Secure and secret cooperation in robotic swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex 'Sandy', Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate towards mission completion, have to "prove" their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alex, Dorigo, Marco

“…We propose a system where robots in a swarm, to cooperate toward mission completion, have to “prove” their integrity to their peers by exchanging cryptographic proofs. We show the implications of this approach for two different swarm robotics missions: foraging and maze formation. …”
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The Importance of Bystanders in Threat Assessment and Management by Borum, Randy, Rowe, Mary

“…Numerous studies of targeted violence (e.g., mass shootings and school shootings), have demonstrated that peers and bystanders often have knowledge of an attacker’s intentions, concerning communication, and troubling behavior before the attack occurs. …”
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Experiences of recreational running among persons with visual impairment (VI) in Singapore by Tay, Claire Marie En Xin

“…Among the limited research, it is known that people living with sensory impairments in Singapore were more likely to engage in insufficient PA than their peers. The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of recreational running as a form of PA among individuals with VI in Singapore. …”
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Android apps development for image/video processing - (B) by Chng, Jolene Li Jie

“…In addition, users can easily share their edited images with their peers on social media platforms at their fingertips. …”
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Crushing of braced tubes by Ho, Teng Chye.

“…Another part of the project was to determine energy absorption behavior of origami tubes fabricated using polypropylene sheets. The crushing test revealed a difference in the trend of the force vs displacement curves as the test was repeated. …”
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Bottom up electro deposition and flat surface finishing in micro-trench metal filling process by Guan, Aaron Zhi Xiong.

“…The electroplated sample were embedded in acrylic cold mounting resin, then cut and polished using Minitom with EXTEC diamond wafer blade (4") and variable speed grinder-polisher (ECOMET 6, BUEHLER) with abrasive sheets (EXTEC) of grit range from 400 to 4000.…”
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Online learning with kernels by Fan, Haijin

“…The sparsification method performs a role to select a compact dictionary consisting of the kernel function centers. They are developed according to different measures, such as the mutual information measure, the significance measure, the coherence measure or the cumulative coherence measure, which are used to evaluate the novelty of new training samples. …”
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Effectiveness of integrative structural family therapy and double ABCX model on marital adjustment and parenting stress among parents of children with autism: randomized controlled... by AlHorany, Ahmed Kamel, Hassan, Siti Aishah, Juhari, Rumaya, Aljaberi, Musheer A.

“…A randomized controlled trial conducted on 60 parents of children with ASD showed that integrative SFT and double ABCX therapy, conducted over ten sessions of multiple family therapy in group counseling for five weeks and a one-month follow-up at special needs children’s centers in Jordan, resulted in a 48% increase in marital adjustment and a 34% reduction in parenting stress. …”

Ensemble strategies for population-based optimization algorithms – a survey by Wu, Guohua, Mallipeddi, Rammohan, Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam

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Heteroatom-doped microporous carbon nanosheets derived from pentaerythritol-melamine for supercapacitors and CO₂ capture by Hu, Xiaochun, Luo, Yuqing, Wu, Xianyue, Niu, Jiabin, Tan, Mingwu, Sun, Zhiqiang, Liu, Wen

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Deciphering Banyan tree networks by Chan, Zachary Zi Xuan

“…“Deciphering Banyan Tree Archives” centers around the Banyan tree, also known as the strangling fig. …”
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Investigating the impact of the stratified cognitive apprenticeship model on high school students’ math performance by Wang, Ruimei, Zulkifli, Nurul Nadwa, Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi

“…The results indicated that students instructed using the SCTM outperformed their peers in mathematical achievement, thereby validating SCTM’s effectiveness as a comprehensive educational strategy for mathematics education at the senior high school level.…”
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Scalable optical manufacture of dynamic structural colour in stretchable materials by Miller, Benjamin Harvey, Liu, Helen, Kolle, Mathias

“…Here, by adapting Lippmann photography5, we report an approach for producing large-area, structurally coloured sheets with a rich and easily controlled design space of colour patterns, spectral properties, angular scattering characteristics and responses to mechanical stimuli. …”
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Leveraging Multi-Stage Machine Learning Pipelines for Extracting Structured Key-Value Pairs from Documents by Pyo, Bryan

“…This thesis discusses several pipelines that have been developed to extract data in the form of key-value pairs from specification sheets describing mechanical parts achieving accuracies ranging from 80% to 100% depending on the pipeline and the target documents and key-value pairs.…”
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Three-dimensional structure of human β-defensin 28 via homology modelling and molecular dynamics by Kwak, Sang Kyu, Chen, Wenwen, Tay, Derrick Kok Sing, Leong, Susanna Su Jan

“…In comparison with circular dichroism experimental data as well as stabilities of β-sheets and α-helix, HBD-28 with a reliable 3D structure was found.…”
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Fabrication and characterization of flexible-conductive nanocomposites by Lau, Jun Jie

“…The active electrodes were fabricated from 3D porous MnO2 assembled from cross-walled and interconnected sheet-architectural MnO2 on CNF based paper substrates. …”
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Influence of nanoclay on the morphology of polypropylene foam by Chan, Weng Wan

“…Extrusion allows for high volume production of various items such as sheets, tubes and films. The thermoplastic foams are lightweight, have a high strength to weight ratios and good thermal and acoustic insulation. …”
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Experimental determination of dust cloud deflagration parameters of selected hydrogen storage materials: Complex metal hydrides, chemical hydrides, and adsorbents by Khalil, YF

“…These insights are also critical for designing adequate safety features such as explosion relief venting and isolation devices and for supplementing missing data in materials safety data sheets.…”

Is the rule-based order in AI dead, or is still kicking? [Conference paper] by Vassilev, Vassil

“…The position of this article is that combining the classical rule-based approach from the early days of AI with more recent developments in AI, such as data-focused machine learning and utility-based reinforcement learning, as well as utilization of the recent technological developments on the cloud and at data centers can be beneficial for widening the real-world application of AI. …”
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