Hyperspectral vision beyond 3D: a review by Antony, Maria Merin, Sandeep, C. S. Suchand, Matham, Murukeshan Vadakke

“…Latest compact HSI cameras with panoramic imaging capabilities offering high spatial and spectral resolutions are perfect candidates for remote sensing applications. Such capabilities facilitated the evolution of HSI into machine vision, resulting in the creation of a new realm named hyperspectral vision that enables intelligent automation. …”
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Characterizing the scouring efficiency of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) particles in membrane fouling mitigation via wavelet decomposition of accelerometer signals by Wang, Jingwei, Wu, Bing, Yang, Shiliang, Liu, Yu, Chew, Jia Wei, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…In particular, the particles facilitate back-transport in the polarization layer and also play the role of mechanical scouring agents, the latter of which is dominant for millimeter-sized particles. …”
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Hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha up-regulates CD70 under hypoxia and enhances anchorage-independent growth and aggressiveness in cancer cells by Kitajima, Shojiro, Lee, Kian Leong, Fujioka, Masaki, Sun, Wendi, You, Jia, Chia, Grace Sushin, Wanibuchi, Hideki, Tomita, Shuhei, Araki, Marito, Kato, Hiroyuki, Poellinger, Lorenz

“…Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) facilitate cellular adaptation to environmental stress such as low oxygen conditions (hypoxia) and consequently promote tumor growth. …”
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Environmental DNA metabarcoding of freshwater fish in Malaysian tropical rivers using short-read nanopore sequencing as a potential biomonitoring tool by Munian, Kaviarasu, Ramli, Farah Farhana, Othman, Nursyuhada, Mahyudin, Nur Aina Amira, Sariyati, Nur Hartini, Abdullah-Fauzi, Nurfatiha Akmal Fawwazah, Haris, Hidayah, Ilham-Norhakim, Mohd Lokman, Abdul-Latiff, Muhammad Abu Bakar

“…With favourable cost-effectiveness and increased species detection, eDNA metabarcoding could complement existing methods, enhance holistic diversity documentation for targeted habitats and facilitate effective conservation planning.…”
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Progress in prediction of photocatalytic CO2 reduction using machine learning approach: A mini review by Ali, Md Mohshin, Hossen, Md. Arif, Azrina, Abd Aziz

“…The fundamentals of PC-CO2R and the significance of utilizing ML models as a facilitative tool in photocatalysis are critically discussed in this review. …”
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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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Instability Scaffolding: Enacting Strategic Instabilities to Produce Authentic Premium Wine by Zhang, Alan

“…My dissertation explores how strategic instabilities are enacted in productions of fine wine, articulating the practices and arrangements that facilitate working with unstable production conditions in productive ways—a process I refer to as instability scaffolding. …”
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Experimental Evaluation of Underwater Semantic SLAM by Song, Thomas Jeongho

“…Higher-level missions such as search, surveillance, maintenance and manipulation require greater situational awareness, decision-making and navigation abilities, facilitated by processing semantic visual information and applying it to map generation and localization. …”
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Multifidelity Methods for Design of Transition MetalComplexes by Janet, Jon Paul

“…A framework for data-driven inference of the quantum properties of TM complexes is developed, using artificial neural networks (ANNs) and graph-based molecular representations that facilitate rapid screening while retaining physical meaning such that chemical insights can be extracted. …”
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Molecular engineering of biomolecule-based functional nanodots for biomedical applications by Xu Victor Hesheng

“…This strategy offers a simple and green approach as it utilises mainly biomolecules ranging from macro biostructures such as protein, DNA, to poly saccharides, polypeptide and even the building units such as nucleotides and amino acid, and their intrinsic properties to facilitate the formation of nanomaterials. Moreover, the resulting bioinspired nanomaterials are often endowed with unique characteristics such as rich chemical functionalities, aqueous solubility, unusual optical features, and great biocompatibility. …”
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Immediate test or delayed test : evidence of primary Mathematics learning by Arunachalam Thannimalai

“…Overall, usage of worked examples facilitated novice primary 2 students’ learning and this benefit became much less significant when learner expertise level grew as seen in the case of primary 4 student participants. …”
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Nanotwins-containing microstructure and superior mechanical strength of a Cu‒9Al‒5Fe‒5Ni alloy additively manufactured by laser metal deposition by Li, Boyuan, Zheng, Han, Han, Changjun, Zhou, Kun

“…These findings validated the applicability of LMD for printing the Cu‒9Al‒5Fe‒5Ni alloy and facilitated the potential applications in marine and offshore industries.…”
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Fragments of our past: a study of 19th to 20th century Japanese porcelains from Singapore's archaeological assemblages by Yuen, Ashley Lee Min

“…The undertaking of the development of a typology for Japanese porcelains unearthed from Singapore’s sites in this thesis will provide further impetus for effective identification of Japanese porcelains amongst other archaeological sites in Singapore and facilitate comprehensive cross-site analyses in the future. …”
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Post-quantum attacks against symmetric-key cryptography systems by Pham, Thi Minh Phuong

“…Next, building upon the observation that multi-collision attacks can be trans- formed into collision attacks, we adapted our automated tools to facilitate collision attacks. By incorporating the rebound techniques and the degree of freedom from keys and states to our model, we achieved significant advancements in the number of attacked rounds, ranging from one to five, in various target systems such as AES-128, Saturnin hashing mode, Grøstl-512, and SKINNY-hash. …”
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Eccentric compression performance of jointed precast concrete-encased concrete-filled steel tube columns with dry connections by Zhu, Gaoming, Tan, Kang Hai

“…Thus, in developed countries with severe manpower shortages such as Singapore, advanced precast dry connections were proposed for the CECFST columns to facilitate construction and tackle manpower crunch. …”
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Anodic TiO2 nanotube arrays with high surface area for dye-sensitized solar cells by Wang, Xiaoyan

“…Furthermore, the second layer nanotubes are tailored to seed from upper tube bottoms by interim treatment to facilitate ion diffusion. Subsequently, the two-step anodization is optimized and long enough nanotubes of small diameter are achieved, that is, with tube length of 31 μm and diameter of ~35 nm. …”
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Emergency logistics considering traffic congestion by Wang, Qingyi

“…Particularly, plannings of emergency supply and evacuation serve a fundamental role to increase effectiveness and efficiency of EL in field practice, and various models have been developed to facilitate the plannings in the past few decades. However, challenges of developing more practical planning models, which incorporate realistic factors and relationships, for real-world applications still exist. …”
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Profiling heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease using white-matter impairment factors by Sui, Xiuchao, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…By investigating heterogeneity and subtypes of AD through white matter impairment factors, our study could facilitate precision medicine.…”
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Intelligent diagnostic feedback in virtual learning environment by Guo, Ruisheng

“…It investigates the relative effectiveness of different types of feedback and how to optimize the feedback to maximize the facilitation of learning. It explores the ability of neural networks and data analysis techniques to model the stages of students’ learning. …”
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The influence of polarisation on the behaviour of anions within ion channels and nanopores by Phan, LX

“…To begin these studies, an in silico model biomimetic nanopore was designed to facilitate the exploration of Clˉ interactions with hydrophobic surfaces in confinement. …”