Investigation on frosting and defrosting performance of superhydrophobic metal additively manufactured materials by Yew, Yun Chian

“…To enhance the anti-frosting capabilities of both metal alloys, chemical etching using hydrochloric acid and boehmitization were used as methods to form micro/nanostructures on the surface of the tubes. …”
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Incremental learning technologies for semantic segmentation by Yang, Yizhuo

“…In addition, other incremental learning technologies - knowledge distillation, replay and parameter freezing are also applied to the proposed method to further assist the model in overcoming catastrophic forgetting. …”
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Nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Yusheng

“…In Chapter 4, we explore the discontinuous freezing transition in barrier-controlled nonequilibrium reactive particle systems by molecular dynamics simulations. …”
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Novel plant-derived macroporous scaffolds by Mohammed Shahrudin Ibrahim

“…The ability of pollen microgels to form 3D porous sponges via freeze-drying and the various factors that influence the sponge characteristics were investigated. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

“…To extend this approach to our 0-1 setting, we use a novel pruning method, as well as the two-level color-coding of Bringmann (2017) and the SMAWK algorithm on tall matrices.…”
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Cryogelation of human hair keratins by Chua, Huei Min

“…Nonetheless, conventional methods to translate HHK proteins into meaningful three-dimensional (3D) constructs often require chemical modifications or cross-linking additives. …”
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Efficient techniques for subgraph mining and query processing by Lin, Wenqing

“…Based on our analysis, we develop a GPU-based solution that (i) drastically differs from existing CPU-based methods, and (ii) exploits the strengths of GPUs in terms of parallelism while mitigating their limitations in terms of the computation power per GPU core. …”
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Urine osmolality assessment through the integration of urea hydrolysis and impedance measurement by Kong, Tian Fook, Shen, Xinhui, Sim, Mei Yi, Yong, Jin, Ng, Tze Kiat, Chong, Tsung Wen, Marcos

“…The urine osmolality of a urine sample can be estimated by determining the concentrations of the conductive solutes and urea, which make up approximately 94% of the urine composition. Our method utilizes impedance measurements to determine the conductive solutes and urea after hydrolysis with urease enzyme. …”
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Multi-objective optimization design and performance evaluation of a novel multi-stream intermediate fluid vaporizer with cold energy recovery by Wang, Zhe, Cai, Wenjian, Hong, Wei, Shen, Suping, Yang, Huizhu, Han, Fenghui

“…In this ingenious design, the self-evaporating gas of cryogenic liquid is adopted as the intermediate medium of IFV so that the equipment freezing can be effectively avoided under large flow conditions. …”
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Efficient algorithms for subgraph counting and enumeration on large graphs by Wang, Kaixin

“…This hybrid strategy enables more efficient pruning of sub-branches, resulting in a worst-case time complexity of O(m\delta + m\tau 3^(\tau/3)), where \tau is related to the maximum truss number. …”
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Learning class-specific edges for object detection and segmentation by Prasad, M, Zisserman, A, Fitzgibbon, A, Kumar, MP, Torr, PHS

“…This classifier may then be used to prune edges which are not relevant to the object class, and thereby improve the performance of subsequent processing. …”

Okara extract as a potential platform for micronutrients encapsulation in food fortification by Theniko, Nasya Martin

“…The efficacy of extraction process was investigated in varying acidic/alkaline conditions, followed by two different drying methods; freeze-drying and spray-drying. The extracts were tested with FTIR, TGA, DSC, and SEM analysis for material characterization and the extracts were then used to encapsulate β-carotene. …”
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Recent microencapsulation trends for enhancing the stability and functionality of anthocyanins: a review by Ijod, Giroon, Mohamed Nawawi, Nur Izzati, Anwar, Farooq, Abd Rahim, Muhamad Hafiz, Ismail-Fitry, Mohammad Rashedi, Mohd Adzahan, Noranizan, Mohamad Azman, Ezzat

“…This review also covers functional food and nutraceutical applications and introduces novel encapsulation methods, such as freeze-drying, supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2), coacervation, drum drying, and electrospraying, highlighting their potential in improving the utility of ACNs-rich fruit extracts.…”

Mussel-inspired approach to cross-linked functional 3D nanofibrous aerogels for energy-efficient filtration of ultrafine airborne particles by Zhang, Youfang, Zeng, Zhihui, Ma, Daphne Xiu Yun, Zhao, Chenyang, Ang, Jia Ming, Ng, Bing Feng, Wan, Man Pun, Wong, Shing-Chung, Wang, Zhe, Lu, Xuehong

“…Polymer aerogels fabricated using conventional methods typically have relatively narrow mono-modal pore size distribution (PSD), and relatively thick and tight pore walls. …”
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An integrated mHealth campaign to reduce the risk of falling for older adults by Brew-Sam, Nicola, Chib, Arul, Torres, Arah Ysabelle Fondevilla, Ng, Joshua Jing Xuan, Wong, Jade Yi Ting, Yeo, Sze-G

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Towards ILP-based LTLf passive learning by Ielo, A, Law, M, Fionda, V, Ricca, F, De Giacomo, G, De Giacomo, G, Russo, A

“…They use an example at the time to discard a single candidate formula at the time, instead of exploiting the full set of examples to prune the search space. This hinders their applicability when examples involve many atomic propositions or when the target formula is not small. …”

Progressive search space reduction for human pose estimation by Ferrari, V, Marin-Jimenez, M, Zisserman, A

“…The method is fully automatic and self-initializing, and explains the spatio-temporal volume covered by a person moving in a shot, by soft-labeling every pixel as belonging to a particular body part or to the background. …”

Effects of soil management practices on soil fauna feeding activity in an Indonesian oil palm plantation by Tao, H-H, Slade, E, Willis, KJ, Caliman, J-P, Snaddon, JL

“…To address this knowledge gap, we used the bait lamina method to investigate the effects of different soil management practices on soil fauna feeding activity, and whether feeding activity was associated with management-mediated changes in soil chemical properties, in a 15-year-old oil palm plantation. …”

Fabrication and characterization of protein-based tissue scaffold by Ko, Kok Wei.

“…The SF scaffolds were prepared and fabricated via freeze drying method for five different sets of SF concentration - (5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, 15%) wt/wt. …”
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Ultralight and Highly Elastic Graphene/Lignin-Derived Carbon Nanocomposite Aerogels with Ultrahigh Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Performance by Zhang, Youfang, Wang, Peiyu, Pei, Yongmao, Chen, Mingji, Lu, Xuehong, Zeng, Zhihui, Wang, Changxian, Seyed Shahabadi, Seyed Ismail

“…Ultralight and highly elastic reduced graphene oxide (RGO)/lignin-derived carbon (LDC) composite aerogels with aligned micron-sized pores and cell walls are prepared using a facile freeze-drying method. The presence of a small fraction of LDC in the cell walls enhances the interfacial polarization effect while almost maintaining the amount of charge carriers and conductivity of the cell walls, greatly boosting the wave absorption capability of the cell walls. …”
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