMF), an automatic multimodal framework that reconstructs 3D tooth-bone structures using CBCT and IOS. …”
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RESAC: a redundancy strategy involving approximate computing for error-tolerant applications by Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan, Maskell, Douglas Leslie, Prasad, Krishnamachar

“…Given the continuing miniaturization of underlying transistors, electronic functional units (circuits/systems) become increasingly susceptible to high-energy radiation, encountered in applications like space. Hence, redundancy is employed as a radiation hardening by design strategy to cope with faults of functional units used in such applications and to maintain their correct operation. …”
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Elucidating the effect of polyethylene terephthalate chain structure on its enzymatic degradation behavior by Lena, Jean-Baptiste, Gonçalves, Rui A., Kharel, Sharad, Kannan, Srinivasaraghavan, Verma, Chandra Shekhar, Pinchi, Keerthi Mohan, Lim, Sierin, Lam, Yeng Ming

“…Our study demonstrates that, while chemical modification reduces crystallinity, the influence of chemical structures (the kinks and branches) on the binding of the PETase, and hence the enzymatic degradation, is more significant than the effect of crystallinity.…”
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Improved packing for fully homomorphic encryption with reverse multiplication friendly embeddings by Sim, Jun Jie

“…The packing capacity of a ciphertext refers to the ability to pack multiple messages into a single ciphertext, amortizing the cost of ciphertext operations and hence improving the efficiency of the encryption scheme. …”
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Small but prospective: development of enzyme-responsive small molecule fluorescent probes for specific bacterial imaging by Yan, Evelias Hui Xin

“…Early and accurate strategies are off dire need to subvert the rapid colonization of bacteria. Hence, the employment of fluorescence imaging for specific bacterial labeling and infection diagnosis could be prospective in providing physiological information in real time for the diagnosis and therapeutic intervention of bacterial infections. …”
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Investigating hybrid methods of fabricating formamidinium-based perovskite solar cells by Krishnan, Sriniketh

“…While most solar cells today are polycrystalline silicon-based, they are heavy, rigid, and have a theoretically limited efficiency. Hence, a global effort into emerging technologies like perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is being undertaken. …”
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Experimental study of steel beam-column joints with novel slot-bolted connections under a central-column-removal scenario by Ma, You-Xin, Chen, Shuang, Tan, Kang Hai

“…In addition, to provide alternate load paths for steel structures under a column-removal scenario, the connections should be sufficiently robust, thereby triggering catenary action. Hence, to improve the robustness of FP and TSWA connections, novel arrangements of slotted holes were proposed for FP and TSWA connections in this study to form novel slot-bolted connections (SBCs). …”
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Dynamically-biased fixed-point LSTM for time series processing in AIoT edge device by Hu, Jinhai, Goh, Wang Ling, Gao, Yuan

“…Different from the conventional LSTM which uses static bias, DB-LSTM adjusts the cell bias dynamically based on the previous status. Hence, a DB-LSTM cell contains information of both the previous output and the current cell state. …”
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OS-FCM: a semi-supervised clustering approach to investigating consumers' usage patterns of contactless shopping-delivery (S-D) channel by Chen, Tianyi, Wong, Yiik Diew, Yuen, Kum Fai, Li, Duowei, Wang, Xueqin

“…However, in the data as collected by a questionnaire survey, distinct usage patterns are not always easily observed due to the existence of outliers, which places a challenge for the investigation. Hence, this study develops a labelling approach, named OS-FCM, to determine the usage patterns. …”
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Transient amplification of broken symmetry in elastic snap-through by Wang, Qiong, Giudici, Andrea, Huang, Weicheng, Wang, Yuzhe, Liu, Mingchao, Tawfick, Sameh, Vella, Dominic

“…The system may not enter this region when loaded fast (hence remaining symmetric), but will traverse it for some interval of time when loaded slowly, causing a transient amplification of asymmetry. …”
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