Nature grasping by a cable-driven under-actuated anthropomorphic robotic hand by Tian, Li, Magnenat-Thalman, Nadia, Thalmann, Daniel, Zheng, Jianmin

“…How to grasp objects in different shapes like human hand. To deal with these three problems and further to provide a partial solution for duplicate human grasping, this paper introduces our method to solve these problems from robotic hand design, fabrication, actuation and grasping plan. …”
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Deep learning assisted optical wavefront shaping in disordered medium by Luo, Yunqi, Li, Huanhao, Zhang, Ruochong, Lai, Puxiang, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Wavefront shaping (WFS) has been put forward several years ago to break the limitation caused by optical scattering in inhomogeneous medium, and realize optical focusing in disordered medium like biological tissues. However, usually, with traditional methods, WFS is time consuming and not cost efficient since it requires long time to obtain the information of the scattering medium. …”
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Development of organically modified montmorillonite/polypropylene composite powders for selective laser sintering by Tan, Lisa Jiaying, Zhu, Wei, Zhou, Kun

“…It was found that at low loadings, nanofillers with sheet-like structures such as OMMT could limit the increase in crystallization temperatures of the composite powder, thus ensuring their wide sintering windows for SLS.…”
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Another decade of photoacoustic imaging by Das, Dhiman, Sharma, Arunima, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Pramanik, Manojit

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Plant-soil and biotic interactions in tropical forests by Collins, Colton Lawrence Edward Iolani

“…These impacts, while not altering tree diversity or forest structure, lead to important community composition changes. Shifts in species like Shorea albida significantly impact ecosystem processes, notably aboveground carbon storage. …”
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Order among chaos: High throughput MYCroplanters can distinguish interacting drivers of host infection in a highly stochastic system by Chen, MY, Fulton, LM, Huang, I, Liman, A, Hossain, SS, Hamilton, CD, Song, S, Geissmann, Q, King, KC, Haney, CH

“…Our results demonstrate that high-throughput tools like MYCroplanters can isolate interacting drivers of host susceptibility to disease. …”

Laser scribed proton exchange membranes for enhanced fuel cell performance and stability by Chen, J, Lu, X, Wang, L, Du, W, Guo, H, Rimmer, M, Zhai, H, Liu, Y, Shearing, PR, Haigh, SJ, Holmes, SM, Miller, TS

“…This study presents an innovative approach to enhance HT-PEMFC performance through membrane modification using picosecond laser scribing, which optimises the three-phase interface by forming a graphene-like structure that mitigates PA leaching. Our results demonstrate that laser-induced modification of PA-doped membranes, particularly on the cathode side, significantly enhances the performance and durability of HT-PEMFCs, achieving a peak power density of 817.2 mW cm⁻² after accelerated stress testing, representing a notable 58.2% increase compared to untreated membranes. …”

Looking deep at people: towards understanding and generating humans in images with deep learning by de Bem, RA

“…A significant effort has been devoted to these tasks by the research community along the last decades, greatly motivated by a large number of potential applications, like surveillance, human-machine interaction, action and behaviour recognition, motion capture, video reenactment, and computer graphics animation. …”

重新建构女性的自我认同 ： 以苏童“红粉”系列小说为例 = Re-constructing woman’s self identity : a case study of Su Tong’s “Hong Fen” series by 陈品秀 Tan, Ping Siew

“…In this thesis, three novels from “Hong Fen” series, Qi Qie Cheng Qun (Wives and Concubines), Hong Fen and Ling Yi Zhong Fu Nv Sheng Huo, have been chosen to be the focus point for text interpretation, as well as analysis how country’s social systems and power “repress” women’s identities, and how they manage to re-construct their identities, in order for survival, with achieving self-worth and self-liberation.…”
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Taxonomic composition and seasonal dynamics of the air microbiome in West Siberia by Gusareva, Elena S., Gaultier, Nicolas Paul Eugène, Premkrishnan, Balakrishnan N. V., Kee, Carmon, Lim, Serene Boon Yuean, Heinle, Cassie Elizabeth, Purbojati, Rikky Wenang, Nee, Ang Poh, Lohar, Sachin R., Yanqing, Koh, Kharkov, Vladimir N., Drautz-Moses, Daniela Isabel, Stepanov, Vadim A., Schuster, Stephan Christoph

