Efficient and privacy-preserving feature importance-based vertical federated learning by Li, Anran, Huang, Jiahui, Jia, Ju, Peng, Hongyi, Zhang, Lan, Tuan, Luu Anh, Yu, Han, Li, Xiang-Yang

“…It consists of a Gaussian stochastic dual-gate to efficiently approximate the probability of a feature being selected. FedSDG-FS further designs a local embedding perturbation approach to achieve differential privacy for local training data. …”
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Use of Dual Capillary Barrier as Cover System for a Sanitary Landfill in Singapore by Rahardjo, Harianto, Satyanag, Alfrendo, Harnas, F. R., Leong, Eng Choon

“…Therefore, it is necessary to incorporate unsaturated soil mechanics principles in designing the cover system for the landfill. Soil properties in the unsaturated soil zone affect the rate of wetting front movement from the ground surface. …”
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Digital health professions education on diabetes management : systematic review by the digital health education collaboration by Huang, Zhilian, Semwal, Monika, Lee, Shuen Yee, Tee, Mervin, Ong, William, Tan, Woan Shin, Bajpai, Ram, Tudor Car, Lorainne

“…The paucity and low quality of the available evidence call for urgent and well-designed studies focusing on important outcomes such as health care professionals’ behavior, patient outcomes, and cost-effectiveness as well as its impact in diverse settings, including developing countries.…”
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Reduction of bubble cavitation by modifying the diffraction wave from a lithotripter aperture by Zhou, Yufeng

“…Materials and Methods: An edge extender was designed and fabricated to fit on the outside of the ellipsoidal reflector of an electrohydraulic lithotripter to disturb the generation of diffraction wave at the aperture, but with little effect on the acoustic field inside the reflector. …”
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Binding of TCR multimers and a TCR-like antibody with distinct fine-specificities is dependent on the surface density of HLA complexes by Low, Jianrong L., Gehring, Adam J., Kranz, David M., Grotenbreg, Gijsbert M., Yau, Yin Hoe, Shochat, Susana Geifman, Bertoletti, Antonio, Naidoo, Anneta, Yeo, Gladys, Ho, Zi Zong

“…Various protein scaffolds have been designed to recapitulate the specific recognition of presented antigens with the aim to be exploited both diagnostically (e.g. to visualize cells exposed to infectious agents or cellular transformation) and therapeutically (e.g. for the delivery of drugs to compromised cells). …”
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DNA extraction methodologies for ultra long nanopore sequencing to determine chromosome specific rodent telomere lengths by Kidd, Elliot, Mooruth, Ravi, Meimaridou, Eirini, Walley, Andrew, Fairbrother, Una

“…Rat DNA was isolated using isotachophoresis (Purigen) and a mouse DNA sample isolated using phenol/chloroform. We designed a system of tagging telomere ends with a custom probe that hybridises to the 3’ overhang present at the end of telomeric DNA, to ensure we are capturing the entire telomere. …”
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Optimizing strength of directly recycled aluminum chip-based parts through a hybrid RSM-GA-ANN approach in sustainable hot forging by M. Altharan, Yahya, Shamsudin, Shazarel, Lajis, Mohd Amri, Al-Alim, Sami, Yusuf, Nur Kamilah, Mohammed Alduais, Nayef Abdulwahab, M. Ghaleb, Atef, Zhou, Wenbin

“…The experimental runs were designed using Full factorial and RSM via Minitab 21 software. …”
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Investigations into high resolution imaging and contouring for diagnostic bio-applications by Valiyambath, Krishnan Mohankumar

“…With the fiber bundle enabling multiple scan points, thus saving scan time, and scanning steps designed to match the imaging pixel size for best resolution, a scheme to reconstruct high resolution images from the whole-field scan, at any region of interest was worked out. …”
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Analysing social presence in Whatsapp application using LIWC analysis by Siti Norzaimalina, Abd Majid, Abdul Rahim, Salam

“…Furthermore, educators and instructional designers can enhance the online learning experience by incorporating strategies that foster positive linguistic elements associated with social presence. …”
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Plan Implementation Challenges in a Shrinking City: A Conformance Evaluation of Youngstown’s (OH) Comprehensive Plan With a Subsequent Zoning Code by Ryan, Brent D., Gao, Shuqi

