Experimental and numerical studies of pin-ended S960 ultra-high strength steel press-braked channel section columns by Ong, Shao Quan

“…The structural testing programme were performed on two nonslender plain channel sections and comprised detailed measurements of initial global and local geometric imperfections, as well as a total of 10 flexural buckling tests on pin-ended columns buckling about their minor axes. …”
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Comparison and validation of sensors for 3D and 2D motion capture to measure 10-pin bowling specific kinematics by Lim, Matthew Jing Long

“…Ten pin bowling is a competitive sport that requires athletes to score as many pins possible using a bowling ball. …”
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In vitro evaluation of enriched brewers' spent grains using bacillus subtilis WX-17 as potential functional food ingredients by Tan, Yong Xing, Mok, Wai Kit, Chen, Wei Ning

“…Brewers' spent grains (BSGs) are nutritious food processing by-products generated in the brewing industry. …”
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Facile oxidative recovery of manganese as electrochemically active MnO2 from spent lithium-ion battery bioleachate by Ranganathan, Deepika, Roy, Joseph Jegan, Cao, Bin, Srinivasan, Madhavi

“…In view of the rapidly growing volumes of spent lithium-ion battery (LIB) waste being generated annually, there is an urgent need to develop novel and green approaches to recover critical metals from spent LIBs in the form of technologically valuable materials for reincorporation back into battery manufacturing to achieve a circular economy for electronic waste. …”
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Compressive strength and fire resistance of mortar containing crushed cockle shell as fine aggregate replacement by Hanis Nadiah, Ruslan, Khairunisa, Muthusamy, Mohd Faizal, Md Jaafar, Nabilla, Mohamad, Nur Farah Aziera, Jamaludin

“…Thus, the current study investigates the influence of substitution of crushed cockle shell as a partial fine aggregate on the compressive strength and fire resistance of mortar. …”
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The enduring importance of the “fine cuts” approach to psychology: EPS Mid-Career Award Lecture 2024 by Bird, G

“…In this article, I take a selective review of work undertaken by my colleagues and me in an attempt to show the enduring importance of the “fine cuts” approach to psychology. This approach highlights the importance of causal, specific, and falsifiable psychological models, and the rigorous experimental designs needed to test them. …”

Long-term fine particulate matter exposure on lung cancer incidence and mortality in Chinese nonsmokers by Chen, Z, Meng, X, Han, Y, Mou, Y, Ji, C, Zhu, X, Yu, C, Sun, D, Yang, L, Sun, Q, Chen, Y, Du, H, Dai, J, Hu, Z, Lv, J, Jin, G, Ma, H, Kan, H, Li, L, Shen, H

“…<p><strong>Rationale:</strong> The association between fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) and lung cancer incidence in non-smokers (LCINS) remains inconsistent. …”

Spherical mask: coarse-to-fine 3D point cloud instance segmentation with spherical representation by Shin, S, Zhou, K, Vankadari, M, Markham, A, Trigoni, N

“…Coarse-to-fine 3D instance segmentation methods show weak performances compared to recent Grouping-based, Kernel-based and Transformer-based methods. …”

Developing a system that uses ultrawide-band inertial measurement units to quantify selected 10-Pin skills in real-time by Wee, Joel Jiewei

“…Ten-pin bowling is a unique abstract sport that requires bowlers to deliver a 11-to-16-pound ball in a five-step approach for the ball to travel down the oiled lane to knock down 10 pins. …”
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An Effective Med-VQA Method Using a Transformer with Weights Fusion of Multiple Fine-Tuned Models by Al-Hadhrami, Suheer, Menai, Mohamed El Bachir, Al-Ahmadi, Saad, Alnafessah, Ahmad

“…The second model, the greedy-soup-based model, uses a greedy soup technique based on the fusion of multiple fine-tuned models to set the model parameters. The greedy soup selects the model parameters by fusing the model parameters that have significant performance on the validation accuracy in training. …”
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Evaluating Adaptive Layer Freezing through Hyperparameter Optimization for Enhanced Fine-Tuning Performance of Language Models by Figueroa, Reinaldo

