Speeding up deep neural network training with decoupled and analytic learning by Zhuang, Huiping

“…Training deep neural networks usually demands a significantly long period of time. In this thesis, we explore methods in two different areas, i.e., decoupled learning and analytic learning, in order to reduce the training time. …”
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the diploid blueberry Vaccinium darrowii provides insights into its subtropical adaptation and cuticle synthesis by Cui, Fuqiang, Ye, Xiaoxue, Li, Xiaoxiao, Yang, Yifan, Hu, Zhubing, Overmyer, Kirk, Brosché, Mikael, Yu, Hong, Salojärvi, Jarkko

“…Here, we assembled the V. darrowii genome into 12 pseudochromosomes using Oxford Nanopore long reads complemented with Hi-C scaffolding technologies, and we predicted 41 815 genes using RNA-sequencing evidence. …”
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Strong edge stress in molecularly thin organic-inorganic hybrid ruddlesden-popper perovskites and modulations of their edge electronic properties by Kripalani, Devesh Raju, Cai, Yongqing, Lou, Jun, Zhou, Kun

“…Organic-inorganic hybrid Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites (HRPPs) have gained much attention for optoelectronic applications due to their high moisture resistance, good processability under ambient conditions, and long functional lifetimes. Recent success in isolating molecularly thin hybrid perovskite nanosheets and their intriguing edge phenomena have raised the need for understanding the role of edges and the properties that dictate their fundamental behaviors. …”
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Ultrafast electronic relaxation dynamics of atomically thin MoS₂ is accelerated by wrinkling by Xu, Ce, Zhou, Guoqing, Alexeev, Evgeny M., Cadore, Alisson R., Paradisanos, Ioannis, Ott, Anna K., Soavi, Giancarlo, Tongay, Sefaattin, Cerullo, Giulio, Ferrari, Andrea C., Prezhdo, Oleg V., Loh, Zhi-Heng

“…Our study suggests that the sub-picosecond electronic relaxation dynamics of TMDs is amenable to strain engineering and that applications which require long-lived hot carriers, such as hot-electron-driven light harvesting and photocatalysis, should employ wrinkle-free TMDs.…”
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Geometry-mediated bridging drives nonadhesive stripe wound healing by Xu, Hongmei, Huo, Yucheng, Zhou, Quan, Wang, Abraham Lianghao, Cai, Pingqiang, Doss, Bryant, Huang, Changjin, Hsia, K. Jimmy

“…Here, we fabricate micropatterned hydrogel substrates with long, straight, and wavy non-cell-adhesive stripes of different gap widths to investigate the stripe edge curvature and stripe width effects on the reepithelialization of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. …”
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Quantifying uncertainties in tropical cyclone wind hazard assessment due to synthetic track stochastic variability for Southeast Asia by Jian, Wei, Lo, Edmond Yat-Man, Stojanovski, Pane, Pan, Tso-Chien

“…Influence from other track parameters, such as TC size and forward speed, can become important for long exposure of TC trajectories. Such insights enable better understanding on the key drivers of sensitivities in the probabilistic hazard maps. …”
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Best practices for ports and shipping companies to build resilience against pandemics by Tan, Hui En

“…This will allow their employees to require less time to adjust when they have to work-from-home for long periods during subsequent pandemics. Investing in port automation will be a good way for ports to reduce the manual labour required and be less affected by pandemics which targets the human component.…”
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Hybrid UNet transformer architecture for ischemic stoke segmentation with MRI and CT datasets by Soh, Wei Kwek, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…The Transformer-based stage captures global dependencies and long-range correlations. It uses intermediate feature vectors from the UNet decoder and improves segmentation accuracy by enhancing the attention and relationship modeling between voxel patches derived from the 3D brain volumes. …”
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The effect of graphene and graphene oxide induced reactive oxygen species on polycaprolactone scaffolds for bone cancer applications by Hou, Yanhao, Wang, Weiguang, Bartolo, Paulo

“…It is usually effective but may present several limitations such as multiple operations, long hospital time, and the potential recurrence caused by the incomplete removal of cancer cells. …”
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Non-invasive diagnosis of lung cancer based on CFD modeling and fractal analysis by Chen, Rou, Zhou, Ying, Yan, Weiwei, Li, Hua

