Maternal Death Surveillance and Response in Sudan: an evidence-based, context-specific optimisation to improve maternal care by Altijani Osman Abbakar, N

“…The structure of MDSR facilitated its activities at health facilities but not in the community. …”

Modélisation des interactions en Italie du Nord au premier âge du Fer: de la circulation de parures aux réseaux d’influences culturelles by Cicolani, V, Huet, T, Zamboni, L

“…Appliquée pour chaque période, les résultats de cette modélisation sont ensuite représentés sur une carte pour faciliter la lecture spatiale et l'interprétation géographique des résultats obtenus. …”

Creative Solutions for a Sustainable Development : 21st International TRIZ Future Conference, TFC 2021, Bolzano, Italy, September 22-24, 2021, Proceedings / by TRIZ Future Conference (21st : 2021 : Bolzano, Italy ; Online), organiser 643019, Borgianni, Yuri, 1978-, editor 643020, Brad, Stelian, editor 643021, Cavallucci, Denis, editor 643022, Livotov, Pavel, editor 643023

Advanced attack and defense techniques in machine learning systems by Zhao, Mengchen

“…In order to make the action executable in practice and facilitate learning, we propose a novel deep reinforcement learning algorithm DDPG-ANP that introduces an action norm penalty to the reward function. …”
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Conflict-free urban air mobility planning with an airspace-resource-centric approach by Dai, Wei

“…Dynamic assignment of airspace cells enables 4D management of urban airspace, including spatial volume, navigational services, etc., facilitating quantitative airspace utilization. The concept also leads to a graph-based airspace model for further usage. …”
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4D printable thermally stimulated (meth)acrylate shape memory polymers with tailorable shape recovery force for vat photopolymerization by Ng, Chin Siang

“…This concept would facilitate the understanding of the effects of chemical composition, thermomechanical properties, and temperature stimulus on the SMP’s shape recovery force. …”
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Leveraging linguistic knowledge to enhance low-resource NLP applications by Zhu, Zixiao

“…Building on this strategy, we devise an approach to augment few-shot classification performance within an entailment-based framework, significantly enhancing the efficiency of using limited training data and even facilitating zero-shot learning. 3. In the tuning-free prompting paradigm, we demonstrate how to incorporate label-related words into demonstrations based on LLM feedback, creating effective sample-and-label-level demonstrations. …”
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Harmonized co-existence with robust interference management in femto-macro cellular architectures by Ponnu Jacob

“…However, independent operation of two-tier networks can be facilitated through orthogonal polarized transmission which results in the third contribution aimed at alleviating cross-tier interference in a two-tier femto-macro network. …”
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Synoptic analysis of a decade of daily measurements of SO2 emission in the troposphere from volcanoes of the global ground-based network for observation of volcanic and atmospheric... by Arellano, Santiago, Galle, Bo, Apaza, Fredy, Avard, Geoffroy, Barrington, Charlotte, Bobrowski, Nicole, Bucarey, Claudia, Burbano, Viviana, Burton, Mike, Chacón, Zoraida, Chigna, Gustavo, Clarito, Christian Joseph, Conde, Vladimir, Costa, Fidel, De Moor, Maarten, Delgado-Granados, Hugo, Di Muro, Andrea, Fernandez, Deborah, Garzón, Gustavo, Gunawan, Hendra, Haerani, Nia, Hansteen, Thor. H., Hidalgo, Silvana, Inguaggiato, Salvatore, Johansson, Mattias, Kern, Christoph, Kihlman, Manne, Kowalski, Philippe, Masias, Pablo, Montalvo, Francisco, Möller, Joakim, Platt, Ulrich, Rivera, Claudia, Saballos, Armando, Salerno, Giuseppe, Taisne, Benoit, Vásconez, Freddy, Velásquez, Gabriela, Vita, Fabio, Yalire, Mathieu

