Sampling-based approaches for image and video matting by Ehsan Shahrian Varnousfaderani

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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…The results showed polyester-based PU nanocomposites with D-clay concentration above 5 wt% formed percolated clay network structure, this hindered the movement of both hard and soft segments to a certain extent. …”
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Human factors in agile software development by Lin, Jun

“…To address these three questions, we have conducted a series of experiments, simulations and data analysis, and contributed a series of solutions and insights in this research, including 1) a Goal Net based method to enhance goal and requirement management for ASD process, 2) a novel Simple Multi-Agent Real-Time (SMART) approach to enhance intelligent task allocation for ASD process, 3) a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) based method to enhance emotion and morale management for ASD process, 4) a large-scale in-depth empirical analysis of human factors in the agile development process through the continuous observation of student ASD teams, and 5) the identification of an ASD process as a human-computation system that uses humans to perform tasks that computers are not good at and computers to assist human decision making.…”
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Ion doping behavior of stöber silica-nanosynthesis and application by Song, Xiaohui

“…It is a simple, general method to synthesize Janus nanoparticles by ion doping control during the metal nanoparticle coating process. In Chapter 5, another type of core-shell structure, metal nanoparticle coated by poly(styrene)-block-poly(acrylic acid) (PSPAA) shell was studied. …”
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Quantitative analysis of coronary artery from computed tomography angiography images by Cui, Hengfei

“…When correlating with myocardial perfusion assessment or coronary blood flow, lumen area evaluation is expected to be preferable to diameter quantification [5, 6, 7, 8]. It is intuitive that diameter assessment is difficult when considering irregular arterial lumen shapes at lesion sites [9]. …”
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The relations between Van Der Waals and covalent forces in layered crystals by Chaturvedi, Apoorva

“…Further its FET has an on/off ratio of 105 and mobility of 18 and 40 cm2V-1s-1 at room and low temperature respectively. …”
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Developing metallic cathode for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell applications by Yu, Chen-Chiang

“…When GDC capping was applied, the ohmic resistance reduced from 1186.0 to 1052.0 Ωcm2 while the polarization resistance increased from 767.3 to 2541.4 Ωcm2 at 400 ˚C for the bi-layered Ag cathode; for the porous Ag cathode, the ohmic resistance reduced from 1190.0 to 963.5 Ωcm2 while the polarization resistance increased from 325.8 to 421.2 Ωcm2. …”
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EEG-based attention recognition using machine learning by Sun, Haoqi

“…Using CSDF, 83 out of 868 features are selected to distinguish the unattended and attended conditions. The accuracy 94.3% (±5.6%) is the best compared to other feature selection and channel selection algorithms. …”
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Optimized GPU algorithms for sparse data problems by Pham, Nguyen Quang Anh

“…Our SpGEMM algorithm efficiently enumerates all the work done during a computation to achieve perfect load balancing, and also uses a randomized algorithm to nearly optimally partition the matrix into pieces small enough to be operated on using the fast but limited amount of shared memory. It is up to 2.5× faster than the state of the art GPU SpGEMM algorithm on the most difficult, unstructured matrices. …”
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From node embedding to community embedding on graphs by Cavallari, Sandro

“…We further developed an efficient inference algorithm for ComE+ by maintaining the complexity as low as O(|V| + |E|). We evaluated the proposed algorithms on multiple real-world data sets and showed that they improve graph visualization and outperform the state-of-the-art baselines in various application tasks, e.g., community detection and node classification. …”
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Studies of insulin transport across intestinal epithelium using nano-encapsulation for oral delivery by Zhang, Yiming

“…With only 1 layer of insulin loaded on the surface of liposomes, the transport of insulin across Caco-2 cells was enhanced by 2.6 fold from 5.7ng/ml to 15ng/ml. An enhancement factor of more than 8x was observed with just 2 layers of insulin coating. …”
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Derivation of extreme non-gaussian stochastic offshore structural responses using finite memory nonlinear system by Mukhlas, Nurul ’Azizah

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Association of current Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum, and Schistosoma mekongi infection status and intensity with periportal fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-ana... by Ewuzie, A, Wilburn, L, Thakrar, DB, Cheng, H, Reitzug, F, Roberts, N, Malouf, R, Chami, GF

“…In sub-Saharan Africa, before the widespread introduction of mass drug administration in 2003 there was a significant association between current infection status and periportal fibrosis (OR 5·38, 95% CI 2·03–14·25) but this association was no longer present after 2003 (1·19, 0·82–1·74). …”

In2Se3-based two-dimensional photocatalysts for water-splitting by Wong, CCY

“…Metal doping and heterojunction formation were used as strategies to improve the activity of 2D-In₂Se₃ in this research. 5 wt.% Fe-doped 2D-In₂Se₃ (Fe-In₂Se₃) by the hydrothermal method has shown the highest activity among the screened metal dopants; Fe-In₂Se₃ has a nearly three-fold increase of activity relative to 2D-In₂Se₃. …”

Prevalence of West Nile virus in domesticated mammals (cattle, goat, horse and pig) in selected areas of Peninsular Malaysia by Mohammed, Mohammed Nma

“…Among the different species, the highest seroprevalence was in pigs with 62.5% [(50/80); 95% CI (0.5155 – 0.7231)], followed by 53.85% [(49/91); 95% CI (0.4366 – 0.6373)] in horse, 48.3% [(14/29); 95% CI (0.3139 – 0.4828)] in goats and 32.53% [(27/83); 95% CI (0.2339 – 0.4322)] in cattle. …”
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The costs of rearing a buffalo calf from birth until weaning age at buffalo breeding and research centre, Telupid, Sabah by Ishak, Muhammad Hasifsafwan

“…The calf remained with their dam in the paddock until weaning and were given 0.5kg pellet per calf 3 weeks before weaning age. …”
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A model-independent measurement of the CKM angle γ in partially reconstructed B± → D*h± decays with D → 𝐾0𝑆 h+h− (h = π, K) by Aaij, R., Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W., Abellan Beteta, C., Abudinén, F., Ackernley, T., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adlarson, P., Agapopoulou, C., Aidala, C. A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Akiba, K., Albicocco, P., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F.

“…The measurement uses a data sample collected in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of approximately 9 fb<jats:sup><jats:italic>−</jats:italic>1</jats:sup>. …”
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Investigations into femtosecond laser hybrid manufacturing for 3D power sources by Tham, Nicholas Cheng Yang

“…LPG MSCs demonstrate high capacitive performance, with 0.428 mF cm-2 at scan rates of 10 mV s-1, and even an increase in scan rates to 10,000 mV s-1 only reduces performance by two-thirds, falling in line with reported PG MSCs. …”
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Discrete differential geometry driven methods for architectural geometry by Yao, Sidan

“…The implementation synchronized changes in the 3D geometry with a CityGML data model. In Chapter 5, we present a simple yet effective method for constructing 3D self-supporting surfaces with planar quadrilateral (PQ) elements. …”
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Towards semantic, debiased and moment video retrieval by Satar, Burak

“…Our model overpasses the baseline over +2.5 points on nDCG, a semantic-relevancy-focused evaluation metric, mitigating the bias. …”
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