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Synthesis of uniform Fe2O3@Y2O3 yolk−shell nanoreactors as chemical looping oxygen carriers by Fan, Qianwenhao, Tan, Mingwu, Yao, Bingqing, Saqline, Syed, Tao, Longgang, He, Qian, Liu, Wen

“…Iron-based materials are extensively employed as oxygen carriers in chemical looping processes, but their long-term performance is often inhibited by sintering and agglomeration. …”
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Academic achievement inspired machine learning methods for student grade prediction and at-risk detection by Wei, Qiu

“…To achieve a high detection rate of at-risk student and reduce false alarm, a dual-mode long short-term memory (LSTM) model is proposed. …”
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Enhancement of air-side heat transfer performance of additively manufactured condensers by Chan, Yi Qing

“…To experimentally investigate these structures, samples of 90 mm long, 40 mm wide, and 15 mm high with a 3.5 mm thickness base were fabricated using additive manufacturing (AM) technology which is a selective laser melting (SLM) technique. …”
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The impact of photopigment bleaching on the human rod photoreceptor subretinal space measured via optical coherence tomography by Messner, Alina, Dos Santos, Valentin Aranha, Puchner, Stefan, Stegmann, Hannes, Schlatter, Andreas, Schmidl, Doreen, Leitgeb, Rainer, Schmetterer, Leopold, Werkmeister, René M.

“…The optical path length of the rod photoreceptor subretinal space (SRS), that is, the distance between signal bands of rod outer segment tips and retinal pigment epithelium, was measured in 15 healthy subjects in ambient light and during a long-duration bleaching white-light exposure. RESULTS. …”
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Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: evidence from the PATH study by Behrooz, Leili, Xie, Wubin, Goghari, Aboli, Robertson, Rosemarie, Bhatnagar, Aruni, Stokes, Andrew, Hamburg, Naomi M.

“…Although e-cigarettes contain fewer toxins than combustible cigarettes, their long-term cardiovascular and pulmonary effects remain unknown. …”
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A tandem-locked chemiluminescent probe for imaging of tumor-associated macrophage polarization by Huang, Jingsheng, Xu, Mengke, Cheng, Penghui, Yu, Jie, Wu, Jiayan, Pu, Kanyi

“…Through a combined molecular engineering approach via both atomic alternation and introduction of electron-withdrawing groups, near-infrared (NIR) chemiluminophores are screened out to possess record-long emission (over 800 nm), record-high CL quantum yield (2.7 % einstein/mol), and prolonged half-life (7.7 h). …”
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GTG-shapley: efficient and accurate participant contribution evaluation in federated learning by Liu, Zelei, Chen, Yuanyuan, Yu, Han, Liu, Yang, Cui, Lizhen

“…Federated Learning (FL) bridges the gap between collaborative machine learning and preserving data privacy. To sustain the long-term operation of an FL ecosystem, it is important to attract high-quality data owners with appropriate incentive schemes. …”
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Urban region representation learning with human trajectories: a multi-view approach incorporating transition, spatial, and temporal perspectives by Zhang, Yu, Huang, Weiming, Yao, Yao, Gao, Song, Cui, Lizhen, Yan, Zhongmin

“…We utilize skip-gram to model human transition patterns exhibited from massive amounts of human trajectories, where long-range dependency is meaningful. Subsequently, we leverage unsupervised graph representation learning to model spatial adjacency and temporal pattern similarities, where short-range dependency is favorable. …”
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教会华校的特色与地位 ：以新加坡公教中学为案例 = Missionary Chinese-medium school : its traits and position with Catholic high school, Singapore as case study by 卓汶德 Toh, Boon Teck

“…Historical evidences have shown that the missionary Chinese-medium schools are created on the basis of Chinese-medium schools and dominantly English-speaking Christian schools. With a long history of nearly 80 years and holding onto the teaching ideology of focusing students to become bilingual with Chinese and English, Catholic High School has produced some of the well-known personalities in the entertainment and the political arenas in Singapore. …”
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Relevance judgment during health information seeking on a discussion forum by Pian, Wenjing

“…In contrast, participants browsing with no particular health issue used mostly their personal and general interest topics in their judgments, which took a relatively long time to scan post surrogates and to skim detailed post content.…”
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