Development of mechanically robust self-cleaning coatings for large structure protection by Kumar, Divya

“…This in turn compromises the mechanical durability of the coatings when exposed to harsh environments. The main objective of this project is to develop self-cleaning coatings for large outdoor structures like wind turbine blades and aircraft wings with enhanced mechanical properties. …”
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Rapid design exploration framework for realizing custom computing systems on FPGAs by Aung, Yan Lin

“…It is noteworthy that the run-time of the proposed area-time estimation technique is in the order of milliseconds, thereby yielding three orders of magnitude speed up when compared with the commercial FPGA synthesis process and yet provides for reasonably accurate area-time estimation. …”
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Synaptic plasticity in VLSI : a floating-gate approach by Gopalakrishnan, Roshan

“…The most commonly used rule posits weight change based on time difference between one presynaptic spike and one postsynaptic spike and is hence termed doublet STDP (D-STDP). Potentiation occurs when a postsynaptic spike succeeds a presynaptic spike; otherwise depression happens. …”
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GPU-based commonsense reasoning for real-time query answering and multimodal analysis by Tran, Ha Nguyen

“…Our approach accepts different rulesets and executes the reasoning process at query time when the inferred triples are determined by the set of triple patterns defined in the query. …”
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Bis(imino)phenyl group 13 - 14 complexes by Seow, Celestine Su Yi

“…However, the reaction of bis(imino)phenyl pincer ligand with tBu substituents and indium(I) bromide in toluene afforded a separated ion pair of bis(imino)phenylindium(III) bromide complex, [LtBu2In]Br (1.1, LtBu = C6H3-2,6-(HC=NtBu)2). When the reaction was done in Et2O, an indium(I) trimer, [(LtBuInCl)2LtBuIn] (1.3) was afforded. …”
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Dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing liquid layers by Wei, Tao

“…The concept of dissipative compacton also brings to light the properties of interfacial fractalization. When quasi-equilibrium evaporation is considered with a simplified model, the interface instability is found to be enhanced by vapor recoil using the effective growth rate in LSA. …”
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How balanced are you? Bilingualism and the development of attentional control in English-Mandarin preschool children by Chan, Clara Gek Hoon

“…Given the cultural and societal differences inherent in bilingualism all over the world, caution needs to be taken when generalizing the conclusions, but the results have both theoretical and practical implications on promoting balanced bilingualism among young bilinguals to benefit their attentional control.…”
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Topochemical manipulation of some complex transition metal oxides by Amano Patiño, ME

“…</p> <p>Finally, topochemical exchange reactions can also be carried out between cations in complex transition metal oxides when the mobility of the species to be exchanged is sufficiently greater with respect to the host lattice. …”

Characterization of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) isolated from NDV vaccinated broiler farms and investigation of vaccine efficacy against challenge with Velogenic genotype VII NDV by Shahrestani, Kiarash Roohani

“…Vaccine that matched with the hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test’s antigen induced significantly (P<0.05) higher antibody compared to vaccine from other genotypes where a 2 Log2 difference were detected when genotype VII and genotype II NDV antigens were used to detect homologous and heterologous HI titters. …”
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Conformational design characterization of a truncated diamine oxidase by Razali, Nur Nadia

“…The gene encoding diamine oxidase was identified in the UNITPROT/KB database and it showed a 61% sequence similarity when blasted with NCBI database. The protein structure was built using a homology modeling in YASARATM . …”
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Web-geospatial water management decision support system for Tanjung Karang rice irrigation scheme, Malaysia by Mamodu, Maina Mohammed

“…About 21% of the total water applied to the field by irrigation could be saved when contribution of groundwater is considered in the model. …”
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Adaptive management framework for growth response analysis of tomato in controlled environment plant production systems by Shamshiri, Ramin

“…The results light-condition-based analysis showed that maximum temperature and VPD values occur at sun condition, with peak values between 11:00am to 4:00pm, when RH is at minimum, and the lowest VPD values belong to night hours. …”
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Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality : 13th International Conference, VAMR 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Event, July 24-29, 2021,... by VAMR (Conference) (13th : 2021 : Online), organiser 643257, Chen, Jessie Y. C., editor 643261, Fragomeni, Gino, editor 643262, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (23rd : 2021 : Online) issuing body 642922

Semantic-based vulnerability analysis of software by Li, Yuekang

“…This is because greybox fuzzers often need to maintain a large set of seed inputs when fuzzing big programs, raising the importance of seed quality evaluation. …”
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Advanced data analytics for future smart grid stability assessment by Ren, Chao

“…The modern power systems are pushed to operate close to their secure limits. When subjected to a severe contingency, the stressed power systems may lose its dynamic security, resulting in catastrophic consequences such as cascading failure and even wide-spread blackout. …”
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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for healthcare decision-making by Zeng, Zhiwei

“…In terms of decision performance, my approach achieved the highest accuracies and F1-scores for both the diagnosis and prognosis task when compared with six machine learning models. In terms of explainability, the evaluation results with 107 human subjects indicate that the explanations generated by my approach achieved better accessibility and verifiability than existing XAI models. …”
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Scope, characteristics, behavior change techniques, and quality of conversational agents for mental health and well-being: systematic assessment of apps by Lin, Xiaowen, Martinengo, Laura, Jabir, Ahmad Ishqi, Ho, Andy Hau Yan, Car, Josip, Atun, Rifat, Tudor Car, Lorainne

“…CA developers should consider the quality of information, user confidentiality, access, and emergency management when designing mental health CAs. Future research should assess the role of artificial intelligence in promoting behavior change within CAs and determine the choice of BCTs in evidence-based psychotherapies to enable systematic, consistent, and transparent development and evaluation of effective digital mental health interventions.…”
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Numerical solutions of some multiscale problems by Pang, Chen Hui

“…We first consider the case when the domain is polygonal. Two-scale convergence is employed to obtain the two-scale homogenized equation that contains both the solution to the homogenized problem and the corrector term, i.e., all coarse and fine scale information. …”
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Anti-fouling thin film composite (TFC) polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes based on piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrates by Fu, Jia Shen

“…The fouling tests clearly demonstrated that RO membranes based on both unpoled and poled PVDF-TEP-NWF substrates exhibited fouling mitigation behavior when electric signal was applied. The findings of this study would provide the method of using hydrophobic PVDF membrane as substrate for RO membrane fabrication and come up with an innovative way to mitigate RO membrane fouling.…”
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Efficient algorithms for subgraph counting and enumeration on large graphs by Wang, Kaixin

“…This theoretical result is better than that of the state-of-the-arts when \delta > \tau + (3/ln3) \rho, a condition satisfied by many real-world graphs, where \rho is the edge density of the graph defined as \rho = m/n. …”
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