Epitomize Your Photos by Peter Vajda, Ivan Ivanov, Jong-Seok Lee, Touradj Ebrahimi

“…To tell the story of some important events in one’s life, it is desirable to have an efficient summarization tool which can help people to receive a quick overview of an album containing large number of photos. …”
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Social and Health Factors Associated with Physical Activity among Kuwaiti College Students by Abdulwahab Naser Al-Isa, Jennifer Campbell, Ediriweera Desapriya, Namal Wijesinghe

“…The social and health factors that were found to be significantly associated with physical activity among the students were gender (P<.001), marital status (P<.05), BMI category (obese or nonobese) (P<.05), last dental and health checkup (P<.01), desiring a higher degree (P<.001), and countries preferred for visiting (P<.01). …”
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A Generalized Active Voltage Balancing Circuit Implementation for Flying Capacitor 3-Level Switching-Mode DC&#x2013;DC Converters by Elisabetta Moisello, Samuele Fusetto, Piero Malcovati, Edoardo Bonizzoni

“…This paper presents a generalized control architecture for implementing the active balancing of the flying capacitor voltage in any kind of 3-level switching-mode DC-DC converters, independently from the desired conversion ratio or targeted output power level. …”
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Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities in Fermented Foods: Strategies, Mechanisms, and Challenges by Zihan Yao, Ting Xie, Hongjie Deng, Shuzhi Xiao, Tao Yang

“…We outline the core techniques used in DEMC, including the strategic construction of initial microbial communities, the systematic introduction of stress factors to induce desirable traits, and the use of artificial selection to cultivate superior communities. …”
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Auxo: A Temporal Graph Management System by Wentao Han, Kaiwei Li, Shimin Chen, Wenguang Chen

“…We propose chunk layout and chunk splitting designs to achieve the desired efficiency and the abovementioned goals. First, by carefully choosing the time split policy, Auxo achieves linear complexity in both space usage and query time. …”
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Efficient nonlinear function approximation in analog resistive crossbars for recurrent neural networks by Junyi Yang, Ruibin Mao, Mingrui Jiang, Yichuan Cheng, Pao-Sheng Vincent Sun, Shuai Dong, Giacomo Pedretti, Xia Sheng, Jim Ignowski, Haoliang Li, Can Li, Arindam Basu

“…Our approach uses an extra column of memristors to produce an appropriately pre-distorted ramp voltage such that the comparator output directly approximates the desired nonlinear function. We experimentally demonstrate programming different nonlinear functions using a memristive array and simulate its incorporation in RNNs to solve keyword spotting and language modelling tasks. …”
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Iron ore-petcoke briquettes as complementary burden for blast furnaces by Beatriz Fausta Gandra, Arthur Felipe Lino Oliveira, Maurício Covcevich Bagatini, Eduardo Osório

“…An optimized feeding strategy, such as blending with sinter, is desirable to enable its use. Although the briquettes exhibited low compressive strength, they did not generate fines during testing, even at 15% by mass of PC. …”
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Variationally Improved Bézier Surfaces with Shifted Knots by Daud Ahmad, Kanwal Hassan, M. Khalid Mahmood, Javaid Ali, Ilyas Khan, M. Fayz-Al-Asad

“…This can be implemented to Bézier surfaces with shifted knots of higher degree, as well if desired.…”
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Comparative Analysis of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Umbilical Cord, Dental Pulp, and Menstrual Blood as Sources for Cell Therapy by Huaijuan Ren, Yunxia Sang, Fengli Zhang, Zhaoqing Liu, Nianmin Qi, Yantian Chen

“…Comprehensively, our results suggest DP-MSCs may be a desired source for clinical applications of cell therapy.…”
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A Survival Analysis on Fuel Cell Technology Patent Maintenance and Values Exploration between 1976 and 2001 by Seng-Su Tsang, Feng-Chen Chang, Wen-Cheng Wang

“…Fuel cell R&D activities desirably arrive in patents; the costly maintenance fee challenges managers as well as researchers to whether or not renew existing patents. …”
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Predictive Control for PV- Water Pumping System based of Interconnected High Gain Observer by Lamouchi Zakaria, Allal Abderrahim, Abderrahmane Khechekhouche, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira, Júlio Cesar Costa Campos, Kheireddine Lamamra

