Hand gesture for nano-quadcopter control by Huang, Zhibin

“…Over the years, quadcopter have been increasingly been used by university researches to test and evaluate new ideas such as flight control theory and real time system, the numerous advantages to using quadcopters such as cost, variety in sizes and simple mechanical design makes it ideal for amateurs to handle when, eventually Nano Quadcopters were introduced when minimizing the quadcopters, sparking a whole new interest at its undiscovered potential. …”
Get full text

Experimental investigation of the acoustic agglomeration phenomenon by Au Yong, Marcus

“…The effects were investigated by sending a dust aerosol mixture through an acoustic chamber in order to find the differences when the speaker is turned on compared to when it is turned off. …”
Get full text

Self-determination and the limits on the right to include by Erez, L, Banai, A

“…To address this lacuna, we examine the puzzle of permissible inclusion: when may states confer citizenship on individuals they have no prior obligation to include? …”

A model of information security and competition by de Cornière, A, Taylor, G

“…When firms are advertising-funded platforms, security plays a business-stealing role, and may be overprovided. …”

Rotation Inside Convex Kakeya Sets by Janzer, B

“…We also show that in three dimensions the answer is negative, even for the case when S is a line segment – but that in any dimension the first question has a positive answer when S is a line segment. …”

Observations on baboons, Papio anubis, in an arid region in Ethiopia by Aldrich-Blake, FP, Bunn, TK, Dunbar, RI, Headley, PM

“…The relationships between the various age-sex classes at a time when the troop is compact are investigated. These are shown to account for the types of party most commonly found when the troop is scattered. …”

Storage stability of coconut milk powder by Bakar, Jamilah, Hassan, Mohd. Ali, Ahmad, Azhar

“…Its maximum shelf‐life was 4 months when air or vacuum packaged in aluminum laminates and 1 1/2 months in polypropylene.…”

Dynamic boundaries of acceptable play: a mixed methods examination into players' interpretations of toxic behavior in multiplayer online games by Yu, Valerie Jingwen

“…I found that players' negative perceptions and responses when encountering gameplay sabotage were exacerbated in more competitive gameplay settings. …”
Get full text

How did ancient human activities influence the properties and development of soil?—a case study of the Yangshao Village cultural relic site, Henan Province by Zha, Lisi, Wang, Wenjing, Zhong, Junhong, Su, Yiqi, Chang, Dandan

“…At the same time, the coarse-grained matter was affected by the plowing activities and mostly decomposed into fine particles, and the content of clay particles reached an extreme value. …”
Get full text

Black-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits by Casper, Stephen, Ezell, Carson, Siegmann, Charlotte, Kolt, Noam, Curtis, Taylor Lynn, Bucknall, Benjamin, Haupt, Andreas, Wei, Kevin, Scheurer, Jérémy, Hobbhahn, Marius, Sharkey, Lee, Krishna, Satyapriya, Von Hagen, Marvin, Alberti, Silas, Chan, Alan, Sun, Qinyi, Gerovitch, Michael, Bau, David, Tegmark, Max, Krueger, David, Hadfield-Menell, Dylan

Get full text

MegaTE: Extending WAN Traffic Engineering to Millions of Endpoints in Virtualized Cloud by Miao, Congcong, Zhong, Zhizhen, Xiao, Yunming, Yang, Feng, Zhang, Senkuo, Jiang, Yinan, Bai, Zizhuo, Lu, Chaodong, Geng, Jingyi, He, Zekun, Wang, Yachen, Zou, Xianneng, Yang, Chuanchuan

Get full text

Ecological forces affecting microbial eukaryotes in the coastal ocean by Gomez, Annika L.

“…In this thesis, I investigate the effect of specific top-down and bottom-up forces at fine scales of time, location, and taxonomy, uncovering mechanisms by which nutrient limitation and viral infection affect marine protistan communities. …”
Get full text

Laboratory studies of atmospheric photochemistry in indoor and outdoor environments by Goss, Matthew B.

“…Secondary organic aerosol (SOA), fine particulate matter formed through indirect photochemical reactions, influences the climate and contributes to air pollution harmful to human health. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Effects of hysteresis on steady-state infiltration in unsaturated slopes by Tami, Denny, Rahardjo, Harianto, Leong, Eng Choon

“…The slope model consisted of a 400 mm thick fine sand layer overlying a 200 mm thick gravelly sand layer at a slope angle of 30°. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Surface molecular doping of all-inorganic perovskite using zethrenes molecules by Arramel, Pan, Hu, Xie, Aozhen, Hou, Songyan, Yin, Xinmao, Tang, Chi Sin, Hoa, Nguyen T., Muhammad D. Birowosuto, Wang, Hong, Dang, Cuong, Rusydi, Andrivo, Wee Andrew T. S., Wu, Jishan

“…The average molecular orientation as determined by near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) suggests that the HZ-TIPS molecular plane is generally lifted with respect to the perovskite surface. …”
Get full text

The function of the WRI1-TCP4 regulatory module in lipid biosynthesis by Kong, Que, Yang, Yuzhou, Low, Pui Man, Guo, Liang, Yuan, Ling, Ma, Wei

“…Interaction of TCP4 with AtWRI1, which results in a reduction of AtWRI1 activity, represents a newly discovered mechanism that enables the fine-tuning of plant oil biosynthesis.…”
Get full text

Breaking the symmetry : gradient in NiFe layered double hydroxide nanoarrays for efficient oxygen evolution by Zhou, Daojin, Jia, Yin, Duan, Xinxuan, Tang, Jialun, Xu, Jie, Liu, Dong, Xiong, Xuya, Zhang, Junming, Luo, Jun, Zheng, Lirong, Liu, Bin, Kuang, Yun, Sun, Xiaoming, Duan, Xue

“…The electron energy loss spectroscopy, extended X-Ray absorption fine structure and other characterizations together revealed the concentration and valence states gradients in NiFe-LDH nanoarrays. …”
Get full text

Salient object detection by fusing local and global contexts by Ren, Qinghua, Lu, Shijian, Zhang, Jinxia, Hu, Renjie

“…In addition, an attention-guided hierarchical network architecture is designed to capture fine-grained spatial details by transmitting contextual information from deeper to shallower network layers in a top-down manner. …”
Get full text

Tunable quantum cascade lasers for midinfrared spectroscopic sensing by Li, Jinghao

“…To make the array a feasible source in practical spectroscopic applications, we propose a novel method using an aspherical lens and fine-tuned mini mirrors, which combine the beams from a five-element slot QCL array with a transmission efficiency of 92% to the far-field. …”
Get full text

Mobile phone based participatory sensing for urban traffics by Zhou, Pengfei

“…The evaluation results suggest that the proposed system achieves outstanding prediction accuracy compared with those bus company initiated and GPS supported solutions, and demonstrate the feasibility of traffic monitoring based on buses which achieves fine-grained traffic estimation with modest sensing and computation overhead at the crowd.…”
Get full text