Multi-objective optimization design and performance evaluation of a novel multi-stream intermediate fluid vaporizer with cold energy recovery by Wang, Zhe, Cai, Wenjian, Hong, Wei, Shen, Suping, Yang, Huizhu, Han, Fenghui

“…Meanwhile, the transmission process of the cryogenic exergy in MPFHE-IFV has been revealed according to the analysis of the system temperature-entropy diagram. …”
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Ultrasound-compatible 3D-printed Franz diffusion system for sonophoresis with microbubbles by Chen, Xin, De Grandi, Davide, Zhu, Yonglian, Lutheryn, Gareth, Lane, Majella E., Sil dos Santos, Bruno, Carugo, Dario

“…Franz diffusion cells have been extensively used for measuring drug permeation in vitro; however, traditional systems lack compatibility with ultrasound and only limited characterisation of their acoustical behaviour has been carried out in previous research. …”
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Living Together Across Borders : Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families / by Arnold, Lynnette, author 656202, Oxford University Press (Online service) 655242

“…Through cross-border conversations, families nurture intergenerational relations that sustain the family over the years despite ongoing separation.…”
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Intervention strategies to enhance food safety certification adoption among farmers in Malaysia: A system dynamics approach by Mohd Shahir, Omar, Cheng, Jack Kie, Ahmad Afif, Ahmarofi, Muhammad Fakhrul, Yusuf

“…Based on insights from 30 experts in the agriculture industry with over five years of experience in Malaysia, out of 33 identified elements, only 22 elements influence the adoption as influencing the adoption of food safety certification. …”
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DTM Past, Present, and Future: Reflections on and by the Design Theory and Methodology Research Community by Toh, Christine, Cagan, Jonathan, Fu, Kate, McAdams, Dan A., McComb, Christopher, Seering, Warren, Thurston, Deborah, Wood, Kristin

“…While the state of design research in engineering design has advanced tremendously in the last thirty-five years since the formation of the DTM community, reflecting on the successes and challenges faced by this community revealed several key directions and opportunities that this community is well positioned to take. …”
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Searching for beyond the Standard Model physics using the improved description of 100Mo 2𝜈𝛽𝛽 decay spectral shape with CUPID-Mo by Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K.

“…We demonstrate the potential of the dual read-out bolometric technique exploiting a 100Mo exposure of 1.47 kg × years, acquired in the CUPID-Mo experiment at the Modane underground laboratory (France). …”
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Visual food recognition using few-shot learning by Liu, Tianyi

“…In recent years, smart food logging is becoming more popular. …”
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Image-based social relation recognition using graph neural network by Gao, Jianjun

“…Meantime, the advancement of computing infrastructure and computer vision research in recent years has made it possible for computers to process these kinds of data to recognize social relations in our life. …”
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Mechanical design and performance evaluation of active thermosiphon beam terminal units by Ji, Ke, Cai, Wenjian, Wu, Bingjie, Ou, Xianhua

“…The active chilled beam (ACB) system has evolved for more than twenty years, but its limitations in chilled water temperature control, initial cost and condensation stand as the major obstacles for applications especially in tropical regions. …”
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Power- and area-efficient analog-to-digital conversion for in-memory computing by Wu, Yiheng

“…In-Memory Computation has received a lot of attention in recent years as a method to solve the von Neumann bottleneck. …”
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Exploring translation strategies for didactic literature by Liao, Shuyan

“…In recent years, the topic of self-love has gained much momentum around the world. …”
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Salient object detection by fusing local and global contexts by Ren, Qinghua, Lu, Shijian, Zhang, Jinxia, Hu, Renjie

“…Benefiting from the powerful discriminative feature learning capability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), deep learning techniques have achieved remarkable performance improvement for the task of salient object detection (SOD) in recent years. However, most existing deep SOD models do not fully exploit informative contextual features, which often leads to suboptimal detection performance in the presence of a cluttered background. …”
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The incidence of perfect moments: acoustic eloquence and narrative terroir in modern fiction by Tan, Ignatius Lu Wei

“…An exact definition of music is difficult to lay a finger on. Over the many years, the meaning of the term has shifted many times over to be construed and considered through many different conjectures of it. …”
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Three-dimensional Softmax mechanism guided bidirectional GRU networks for hyperspectral remote sensing image classification by Wu, Guoqiang, Ning, Xin, Hou, Luyang, He, Feng, Zhang, Hengmin, Shankar, Achyut

“…However, to enhance the classification accuracy of hyperspectral image features, it is crucial to capture the spatial spectral features of image elements. The recent years have witnessed the potentials of deep learning methods have shown great promise in the hyperspectral image classification due to their ability to model complex structures and extract multiple features in an end-to-end fashion. …”
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Charting the path forward in Southeast Asia: Learning from the COVID-19 vaccination challenges in six ASEAN countries by Fu, Jolene Yin Ling, Pukhari, Muhammad Harith, Cruz, Kristine Alvarado-Dela, Soebandrio, Amin, Tan, Le Van, Jantarabenjakul, Watsamon, Sawitri, Anak Agung Sagung, Chantasrisawad, Napaporn, Yee, Sidney, Weng, Ruifen, Sundar, Raghav, Tan, Chee Wah, Wang, Lin-Fa, Sam, I-Ching, Young, Barnaby Edward, Sutarsa, I Nyoman, Chan, Yoke Fun

“…The actual figures are certain to be at least several-fold higher, with estimates suggesting an excess mortality of 1.2 million in the first two years of the pandemic. Despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 4 May 2023 declaration that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is no longer a public health emergency, it remains a global threat. …”
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Comparative study of IPv4 and IPv6 and migration to IPv6 in mobile networks by Teo, Han Wei.

“…Wireless LAN is one of the many mobile networks receiving tremendous attention in the recent years. Wireless LANs are extensions to wired networks that allow Mobile Nodes to be connected to the network via the Access Point. …”
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Electrochemistry of modified graphene and carbon nanomaterials by Poh, Hwee Ling

“…The thesis will begin by introducing graphene, its history and development over the years in Chapter 1. Following which, Chapter 2 will review in depths of recently published impactful literature articles that are related to the three parts. …”
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Poisoning of bubble propelled catalytic micromotors : the chemical environment matters by Schmidt, Oliver G., Zhao, Guanjia, Sanchez, Samuel, Pumera, Martin

“…Self-propelled catalytic microjets have attracted considerable attention in recent years and these devices have exhibited the ability to move in complex media. …”
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Efficient generation of an array of single silicon-vacancy defects in silicon carbide by Wang, Junfeng, Zhou, Yu, Zhang, Xiaoming, Liu, Fucai, Li, Yan, Li, Ke, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Guanzhong, Gao, Weibo

“…Color centers in silicon carbide have increasingly attracted attention in recent years owing to their excellent properties such as single-photon emission, good photostability, and long spin-coherence time even at room temperature. …”
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Neutron diffraction as a precise and reliable method for obtaining structural properties of bulk quantities of graphene by Sofer, Zdeněk, Šimek, Petr, Jankovský, Ondřej, Sedmidubský, David, Beran, Přemysl, Pumera, Martin

“…Graphene based carbon materials have attracted a great deal of attention in the last decade; nowadays tons of graphene are produced yearly. However, there is lack of precise and reliable techniques for the determination of structural properties of graphene on the bulk scale. …”
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