Towards automated damage detection for in-situ remanufacturing by Nguyen, Keith Wei Liang

“…A laborious remanufacturing process that benefits from automation is the inspection process, specifically damage detection and classification. It is preferable to automate damage detection from 3D data over 2D images, as the 3D data of the detected damage region is required for the hybrid manufacturing process in the downstream repair procedure. …”
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Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry-sclerophyll forest by Bowd, Elle J., Egidi, Eleonora, Lindenmayer, David B., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Cary, Geoffrey J., Foster, Claire

“…Our findings indicate that predicted increases in the frequency of fire may select for specific microbial communities directly and indirectly through ecological interactions, which may have functional implications for plants (increase in pathogens, decrease in symbionts), decomposition rates (declines in Actinobacteriota and Acidobacteriota) and carbon storage (decrease in ectomycorrhizal fungi). …”
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Imaging the wakes of jets with energy-energy-energy correlators by Bossi, Hannah, Kudinoor, Arjun S., Moult, Ian, Pablos, Daniel, Rai, Ananya, Rajagopal, Krishna

“…As the partons in a high energy jet propagate through the droplet of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in a heavy-ion collision they lose energy to, kick, and are kicked by the medium. The resulting modifications to the parton shower encode information about the microscopic nature of QGP. …”
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Explorations of combined nonsolvent and thermally induced phase separation (N-TIPS) method for fabricating novel PVDF hollow fiber membranes using mixed diluents by Zhao, Jie, Chong, Jeng Yi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…The membranes produced by N-TIPS method also exhibited a good tensile strength ranging from 5.6 ± 0.1–6.5 ± 0.2 MPa, showing a great potential for a broad range of water applications after further modifications. Besides, the formation of piezoelectric β-phase crystals of the PVDF membrane was observed when the mixed diluent was used, which sheds light on the possible applications of resultant membranes in electrochemical separation process.…”
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Towards deep neural networks robust to adversarial examples by Matyasko, Alexander

“…These adversarially crafted modifications of the input, so-called adversarial examples, are neural network ``blind spots'' and is the main subject of this dissertation. …”
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Epsilon, a cluster scheduler for Kubernetes clusters by Neo, Alex Jing Hui

“…Being a microservices-based scheduler, Epsilon is build using multiple microservices with strict service boundaries and are kept simple in design to prevent increasing code complexity due to modifications or feature updates. Epsilon contains multiple microservices for different functionalities, with some microservices making up the core system and the remaining as supporting features. …”
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Acidic corrosion behaviour of niobium-added welding overlays fabricated by self-shielded metal-cored wires by Liu, Dashuang, Wu, Yucheng, Long, Weimin, Wei, Ping, Wang, Rui, Zhou, Wei

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Characterization and evaluation of bilayer coating for enhanced localization and sustained drug delivery for fibrosis-induced ureteral stricture by Chin, Jia Wen

“…Drug release rates of polymer layer exposed to surface modifications of ii UV radiation, plasma treatment and hydrogel layer did not show any significant difference when compared to stents coated with only the drug-loaded polymer coating. …”
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Insertion of core CpG island element into human CMV promoter for enhancing recombinant protein expression stability in CHO cells by Mariati, Yeo, Jessna H. M., Koh, Esther Y. C., Ho, Steven C. L., Yang, Yuansheng

“…The human cytomegalovirus promoter (hCMV) is susceptible to gene silencing in CHO cells, most likely due to epigenetic events, such as DNA methylation and histone modifications. The core CpG island element (IE) from the hamster adenine phosphoribosyltransferase gene has been shown to prevent DNA methylation. …”
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Enhancing E. coli tolerance towards oxidative stress via engineering its global regulator cAMP Receptor Protein (CRP) by Basak, Souvik, Jiang, Rongrong

“…Error-prone PCR technique was employed to introduce modifications to CRP, and three mutants (OM1~OM3) were identified with improved tolerance via H2O2 enrichment selection. …”
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Lithological controls of the Mg isotope composition of the Lena River across seasons and its impact on the annual isotope flux to the Arctic Ocean by Mavromatis, V, Porcelli, D, Andersson, PS, Korets, MA, Pokrovsky, OS