“…When dealing with data scarcity, transfer learning has become the go-to method to use these models in specialized downstream tasks via fine-tuning. However, fine-tuning on small datasets can lead to overfitting and a lack of generalization. …”
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EyeTrAES: Fine-grained, Low-Latency Eye Tracking via Adaptive Event Slicing by Sen, Argha, Bandara, Nuwan, Gokarn, Ila, Kandappu, Thivya, Misra, Archan

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Fine-tuning selective layer architecture of hydrogel membrane towards high separation performances for engineered osmosis by Qin, Detao, Liu, Zhaoyang, Bai, Hongwei, Song, Xiaoxiao, Li, Zhengtao, Sun, Darren Delai

“…Towards this goal, the architecture of hydrogel selective layer is finely tuned for the first time for improving engineered osmosis (EO) membrane performance. …”
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Selective separation and recovery of lithium, nickel, MnO₂, and Co₂O₃ from LiNi₀.₅Mn₀.₃Co₀.₂O₂ in spent battery by He, Hongping, Feng, Junli, Gao, Xiaofeng, Fei, Xunchang

“…The recovery of valuable metals from the LiNi0·5Mn0·3Co0·2O2 in spent batteries deserves more attention. We report a series of feasible procedures to selectively recover the four metals (Li, Ni, Mn, and Co) using a combination of hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgyical processes. …”
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Dynamic stabilization of formation fines to enhance oil recovery of a medium permeability sandstone core at reservoir conditions by Agi, Augustine Aja, Radzuan, Junin, Mohd Zaidi, Jaafar, Zulkifli, Abdul Majid, Nor Aishah Saidina, Amin, Akhmal, Sidek, Yakasai, Faruk, Muhammad Abbas Ahmad, Zaini, Azrul Nurfaiz, Mohd Faizal, Gbadamosi, Afeez Olayinka, Sirajo, Lawal, Oseh, Jeffrey Onuoma

“…Fines migration has impacted the efficiency of low salinity water flooding at reservoir condition. …”
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Extracting structured data from organic synthesis procedures using a fine-tuned large language model by Ai, Qianxiang, Meng, Fanwang, Shi, Jiale, Pelkie, Brenden, Coley, Connor W

“…The fine-tuned model produces syntactically correct ORD records with an average accuracy of 91.25% for ORD “messages” (e.g., full compound, workups, or condition definitions) and 92.25% for individual data fields (e.g., compound identifiers, mass quantities), with the ability to recognize compound-referencing tokens and to infer reaction roles. …”
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Discrete and fine wavelength tunable thermo-optic WSS for low power consumption C+L band tunability by Prabhathan, Patinharekandy, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham, Zhang, Huijuan, Chen, Shiyi, Zhang, Jing

“…Instead of direct tuning a single MRR spectrum, the discrete and fine wavelength tunability in a Vernier configured TO-WSS has been used to achieve single wavelength selection over a high free spectral range (FSR). …”
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Fine-scale population structure and widespread conservation of genetic effect sizes between human groups across traits by Hu, S, Ferreira, LAF, Shi, S, Hellenthal, G, Marchini, J, Lawson, DJ, Myers, SR

“…We developed a statistical pipeline to infer fine-scale Ancestry Components and applied it to UK Biobank data. …”

Towards greener concrete: a comprehensive review of waste glass powder as a partial fine aggregate substitute by S.J.S, Hakim, Mhaya, A M, Mokhatar, S N A F, Kamarudin, S. N., Tong, Y G, Chik, T N T

“…Overall, preparing a review paper on the performance of waste glass powder as a partial substitution of fine aggregate in concrete consolidates existing knowledge, evaluates performance, identifies benefits, challenges, and guides future research…”
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Improved flux pinning properties of Mg exceed MgB2 ceramics with B4C and Dy2O3 additions by Pham, Ha H., Le, Tien, Pham, An T., Kang, Won Nam, Nam, Nguyen H., Anh, Do T.K., Anh, Nguyen Hoang, Peh, Hoo Keong, Chen, Soo Kien, Man, Nguyen K., Hong, Vuong Thi Anh, Lee, Hanoh, Park, Tuson, Cuong, Le Viet, Hai, Phan, Huy, Nguyen Quang, Tran, Duc H.

“…According to collective pinning theory, δl pinning was identified as the dominant pinning type in the fabricated samples. …”
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