Tensile strength of large-scale incipient rock joints : a laboratory investigation by West, L. J., Hencher, S. R., Shang, Junlong, Zhao, Zhiye

“…The proposed approach is capable of giving a measure of tensile strength of large-scale incipient rock joints, although somewhat smaller strength than that from the standard approaches was occasionally measured in the preliminary tests on ostensibly homogeneous samples. …”
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Metal organic framework against chemical warfare agents in gas adsorption by Chia, Chan Wing

“…The test methodology (Chapter 2) includes the synthesis of the two MOFs, and stored them in standard room condition (STP) for a period of six months. …”
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Bitwise partial-sum : a new tool for integral analysis against ARX designs by Sasaki, Yu, Wang, Lei

“…We demonstrate this technique by applying it to reduced-round versions of HIGHT, which is one of the ISO standard 64-bit block ciphers. Another contribution of this paper is an independent improvement specific to HIGHT. …”
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Abnormal event detection in crowded scenes using sparse representation by Cong, Yang, Yuan, Junsong, Liu, Ji

“…To condense the over-completed normal bases into a compact dictionary, a novel dictionary selection method with group sparsity constraint is designed, which can be solved by standard convex optimization. Observing that the group sparsity also implies a low rank structure, we reformulate the problem using matrix decomposition, which can handle large scale training samples by reducing the memory requirement at each iteration from O(k2) to O(k) where k is the number of samples. …”
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Micro-optical elements for beam-shaping and optical manipulation : fabrication and experiments by Cheong, Wai Chye.

“…A simple and reliable single-step processing technique, using standard direct-write electron beam lithography technology, has been developed to realize the proposed micro-optical elements in SU-8 2000s resist. …”
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Energy conversion through local piezoelectric effect in polymer foams for enhancing sound absorption by Ayman Mahmod Mohamed Khalil Shahin

“…The study on the local piezoelectric effect on airborne sound absorption properties tested in a standard impedance acoustic tube was carried out in three sections. …”
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An in-pixel gain amplifier based event-driven physical unclonable function for CMOS dynamic vision sensors by Wang, Biyin, Zhao, Xiaojin, Zheng, Yue, Chang, Chip-Hong

“…Moreover, the proposed implementation is validated using a standard 0.18μm CMOS process in Cadence. According to the extensive post-layout simulation results, the uniqueness is calculated to be 49.97%. …”
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Size distribution measurement of polydisperse macromolecular samples using nanoparticle tracking analysis by Kim, Ahram

“…The standard technique used to measure the size distribution of nanometer-sized particles in suspension is dynamic light scattering (DLS). …”
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Spectrum and phase adaptive CCA for SSVEP-based brain computer interface by Zhang, Zhuo, Wang, Chuanchu, Ang, Kai Keng, Wai, Aung Aung Phyo, Guan, Cuntai

“…Across different data sets, SPACCA consistently performs better than the baseline, i.e. standard CCA approach. Statistical test to compare the overall results across three data sets yield a p-value of 1.66e-6, implying the improvement is significant.…”
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Omega-3 (ω-3) and social skills interventions for reactive aggression and childhood externalizing behavior problems : a randomized, stratified, double-blind, placebo-controlled, fa... by Raine, Adrian, Ang, Rebecca P., Choy, Olivia, Hibbeln, Joseph R., Ho, Ringo M.-H., Lim, Choon Guan, Lim-Ashworth, Nikki S. J., Ling, Shichun, Liu, Jean C. J., Ooi, Yoon Phaik, Tan, Yi Ren, Fung, Daniel S. S.

