Poisson vector graphics (PVG) by Hou, Fei, Sun, Qian, Fang, Zheng, Liu, Yong-Jin, Hu, Shi-Min, Qin, Hong, Hao, Aimin, He, Ying

“…PVG distinguishes itself from other diffusion based vector graphics for 3 unique features: 1) explicit separation of colors and tones, which follows the basic drawing principle and eases editing; 2) native support of seamless cloning in the sense that PCs and PRs can automatically fit into the target background; and 3) allowed intersecting primitives (except for DC-DC intersection) so that users can create layers. Through extensive experiments and a preliminary user study, we demonstrate that PVG is a simple yet powerful authoring tool that can produce photo-realistic vector graphics from scratch.…”
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Flame-made calcium phosphate nanoparticles with high drug loading for delivery of biologics by Tsikourkitoudi, Vasiliki, Karlsson, Jens, Merkl, Padryk, Loh, Edmund, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta, Sotiriou, Georgios A.

“…Nanosized drug delivery systems have been proposed for the delivery of biologics facilitating their transport across epithelial layers and maintaining their stability against proteolytic degradation. …”
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Carbon–metal compound composite electrodes for capacitive deionization : synthesis, development and applications by Tang, Kexin, Hong, Terence Zhi Xiang, You, Liming, Zhou, Kun

“…Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an emerging desalination technology that utilizes the capacitive properties (electrical double-layered capacitance, redox or ion intercalation pseudocapacitance) of electrodes to remove ions. …”
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Graphene quantum dots assisted exfoliation of atomically-thin 2D materials and as-formed 0D/2D van der Waals heterojunction for HER by Gong, Jun, Zhang, Zheye, Zeng, Zhiping, Wang, Wenjun, Kong, Lingxuan, Liu, Jiyang, Chen, Peng

“…Herein, a simple strategy is reported to exfoliate pristine single or few-layered 2D materials (MoS2, h-BN, WS2, g-C3N4 microsheets) using bottom-up grown amphiphilic graphene quantum dots (GQDs) as both the intercalation agent and dispersant. …”
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Salient object detection by fusing local and global contexts by Ren, Qinghua, Lu, Shijian, Zhang, Jinxia, Hu, Renjie

“…In addition, an attention-guided hierarchical network architecture is designed to capture fine-grained spatial details by transmitting contextual information from deeper to shallower network layers in a top-down manner. Extensive experiments on six public SOD datasets show that our proposed model demonstrates superior SOD performance against most of the current state-of-the-art models under different evaluation metrics.…”
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Projectile impact-induced spalling damage on carbon fiber reinforced polymer strengthened RC plates by Tu, Huan, Fung, Tat Ching, Del Linz, Paolo, Tan, Kang Hai

“…In consideration of the complexity of transient behavior as well as multiply parameters involved, empirical approaches based on dimensionless analysis are proposed to predict the diameter and depth of spalling craters on normal RC plates and strengthened ones with frontal CFRP layers, which fill current research gap and are potential tools for damage assessment and repair. …”
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PRFusion: toward effective and robust multi-modal place recognition with image and point cloud fusion by Wang, Sijie, Kang, Qiyu, She, Rui, Zhao, Kai, Song, Yang, Tay, Wee Peng

“…Additionally, both models incorporate neural diffusion layers, which enable reliable operation even in challenging environments. …”
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One Plus One is More than Two: A Practical Combination of Power and Fault Analysis Attacks on PRESENT and PRESENT-Like Block Ciphers by Patranabis, Sikhar, Mukhopadhyay, Debdeep, Breier, Jakub, Bhasin, Shivam

“…Our attack sheds light on a hitherto unexplored vulnerability of PRESENT and PRESENT-like block ciphers that use bit-permutations instead of maximum distance separable (MDS) layers for diffusion.…”
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Recent advances in the formation, stability, and emerging food application of water-in-oil-in-water double emulsion carriers by Elaine, Elaine, Bhandari, Bhesh, Tan, Chin Ping, Nyam, Kar Lin

