User satisfaction and service quality improvement priority of bus rapid transit in Belo Horizonte, Brazil by Zheng, Yunhan, Kong, Hui, Petzhold, Guillermo, Barcelos, Mariana M, Zegras, Christopher P, Zhao, Jinhua

“…Our results show that “expenses with public transport” (i.e. fares) should be addressed first among all the attributes, and the improvement priorities of “speed”, “reliability” and “customer service” increased after the BRT opening. These findings can help policymakers fine-tune improvement strategies targeted at different types of services.…”
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The development of lead-less perovskite materials for the photovoltaic application by Chen, Yan

“…In summary, the major findings presented in this thesis dissertation highlight the significance of compositional engineering of the perovskite materials to the fine-tuning of their optoelectronic properties and the performance of their associated devices. …”
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Distortion in laser micro welding of stainless steel SS304 foils by M. N., Jamaludin, Quazi, Moinuddin Mohammed, Aiman, Mohd Halil, M., Ishak

“…Stainless Steel 304 is a fine material selection for industrial usage in laser micro welding for e-mobility applications wherein battery components are fabricated. …”
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Tuning the shear thickening of suspensions through surface roughness and physico-chemical interactions by Bourrianne, Philippe, Niggel, Vincent, Polly, Gatien, Divoux, Thibaut, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…Finally, we demonstrate how mixtures of particles with opposing surface chemistry make it possible to finely tune the shear-thickening response of the suspension at a fixed volume fraction, paving the way for a fine control of the shear-thickening transition in engineering applications.…”
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Language, Camera, Autonomy! Prompt-engineered Robot Control for Rapidly Evolving Deployment by Macdonald, Jacob P., Mallick, Rohit, Wollaber, Allan B., Peña, Jaime D., McNeese, Nathan, Siu, Ho Chit

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Drive-specific selection in multistable mechanical networks by Kedia, Hridesh, Pan, Deng, Slotine, Jean-Jacques, England, Jeremy L.

“…We found that there exists a range of forcing amplitudes for which the attractor states of driven disordered multistable mechanical networks are fine-tuned with respect to the pattern of external forcing to have low energy absorption from it. …”
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Stability of internal gravity wave modes: from triad resonance to broadband instability by Akylas, T.R., Kakoutas, Christos

“…For short-scale perturbations such that 𝜇 ≪ 1 but 𝛼 = 𝜇/𝜖 ≫ 1, this triad resonance instability reduces to the familiar parametric subharmonic instability (PSI), where triads comprise fine-scale perturbations with half the basic-wave frequency. …”
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Physics-informed deep learning for multi-species membrane separations by Rehman, Danyal, Lienhard, John H.

“…The neural methods are pre-trained on simulated data from continuum models and fine-tuned on independent experiments to learn multi-ionic rejection behaviour. …”
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Supermind Ideator: How Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration Can Increase Creativity by Heyman, Jennifer, Rick, Steven, Giacomelli, Gianni, Wen, Haoran, Laubacher, Robert, Taubenslag, Nancy, Knicker, Max, Jeddi, Younes, Ragupathy, Pranav, Curhan, Jared, Malone, Thomas

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Speed-Modulated Ironing: High-Resolution Shade and Texture Gradients in Single-Material 3D Printing by Ozdemir, Mehmet, AlAlawi, Marwa, Dogan, Mustafa Doga, Martinez Castro, Jose, Mueller, Stefanie, Doubrovski, Zjenja

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Tango 2: Aligning Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Generations through Direct Preference Optimization by Majumder, Navonil, Hung, Chia-Yu, Ghosal, Deepanway, Hsu, Wei-Ning, Mihalcea, Rada, Poria, Soujanya

“…The loser outputs, in theory, have some concepts from the prompt missing or in an incorrect order. We fine-tune the publicly available Tango text-to-audio model using diffusion-DPO (direct preference optimization) loss on our preference dataset and show that it leads to improved audio output over Tango and AudioLDM2, in terms of both automatic- and manual-evaluation metrics.…”
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Hardness of Approximate Diameter: Now for Undirected Graphs by Dalirrooyfard, Mina, Li, Ray, Vassilevska Williams, Virginia

