Direct measurement of a non-Hermitian topological invariant in a hybrid light-matter system by Su, Rui, Estrecho, Eliezer, Biegańska, Dąbrówka, Huang, Yuqing, Wurdack, Matthias, Pieczarka, Maciej, Truscott, Andrew G., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Ostrovskaya, Elena A., Xiong, Qihua

“…These are hybrid light-matter quasiparticles formed by photons strongly coupled to electron-hole pairs (excitons) in a halide perovskite semiconductor at room temperature. We experimentally map out both the real (energy) and imaginary (linewidth) parts of the spectrum near the exceptional points and extract the novel topological invariant—fractional spectral winding. …”
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Towards superior control in automatic face editing with generative adversarial networks by Zhang, Xijue

“…This project examines StyleMapGAN, a novel approach that evolves from StyleGAN by replacing AdaIN with intermediate latent space carrying information on spatial dimensions, hence capable of performing high-quality local editing. …”
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Image representation and deep inception-attention for file-type and malware classification by Wang, Yi, Wu, Kejun, Liu, Wenyang, Yap, Kim-Hui, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…With binary images as inputs, we propose a deep inception-attention network to extract discriminate horizontal features and re-calibrate the weights of feature maps, and finally, predict file types. Experiments on a large-scale benchmark show the superiority of the proposed model. …”
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Multiple distresses detection for asphalt pavement using improved You Only Look Once algorithm based on convolutional neural network by Dan, Han-Cheng, Yan, Peng, Tan, Jiawei, Zhou, Yinchao, Lu, Bingjie

“…Comparative tests reveal YOLOv7-CSP's superior performance, with significant improvements in mAP, F1 score, GFLOPS, and FPS metrics, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting various pavement distresses. …”
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Islands’ Metamorphoses: Two River Islands in Nanjing, China, as a Case Study in Historical Toponymy and Cartography by Xu, Duoduo

“…The present study illustrates the historical toponymy and historical topography of two river islands (located in the riverbed of the Yangtze River), belonging to the Nanjing’s territory, China, starting the toponymic analysis from a collection of ancient maps. The current Bailu Zhou island has inherited its name from a Li Bai’s poem after the ancient Bailu Zhou ‘disappeared’ because of hydro-geo-morphological events over time. …”
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A roadmap for lean production tools implementation by Zeinalpour Ahrabi, Saeed, Avakh Darestani, Soroush

“…By analysing the obtained results, a suitable roadmap for the implementation of lean manufacturing tools [including personnel (continuous improvement, performance management, organising), Kaizen, value stream map, 5S, standard work, productive maintenance, pull system, Jidoka, single minute exchange of die, Heijunka and continuous flow] has been presented.…”
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Genome-wide association analysis provides insights into the molecular etiology of dilated cardiomyopathy by Zheng, SL, Henry, A, Cannie, D, Lee, M, Miller, D, McGurk, KA, Bond, I, Xu, X, Issa, H, Francis, C, De Marvao, A, Theotokis, PI, Buchan, RJ, Speed, D, Abner, E, Adams, L, Aragam, KG, Ärnlöv, J, Raja, AA, Backman, JD, Baksi, J, Barton, PJR, Biddinger, KJ, Boersma, E, Lindgren, CM

“…We identified 80 genomic risk loci and prioritized 62 putative effector genes, including several with rare variant DCM associations (MAP3K7, NEDD4L and SSPN). Using single-nucleus transcriptomics, we identify cellular states, biological pathways, and intracellular communications that drive pathogenesis. …”

Vapour deposition of metal halide perovskite semiconductors by Yuan, Q

“…The presence of Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) planar defects is uncovered in these Cs-rich films whilst intensified trap-mediated recombination dynamics are revealed, which correlate to the number density of RP defects in γ-CsPbI₃.…”

Unravelling the degradation pathways and charging mechanism in the Li-O2 battery: the role of singlet oxygen by Zor, C

“…In the LOB literature, ¹O₂ is mainly detected and quantified using DMA, a ¹O₂ trap. Here, it is revealed that DMA can react with superoxide depending on the salt-solvent combination and DMAO₂, the reaction product of ¹O₂ with DMA, can degrade into by-products depending on the solvent environment. …”

Inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum stress using 4-phenyl butyrate mitigates osteoporosis in a mouse model of hindlimb suspension by Al-Daghestani, Hiba Saad Subhi

“…Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and osteocalcin (OC) expressions were downregulated, while cathepsin K (Cat K), Tartrate resistant Acid Phosphatase (TRAP), and sclerostin were upregulated. Taken together, these characteristics of bone reflect poorer mineralization, less collagen crosslinking, and a pro-inflammatory effect. …”
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Data Sculptures as a Playful and Low-Tech Introduction to Working with Data by Bhargava, Rahul, D'Ignazio, Catherine

“…This paper argues that activities focused on building physical manifestations of data, where some variable is mapped onto a physical artifact, are uniquely well-suited to scaffolding a process and exposing learners to methods so that they may take the next step in a learning journey. …”
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Economic outcomes predicted by diversity in cities by Chong, Shi Kai, Bahrami, Mohsen, Chen, Hao, Balcisoy, Selim, Pentland, Alex

“…In this paper we show that diversity of amenities within a city neighborhood, computed from openly available points of interest on digital maps, accurately predicts human mobility (“flows”) between city neighborhoods and that these flows accurately predict neighborhood economic productivity. …”
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An optical watermarking scheme with two-layer framework based on computational ghost imaging by Liansheng, Sui, Yin, Cheng, Ailing, Tian, Asundi, Anand Krishna

“…Differing from other watermarking schemes, the information of original watermark can be verified without clear visualization via calculating the nonlinear correlation map between the original one and the reconstructed one. …”
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Joint PAPR Reduction and Physical Layer Security Enhancement in OFDMA-PON by Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Chongfu, Chen, Chen, Jin, Wei, Qiu, Kun

“…In encrypting, the in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) parts of the quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbols are coded with two phase sequences separately, which are generated using a 2-D logistic map. The encrypted OFDM symbols comprise an OFDM frame, and the frame with the minimum PAPR is transmitted to the optical network unit side. …”
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Cross-Modal Deep Variational Hashing by Liong, Venice Erin, Lu, Jiwen, Zhou, Jie, Tan, Yap Peng

“…Unlike most existing cross-modal hashing methods which learn a single pair of projections to map each example into a binary vector, we design a deep fusion neural network to learn non-linear transformations from image-text input pairs, such that a unified binary code is achieved in a discrete and discriminative manner using a classification-based hinge-loss criterion. …”
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An Energy-Efficient Digital ReRAM-Crossbar-Based CNN With Bitwise Parallelism by Ni, Leibin, Liu, Zichuan, Yu, Hao, Joshi, Rajiv V.

“…In this paper, we present a resistive random access memory (ReRAM)-accelerated CNN that can achieve significantly higher throughput and energy efficiency when the CNN is trained with binary constraints on both weights and activations, and is further mapped on a digital ReRAM-crossbar. We propose an optimized accelerator architecture tailored for bitwise convolution that features massive parallelism with high energy efficiency. …”
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On being religious : patterns of religious commitment in Muslim societies by Riaz Hassan

“…This is probably the first attempt to compare and "map out" Muslim religiosity in Muslim countries. …”
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Competing pairing interactions responsible for the large upper critical field in a stoichiometric iron-based superconductor CaKFe4As4 by Bristow, M, Knafo, W, Reiss, P, Meier, W, Canfield, PC, Blundell, SJ, Coldea, AI

“…Here we experimentally map out the complete upper-critical-field phase diagram of a stoichiometric superconductor, CaKFe4As4, up to 90 T for different orientations of the magnetic field and at temperatures down to 4.2K. …”

Deep mutation, insertion and deletion scanning across the Enterovirus A proteome reveals constraints shaping viral evolution by Bakhache, W, Symonds-Orr, W, McCormick, L, Dolan, PT

“…Here, we conduct deep mutational scanning to map and quantify the mutational tolerance of a complete viral proteome to insertion, deletion and substitution. …”

Spatial and temporal analysis of marine water pollution in Port Klang: developing a GIS database for assessing patterns and trends by Kamar Supardi, Izyan Hakimah, Mohamad Abdullah, Nazirah, Tugi, Astina, Ismail, Badrul Hisham

“…The study utilizes geographic information systems (GIS) and the Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) interpolation technique to map marine water quality parameters and analyze their spatial distribution. …”
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