Digital skilling of working adults: a systematic review by Mendoza-Chan, Joji, Pee, Loo Geok

“…The body of research on digital skills that working professionals need to thrive in an uncertain and ever-evolving workforce is fast accumulating. Although there have been literature reviews on the nature and types of such digital skills, an integrative overview of how digital skills are acquired remains lacking. …”
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Retinal projection near-eye displays with Huygens’ metasurfaces by Song, Weitao, Liang, Xinan, Li, Shiqiang, Moitra, Parikshit, Xu, Xuewu, Lassalle, Emmanuel, Zheng, Yuanjin, Wang, Yongtian, Paniagua-Domínguez, Ramón, Kuznetsov, Arseniy I.

“…To address this problem, a proof-of-concept solution based on retinal projection technology has been developed to provide accommodation-free virtual images by using a small aperture (360 µm × 360 µm) transparent Huygens’ metasurface hologram as the display device. …”
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Leveraging imperfect restoration for data availability attack by Huang, Yi, Styborski, Jeremy, Lyu, Mingzhi, Wang, Fan, Kong, Adams Wai Kin

“…To counter this, various Data Availability Attacks (DAAs) have been devised to make data unlearnable for such models by subtly perturbing the training data. …”
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Aluminium(I) anion-supported zero-valent palladium complexes by Yan, Chenting, Koshino, Kota, Zhu, Lizhao, Kinjo, Rei

“…Although transition-metal complexes bearing group 13 ligands are accessible via salt metathesis with these anions, zero-valent transition-metal complexes have never been reported. In the present study, the synthesis, isolation and characterization of palladium complexes in the zero-oxidation state featuring one, two and three anionic aluminium ligands are reported. …”
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A fast correction approach to tensor robust principal component analysis by Zhang, Zhechen, Liu, Sanyang, Lin, Zhiping, Xue, Jize, Liu, Lixia

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Graph attention informer for long-term traffic flow prediction under the impact of sports events by Song, Yaofeng, Luo, Ruikang, Zhou, Tianchen, Zhou, Changgen, Su, Rong

“…With the development of deep learning, many deep neural networks have been proposed to address this problem. However, due to the complexity of traffic maps and external factors, such as sports events, these models cannot perform well in long-term prediction. …”
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Persuasion for protection: an analysis of online safety videos on YouTube by Huang, Liuyu, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Yin, Stella Xin

“…Purpose: Public service announcements (PSAs) have been shown to be effective instruments that raise awareness, educate society, and change behaviors and attitudes. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning based navigation by goal-driven transformer by Wong, Yui

“…Simulation tests have already been conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of this integrated approach, which highlights the excellent performance in several critical areas. …”
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Broadband 3-D omnidirectional magnetic induction-based sensor module for partial discharge detection of high-voltage equipment in IIoT application by Hong, Kai-Dong, Wang, Wensong, Jiang, Guanlin, Shu, Zhou, Ji, Jinsheng, Lu, Minshan, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Besides, the proposed system has been demonstrated for 3-D omnidirectional real-time monitoring and intelligent analysis for PD events, showcasing its significant potential in IIOT applications.…”
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Coded federated learning for communication-efficient edge computing: a survey by Zhang, Yiqian, Gao, Tianli, Li, Congduan, Tan, Chee Wei

“…Distributed machine learning (DML) has been introduced to address this challenge by distributing tasks among multiple workers, reducing the resources required for each worker. …”
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Development and validation of a motivational scale for taking librarian course in Japan by Asaishi, Takuma, Ikeuchi, Ui, Kiichiro, Kanai, Hinata, Yoshikazu, Zhu, Xinru

“…While such studies require tools to measure students’ motivation systematically, no validated scale has been published. Objectives. The goal of this article is to develop and validate a scale that measures students’ motivation to take librarian courses at universities and colleges in Japan. …”
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Caspase interaction of anti-apoptotic Livin as well as the Vacuolar ATPase (V-ATPase) and structural insights into the subunit d and a of the yeast V-ATPase by Thaker, Youg Raj

“…Here, the pro-apoptotic cellular protein, ARTS as well as an anti-apoptotic protein, Livin, a family member of inhibitor of apoptosis have been studied. Results showed that ARTS is not the target of Livin E3 ligase activity in apoptotic cells co-expressing ARTS and Livin. …”
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Study of impact properties of materials by instrumented impact testing by Zheng, Qi.

“…Impact toughness improvement arising from delaminations has been studied by some researchers. However, the previous investigations were limited in scope because the impact testing was non-instrumented and the specimens used contained weak interfaces made artificially either by soldering thin mild steel plates together or by laminating high-strength titanium alloys and maraging steels. …”
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Synthesis and properties of amino- and guanidino-peptoid peptide nucleic acids by Lu, Xiao Wei

“…Extensive modification work has been conducted on PNA in an effort to further improve its desirable properties and overcome its limitations. …”
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Multi-scale space smoothing and segmentation of range data for robot navigation by Tang, Fan

“…All the filtering algorithms have been implemented and verified with both simulated range data and real data collected from a laser range sensor mounted on a robot vehicle. …”
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Gold-catalyzed intramolecular animation of alcohol pro-electrophiles as novel synthetic strategies to nitrogen heterocycles by Prasath Kothandaraman

“…The work of this thesis has been directed towards establishing gold-catalyzed intramolecular amination of alcohol pro-electrophiles as novel synthetic strategies to nitrogen heterocycles. …”
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Novel bisisoquinolines : synthesis, resolution and application in asymmetric Henry reaction by Yao, Qiong Ji

“…Condition for synthesis of the anticipated 1,3-disposed bisisoquinolines and its derivatives have been established. Racemic symmetric 1,3-disposed bisisoquinolines was prepared through classical double Bischler-Napieralski reaction followed by reduction with Sodium cyanoborohydride. …”
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Construction of novel optical imaging probes and their applications in bioassays by Shao, Qing

“…Benefited from the direct and non-invasive visualization, optical imaging has been extensively used for real-time observation of subcellular events and biochemical processes in living systems. …”
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Roles of POPX2 phosphatase in the regulation of apoptosis by Weng, Ting

“…Physical signals provided by the substrates are sensed and conveyed by focal adhesions and actin cytoskeletons to the interior of the cell to elicit responses. Since POPX2 has been implicated in the regulation of stress fibers and focal adhesions, the phosphatase may affect responses of cancer cells to the surrounding environment. …”
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Persuasive teachable agent for intergenerational learning by Lim, Su Fang

“…Students involved in this teaching process have been observed to gain a deeper understanding of the subject matter. …”
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