Multicenter diagnostic evaluation of onsite COVID-19 Rapid Test (CTK Biotech) among symptomatic individuals in Brazil and the United Kingdom by Thompson, CR, Torres, PM, Kontogianni, K, Byrne, RL, LSTM Diagnostic group, Noguera, SV, Luna-Muschi, A, Marchi, AP, Andrade, PS, Dos Santos Barboza, A, Nishikawara, M, CONDOR steering group, Body, R, de Vos, M, Escadafal, C, Adams, E, Figueiredo Costa, S, Cubas-Atienzar, AI

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to numerous commercially available antigen rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs). …”

Nonlinear evolution and acceleration of unstable fuel-lean hydrogen/air flame at normal and cryogenic temperatures by Yang, L, Zhang, T, Wang, Y, Fang, X, Leach, F, Chen, Z

“…In this study, two-dimensional numerical simulations are performed to assess the effects of cryogenic temperature on the nonlinear evolution and acceleration of fuel-lean hydrogen flames. …”

Quantum computing and quantum neural networks: their foundation, optimisation, and application by Pointing, J

“…We investigate whether a QNN can have a classical deep neural network's (DNN) bias, known as simplicity bias, which is hypothesised to contribute to the success of DNNs. We run numerical experiments and derive proofs to demonstrate how the type of QNN affects its bias and expressivity. …”

A novel machine learning based framework for developing composite digital biomarkers of disease progression by Zhai, S, Liaw, A, Shen, J, Xu, Y, Svetnik, V, FitzGerald, JJ, Antoniades, CA, Holder, D, Dockendorf, MF, Ren, J, Baumgartner, R

“…However, the complexity of DHT datasets and the potential to derive numerous digital features that were not previously possible to measure pose challenges, including in selection of the most important digital features and construction of composite digital biomarkers. …”

Practitioner, patient and public views on the acceptability of mobile stroke units in England and Wales: A mixed methods study by Moseley, L, McMeekin, P, Price, C, Shaw, L, Laws, A, Allen, M, Ford, GA, James, M, McCarthy, S, McClelland, G, Park, LJ, Pearn, K, Phillips, D, White, P, Wilson, D, Scott, J

“…Conclusion: Whilst MSUs are mostly acceptable to key stakeholders, numerous areas of concern need to be addressed prior to MSU implementation. …”

Examining IoT-based smart campus adoption model: an investigation using two-stage analysis comprising structural equation modelling and artificial neural network by Sneesl, Radhwan, Jusoh, Yusmadi Yah, A. Jabar, Marzanah, Abdullah, Salfarina

“…The progress and evolution of technology have been rapidly transforming various aspects of our society and daily lives, including colleges and campuses into smarter environments compared to the past. Despite the numerous advantages offered by cutting-edge technologies, such as IoT-based smart campuses, academic research on their implementation suffers from a significant lack of comprehensive information necessary to deliver efficient smart campus solutions. …”
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Pedagogy, ICT skills, and online teaching readiness as factors on digital competency practices among secondary school teachers in Malaysia by Omar, Muhd Khaizer, Mohmad, Ikmal Rizal

“…Most nations responded with alacrity with numerous alternatives to teaching and learning (T&L) strategies. …”
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CSQUiD: an index and non-probability framework for constrained skyline query processing over uncertain data by Lawal, Ma'aruf Mohammed, Ibrahim, Hamidah, Mohd Sani, Nor Fazlida, Yaakob, Razali, Alwan, Ali A.

“…Uncertainty of data, the degree to which data are inaccurate, imprecise, untrusted, and undetermined, is inherent in many contemporary database applications, and numerous research endeavours have been devoted to efficiently answer skyline queries over uncertain data. …”
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Mineralization of palm oil mill effluent by advanced oxidation processes: A review on current trends and the way forward by Vijayan, Veena, Joseph, Collin G., Taufiq-Yap, Yun Hin, Gansau, Jualang Azlan, Nga, Janice L.H., Li Puma, Gianluca, Chia, Poh Wai

“…As the above methods require large working area and it takes more time for contaminant degradation, and in consideration of the strict environmental policies as well as palm oil being the most sort of vegetable oil in several countries, numerous researchers have concentrated on the emerging technologies such as advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) to remediate POME. …”
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Factors associated with workplace deviant behavior in a public organization in Malaysia and moderating role of religiosity by Radzali, Farah Mardiana

