A cost-aware utility-maximizing bidding strategy for auction-based federated learning by Tang, Xiaoli, Yu, Han

“…Auction-based federated learning (AFL) has emerged as an efficient and fair approach to incentivize data owners (DOs) to contribute to federated model training, garnering extensive interest. …”
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Integrated plant/control design and implementation for high track density HDD servo systems by Gao, Tingting

“…Hard disk drives (HDDs) are a kind of data storage systems that are present in computer systems. …”
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The moral formation of the intellectual appetite in Hugh of St. Victor, Philip Melanchthon, and John Henry Newman by Williams, B

“…If human persons possess an intellectual appetite, if what they know affects how they live, and if they undergo some kind of formal education, then it is reasonable for individual learners to critically consider who or what is forming their intellectual appetites and what they expect formal academic institutions to help them accomplish. …”

Transforming kernel-based learners to incorporate domain knowledge from climate science by Bouabid, S

“…<p>In the face of persistent modelling and observational challenges in climate science, which hinder our understanding of the climate system, statistical machine learning has emerged as a potential ally in recent years. …”

Pangolin-inspired stretchable, microwave-invisible metascale by Wang, Changxian, Lv, Zhisheng, Mohan, Manoj Prabhakar, Cui, Zequn, Liu, Zhihua, Jiang, Ying, Li, Jiaofu, Wang, Cong, Pan, Shaowu, Muhammad Faeyz Karim, Liu, Ai Qun, Chen, Xiaodong

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Going on from Picasso? Late modernism and the dynamics of history by Nelson, S

“…Neither side of the debate has had much use for them (it is difficult to decide who out of Clement Greenberg and Rosalind Krauss expressed stronger dislike for Hartigan and Joan Mitchell). …”

Design and simulation of plasmonic metamaterials for sub-wavelength imaging in the visible range by Li, Dongdong

“…This PhD project numerically investigates several novel plasmonic metamaterial structures and optimizes their performances for sub-wavelength imaging in the visible range. Four kinds of plasmonic metamaterial lenses were investigated. …”
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Label-free microfluidic cell sorting and detection for rapid blood analysis by Lu, Nan, Tay, Hui Min, Petchakup, Chayakorn, He, Linwei, Gong, Lingyan, Maw, Kay Khine, Leong, Sheng Yuan, Lok, Wan Wei, Ong, Hong Boon, Guo, Ruya, Li, Holden King Ho, Hou, Han Wei

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Flexible whispering gallery mode optical microcavities for lasers and sensors by Ta, Van Duong

“…This conventional approach has some limitations: high cost, difficulty for doping gain medium into the cavities and mechanical inflexibility. …”
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Design of intrusion detection systems for vehicular networks by Liang, Junwei

“…The proposed FM-HMM is well compatible with almost all kinds of IDSs, which means it can improve the performance of general IDSs. …”
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Sulfate radical based advanced oxidation processes coupled with ceramic membranes for water purification by Bao, Yueping

“…Meanwhile, the separation principle for microfiltration (MF) is based on size exclusion, which means that it cannot remove many kinds of organic micro-pollutants during the physical separation process, resulting in the effluent discharge with potential hazard. …”
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Progress in metafibers for sustainable radiative cooling and prospects of achieving thermally drawn metafibers by Qi, Miao, Wu, Tingting, Wang, Zhe, Wang, Zhixun, He, Bing, Zhang, Haozhe, Liu, Yanting, Xin, Jiwu, Zhou, Tianzhu, Zhou, Xuhui, Wei, Lei

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Xunzi's concern for yu (desire) and ritual approaches for its moral transformation by Zhou,Yalin

“…The felt quality of uncultivated desires is bad in that they feel so abrupt, uncontrollable, and inconsistent that they not only create a kind of internal misery and ordinary feelings of worry for the desirer but also make the desirer callous of the interests of others. …”
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Indoor occupancy estimation using environmental parameters by Masood, Khalid Mustafa

“…In past works, feature selection has generally been implemented using filter-based approaches. …”
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Coupled acoustic resonator systems with novel acoustic properties by Yang, Yahui

“…Analogues of topological phases of matter have been rapidly developed in acoustic systems, which acts as an excellent platform to study the topological phenomena. Among various kinds of acoustic systems to explore novel acoustic properties, coupled acoustic resonator systems have drawn much attention. …”
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Harmonized co-existence with robust interference management in femto-macro cellular architectures by Ponnu Jacob

“…The HetNets that incorporate different kinds of small cells such as micro, pico, femto, metro cells, relays, and others, all integrated with Wi-Fi, are instrumental in meeting this anticipated performance enhancements. …”
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Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

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Modeling perception errors in autonomous vehicles and their impact on behavior by Piazzoni, Andrea

“…Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) will majorly impact the transportation sector. The deployment of AVs has the potential to completely reshape the entire transportation industry, from the vehicle market to goods shipments. …”
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Purification of miraculin from miracle fruit [Synsepalum dulcifium (Schumach. & Thonn.) Daniell] by He, Zuxing

“…Synsepalum dulcificum, is a kind of berries, when eaten causes sour foods subsequently consumed to taste sweet. …”
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Understanding lived experiences of bereaved parents of children with chronic life-threatening Illness : towards a culture-specific and meaning-oriented narrative E-writing interven... by Dutta, Oindrila

“…Second, developed from the findings of the systematic review, a first-of-its kind qualitative research in the Asian context was subsequently conducted to elicit the lived experience of parents in Singapore whose children suffered and died from a chronic life-threatening illness. …”
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