Towards A Robust Integrated Urban Mobility System: Public Transit and Ride-Sharing Systems by Guo, Xiaotong

“…The first three studies focus on the vehicle rebalancing problem, which is one of the most critical strategies in ride-sharing operations. …”
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Optical properties of semi-conductive MXene Sc2COx, CsPbBr3 nanoplatelets and quantum dots by Chen, Qiran

“…Unlike traditional semiconductor materials like Si, Ge, II-VI and III-V materials, the novel ones usually have low-dimensional form natively, which have emerged as very promising candidates for advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices. …”
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Enhancing tensile and fatigue properties of additively manufactured alloys by post-processing heat treatment by Radhakrishnan, Jayaraj

“…Amongst the five different heat treatment schedules examined, one set led to the retention of as-built grain morphology and texture with the formation of the δ phase. …”
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Clustering-based solutions for energy efficiency, adaptability and resilience in IoT networks by Shivaraman, Nitin

“…Existing solutions achieve one or at most two of the requirements collectively, with no solution incorporating all three requirements. …”
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An omics-based machine learning approach to predict diabetes progression: a RHAPSODY study by Slieker, Roderick C., Münch, Magnus, Donnelly, Louise A., Bouland, Gerard A., Dragan, Iulian, Kuznetsov, Dmitry, Elders, Petra J. M., Rutter, Guy A., Ibberson, Mark, Pearson, Ewan R., Hart, Leen M. 't, van de Wiel, Mark A., Beulens, Joline W. J.

“…Model development was performed in one cohort and the model was applied in a second cohort. …”
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Scheduling and resource optimization in rail operations : models and algorithms by Birhade, Mahendra Pandharinath

“…The Locomotive Scheduling Problem (LSP) and the Locomotive Routing Problem (LRP) are considered one of the most important resource scheduling problems in rail operations planning. …”
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Development of highly efficient organic and perovskite solar cells by Li, Xianqiang

“…Among various renewable energy sources, solar energy is the most plentiful one. Great efforts have been made to develop highly efficient and low-cost photovoltaic (PV) technologies. …”
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The effects of atmosphere-ocean-wave coupling during tropical cyclone by Garg, Nikhil

“…This transfer of momentum (from atmosphere to ocean) is not a one-way link, i.e., there are feedback effects from ocean (both in terms of enthalpy and momentum) on the atmospheric boundary layer. …”
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Developing a portable, high-speed, low-cost desktop photoacoustic tomography imaging system by Kalva, Sandeep Kumar

“…Moreover, this Nd:YAG laser is very expensive and has low pulse repetition rate of (10-100) Hz. So, one SUT takes several minutes to acquire a single cross-sectional PA data. …”
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Blood-stage malaria vaccine candidate RH5.1/Matrix-M in healthy Tanzanian adults and children; an open-label, non-randomised, first-in-human, single-centre, phase 1b trial by Silk, SE, Kalinga, WF, Salkeld, J, Mtaka, IM, Ahmed, S, Milando, F, Diouf, A, Bundi, CK, Balige, N, Hassan, O, Mkindi, CG, Rwezaula, S, Athumani, T, Mswata, S, Lilolime, NS, Simon, B, Msami, H, Mohamed, M, David, DM, Mohammed, L, Nyaulingo, G, Mwalimu, B, Juma, O, Mwamlima, TG, Sasamalo, IA, Mkumbange, RP, Kamage, JJ, Barrett, JR, King, LDW, Hou, MM, Pulido, D, Carnrot, C, Lawrie, AM, Cowan, RE, Nugent, FL, Roberts, R, Cho, J-S, Long, CA, Nielsen, CM, Miura, K, Draper, SJ, Olotu, AI, Minassian, AM

“…All participants receiving at least one dose of vaccine were included in the primary analyses. …”

Effects of noise exposure on occupational stress among palm oil mill workers in Malaysia by Roya, Latifi Naeini

“…The environmental noise resulted from operating machineries usually exceeded the NIOSH (1999) recommended exposure limit of 85 dB (A) and as one of the major environmental stressors in palm oil mills is always considered as a key factor in creation of a series of complaints and develop occupational stress as a chronic disorder among palm oil mill workers. …”
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Mesh quality improvement by re-triangulation surface meshes on 3-dimensional CAD model of a human wrist joint by Leong, Mun Teik

“…In term of accuracy of the model, the surface area and volume of the cortical and cancellous bones had no significant changed with less than 0.15 % and 0.25 % compared to the initial bones model. …”
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Coordinated power management for islanded microgrids by Lin, Pengfeng

“…By using the LDC, BICs are allowed to exchange information with one another in the distributed communication graph. …”
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Part I : Peptide functionalized materials for gram-negative bacteria targeted PDT and LPS sensing. Part II : Small peptide and membrane lipid based self-assembled nanostructures fo... by Liu, Fang

“…Moreover, our results also unequivocally indicated that ROS could serve as one non-negligible factor to overcome the endo/lysosomal barriers and to facilitate the fast translocation of caged drugs into nucleus. …”
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Effects of condensed tannin fractions from Leucaena leucocephala (LAM.) De wit hybrid on methane mitigation, rumen fermentation and diversity of methanogens, protozoa and bacteria... by Mookiah, Saminathan

“…Methane gas released from livestock, in particular the ruminants accounts to about one-third of global anthropogenic CH4 emission. …”
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Evaluation of diabetic wound healing properties of moringa oleifera lam using in vitro and in vivo wound models by Muhammad Amali, Abubakar

“…Animals were grouped into six, consisting of six rats in each group (n=6): Two groups of normal and diabetic controls, three groups of 0.5%, 1% and 2% w/w, aqueous fraction treated and one group of positive control that received 1% w/w silver sulfadiazine as standard drug. …”
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RES.14-002 Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2011, Spring 2011 by Glennerster, Rachel, Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther

“…This five-day program on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one's own evaluation. While the course focuses on randomized evaluations, many of the topics, such as measuring outcomes and dealing with threats to the validity of an evaluation, are relevant for other methodologies. …”
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Towards robust sensing and recognition : from statistical learning to transfer learning by Yang, Jianfei

“…For instance, in WiFi-based activity recognition, the model trained in one environment cannot generalize well in a new environment due to the spatial shift existing in different environments. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…In the application of barrier protection on floating platforms, the barrier material is one of the key considerations with high strength, corrosion resistance and low cost. …”
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Design and analysis of high torque density machines for aerospace applications by Shen, Fawen

“…The key electromagnetic performances of the high-power SV-VPMM are compared with those of the permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM), which is one of the most popular industrial benchmark machines. …”
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