“…Operational monitoring of volcanic plumes, at scales relevant for adequate surveillance, has been facilitated through the use of ground-based scanning differential optical absorption spectrometer (ScanDOAS) instruments since the beginning of this century, largely due to the coordinated effort of the Network for Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric Change (NOVAC). …”
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Design, User Experience, and Usability : UX Research and Design : 10th International Conference, DUXU 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtua... by DUXU (Conference) (10th : 2021 : Online), organiser 643242, Soares, Marcelo Marcio, editor 514932, Rosenzweig, Elizabeth, editor 643243, Marcus, Aaron, 1943-, editor 643244, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (23rd : 2021 : Online) issuing body 642922

Fabrication and characterization of graphene and carbon nanotube reinforced bioceramic nanocomposites by Hu, Huanlong

“…Although the high-speed wet ball milling method facilitated the satisfactory dispersion of nanocarbons into HA bioceramics, a large number of defects were introduced simultaneously. …”
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Design of a power management unit for a wireless-power-transfer-enabled wireless sensor node by Luo, Hao

“…Hence, this work proposes various circuit design techniques in developing the dedicated Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC) structures to facilitate implementation of such WPT technology. …”
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Towards haptic intelligence in robots by learning from demonstration by Turlapati Sri Harsha

“…In pursuit of this larger goal, this thesis proposes frameworks and algorithms that will use data collected from human demonstrations of (i) haptic exploration and (ii) dual arm manipulation tasks for improving spatial perception in robots and facilitate learning of contact tasks. Spatial perception using the sense of touch is interconnected with geometry. …”
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HiPIMS deposition of VO2 thermochromic coating for enhanced optical properties by Vu, Tuan Duc

“…This new strategy provides a solution to address VO2 Achilles’ heel, its instability, which could facilitate the applications of this near room temperature phase change materials with respect to not only thermochromic smart windows but also other applications. …”
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Dynamic games for resource allocation in metaverse services and architectures by Han, Yue

“…In this thesis, I aim to study their strategic interactions using game-theoretical approaches, in the context of (1) VSPs' synchronization assisted by ubiquitous IoT devices in chapter3 and (2) advanced computation services offered by EIPs to facilitate LSCI tasks in chapter4. In chapter3, I model the interactions among IoT devices and VSPs as a hierarchical game. …”
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AI techniques in CFD: leveraging physical priors with deep learning to improve on numerical solvers by Loh, Jessica Sher En

“…In conclusion, this thesis advances the combined field of AI and physics by extending the data saving work of previous studies to more practical network types for CFD tasks, proposing the use of mesh properties to enhance input features and graph convolutions, and finally by developing schemes to leverage available simple-geometry data to facilitate the solving of complex cases. It conducted extensive experiments across various flow scenarios, data schemes, and architectures to show that the methods successfully reduce data dependence and predictive error of the models. …”
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Investigation on the role of Sb doping on grain growth and properties of solution-processed CuIn(S,Se)2 by Ho, John Chun Wan

“…Cu3SbSe4, which was formed along the grain boundaries during selenization, has a low melting point and exist as liquid phase facilitating atomic diffusion across grain boundaries. …”
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Study on muscle remodeling using in vivo microscopy of drosophila metamorphosis and quantitative image analysis by Kuleesha

“…Advances in the understanding of signaling pathways involved in muscle mass control would facilitate the identification of pharmacological cure for muscle diseases. …”
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Efficient circuit-designs using spintronic devices by Deb, Suman

“…The last 50 years of Moore’s Law have witnessed a continuous shrinkage of CMOS technology node in the sub-micron range. While this has facilitated more and more transistors to be accommodated in the same silicon area, thereby increasing the computation power of microprocessors, smaller transistors drain more power in their OFF state. …”
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Towards A Robust Integrated Urban Mobility System: Public Transit and Ride-Sharing Systems by Guo, Xiaotong

“…This system is designed to facilitate a balanced vehicle distribution, ensuring that ride-hailing services are accessible equitably across different areas. …”
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