On poisson vector graphics : displacement mapping, vectorization and color transfer by Fu, Qian

“…Our future direction is to explore more significative applications of PVG, associated with state-to-art technologies like deep-learning techniques.…”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…Due to its advantages like good resolution, high contrast, label-free imaging, deep imaging depth, and the ability to perform multiscale structural and functional imaging, PAI has grown exponentially in the last two decades. …”
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Localized structural and bulk effects in hybrid organic-inoraginc perovskites by Wong, Walter Pei De

“…Additionally, a better understanding of the material’s structure – property relationship would be valuable to the respective material’s application, like photovoltaics or efficient lighting application which are of increasing importance towards sustainability efforts. …”
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Synthesizing photorealistic images with deep generative learning by Zheng, Chuanxia

“…Part 3 combines recognitive learning and the latest generative modeling into a holistic scene decomposition and completion framework, where a network is trained to decompose a scene into individual objects, infer their underlying occlusion relationships, and moreover imagine what the originally occluded objects may look like, while using only a single image as input. In Chapter 6, the aim is to derive a higher-level structural decomposition of a scene, automatically recognizing objects and generating intact shapes as well as photorealistic appearances for occluded regions, without requiring manual masking as in Part 2. …”
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Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India by Anushka Rege

“…There is an urgent need to pay research attention to crops like cashew that are grown by smallholders and contribute to apparently small-scale yet consistent forest loss.…”
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Mitofusins Mfn1 and Mfn2 are required to preserve glucose- but not incretin-stimulated β-cell connectivity and insulin secretion by Georgiadou, Eleni, Muralidharan, Charanya, Martinez, Michelle, Chabosseau, Pauline, Akalestou, Elina, Tomas, Alejandra, Yong, Fiona Su Wern, Stylianides, Theodoros, Wretlind, Asger, Legido-Quigley, Cristina, Jones, Ben, Lopez-Noriega, Livia, Xu, Yanwen, Gu, Guoqiang, Alsabeeh, Nour, Cruciani-Guglielmacci, Céline, Magnan, Christophe, Ibberson, Mark, Leclerc, Isabelle, Ali, Yusuf, Soleimanpour, Scott A., Linnemann, Amelia K., Rodriguez, Tristan A., Rutter, Guy A.

“…In contrast, oral glucose tolerance was more modestly affected in βMfn1/2-dKO mice, and glucagon-like peptide 1 or glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide receptor agonists largely corrected defective glucose-stimulated insulin secretion through enhanced EPAC-dependent signaling. …”
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Scaling up parametric human recovery by Cai, Zhongang

“…HuMMan’s features include: 1) multimodal data and annotations, 2) integration of popular mobile devices in the sensor suite, 3) a comprehensive set of 500 actions, and 4) support for various tasks like action recognition, pose estimation, and especially parametric human recovery. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…The task can be divided into extractive summarization, where the system must produce an output solely made of input contents, and abstractive summarization, where the model is free to generate new text, much like a human would do. In this thesis, we only consider the latter, more challenging abstractive summarization use case. …”
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4D printable thermally stimulated (meth)acrylate shape memory polymers with tailorable shape recovery force for vat photopolymerization by Ng, Chin Siang

“…This enables the SMP to recover back to its original shape by itself, just like most elastomers. The most common additive manufacturing technology to 4D print these SMPs is vat photopolymerization. …”
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Leveraging linguistic knowledge to enhance low-resource NLP applications by Zhu, Zixiao

“…Within this paradigm, fixed-prompt LM tuning wraps input sentences into a template, allowing the PLM to engage in tasks like masked language prediction or inference understanding. …”
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儒家的异端 ： 试析李贽思想与儒家学说的共通点 = An analysis of the similarity between Lizhi’s thoughts and Confucianism by 刘佑勋 Liew, Youxun

“…Having described the common role of Confucianism as an authoritative form of order under the context of a traditional China’s society, I would like to point out the corrupted nature of the Ming dynasty’s imperial court（明代朝廷、明代官学）, which took advantage of the above mentioned Confucian Ethics for its own benefits, whilst compromising the welfare of its commoners.In response to this, Li Zhi（李贽） advocated the discourse on the topic of “genuine human nature”（自然之性）, which not only emphasized the significance of retaining a pure, genuine and untainted form of human nature, but also criticized the “pseudo-moralists”（明代伪道学家） along with the corrupted imperial court for tainting and restricting the genuine nature of humanity, in the name of upholding the Confucian Ethics. …”
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Synaptic plasticity in VLSI : a floating-gate approach by Gopalakrishnan, Roshan

“…Computationally T-STDP has advantages like replicating rate based plasticity experiments and detecting third order input correlations. …”
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“文章四友”新论：以李峤、崔融之应用文书写为探讨中心 = New perspectives on “Wenzhang siyou” : focus on Li Qiao and Cui Rong’s practical prose by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

“…Secondly, CUI is very good at parallelism just like Lianzhu 連珠style. Thirdly, especially tending three-word sentence makes his syntax more changeable. …”
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Two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks for gas sensing by Lister, AM

“…Experiments comparing sensors of the same Cu₃(HHTP)₂ MOF with different particle morphologies showed that flatter flake-like MOF crystals gave a superior limit of detection than sensors of the same MOF composed of hexagonal crystals. …”

Edible Bird's Nest treatment effects on subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes and synovial fluid proteome profiles in an osteoarthritis rabbit model by Syed Sulaiman, Sharifah Zakiah

“…Protein expression showed action of several proteins involved in bone resorption inhibition and resolution of inflammation via several signalling pathways which includes toll-like receptor (TLR) and NF-κB signalling pathways.…”
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Adaptive management framework for growth response analysis of tomato in controlled environment plant production systems by Shamshiri, Ramin

“…An adaptive management framework (AMF) was developed and used in this study for defining and determining foundation classes (climate control parameters) and objects (tomato crop at different growth stages and light condition) in a bioproduction system like CEPPS. The flexible architecture of the framework with a self-tuning configuration database enables it to work with different culture classes and objects within which many specific scenarios may be modeled and analyzed. …”
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Characterization of exopolysaccharides from probiotic Lactobacillus strains isolated from traditional Malaysian foods by Suliman, Eilaf Suliman Khalil

“…LAB are used for the production of several industrially interesting metabolites such as bioactive peptides, antibacterial compounds, aroma compounds, and cells wall component like exopolysaccharides (EPS). EPS are generally related to all forms of polysaccharides that are present outside of the microbial cell wall. …”
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论阮籍诗文中的逃避主义 = Escapism in the literary works of Ruan Ji by 王岳明 Wang, Yueming

“…Next, this thesis will introduce Ruan Ji and seek to link the concept of escapism with Ruan Ji’s literary works. …”
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Control and operation of DC microgrids by Adhikari, Sujan

“…The centralized voltage balancing technique is prone to deteriorate the system functionality due to the failure in communication links. Replacement of a centralized proportional-integral controller with multiple decentralized voltage balancers in a microgrid enhances the system reliability by removal of the communication links. …”
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for healthcare decision-making by Zeng, Zhiwei

“…It is an argumentative methodology that can infuse explainability into the model and generate explanations that are faithful and insightful to the inner workings and internal representations of the model. It follows a “debate-like” process that shares many similarities with the way humans deliberate and make decisions, thereby giving it unique advantages in generating human-understandable explanations. …”
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