Wafer-scale silicon microfabrication technology toward realization of low-cost sub-THz waveguide devices by Zhao, Xinghai, Wu, Peng, Liu, Fei

“…Besides, to measure the fabricated WR-2.8 waveguide filter and solve the measuring equipment standard waveguide difference, silicon micromachined waveguide transitions are explored and fabricated to match two different frequency-band modules for measuring the waveguide filters in the desired full frequency band, which also has a potential application for the different size waveguide conversion. …”
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Laboratory tests, numerical simulations and design of austenitic stainless steel semi-oval hollow section columns by Li, Shuai, Zhao, Ou

“…On the basis of the test and numerical data, the relevant buckling curves for austenitic stainless steel circular hollow section columns, as provided in the European code, American specification and Australian/New Zealand standard, were evaluated for their applicability to austenitic stainless steel semi-oval hollow section columns. …”
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The mediating role of children’s self-concept on the relationship between early language delay and depression during pre-adolescence by Ting, Sharon, Huang, Pei, Meaney, Michael, Eriksson, Johan, Chen, Helen, Setoh, Peipei

“…Following conventional cut-offs in past studies, children with standardized scores below 1.25 standard deviations from the mean were classified as language delayed (n = 29). …”
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Indoor visible light positioning for a single partially visible LED by Narasimman, Srivathsan Chakaravarthi, Alphones, Arokiaswami

“…With the IEEE 802.11bb standard being adopted to incorporate light communication, research interest in visible light positioning (VLP) has increased. …”
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Structural modifications on passive cooling tiles by Tripathi, Kartikeya

“…Various samples were fabricated and tested under standard conditions by quantitatively measuring their Water Absorption %, Maximum Compressive Stress (MPa), and Temperature variations. …”
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Development and design optimisation of digital intensity measurement system for shot peening by Tarani, Dinesh Kumar

“…The method was developed in the mid-20th century by John Almen and has since become a standard practice in the industry for measuring shot peening intensity and validating process parameters. …”
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Virtual quantum resource distillation by Yuan, Xiao, Regula, Bartosz, Takagi, Ryuji, Gu, Mile

“…We show that this extended scenario, which we call "virtual resource distillation," provides considerable advantages over standard notions of distillation, allowing for the purification of noisy states from which no resources can be distilled conventionally. …”
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Defeating low-cost countermeasures against side-channel attacks in lattice-based encryption by Ravi, Prasanna, Paiva, Thales, Jap, Dirmanto, D’anvers, Jan-Pieter, Bhasin, Shivam

“…In an effort to circumvent the high cost of standard countermeasures against side-channel attacks in post-quantum cryptography, some works have de-veloped low-cost detection-based countermeasures. …”
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Evaluating design guidelines for intuitive, therefore sustainable, virtual reality authoring tools by Chamusca, Iolanda L., Cai, Yiyu, Silva, Pedro M. C., Ferreira, Cristiano V., Murari, Thiago B., Apolinario, Antonio L., Winkler, Ingrid

“…These tools are frequently insufficient due to a lack of support and standard operating procedures. This study evaluates the validity of fourteen design guidelines for the development of intuitive virtual reality authoring tools. …”
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Advanced composite armor protection systems for military vehicles: design methodology, ballistic testing, and comparison by Tsirogiannis, Evangelos Ch., Daskalakis, Evangelos, Vogiatzis, Christos, Psarommatis, Foivos, Bartolo, Paulo

“…Keeping almost the same mass while changing the material of each backplate and adapting the thickness, the three different protection systems were ballistically tested and compared according to Level 4 (Level IV) of the standard AEP-STANAG 4569 (projectile 14.5 mm × 114 mm API B32) with real military tests. …”
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A printing-inspired digital twin for the self-driving, high-throughput, closed-loop optimization of roll-to-roll printed photovoltaics by Ng, Leonard Wei Tat, An, Na Gyeong, Yang, Liu, Zhou, Yinhua, Chang, Dong Wook, Kim, Jueng-Eun, Sutherland, Luke J., Hasan, Tawfique, Gao, Mei, Vak, Doojin

“…Achieving a record 9.35% power conversion efficiency (PCE), a 1% improvement over just a single iteration, this approach exemplifies the potential of ML-driven designs and R2R processes, setting a new standard for sustainable energy, and demonstrates the transformative potential of integrating ML-driven designs with fabrication processes.…”
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Randomized methods for computing optimal transport without regularization and their convergence analysis by Xie, Yue, Wang, Zhongjian, Zhang, Zhiwen

