3D articulated skeleton extraction using a single consumer-grade depth camera by Lu, Xuequan, Deng, Zhigang, Luo, Jun, Chen, Wenzhi, Yeung, Sai-Kit, He, Ying

“…Nevertheless, robustly and accurately learning 3D articulated skeletons from point set sequences captured by a single consumer-grade depth camera still remains challenging, since such data are often corrupted with substantial noise and outliers. …”
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A boundary element approach for solving plane elastostatic equations of anisotropic functionally graded materials by Ang, Whye-Teong

“…A boundary element method is proposed for the numerical solution of an important class of boundary value problems governed by plane elastostatic equations of anisotropic functionally graded materials. …”
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Frequency-selective propagation of localized spoof surface plasmons in a graded plasmonic resonator chain by Gao, Zhen, Gao, Fei, Shastri, Kunal Krishnaraj, Zhang, Baile

“…Localized spoof surface plasmon polaritons (spoof-SPPs) in a graded spoof-plasmonic resonator chain with linearly increasing spacing are experimentally investigated at microwave frequencies. …”
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Urban housing prices and consumption structure upgrading: different relationships in urban and rural China by Ding, Yemin, Chin, Lee, Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad

“…The dynamics of housing prices can play a pivotal role in shaping household behavior. Motivated by the limited research on the impact of housing prices on consumption structure upgrading in China, this paper presents a series of analyses that deploy panel data from 276 Chinese cities between 2005 and 2019 to scrutinize this impact. …”
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Geo-UNet: A Geometrically Constrained Neural Framework for Clinical-Grade Lumen Segmentation in Intravascular Ultrasound by Chen, Yiming

“…Our unified loss function carefully balances area-based, distance-based, and contour-based penalties to provide near clinical-grade generalization in unseen patient data. We also introduce a lightweight, inference-time technique to enhance segmentation smoothness. …”
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Report on the working for silver and gold of a middle grade product from ore of the Merrimac Mine, Newburyport by Jenney, Walter.

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The effect of a short-term ketogenic diet on exercise efficiency during graded exercise in healthy adults by Cho, Wonhee, Jung, Hwaebong, Hong, Sunghyun, Yang, Hyuk In, Park, Dong-Hyuk, Suh, Sang-Hoon, Lee, Dong Hoon, Choe, Yong-Sahm, Kim, Joon Young, Lee, Wooyoung, Jeon, Justin Y

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Free vibration of exponential functionally graded beams with single delamination by Xiao, Jing, Shu, Dongwei, Liu, Yang

“…In the present study, an analytical solution is developed to study the free vibration of exponential functionally graded beams with a single delamination. Kirchhoff-Love hypothesis, the ‘free mode’ and ‘constrained mode’ assumption in delamination vibration are adopted. …”
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Rapid characterization of graded alloys fabricated by 3D printing by Bella Lee Hoondal

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Rutting characteristics rolling-compacted open-graded friction courses by Phone Myint.

“…The goal of this research is to investigate the rutting behaviour and air voids of Land Transport Authority (LTA) Open-graded D2 gradation and a new gradation, which is recommended by the National Centre for Asphalt Technology, batched with conventional bitumen (PEN 60/70) and Cariphalte (PMB). …”
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The experimental working by wet and dry methods, of a low grade silver and gold ore from Newburyport, Mass. by Wood, F. W. (Floyd William), 1926-

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A human-centric automated essay scoring and feedback system for the development of ethical reasoning by Lee, Alwyn Vwen Yen, Luco, Andrés Carlos, Tan, Seng Chee

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Finite volume method for one-dimensional heat conduction in functionally graded materials by Soh, Nicholas

“…The finite volume method (FVM), which is used to study a functionally graded one-dimensional study on a material, is considered by the theoretical framework. …”
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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 top-performing submissions produced winning out-of-sample predictions for three outcomes: grade point average, grit, and layoff. However, predictions were at most 20 percent better than a baseline that predicted the mean value of the training data for each outcome.…”
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Modeling of intracranial tumor treating fields for the treatment of complex high-grade gliomas by Segar, David J., Bernstock, Joshua D., Arnaout, Omar, Bi, Wenya Linda, Friedman, Gregory K., Langer, Robert, Traverso, Giovanni, Rampersad, Sumientra M.

“…Increasing the intensity of tumor treating fields (TTF) within a tumor bed improves clinical efficacy, but reaching sufficiently high field intensities to achieve growth arrest remains challenging due in part to the insulating nature of the cranium. …”
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Compositionally graded alloys fabricated using the laser powder bed fusion technique by Wei, Siyuan

“…A CoCrMo-Ni graded alloy (26.8–9.8 wt.% Ni) with smooth compositional gradient was successfully fabricated using a customized LPBF system, where the gradient was created along the transverse direction instead of building direction. …”
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Creating functionally graded concrete materials with varying 3D printing parameters by Tay, Daniel Yi Wei, Lim, Jian Hui, Li, Mingyang, Tan, Ming Jen

“…The varying physical property in a functionally graded material can be tailored to its specific requirements while using material resources effectively. 3D concrete printing can produce robust and lightweight functionally graded material for the construction industry. …”
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Academic achievement inspired machine learning methods for student grade prediction and at-risk detection by Wei, Qiu

“…Grade prediction plays a central role in the development of data-informed approaches for at-risk student detection and early intervention. …”
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Continuous thermally regenerative electrochemical systems for directly converting low-grade heat to electricity by Li, Xiaoya, Li, Jia, Yun, Jeonghun, Wu, Angyin, Gao, Caitian, Lee, Seok Woo

“…Thermally regenerative electrochemical cycle (TREC) system, which converts heat to electricity by charging at a lower voltage and discharging at a higher voltage, is a promising technology with high energy conversion efficiency for low-grade heat recovery. …”
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Optimization of thermal & insulation properties of Ni/ZrO2 functionally graded material by Tan, Jian Fong.

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