Assessing the impact of anthropogenic pollution on isoprene-derived secondary organic aerosol formation in PM2.5 collected from the Birmingham, Alabama, ground site during the 2013... by Guo, Hongyu, Rattanavaraha, Weruka, Stone, Elizabeth A., Offenberg, John H., Zhang, Zhenfa, Gold, Avram, Surratt, Jason D., Chu, Kevin, Riva, Matthieu, Lin, Ying-Hsuan, Baumann, Karsten, Shaw, Stephanie L., Budisulistiorini, Sri Hapsari, Edgerton, Eric S., King, Laura, Weber, Rodney J., Neff, Miranda E.

“…Lack of correlation between aerosol acidity and isoprene-derived SOA is consistent with the observation that acidity is not a limiting factor for isoprene SOA formation at the BHM site as aerosols were acidic enough to promote multiphase chemistry of isoprene-derived epoxides throughout the duration of the study. All in all, these results confirm previous studies suggesting that anthropogenic pollutants enhance isoprene-derived SOA formation.…”
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Design of ideal invisibility cloak in electronic circuits by Meng, Lingsheng

“…In the experiments of this project, by comparing the voltage of each point in various electric fields under the cases of bare background material, a point in the background grounding and adding the cloak to hide the grounding point, it was verified that this cloak has ideal omnidirectional invisibility in different orders of electrostatic fields. …”
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CountGD: multi-modal open-world counting by Amini-Naieni, N, Han, T, Zisserman, A

“…To improve the generality, we repurpose an openvocabulary detection foundation model (GroundingDINO) for the counting task, and also extend its capabilities by introducing modules to enable specifying the target object to count by visual exemplars. …”

Multimodal radar with wide band communication system by Danial Ritzuan Junaidi

“…Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging is one of the most important surveillance techniques nowadays due to its all-time and all-weather operation capability [2]. …”
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Narrowband radar system for indoor doorway detection by Liu, Yunxiang

“…By averaging all the reliable ranging values, the range between the robot and the wall is estimated to provide extra information of the doorway position. …”
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Investigating the influence of aesthetic preferences on packaging product design by Ding, Sinong, Yahaya, Mohd Faiz, Abdul Rahman, Ahmad Rizal

An agent composition framework for the J-Park simulator - a knowledge graph for the process industry by Zhou, Xiaochi, Eibeck, Andreas, Lim, Mei Qi, Krdzavac, Nenad B., Kraft, Markus

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Comparative study on design of braced excavation systems by Toh, Yan Ting

“…The Finite Element Method is commonly used to analyse braced excavations to ensure the stability of the braced excavation and assess the ground movements to minimise damage to nearby buildings. …”
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Investigation of soil-structure interaction for deep excavations by Hensman, P

“…Deep excavations typically comprise an in situ concrete or driven steel earth retaining wall braced with support structures including steel frames and ground anchorages. …”

NTU VIRAL: a visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint by Nguyen, Thien-Minh, Yuan, Shenghai, Cao, Muqing, Lyu, Yang, Nguyen, Thien Hoang, Xie, Lihua

“…However, for research on autonomous aerial systems, there appears to be a relative lack of public datasets on par with those used for autonomous driving and ground robots. Thus, to fill in this gap, we conduct a data collection exercise on an aerial platform equipped with an extensive and unique set of sensors: two 3D lidars, two hardware-synchronized global-shutter cameras, multiple Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), and especially, multiple Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging units. …”
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Dynamics of time-modulated, nonlinear phononic lattices by Kim, Brian L., Chong, Christopher, Hajarolasvadi, Setare, Wang, Yifan, Daraio, Chiara

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Land reclamation - from conventional vertical drain methods to a combined vacuum preloading and electro-osmosis with horizontal drainage enhanced geotextile sheets by Wong, Lung Anthony

“…The major challenges include the extra time required for consolidating the clay slurry and the formation of a working platform for construction, which are not necessary if sandy fill material is adopted. Consolidation analysis of drained reclamation work is a key aspect in assessing the performance of the ground improvement work conducted. …”
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Innovation and firm survival: the role of timing, funding, and networks by Gao, Ming

“…Our findings will not only enlighten the policymakers in drafting different supportive schemes to provide aid to the SMEs but also the entrepreneurs in establishing routines for managing their innovation activities and taking full advantage of external financial support and collaborative networks to improve their innovation and business performance.…”
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Understanding Indexing Efficiency for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High-dimensional Vector Databases by Qin, Yuting

“…Deep learning has transformed almost all types of data (e.g., images, videos, documents) into high-dimension vectors, which in turn forms Vector Databases as the data engines of various applications. …”
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Object Manipulation Through Contact Configuration Regulation: Multiple and Intermittent Contacts by Taylor, Orion, Doshi, Neel, Rodriguez, Alberto

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Spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter near a Chern insulator : interplay of time-reversal symmetry breaking and Van Hove singularity by Lu, Bing-Sui, Arifa, Kathee Zathul, Hong, Xing Ru

“…We consider the generic problem of a two-level quantum emitter near a two-dimensional Chern insulator in the dipole approximation, and study how the frequency-dependent response and electronic density of states of the insulator modifies the transition rate of the emitter between the ground and excited levels. To this end, we obtain the full real-frequency behavior of the conductivity tensor by performing a tight-binding calculation based on the Qi-Wu-Zhang model and using a Kubo formula, and derive the full electromagnetic Green tensor of the system, which breaks Onsager reciprocity. …”
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Stabilization of waste soils using novel binders by Tan, Adrian Yong Jian

“…Currently, the soft clay is mainly used as the fill material for land reclamation, a low value-added application, after improving its engineering properties through physical or chemical treatment. …”
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Information structure of subordinate clauses in Miriwoong by Sim, Michelle Jia En

“…This project hence deviates from a structural perspective, analysing subordinate clauses through information structure, using Lambrecht’s (1994) framework. To fill the gap in Miriwoong literature, this paper covers additional ground, such as structure in simple and paratactic clauses, and other features hypothesised as relevant to focus structure in subordinate clauses. …”
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Toward multivariate fragility functions for seismic damage and loss estimation of high-rise buildings by Kourehpaz, Pouria, Hutt, Carlos Molina, Lallemant, David

“…The dataset used in this study encompasses 15,000 simulations of modern high-rise reinforced concrete shear wall buildings ranging from eight to 24 stories which are subjected to ground motion records at five different intensity levels. …”
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Effect of different atmospheric boundary layers on the wake characteristics of NREL Phase VI wind turbine by Ahmed Kabir, Ijaz Fazil Syed, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee

“…The influence of inflow ABL's turbulence level in the wake velocity recovery and the ground effect on the wake turbulence intensity (TI) is analyzed. …”
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