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. …”
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Cooperative collision avoidance in multirobot systems using fuzzy rules and velocity obstacles by Tang, Wenbing, Zhou, Yuan, Zhang, Tianwei, Liu, Yang, Liu, Jing, Ding, Zuohua

“…In detail, at any time instant, a robot checks the robots that it may collide with and retrieves the most dangerous robot in each sector based on the predicted collision time; then, the robot generates its velocity in real-time via fuzzy inference and VO-based fine-tuning. At each time instant, a robot only needs to retrieve its neighbors' current positions and velocities, so the method is fully distributed. …”
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3D-printed mechano-optic force sensor for soft robotic gripper enabled by programmable structural metamaterials by Hegde, Chidanand, Mysa, Ravi Chaithanya, Chooi, Aaron, Dontu, Saikrishna, Tan, Joel Ming Rui, Wong, Lydia Helena, Valdivia y Alvarado, Pablo, Magdassi, Shlomo

“…The design supports seamless integration of the sensor into soft grippers, enabling 3D printing of the soft gripper with an embedded sensor in a single step, thus overcoming the tedious and complex and multiple fabrication steps commonly applied in conventional processes. The sensor boasts a fine resolution of 0.015 N, a measurement range up to 16 N, linearity (adj. …”
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Numerical modeling of motion and deformation of cells in microscale hydrodynamic and electric fields by Ye, Ting

“…. • The modified SIMPLER algorithm introduces an improved velocity correction to speed up the convergence of momentum equations, and further integrates a fine adjustment to satisfy the continuity equation with higher accuracy. …”
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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.…”
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Human machine interface/brain control for electric vehicles application by Tang, Tao

“…Secondly, the same design methodology is extended to a 16-channel TDM/CS AFE with tunable DC-servo loop and fine-trimming input impedance boosting loop. A 4-bit calibrated impedance boosting loop contributed to the input impedance of 560 MΩ as well as CMRR for input interface. …”
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Distilling crowd knowledge from software-specific Q&A discussions for assisting developers’ knowledge search by Chen, Chunyang

“…Then, I enrich the knowledge graph with more fine-grained relationships i.e., analogy among different third-party libraries. …”
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Remarkably enhanced thermal transport based on a flexible horizontally-aligned carbon nanotube array film by Qiu, Lin, Wang, Xiaotian, Su, Guoping, Tang, Dawei, Zheng, Xinghua, Zhu, Jie, Wang, Zhiguo, Norris, Pamela M., Bradford, Philip D., Zhu, Yuntian

“…The removal of empty space rapidly increases the density of transport channels, and the replacement of the fine CNT tips with their cylindrical surface insures intimate contact at CNT-SiO2 interface. …”
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Quantitative evaluation of stone fragments in extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy using a time reversal operator by Wang, Jen-Chieh, Zhou, Yufeng

“…Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) has been used widely in the noninvasive treatment of kidney calculi. The fine fragments less than 2 mm in size can be discharged by urination, which determines the success of ESWL. …”
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Measuring the hole-state anisotropy in MgB2 by electron energy-loss spectroscopy by Klie, Robert F., Su, Haibin, Zhu, Yimei, Davenport, James W., Idrobo, Juan-Carlos, Browning, Nigel D., Nellist, Peter D.

“…In particular, we have studied two different crystal orientations, [110] and [001], with respect to the incident electron beam direction, and found significant changes in the near-edge fine structure of the B K-edge. Density-functional theory suggests that the pre-peak of the B K-edge core loss is composed of a mixture of pxy- and pz-hole states and we will show that these contributions can be distinguished only with an experimental energy resolution better than 0.5 eV. …”
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Biometric contrastive learning for data-efficient deep learning from electrocardiographic images by Sangha, V, Khunte, A, Holste, G, Mortazavi, BJ, Wang, Z, Oikonomou, EK, Khera, R

“…</p> <p><strong>Materials and Methods:&nbsp;</strong>Using pairs of ECGs from 78 288 individuals from Yale (2000-2015), we trained a convolutional neural network to identify temporally separated ECG pairs that varied in layouts from the same patient. We fine-tuned BCL-pretrained models to detect atrial fibrillation (AF), gender, and LVEF&thinsp;&lt;&thinsp;40%, using ECGs from 2015 to 2021. …”

