Coherent perfect absorption in deeply subwavelength films in the single-photon regime by Roger, Thomas, Vezzoli, Stefano, Bolduc, Eliot, Valente, Joao, Heitz, Julius J. F., Jeffers, John, Soci, Cesare, Leach, Jonathan, Couteau, Christophe, Zheludev, Nikolay I., Faccio, Daniele

“…We show that while the absorption of photons from a travelling wave is probabilistic, standing wave absorption can be observed deterministically, with nearly unitary probability of coupling a photon into a mode of the material, for example, a localized plasmon when this is a metamaterial excited at the plasmon resonance. …”
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Harnessing Instability Mechanisms in Airfoil Flow for Data-Driven Forecasting of Extreme Events by Barthel, Benedikt, Sapsis, Themistoklis P.

“…These extreme excursions may be seen as prototypical of the kind of unsteady and intermittent dynamics relevant to the flow around airfoils and wings in a variety of real-world applications. …”
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From Opinion Dynamics to Collective Action: How Identity-Based Tolerance Leads to Political Extremism by Liang, Chen E.

“…We show that homogeneous groups, often seen as indicators of polarization, could paradoxically be key to reducing organized extremism when dominated by moderates who can effectively mobilize collective action while marginalizing extremists.…”
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From Liquid to Stone: Reimagining the design of concrete structures for reuse by Donovan, Inge, Schnitzler, Jenna

“…In a future where buildings are increasingly seen as stockpiles for subsequent reuse, the reinvention of concrete structures is an imperative that presents an opportunity for a new tectonic – concrete is no longer a liquid poured once and cured on site, but instead is a material more akin to stone, retaining value across multiple lifespans.…”
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Timbral Transformations by Shand, Jessica

“…In addition to the music at its core, the project interfaces with gender studies in its original exposition on timbre and timbral identity, includes a rigorous set of experiments with human and machine listeners, and makes original applications of multimodal language models not before seen in musicology or music theory. A live performance incorporating each of these project vectors and an audience discussion following the event offer further opportunities for reflection and critique.…”
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Relative Robot Localization and Frame Alignment for Multi-Robot Collaboration by Peterson, Mason B.

“…To perform frame alignment, robots build up maps of recently seen static objects and use these maps and the detections of tracked dynamic objects to correct for frame drift. …”
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Neural Light Transport for Relighting and View Synthesis by Zhang, Xiuming, Fanello, Sean, Tsai, Yun-Ta, Sun, Tiancheng, Xue, Tianfan, Pandey?, Rohit, Orts-Escolano, Sergio, Davidson?, Philip, Rhemann, Christoph, Debevec?, Paul, Barron, Jonathan T., Ramamoorthi, Ravi, Freeman, William

“…In particular, we show how to fuse previously seen observations of illuminants and views to synthesize a new image of the same scene under a desired lighting condition from a chosen viewpoint. …”
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Human anatomy in ancient Indian sculptures of Gandhara art illustrating the fasting Buddha by Abrahams, Peter, Mogali, Sreenivasulu Reddy

“…The boundaries of the axilla, and triangles of the neck were also clearly seen. Our observations demonstrate that ancient Indian artists of the Gandhara region had a basic knowledge of human anatomy, especially surface anatomy and musculoskeletal features. …”
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Cultural resonance & spiritual capital : the role of religion in framing Malaysia's humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugee crisis by Muhammad Idaffi Othman

“…Humanitarian actors can capitalize on religion as one, religion can be a potent source of value construction, two, religion has a large capacity for resilience and recovery of the displaced community, and three, when seen as one transnational community of believers, can be a potent force of humanitarian assistance mobiliser. …”
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The imagination of eco-disaster : post-disaster rebuilding in Asian cinema by Chu, Kiu-Wai

“…To contemporary film viewers, the ‘psychic numbing’ effect is apparent, and it does not apply merely to our perception of numbers, statistics, the big data. It can also be seen when we are bombarded with similar kinds of images over and over again; in this case, the large-scale tsunami, the hurricanes, the earthquake and all the exaggerated destruction scenes in recent disaster movies have become clichés no matter how realistic and intense the shots are made. …”
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Urban intensity parameterisation by Noor Azzy Zulkifli

“…For Tuas, Geylang and Pioneer, the Industrial-related sector contributed the most electricity consumption while for Tampines and Queenstown, the Commerce & Services-related sector contributed the most. Overall, it can be seen that the differences in electricity consumption amongst the planning areas were due to the different land uses within each area. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on behaviors in physical activity, sleep quality and usage of sport facilities in university students by Lim, Qing Feng

“…Sedentary (sitting) behaviour was seen to increase by an average of 90.5 min/day (p < .001). …”
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Reinforcement learning-based method 3D motion planning for a 3D inspection task using prior viewpoint information by Chee, Yeng Sung

“…However, a proposed visibility modelling and approximation that considers the presence of an obstacle is introduced to tackle the issue of obstructed view of the target object seen from a 3D camera. The proposed method compares the distance traveled by the same camera rays with a minimum threshold in two scenarios: target object with and without an obstacle to obtain a more realistic visibility of the viewpoint. …”
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Prevalence of lumbosacral transition vertebrae in symptomatic adults and the levels of degeneration in the suprajacent disc by Song, Joshua, Betzler, Brjan Kaiji, Kaliya-Perumal, Arun-Kumar, Oh, Jacob Yoong-Leong

“…This suprajacent disc degeneration seen in patients with LSTV may contribute to low back pain and related problems in these patients.…”
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Studies of degradable ureteric stents by Huang, Yun.

“…PLC tubes cracked after 112 days while wrinkles were seen in PLLA structure. An interesting note is the tubular outer surfaces degraded faster than the inner surfaces. …”
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中朝古代桃花源文学比较研究 = A comparative study of peach blossom literature in ancient China and Korea by 蔡佳敏 Cai, Jiamin

“…In addition, the literary works comprising of the peach blossom imagery is not exclusively created by ancient Chinese poets, but also frequently seen in ancient Korean's compositions. Based on the above concerns, this paper directs its focus on the literary pieces comprising of the peach blossom imagery, and analyzes how ancient Chinese and Korean poets illustrate the peach blossom with an elaboration on the landscape, the upheaval and the retiracy, all of which are based on Tao Yuan Ming's portrayal. …”
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Development of low power DC-DC converter for thermo-electric generator by Kuthubudeen, Haja Najubudeen

“…MPPT algorithm matches the virtual load seen by the TEG to its actual internal resistance by changing the duty cycle of the converter: Maximum Power Transfer Theorem. …”
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Understanding why women with breast cancer present late by Kiang, Wen Wei

“…Despite increasing affluence, education, healthcare accessibility, and the institution of nation-wide breast screening programmes, the incidence of locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) remains much higher than that seen in Western countries. Locally advanced breast cancer is often attributed to delayed presentation and our study aims to elucidate the factors underlying this. …”
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Exploring students' hypertext reading behaviour and social media use in their learning by Sharifah Maisharah Mohamed

“…The level of hypertext reading behaviour needs intervention, as seen by the rare occasions students evaluate information based on verification or refrain from being distracted. …”
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Electrospun fibrous aerogels for air filtration by Tng, Zi Kang

“…A compression test of 100th cycles of the NFA filter showed that the filters retained their mechanical integrity as seen from the cyclic stress-strain curves. These findings show that the PI-PAN/ZIF-8 NFA filters can potentially be used in the filtration of fine particles at high temperature environment, such as car exhaust and coal furnace exhaust where the temperatures can range up to 300 ºC.…”
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