Understanding sudden larch death – from epidemiology to host resistance by Dun, H

“…Our field observations predict buds on fine shoots as sites of primary infection, with infection occurring between late autumn and flushing in the spring, followed by rapid lesion expansion during spring. …”

Interventions for quitting vaping by Butler, AR, Lindson, N, Livingstone-Banks, J, Notley, C, Turner, T, Rigotti, NA, Fanshawe, TR, Dawkins, L, Begh, R, Wu, AD, Brose, L, Conde, M, Simonavičius, E, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…<p><strong> Included studies</strong></p> Nine RCTs, representing 5209 participants motivated to stop using nicotine‐containing vapes at baseline, are included. …”

Study on process parameter optimization for electron beam melting additive manufacturing by Wang, Chengcheng

“…The samples fabricated from fine powders (nominal size ~ 20 - 63 μm) exhibit typical columnar-grain microstructure and obvious anisotropy in tensile properties, which are commonly seen in AMed metals and alloys. …”
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Contact-free motion-robust vital signs monitoring by Zheng, Tianyue

“…To improve the vital signs monitoring under full-scale body movements, this thesis proposes MoRe-Fi, which enables fine-grained monitoring of respiratory waveforms through the use of an IR-UWB radar and deep learning. …”
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Scaling up parametric human recovery by Cai, Zhongang

“…We leverage Vision Transformers to examine the scaling law of model sizes in EHPS. Additionally, our fine-tuning strategy evolves SMPLer-X into specialist models, further boosting performance and achieving state-of-the-art results on seven benchmarks such as AGORA, UBody, EgoBody, and EHF. …”
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Investigation of polyoxometalates and nanostructured carbon materials as electrode materials for energy storage applications by Chen, Han-Yi

“…In order to figure out the charge storage and transport mechanism, in-situ V K-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements and temperature dependent Chronoamperometry measurements are utilized for Na6[V10O28] LIBs. …”
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Design of digital-intensive time-mode data converters based on delay correction utilising a time-to-digital converter by Kong, Junjie

“…Of the two TDCs, the Coarse-Fine TDC has a high resolution of 1.08 ps, and a sampling frequency of 278 MHz and consumes a relatively lower power of 1.8 mW. …”
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Towards haptic intelligence in robots by learning from demonstration by Turlapati Sri Harsha

“…In the first part of this thesis, we build on this latter idea of performing haptic exploration of surfaces with a focus on extracting the geometry of fine features. We propose a novel quantity, haptic mismatch that identifies and refines missing geometric features based on the discrepancy in force feedback from actual interactions with an object. …”
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Investigation on the role of Sb doping on grain growth and properties of solution-processed CuIn(S,Se)2 by Ho, John Chun Wan

“…The resultant film is dense and uniform but has very fine grains which are detrimental to carrier transport. …”
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Energy storage management for renewable energy systems by Feng, Xue

“…Compared with two conventional methods, the proposed control method for the HES demonstrates improved efficiency of involving the ultracapacitors to handle power spikes while protecting batteries from misuse. …”
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Stability improvement and control optimization of isolated two-stage AC-DC-DC converter systems by Feng, Fan

“…The analysis results offer instructive implications to fine-tune the design rules of the DAB converters. …”
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Enhancing tensile and fatigue properties of additively manufactured alloys by post-processing heat treatment by Radhakrishnan, Jayaraj

“…LB-PBF process results in a fine hierarchical microstructure which can impart a simultaneous enhancement of strength and fracture toughness. …”
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Uncertainty quantification framework for combined statistical spatial downscaling and temporal disaggregation for climate change impact studies on hydrology by Rajendran Queen Suraajini

“…Thus, the strategies to assist future adaption planning and risk mitigation during extreme flood events need to be developed based on the predicted future climate conditions. Fine spatial and temporal resolutions in climate data are needed to simulate the change in future flood events and to study the climate change impact on hydrology. …”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…Of all the surviving editions, the Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu edition is the most lavishly produced, manufactured from good materials, finely decorated, and illustrated with many high quality hand-painted miniatures. …”

Exploring the stability and dynamics of nanobubbles by Tan, Beng Hau

“…These nanobubbles appear not to be stabilised by the line pinning or oversaturation that sustain surface nanobubbles. …”
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Social tags as news event detectors by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Razikin, Khasfariyati, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…First, the performance of using spikes and bursts to detect news events was found to be comparable. …”
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Tunable anti-ambipolar vertical bilayer organic electrochemical transistor enable neuromorphic retinal pathway by Laswick, Zachary, Wu, Xihu, Surendran, Abhijith, Zhou, Zhongliang, Ji, Xudong, Matrone, Giovanni Maria, Leong, Wei Lin, Rivnay, Jonathan

“…The vertical OECT design reduces device footprint, while the bilayer material tuning controls the anti-ambipolarity characteristics, allowing control of the device's on and off threshold voltages, and peak position, while reducing size thereby enabling tunable threshold spiking neurons and logic gates. Combining these components, a mimic of the retinal pathway reproducing the wavelength and light intensity encoding of horizontal cells to spiking retinal ganglion cells is demonstrated. …”
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Effect of dopant solubility and excess doping on the superconducting properties of doped Nb3Sn prepared by field assisted sintering technique by Srivastava, N, Matthews, GAB, Liu, J, Speller, SC, Grovenor, CRM, Santra, S

“…The Y₂O₃&nbsp;particles was also considered as a possible cause of pinning down of grain boundaries in addition to NbO leading to grain refinement through Zener pinning. …”

Investigating the potential of axonopus compressus to phytoremediate molybdenum by Eng, Zhi Xian

“…Mo accumulation in dry tissue of AC peaked in Week 1 and gradually decreased with time. Control AC and pots spiked with more than 20 ppm exhibited stunted growth two weeks after treatment. …”
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An on-nanoparticle rolling-circle amplification platform for ultrasensitive protein detection in biological fluids by Yan, Juan, Song, Shiping, Li, Bing, Zhang, Qingzhi, Huang, Qing, Zhang, Hua, Fan, Chunhai

“…The nanoRCA assay is applicable to the detection of two tumor markers in biological fluids: prostate-specific antigen in spiked sera and interleukin-8 in saliva.…”
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