Crude glycerol and glycerol as fuels and fuel additives in combustion applications by Zhang, Jianan, Wang, Yuesen, Muldoon, Valerie L, Deng, Sili

“…Overall, crude glycerol can achieve high-efficiency combustion with the improved design, but ash deposition is still the main challenge. Fortunately, integrating crude glycerol with solid fuels could mitigate ash issues and improve the combustion performance of low-rank solid fuels. …”
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Considerations on Possible Directions for a Wide Band Polarimetry X-ray Mission by Soffitta, Paolo, Costa, Enrico, De Angelis, Nicolas, Del Monte, Ettore, Desch, Klaus, Di Marco, Alessandro, Di Persio, Giuseppe, Fabiani, Sergio, Ferrazzoli, Riccardo, Gruber, Markus, Hiromitsu, Takahashi, Imtiaz, Saba, Kaaret, Philip, Kaminski, Jochen, Kim, Dawoon E., Kislat, Fabian, Krawczynski, Henric, La Monaca, Fabio, Lefevre, Carlo, Manikantan, Hemanth

“…However, one of IXPE’s main limitations is its relatively narrow energy band, coupled with rapidly declining efficiency. …”
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Portable Acceleration of CMS Computing Workflows with Coprocessors as a Service by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Li, A., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D.

“…In the studies, we take a data processing workflow of the CMS experiment and run the main workflow on CPUs, while offloading several machine learning (ML) inference tasks onto either remote or local coprocessors, specifically graphics processing units (GPUs). …”
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Cross-Shelf Exchange Driven by Dense Flow Down a Canyon by Mier, Christian M.

“…Understanding these dynamics in the Antarctica region is of global significance for two main reasons: 1. The offshore flowing dense water forms Antarctic Bottom Water and thus affects the global meridional circulation; 2. …”
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Phase-Field Computational Framework for Addressing Challenges in Solid-State Batteries by Schwietert, Tammo K, Ombrini, Pierfrancesco, Ootes, Laura S, Oostrum, Leon, Azizi, Victor, Cogswell, Daniel, Zhu, Juner, Bazant, Martin Z, Wagemaker, Marnix, Vasileiadis, Alexandros

“…All-solid-state batteries are attracting increasing interest due to their higher promised energy densities without the use of flammable liquid electrolytes. Two main challenges for solid-state batteries are contact loss and interphase formation; these play a central role in the quality of the solid-electrolyte–electrode interfaces. …”
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Proposal of a Framework for Enhancing Teleoperation Experience with Biomechanical Simulation-Based Electrical Muscle Stimulation in Virtual Reality by Hwang, Seokhyun, Kang, Seongjun, Oh, Jeongseok, Park, Jeongju, Shin, Semoo, Luo, Yiyue, DelPreto, Joseph, Matusik, Wojciech, Rus, Daniela, Kim, SeungJun

“…Our system is divided into two main components: the physical simulation part, which calculates the joint torques to replicate forces from the manipulator, and the electrical stimulation part, which translates torques into muscle stimulations. …”
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Identifying the Values that Shape HCI and CSCW Research with Latin American Communities: A Collaborative Autoethnography by Griggio, Carla, Barrera Machuca, Mayra, Wong-Villacres, Marisol, Gayt?n-Lugo, Laura, Badillo-Urquiola, Karla, Alvarado Garcia, Adriana, Perusquia-Hernandez, Monica, Ciolfi Felice, Marianela, Cibrian, Franceli, Thomas, Michaelanne, Fuentes, Carolina, Reynolds-Cu?llar, Pedro

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Development of a uniform-droplet spray apparatus for high melting temperature metals by Joumaa, Hady K

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Social tags as news event detectors by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Razikin, Khasfariyati, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…Based on the results, four main findings emerged. First, the performance of using spikes and bursts to detect news events was found to be comparable. …”
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Dynamic lateral crushing of empty and sandwich tubes by Fan, Zhihua., Shen, Jianhu., Lu, Guoxing., Ruan, Dong.

