Facies analysis and depositional model of the middle-upper triassic Semantan formation, Central Pahang, Malaysia by Muhammad Azfar, Mohamed, Mazshurraiezal, Nasir, Mohd Syukri, Said, Meng, Choongchee, Mohamad Shaufi, Sokiman, Nur Asyraf, Md Akhir, Muhammad Aslam, Md Yusof, Muhammad Noor Amin, Zakariah, Mohd Nizam, Abdul Rashid, Salahuddin, Husein, Noorzamzarina, Sulaiman, Afiq Naim, Mohd

“…Seven (F1-7) facies have been identified which are; F1) poorly sorted conglomerate, F2) pebbly sandstone, F3) structureless-to-parallel laminated sandstone, F4) wavy-to-ripple fine-to-medium laminated sandstone, F5) slumped thin-interbeded sandstone and shale, F6) interbedded sandstone and shale, and F7) shale, represent a subordinate part of the Semantan Formation. …”
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Current and future challenges of hybrid electrochemical-mechanical machining process for micro- and nano-manufacturing by Ahmad Shahir, Jamaludin, Mohd Nizar, Muhd Razali, Nurul Nadia, Nor Hamran, Mohd Zairulnizam, Mohd Zawawi, Mohd Amran, Md Ali

“…Through empirical, analytical, and numerical optimization methods, HEMM’s performance can be fine-tuned to meet specific requirements. Its applications span various fields, from microfluidics and micro-optics to aerospace and biomedical devices, underscoring its transformative potential in contemporary manufacturing. …”
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Experimental and AI-driven enhancements in gas-phase photocatalytic CO2 conversion over synthesized highly ordered anodic TiO2 nanotubes by Hossen, Md. Arif, Hasan, Md. Munirul, Ahmed, Yunus, Azrina, Abd Aziz, Nurashikin, Yaacof, Leong, Kah Hon

“…The K-fold cross-validation method was employed to fine-tune the hyperparameters of the ML models. Compared to other ML models, the artificial neural networks (ANN) model showed an outstanding rating of performance evaluation metrics, including R2, MSE, RMSE, and MRE. …”
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Surface Compositions of Trojan Asteroids by Emery, Joshua P., Binzel, Richard P., Britt, Daniel T., Brown, Michael E., Howett, Carly J. A., Martin, Audrey C., Melita, Mario D., Souza-Feliciano, Ana Carolina, Wong, Ian

“…Mid-infrared emissivity spectra reveal the presence of fine-grained anhydrous silicates on the surfaces. …”
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Dominant contribution of oxygenated organic aerosol to haze particles from real-time observation in Singapore during an Indonesian wildfire event in 2015 by Budisulistiorini, Sri Hapsari, Riva, Matthieu, Williams, Michael, Miyakawa, Takuma, Chen, Jing, Itoh, Masayuki, Surratt, Jason D., Kuwata, Mikinori

“…Simultaneously, we characterized carbonaceous components and organic aerosol (OA) tracers from fine PM (PM2.5) samples to support source apportionment of the online measurements. …”
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A multi-view context-aware approach to Android malware detection and malicious code localization by Narayanan, Annamalai, Chandramohan, Mahinthan, Chen, Lihui, Liu, Yang

“…Besides multi-view learning, MKLDroid’s unique and salient trait is its ability to locate fine-grained malice code portions in dependency graphs (e.g., methods/classes). …”
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Tackling background ambiguities in multi-class few-shot point cloud semantic segmentation by Lai, Lvlong, Chen, Jian, Zhang, Chi, Zhang, Zehong, Lin, Guosheng, Wu, Qingyao

“…With our proposed approach, fine-tuning, a weak baseline method for few-shot segmentation, gains significant performance improvement (e.g., 7.48% and 7.04% in 2-way-1-shot and 3-way-1-shot tasks of S3DIS, respectively) and outperforms current state-of-the-art methods in all the task settings of S3DIS and ScanNet benchmark datasets.…”
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Hierarchical skeleton Meta-Prototype Contrastive learning with hard skeleton mining for unsupervised person re-identification by Rao, Haocong, Leung, Cyril, Miao, Chunyan

“…Firstly, we construct hierarchical representations of skeletons to model coarse-to-fine body and motion features from the levels of body joints, components, and limbs. …”
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Full-spectrum out-of-distribution detection by Yang, Jingkang, Zhou, Kaiyang, Liu, Ziwei

“…These new benchmarks have a more fine-grained categorization of distributions (i.elet@tokeneonedot, training ID, covariate-shifted ID, near-OOD, and far-OOD) for the purpose of more comprehensively evaluating the pros and cons of algorithms. …”
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Unsupervised land-use change detection using multi-temporal POI embedding by Yao, Yao, Zhu, Qia, Guo, Zijin, Huang, Weiming, Zhang, Yatao, Yan, Xiaoqin, Dong, Anning, Jiang, Zhangwei, Liu, Hong, Guan, Qingfeng

