Fisher vector faces in the wild by Simonyan, K, Parkhi, O, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…Several recent papers on automatic face verification have significantly raised the performance bar by developing novel, specialised representations that outperform standard features such as SIFT for this problem. …”

Empty-bucket techniques for spill-quality improvement at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron by Arrutia Sota, PA, Fraser, MA, Hagmann, G, Kain, V, Papotti, G, Spierer, A, Velotti, FM, Burrows, PN, Piandani, R

“…Synchrotrons can provide long spills of particles by employing resonant extraction where the circulating beam is slowly ejected over thousands to millions of turns by exploiting the amplitude growth caused by a transverse resonance. …”

Multipass steering protocols at Jefferson lab by Bodenstein, RM, Tiefenback, MG

“…The CEBAF recirculating accelerator consists of two CW superconducting RF linacs, through which an electron beam is accelerated for up to 5 passes. Focusing and steering elements affect each pass differently, requiring a multipass steering protocol to correct the orbits. …”

Arbitrary and independent polarization control in situ via a single metasurface by Yan, Libin, Zhu, Weiming, Muhammad Faeyz Karim, Cai, Hong, Gu, Alex Yuandong, Shen, Zhongxiang, Chong, Peter Han Joo, Tsai, Din Ping, Kwong, Dim-Lee, Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Liu, Ai Qun

“…As a proof of concept, a tunable polarization beam splitter, a dynamic beam steering component, and a quarter waveplate are demonstrated using one single metasurface. …”
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Depth-of-focus extension in optical coherence tomography via multiple aperture synthesis by Ge, Xin, Wang, Xianghong, Bo, En, Luo, Yuemei, Chen, Si, Liu, Xinyu, Wang, Nanshuo, Chen, Shufen, Chen, Shi, Li, Jinhan, Liu, Linbo

“…Using confocal optics on a sample arm, we scanned the illumination beam across the under-filled objective lens pupil plane by steering the beam at the pinhole using a microcylindrical lens. …”
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Caustic object construction based on multiple caustic patterns by Tandianus, Budianto, Johan, Henry, Seah, Hock Soon

“…Working backward, from the computed refracted light beam paths we compute the geometry of the caustic object that can produce such light beam paths. …”
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Design of wideband low-loss reconfigurable reflectarray antenna by Zhang, Xiran

“…A systematic investigation of beam scanning antenna technology is conducted, analyzing the characteristics of different beam scanning antenna designs. …”
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BEM-PSP for single-carrier and SC-FDMA communication over a doubly selective fading channel by Liu, Xiaobei, Anand, Kushal, Guan, Yong Liang, Deng, Li, Fan, Pingzhi, Zhou, Zhengchun

“…The resultant BEM-PSP receiver significantly improves the channel estimation mean square error (MSE) and the bit error rates (BER) performance in fast fading multi-path channel, thanks to the channel tracking capability embedded within its Viterbi equalizer. …”
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Design and fabrication of micromachined RF switches and integrated switching circuits by Tang, Min

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Progressive collapse of reinforced concrete building structures by Dat, Pham Xuan

“…The loss of either a penultimate-internal (PI) or a penultimate-external (PE) column is the most critical scenario since it leaves the associated beam-slab floor structures with lack of external lateral support. …”
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Control system design for EPTB by Tan, Sing Guan

“…Previous research was mainly on the Indoor air quality (IAQ) and the negative ion air performance on passive thermosiphon beam (PTB). This is because thermal comfort is only one of the many factors that contribute to good IAQ. …”
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Anti-fouling thin film composite (TFC) polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes based on piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrates by Fu, Jia Shen

“…Based on such substrate and modified RO membrane fabrication protocol, RO membranes with higher permeability (~ 2 LMH/bar) and reasonable salt rejection (~98.9%) were obtained. …”
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High strain rate and elevated temperature compressive properties of magnesium alloy AZ31B by Myat, Thu.

“…Cylindrical specimens with same dimension but different fabricated directions (Transverse, Angular, Rolling and Normal) are used in compressive split Hopkinson bar test. Experiments are carried out under different temperature and strain rate. …”
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Mathematical programming approach to elasto-plastic structural analysis by Li, Xuyang.

“…This research focuses on mathematical programming (MP) applications in elastoplastic structural analyses, mainly for structures of frames and submarine pipelines where beam element is used for discretizing the structure. …”
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Search for Heavy Narrow Dilepton Resonances in Pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV and √s = 8 TeV by Apyan, Aram, Bendavid, Joshua L., Busza, Wit, Butz, Erik M., Cali, Ivan Amos, Chan, M., Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim, Kim, Y., Klute, Markus, Krajczar, Krisztian F., Ma, Teng, Nahn, Steven, Paus, Christoph M. E., Ralph, Duncan Kelley, Rudolph, Matthew Scott, Stephans, George S. F., Sung, Kevin Kai Hong, Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru, Wenger, Edward Allen, Wyslouch, Boleslaw, Yilmaz, Yetkin, Yoon, A. S., Zanetti, Marco, Bauer, Gerry P, Dutta, Valentina, Levin, Andrew Michael, Roland, Christof E, Stoeckli, Fabian, Luckey Jr, P David, Roland, Gunther M, Sumorok, Konstanty C, Wolf, Roger, Yang, Mingming, Wyslouch, Victoria

“…The analysis of the combined data sets excludes, at 95% confidence level, a Sequential Standard Model Z[' over SSM] resonance lighter than 2590 GeV, a superstring-inspired Z[' over ψ] lighter than 2260 GeV, and Kaluza–Klein gravitons lighter than 2390 (2030) GeV, assuming that the coupling parameter k/[bar over M][subscript Pl] is 0.10 (0.05). These are the most stringent limits to date.…”
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A self-rectifying unipolar HfOx based RRAM using doped germanium bottom electrode by Liu, W. J., Tran, Xuan Anh, Sun, Xiaowei, Yu, Hongyu

“…Owning to Schottky barrier between defect states in HfOx layer and n-Ge substrate, RRAM cells possess a self-rectifying behavior in LRS which eliminates the read-out errors induced by leakage current paths in cross-bar array structure. The demonstrated RRAM device shows high ON/OFF ratio (>5 × 102 @ 0.5 V), and its effective Schottky barrier height is also addressed. …”
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Intelligent control of nitrogen laser by Tan, Siong Chai.

“…The aim is to apply computational intelligence in stabilizing some output parameters of a nitrogen laser beam. The scope includes explore and implement fuzzy logic algorithms to trol of the output characteristics, explore the use of neutral network control and comparing with using fuzzy logic control.…”
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Design, modeling and performance optimization of active air terminal system by Ke, Ji

“…Among various ACMV schemes, the active air terminals (active chilled beam and active thermosiphon beam) have outstanding performance on energy saving, indoor environment quality improvement and space saving. …”
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Creating functionally graded concrete materials with varying 3D printing parameters by Tay, Daniel Yi Wei, Lim, Jian Hui, Li, Mingyang, Tan, Ming Jen

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Electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma etching study of GaAs and GaInP by Ng, Tien Khee.

“…This thesis presents the Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) plasma etching of GaAs and Ga(0.52)In(0.48)P grown using Solid Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy (SSMBE) with a view of applying the process for future heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) fabrication.…”
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