Fabrication and characterization of graphene and carbon nanotube reinforced bioceramic nanocomposites by Hu, Huanlong

“…The reinforcing mechanism was due to the lubrication and pinning effects of rGO, which resulted in high resistance to penetration, elastic recovery capability, low-cycle fatigue resistance, and microcrack propagation inhibition properties. …”
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Brewers’ spent grains as potential novel functional food ingredients for food security by Tan, Yong Xing

“…Despite previous studies performed on the usage of BSG, there lies an issue of remaining residual waste materials after utilization. …”
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Investigating the charge separation and transport in iron based photoanodes for solar-driven water splitting by Bassi, Prince Saurabh

“…Using XPS, the work function was calculated to lay around 4.77 eV with respect to vacuum level and the conduction band is estimated to lie or higher than water reduction level based on XPS data. …”
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Analysis and exploitation of dispersive waves for source localization on solids by Arun, Kattukandy Rajan

“…The challenge of this research lies in the fact that transverse propagating waves on a thin elastic plate are dispersive in nature. …”
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A study on dual topic models and bayesian topic model inference by Rugeles, Daniel

“…One key benefit of the proposed method lies in its deterministic nature, which largely improves the running efficiency as well as predictive perplexity for inference. …”
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Extreme learning machine for classification and clustering on multiview data by Chen, Jichao

“…However, the actual data structure might lie on a complex nonlinear manifold. In this thesis, the extreme learning machine is adopted to learn a nonlinearly mapped embedding space where the intrinsic structure is preserved. …”
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Learning-enabled decision-making for autonomous driving: framework and methodology by Huang, Zhiyu

“…Therefore, a critical challenge lies in developing safe, robust, and human-like decision-making systems for achieving higher levels of vehicle autonomy. …”
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Rapid design exploration framework for realizing custom computing systems on FPGAs by Aung, Yan Lin

“…The main driver for the proliferation of FPGAs lies in the demands for shorter time-to-market and lower non-recurring engineering pressures. …”
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Detection of false data injection attacks in smart grid cyber-physical systems by Li, Beibei

“…One of the most critical security threats in smart grid CPSs lies in the high-profile false data injection (FDI) attacks, where attackers attempt to inject either fabricated measurement data to mislead power grid state estimation & bad data detection or tampered command data to misguide power management & control. …”
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“British English is much more prestigious, everybody knows that!”: reproducing and resisting hegemonic language ideologies in Chilean English teacher education by Pérez Andrade, Gonzalo

“…Consequently, forms of speaking English that are evidently influenced by (Chilean) Spanish tended to be perceived as undesirable and unprofessional (iconisation), supporting the idea that the efficacy of a teacher lies on how close to an idealised model their English is. …”
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Estimating consumptive water use of rice in lowland paddy fields of Tanjung Karang, Malaysia by Abdullahi, Abubakar Sadiq

“…The results of model degree of agreement, uniformity coeffi- cient and simulation efficiency lies between (-0.07)-0.45, (-5.8)-(-0.9) and 0.13-0.21 respectively. …”
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Development of serum alternative with fermented soybean residue (okara): towards cultured meat production application by Teng, Ting Shien

“…One critical limitation lies in the use of foetal bovine serum (FBS) in culture medium. …”
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Engineered terahertz emission from spintronic heterostructures: amplitude, phase and chirality by Agarwal, Piyush

“…In particular, future data processing is envisioned to be driven by ultrafast spin transport electronics, which lies in the terahertz frequencies having a three-order advancement to the present operational frequency. …”
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Efficient circuit-designs using spintronic devices by Deb, Suman

“…Spintronics promise for efficient processing and storage of information lies in its attributes of non-volatility, excellent integration-density, near-unlimited endurance and compatibility with CMOS process-technology. …”
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Structured sparse representations for supervised and unsupervised learning by Zeng, Yijie

“…Natural images are known to lie on a low dimensional manifold, but it is extremely difficult to construct a generative model that properly describes its structure from the high dimensional pixel space. …”
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Topochemical fluorination of some Ruddlesden-Popper phases by Zhang, R

“…As a result La₂SrCr₂O₇F₂ lies further from the crossover for insulating to metallic behaviour than many other Cr⁴⁺ oxide phases.…”

Robust and efficient deep learning methods for vision-based action recognition by Xu, Yuecong

“…Therefore, the key to robust and efficient action recognition lies in the effective and efficient utilization of the temporal and spatiotemporal correlation features embedded within videos. …”
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Modélisation des interactions en Italie du Nord au premier âge du Fer: de la circulation de parures aux réseaux d’influences culturelles by Cicolani, V, Huet, T, Zamboni, L

“…Le corpus retenu rassemble plus de 2000 objets en alliage à base cuivre, essentiellement des parures et des déchets liés à leur fabrication, issus tant des habitats que des contextes funéraires, bien documentés et localisés dans le Piémont méridional (communautés indigènes de Ligurie intérieure) et en Émilie occidentale (communautés indigènes du secteur occidental de la plaine du Pô). …”