Object counting for intelligent video surveillance by Zhang, Haobo

“…The population of the world has been increasing and crowded scenes are more likely to occur, especially in some big cities. …”
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On a submerged wave energy converter with snap-through power take-off by Wang, Lixian, Tang, Hui, Wu, Yanhua

“…Parametric studies have been carried out to determine the optimum operating conditions of the bistable device in order to maximize the wave energy extraction. …”
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Single-nanowire fuse for ionization gas detection by Liu, Hai, Zhu, Wenhuan, Han, Yutong, Yang, Zhi, Huang, Yizhong

“…Nanowires grown collectively along the identical lattice orientation have been claimed to show a strong tip effect in many previous studies. …”
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Next generation electrolytes for sodium ion battery by Do, Minh Phuong

“…Following, the relation of anion core structures, functional groups and cations to essential physicochemical properties had been drawn. For thermal safety, IL-based full cell Na0.6Mn0.9Co0.1O2/Na2.55V6O16 is capable to operate at elevated temperature and safer than organic-based cell in calorimetry tests with lower onset temperature and self-heating rate. …”
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Co-chairing Asia-Pacific defence diplomacy : the case ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus by Pitakdumrongkit, Kaewkamol, Klaisringoen, Nantasit

“…This article assesses co-chairs’ roles in affecting the outcomes of Asia-Pacific defence diplomacy, which have been under-examined. Attempting to mend this intellectual gap, our study examines: ‘What shapes specific agreement details?’ …”
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Impacts on the solidification of water on plate surface for cold energy storage using ice slurry by Liu, Shengchun, Li, Hailong, Song, Mengjie, Dai, Baomin, Sun, Zhili

“…Ice slurry has been widely used for thermal energy storage system due to its high cold energy storage capacity. …”
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The role of surface chemistry in impedimetric aptasensing by Koh, Vanessa, Ang, Wei Li, Bonanni, Alessandra

“…Surface chemistry is a key parameter in the choice of proper materials for electrochemical detection. It has been previously shown that the presence of oxygen containing groups (OCGs) on the surface of graphene oxide (GO) can be both effective and detrimental. …”
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The annotated lexicon of chinese emotion words by Ng, Bee Chin, Cui, Can, Cavallaro, Francesco

“…Russian and Mandarin) for expressing emotion words compared to English has not been supported by empirical evidence from a comprehensive study of the emotion words vocabulary, and, despite a proliferation of cross-linguistic studies of emotion words, a database of a corpus of emotion words across languages is absent. …”
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External fields for the fabrication of highly mineralized hierarchical architectures by Le Ferrand, Hortense

“…To this aim, external fields have been used to control the orientation and position of microparticles and build complex architectures. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured Cr doped TiO2 materials for photocatalytic applications by Tan, Dunlin

“…Since 1990s, minded researchers have been focusing on shifting its bandgap into the visible light range so as to increase its efficiency. …”
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Collision between soliton and polarization domain walls in fiber lasers by Hu, Xiao, Ma, J., Zhao, Luming, Guo, Jun, Tang, Dingyuan

“…Depending on the sign of cavity dispersion, either bright or dark solitons have been formed in our fiber laser. Under suitable laser operation conditions, they could even coexist with polarization domains and collide with the domain walls. …”
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Low power PWM based sensor readout circuit by He, Shengyu

“…The feedback loop in this continuous-time autozero nulling architecture has been amended to consume less power. The function of this technique with these two kinds of amplifiers is verified. …”
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Decentralized control of distributed energy resources in electric distribution grid by Zhang, Jiyue

“…In this dissertation, an equivalent model of the distribution grid with multiple DERs in discrete-time phasor mode has been developed, along with model of building and its demand profiles, as well as irradiance profile of solar energy. …”
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Rank weight hierarchy of some classes of polynomial codes by Ducoat, Jérôme, Oggier, Frédérique

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The growing pains of e-commerce business in Africa by Gopaldas, Ronak

“…E-Commerce has long been touted as Africa’s next high-growth market. …”
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A cost-effective optimized design of a 3D NAND staircase integration flow by Zhang, Jinzhi

“…In the new generation of 3D NAND manufacturing technology, the cleaning step reaction environment has been upgraded, and the more critical etch-stop layer in this structure is no longer exhumated as it was in the old-generation technology. …”
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Modelling spatial correlation in earthquake-induced damage and its impact on regional loss estimation by Nguyen, Michele, Loos, Sabine, Lallemant, David

“…While correlation in ground motion intensity and its effect on earthquake damage has been well-documented, there is a widely held yet insufficiently examined view, that there are other sources of spatial correlation in damage not accounted for. …”
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Longitudinal associations of clinical and biochemical head injury biomarkers with head impact exposure in adolescent football players by Zuidema, Taylor R., Bazarian, Jeffrey J., Kercher, Kyle A., Mannix, Rebekah, Kraft, Reuben H., Newman, Sharlene D., Ejima, Keisuke, Rettke, Devin J., Macy, Jonathan T., Steinfeldt, Jesse A., Kawata, Keisuke

“…Consequences of subconcussive head impacts have been recognized, yet most studies to date have included small samples from a single site, used a unimodal approach, and lacked repeated testing.…”
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Topological phenomena at defects in acoustic, photonic and solid-state lattices by Lin, Zhi-Kang, Wang, Qiang, Liu, Yang, Xue, Haoran, Zhang, Baile, Chong, Yidong, Jiang, Jian-Hua

“…Although these two classes of topological phenomena have generally been treated separately, recent experimental advancements have begun to probe their intricate and surprising interactions, in solid-state materials as well as in metamaterials. …”
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Teenagers and videoconference fatigue: a preliminary analysis from an affordance-based approach by Lee, Chei Sian, Li, Benjamin Junting, Wu, Qian

“…While research on factors contributing to VCF has been conducted among university students, there is limited research on younger students (especially teenagers). …”
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