“…The Interconnected High-Gain Observer accurately estimates motor speed, facilitating the attainment of the rated rotor speed in line with the desired reference speed. Transitioning from 1000 W/m² to 700 W/m² insolation, the system exhibits stability in Vpv and rapid Ipv adjustment at MPP. …”
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Cognitive Scout Node for Communication in Disaster Scenarios by Rajesh K. Sharma, Anastasia Lavrenko, Dirk Kolb, Reiner S. Thomä

“…CR can be an appropriate mean to establish self-organization and situation awareness at the radio interface, which is highly desired to manage unexpected situations that may happen in a disaster scenario. …”
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PCR Amplification and Transcription for Site-Specific Labeling of Large RNA Molecules by a Two-Unnatural-Base-Pair System by Michiko Kimoto, Rie Yamashige, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Ichiro Hirao

“…This two-unnatural-base-pair system, combining the Ds-Px and Ds-Pa pairs with modified Pa substrates, provides a powerful tool for the site-specific labeling and modification of desired positions in large RNA molecules.…”
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Examination of the Relationship between Psychosocial Mediators and Intervention Effects in It’s Your Game: An Effective HIV/STI/Pregnancy Prevention Intervention for Middle School... by Elizabeth Baumler, Jill Glassman, Susan Tortolero, Christine Markham, Ross Shegog, Melissa Peskin, Robert Addy, Heather Franks

“…The findings from this study provide evidence that the majority of the psychosocial mediators targeted by the IYG intervention are indeed related to the desired behavior and provide evidence that the conceptual theory underlying the targeted psychosocial mediators in the intervention is appropriate. …”
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Environmental technology’s diminishing marginal returns: a study of green patents and emission reductions in China by Xiaoyu Yin, Baofeng Xu, Jia Li, Jingyi Wu

“…IntroductionDo environmental technologies always yield desirable returns? This study addresses this question through the lens of command-and-control environmental regulation. …”
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Methylation Marks of Blood Leukocytes of Native Hucul Mares Differentiated in Age by T. Ząbek, E. Semik-Gurgul, T. Szmatoła, A. Gurgul, A. Fornal, M. Bugno-Poniewierska

“…Due to this, the search for new solutions in the prevention and treatment of pathological conditions of the advanced age of horses is desirable. That is why the identification of aging-related changes in the horse genome is interesting in this respect. …”
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Induction vacuum smelting of Co-Al-W superalloys - optimizing the feedstock based on the alloy's chemical composition, elemental segregation, and slag formation by Mikuszewski T., Tomaszewska A., Moskal G., Migas D., Witala B.

“…The investigation revealed that it was possible to obtain the desired chemical composition of Co-Al-W alloys using fragmented tungsten pellets introduced from a vacuum feeder into the liquid Co-Al alloy heated above the liquidus temperature to maximum of 40-50ºC. …”
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Design and Validation of an Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna with Additional Slots by Marek Dvorsky, Harihara S. Ganesh, S. Sadhish Prabhu

“…Moreover, ISOLA has significantly good electrical and nonelectrical properties as compared with other substrate materials. The results of the desired antenna were simulated through extensive simulations performed in CST Microwave Studio®. …”
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A DIC Based Technique to Measure the Contraction of a Skeletal Muscle Engineered Tissue by Emanuele Rizzuto, Silvia Carosio, Martina Faraldi, Simona Pisu, Antonio Musarò, Zaccaria Del Prete

“…In conclusion, the use of a DIC based system allows for an accurate and noninvasive measurement of biological tissues’ spontaneous contraction, in addition to the measurement of tissue strain field on any desired region of interest during electrical stimulation.…”
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Exploiting the Composite Step Strategy to the Biconjugate A-Orthogonal Residual Method for Non-Hermitian Linear Systems by Yan-Fei Jing, Ting-Zhu Huang, Bruno Carpentieri, Yong Duan

“…Another benefit acquired is that it seems to be a viable algorithm providing some further practically desired smoothing of the convergence history of the norm of the residuals, which is justified by numerical experiments. …”
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