Systematic Assessment of Prosthesis Stiffness on User Biomechanics Using the Lower Leg Trajectory Error Framework and Its Implication for the Design and Evaluation of Ankle-Foot Pr... by Prost, Victor, Johnson, W Brett, Kent, Jenny A, Major, Matthew J, Winter, Amos G

“…Designing a prosthesis that minimizes the LLTE value, optimizes its mechanical function to enable users to best replicate the target lower leg trajectory. Here, we conducted a systematic sensitivity investigation of LLTE-optimized prostheses. …”
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Long-term visual outcomes in spasmus nutans by Hennein, Lauren, Heidary, Gena, Gaier, Eric D., Gise, Ryan

“…On initial presentation, 6/32 (19%) had an amblyogenic refractive error and mean best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in the better-seeing eye was 0.78 Logarithm of the Minimum Angle of Resolution (LogMAR) (range 1.24). …”
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Trends and Variability in Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Ocean Heat Uptake Since 2005 by Hakuba, Maria Z., Fourest, Sébastien, Boyer, Tim, Meyssignac, Benoit, Carton, James A., Forget, Gaël, Cheng, Lijing, Giglio, Donata, Johnson, Gregory C., Kato, Seiji, Killick, Rachel E., Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas, Kuusela, Mikael, Landerer, Felix

“…The GEWEX-EEI community aims to refine their assessment studies, to forge a path toward best practices, e.g., in uncertainty quantification, and to formulate recommendations for future activities.…”
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GCBF+: A Neural Graph Control Barrier Function Framework for Distributed Safe Multi-Agent Control by Zhang, Songyuan, So, Oswin, Garg, Kunal, Fan, Chuchu

“…Empirical results show that in complex environments with agents with nonlinear dynamics (e.g., Crazyflie drones), GCBF+ outperforms the hand-crafted CBF-based method with the best performance by up to 20% for relatively small-scale MAS with up to 256 agents, and leading reinforcement learning (RL) methods by up to 40% for MAS with 1024 agents. …”
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Poor man’s 1000 genome project : recent human population expansion confounds the detection of disease alleles in 7,098 complete mitochondrial genomes by Kim, Hie Lim, Schuster, Stephan C.

“…In this dataset we identified 6,110 single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and their frequency and determined that the best-fit demographic model for the 7,098 genomes included severe population bottlenecks and exponential expansions of the non-African population. …”
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First record of multi-species synchronous coral spawning from Malaysia by Chelliah, Alvin, Amar, Halimi Bin, Hyde, Julian, Yewdall, Katie, Guest, James R., Steinberg, Peter David

“…While two of the Acropora species that reproduced in April (A. millepora and A. nasuta) exhibited highly synchronous spawning (100% of sampled colonies), two other common species (A. hyacinthus and A. digitifera) did not contain visible eggs in the majority of colonies sampled (i.e., <15% of colonies) in either April or October, suggesting that these species spawn at other times of the year. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first detailed documented observation of multi-species coral spawning from reefs in Malaysia. …”
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The role of electronic properties of Pt and Pt alloys for enhanced reformate electro-oxidation in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells by Halder, A., Mukerjee, S., Jia, Qingying, Chan, S. H., Ehteshami, Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi

“…This electrocatalyst shows the best reformate tolerance in low temperature PEM fuel cells by taking advantage of the bifunctional mechanism induced by Mo and the ligand effect induced by Co simultaneously. …”
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Charge dynamics in alkanedithiols-additives in P3HT : PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cells by Solanki, Ankur, Wu, Bo, Lam, Yeng Ming, Sum, Tze Chien

“…Addition of a small fraction of high boiling point solvent into the host of donor/acceptor blend is one the best approach to control the morphology in order to enhance the power conversion efficiency of organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cell devices. …”
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A study of air molecular contamination (AMC) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in new AMC/VOC controlled cleanroom by Wong, Chee Kong

“…From results of test 5 to 8, conclusion for the best maintenance regime to maintain the specifications was to replace the chemical filter every two weeks at the MAU to prolong the time of the FFU until the next service in one years' time. …”
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New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

