Humanising GrabCut: learning to segment humans using the Kinect by Gulshan, V, Lempitsky, V, Zisserman, A

“…These classifiers introduce top-down knowledge to obtain a crude segmentation of the human which is then refined using bottom up information from local color models in a Snap-Cut [2] like fashion. The method is quantitatively evaluated on images of humans in cluttered scenes, and a high performance obtained (88:5% overlap score). …”

Non-bifurcation regulation of chaos in a Memristive Hopfield neural network by Zhang, X, Li, C, Moroz, I, Huang, K, Liu, Z

“…<p>The construction of neural networks using memristors has been widely studied in the field of brain-like computing. However, there is a relative lack of research on the non-bifurcation regulation of chaos in memristive neural networks. …”

Zn2+-mediated catalysis for fast-charging aqueous Zn-ion batteries by Dai, Y, Lu, R, Zhang, C, Li, J, Yuan, Y, Mao, Y, Ye, C, Cai, Z, Zhu, J, Li, J, Yu, R, Cui, L, Zhao, S, An, Q, He, G, Waterhouse, GIN, Shearing, PR, Ren, Y, Lu, J, Amine, K, Wang, Z, Mai, L

“…Historically, ion-shuttling models centring on ion-migration behaviour have dominated explanations for charge/discharge processes in aqueous batteries, like classical ion insertion/extraction and pseudocapacitance mechanisms. …”

Perturbed hematopoiesis in the Tc1 mouse model of Down syndrome by Alford, KA, Slender, A, Vanes, L, Li, Z, Fisher, EMC, Nizetic, D, Orkin, SH, Roberts, I, Tybulewicz, VLJ

“…Introduction of GATA1s into Tc1 mice resulted in a synergistic increase in megakaryopoiesis, but did not result in leukemia or a TMD-like phenotype, demonstrating that GATA1s and trisomy of approximately 80% of Hsa21 perturb megakaryopoiesis but are insufficient to induce leukemia.…”

Improving clinical care of patients in Nipah outbreaks: moving beyond 'compassionate use' by Hassan, MZ, Rojek, A, Olliaro, P, Horby, P

“…Current care relies on supportive measures and the ‘compassionate use’ of unapproved drugs like ribavirin and remdesivir. Drugs used ‘off-label’ during outbreaks can become the ‘standard of care’ without robust evidence of their safety or efficacy, complicating the testing of new therapies and perpetuating uncertainty about their true effectiveness. …”

Amphibious ethics and speculative immersions: laboratory aquariums as a site for developing a more inclusive animal geography by Greenhough, B, Roe, E, Message, R

“…Intuitively these modes of relating seem best suited to interactions between humans and warm-blooded mammals who share human-like facial features and characteristics. Animal geographers and those working in animal welfare have noted the challenges that humans face in learning to care about fishes, and how this leads to welfare guidelines and regulations which are poorly suited to aquatic species. …”

Ancient bacterial genomes reveal a high diversity of Treponema pallidum strains in early modern Europe by Majander, K, Pfrengle, S, Kocher, A, Neukamm, J, du Plessis, L, Pla-Díaz, M, Arora, N, Akgül, G, Salo, K, Schats, R, Inskip, S, Oinonen, M, Valk, H, Malve, M, Kriiska, A, Onkamo, P, González-Candelas, F, Kühnert, D, Krause, J, Schuenemann, VJ

“…Together with non-venereal treponemal diseases, like bejel and yaws, which are found today in subtropical and tropical regions, it currently poses a substantial health threat worldwide. …”

AI can outperform humans in predicting correlations between personality items by Schoenegger, P, Greenberg, S, Grishin, A, Lewis, J, Caviola, L

“…These results suggest that while advanced LLMs make superior predictions compared to most individual humans, specialized models like PersonalityMap can match even expert group-level performance in domain-specific tasks. …”

Splatter image: ultra-fast single-view 3D reconstruction by Szymanowicz, S, Rupprecht, C, Vedaldi, A

“…Owning to the speed of the renderer (588 FPS), we use a single GPU for training while generating entire images at each iteration to optimize perceptual metrics like LPIPS. On several synthetic, real, multi-category and large-scale benchmark datasets, we achieve better results in terms of PSNR, LPIPS, and other metrics while training and evaluating much faster than prior works. …”

