Design and Evaluation of an Automatic Scheduling-Manual Operation Tool to Bring Precision Irrigation to Resource-Constrained Farmers by Van de Zande, Georgia D, Sheline, Carolyn, Amrose, Susan, Costello, Jeffrey, Ghodgaonkar, Aditya, Grant, Fiona, Winter, Amos G

“…Through interviews and focus groups facilitated by a series of storyboards and a physical prototype, the proposed concept was evaluated by farmers and key market stakeholders in Kenya, Jordan, and Morocco. …”
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Kinetic subspace investigation using neural network for uncertainty quantification in nonpremixed flamelets by Koenig, Benjamin C, Ji, Weiqi, Deng, Sili

“…The tunability, generality, and reduced computational cost of this method demonstrate its potential to facilitate uncertainty quantification of complex and large-scale combustion problems.…”
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Urban street clusters: unraveling the associations of street characteristics on urban vibrancy dynamics in age, time, and day by Jang, Kee M., Suh, Hanew, Haddad, Fadi G., Sun, Maoran, Duarte, Fábio, Kim, Youngchul

“…Recent advancements in urban big data have facilitated the potential to understand and measure vibrancy patterns throughout cities. …”
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Understanding electrostatic interaction on strong cation-exchanger via co-ion valency effects by Essert, GM, de Souza, JP, Schwaminger, SP, Bazant, MZ, Berensmeier, S

“…Further, optimizing the resin design or improving the adsorption and desorption conditions for biomolecules may be facilitated. Altogether, our work may improve material designing and process development and, thereby, help to overcome the concurrent technological and economic bottlenecks of the well-deployed purification step of IEC.…”
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Click chemistry as a versatile reaction for construction and modification of metal-organic frameworks by Li, Pei-Zhou, Wang, Xiao-Jun, Zhao,Yanli

“…The inherent feature of incorporating decorative organic components as building blocks has facilitated MOF constructions by ingenious pre-design and post-synthetic modifications of the organic moieties through appropriate reactions. …”
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Highly stretchable, elastic, and ionic conductive hydrogel for artificial soft electronics by Zhou, Yang, Wan, Changjin, Yang, Yongsheng, Yang, Hui, Wang, Shancheng, Dai, Zhendong, Ji, Keju, Jiang, Hui, Chen, Xiaodong, Long, Yi

“…The well-distributed porous structure as well as ion migration–facilitated ion-rich environment generated by embedded HPC fibers dramatically enhances ionic conductivity (up to 3.4 S m −1 , at f = 1 MHz). …”
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Peer-to-peer power trading with voltage and congestion management for distribution grids by Sampath, Lahanda Purage Mohasha Isuru, Paudel, Amrit, Foo, Eddy Yi Shyh, Nguyen, Hung Dinh, Gooi, Hoay Beng

“…An Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM)- based coordinating algorithm is proposed in which the P2P power trading is facilitated at the first step, and the second step involves ancillary services market clearing considering the grid constraints and the power injections of the P2P participants, in a distributed and interactive manner. …”
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Ion-exchange controlled surface engineering of cobalt phosphide nanowires for enhanced hydrogen evolution by Xu, Rongrong, Jiang, Tengfei, Fu, Zheng, Cheng, Ningyan, Zhang, Xingxiu, Zhu, Kun, Xue, Huaiguo, Wang, Wenjun, Tian, Jingqi, Chen, Peng

“…Based on both comprehensive state-of-the-art experimental characterizations and theoretical investigations, the excellent catalytic performance is attributed to increased active sites, facilitated charge transfer and transport, as well as weakened H adsorption and strengthened H2O adsorption due to the synergistic effects of S dopants and P vacancies.…”
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Lotus root-like porous carbon for potassium ion battery with high stability and rate performance by Wang, Huanhuan, Artemova, Anastasiia, Yang, Guang, Wang, Haisheng, Zhang, Lili, Cao, Xu, Arkhipova, Ekaterina, Liu, Jilei, Huang, Yizhong, Lin, Jianyi, Shen, Zexiang