“…Inspired by the previous exhaustive differential trail search methods by Mella et al. at ToSC 2017, we introduce in this paper new algorithms to cover 3-round trail cores with propagation weight at least 53, up from the previous best weight 45. To achieve the goal, the concept of ideal improvement assumption is proposed to construct theoretical representative of subspaces so as to efficiently cover the search space of 3-round trail cores with at least one out-Kernel α state. …”
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Flow network models for online scheduling real-time tasks on multiprocessors by Cho, Hyeonjoong, Easwaran, Arvind

“…Especially, our unfair-but-optimal scheduling algorithm on a discrete-time model is, to the best of our knowledge, the first in the problem domain. …”
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An in-depth exploration of the post-test informational needs of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers in Asia by Yuen, Jeanette, Fung, Si Ming, Sia, Chin Leong, Venkatramani, Mallika, Shaw, Tarryn, Courtney, Eliza, Li, Shao-Tzu, Chiang, Jianbang, Tan, Veronique Kiak-Mien, Tan, Benita Kiat-Tee, Ngeow, Joanne

“…Carriers report unmet informational needs, but studies have yet to explore the specific aspects of and how best to fulfill these needs. This study aims to explore the informational needs of BRCA1/2 pathogenic variant carriers in Asia to inform for the design of educational materials to support risk management decision-making.…”
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Visual analytics Usiug artificial intelligence (image recognition for fauna species in Singapore : front-end development) by Goh, Jin Wei

“…Lastly, the classification model achieved high performance on local fauna species with the best accuracy of 95.25% among seven species categories. …”
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Supply chain resilience for global operations (2) : a re-evaluation of performance benchmarking (information sharing) by Tan, Tricia Zann Yinn

“…As such, this study utilises the concept of benchmarking – a traditional methodology that enables organisations to pinpoint the best practices and help boost performance. Through an extensive re-evaluation of existing measures of IS found in academic journals as well as suggestions gathered from professionals, a novel IS benchmark framework will then be developed. …”
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Take a “selfie” : examining how leaders emerge from leader self-awareness, self-leadership, and self-efficacy by Bracht, Eva M., Keng-Highberger, Fong T., Avolio, Bruce J., Huang, Yiming

“…It is important to understand the processes behind how and why individuals emerge as leaders, so that the best and most capable individuals may occupy leadership positions. …”
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Multi-criteria thermoeconomic and thermodynamic assessments of the desalination-integrated two-phase liquid-immersion data center cooling system by Kanbur, Baris Burak, Wu, Chenlong, Duan, Fai

“…In the multiobjective optimization study, the best trade-off point is decided at the cooling load of 1.1 kW whilst the membrane area varies between 5.12 and 5.19 cm2.…”
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NIR-light-intensified hypoxic microenvironment for cascaded supra-prodrug activation and synergistic chemo/photodynamic cancer therapy by Chen, Hongzhong, Sun, Tao, Zeng, Weiwei, Zeng, Xiaowei, Mei, Lin, Jiang, Chen, Zhao, Yanli

“…This system makes the best use of hypoxia TME to achieve effectively combined PDT and chemotherapy, offering an approach for cancer treatment.…”
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Optimal gain sensing of quantum-limited phase-insensitive amplifiers by Nair, Ranjith, Tham, Guo Yao, Gu, Mile

“…All pure-state probes whose reduced state on the input modes to the amplifier is diagonal in the multimode number basis are proven to be quantum optimal under the same gain-independent measurement. We compare the best precision achievable using classical probes to the performance of an explicit photon-counting-based estimator on quantum probes and show that an advantage exists even for single-photon probes and inefficient photodetection. …”
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A spatial-focal error concealment scheme for corrupted focal stack video by Wu, Kejun, Wang, Yi, Liu, Wenyang, Yap, Kim-Hui, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…It can also obtain the best subjective quality with sharpness consistency in recovered regions and without block effect.…”
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A modified phenomenological model for PAAm hydrogel with hardening effect under cyclical loading by Goh, Jing Xuan

“…This work attempts to create the best model for capturing the stress-stretch characteristic of PAAm hydrogel over a prolong cycle. …”
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