“…In this study we measure whether the comprehensive plan conformed with the Youngstown Redevelopment Code by comparing land use designations on a parcel-by-parcel basis between the comprehensive plan, the pre-2013 code, and the Youngstown Redevelopment Code. …”
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Centering Patient and Clinician Voices in Developing Tools to Address Pain Related School Impairment: A Phase I Study of a Virtual Reality School Simulation for Children and Adoles... by Logan, Deirdre E., Khanna, Karina, Randall, Edin, O’Donnell, Shealyn, Reks, Talis, McLennan, Logan

“…Following guidelines for developing user-centered VR interventions, initial phases of intervention development focus on understanding and incorporating patient and clinician perspectives when designing this digital health tool. Phase I entailed focus groups with patients undergoing intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment (IIPT). …”
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Low-Cost Electronic Microfluidics for Multiplexed Point-of-Care Biomarker Detection by Kikkeri, Kruthika

“…Focusing primarily on cytokine biomarkers, notably IL-6, this thesis proposes modular solutions designed for seamless integration into existing clinical workflows. …”
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MegaTE: Extending WAN Traffic Engineering to Millions of Endpoints in Virtualized Cloud by Miao, Congcong, Zhong, Zhizhen, Xiao, Yunming, Yang, Feng, Zhang, Senkuo, Jiang, Yinan, Bai, Zizhuo, Lu, Chaodong, Geng, Jingyi, He, Zekun, Wang, Yachen, Zou, Xianneng, Yang, Chuanchuan

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Predictive and Prescriptive Trees for Optimization and Control Problems by Kim, Cheol Woo

“…In Chapter 3, we study fluid restless multi-armed bandits (FRMABs), deriving fundamental properties and designing efficient numerical algorithms. Using these results, we learn state feedback policies with OCT-H and introduce a novel feature augmentation technique to handle nonlinearities. …”
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Envisioning Water: Sustainability and Future-Making in Dubai and Los Angeles by Christidi, Nadia

“…Finally, alongside the municipal projects I focus on, I also look at visions of the future by artists, designers, and architects to get at how the arts might provide alternatives that in some cases could help get beyond the stickiness of sustainability as it is currently being imagined.…”
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Towards a Single Bio-molecule Detector Based on CMOS Nanofluidic Platform by Zikrallah, Ahmed S.

“…A prototype chip has been designed and fabricated using standard foundary process incorporating a new implementation of a Solid State Nanopore (SSN) of size 55nm×162nm×100nm (w×l×h) with nanofluidic access channels that bridge the buffer solution between the assay space in the packaging structure – a poly carbonate/Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) package- and the nanopore on the chip. …”
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Leveraging the Properties of Aprotic Solvents Towards Efficient Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction by Chu, An T.

“…We demonstrate key principles for tuning aprotic solvent-based electrolytes towards improving carbon dioxide electroreduction catalysis, establishing the foundation for the development of advanced electrolyte designs. Chapter 1 details the development of a dimethyl sulfoxide / acetic acid electrolyte which can engender selective carbon dioxide reduction with minimal electrolyte carbonation on gold cathodes. …”
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Numerical investigations on an improved counterflow double-channel micro combustor fueled with hydrogen for enhancing thermal performance by Zuo, Wei, E, Jiaqiang, Lin, Rongming

“…In this work, an improved counterflow double-channel micro combustor is designed. Computational Fluid Dynamics software Fluent is used to conduct numerical investigations on the thermal performance comparison between the old and improved counterflow double-channel micro combustors. …”
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Ultrasensitive metadevices for biosensing by Xiao, Shuqi

“…Starting with the principles, a metadevice is designed and its structure is introduced in the dissertation. …”
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Titania catalysts : crystal chemical insights and tailored functionalities by Lim, Suo Hon

“…In this manner, key linkages between crystal chemistry, microstructure and catalytic activity are established, leading to innovative tailored synthesis and morphological designs. While the conversion of the titania dimorphs − anatase to rutile − is often implied to be a direct process obeying first-order kinetics, the transition must in a strict crystallographic sense must be reconstructive, rather than displacive. …”
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