Facies analysis and depositional model of the middle-upper triassic Semantan formation, Central Pahang, Malaysia by Muhammad Azfar, Mohamed, Mazshurraiezal, Nasir, Mohd Syukri, Said, Meng, Choongchee, Mohamad Shaufi, Sokiman, Nur Asyraf, Md Akhir, Muhammad Aslam, Md Yusof, Muhammad Noor Amin, Zakariah, Mohd Nizam, Abdul Rashid, Salahuddin, Husein, Noorzamzarina, Sulaiman, Afiq Naim, Mohd

“…Seven (F1-7) facies have been identified which are; F1) poorly sorted conglomerate, F2) pebbly sandstone, F3) structureless-to-parallel laminated sandstone, F4) wavy-to-ripple fine-to-medium laminated sandstone, F5) slumped thin-interbeded sandstone and shale, F6) interbedded sandstone and shale, and F7) shale, represent a subordinate part of the Semantan Formation. …”
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Experimental and AI-driven enhancements in gas-phase photocatalytic CO2 conversion over synthesized highly ordered anodic TiO2 nanotubes by Hossen, Md. Arif, Hasan, Md. Munirul, Ahmed, Yunus, Azrina, Abd Aziz, Nurashikin, Yaacof, Leong, Kah Hon

“…The K-fold cross-validation method was employed to fine-tune the hyperparameters of the ML models. Compared to other ML models, the artificial neural networks (ANN) model showed an outstanding rating of performance evaluation metrics, including R2, MSE, RMSE, and MRE. …”
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Surface Compositions of Trojan Asteroids by Emery, Joshua P., Binzel, Richard P., Britt, Daniel T., Brown, Michael E., Howett, Carly J. A., Martin, Audrey C., Melita, Mario D., Souza-Feliciano, Ana Carolina, Wong, Ian

“…Mid-infrared emissivity spectra reveal the presence of fine-grained anhydrous silicates on the surfaces. …”
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Tackling background ambiguities in multi-class few-shot point cloud semantic segmentation by Lai, Lvlong, Chen, Jian, Zhang, Chi, Zhang, Zehong, Lin, Guosheng, Wu, Qingyao

“…With our proposed approach, fine-tuning, a weak baseline method for few-shot segmentation, gains significant performance improvement (e.g., 7.48% and 7.04% in 2-way-1-shot and 3-way-1-shot tasks of S3DIS, respectively) and outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in all the task settings of S3DIS and ScanNet benchmark datasets.…”
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Hierarchical skeleton Meta-Prototype Contrastive learning with hard skeleton mining for unsupervised person re-identification by Rao, Haocong, Leung, Cyril, Miao, Chunyan

“…Firstly, we construct hierarchical representations of skeletons to model coarse-to-fine body and motion features from the levels of body joints, components, and limbs. …”
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Full-spectrum out-of-distribution detection by Yang, Jingkang, Zhou, Kaiyang, Liu, Ziwei

“…These new benchmarks have a more fine-grained categorization of distributions (i.elet@tokeneonedot, training ID, covariate-shifted ID, near-OOD, and far-OOD) for the purpose of more comprehensively evaluating the pros and cons of algorithms. …”
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Unsupervised land-use change detection using multi-temporal POI embedding by Yao, Yao, Zhu, Qia, Guo, Zijin, Huang, Weiming, Zhang, Yatao, Yan, Xiaoqin, Dong, Anning, Jiang, Zhangwei, Liu, Hong, Guan, Qingfeng

“…In addition, our model can effectively identify areas with unchanged land use and land use changes in residential and industrial areas at a fine scale.…”
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Bitstream-corrupted JPEG images are restorable: two-stage compensation and alignment framework for image restoration by Liu, Wenyang, Wang, Yi, Yap, Kim-Hui, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…The GCA leverages the extracted low-resolution thumbnail from the JPEG header to guide full-resolution pixel-wise image restoration in a coarse-to-fine manner. It is achieved by a coarse-guided pix2pix network and a refine-guided bi-directional Laplacian pyramid fusion network. …”
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Deposition and characterisation of a diamond/Ti/diamond multilayer structure by Mallik, Awadesh Kumar, Lloret, Fernando, Gutierrez, Marina, Rouzbahani, Rozita, Pobedinskas, Paulius, Shih, Wen-Ching, Haenen, Ken

“…The titanium layer in between the two diamond layers possesses a very-fine-grained microstructure. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) results show evidence of intermixing between the titanium and diamond layers at their respective interfaces. …”
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Amorphous high-entropy phosphide nanosheets with multi-atom catalytic sites for efficient oxygen evolution by Li, Xiumin, Xie, Zhengkun, Roy, Soumyabrata, Gao, Longqing, Liu, Jie, Zhao, Bing, Wei, Ran, Tang, Bijun, Wang, Hongyan, Ajayan, Pulickel, Tang, Keyong