“…The propagation of plastic bending in the form of double-moving-hinges is the main mechanism of energy dissipation, as opposed to the low velocity impact which involves stationary plastic deformation zones.…”
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A discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for the no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem with the total tardiness criterion by Tasgetiren, M. Fatih., Pan, Quan-Ke., Suganthan, P. N., Oner, Adalet.

“…Secondly, some novel methods of calculating the total tardiness from makespan are introduced for the no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem. Finally, the main contribution of the paper is due to the fact that a novel speed-up method for the insertion neighborhood is developed for the total tardiness criterion. …”
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Semantic sensitive satellite image retrieval by Li, Yikun

“…Applied to remote sensing databases, varying success was reported. The main difficulty is that users think in terms of high-level semantics, which cannot be directly mapped onto extracted low-level features / signals. …”
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Effect of printing parameters in 3D concrete printing : printing region and support structures by Tay, Daniel Yi Wei, Li, Mingyang, Tan, Ming Jen

“…This study demonstrates the feasibility of adjusting the printing parameters to print the main structure and support structure using a single type of building material. …”
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Femtosecond laser-induced graphene for flexible electronics by Le, Truong-Son Dinh

“…Exploration of these novel methodologies may pave the way for the development and commercialization of high-performance graphene-based flexible electronics. The main objective of this research is three-fold: (1) establishment of an effective methodology for the direct fabrication of graphene and its composites on thin, flexible, and heat-sensitive substrates/precursors using femtosecond laser, (2) comprehension of the structures and properties of the produced materials, and (3) development of applications in flexible electronics to demonstrate technological capability.…”
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Real time multiple object tracking using deep features and localization information by Karunasekera, Hasith, Zhang, Handuo, Wang, Han

“…Location measure is calculated using the predicted object location and bounding box, while the appearance measure is from the last feature layer from the detection network. Main focus in this work is to propose a tracking framework that can be used in real time automated vehicle guiding applications, by striking a balance between computational complexity and tracking accuracy. …”
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Looting the LUTs : FPGA optimization of AES and AES-like ciphers for authenticated encryption by Khairallah, Mustafa, Chattopadhyay, Anupam, Peyrin, Thomas

“…We consider the encryption/decryption and the authentication/verification structures of OCB-like modes (like OTR or SCT modes). Their main advantage is that they are fully parallelisable. …”
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Machine learning in additive manufacturing : state-of-the-art and perspectives by Wang, Chengcheng, Tan, Xipeng, Tor, Shu Beng, Lim, C.S.

“…Lastly, it concludes with a section summarizing the main findings from the literature and providing perspectives on some selected interesting applications of ML in research and development of AM.…”
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How to optimize the supply and allocation of medical emergency resources during public health emergencies by Wang, Chunyu, Deng, Yue, Yuan, Ziheng, Zhang, Chijun, Zhang, Fan, Cai, Qing, Gao, Chao, Kurths, Jurgen

“…The solutions to the supply and allocation of medical emergency resources during public health emergencies greatly affect the efficiency of epidemic prevention and control. Currently, the main problem in computational epidemiology is how the allocation scheme should be adjusted in accordance with epidemic trends to satisfy the needs of population coverage, epidemic propagation prevention, and the social allocation balance. …”
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Data-driven adaptive control for laser-based additive manufacturing with automatic controller tuning by Chen, Lequn, Yao, Xiling, Chew, Youxiang, Weng, Fei, Moon, Seung Ki, Bi, Guijun

“…Experimental validations show improvements in the geometric accuracy and melt pool consistency of controlled samples. The main advantage of the proposed controller is that it can adapt to DED processes with different part shapes, materials, tool paths, and process parameters without tweaking. …”
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Exploring translation strategies for Chinese dialogue and buzzwords based on 星星上的花（The Flower on the Stars） by Wan, Wenyi

“…During the translation process, two main problems are found: on the one hand, the problem concerning the grasp of language style and register, and the corresponding problem of how to choose words in the face of diverse texts; on the other hand, the problem of how to translate Chinese buzzwords in English. …”
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