“…The enlarged interlayer spacing for facilitated K+ intercalation, together with a robust structure, result in high reversible capacity after cycling test.…”
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Droplet impingement on coated incline heated surface by Nai, Ze Yuan

“…Advances in surface engineering, propelled by modern technology, have facilitated the development of surfaces with diverse properties. …”
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Predicting word vectors for microtext by Chaturvedi, Iti, Satapathy, Ranjan, Lynch, Curtis, Cambria, Erik

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Distributed multilevel storage infrastructure for visual surveillance in intelligent transportation networks by Chih, Wei Ling

“…To deal with the extreme volume and the massively geographically distributed sources of data, we advocate a tiered storage and processing architecture, using edge nodes to augment a centralized backbone, facilitated by network coding and emerging fog computing solutions. …”
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Reinforcement learning for an efficient and effective malware investigation during cyber Incident response by Dunsin, Dipo, Ghanem, Mohamed Chahine, Ouazzane, Karim, Vassilev, Vassil

“…The epsilon-greedy exploration strategy, in conjunction with Q-learning updates, effectively facilitated transitions. The learning rate depended on the complexity of the MDP environment: higher in simpler ones for quicker convergence and lower in more complex ones for stability. …”
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ECG analysis of ventricular fibrillation dynamics reflects ischaemic progression subject to variability in patient anatomy and electrode location by Martinez-Navarro, H, Bertrand, A, Doste, R, Smith, H, Tomek, J, Ristagno, G, Oliveira, RS, Weber dos Santos, R, Pandit, SV, Rodriguez, B

“…Results: Regional acute myocardial ischaemia facilitated re-entries, potentially breaking up into VF. …”

Seen and heard: combining in-depth interviewing with social messaging to study the lived experiences of gifted youth in high power distance cultures by Wan Mohd Nor, Sofiya, Krauss, Steven, Roslan, Samsilah, Syed-Abdullah, Sharifah Intan Sharina

“…Combining these techniques facilitated in-depth exploration into the lived experiences and challenges of being gifted, and how giftedness shaped participants’ self-concept. …”
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Exploring the therapeutic potential of 5-fluorouracil-loaded calcium carbonate nanoparticles combined with natural compound thymoquinone for colon cancer treatment by Deng, Xi, Yang, Zhongming, Chan, Kim Wei, Abu Bakar, Md Zuki

“…Its favorable biocompatibility, pH sensitivity, and sustained release properties facilitated reduced toxic side effects of 5-FU on NIH3T3 normal cells and enhanced inhibitory effects on CT26 colon cancer cells. …”
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The magnitude and risk factors of intestinal parasitic infection in relation to human immunodeficiency virus infection and immune status, at ALERT hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Taye, Biruhalem, Desta, Kassu, Ejigu, Selamawit, Dori, Geme Urge

“…The study was conducted in (1) HIV positive on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and (2) ART naïve HIV positive patients, and (3) HIV-negative individuals, at All African Leprosy and Tuberculosis (TB) Eradication and Rehabilitation Training Center (ALERT) hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. …”
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Development of an application to improve mental health (A) by Khor, Chin Yi

“…In the past decadePsychological First Aid (PFA), a group of skills to limit distress and negative health behaviour that could negatively impact the rehabilitation of people from a traumatic experience, became famous for peer support in handling mental health in the community. …”
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Development of vision-based terrain recognition method for lower limb exoskeleton for outdoor environments by Gupta, Paluk

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Trends and Variability in Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Ocean Heat Uptake Since 2005 by Hakuba, Maria Z., Fourest, Sébastien, Boyer, Tim, Meyssignac, Benoit, Carton, James A., Forget, Gaël, Cheng, Lijing, Giglio, Donata, Johnson, Gregory C., Kato, Seiji, Killick, Rachel E., Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas, Kuusela, Mikael, Landerer, Felix

“…To date, the most precise measurements of EEI change are obtained through radiometric observations at the top of the atmosphere (TOA), while the quantification of EEI absolute magnitude is facilitated through heat inventory analysis, where ~ 90% of heat uptake manifests as an increase in ocean heat content (OHC). …”
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