Wireless measurement of elastic and plastic deformation by a metamaterial-based sensor by Ozbey, Burak, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Kurc, Ozgur, Erturk, Vakur, Altintas, Ayhan

“…The sensor is made of a comb-like nested split ring resonator (NSRR) probe operating in the near-field of an antenna, which functions as both the transmitter and the receiver. …”
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Hydrogen-bond memory and water-skin supersolidity resolving the Mpemba paradox by Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Ma, Zengsheng, Zhou, Yichun, Zhou, Ji, Zheng, Weitao, Jiang, Qing, Sun, Changqing

“…The Mpemba paradox, that is, hotter water freezes faster than colder water, has baffled thinkers like Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and Aristotle since B.C. 350. …”
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Introduction — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable) by Sinanan, Kerry

“…The plot is structured as a packet of letters that, like its antecedent Samuel Rich-ardson’s Pamela (1740), has been published by a fictional editor. …”
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Leveraging nanocrystal HKUST-1 in mixed-matrix membranes for ethylene/ethane separation by Chuah, Chong Yang, Samarasinghe, Samarasinghe Arachchige Sulashi Chathushka, Li, Wen, Goh, Kunli, Bae, Tae-Hyun

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A perspective on the role of point-of-care "immuno-triaging" to optimize COVID-19 vaccination distribution in a time of scarcity by Zhang, Yi, Rogers, Angela, Nadeau, Kari, Gu, Jun, Yang, Samuel

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Acoustic focusing by a double layered acoustic grating by Du, Liangfen, Saini, Abhishek, Sun, Zeqing, Chen, Jian, Fan, Zheng

“…In the past decades, due to their outstanding capacity of wave manipulation, acoustic metasurfaces (AMSs) based on various structures, such as coiling-up space structures, Helmholtz-resonator-like structures and membrane-type structures, have been proposed to achieve different functionalities including acoustic focusing. …”
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Subjective video quality evaluation for user generated contents via textual prompts by Ang, Dario

“…The explosion of user-generated content (UGC) videos has transformed the online landscape. Platforms like TikTok and YouTube overflow with UGC, offering a diverse range of content consumed by billions of viewers. …”
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Attention-based sound classification pipeline with sound spectrum by Tan, Ki In, Yean, Seanglidet, Lee, Bu-Sung

“…However, in an application like NoiseCapture, the sound spectrum is divided into 23 frequency bands and thus some information or features are lost. …”
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Towards a more trustworthy generative artificial intelligence by Cheong, Ben Wee Joon

“…From AI image generation to intelligent natural language reasoning like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini. These models fuelled by advancements in deep learning have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in generating life-like content. …”
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A FPGA-based ultrasonic voice detection platform for whisper to voice reconstruction by Fan, Gaofeng

“…The waveform reflected back contains vital information about the speech, like mouth opening/closing. Those message could be further processed in real time on the FPGA and facilitate the rebuilding of voice from whispers. …”
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Unveiling the future of budget hotels in Singapore by Chua, Hwee Lian, Kew, Wong Yip, Soh, Wee Li

“…The latter involves the use of factors like visitor arrivals, their lengths of stay and the room-sharing ratios to anticipate the future level of demand. …”
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Development of compact power electronics inverter using gallium nitride (GaN) devices by Sinurat, Hendry Donald Hanesty

“…Demand of more ‘technological’ and ‘suit-in-extreme-operation’ electronic devices is climbing up like never before. Numerous numbers of electrical drives and machines are designed and produced to run under certain high level of frequency and temperature. …”
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Pre-treated sludge cake filtration characteristics and properties in a cake filtration system by Lee, Wei Jun

“…Thermal pre-treatment displayed no observable effect on particle size and were analyzed using fluorescence excitation-emission matrix spectroscopy, further revealing that changes to SMP concentration were related to the release of soluble microbial by-product-like and protein-like substances within the domain of SMPs. …”
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System-level FPGA device driver with high-level synthesis support by Vipin, Kizheppatt, Shreejith, Shanker, Gunasekera, Dulitha, Fahmy, Suhaib A., Kapre, Nachiket

“…At a high level, our FPGA driver attempts to provide CUDA-like driver behavior, and more, to FPGA programmers. …”
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Image processing and machine learning techniques for Chagas disease detection and identification by Rada, Lavdie, Azzawi, Inass, Kumar, Preet, Brito-Loeza, Carlos Francisco, Karabağ, Cefa, Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino C.

“…Advanced deep learning architectures like Faster RCNN, RetinaNet, YOLOv8, and FCOS have been adapted, trained, and compared with each other in terms of the detection accuracy of each image. …”
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Electronic and optoelectronic devices using chemical vapour deposited 2D materials by Fan, Y

“…Factors cause micro-defects like cracks and holes in the graphene sheet are revealed. …”

The cingulum: anatomy, connectivity and what goes beyond by Kollenburg, L, Arnts, H, Green, A, Strauss, I, Vinke, S, Kurt, E

“…Recent clinical studies investigating neurosurgical techniques targeting the cingulum, like deep brain stimulation of the anterior cingulate cortex and cingulotomy, have further boosted interests in this central ‘hub’ as a target for chronic intractable pain. …”

The anatomy of Westlothiana lizziae and a novel phylogenetic analysis of early amniotes by Igielman, B

“…I show that <em>Westlothiana</em> possesses a mosaic of primitive and derived traits, including a plesiomorphic, extensive palatal dentition, an amniote-like temporal region and a microsaur-like circumorbital series.…”

Evolution of an extracellular pathogen recognition mechanism in Solanaceae by Kourelis, J

“…This recognition requires the tomato gene <em>Rcr3</em>, which encodes for a papain-like cysteine protease. I show that <em>Cf-2</em> has likely evolved very recently, implicating that molecular recognition is a novel molecular function of the pre-existing <em>Rcr3</em>. …”

Characterization of ubiquitin-activated DNA-protein crosslink repair in vitro by Zhu, X

“…This project is designed to study the effect of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins on the activation of SPRTN SprT core towards the model H1-DPC substrate. …”