Elucidating the strain–vacancy–activity relationship on structurally deformed Co@CoO nanosheets for aqueous phase reforming of formaldehyde by Qian, Kaicheng, Yan, Yong, Xi, Shibo, Wei, Tong, Dai, Yihu, Yan, Xiaoqing, Kobayashi, Hisayoshi, Wang, Sheng, Liu, Wen, Li, Renhong

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Learning hierarchical review graph representations for recommendation by Liu, Yong, Yang, Susen, Zhang, Yinan, Miao, Chunyan, Nie, Zaiqing, Zhang, Juyong

“…The user review data have been demonstrated to be effective in solving different recommendation problems. …”
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High performance thin nonwovens for thermal insulation by Lou, Bi Ying

“…Hence, in this work, an effort had been made to create thin and light weight nonwovens with high thermal insulation performance. …”
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Pangolin-inspired stretchable, microwave-invisible metascale by Wang, Changxian, Lv, Zhisheng, Mohan, Manoj Prabhakar, Cui, Zequn, Liu, Zhihua, Jiang, Ying, Li, Jiaofu, Wang, Cong, Pan, Shaowu, Muhammad Faeyz Karim, Liu, Ai Qun, Chen, Xiaodong

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Video summarization of person of interest (POI) by Lit, Laura Pei Lin

“…Multiple state-of-the-art face detection, mask classification and face recognition models have been explored and integrated into the new pipeline to achieve this goal. …”
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Structural performance and design of stainless steel gusset plate connections by Khine Myint Myat Thein

“…A numerical study on stainless steel open sections connected to gusset plate has been conducted and presented in this report. An experimental study using 16 test specimens for angle-to-gusset plate connection and 16 specimens for channel-to-gusset plate were observed as a benchmark for this research. …”
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Barium aluminate improved iron ore for the chemical looping combustion of syngas by Wang, Haiming, Dou, Xiaomin, Veksha, Andrei, Liu, Wen, Giannis, Apostolos, Ge, Liya, Lim, Teik-Thye, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…However, CLC of municipal solid waste (MSW) has been seldom reported. In this study, we investigated the CLC of simulated MSW-derived syngas using iron ore (IO)-based oxygen carriers (OCs). …”
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the diploid blueberry Vaccinium darrowii provides insights into its subtropical adaptation and cuticle synthesis by Cui, Fuqiang, Ye, Xiaoxue, Li, Xiaoxiao, Yang, Yifan, Hu, Zhubing, Overmyer, Kirk, Brosché, Mikael, Yu, Hong, Salojärvi, Jarkko

“…Vaccinium darrowii is a subtropical wild blueberry species that has been used to breed economically important southern highbush cultivars. …”
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Label-free quantitative measurement of cardiovascular dynamics in a zebrafish embryo using frequency-comb-referenced-quantitative phase imaging by Boonruangkan, Jeeranan, Farrokhi, Hamid, Rohith, Thazhe Madam, Kwok, Samuel, Carney, Tom J., Su, Pei-Chen, Kim, Young-Jin

“…Approach: Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has emerged as a powerful technique in the field of biomedicine but has not been actively applied to the monitoring of circulatory/cardiovascular parameters, due to dynamic speckles and low frame rates. …”
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阶级、互动、认同：《幻土》、《爸妈不在家》和《霉运大厦》中新加坡移工的身份建构 = Class, interactions and identity: Singapore migrant workers' construction of self-identity in A Land Imagined, Ilo Ilo and Unlucky Plaza... by 郑静琦 Tay, Kimberly Jing Qi

“…At the same time, more films about migrant workers have been produced, emphasising the negative perceptions they face in society. …”
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Studies on the performance bounds and design of current-steering DACs by Chacón, Oscar Morales

“…With the exponential growth of data throughput in modern communication standards, e.g., fifth-generation (5G), DACs has been pushed to achieve direct frequency synthesis in the GHz-range with channel bandwidths preferably beyond 1 GHz. …”
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A finer-grain analysis of the leakage (non) resilience of OCB by Berti, Francesco, Bhasin, Shivam, Breier, Jakub, Hou, Xiaolu, Poussier, Romain, Standaert, François-Xavier, Udvarhelyi, Balasz