“…This concern has led to numerous research related to workplace deviant behavior and development of various counseling programs to help public servants work efficiently with integrity. …”
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Developing Industrial Energy Co2 Emission Taxation using An Environmental Input-Output Framework and its Economic Impacts (S/O 13814) by Harun, Mukaramah, Ahmad, Siti Aznor, Zamzuri Noor, Mohd Saifoul, Che Mat, Siti Hadijah, Fadzim, Wan Roshidah

“…The dominant industrial-produced emissions has led the country not only almost 0.7 percent of the global emissions, but also 6.93 metric tonnes CO2 per capita and 0.63 kg CO2 per GDP, much greater than Thailand and Indonesia. Although numerous measures and projects come all the way to reduce CO2 emission like the establishment of the SEDA Act 2011, the emission level is still at high level. …”
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Characteristics of NH3/H2 blend as carbon-free fuels: A review by Awad, Omar I., Zhou, Bo, Harrath, Karim, Kadirgama, Kumaran

“…Thus, the use of NH3 has numerous limitations in practical combustion applications. …”
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Removal of ammonia from rubber wastewater using rubber-sludge-based biochar to enhance biogas production by NurulEzza Fazlina, Abu, Noor Yahida, Yahya, Fatin Zafirah, Mansur, Nurmunira, Muhammad

“…However, the ammonia content in rubber wastewater, known as ammonia inhibition, has made the practical implementation of ADRW not yet feasible due to anaerobic digestion (AD) instability and low substrate degradation. Numerous studies have mentioned the use of biochar to overcome its inhibitory effect in AD. …”
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Water surge risk mapping using GIS-based spatial multi-criteria decision analysis approach by Syarifuddin, Misbari, Siti Sarah, Abd Razak, Muhammad Fuad Fahmi, Jaafar, Nadiatul Adilah, Ahmad Abdul Ghani, Mohd Faizal, Jamlos

“…The absence of an updated water surge risk map for recreational areas has led to numerous deaths, property damage, and environmental destruction. …”
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Robust Reinforcement Learning Strategies with Evolving Curriculum for Efficient Bus Operations in Smart Cities by Tang, Yuhan, Qu, Ao, Jiang, Xuan, Mo, Baichuan, Cao, Shangqing, Rodriguez, Joseph, Koutsopoulos, Haris N, Wu, Cathy, Zhao, Jinhua

“…We conduct extensive numerical experiments with the integration of synthetic and real-world data to evaluate our model. …”
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Volumetric enhancement of Raman scattering for fast detection based on a silver-lined hollow-core fiber by Chu, Qian, Jin, Zhiqiang, Yu, Xingtao, Li, Caoxin, Zhang, Weihua, Ji, Wenbing, Lin, Bo, Shum, Perry Ping, Zhang, Xuping, Wang, Guanghui

“…In order to solve those problems, we proposed a portable Raman cell, by using metal-lined hollow-core fibers (MLHCF) with large bandwidth, good field confinement, extremely large numerical aperture and arbitrary length. With our proposed fiber inserted light coupling and light reflecting method, a Raman cell of 3.1 cm in length provides nearly 50 times of signal enhancement compared with direct detection using bare fiber tip. …”
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Gaussian message passing for overloaded massive MIMO-NOMA by Liu, Lei, Yuen, Chau, Guan, Yong Liang, Li, Ying, Huang, Chongwen

“…Therefore, we propose and derive a new convergent GMP called scale-and-add GMP (SA-GMP), which always converges to the LMMSE multi-user detection performance for any Nu/Ns>1, and show that it has a faster convergence speed than the traditional GMP with the same complexity. Finally, the numerical results are provided to verify the validity and accuracy of the theoretical results presented.…”
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Pedestrian heading estimation based on spatial transformer networks and hierarchical LSTM by Wang, Qu, Luo, Haiyong, Ye, Langlang, Men, Aidong, Zhao, Fang, Huang, Yan, Ou, Changhai

“…Accurate heading estimation is the foundation of numerous applications, including augmented reality, pedestrian dead reckoning, and human-computer interactions. …”
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Modeling of NF/RO membrane fouling and flux decline using real-time observations by Park, Jongkwan, Jeong, Kwanho, Baek, Sangsoo, Park, Sanghun, Ligaray, Mayzonee, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Cho, Kyung Hwa

“…Many numerical models for membrane filtration have been developed to explain and predict fouling mechanisms. …”
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An extremum seeking-based approach for Nash equilibrium seeking in N-cluster noncooperative games by Ye, Maojiao, Hu, Guoqiang, Xu, Shengyuan

“…Thirdly, different from most of the existing works that adopt singular perturbation to analyze the stability of extremum seekers, this paper establishes the convergence results via Lyapunov stability analysis, which is novel and provides some new insights on the analysis of extremum seekers. A numerical example is provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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