Automation acceptance for sustainable digital daily life by Vrain, E, Wilson, C

“…While various daily life activities have seamlessly integrated automation, such as bill payments and streaming recommended entertainment, those with substantial energy impacts, like home energy management, face challenges in gaining end-user acceptance. …”

Discovering objects and their location in images by Sivic, J, Russell, BC, Efros, AA, Zisserman, A, Freeman, WT

“…The model is applied to images by using a visual analogue of a word, formed by vector quantizing SIFT-like region descriptors. The topic discovery approach successfully translates to the visual domain: for a small set of objects, we show that both the object categories and their approximate spatial layout are found without supervision. …”

What Dicey forgot by Barber, NW

“…For over a century, Dicey’s account of the rule of law dominated constitutional scholarship and, like any successful academic exercise, has not lacked critics. …”

Exploring China’s cyber sovereignty concept and artificial intelligence governance model: a machine learning approach by Hung, HT

“…Dissatisfied with the status quo, some developing countries like China embrace another governance concept called cyber sovereignty, which advocates more state control. …”

Derivation of a rotation curve model based on time of events theory and its application on samples of several spiral galaxies by Azeez, Jazeel H., Fadhil, Sadeem Abbas, Zamri Zainal Abidin

“…The findings showed that the bulge plays a limited role for the galaxies with large extensions like IC 2574 and NGC 3198, where the dark matter in the halo region controls and determines the shape of the diagram of the rotation curves in these galaxies. …”
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Asynchronous wood formation in young Acacia mangium planted in Malaysia by Ogata, Yoshiyuki, Nobuchi, Tadashi, Fujita, Minoru, Sahri, Mohammed Hamami

“…The objective of this report is to show the asynchronous wood formation from the observation of indistinct, ring-like structures. Young Acacia mangium planted in Malaysia was investigated for asynchronous wood formation anatomically and macroscopically. …”
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Analysing the project delay causes and improving quality using multi-project strategies. by Azman, Nur Amirah Syahirah, Ramlie, Faizir, Wan Muhamad, Wan Zuki Azman, Abu, Mohd. Yazid, Harudin, Nolia

“…The clients and contractors gave the same importance to factors like poor communications and governmental approvals in projects that were successful (had a time delay of less than 10%). …”
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Smuggling of Migrants in Malaysia: The Case Study of Illegal Immigrants in the Northern Region by Ajis, Mohd Na'eim, Ahmad Zakuan, Ummu Atiyah, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Keling, Mohamad Faisol

“…The data sample of this study are taken from 54 illegal immigrants who are being detained at the Immigration Detention Centre at Sik, Kedah and also those who settled in several districts in the Northern part of the Peninsular Malaysia. Relevant authorities like Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Malaysia Immigration Department and Border Ranger Regiment, are being interviewed. …”
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A Brief History of Blockchain Interoperability by Belchior, Rafael, S??enguth, Jan, Feng, Qi, Hardjono, Thomas, Vasconcelos, Andr?, Correia, Miguel

“…These recent developments have, slowly but steadily, contributed to the improvement of the scalability of blockchain networks, as well as providing new functionality and use cases [36], but there is still a long way to go until mass adoption. In this paper, we will dive into the rabbit hole of blockchain interoperability and explain why it is needed, what has work been done in the last decade (the past), how it is currently deployed and used in practice (the present), and likely paths of development (the future).…”
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Effects of "Thursdays at the Museum" at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on the mental and physical health of older community dwellers : the art-health randomized clinical trial pr... by Beauchet, Olivier, Cooper-Brown, Liam, Hayashi, Yoko, Galery, Kevin, Vilcocq, Christine, Bastien, Thomas

“…The intervention is a 3-month cycle of weekly “Thursdays at the Museum,” which are structured 2-h-long art-based workshops performed in a group setting at the MMFA. …”
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The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes by Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Reich, Peter B., Bardgett, Richard D., Eldridge, David J., Lambers, Hans, Wardle, David A., Reed, Sasha C., Plaza, César, Png, Kenny Guochen, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Hart, Stephen C., Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Bastida, Felipe, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Cutler, Nick A., Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hayes, Patrick E., Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Pérez, Cecilia A., Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sullivan, Benjamin W., Weber-Grullon, Luis, Williams, Mark A., Fierer, Noah

“…We propose that, regardless of soil age, changes in the environmental context, such as those associated with global climatic and land-use changes, will have important long-term impacts on the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems across biomes.…”
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