“…By using a random Gauss-Southwell-q rule to select these working sets, we equip the vanilla version of (RBCD0) with almost sure convergence and a linear convergence rate to solve general standard LP problems. To further improve the efficiency of the (RBCD0) method, we explore the special structure of constraints in the OT problems and leverage the theory of linear systems to propose several approaches for refining the random working set selection and accelerating the vanilla method. …”
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Optimization of liquid handling parameters for viscous liquid transfers with pipetting robots, a "sticky situation" by Velasco, Pablo Quijano, Low, Andre Kai Yuan, Leong, Chang Jie, Ng, Wan Ting, Qiu, Selina, Jhunjhunwala, Shivam, Li, Bryant, Qian, Anne, Hippalgaonkar, Kedar, Cheng, Jayce Jian Wei

“…Automated air-displacement pipettes have become a standard equipment for the transfer of liquids in laboratory settings. …”
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Dynamic user clustering for efficient and privacy-preserving federated learning by Liu, Ziyao, Guo, Jiale, Yang, Wenzhuo, Fan, Jiani, Lam, Kwok-Yan, Zhao, Jun

“…FL schemes typically enable a set of participants, i.e., data owners, to individually train a machine learning model using their local data, which are then aggregated with the coordination of a central server to construct a global FL model. Improvements upon standard FL include (i) reducing the communication overheads of gradient transmission by utilizing gradient sparsification and (ii) enhancing the security of aggregation by adopting privacy-preserving aggregation (PPAgg) protocols. …”
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Study of the mask-less lithography system for high resolution pattern and 3D structure of SU-8 negative photoresist by Lu Shenkai

“…This study employs a standard mask-less lithography system and involves six key experimental steps: cleaning, oxygen plasma treatment, spin coating, soft baking, alignment and exposure, and post-exposure baking. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigations of high-strength cold-formed steel multi-limb built-up section columns by Ma, Chicheng, Wei, Chenyang, Jiang, Ke, Zhao, Ou, Su, Andi

“…The applicability of the codified Effective Width Method and Direct Strength Method for predicting the strengths of G550 high-strength cold-formed steel multi-limb built-up section columns, as specified in the American Specification and Australian Standard, was then evaluated. The evaluation results showed that the codified Effective Width Method led to rather conservative and less accurate failure load predictions for G550 high-strength cold-formed steel multi-limb built-up section columns, while the codified Direct Strength Method provided accurate and consistent failure load predictions and thus applicable to the design of G550 high-strength cold-formed steel multi-limb built-up section columns. …”
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A new carry look-ahead adder architecture optimized for speed and energy by Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan, Maskell, Douglas Leslie

“…The 32-bit addition was used as an example, with the adders implemented using a semi-custom design method and a 28 nm CMOS standard cell library. Synthesis results show that the NCLA architecture offers substantial improvements in design metrics compared to its high-speed counterparts. …”
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Optimal spatial distribution of seismic stations to detect magma migration using the seismic amplitude ratio analysis by Espinosa-Ortega, Tania, Taisne, Benoit

“…Notably, our findings reveal that optimizing seismic network coverage entails maximizing the standard deviation of relative pair station distances, while maintaining a prescribed minimum separation distance between station pairs. …”
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Unveiling the dual impact of CuI layer and Se content in Sb2(S, Se)3 photocathodes for solar water splitting by Chun, Hao Zhe, Lie, Stener, Ahmed, Mahmoud Gamal, Wong, Lydia Helena

“…The overall PEC performance reaches the maximum value when Se/S = 20%, achieving up to 4.2 mA cm−2 with stable photocurrents sustained for 120 min under standard illumination conditions, achieving the highest-reported photocurrent among S-rich-solution-processed Sb2(S, Se)3 photocathodes. …”
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Dual beam optical coherence tomography angiography for decoupling axial velocity gradient by Xu, Zhengyang, Wang, Yukun, Chen, Xi, Lin, Kan, Liu, Linbo

“…Decoupling is first verified by phantom experiments which reduces measurement uncertainty from 1.5 to 0.7% (standard deviation). We also tested the method in human skin in vivo and the results indicate that the contribution of AVG to decorrelation signal is reduced.…”
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