Salient object detection by fusing local and global contexts by Ren, Qinghua, Lu, Shijian, Zhang, Jinxia, Hu, Renjie

“…In addition, an attention-guided hierarchical network architecture is designed to capture fine-grained spatial details by transmitting contextual information from deeper to shallower network layers in a top-down manner. …”
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Ectomycorrhizal community composition, diversity, and their environmental drivers across common UK temperate woodlands by Ong, Wei Sern

“…The main variables identified to influence ECM community composition (pH, vegetation species richness) were also different from the variables identified to influence ECM richness (vegetation proportions, fine root biomass). Overall, our findings contribute towards developing a more comprehensive assessment of ECM communities and their driving factors in the context of common UK woodlands habitats.…”
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Cooperative collision avoidance in multirobot systems using fuzzy rules and velocity obstacles by Tang, Wenbing, Zhou, Yuan, Zhang, Tianwei, Liu, Yang, Liu, Jing, Ding, Zuohua

“…In detail, at any time instant, a robot checks the robots that it may collide with and retrieves the most dangerous robot in each sector based on the predicted collision time; then, the robot generates its velocity in real-time via fuzzy inference and VO-based fine-tuning. At each time instant, a robot only needs to retrieve its neighbors' current positions and velocities, so the method is fully distributed. …”
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Tunable quantum cascade lasers for midinfrared spectroscopic sensing by Li, Jinghao

“…To make the array a feasible source in practical spectroscopic applications, we propose a novel method using an aspherical lens and fine-tuned mini mirrors, which combine the beams from a five-element slot QCL array with a transmission efficiency of 92% to the far-field. …”
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3D-printed mechano-optic force sensor for soft robotic gripper enabled by programmable structural metamaterials by Hegde, Chidanand, Mysa, Ravi Chaithanya, Chooi, Aaron, Dontu, Saikrishna, Tan, Joel Ming Rui, Wong, Lydia Helena, Valdivia y Alvarado, Pablo, Magdassi, Shlomo

“…The design supports seamless integration of the sensor into soft grippers, enabling 3D printing of the soft gripper with an embedded sensor in a single step, thus overcoming the tedious and complex and multiple fabrication steps commonly applied in conventional processes. The sensor boasts a fine resolution of 0.015 N, a measurement range up to 16 N, linearity (adj. …”
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Mobile phone based participatory sensing for urban traffics by Zhou, Pengfei

“…The evaluation results suggest that the proposed system achieves outstanding prediction accuracy compared with those bus company initiated and GPS supported solutions, and demonstrate the feasibility of traffic monitoring based on buses which achieves fine-grained traffic estimation with modest sensing and computation overhead at the crowd.…”
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Human machine interface/brain control for electric vehicles application by Tang, Tao

“…Secondly, the same design methodology is extended to a 16-channel TDM/CS AFE with tunable DC-servo loop and fine-trimming input impedance boosting loop. A 4-bit calibrated impedance boosting loop contributed to the input impedance of 560 MΩ as well as CMRR for input interface. …”
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Quantitative evaluation of stone fragments in extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy using a time reversal operator by Wang, Jen-Chieh, Zhou, Yufeng

“…Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) has been used widely in the noninvasive treatment of kidney calculi. The fine fragments less than 2 mm in size can be discharged by urination, which determines the success of ESWL. …”
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Measuring the hole-state anisotropy in MgB2 by electron energy-loss spectroscopy by Klie, Robert F., Su, Haibin, Zhu, Yimei, Davenport, James W., Idrobo, Juan-Carlos, Browning, Nigel D., Nellist, Peter D.

“…In particular, we have studied two different crystal orientations, [110] and [001], with respect to the incident electron beam direction, and found significant changes in the near-edge fine structure of the B K-edge. Density-functional theory suggests that the pre-peak of the B K-edge core loss is composed of a mixture of pxy- and pz-hole states and we will show that these contributions can be distinguished only with an experimental energy resolution better than 0.5 eV. …”
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Biometric contrastive learning for data-efficient deep learning from electrocardiographic images by Sangha, V, Khunte, A, Holste, G, Mortazavi, BJ, Wang, Z, Oikonomou, EK, Khera, R

“…</p> <p><strong>Materials and Methods:&nbsp;</strong>Using pairs of ECGs from 78 288 individuals from Yale (2000-2015), we trained a convolutional neural network to identify temporally separated ECG pairs that varied in layouts from the same patient. We fine-tuned BCL-pretrained models to detect atrial fibrillation (AF), gender, and LVEF&thinsp;&lt;&thinsp;40%, using ECGs from 2015 to 2021. …”

