Engineering Redox Flow Battery Electrodes with Spatially Varying Porosity Using Non‐Solvent‐Induced Phase Separation by Wan, Charles Tai-Chieh, Jacquemond, Rémy Richard, Chiang, Yet-Ming, Forner-Cuenca, Antoni, Brushett, Fikile R

“…Then, the electrochemical and fluid dynamic performance of the porosity‐gradient electrodes is evaluated, exploring the effect of changing the direction of the porosity gradient and benchmarking against the macrovoid‐containing electrode. Lastly, the performance is examined in a vanadium RFB, finding that the porosity‐gradient electrode outperforms the macrovoid electrode, is independent of gradient direction, and performs favorably compared to advanced electrodes in the contemporary literature. …”
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Machine learning in additive manufacturing : state-of-the-art and perspectives by Wang, Chengcheng, Tan, Xipeng, Tor, Shu Beng, Lim, C.S.

“…Moreover, there has been an increasing concern about data security in AM as data breaches could occur with the aid of ML techniques. Lastly, it concludes with a section summarizing the main findings from the literature and providing perspectives on some selected interesting applications of ML in research and development of AM.…”
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Relationship between selected biopsychosocial factors on cognitive functions among Malaysian community-dwelling older adults by Foong, Hui Foh

“…Predictors of poorer cognitive function were being women, being older, being divorced or separated, lower year of education, lower household income, higher fasting blood sugar, higher cholesterol ratio, higher depressive symptoms, and lower intrinsic religiosity. …”
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Association between COVID-19 outcomes and mask mandates, adherence, and attitudes by Adjodah, Dhaval, Dinakar, Karthik, Chinazzi, Matteo, Fraiberger, Samuel P., Pentland, Alex, Bates, Samantha, Staller, Kyle, Vespignani, Alessandro, Bhatt, Deepak L.

“…Given the recent lifting of mandates, we estimate that the ending of mask mandates in these states is associated with a decrease of -3.19 percentage points in mask adherence and 12 per 100K (13% of the highest recorded number) of daily new cases with no significant effect on hospitalizations and deaths. Lastly, using a large novel survey dataset of 847 thousand responses in 69 countries, we introduce the novel results that community mask adherence and community attitudes towards masks are associated with a reduction in COVID-19 cases and deaths. …”
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Drive-specific selection in multistable mechanical networks by Kedia, Hridesh, Pan, Deng, Slotine, Jean-Jacques, England, Jeremy L.

“…Additionally, we found that these drive-specific attractor states are further stabilized by precise matching between the multidimensional shape of their orbit and that of the potential energy well they inhabit. Lastly, we showed evidence of drive-specific selection in an experimental system and proposed a general method to estimate the range of drive amplitudes for drive-specific selection.…”
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Heat diffusion during thin-film composite membrane formation by Deshmukh, Akshay, Lienhard, John H., Elimelech, Menachem

“…In CIP, we show that the presence of a polymeric support adjacent to the reaction interface yields a 20% to 60% increase in interfacial temperature rise, lasting for ∼ 0.1 s. Furthermore, we demonstrate that inorganic or metallic interlayers, which have high thermal effusivities, can lead to short-lived orderof-magnitude reductions in interfacial temperature rise. …”
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Physics-informed deep learning for multi-species membrane separations by Rehman, Danyal, Lienhard, John H.

“…We study the neural framework’s performance relative to conventional PDE-based methods, and also compare the use of hard/soft inductive bias constraints on prediction accuracy. Lastly, we compare our approach to other competitive deep learning architectures and illustrate strong agreement with experimental measurements across all studied datasets.…”
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Characterizing Cortex-Hippocampus Interactions During Language Processing by Lee, Jiachen Elizabeth

“…Next, we examine the relationship between hippocampal and cortical language processing, starting with the neural correlates of word- and sentence- memorability in both the hippocampal and cortical language areas. Lastly, we leverage an encoding-model-guided procedure to search through a large set of sentences to identify those that are predicted to maximally differentiate responses in the cortical and hippocampal language areas. …”
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Hidden Influence in Dynamic Networks by Erhardt, Keeley Donovan

