An optimized CFD-DEM method for fluid-particle coupling dynamics analysis by Yao, L. M., Xiao, Zhongmin, Liu, J. B., Zhang, Q., Wang, M.

“…It is found that when the sand ratio is increased from 0 to 56%, the accumulation of particles at the outer edge of the sudden contraction/expansion section is more pronounced, while the force chain is much easier to be formed. …”
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Facilitating gamified lower-extremity rehabilitation through novel VR MI-BCI system by Pramotedham, Chavalit

“…However, there has been a general lack of focus on Lower-Extremity MI analysis, and the development of Serious Games catered specifically to the stroke rehabilitation use case. More systematic studies are also required to quantify the effects of Virtual Reality (VR) stimuli on BCI performance, to guide the development of future applications. …”
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Developing a system that uses ultrawide-band inertial measurement units to quantify selected 10-Pin skills in real-time by Wee, Joel Jiewei

“…The data will allow coaches and athletes to monitor the athletes’ training performance and plan a more targeted training program based on the shortcomings revealed from the data collected with the aim of enhancing the athlete’s performance. …”
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Direct reuse of electronic plastic scraps from computer monitor and keyboard to direct stem cell growth and differentiation by Shi, Pujiang, Tan, Chiew Kei, Wu, Zhuoran, Gabriel, Jean-Christophe P., Srinivasan, Madhavi, Lee, Jong-Min, Tay, Chor Yong

“…Reuse of electronic wastes is a critical aspect for a more sustainable circular economy as it provides the simplest and most direct route to extend the lifespan of non-renewable resources. …”
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Characterization and application of natural and recombinant butelase-1 to improve industrial enzymes by end-to-end circularization by Hemu, Xinya, Zhang, Xiaohong, Nguyen, Giang K. T., To, Janet, Serra, Aida, Loo, Shining, Sze, Siu Kwan, Liu, Chuan-Fa, Tam, James P.

“…In turn, ligase-improved enzymes could be a general and environmentally friendly strategy for producing more stable and efficient industrial enzymes.…”
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Constructing self-supporting surfaces with planar quadrilateral elements by Ma, Long, Yao, Sidan, Zheng, Jianmin, Liu, Yang, Zhou, Yuanfeng, Xin, Shi-Qing, He, Ying

“…Starting with a triangular discretization of a self-supporting surface, we first compute the principal curvatures and directions of each triangular face using a new discrete differential geometry approach, yielding more accurate results than existing methods. Then, we smooth the principal direction field to reduce the number of singularities. …”
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Image restoration via simultaneous nonlocal self-similarity priors by Zha, Zhiyuan, Yuan, Xin, Zhou, Jiantao, Zhu, Ce, Wen, Bihan

“…An alternating minimization with an adaptive parameter adjusting strategy is developed to solve the proposed SNSS-based image restoration problems, which makes the entire algorithm more stable and practical. Experimental results on three image restoration applications, namely image denoising, deblocking and deblurring, demonstrate that the proposed SNSS produces superior results compared to many popular or state-of-the-art methods in both objective and perceptual quality measurements.…”
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Super-resolution imaging of photogenerated charges on CdS/g-C₃N₄ heterojunctions and its correlation with photoactivity by Wu, Shuyang, Lee, Jinn-Kye, Lim, Pei Chong, Xu, Rong, Zhang, Zhengyang

“…Therefore, our findings shed more light on the charge distribution and photocatalytic heterogeneity of composite materials at the nanoscale. …”
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Realizing high and stable electrocatalytic oxygen evolution for iron-based perovskites by co-doping-induced structural and electronic modulation by She, Sixuan, Zhu, Yinlong, Wu, Xinhao, Hu, Zhiwei, Shelke, Abhijeet, Pong, Way-Faung, Chen, Yubo, Song, Yufei, Liang, Mingzhuang, Chen, Chien-Te, Wang, Huanting, Zhou, Wei, Shao, Zongping

“…Impressively, SCFN shows more than an order of magnitude enhancement in mass-specific activity compared to the SrFeO3−δ (SF) parent oxide, and delivers an attractive small overpotential of 340 mV at 10 mA cm−2, outperforming many Co/Ni-rich perovskite oxides ever reported. …”
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3D confined jet scour at a wall by Chee, Wei Hong

