SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems. by Boccaletti, Anthony, Schneider, Jean, Traub, Wes, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Stam, Daphne, Gratton, Raffaele, Trauger, John, Cahoy, Kerri, Snik, Frans, Baudoz, Pierre, Galicher, Raphael, Reess, Jean-Michel, Mawet, Dimitri, Augereau, Jean-Charles, Patience, Jenny, Kuchner, Marc, Wyatt, Mark, Pantin, Eric, Maire, Anne-Lise, Vérinaud, Christophe

“…Equipped with a 1.5 m telescope, SPICES can preferentially access exoplanets located at several AUs (0.5-10 AU) from nearby stars (<25 pc) with masses ranging from a few Jupiter masses to Super Earths (∼2 Earth radii, ∼10 M) as well as circumstellar disks as faint as a few times the zodiacal light in the Solar System.…”
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Effect of detergent, herbs and spices on the growth of Vibrio parahaemolyticus biofilm in seafood by Nillian, Elexson

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of detergent, herbs, and spices on antimicrobial activity and specificity to mitigate the growth of V. parahaemolyticus biofilm. …”
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Ant, spider and DNA: letting mindless generative mechanisms speak by Bråten, E

“…In Tim Ingold’s fable from the forest floor (2008), ant and spider put their minds together to ponder some of the most pressing issues in current discourse on the make-up of reality and our understanding of it. …”

Optimal Slicing and Scheduling with Service Guarantees in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks by Jones, Nicholas, Modiano, Eytan

“…Motivated by this, we design a polynomial-time algorithm that returns an (almost) regular schedule, optimized to meet service guarantees for all flows.…”
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Sort & Slice: a simple and superior alternative to hash-based folding for extended-connectivity fingerprints by Dablander, M, Hanser, T, Lambiotte, R, Morris, GM

“…Our results indicate that, despite its technical simplicity, Sort &amp; Slice robustly (and at times substantially) outperforms traditional hash-based folding as well as the other investigated substructure-pooling methods across distinct prediction tasks, data splitting techniques, machine-learning models and ECFP hyperparameters. …”

Improved 5G network slicing for enhanced QoS against attack in SDN environment using deep learning by Abood, Mohammed Salah, Hua, Wang, Virdee, Bal Singh, He, Dongxuan, Fathy, Maha, Yusuf, Abdulganiyu Abdu, Jamal, Omar, Elwi, Taha A., Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Kouhalvandi, Lida, Ahmad, Ashfaq

“…Moreover, network slicing significantly enhances Quality of Service (QoS) by segmenting services based on bandwidth. …”
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An FPGA-based real-time drone detection system by Cui, Kaixiang

“…We introduce the concepts of "event slices" and "event lists," comparing the event slices detected in each row with the event list. …”
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Time-lapse study of fos expression in pre-mammillary nucleus of hypothalamus. by Yolanda Aphrilia Setiagani.

“…This study aimed to prove whether the ‘leakiness of neural circuits’ hypothesis stood. In a time lapse behavioral study, two types of stimuli were given to 16 adult male rats, one was cat urine, the other was female rat urine. …”
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Atmospheric characterization of cold exoplanets with a 1.5-m space coronagraph by Maire, A. -L., Galicher, R., Boccaletti, A., Baudoz, P., Schneider, J., Cahoy, K., Stam, D., Traub, W.

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Development and characteristics of stackable cassava (Manihot esculanta Crantz) chips by Ismail, Nur `Aini

“…Thirty cassava slices with the thickness of 2.0 mm yield the highest number of curvy shape when fried using frying temperature of 170℃, 594 cm2 of frying area and frying time of 120 seconds.…”
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A Splendid Exchange : How Trade Shaped the World / by Bernstein, William J., author 348907

“…A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization. …”
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Multi-description multipath video streaming in wireless ad hoc networks by Xu, Yuanyuan., Zhu, Ce.

“…An unbalanced-path based joint two-description video coding and description packet allocation utilizing redundant slices is proposed, which allocates slices in each description to two paths with varying bandwidth and optimally selects the amount of inserted redundancy according to different loss rates. …”
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Development of a powermeter for a bicycle – I by Pillarisetty Venkata Pranav

“…It equips the user to have a real-time analysis of his/her performance by keeping track of certain core parameters. …”
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Stomach tissue classification using autofluorescence spectroscopy and machine learning by Lim, Soo Y., Yoon, Hong M., Kook, Myeong-Cherl, Jang, Jin I., So, Peter T. C., Kang, Jeon W., Kim, Hyung M.

“…Our spectro-histology classification model is applicable to histological prediction for both tissue blocks and slices, even though only sliced samples were trained.…”
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Life history and demography of the predatory mite, Amblyseius longispinosus Evans by Ibrahim, Yusof, Palacio, Victoria B.

“…The life history and demography of Amblyseius longispinosus Evans were studied under laboratory conditions 25-28°C and 65-85% RH using the red form of the twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch complex as prey. …”
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Fast analysis of a large-scale inductive interconnect by block-structure-preserved macromodeling by Tan, Sheldon X. D., Yu, Hao, Chu, Chunta Lei He, Shi, Yiyu, Smart, David, He, Lei

“…This enables us to efficiently build and simulate the macromodel within a SPICE-like circuit simulator. Experiments show that our method achieves up to 7× faster modeling building time, up to 33× faster simulation time, and as much as 67× smaller waveform error compared to SAPOR [a second-order reduction based on nodal analysis (NA)] and PACT (a first-order 2×2 structured reduction based on modified NA).…”
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Efficient FPGA realization of inner-products of variable vectors by Yan, Yi

“…However, this method will increase the usage of LUTs (lookup tables) and Register slices. DA (Distributed arithmetic) has been widely used for implementation of inner-products, and the proposed design introduced in this report is a novel time efficient flexible solution for bit-parallel DA-based implementation of inner-product of variable vectors. …”
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Layer generation in a stepless rapid prototyping system by Ngooi, Chan Siang.

“…This new data format provides adaptive slicing of layers and hence enables a thick layer material deposition to support the use of these adaptive slices. …”
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Pulse frequency modulation based tri-mode controller for switched-mode DC-DC converters by Nashit, Salma

“…First, we derive power-loss expressions for the three PFM approaches, namely the Constant On-Time approach, the Constant Off-Time approach, and the Constant Peak-Current approach. …”
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Synaptic plasticity in VLSI : a floating-gate approach by Gopalakrishnan, Roshan

“…Recently a learning rule known as spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) that modifies weights based on the timing of presynaptic and postsynaptic spikes become very popular. …”
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