“…Conclusions:Findings provide some initial support for the efficacy of ω-3 in reducing reactive aggression over and above standard care (medication and parent training), but yield only preliminary and limited support for the efficacy of ω-3 in reducing overall externalizing behavior in children. …”
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Structure-aware multimodal feature fusion for RGB-D scene classification and beyond by Wang, Anran, Cai, Jianfei, Lu, Jiwen, Cham, Tat-Jen

“…While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been excellent for object recognition, the greater spatial variability in scene images typically means that the standard full-image CNN features are suboptimal for scene classification. …”
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Design of a flexible articulated robotic hand for a humanoid robot by Tian, Li, Liu, Jing, Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat, Thalmann, Daniel, Zheng, Jianmin

“…Guided by the human hand anatomy and inspired by the progress of 3D printing technology, we model the structure of the robotic hand using standard shapes such as cuboids, spheres and cylinders, which are adapted to match the scanned shape and fabricated using 3D printing. …”
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Design of a highly biomimetic and fully-actuated robotic finger by Tian, Li, Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat, Zheng, Jianmin, Thalmann, Daniel

“…Particularly, the experiments validate that our robotic finger is capable of achieving all 11 standard finger gestures as a human fìnger.…”
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Strong electro-optically active Ni-substituted Pb(Zr0.35Ti0.65)O3 thin films : toward integrated active and durable photonic devices by Zhu, Minmin, Du, Zehui, Chng, Soon Siang, Tsang, Siu Hon, Teo, Edwin Hang Tong

“…In addition, optical measurements indicate a large refractive index (∼2.43), a low propagation loss (∼4.14 dB cm−1), a fast response time (4.02 μs), and an effective EO coefficient (167.7 pm V−1), which are five times larger than those of the current standard material for EO devices (LiNbO3). More importantly, such films can work well up to 250 °C and retain above 80% of the EO performance at 104 Hz. …”
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Design of robot integrated restaurant by Santhosh Pandiaraj

“…The fact that robots can consistently cook and serve food which meet the desired standard of the restaurant owners, regardless of how long they have been working makes them standout as well. …”
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Simplified architecture of a fully printable perovskite solar cell using a thick zirconia layer by Priyadarshi, Anish, Bashir, Amna, Gunawan, Johana Teresa, Lew, Jia Haur, Bruno, Annalisa, Akhter, Zareen, Mathews, Nripan, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam

“…After systematic optimization of these processes, we found that the double‐printing of the c‐TiO2 layer and an increase of the ZrO2 later thickness from 1.4 to 2.1 μm in the device structure gives an optimized efficiency of 9.69 %, which is comparable to that of standard carbon devices with meso‐TiO2. This method provides an approach to reduce the fabrication time and thermal budget for fully printable solar cells.…”
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Deep learning approaches for traffic prediction by Shao, Hongxin

“…We conducted experiments for the other two models on METR-LA dataset, which becomes popular recently and is used as a standard dataset for traffic prediction task. All approaches have demonstrated better performance in terms of MAE, RMSE and MAPE than strong baseline models.…”
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Effect of excess PbI2 in fully printable carbon-based perovskite solar cells by Kapoor, Vishakha, Bashir, Amna, Lew, Jia Haur, Bruno, Annalisa, Shukla, Sudhanshu, Priyadarshi, Anish, Mathews, Nripan, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam

“…Excess lead iodide (PbI2) has been reported to improve the power conversion efficiency (PCE) in the standard perovskite solar cell (PSC) with 2,2,7,7‐Tetrakis(N ,N ‐di‐p ‐methoxyphenyl‐amine)‐9,9‐ spirobifluorene (spiro‐OMeTAD) as a hole‐transporting material. …”
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Bootstrapping the performance of webly supervised semantic segmentation by Shen, Tong, Lin, Guosheng, Shen, Chunhua, Reid, Ian

“…Our method is formulated as a two-stage approach in which we first aim to create accurate pixel-level masks for the training images via a bootstrapping process, and then use these now-accurately segmented images as a proxy ground-truth in a more standard supervised setting. The key driver for our work is that in the target dataset we typically have reliable ground-truth image-level labels, while data crawled from the web may have unreliable labels, but can be filtered to comprise only easy images to segment, therefore having reliable boundaries. …”
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Zero-knowledge arguments for matrix-vector relations and lattice-based group encryption by Libert, Benoǐt, Ling, San, Mouhartem, Fabrice, Nguyen, Khoa, Wang, Huaxiong

“…Our construction is proved secure in the standard model (assuming interaction in the proving phase) under the Learning-With-Errors (LWE) and Short-Integer-Solution (SIS) assumptions. …”
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