“…Double emulsion consists of two interfacial layers which can encapsulate both hydrophilic and lipophilic substances within a single carrier. …”

Preliminary Study on Optimization Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer as Wrapping Structure at 90-degree Elbows Piping System via Finite Element Analysis by Subba Rao, Narendraan Rao, Tajul Arifin, Ahmad Mubarak, Mohammad, Mazian, Taib, Ishkrizat, M. Letchumanan, Shaktivell

“…Based on static analysis simulation from SolidWork software, lamination orientation of (0º) with 6 layers exhibit lowest stress for all the pressure tested ranging from 0.86MPa to 19.65MPa for 90-degree defected elbow at extrados location. …”
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PUERTO RICO : A NATIONAL HISTORY / by Meléndez Badillo, Jorell A., author 656083

“…US colonization may have involved forced Americanization, but it also provoked a multi-layered resistance to those projects, from passive disobedience to armed insurrections. …”
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Localized structural and bulk effects in hybrid organic-inoraginc perovskites by Wong, Walter Pei De

“…Chapter 5 primarily revolves around the 2-dimensional (2D) layered <110> cut of perovskite where this class of hybrid perovskites are known for several remarkable properties, such as white light emission or sometimes also called broadband emission. …”
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Use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify cortical loci for lower limb movements and their efficacy for individuals after stroke by Choi, Minseok, Kim, Hyun-Chul, Youn, Inchan, Lee, Song Joo, Lee, Jong-Hwan

“…The identified cortical loci were then evaluated using the remaining healthy participants (Dataset 2; n = 11), for whom the laterality index (LI) was calculated for each lower limb movement using the cortical loci identified for the left and right lower limbs. …”
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Benchmarking Graph Transformers Toward Scalability for Large Graphs by Lim, Katherine S.

“…By adding GraphGPS-inspired message-passing neural network (MPNN) layers to a modified version of the Spectral Attention Network (SAN) and performing hyperparameter tuning, we built a GT architecture that performs comparably to GraphGPS on the node classification task on the Cora and CiteSeer datasets. …”
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Structure glass technology : systems and applications by Leitch, Katherine K. (Katherine Kristen)

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Changi International Airport modelling and visualization by Kumar, Vaibhav

“…A projection mapping software, HeavyM, was then used to arrange several layers of graphics and animations to give a vibrant simulation of ground operations of CIA. …”
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High-pressure Response in Two-dimensional Perovskites with Fluorinated Organic Spacers by Ong, Brandon Toon Sheng

“…A fluorine organic spacer, obtained by substituting a fluorine atom with a hydrogen atom in the benzene ring, has provided a solution by enhancing orbital interactions and charge transport within the inorganic layers and applying external pressure on the perovskite has shown to alter its structural and optoelectronic properties. …”
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Image reconstruction of immersed ultrasonic testing for strongly attenuative materials by Jin, Haoran, Zheng, Zesheng, Liao, Xinqin, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…This method can resolve imaging of layered media with depth-variant attenuation, such as commonly used immersed ultrasonic testing cases, while inheriting the high computational efficiency of PSM. …”
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Catalytic efficiency of ZIF-67 MXene and PMS in organic pollutant degradation by Eng, Bo Xuan

“…The characterization of the ZIF-67 MXene catalyst has revealed the insertion of small ZIF-67 crystals into the layered structure of MXene, resulting in exceptional adsorption capacity and increased surface area. …”
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Application of automated defect detection for failure analysis in scanning acoustic microscopy by Tang, Wai Kit

“…Among the range of non-destructive imaging techniques commonly applied in failure analysis, Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) is used to discern defects, such as underfill voids and delamination between the semiconductor package interfacial layers. As semiconductor technology advances with the relentless scaling of interconnects, the human capacity to manually discern defects in acoustic images has become increasingly challenging. …”
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