Stronger dielectric-elastomer grippers using spine-like bending structure by Heng, Kim Rui

“…The high stiffness of the structure leads to a stronger, fast-response and lightweight soft gripper, capable of producing large force. …”
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Feasibility study of using 3D printed polymer sleeves for local deburring of test coupons using Drag finishing process by Muhammad Asyaari Juraimi

“…Drag Finishing is a high-energy media finishing technology developed for fast and precise finishing of high value and sensitive parts with applications for burr removal to improve edges along complex features. …”
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Electrical charge transport and optical properties of iron pyrite by Shukla, Sudhanshu

“…Charge carrier dynamics in nanocube thin film revealed fast carrier localization and long-lived trap states in the pure pyrite. …”
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ORB-based optimal lost robot self-recovery by Soo, Danny Hong Kit

“…This report will explore the integration of a recently-developed descriptor, ORB (Oriented Fast and Rotated Brief), and the DBoW2 hierarchical tree structure to create an algorithm which guides a lost robot back to its programmed path through visual means. …”
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A New Collocation Scheme Using Non-polynomial Basis Functions by Zhang, Chao, Liu, Wenjie, Wang, Li-Lian

“…With a direct inverting the operator, the basis can be pre-computed in a fast and stable manner. This leads to new collocation schemes for general second-order boundary value problems with (i) the matrix corresponding to the operator LλLλ being identity; (ii) well-conditioned linear systems and (iii) exact imposition of various boundary conditions. …”
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Holographic arrays based on semiconductor microstructures by Liew, Timothy Chi Hin

“…The device allows complete 100% intensity contrast and allows for the construction of small pixel sizes with fast response times.…”
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Efficient HIK SVM learning for image classification by Wu, Jianxin

“…ICD is much faster than, and has similar accuracies to, general purpose SVM solvers and other fast HIK SVM training methods. We also extend ICD to the efficient training of a broader family of kernels. …”
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Adeno-associated virus mediated rhodopsin delivery in preventing secondary cone degeneration in rhodopsin knockout mice by Dauletbekov, D

“…The overall objective of this work was to develop an optimized gene replacement therapy, delivering the rhodopsin gene for rhodopsin- linked RP and establish whether secondary cone loss can be delayed.</p> <p>A fast-acting single mutant serotype 8 self-complementary adeno-associated virus vector was produced containing the human rhodopsin promoter and the human rhodopsin coding sequence. …”

Oxford-IIIT TRECVID 2010 – notebook paper by Juneja, M, Chandra, S, Parkhi, OM, Jawahar, CV, Vedaldi, A, Marszalek, M, Zisserman, A

“…Compared to last year, the image-level classifier was significantly faster due to the use of a fast dense SIFT feature extractor and of an explicit feature map to approximate the χ² kernel SVM. …”

Highly selective upcycling of plastic mixture waste by microwave-assisted catalysis over Zn/b-ZnO by Zhao, J, Liu, B, Xiong, L, Liu, W, Wang, D, Ma, W, Jiang, L, Yang, J, Wang, P, Xiao, T, Zhao, S, Edwards, PP, Tang, J

“…Here, a hybrid Zn/b-ZnO catalyst, together with the specially-designed microwave reaction system, has achieved fast plastic waste upgrading under atmospheric pressure without using H2. …”

Efficient additive kernels via explicit feature maps by Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…In particular, we: 1) provide explicit feature maps for all additive homogeneous kernels along with closed form expression for all common kernels; 2) derive corresponding approximate finite-dimensional feature maps based on a spectral analysis; and 3) quantify the error of the approximation, showing that the error is independent of the data dimension and decays exponentially fast with the approximation order for selected kernels such as χ2. …”

New derivatives of polyglutamic acid as drug carrier systems by Hoste, K, Schacht, E, Seymour, L

“…Concerning the body distribution, the PEG conjugates are not excreted very fast and are not taken up by any organ in particular. …”

Organic solid-state photochromism using porous scaffolds by Mollick, S, Tan, J-C

“…When exposed to light, organic photochromic molecules undergo a fast and reversible change in their electronic structure, resulting in a shift in colour. …”

An automatic grading model for semantic complexity of english texts using bidirectional attention-based autoencoder by Chen, Ruo Han, Ng, Boon Sim, Paramasivam, Shamala, Ren, Li

“…The experimental results show that the overall accuracy of BSETG algorithm is maintained between 70% and 90%, the response speed of BSETG algorithm is relatively fast, and the success rate of BSETG algorithm is relatively stable to a large extent.…”

Promoting strategic internal communication in governance to enhance employee creativity in organization by Nur Hidayah, Shamsul Azhar, Fadzida, Ismail, Noor Akma, Abu Bakar

“…The study analyzed 134 questionnaire data gathered from Ipoh, Perak, using the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) approach. …”
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Winning Models for Grade Point Average, Grit, and Layoff in the Fragile Families Challenge by Rigobon, Daniel E., Jahani, Eaman, Suhara, Yoshihiko, AlGhoneim, Khaled, Alghunaim, Abdulaziz, Pentland, Alex, Almaatouq, Abdullah

“…The authors’ modular and collaborative approach parallelized prediction tasks and relied primarily on existing data science techniques, including (1) data preprocessing: elimination of low variance features, imputation of missing data, and construction of composite features; (2) feature selection through univariate mutual information and extraction of nonzero least absolute shrinkage and selection operator coefficients; (3) three machine learning models: random forest, elastic net, and gradient-boosted trees; and finally (4) prediction aggregation according to performance. …”
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Improving Attention Using Wearables via Haptic and Multimodal Rhythmic Stimuli by Whitmore, Nathan W, Chan, Samantha, Zhang, Jingru, Chwalek, Patrick, Chin, Sam, Maes, Pattie

“…We found that combined sound and light stimuli from a glasses device provided the strongest improvement to attention but were the least usable and socially acceptable. Haptic vibration stimuli from a wristband also improved attention and were the most usable and socially acceptable. …”
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Our sub-universe, the wider universe, and their properties by Ng, Yew-Kwang

“…The question ‘why is there the wider universe?’ is meaningless or at least does not have an answer. Given the first law of thermodynamics, something must have existed for ever. …”
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Reflection removal on single light field capture using focus manipulation by Ni, Yun, Chen, Jie, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…Extensive experiments have been carried out over both synthetic and real LF data, which show our method outperforms state-of-the-art ones by at least 2.9 dB in terms of background restoration PSNR, with significantly fewer visual artifacts.…”
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Quantification of capsaicinoids in chillies by solid-phase extraction coupled with voltammetry by Chan, Kwok Kiong, Muhammad Shafique Bin Hamid, Webster, Richard David

“…Linear calibration curves for voltammetry measurements were obtained from low ppm up to at least 1400 ppm of capsaicinoids, with concentrations being detected in the different source extracts (paprika, tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, and fresh chillies) from approximately 17 to 430 ppm, which corresponded to values of between approximately 130 and 4000 ppm, respectively, present in the original samples.…”
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