Sporopollenin-inspired design and synthesis of robust polymeric materials by Glinkerman, Christopher M, Lin, Shaoting, Ni, Jiahua, Li, Fu-Shuang, Zhao, Xuanhe, Weng, Jing-Ke

“…Recent investigation of the molecular structure of pine sporopollenin revealed unique monomeric units and inter-unit linkages distinct from other previously known biopolymers, which could be harnessed for new material design. …”
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Island area and remoteness shape plant and soil bacterial diversity through land use and biological invasion by Xu, Mingshan, Yang, Anna, Yang, Xiaodong, Cao, Wenting, Zhang, Zengke, Li, Zengyan, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Huaguo, You, Wenhui, Yan, En-Rong, Wardle, David A.

“…However, land use intensity increased with island area which also promoted plant diversity, and loss of pine forest by the pinewood nematode invasion increased with island remoteness which reduced plant diversity. …”
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Progressive collapse of reinforced concrete building structures by Dat, Pham Xuan

“…The associated rotationally-restrained but laterally-unrestrained boundary condition of the test specimens was effected by a set of pinned-end supporting columns. Uniformly distributed loads were simulated by a twelve-point loading system. …”
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Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Plasma Etch Optimization by Dighamber, Mohit

“…Future work includes utilizing the PINN model in a Bayesian framework to facilitate recipe optimization for the desired etch profile.…”
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Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…Curved structure existed for a long time. Its versatile characteristics make curved structures are utilized in various areas, from equipment up to large span structure such as airport terminal and bridge. …”
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Cross-modal size-contrast illusion : acoustic increases in intensity and bandwidth modulate haptic representation of object size by Uesaki, Maiko, Ashida, Hiroshi, Kitaoka, Akiyoshi, Pasqualotto, Achille

“…In this study, a series of images each comprising a pair of pine-tree figures were translated into auditory modality using sensory substitution software. …”
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Spintronics devices for neuromorphic computing by Tang, Shawn Zhen Kee

“…To solve this, we discuss the possibility of using a geometrically pinned magnetic domain wall memory device that utilises anti-notches for pinning, as the free layer of an MTJ, for future use in a three-terminal MRAM. …”
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Modeling distance-dependent individual head-related transfer functions in the horizontal plane using frontal projection headphones by Sunder, Kaushik, Gan, Woon-Seng, Tan, Ee-Leng

“…Soc. 61, 989–1000] project the sound directly onto the pinnae from the front, and thus inherently create listener's idiosyncratic pinna cues at the eardrum. …”
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Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semi-arid woodland by Sultaire, SM, Montgomery, RA, Jackson, PJ, Millspaugh, JJ

“…Occupancy modeling revealed that western gray squirrels were equally likely to occur in piñon–juniper woodland compared to mature pine forest that they occupy elsewhere in their range. …”

The response of Pinus caribaea mor. var. Hondurensis seedlings to nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium fertilizers by Srivastava, P.B.L., Naruddin, Abang, Zainorin, B.Abang

“…For this purpose, seedlings were grown in plastic pots in soils collected from Bahau pine experimental area. These soils belong to Durian series and are generally poor in nutrients. …”
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The role of post-pyrolysis carbon dioxide capture in hydrogen recovery from waste-derived pyrolysis gas by Wang, Yuxin, Veksha, Andrei, Ong, Joel, Ueki, Yasuaki, Yoshiie, Ryo, Naruse, Ichiro, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…The pyrolysis gas was obtained from various waste-derived feedstocks (municipal sewage sludge, refused derived fuel (RDF), pine sawdust (biomass), and marine litter) by pyrolysis (600 °C), and underwent the treatment with CaO (600 °C) followed by the thermolytic decomposition at 1300 °C. …”
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Fibre Bragg grating based system for real-time railway monitoring by Li Jing

“…FBG sensors, a unique type of optic sensors offer immunity to Electromagnetic Interference, very long distance interrogation, long life-span and multiplexing capacity over conventional electrical sensors so as to meet all the above challenges. …”
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Mode-locked fiber laser and its application in microwave photonics by Li, Nanxi.

“…With a 700 m long optimized cavity length, 139.1 nJ pulse energy is achieved before amplification. …”
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Design and implementation of bluetooth-enable GMS phone by Li, Yan.

“…The wireless communication has long been a subject of intensive studies. The mobile phone has become part of our life helping to revolutionize our personal and business communications. …”
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Learning segmentation from point trajectories by Karazija, L, Laina, I, Rupprecht, C, Vedaldi, A

“…The key difficulty is that long-term motion, unlike instantaneous motion, is difficult to model – any parametric approximation is unlikely to capture complex motion patterns over long periods of time. …”

Implementation of voice over Internet Protocol using session initialization protocol by Chua, Eng Huat.

“…The advantages of selecting IP telephony include providing accommodation of long-range developments.…”
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SCHOOL OF THIEVES / by Sabrina Ismail, author 655830, Naadhira Zahari, editor 655828

“…It’s her father, who had long abandoned Amra and her family. Out of hatred, Amra plans to rob her rich father’s house but gets caught red-handed. …”

TIM: a time interval machine for audio-visual action recognition by Chalk, J, Huh, J, Kazakos, E, Zisserman, A, Damen, D

“…<p>Diverse actions give rise to rich audio-visual signals in long videos. Recent works showcase that the two modalities of audio and video exhibit different temporal extents of events and distinct labels. …”

The Curve of Inflation Expectations and Firms’ Investments by Perinelli, Giuditta

“…Starting from empirical evidence embedded in firms’ inflation expectation curve, we obtain 3 main findings: (1) firms extrapolate for long forecasting horizons, (2) inflation forecasts overreact (underreact) at long (short) forecasting horizons, (3) long-term inflation expectations impact investment decisions. …”
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Initial public offering : voluntary disclosure and its effect on United States IPOs. by Koh, Wee Meng., Lim, Junrong., Ong, Peng Kiat.

“…We also find that firms that disclose higher dollar details in debt repayment will result in better post-IPO long run stock performance. On the contrary, firms that state Investment as the primary reason experience worse long run stock performance.…”
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