A Verified Compiler for a Functional Tensor Language by Liu, Amanda, Bernstein, Gilbert, Chlipala, Adam, Ragan-Kelley, Jonathan

“…Producing efficient array code is crucial in high-performance domains like image processing and machine learning. It requires the ability to control factors like compute intensity and locality by reordering computations into different stages and granularities with respect to where they are stored. …”
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Multi-bounce Returns for Specular Surface Mapping from Consumer-grade Flash LiDAR by Lin, Tsung-Han

“…Traditional LiDAR systems typically assume that all returns are single-bounce, which can lead to inaccurate representations of specular surfaces like mirrors or glass, often causing them to appear as though there is a hole. …”
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De novo-designed β-sheet heme proteins by D'Souza, Areetha, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…By contrast, there are only a few known β-sheet proteins that bind heme and designs of β-sheets frequently result in amyloid-like aggregates. This review reflects on our success with designing a series of multi-stranded β-sheet heme binding peptides that are well folded both in aqueous and membrane-like environments. …”
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Comprehensive insights into Sitobion avenae preferences and performance on Pakistan’s wheat cultivars leading to identification of potential RNAi targets by Mukhtar, Ruhma, Afzal, Eijab, Noureen, Rabia, Zeeshan, Nadia, Afroz, Amber

“…Sitobion avenae, a notable hemipteran pest, poses a significant economic threat to Triticum aestivum due to its short generation times and high reproductive rates. Challenges like the development of insecticide resistance, the limited impact of insecticidal genes, and associated risks led to seeking a more precise approach like RNA interference. …”
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Ameliorative effect of α-tocopherol and tocotrienol-rich palm oil extract on menopause-associated mood disorder in ovariectomized mice by Liang, Gengfan, Kow, Audrey Siew Foong, Lee, Yu-Zhao, Yusof, Rohana, Tham, Chau Ling, Ho, Yu-Chung, Lee, Ming Tatt

“…However, treatment with tocotrienol-rich palm oil extract, but not α-tocopherol, modulated the depressive- and anxiety-like responses in ovariectomized mice subjected to chronic restraint stress. …”
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Understanding customer retrials in call centers: preferences for service quality and service speed by Hu, K, Allon, G, Bassamboo, A

“…<p><strong>Problem definition: </p></strong> Customers are likely to initiate retrial calls when their previous contact with a call center fails to deliver a satisfactory resolution. …”

Visual odometry using RGB-D camera on ceiling vision by Wang, Han, Mou, Wei, Suratno, Hendra, Seet Gim Lee, Gerald, Li, Maohai, Lau, Michael Wai Shing, Wang, Danwei

“…The principal direction is defined based on the fact that our ceiling is filled with artificial vertical and horizontal lines and these lines can be used as reference for the current robot's heading direction. …”
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Tailoring the properties of shape memory polymers via UV cross-linking by Gay, Angela Shi Hui

“…This study covers the experimental investigation of ultraviolet (UV) resin and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)-like resin properties when it is cross-linked via UV and its shape memory behaviour. …”
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Wireless drive of piezoelectric components by Satyanarayan Bhuyan

“…To widen the application range of piezoelectric devices, various new techniques including wireless drive of piezoelectric components by parallel plate capacitor structure, focused electric field, focused electric field structure in electric resonance with an inductor, dipole antenna-like structure, and flat spiral coil antenna-like electric field generator in resonance with a capacitor are proposed and investigated. …”
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Fuzzy associative memory architecture by Ting, Chan Wai

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Laddered multilevel inverters used in solar panel system by Chen, Junyan

“…And a simple contrast is made between the laddered inverters and the multilevel inverters like diode-clamped inverters. Simulations are achieved by the software – PSIM 8.0. …”
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Nonlinear modelling and control of a quadplane by Sheikh Moheed Muzaffar

“…Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) capabilities of fixed-wing UAV is currently being researched because of its ability to takeoff/land like rotor-craft, yet transition to forward flight like a fixed-wing. …”
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NiNC Catalysts in CO 2 -to-CO Electrolysis by Zhang, H, Qi, M, Wang, Y

“…Recent study by Strasser et al. in Nature Chemical Engineering presents a high-performance CO2-to-CO electrolyzer utilizing a NiNC catalyst with nearly 100% faradaic efficiency, employing innovative diagnostic tools like the carbon crossover coefficient (CCC) to address transport-related failures and optimize overall efficiency. …”

British Muslim youth and religious fundamentalism: a quantitative investigation by Kashyap, R, Lewis, VA

“…Notably, like Christian youth, Muslim youth express stronger support for including religion in public debates than their elders. …”

Structure and phase engineering of 2D transition metal chalcogenides by Tang, Bijun

“…Moreover, the morphology of heterostructures can be engineered by fine-tuning the synthesis conditions. WS2 quantum well is also identified in the synthesized heterostructures, providing opportunities for studying novel optical properties and quantum confinement effects. …”
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Physics-informed machine learning for green data center operations by Wang, Ruihang

“…The evaluation shows that our approach saves 5.7% to 13.8% power usage compared with conventional feedback control and adapts 8x to 10x faster than native fine-tuning with at most 0.74C temperature overshoot. …”
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21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2003 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…Du Bois wrote that "…the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." A century after Du Bois penned those words, most Americans would agree that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the color line remains one of our most pressing social issues. …”
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Emergence of spatio-temporal variations in chemotherapeutic drug efficacy : in-vitro and in-silico 3D tumour spheroid studies by Sheraton, Muniraj Vivek, Chiew, Geraldine Giap Ying, Melnikov, Valentin, Tan, E. Y., Luo, K. Q., Verma, N., Sloot, Peter M. A.

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Deep learning based solder joint defect detection on industrial printed circuit board X-ray images by Zhang, Qianru, Zhang, Meng, Gamanayake, Chinthaka, Yuen, Chau, Geng, Zehao, Jayasekara, Hirunima, Woo, Chia-wei, Low, Jenny, Liu, Xiang, Guan, Yong Liang

“…With the improvement of electronic circuit production methods, such as reduction of component size and the increase of component density, the risk of defects is increasing in the production line. Many techniques have been incorporated to check for failed solder joints, such as X-ray imaging, optical imaging and thermal imaging, among which X-ray imaging can inspect external and internal defects. …”
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PARP1 resolves DNA replication defects in PCNA-associated DNA repair disorder by Wang, L

“…</p> <p>An isogenic PCNAS^228I knock-in hTERT RPE-1 cell line was generated using CRISPR-Cas9 technique. Phenotypes observed in patient-derived cells were recapitulated in the knock-in cell line. …”