“…Furthermore, Fe and Ni/Co sites prefer to stabilize the HO* and HOO* intermediates respectively, conducive to breaking their scaling relation of Gibbs free energy during OER. Owing to its fine-tuned composition and the synergistic effect of multiple active sites, the FeCoNiCuYP/C electrocatalyst demonstrates superior OER performance in alkaline solutions, requiring a mere 316 mV overpotential to yield 100 mA cm-2 current density with excellent stability. …”
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Distributed droop schemes for standalone and interlinked AC microgrids by Inam Ullah

“…So far, the common objective focused by the droop schemes has been proportional power sharing among the DGs based on their respective ratings. This objective is fine if the DGs are of the same type, just like the classical control of parallel synchronous generators. …”
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Instrumentation challenges of a pushbroom hyperspectral imaging system for currency counterfeit applications by Lim, Hoong-Ta, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham

“…The high spectral resolution of a pushbroom imager is able to capture fine spectral details of the samples used in this research, providing important information required for classification. …”
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The durability properties of high volume oil palm biomass waste mortar by Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah

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Multi-species rotational grazing of small ruminants regenerates undergrowth vegetation while controlling weeds in the oil palm silvopastoral system by Tohiran, Kamil Azmi, Nobilly, Frisco, Zulkifli, Raja, Yahya, Muhammad Syafiq, Norhisham, Ahmad Razi, Rasyidi, Md Zainal, Azhar, Badrul

“…Hence, we concluded managing undergrowth vegetation in oil palm plantations using multi-species livestock grazing is a practical approach, and it should be fine-tuned for example by choosing livestock species based on the targeted objectives and the grazing sequence that will be practiced to regenerate the oil palm silvopastoral system. …”
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Simultaneous controllers for stabilizing the frequency changes in deregulated power system using moth flame optimization by Peddakapu, kurukuri, Mohd Rusllim, Mohamed, Srinivasarao, P., Leung, Puiki

“…Further work to reduce the changes in tie-line has been applied through different FACTS controllers, such as Distributed power flow controller (DPFC), Thyristor-controlled series capacitor (TCSC), Unified power flow controller (UPFC), and Static synchronous series compensator (SSSC); integrated into the AGC system with the co-ordination of Ultra-capacitor (UC). …”
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Sustained exposure to Helicobacter pylori induces immune tolerance by desensitizing TLR6 by Zhang, Xiulin, He, Yang, Zhang, Xiaolu, Fu, Bo, Song, Zidai, Wang, Liang, Fu, Rui, Lu, Xuancheng, Xing, Jin, Lv, Jianyi, Guo, Meng, Huo, Xueyun, Liu, Xin, Lu, Jing, Du, Xiaoyan

“…The gastric epithelium acts as the first line of defense against H. pylori, with Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in gastric epithelial cells being sensitive to H. pylori components and subsequently activating the innate immune system. …”
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Machine Learning Prediction of Treatment Response to Inhaled Corticosteroids in Asthma by Ong, Mei-Sing, Sordillo, Joanne E., Dahlin, Amber, McGeachie, Michael, Tantisira, Kelan, Wang, Alberta L., Lasky-Su, Jessica, Brilliant, Murray, Kitchner, Terrie, Roden, Dan M., Weiss, Scott T., Wu, Ann Chen

“…Background: Although inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are the first-line therapy for patients with persistent asthma, many patients continue to have exacerbations. …”
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Rapid and Scalable Production of Functional SARS-CoV-2 Virus-like Particles (VLPs) by a Stable HEK293 Cell Pool by Puarattana-aroonkorn, Sitthiphol, Tharakaraman, Kannan, Suriyawipada, Disapan, Ruchirawat, Mathuros, Fuangthong, Mayuree, Sasisekharan, Ram, Artpradit, Charlermchai

“…We employed the membrane, envelope, and highly immunogenic spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 to produce virus-like particles (VLPs) using the HEK293-F cell line as a host system with an economical transfection reagent. …”
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When is it acceptable to break the rules? Knowledge representation of moral judgements based on empirical data by Awad, Edmond, Levine, Sydney, Loreggia, Andrea, Mattei, Nicholas, Rahwan, Iyad, Rossi, Francesca, Talamadupula, Kartik, Tenenbaum, Joshua, Kleiman-Weiner, Max

“…We then detail the design, implementation, and results of a study of human participants who judge whether it is acceptable to break a well-established rule: <jats:italic>no cutting in line</jats:italic>. We then develop an instance of our model and compare its performance to that of standard machine learning approaches on the task of predicting the behavior of human participants in the study, showing that our preference-based approach more accurately captures the judgments of human decision-makers. …”
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The influence of mode dominance and traveling waves on flexible cylinder flow-induced vibration by Ma, Leixin, Resvanis, Themistocles L., Vandiver, J. Kim

“…The number of dimensions of the flexible cylinder flow-induced vibration is reduced from infinite degrees of freedom to a few dominant proper orthogonal modes in the cross-flow and in-line directions sufficient to characterize the response properly. …”
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