“…Next, I quantitatively analyze the shifting geopolitical relationships and digital diplomacy efforts between two nation-states, employing a node representation learning strategy. Lastly, I apply a geometric deep learning framework to uncover connections between cryptocurrency wallets, analyzing transaction patterns and temporal dynamics to identify underlying networks. …”
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Design of system for parking and repositioning of bikes in a public bike-sharing system by Siong, Jun Wei

“…Next, the concept of the Wagner-Whitin model is used to determine the bike reallocation plan that incurs the least cost. Lastly, the proposed model accounts for the returning bikes, which is important as it will affect the inventory and thus, inventory cost, from one period to another. …”
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Graph homomorphisms via vector colorings by Godsil, Chris, Roberson, David E., Rooney, Brendan, Šámal, Robert, Varvitsiotis, Antonios

“…Additionally, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of homomorphisms H n,k →H n ′ ,k ′ when n∕k=n ′ ∕k ′ . Lastly, we show that if a 2-walk-regular graph (which is non-bipartite and not complete multipartite)has a unique optimal vector coloring, it is a core. …”
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A meta-analysis of the effect of virtual reality on reducing public speaking anxiety by Lim, Mei Hui

“…The three major findings of this meta-analysis are: (1) Overall, VR had a statistically significant effect on reducing public speaking anxiety, which suggests that VR is a useful and promising therapeutic tool for the treatment of public speaking anxiety; (2) Studies that found VR to be effective in the treatment of public speaking anxiety conducted an average of approximately six VR sessions, with each session lasting around 37 minutes; and (3) VR is statistically as effective as other treatment methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy. …”
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Using AI for music source separation by Lee, Jasline Jie Yu

“…Secondly, the quality of the dataset and the type of data augmentation have a larger impact on the performance of the model compared to the quantity of the dataset. Lastly, the computational efficiency of the model can be improved when an uncompressed dataset and BiGRU is used. …”
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Alternative solution for pre-treatment of seawater for the desalination process by Goh, Qing Kai

“…Subsequently, the NF permeate was fed into a closed-loop seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) process, with resultant RO permeate compared to the quality of permeate of an integrated UF + RO system that was collected in previous study. Lastly, various membrane cleaning methods were also evaluated to determine which of the tested methods showed highest flux recovery in the NF membrane. …”
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Cyber attacks and their impacts on the shipping industry. Identify the risks and suggest ways to mitigate. (maritime services) by Poh, Sze Ping

“…Following, an analysis based on information and current industry practices will be obtained through qualitative and quantitative research, to measure the level of risk exposed to the maritime services sectors. Lastly, with reference to the level of risk subjected by the sector, mitigation solutions will be proposed. …”
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What do the rocks tell us? : A look at Tanjong Riamu's January 2021 landslides by Ng, Shannon Yan Yun

“…Then, we analyzed the time-series images collected from these field studies. Lastly, we gathered historical rainfall data across relevant weather stations to explore its effects on the reported landslide events. …”
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Nintendo Wii as an intervention : improving the well-being of elderly in long-term care facilities. by Koay, Jing Li., Ng, Janissa Sihui., Wong, Gladys Li Chieh.

“…Game sessions took place three times a week, lasting one and a half hours each. Questionnaires were administered through face-to-face interviews before and after the intervention. …”
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Predicting EPL results with Elo rating, league simulation and machine learning prediction model by Ching, Kai Teng

“…For Elo rating, the system will be based on predicting the win and loss of the matches from the team’s standings. Lastly for machine learning, the SVM model will be based on goals which will generate the league table for win and loss while the logistic regression will be based on Elo to predict outcome, with the higher accuracy AI used in the analysis. …”
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Crowd monitoring and detection by Li, Xin

“…Bird’s Eye View area can be manually chosen, and the detection focuses on this area, which decreases the computation and improves the detection speed. Lastly, the combined output shows whether the object human is wearing a mask and the crowd is following social distance. …”
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Strained graphene optoelectronic devices with unprecedented pseudo-magnetic fields by Wang, Boyan

“…I then focus on discussing my research progress for monolayer graphene fabrication and the generation of strained graphene by using patterned substrates. Lastly, I discuss the characterization results of the fabricated devices using Raman spectroscopy.…”
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