“…A series of papers on fine-grained complexity have led to strong hardness results for diameter in directed graphs, culminating in a recent tradeoff curve independently discovered by [Li, STOC'21] and [Dalirrooyfard and Wein, STOC'21], showing that under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH), for any integer k?…”
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Enabling Perspective-Aware Ai with Contextual Scene Graph Generation by Platnick, Daniel, Alirezaie, Marjan, Rahnama, Hossein

“…We evaluated PASGG-LM pipelines using state-of-the-art SGG models, including Motifs, Motifs-TDE, and RelTR, and showed that fine-tuning LLMs, particularly GPT-4o-mini and Llama-3.1-8B, improves performance in terms of R@K, mR@K, and mAP. …”
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Decoding Codon Bias: The Role of tRNA Modifications in Tissue-Specific Translation by Ando, Daisuke, Rashad, Sherif, Begley, Thomas J., Endo, Hidenori, Aoki, Masashi, Dedon, Peter C., Niizuma, Kuniyasu

“…Our knowledge of the role of the tRNA epitranscriptome in fine-tuning translation via codon decoding at tissue or cell levels remains incomplete. …”
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Characteristics of scanning curves of two soils by Tami, Denny, Rahardjo, Harianto, Leong, Eng Choon

“…The first slope model consisted of a fine sand layer overlying a gravelly sand layer, while the second slope model involved a silty sand layer overlying a gravelly sand layer. …”
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WAHRSIS : a low-cost high-resolution whole sky imager with near-infrared capabilities by Dev, Soumyabrata, Savoy, Florian M., Lee, Yee Hui, Winkler, Stefan

“…Cloud imaging using ground-based whole sky imagers is essential for a fine-grained understanding of cloud formations, which can be useful in many applications. …”
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Non-motorised transport prioritisation model using spatial intelligence by Poyil, Rohith P., Lopez, Maria Cecilia Rojas, Wong, Yiik Diew

“…The concept of spatial intelligence was used to predict the NMT prioritisation scheme; spatial intelligence is the ability to visualise spatial features and apply spatial judgement for mobility problems involving navigation or to identify fine details or patterns. The NMT prioritisation model was developed based on NMT movements in relation to spatial features such as residential buildings, community centres, schools and hospitals, recreation and sports centres, economic zones, transport hubs, bus stops and green spaces. …”
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Computation of electromagnetic fields scattered from objects with uncertain shapes using multilevel Monte Carlo method by Litvinenko, Alexander, Yucel, Abdulkadir C., Bagci, Hakan, Oppelstrup, Jesper, Michielssen, Eric, Tempone, Raul

“…The CMLMC method optimally balances statistical errors due to sampling of the parametric space and numerical errors due to the discretization of the geometry using a hierarchy of discretizations, from coarse to fine. The number of realizations of finer discretizations can be kept low, with most samples computed on coarser discretizations to minimize computational cost. …”
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Soil liquefaction assessment using soft computing approaches based on capacity energy concept by Chen, Zhixiong, Li, Hongrui, Goh, Anthony Teck Chee, Wu, Chongzhi, Zhang, Wengang

“…Several liquefaction evaluation procedures and approaches have been developed relating the capacity energy to the initial soil parameters, such as the relative density, initial effective confining pressure, fine contents, and soil textural properties. In this study, based on the capacity energy database by Baziar et al. (2011), analyses have been carried out on a total of 405 previously published tests using soft computing approaches, including Ridge, Lasso & LassoCV, Random Forest, eXtreme Gradient Boost (XGBoost), and Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) approaches, to assess the capacity energy required to trigger liquefaction in sand and silty sands. …”
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Using AI for music source separation by Lee, Jasline Jie Yu

“…The objective is to analyse the impacts of different components present in both Spectrogram and Waveform based systems through fine-tuning, data handling and ablation testing. …”
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