DEWP: deep expansion learning for wind power forecasting by Fan, W, Fu, Y, Zheng, S, Bian, J, Zhou, Y, Xiong, H

“…Accurate wind power forecasting (WPF) is then better achieved through fine-grained outputs by continuously removing stack residues and accumulating useful stack forecasts. …”

Immobilization of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase on electrospun polyvinyl alcohol nanofibers by Saallah, Suryani

“…Before the immobilisation step, the transformation of CGTase from solution to solid particles via electrospraying in Taylor cone-jet mode was studied to obtain fine and monodispersed particles that can be attached uniformly on the PVA membrane. …”
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In vitro bioactivity and biocompatibility assessment of PCL/PLA–scaffolded mesoporous silicate bioactive glass: role of boron activation by Md. Zain, Siti Khalijah, Sazali, Ezza Syuhada, Ghoshal, Sib Krishna, Hisam, Rosdiyana

“…The role of boron concentration fine-tuning in modifying the glasses morphology, structure, Bioactivity and Biocompatibility was assessed in vitro by immersing them in simulated body fluid (SBF) at various durations. …”

An additive manufacturing process model for product family design by Lei, Ningrong, Yao, Xiling, Moon, Seung Ki, Bi, Guijun

“…By utilising AM, we eliminate all constraints which arise in conventional product family designs from finding a compromise between commonality and performance. …”
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Effect of post-deposition annealing on the interface electronic structures of Al2O3-Capped GaN and GaN/AlGaN/GaN heterostructure by Duan, Tian Li, Pan, Ji Sheng, Ang, Diing Shenp

“…The XPS data, however, reveal a clear Ga-O signal for all samples and no apparent change in the Ga-O to Ga-N bond ratio for the range of annealing temperatures studied. These findings imply that the observed improvement in 2DEG mobility (and the associated decrease of interface defect density) should be ascribed to the structural change of the disordered GaOx interfacial layer formed during the atomic-layer-deposition of the Al2O3.…”
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High-Efficiency Light-Emitting Diodes of Organometal Halide Perovskite Amorphous Nanoparticles by Xing, Jun, Yan, Fei, Zhao, Yawen, Chen, Shi, Yu, Huakang, Zhang, Qing, Zeng, Rongguang, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Sun, Xiaowei, Huan, Alfred, Xiong, Qihua

“…The perovskite amorphous nanoparticle-based light-emitting diode shows a maximum luminous efficiency of 11.49 cdA-1, a power efficiency of 7.84 lmW-1, and an external quantum efficiency of 3.8%, which is 3.5 times higher than that of the best colloidal perovskite quantum-dot-based light-emitting diodes previously reported. Our findings indicate the great potential of colloidal perovskite amorphous nanoparticles in light-emitting devices.…”
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High expression of MnSOD promotes survival of circulating breast cancer cells and increases their resistance to doxorubicin by Fu, Afu, Ma, Shijun, Wei, Na, Tan, Blanche Xiao Xuan, Tan, Ern Yu, Luo, Kathy Qian

“…Specific siRNA-mediated MnSOD knockdown reversed all three phenotypes. Our findings therefore suggest that MnSOD plays an important integrative role in supporting cancer cell survival in circulation, metastasis, and doxorubicin resistance. …”
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Digital Anatomy : Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality / by Uhl, Jean-François, editor 643187, Jorge, J. A. (Joaquim Armando), editor 643188, Lopes, Daniel Simões, editor 643190, Campos, Pedro F., editor 643191

“…Recent studies show that Virtual (VR), Augmented (AR), and Mixed-Reality (MR) can improve both retention and learning outcomes. Readers will find relevant tutorials about three-dimensional reconstruction techniques to perform virtual dissections. …”

Promoting Sustainable Management Through Technological Innovation / by Sahdev, Supriya Lamba, 1984-, editor 656388, Krishnan, Chitra, 1983-, editor 656389, Hassan, Ahdi, 1991-, editor 654727, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…Business leaders will find practical guidance to integrate sustainable practices and leverage technological innovation in their organizations. …”
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