Compressive strength and fire resistance of mortar containing crushed cockle shell as fine aggregate replacement by Hanis Nadiah, Ruslan, Khairunisa, Muthusamy, Mohd Faizal, Md Jaafar, Nabilla, Mohamad, Nur Farah Aziera, Jamaludin

“…Thus, the current study investigates the influence of substitution of crushed cockle shell as a partial fine aggregate on the compressive strength and fire resistance of mortar. …”
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The enduring importance of the “fine cuts” approach to psychology: EPS Mid-Career Award Lecture 2024 by Bird, G

“…In this article, I take a selective review of work undertaken by my colleagues and me in an attempt to show the enduring importance of the “fine cuts” approach to psychology. This approach highlights the importance of causal, specific, and falsifiable psychological models, and the rigorous experimental designs needed to test them. …”

Long-term fine particulate matter exposure on lung cancer incidence and mortality in Chinese nonsmokers by Chen, Z, Meng, X, Han, Y, Mou, Y, Ji, C, Zhu, X, Yu, C, Sun, D, Yang, L, Sun, Q, Chen, Y, Du, H, Dai, J, Hu, Z, Lv, J, Jin, G, Ma, H, Kan, H, Li, L, Shen, H

“…<p><strong>Rationale:</strong> The association between fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) and lung cancer incidence in non-smokers (LCINS) remains inconsistent. …”

Spherical mask: coarse-to-fine 3D point cloud instance segmentation with spherical representation by Shin, S, Zhou, K, Vankadari, M, Markham, A, Trigoni, N

“…Coarse-to-fine 3D instance segmentation methods show weak performances compared to recent Grouping-based, Kernel-based and Transformer-based methods. …”

Developing a system that uses ultrawide-band inertial measurement units to quantify selected 10-Pin skills in real-time by Wee, Joel Jiewei

“…Ten-pin bowling is a unique abstract sport that requires bowlers to deliver a 11-to-16-pound ball in a five-step approach for the ball to travel down the oiled lane to knock down 10 pins. …”
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A nanoelectromechanical systems actuator driven and controlled by Q-factor attenuation of ring resonator by Dong, Bin, Ng, Geok Ing, Liu, Ai Qun, Cai, H., Kropelnicki, P., Tsai, J. M., Randles, A. B., Tang, M., Gu, Y. D., Suo, Z. G.

“…In this Letter, an optical gradient force driven Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS) actuator, which is controlled by the Q-factor attenuation of micro-ring resonator, is demonstrated. The actuator consists of a tunable actuation ring resonator, a sensing ring resonator, and a mechanical actuation arc. …”
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Narrow band wavelength selective filter using grating assisted single ring resonator by Prabhathan, P., Murukeshan, V. M.

“…This paper illustrates a filter configuration which uses a single ring resonator of larger radius connected to a grating resonator at its drop port to achieve single wavelength selectivity and switching property with spectral features suitable for on-chip wavelength selection applications. …”
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A numerical simulation study on vortex-ring collisions upon arbitrary solid boundary by Leong, Sheng Yuan

“…Normal collision of vortex ring upon flat wall was also simulated using large eddy simulation (LES). …”
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An Effective Med-VQA Method Using a Transformer with Weights Fusion of Multiple Fine-Tuned Models by Al-Hadhrami, Suheer, Menai, Mohamed El Bachir, Al-Ahmadi, Saad, Alnafessah, Ahmad

“…The second model, the greedy-soup-based model, uses a greedy soup technique based on the fusion of multiple fine-tuned models to set the model parameters. The greedy soup selects the model parameters by fusing the model parameters that have significant performance on the validation accuracy in training. …”
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Evaluating Adaptive Layer Freezing through Hyperparameter Optimization for Enhanced Fine-Tuning Performance of Language Models by Figueroa, Reinaldo

“…When dealing with data scarcity, transfer learning has become the go-to method to use these models in specialized downstream tasks via fine-tuning. However, fine-tuning on small datasets can lead to overfitting and a lack of generalization. …”
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EyeTrAES: Fine-grained, Low-Latency Eye Tracking via Adaptive Event Slicing by Sen, Argha, Bandara, Nuwan, Gokarn, Ila, Kandappu, Thivya, Misra, Archan

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Fine-tuning selective layer architecture of hydrogel membrane towards high separation performances for engineered osmosis by Qin, Detao, Liu, Zhaoyang, Bai, Hongwei, Song, Xiaoxiao, Li, Zhengtao, Sun, Darren Delai

“…Towards this goal, the architecture of hydrogel selective layer is finely tuned for the first time for improving engineered osmosis (EO) membrane performance. …”
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新加坡酷儿运动的正常化策略 ：粉红点的空间实践 = The normalization strategies of Singapore’s queer activism : the spatial practice of pink dot by Lim, Hui Min, 林慧敏 Lim, Hui Min

“…Pink Dot has attracted not only the queer community, but also the mainstream community. …”
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Resonant Ring with a Gain of 36 for Use with a 1 MW 110 GHz Gyrotron by Claveau, Elliot L., Shapiro, Michael A., Temkin, Richard J.

“…A 110 GHz quasi-optical ring resonator, designed for use with a 1 MW pulsed gyrotron, has been built and successfully tested using a 100 mW solid-state source. …”
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New Purification Strategies and Monomer Platforms for Ruthenium-Initiated Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization by Kilgallon, Landon J.

“…Chapter 1: Introduction to Covalent Capture Purification and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization In chemical spaces where difficult purifications are commonplace, innovative purification methodologies have been developed to circumvent the limitations associated with classical physiochemical property-driven purifications (chromatography, crystallization, distillation, etc.). …”
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Effective dynamics of cold atoms flowing in two ring-shaped optical potentials with tunable tunneling by Aghamalyan, Davit, Amico, Luigi, Kwek, L. C.

“…We study the current dynamics of coupled atomic condensates flowing in two ring-shaped optical potentials. We provide a specific setup where the ring-ring coupling can be tuned in an experimentally feasible way. …”
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Switching devices comparison and RC snubber for ringing suppression in one single leg T-type converter by Liu, Yong, Fei, Fan, See, Kye Yak, Liu, Xiong, Lim, Ziyou, Simanjorang, Rejeki, Pou, Josep, Gupta, Amit K., Lai, Jih-Sheng

“…Then, to further investigate the performance, the hybrid power modules of the single leg T-type converter with Cree SiC device CAS300M12BM2 and Semikron Si device SKM300GM12T4 are built, which can increases the power density, compared to the full SiC devices T-type converter. To suppress the ringing of the middle leg switching device, the resistor-capacitor (RC) snubber are designed and demonstrated with DPT. …”
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Insights into the origins of guided microtrenches and microholes/rings from Sn segregation in germanium–tin epilayers by Wu, Shaoteng, Zhang, Lin, Son, Bongkwon, Chen, Qimiao, Zhou, Hao, Tan, Chuan Seng

“…The holes/rings are postulated to be caused by the local droplet etching due to the development of Ge-Sn eutectic. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of novel low bandgap conjugated polymers containing fused-ring and accept moieties by Lai, Chun Yuen

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Subtle, natural and socially acceptable interaction techniques for ringterfaces : finger-ring shaped user interfaces by Pang, Natalie, Rissanen, Mikko J., Vu, Samantha, Fernando, Owen Noel Newton, Foo, Schubert

“…This study analyzes interaction techniques in previously proposed 16 user interface concepts that utilize the form factor of a finger-ring, i.e. “ringterfaces”. We categorized the ringterfaces according to their interaction capabilities and critically examined how socially acceptable, subtle and natural they are. …”
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