DEWP: deep expansion learning for wind power forecasting by Fan, W, Fu, Y, Zheng, S, Bian, J, Zhou, Y, Xiong, H

“…Accurate wind power forecasting (WPF) is then better achieved through fine-grained outputs by continuously removing stack residues and accumulating useful stack forecasts. …”

Audio-based approaches in tuning retrieval of gamelan ensemble by Hamdan, Sinin

“…Three approaches used in retrieving tunings of gamelan are as follows: chladni patterns experiment using fine particle (sand), acoustic excitation from speaker for non-contact sinusoidal acoustic excitation and non-contact laser detector at specific eigen frequency, electronic speckle pattern interferometry (espi) for coherent addition of speckle fields diffracted by object and reference fields and laser doppler vibrometer (LDV) captured the vibration of the eigen frequency from the gong. …”
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Immobilization of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase on electrospun polyvinyl alcohol nanofibers by Saallah, Suryani

“…Before the immobilisation step, the transformation of CGTase from solution to solid particles via electrospraying in Taylor cone-jet mode was studied to obtain fine and monodispersed particles that can be attached uniformly on the PVA membrane. …”
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In vitro bioactivity and biocompatibility assessment of PCL/PLA–scaffolded mesoporous silicate bioactive glass: role of boron activation by Md. Zain, Siti Khalijah, Sazali, Ezza Syuhada, Ghoshal, Sib Krishna, Hisam, Rosdiyana

“…The role of boron concentration fine-tuning in modifying the glasses morphology, structure, Bioactivity and Biocompatibility was assessed in vitro by immersing them in simulated body fluid (SBF) at various durations. …”

Unveiling the facade of blog posts to reveal subjective well-being : an exploratory study. by Ou, Zhiqi., Tan, Justine Yi Ting., Tan, Jessie Zi Xi.

“…In this exploratory study to form a bridge between existing methods to gauge the well-being of people and the usage of social media as a data source, we find that there are substantial links between the subjective and objective well-being of people and the feelings expressed by people in blogs. …”
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An encoding scheme capturing generic priors and properties of amino acids improves protein classification by Zhou, Xinrui, Yin, Rui, Zheng, Jie, Kwoh, Chee-Keong

“…Automated feature engineering, i.e., an encoding scheme automating the construction of features, saves the redesigning process and allows the researchers to try different representations with minimal effort. This is more in line with the explosion of data and the goal of building an intelligent system. …”
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Evaluation of paper spray mass spectrometry for direct analysis of small molecule drugs and hemoglobin constant spring peptide markers by Takyi-Williams, John

“…The test compound, sunitinib, was stable in all conditions studied and analyte extraction and detection sensitivity could be improved with sufficient off-line or on-line pre-moistening of the dried spot prior to PS-MS analysis after longer storage period. …”
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Investigations into high resolution imaging of the aqueous outflow system and cornea by Hong, Jesmond Xun Jie

“…The imaging probe has resolutions of 10.08 line pairs per mm (~49.61 µm) at the iridocorneal angle region and 5.04 line pairs per mm (~99.21 µm) at the fundus. …”
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Active learning for ontological event extraction incorporating named entity recognition and unknown word handling by Han, Xu, Kim, Jung-jae, Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…Background: Biomedical text mining may target various kinds of valuable information embedded in the literature, but a critical obstacle to the extension of the mining targets is the cost of manual construction of labeled data, which are required for state-of-the-art supervised learning systems. …”
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Ligand substitutions between ruthenium–cymene compounds can control protein versus DNA targeting and anticancer activity by Davey, Curt Alexander, Adhireksan, Zenita, Davey, Gabriela E., Campomanes, Pablo, Groessl, Michael, Clavel, Catherine M., Yu, Haojie, Nazarov, Alexey A., Yeo, Charmian Hui Fang, Ang, Wee Han, Dröge, Peter, Rothlisberger, Ursula, Dyson, Paul J.

“…Using a novel ‘atom-to-cell’ approach, we establish the basis for the surprisingly site-selective adduct formation behaviour and distinct cellular impact of these two chemically similar anticancer agents, which suggests that the cytotoxic effects arise largely from DNA lesions, whereas the protein adducts may be linked to the other therapeutic activities. Our study shows promise for developing new ruthenium drugs, via ligand-based modulation of DNA versus protein binding and thus cytotoxic potential, to target distinguishing epigenetic features of cancer cells.…”
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