“…In addition, our model can effectively identify areas with unchanged land use and land use changes in residential and industrial areas at a fine scale.…”
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Bitstream-corrupted JPEG images are restorable: two-stage compensation and alignment framework for image restoration by Liu, Wenyang, Wang, Yi, Yap, Kim-Hui, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…The GCA leverages the extracted low-resolution thumbnail from the JPEG header to guide full-resolution pixel-wise image restoration in a coarse-to-fine manner. It is achieved by a coarse-guided pix2pix network and a refine-guided bi-directional Laplacian pyramid fusion network. …”
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Deposition and characterisation of a diamond/Ti/diamond multilayer structure by Mallik, Awadesh Kumar, Lloret, Fernando, Gutierrez, Marina, Rouzbahani, Rozita, Pobedinskas, Paulius, Shih, Wen-Ching, Haenen, Ken

“…The titanium layer in between the two diamond layers possesses a very-fine-grained microstructure. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) results show evidence of intermixing between the titanium and diamond layers at their respective interfaces. …”
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Compositionally tuned hybridization of n-type Ag0: Ag2Se under ambient conditions towards excellent thermoelectric properties at room temperature by Tee, Si Yin, Ponsford, Daniel, Tan, Xian Yi, Wang, Xiaobai, Lay, Chee Leng, Lee, Coryl Jing Jun, Ni, Xi Ping, Seng, Debbie Hwee Leng, Thitsartarn, Warintorn, Guan, Guijian, Han, Ming-Yong

“…This strategy enables fine control over phases and compositions through nanoscale hybridization using silver nanoparticles for the first time, yet remains applicable to large-scale production methods. …”
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Amorphous high-entropy phosphide nanosheets with multi-atom catalytic sites for efficient oxygen evolution by Li, Xiumin, Xie, Zhengkun, Roy, Soumyabrata, Gao, Longqing, Liu, Jie, Zhao, Bing, Wei, Ran, Tang, Bijun, Wang, Hongyan, Ajayan, Pulickel, Tang, Keyong

“…Furthermore, Fe and Ni/Co sites prefer to stabilize the HO* and HOO* intermediates respectively, conducive to breaking their scaling relation of Gibbs free energy during OER. Owing to its fine-tuned composition and the synergistic effect of multiple active sites, the FeCoNiCuYP/C electrocatalyst demonstrates superior OER performance in alkaline solutions, requiring a mere 316 mV overpotential to yield 100 mA cm-2 current density with excellent stability. …”
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Development of a vision-based gesture human-computer interface by Lim, Chun Ping.

“…The VG HCI system was subjected to a series of performance evaluation experiments and the system’s parameters were fine tuned with insights gained from the experiments. …”
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Distributed droop schemes for standalone and interlinked AC microgrids by Inam Ullah

“…So far, the common objective focused by the droop schemes has been proportional power sharing among the DGs based on their respective ratings. This objective is fine if the DGs are of the same type, just like the classical control of parallel synchronous generators. …”
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Instrumentation challenges of a pushbroom hyperspectral imaging system for currency counterfeit applications by Lim, Hoong-Ta, Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham

“…The high spectral resolution of a pushbroom imager is able to capture fine spectral details of the samples used in this research, providing important information required for classification. …”
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The durability properties of high volume oil palm biomass waste mortar by Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah

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Multi-species rotational grazing of small ruminants regenerates undergrowth vegetation while controlling weeds in the oil palm silvopastoral system by Tohiran, Kamil Azmi, Nobilly, Frisco, Zulkifli, Raja, Yahya, Muhammad Syafiq, Norhisham, Ahmad Razi, Rasyidi, Md Zainal, Azhar, Badrul

“…Hence, we concluded managing undergrowth vegetation in oil palm plantations using multi-species livestock grazing is a practical approach, and it should be fine-tuned for example by choosing livestock species based on the targeted objectives and the grazing sequence that will be practiced to regenerate the oil palm silvopastoral system. …”
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Simultaneous controllers for stabilizing the frequency changes in deregulated power system using moth flame optimization by Peddakapu, kurukuri, Mohd Rusllim, Mohamed, Srinivasarao, P., Leung, Puiki

“…Further work to reduce the changes in tie-line has been applied through different FACTS controllers, such as Distributed power flow controller (DPFC), Thyristor-controlled series capacitor (TCSC), Unified power flow controller (UPFC), and Static synchronous series compensator (SSSC); integrated into the AGC system with the co-ordination of Ultra-capacitor (UC). …”
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