“…These equations can be used to estimate the maximum scour hole dimensions caused by 3-D jets at a wall. However, more data need to be collected to test the general applicability of the proposed equations.…”
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Fabrication of high-performance thin-film composite and nanochannel-enabled next-generation membranes for water desalination by Lim, Yu Jie

“…In the second approach, the practicability of synthesizing biomimetic membranes via a more facile approach was explored by immobilizing water channels into the selective layer as nanoparticles. …”
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Space efficient meta-grid lines for mutual coupling reduction in two-port planar monopole and DRA array by Mishra, Mohit, Chaudhuri, Sumantra, Kshetrimayum, Rakhesh Singh, Alphones, Arokiaswami, Esselle, Karu P.

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Water washing and acid washing of gasification fly ash from municipal solid waste: heavy metal behavior and characterization of residues by Qin, Junde, Zhang, Yunhui, Yi, Yaolin

“…After water washing for 24 h, more than 60% of Zn in GFA would dissolve and re-precipitate into calcium zincate. …”
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Theory-guided machine learning to predict configurational energies of high distortion alloy systems by Huang, Xufa

“…The pipeline is applied to the ten constituent binary alloys of HEA Mo-Nb-V-Ti-Zr, which is known to have large structural distortions, and we discovered that the prediction accuracy significantly improved by an average of 56%, consistent across all ten binary alloy systems. More importantly, we found the four important classes of features—coordination number, XRD, dihedral-angle distribution function, and clusters—that our model consistently select across all ten binaries. …”
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Encapsulation of host-derived probiotics using functional polysaccharides by Wong, Liqi

“…SCFAs serve as an energy source and promote the growth of fish, hence a higher concentration of SCFAs is more favourable. KC was found to be able to suppress the growth of an opportunistic pathogen Edwardsielle. …”
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Dynamic air traffic flow coordination for flow-centric airspace management by Ma, Chunyao, Alam, Sameer, Qing, Cai, Delahaye, Daniel

“…This paper proposes a dynamic air traffic flow coordination framework to identify, predict, assess, and coordinate the evolving air traffic flows to enable more efficient flow configuration. Firstly, nominal flow intersections (NFI) are identified through hierarchical clustering of flight trajectory intersections and graph analytics of daily traffic flow patterns. …”
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Nanocomposite foams with balanced mechanical properties and energy return from EVA and CNT for the midsole of sports footwear application by Chang, Boon Peng, Kashcheev, Aleksandr, Veksha, Andrei, Lisak, Grzegorz, Goei, Ronn, Leong, Kah Fai, Tok, Alfred ling Yoong, Lipik, Vitali

“…Our results show that EVA foam incorporated with oxygenated CNT (O-CNT) demonstrated a more pronounced improvement of physical, mechanical, and dynamic impact response properties than acid-purified CNT (A-CNT). …”
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Dysfunctional autophagy, proteostasis, and mitochondria as a prelude to age-related macular degeneration by Lenin, Raji Rajesh, Koh, Yi Hui, Zhang, Zheting, Yeo, Yan Zhuang, Parikh, Bhav Harshad, Seah, Ivan, Wong, Wendy, Su, Xinyi

“…Recent research has uncovered a much more complex role of mitochondrial function and cytosolic protein translation and proteostasis in AMD pathogenesis. …”
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LKAW: a robust watermarking method based on large kernel convolution and adaptive weight assignment by Zhang, Xiaorui, Jiang, Rui, Sun, Wei, Song, Aiguo, Wei, Xindong, Meng, Ruohan

“…Subsequently, the modification of the embedded watermarking on the cover image is extended to more pixels. Because the magnitude and convergence rates of each loss function are different, an adaptive loss weight assignment strategy is proposed to make the weights participate in the network training together and adjust the weight dynamically. …”
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Directional emission from electrically injected exciton-polaritons in perovskite metasurfaces by Wang, Yutao, Tian, Jingyi, Klein, Maciej, Adamo, Giorgio, Ha, Son Tung, Soci, Cesare

“…Here a high-finesse metasurface cavity is monolithically patterned in the channel of a perovskite light-emitting transistor to induce a large Rabi splitting of ∼200 meV and more than 50-fold enhancement of the polaritonic emission compared to the intrinsic excitonic emission of the perovskite film. …”
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