Loading dynamics of cold atoms into a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber by Wang, Yu, Chai, Shijie, Xin, Mingjie, Leong, Wui Seng, Chen, Zilong, Lan, Shau-Yu

“…We also study the noise sources that cause heating and a loss of atoms during the process. Our result could be used to design and optimize the loading process of cold atoms into a hollow-core fiber for cold atom experiments.…”
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Nature in virtual reality improves mood and reduces stress : evidence from young adults and senior citizens by Chan, Sarah Hian May, Qiu, Lin, Esposito, Gianluca, Mai, Ky Phong, Tam, Kim-Pong, Cui, Jian

“…Consistently, the senior citizen sample reported improved positive affect due to enhanced nature connectedness after the virtual nature walk. Our findings unveil the underlying mechanism of how virtual nature may improve psychological well-being and demonstrated how virtual nature can be used as an intervention to promote mental health.…”
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Sig2GRN : a software tool linking signaling pathway with gene regulatory network for dynamic simulation by Zhang, Fan, Liu, Runsheng, Zheng, Jie

“…Then a Boolean model and a thermodynamics-based model are employed to predict the downstream changes in gene expression based on the simulated dynamics of transcription factors in signaling pathways. Results: Our empirical case studies show that the simulation of Sig2GRN can predict changes in gene expression patterns induced by DNA damage signals and drug treatments. …”
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Objects of Collaboration: Roles and Sequences of Objects in Spanning Knowledge Group Boundaries in Design by Brubaker, Eric R, Sheppard, Sheri D, Hinds, Pamela J, Yang, Maria C

“…We conducted a two-year ethnography within a turbomachinery design company to understand how professional engineering designers span knowledge group boundaries to advance their designs and design processes. Our findings identify three roles of objects of collaboration: routinizing cross-boundary interaction, translating information across boundaries, and motivating joint negotiation or discovery. …”
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Query lower bounds for log-concave sampling by Chewi, Sinho, de Dios Pont, Jaume, Li, Jerry, Lu, Chen, Narayanan, Shyam

“…Here denotes the condition number of the target distribution. Our proofs rely upon (1) a multiscale construction inspired by work on the Kakeya conjecture in geometric measure theory, and (2) a novel reduction that demonstrates that block Krylov algorithms are optimal for this problem, as well as connections to lower bound techniques based on Wishart matrices developed in the matrix-vector query literature.…”
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Enhanced Li adsorption and diffusion in single-walled silicon nanotubes : an ab initio study by Kulish, Vadym V., Ng, Man-Fai, Malyi, Oleksandr I., Wu, Ping, Chen, Zhong

“…We calculate Li insertion characteristics in SWSiNTs and compare them with the respective ones in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and other silicon nanostructures. From our calculations, SWSiNTs show higher reactivity toward the adsorption of Li adatoms than CNTs and Si nanoclusters. …”
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Design of nanostructured hybrid materials based on carbon and metal oxides for Li ion batteries by Shi, Wenhui, Rui, Xianhong, Zhu, Jixin, Yan, Qingyu

“…This feature article briefly summarizes our recent research progress on nanostructured hybrids of carbonaceous materials (e.g., amorphous carbon, reduced graphene oxide, and CNT) and metal oxides (e.g., CoO, Fe2O3, V2O5, etc.) in terms of designed synthesis chemistry, understanding the structure-process relationship and development of new types of electrodes.…”
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Conditional conservatism and debt versus equity financing by Goh, Beng Wee, Lim, Chee Yeow, Lobo, Gerald J., Tong, Yen Hee

“…In addition, we find that the positive effect of conservatism on the choice of equity issuance (versus debt issuance) is accentuated when the information asymmetry between the firm and its shareholders is more severe. Overall, our results suggest that conservatism reduces information asymmetry more between firms and shareholders than between firms and debtholders.…”
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Biosocial risk factors for academic dishonesty : testing a new mediation model in young adults by Portnoy, Jill, Legee, Kate, Raine, Adrian, Choy, Olivia, Rudo-Hutt, Anna S.

