Tango 2: Aligning Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Generations through Direct Preference Optimization by Majumder, Navonil, Hung, Chia-Yu, Ghosal, Deepanway, Hsu, Wei-Ning, Mihalcea, Rada, Poria, Soujanya

“…Generative multimodal content is increasingly prevalent in much of the content creation arena, as it has the potential to allow artists and media personnel to create pre-production mockups by quickly bringing their ideas to life. The generation of audio from text prompts is an important aspect of such processes in the music and film industry. …”
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From My Vantage Point: Exploring The Effect of First-Person and Third-Person Perspectives on Social Acceptance in VR Roleplaying Games by Yildirim, Caglar, Sengun, Sercan, Kucuk, Eyup, Akhoroz, Mehmet, Harrell, D. Fox

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Sitetack: a deep learning model that improves PTM prediction by using known PTMs by Gutierrez, Clair S, Kassim, Alia A, Gutierrez, Benjamin D, Raines, Ronald T

“…Motivation Post-translational modifications (PTMs) increase the diversity of the proteome and are vital to organismal life and therapeutic strategies. Deep learning has been used to predict PTM locations. …”
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House, home, and community : good models for graduate student housing by Han, Jienan, 1978-

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Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines by Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella

“…My findings demonstrate that Darnton’s claim that the external forces influencing the life cycle of the book comprise a single entity is flawed. …”
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Novel hole transporting materials based on triptycene core for high efficiency mesoscopic perovskite solar cells by Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Sabba, Dharani, Li, Hairong, Yin, Jun, Boix, Pablo P., Krishna, Anurag, Soci, Cesare, Grimsdale, Andrew C.

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Model-based health monitoring for a vehicle steering system with multiple faults of unknown types by Yu, Ming, Wang, Danwei

“…Based on the identified degradation behavior of incipient faults, prognosis is carried out to predict the remaining useful life of faulty components. The proposed algorithm is verified experimentally on the steering system of a CyCab electric vehicle.…”
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Machine health monitoring using local feature-based gated recurrent unit networks by Zhao, Rui, Wang, Dongzhe, Yan, Ruqiang, Mao, Kezhi, Shen, Fei, Wang, Jinjiang

“…In the era of big machinery data, data-driven MHMS have achieved remarkable results in the detection of faults after the occurrence of certain failures (diagnosis) and prediction of the future working conditions and the remaining useful life (prognosis). The numerical representation for raw sensory data is the key stone for various successful MHMS. …”
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Analysis of YouTube thumbnails : a deep neural decision forest implementation by Shankkar Magandran

“…Driven by people’s interest in creating and sharing information, this phenomenon has propelled social media platforms such as YouTube as a dominant force impacting everyday life. The explosion of content on YouTube in recent decades has spurred growing competition amongst content creators, jostling for the attention from users. …”
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Mechanically robust hydrophobic bio-based epoxy coatings for anti-corrosion application by Zheng, Shunli, Bellido-Aguilar, Daniel Angel, Huang, Yinjuan, Zeng, Xianting, Zhang, Qichun, Chen, Zhong

“…Corrosion of aluminum and its alloys causes serious problems to our daily life. As a common method for corrosion protection, epoxy resin has been widely used as the coating material due to its easy processability and excellent properties. …”
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Spatial and temporal localization of cell wall associated pili in Enterococcus Faecalis by Choo, Pei Yi

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Fatigue investigations on steel pipeline containing 3D coplanar and non-coplanar cracks by Xiao, Zhongmin, Zhang, Wengang, Zhang, Yanmei, Fan, Mu

“…In spite of the availability of efficient techniques and high-power computers for solving crack problems, investigations on the fatigue life of offshore pipelines with 3D interacting cracks are still rarely found in open literature. …”
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Transfer learning application on snake classification by Tananda, Hans

“…This level of accuracy is comparable to that of human observers, and as such it is reasonable to say that this model is now ready for real-life usage. A simple mobile application is then developed to access the model for classifying snake images, thus possibly saving many lives in the process. …”
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Thermal and mechanical assessments of the 3D-printed conformal cooling channels : computational analysis and multi-objective optimization by Shen, Suping, Kanbur, Baris Burak, Zhou, Yi, Duan, Fei

“…The cooling and fatigue life performances of the elongated channel are analyzed for different channel pathways and cross section areas. …”
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Telacebec (Q203)-containing intermittent oral regimens sterilized mice infected with Mycobacterium ulcerans after only 16 doses by Chauffour, Aurélie, Robert, Jérôme, Veziris, Nicolas, Aubry, Alexandra, Pethe, Kevin, Jarlier, Vincent

“…Telacebec given twice a week in combination with a long-half-life compound, either rifapentine or bedaquiline, sterilized mouse footpads in 8 weeks, i.e. after a total of only 16 doses, and prevented relapse during a period of 20 weeks after the end of treatment. …”
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Design and development of an online platform for peer tutorial scheme by Heng, Nadine Nyi Zheng

“…Notably, NTU’s School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Student Life Development Unit SEENIORS Program, a relatively young peer tutoring scheme aimed at helping academically challenged students in school of EEE, currently only conducts its classes physically. …”
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Psychological predictors of short-term lower-limb orthotic device adherence : an exploratory study by Leong, Utek

“…We investigated if custom lower-limb orthotic device adherence in the initial 30 days of wear could be predicted by orthotic device satisfaction, the Big Five personality traits, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), illness denial, and body image disturbance measured at baseline. …”
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A gate of dragon's teeth : a decolonial approach to writing precolonial historical fiction in Singapore by Ng, Yi-Sheng

“…Beginning in the year 1025 with the conception of the divine prince Sang Nila Utama, it traces his life through the eyes of other mythical-historical characters, up till his founding of the kingdom of Singapura in 1299. …”
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Hi dad, welcome to Facebook : how the intimacy of a parent-child relationship is affected when both are users of Facebook. by Goh, Tiffany Shimin., Lee, Weiyi.

“…Facebook was found to be a useful tool for parents to keep in touch with their children’s life without intruding on their privacy. Overall, findings suggest that the internet has become a new way for families to connect with each other as well as spend time together. …”
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Re-thinking arts engagement in COVID-19: findings from a hybrid-delivered participatory arts intervention for Singapore's older adults by Yam, Jodie

“…Sixty-four older adults in Singapore, aged 60 to 80 years, were recruited to undergo the intervention and complete four rounds of quantitative assessments covering health condition, quality of life, and mental well-being over 12 weeks. Participants’ experiences in the intervention were also collected via a focus group discussion (N = 18). …”
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