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Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles-cell interaction: new approaches to disclose the fate of membrane-bound and internalised nanoparticles by Bonany, Mar, Pérez-Berná, Ana Joaquina, Dučić, Tanja, Pereiro, Eva, Martin-Gómez, Helena, Mas-Moruno, Carlos, van Rijt, Sabine, Zhao, Zhitong, Espanol, Montserrat, Ginebra, Maria-Pau

“…Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles are popular tools in bone regeneration, but they have also been used for gene delivery and as anticancer drugs. …”
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Choice of DLVO approximation method for quantifying the affinity between latex particles and membranes by Lay, Huang Teik, Ong, Chi Siang, Wang, Rong, Chew, Jia Wei

“…However, disagreements between membrane fouling extent and the interaction energies derived from DLVO or XDLVO models have been reported, which suggests gaps in the understanding. …”
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Phylogenomic analysis of the plastid genome of the Peruvian purple maize zea mays subsp. mays cv. 'INIA 601' by Montenegro, Juan D., Julca, Irene, Chumbe-Nolasco, Lenin D., Rodríguez-Pérez, Lila M., Panizo, Ricardo Sevilla, Medina-Hoyos, Alicia, Gutiérrez-Reynoso, Dina L., Guerrero-Abad, Juan Carlos, Guerra, Carlos A. Amasifuen, García-Serquén, Aura L.

“…Peru is an important center of diversity for maize; its different cultivars have been adapted to distinct altitudes and water availability and possess an array of kernel colors (red, blue, and purple), which are highly appreciated by local populations. …”
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Deep learning based solder joint defect detection on industrial printed circuit board X-ray images by Zhang, Qianru, Zhang, Meng, Gamanayake, Chinthaka, Yuen, Chau, Geng, Zehao, Jayasekara, Hirunima, Woo, Chia-wei, Low, Jenny, Liu, Xiang, Guan, Yong Liang

“…With the improvement of electronic circuit production methods, such as reduction of component size and the increase of component density, the risk of defects is increasing in the production line. Many techniques have been incorporated to check for failed solder joints, such as X-ray imaging, optical imaging and thermal imaging, among which X-ray imaging can inspect external and internal defects. …”
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通过探讨旗袍在新加坡的发展历史，议论旗袍作为普遍的华人性标志的演变过程 = Historicising the development of the qipao/cheongsam in Singapore from the 1920s to the 1990s: an analysis of the qipao/cheongsam's transforma... by 辜俐恩 Koh, Lynette

“…关键词: 新加坡华族女性身份、旗袍、华人性、新加坡时尚文化、新加坡时尚潮流 The qipao or cheongsam has a rich history and cultural significance, thus it has been an iconic dress style in Singapore for many years. …”
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Multimodal fusion for navigation of autonomous mobile robots using a deep learning method by Lee, Anthony Wen Hao

“…Although differential-drive robots possess collision avoidance capabilities, they usually face challenges in navigating human environments that are more crowded, thus there is a demand for better capabilities in differential-drive robots. Many studies have been done to explore new approaches such as using advanced sensor technologies and machine learning algorithms, which aims to improve the accuracy and efficiency of these collision-avoidance methods for robots. …”
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Exploring semantic information for deep image aesthetics assessment by Hou, Jingwen

“…However, what kinds of 'semantic information' have been captured by POC models are still unknown. Therefore, in the second work, we map visual semantic patterns captured by POC models to pre-defined textual tags to provide language-based descriptions of semantic information provided by an image, and construct aesthetic features from such language-based descriptions. …”
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Ultrafast electronic relaxation dynamics of atomically thin MoS₂ is accelerated by wrinkling by Xu, Ce, Zhou, Guoqing, Alexeev, Evgeny M., Cadore, Alisson R., Paradisanos, Ioannis, Ott, Anna K., Soavi, Giancarlo, Tongay, Sefaattin, Cerullo, Giulio, Ferrari, Andrea C., Prezhdo, Oleg V., Loh, Zhi-Heng

“…Strain engineering is an attractive approach for tuning the local optoelectronic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). While strain has been shown to affect the nanosecond carrier recombination dynamics of TMDs, its influence on the sub-picosecond electronic relaxation dynamics is still unexplored. …”
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