“…Self-control and sensation seeking, but not fearlessness, mediated this relationship in females. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine a biological risk factor for academic dishonesty. …”
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Lasso environment model combination for robust speech recognition by Xiao, Xiong, Li, Jinyu, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…We propose to estimate the weights by using Lasso (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator) which imposes an L1 regularization term in the weight estimation problem to shrink some weights to exactly zero. Our study shows that Lasso usually shrinks to zero the weights of those mean supervectors not relevant to the test environment. …”
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Bulk α-alumina embedded tapered fiber as Q-switcher in an erbiumdoped fiber laser by Mohd Yusof, Norita, Liew Ying Chyi, Josephine, Ng, Eng Khoon, Md Zain, Ahmad Rifqi, Alresheedi, Mohammed Thamer, Mayzan, Mohd Zul Hilmi, Mahdi, Mohd Adzir

“…This work reveals a substantial improvement over previously reported Al2O3-SA works with a recorded pulse energy of 150.32 nJ and an estimated damage threshold of beyond 6.75 GW cm−2 incident intensity. Our findings suggest that α-Al2O3-SA has enormous potential as a next generation light-absorbing material for high-energy photonic devices.…”
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A statistical characteristics preserving watermarking scheme for time series databases by Yu, Yelu, Ma, Zehua, Zhang, Jie, Fang, Han, Zhang, Weiming, Yu, Nenghai

“…Compared with the existing methods, our method achieves superior robustness and preserves constant statistical properties better.…”
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High energy and average power femtosecond laser for driving mid-infrared optical parametric amplifiers by Malevich, P., Andriukaitis, G., Flöry, T., Verhoef, A. J., Fernández, A., Ališauskas, S., Pugžlys, A., Baltuška, A., Tan, L. H., Chua, C. F., Phua, Poh Boon.

“…We have developed the first (to our knowledge) femtosecond Tm-fiber-laser-pumped Ho:YAG room-temperature chirped pulse amplifier system delivering scalable multimillijoule, multikilohertz pulses with a bandwidth exceeding 12 nm and average power of 15 W. …”
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Board financial experience and efficiency-based earnings management in pre- and post-international financial reporting standards by Kweh, Qian Long, Nourani, Mohammad, Lu, Wen-Min, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong

“…Using DEA as an innovative adaptation in the accrual-based earnings management model, we aim to provide an accurate measure of earnings management. The results of our panel estimated generalized least square (EGLS) regression models, which account for heteroskedasticity and auto-correlation problems, indicate that the proportion of board of directors with financial and/or accounting experiences reduces earnings management pre-IFRS. …”
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A generalized stereotypical trust model by Fang, Hui, Zhang, Jie, Sensoy, Murat, Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat

“…Experimental results confirm that our proposed model can more accurately measure the trustworthiness of sellers in simulated e-marketplaces where buyers have limited experience with sellers.…”
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Discriminative feature extraction for speech recognition using continuous output codes by Dehzangi, Omid, Ma, Bin, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…Then, the output coding transformation formulated via a set of linear SVMs projects the sequences of high dimensional vectors into a tractable low-dimensional feature space where the resultant features are well-separated continuous output codes for the subsequent multi-class classification problem. Our experimental results on the TIMIT corpus show that the proposed features achieve 10.5% ASR error rate reduction over the conventional spectral features.…”
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Borocarbonitride, (BN)x(C)1-x, nanosheet-reinforced polymer nanocomposites for high mechanical performance by Sreedhara, M.B., Barua, Manaswee, Chaturvedi, Abhishek, Rao, C.N.R., Ramamurty, Upadrasta

“…These results are rationalized by recourse to detailed structural characterization, which shows a substantial enhancement in the degree of crystallinity in PVA upon BCN addition, and improved interfacial adhesion between the nanofiller and the polymer matrix via strong intermolecular interactions. Overall, our results show that it is possible to engineer polymer matrix nanocomposites with exceptional mechanical and thermal properties via the addition of a small amount of BCN.…”
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DDA based grouting prediction and linkage between fracture aperture distribution and grouting characteristics by Xiao, Fei, Shang, Junlong, Zhao, Zhiye

“…The observed agreement can be treated as an indirect verification of the robustness of our proposed grouting module. As anticipated, the grouting characteristics are significantly affected by the distribution of fracture apertures and connectivity among fractures around an injection hole, which are controlled by the distribution parameters. …”
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Prescriptive analytics models for vessel inspection planning in maritime transportation by Yang, Ying, Yan, Ran., Wang, Shuaian

“…A case study using data from the Hong Kong port demonstrates that the estimate-then-optimize models surpass the predict-then-optimize approach, offering solutions closer to the optimal policy. Furthermore, our improved model outperforms existing methods, proving more effective in practical applications.…”
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Genetic algorithm based deep learning model adaptation for improvising the motor imagery classification by R, Vishnupriya, Robinson, Neethu, M, Ramasubba Reddy

“…Results show that the proposed GA-based fine-tuning approach statistically improved the average classification accuracy of the baseline model from 84.46% to 87.29%. More interestingly, our approach shows significant improvement in cases where the performance of the baseline model is poor after fine-tuning using other approaches. …”
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