A novel bird-shape broadband piezoelectric energy harvester for low frequency vibrations by Yu, Han, Zhang, Xiaofan, Shan, Xiaobiao, Hu, Liangxing, Zhang, Xingxu, Hou, Chengwei, Xie, Tao

“…The harvester features a cantilever mounted on a double-hinged beam, whose rotating motions effectively diminish its natural frequencies. …”
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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. …”

A Deep-Learning Surrogate Model Approach for Optimization of Morphing Airfoils by Karbasian, Hamidreza, van Rees, Wim M.

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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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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. …”

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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Encore Valentine / by Adriani Trigiani, author 656192

“…A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes Valentine to Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. …”

DEEP2: Deep Learning Powered De-scattering with Excitation Patterning (DEEP) by Wijethilake, Navodini, Anandakumar, Mithunjha, Zheng, Cheng, So, Peter T. C., Yildirim, Murat, Wadduwage, Dushan N.

“…Here, we describe bendable and long-range GRIN microimaging probes for a variety of potential micro-endoscopic biomedical applications. …”
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Correlating physicochemical properties of commercial membranes with CO₂ absorption performance in gas-liquid membrane contactor by Xu, Yilin, Malde, Chandresh, Wang, Rong

“…The physicochemical properties of membranes may synergistically affect GLMC performances, especially during the long-term operations. In this work, commercial polypropylene (PP) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) hollow fiber (HF) membranes were applied to explore the effects of their physicochemical properties on long-term CO₂ absorption performances in a bench-scale GLMC rig. …”
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A study of option trading strategies by Lim, Jackson Wei, Tay, Shane Cheng Sung, Yang, Shufan

“…This paper examines several option trading strategies, namely, strap, strangle and straddle, compares the profitability of short and long strategies and examines the factors that influenced the results. …”
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Will Latin America join petroleum’s new world order? by Pugliaresi, L

“…These North American (sans Mexico) unconventional petroleum developments are altering flows in world crude oil trade, shifting long-term price expectations, and challenging long-held conventional wisdom on US energy policy promulgated in an era of scarcity.…”

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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Alteration of hippocampal CA2 plasticity and social memory in adult rats impacted by juvenile stress by Raghuraman, Radha, Navakkode, Sheeja, Sajikumar, Sreedharan

“…Unlike entorhinal cortical inputs, the Schaffer collateral inputs to CA2 do not support activity-dependent long-term potentiation (LTP), which serves as the basis for long-term memories. …”
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Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words by Holland, Amanda, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…We compared short- and long-term retention of fast mapped color, shape and texture words as well as object labels. …”
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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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Microsecond dark-exciton valley polarization memory in two-dimensional heterostructures by Jiang, Chongyun, Xu, Weigao, Rasmita, Abdullah, Huang, Zumeng, Li, Ke, Xiong, Qihua, Gao, Wei-bo

“…The lifetime of the dark excitons shows magnetic field and temperature dependence. The long lifetime and valley polarization lifetime of the dark exciton in two-dimensional heterostructures make them promising for long-distance exciton transport and macroscopic quantum state generations.…”
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