Hydrogen-bond memory and water-skin supersolidity resolving the Mpemba paradox by Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Ma, Zengsheng, Zhou, Yichun, Zhou, Ji, Zheng, Weitao, Jiang, Qing, Sun, Changqing

“…The Mpemba paradox, that is, hotter water freezes faster than colder water, has baffled thinkers like Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and Aristotle since B.C. 350. …”
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Introduction — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable) by Sinanan, Kerry

“…The plot is structured as a packet of letters that, like its antecedent Samuel Rich-ardson’s Pamela (1740), has been published by a fictional editor. …”
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A perspective on the role of point-of-care "immuno-triaging" to optimize COVID-19 vaccination distribution in a time of scarcity by Zhang, Yi, Rogers, Angela, Nadeau, Kari, Gu, Jun, Yang, Samuel

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Nanozymatic magnetic nanomixers for enzyme immobilization and multiplexed detection of metabolic disease biomarkers by Li, Di, Xiong, Qirong, Liu, Wylie, Liang, Li, Duan, Hongwei

“…Herein, we report a magnetic nanozyme (MNE) with integrated superior peroxidase-like activity and efficient mixing ability. This nanozymatic magnetic nanomixer is synthesized by depositing a Fe2+-doped polydopamine coating on the surface of well-aligned magnetic nanoparticles to form a rigid chain-like nanostructure. …”
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Acoustic focusing by a double layered acoustic grating by Du, Liangfen, Saini, Abhishek, Sun, Zeqing, Chen, Jian, Fan, Zheng

“…In the past decades, due to their outstanding capacity of wave manipulation, acoustic metasurfaces (AMSs) based on various structures, such as coiling-up space structures, Helmholtz-resonator-like structures and membrane-type structures, have been proposed to achieve different functionalities including acoustic focusing. …”
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Subjective video quality evaluation for user generated contents via textual prompts by Ang, Dario

“…The explosion of user-generated content (UGC) videos has transformed the online landscape. Platforms like TikTok and YouTube overflow with UGC, offering a diverse range of content consumed by billions of viewers. …”
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Attention-based sound classification pipeline with sound spectrum by Tan, Ki In, Yean, Seanglidet, Lee, Bu-Sung

“…However, in an application like NoiseCapture, the sound spectrum is divided into 23 frequency bands and thus some information or features are lost. …”
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Towards a more trustworthy generative artificial intelligence by Cheong, Ben Wee Joon

“…From AI image generation to intelligent natural language reasoning like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini. These models fuelled by advancements in deep learning have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in generating life-like content. …”
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A CNN and diffusion based encoder-decoder model to extract fine-grained human vital waveforms from mmWave radar by Zuo, Jia

“…Vital signs like electrocardiogram (ECG) waveforms, are critical for early disease monitoring and prevention, including the detection of cardiac abnormalities. …”
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A FPGA-based ultrasonic voice detection platform for whisper to voice reconstruction by Fan, Gaofeng

“…The waveform reflected back contains vital information about the speech, like mouth opening/closing. Those message could be further processed in real time on the FPGA and facilitate the rebuilding of voice from whispers. …”
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Development of compact power electronics inverter using gallium nitride (GaN) devices by Sinurat, Hendry Donald Hanesty

“…Demand of more ‘technological’ and ‘suit-in-extreme-operation’ electronic devices is climbing up like never before. Numerous numbers of electrical drives and machines are designed and produced to run under certain high level of frequency and temperature. …”
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Pre-treated sludge cake filtration characteristics and properties in a cake filtration system by Lee, Wei Jun

“…Thermal pre-treatment displayed no observable effect on particle size and were analyzed using fluorescence excitation-emission matrix spectroscopy, further revealing that changes to SMP concentration were related to the release of soluble microbial by-product-like and protein-like substances within the domain of SMPs. …”
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System-level FPGA device driver with high-level synthesis support by Vipin, Kizheppatt, Shreejith, Shanker, Gunasekera, Dulitha, Fahmy, Suhaib A., Kapre, Nachiket

“…At a high level, our FPGA driver attempts to provide CUDA-like driver behavior, and more, to FPGA programmers. …”
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Image processing and machine learning techniques for Chagas disease detection and identification by Rada, Lavdie, Azzawi, Inass, Kumar, Preet, Brito-Loeza, Carlos Francisco, Karabağ, Cefa, Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino C.

“…Advanced deep learning architectures like Faster RCNN, RetinaNet, YOLOv8, and FCOS have been adapted, trained, and compared with each other in terms of the detection accuracy of each image. …”
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Electronic and optoelectronic devices using chemical vapour deposited 2D materials by Fan, Y

“…Factors cause micro-defects like cracks and holes in the graphene sheet are revealed. …”

The cingulum: anatomy, connectivity and what goes beyond by Kollenburg, L, Arnts, H, Green, A, Strauss, I, Vinke, S, Kurt, E

“…Recent clinical studies investigating neurosurgical techniques targeting the cingulum, like deep brain stimulation of the anterior cingulate cortex and cingulotomy, have further boosted interests in this central ‘hub’ as a target for chronic intractable pain. …”

Evolution of an extracellular pathogen recognition mechanism in Solanaceae by Kourelis, J

“…This recognition requires the tomato gene <em>Rcr3</em>, which encodes for a papain-like cysteine protease. I show that <em>Cf-2</em> has likely evolved very recently, implicating that molecular recognition is a novel molecular function of the pre-existing <em>Rcr3</em>. …”

The effect of meteorology and air quality to the COVID-19 cases in Malaysia: a multivariate deep learning approach by Peggy, Yeo, Azuraliza Abu Bakar, Zalinda Othman, Mazrura Sahani, Suhaila Zainudin, Zailiza Suli

“…In October 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that over six hundred million people globally had been infected by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to six million deaths. Malaysia, like many other countries, has experienced significant economic and societal impacts due to COVID-19. …”
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Scene illumination classification based on histogram quartering of CIE-Y component by Hesamian, Mohammad Hesam

“…On the other hand classification is appropriate for applications like photography when most of the images have been captured in a small set of illuminants like scene illuminant. …”
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Marketing products and services in the dynamic environment. by Chan, Cindy Li Xia., Chye, Nyit Fhen., Poh, Hui Ting.

“…We recommended the institutionalization of Tree-shirts, a product line name and buzzword that is poised to trickle into the mainstream markets and permeate through the green industry as a household name in time. …”
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