“…Given the importance of permafrost regions in providing the major elements to the Arctic Ocean, and the vulnerability of these regions to ongoing climate change due to permafrost thaw and landscape modifications, assessing the magnitude and characterizing the factors governing isotope compositions in river waters across seasons and space is of high priority. …”

Layer-by-layer assembled micro and nano carriers for drug delivery applications by Mutukumaraswamy Shaillender

“…The bioactive agents may either be encapsulated in the core/template or inside the multilayers, with the option to tailor the properties of the carrier to the specific needs of the active material and therapeutic application. …”
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The influence of pregnancy complications on fetal and neonatal cardiovascular development by Aye, C

“…Higher blood pressure has also been observed in those born preterm in addition to specific cardiac modifications in young adulthood.</p> <p>Through detailed cardiovascular phenotyping, this thesis investigates the effects of exposure to <em>in utero</em> maternal hypertension and/or a preterm birth on offspring cardiovascular development in the antenatal and early postnatal period in a newly established cohort of infants. …”

Lattice strain and atomic replacement of CoO₆ octahedra in layered sodium cobalt oxide for boosted water oxidation electrocatalysis by Sun, Lan, Dai, Zhengfei, Zhong, Lixiang, Zhao, Yiwei, Cheng, Yan, Chong, Shaokun, Chen, Guanjun, Yan, Chunshuang, Zhang, Xiaoyu, Tan, Huiteng, Zhang, Long, Dinh, Khang Ngoc, Li, Shuzhou, Ma, Fei, Yan, Qingyu

“…This work provides an interesting avenues to optimize existing layered materials with inter/intralayer modifications for highly efficient water oxidation electrolysis.…”
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Intelligent online selling point extraction and generation for e-commerce recommendation by Guo, Xiaojie, Wang, Shugen, Zhao, Hanqing, Diao, Shiliang, Chen, Jiajia, Ding, Zhuoye, He, Zhen, Lu, Jianchao, Xiao, Yun, Long, Bo, Yu, Han, Wu, Lingfei

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Influences of East Asian winter monsoon and El Niño-southern oscillation variability on the Kuroshio intrusion to the South China Sea over the past 60 years by Lin, Ke, Han, Tao, Zhang, Yilin, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Lee, Shih-Yu, Wang, Jingyu, Mohtar, Ahmad T., Huang, Kuo-Fang, Chiang, Hong-Wei, Chen, Yue-Gau, Wang, Xianfeng

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Tools for multi-agent crowd simulation : redesigning and extending the COSMOS crowd simulation suite by Nasri Othman

“…Due to the modular design, simulation models made in COSMOS can be readily executed on a variety of simulation platforms, including our own Prototyping Simulator, Repast Simphony and MASON, without any code modifications in the models. Our performance tests on the optimizations of key simulation components indicated substantial performance improvements of over two orders of magnitude under selected tests. …”
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NMR structure and activity relationship of defensin-analogous peptides by Bai, Yang

“…In this thesis, molecular template evolution based on the peptide sequence modifications, biophysical studies using fluorescence labeling and NMR spectroscopy, virtual screening utilizing large scale molecular dynamics simulations are exploited for rational antimicrobial drug discovery. …”
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Diploastrea heliopora Sr/Ca and δ18O records from northeast Luzon, Philippines: An assessment of interspecies coral proxy calibrations and climate controls of sea surface temperat... by Goodkin, Nathalie F., Siringan, Fernando P., Hughen, K. A., Ramos, Riovie Dela Pena

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Climate change: crop performance and potential by Ramlan, Mohd Fauzi

“…In the studies regarding growth of forest species meant for domestication purposes, the suitability of Syzygium campanulatum and Hopea odorata for beautification and landscaping plants has shown some potential. However, modifications on such forest species using growth retardants are important. …”
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