“…A total of 78 airborne biomass samples from 39 time intervals were analysed, within a temperature range of 48 °C (26 °C to - 22 °C). We observed a 5-170-fold decrease in DNA yield extracted from the airborne biomass in winter compared to summer, nevertheless, yielding sufficient material for metagenomic analysis. …”
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Foot care behaviours and associated factors among patients with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study by Ang, Chin-Siang, Goh, Kelley Fann Ing, Lodh, Nandika, Qin, Vicky Mengqi, Liew, Huiling, Sidhu, Harvinder Raj Singh, Ng, Jun Jie, Subramaniam, Tavintharan, Tan, Elaine, Koh, Gerald Choon Huat, Best, James, Wong, Julian, Car, Josip, Ho, Andy Hau Yan, Venkataraman, Kavita

“…The logistic regression analysis showed that current smokers were 60% less likely to practice good FC compared to non-smokers (odds ratio (OR) = 0.40; 95%; confidence interval (CI)= 0.22–0.73). …”
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Analysis of technological developments and potential of biomass gasification as a viable industrial process : A review by Erdiwansyah, E., Gani, Asri, Zaki, Muhammad, Rizalman, Mamat, Nizar, Muhammad, Mohd Rosdi, Salleh, Yana, Syaifuddin, Sardjono, Ratnaningsih Eko

“…They use technologies for the thermochemical conversion of substances for biomass, like pyrolysis, torrefaction, gasification, and hydrothermal process. …”
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Shedding Light on Chemoresistance: The Perspective of Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer Management by Viana Cabral, Fernanda, Quilez Alburquerque, Jose, Roberts, Harrison James, Hasan, Tayyaba

“…This review explores the principles of PDT and discusses the concept of photodynamic priming (PDP), which augments the effectiveness of treatments like chemotherapy. Furthermore, the integration of nanotechnology for precise drug delivery at the right time and location and PDT optimization are examined. …”
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Shrinking Cities, Shrinking World: Urban Design for an Emerging era of Global Population Decline by Ryan, Brent D.

“…Urban designers struggled with varying degrees of success to confront problematic conditions like housing abandonment, vacant land, and disused factories. …”
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Stem Life: A Framework for Understanding the Prebiotic-Biotic Transition by Fournier, Gregory P.

“…Abiogenesis is frequently envisioned as a linear, ladder-like progression of increasingly complex chemical systems, eventually leading to the ancestors of extant cellular life. …”
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Evolving code with a large language model by Hemberg, Erik, Moskal, Stephen, O’Reilly, Una-May

“…We present LLM_GP, a general LLM-based evolutionary algorithm designed to evolve code. Like GP, it uses evolutionary operators, but its designs and implementations of those operators significantly differ from GP’s because they enlist an LLM, using prompting and the LLM’s pre-trained pattern matching and sequence completion capability. …”
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Peripheral Nervous System Modulation with Wireless Cellular Sized Freestanding Injectable Devices by Patel, Preet

“…This work aims to advance bioelectronic medicine by developing efficient, wireless, cellular- sized electronic devices that can be administered in a drug-like fashion. These innovative, substrate-free nanoelectronic devices, termed injectable electronics, can be activated, and controlled using near-infrared (NIR) light, enabling minimally invasive, targeted neuromodulation deep within the peripheral nervous system (PNS). …”
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Enforcing Identification and Authentication Policies at Scale in a Cloud Microservices Architecture by Sinha, Varnika

“…This means that systems like these involve a large number of secrets. These large numbers of secrets are hard to manage and track in the case of exposure, which leads to a risk of misconfiguration and leaks. …”
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Adversarial Prompt Transformation for Systematic Jailbreaks of LLMs by Awoufack, Kevin E.

“…The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT series into diverse sectors has significantly enhanced digital interactions but also introduced new security challenges, notably the risk of "jailbreaking" where inputs cause models to deviate from their operational guidelines. …”
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Optimization under ecological realism reproduces signatures of human speech perception by Magaro, Annika K.

“…In particular, optimizing models for ecologically realistic training datasets has helped to yield more human-like model results. In the field of speech recognition, models trained under realistic conditions with simulated cochlear input reproduce some characteristics of human speech recognition. …”
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