Robust and consistent bonding of polydimethylsiloxane to polystyrene cell culture plates by Marta K. Orlowska, Mary Lor, Rebecca L. Fitzsimmons, Harley Robinson, Iliana Delcheva, Daniel Williams, Craig Priest, James E. Hudson

“…Furthermore, we demonstrate the utility of this bonding process in fabricating our Heart-Dyno device, a 96-well-based platform for culturing cardiac organoids. This bonding process has been successfully used over the past 2 years, with hundreds of plates manufactured for drug screening applications. …”
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Distributed representations enable robust multi-timescale symbolic computation in neuromorphic hardware by Madison Cotteret, Hugh Greatorex, Alpha Renner, Junren Chen, Emre Neftci, Huaqiang Wu, Giacomo Indiveri, Martin Ziegler, Elisabetta Chicca

“…This work introduces a scalable approach to embed robust symbolic computation through recurrent dynamics into neuromorphic hardware, without requiring parameter fine-tuning or significant platform-specific optimisation. Moreover, it demonstrates that distributed symbolic representations serve as a highly capable representation-invariant language for cognitive algorithms in neuromorphic hardware.…”
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Escape or encouragement? The role of media entertainment during the COVID-19 pandemic in China by Deya Xu, Ge Zhu, Fang Wu, Zhiwei Xu

“…With the assistance of a Chinese online survey platform, 833 respondents were recruited. The findings reveal that social interaction, recognition needs, and entertaining gratification were positively related to entertainment use, indicating that Chinese people actively sought enjoyment and met their social needs through entertainment media content during the quarantine but did not use such media to avoid unpleasant information concerning the pandemic. …”
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A Repeatable Optimization for Kinematic Energy System with Its Mobile Manipulator Application by Ying Kong, Ruiyang Zhang, Yunliang Jiang, Xiaoyun Xia

“…For repeatable motion of redundant mobile manipulators, the flexible base platform and the redundant manipulator have to be returned to the desired initial position simultaneously after completing the given tasks. …”
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Prediction of post-treatment recurrence in early-stage breast cancer using deep-learning with mid-infrared chemical histopathological imaging by Abigail Keogan, Thi Nguyet Que Nguyen, Pascaline Bouzy, Nicholas Stone, Karin Jirstrom, Arman Rahman, William M. Gallagher, Aidan D. Meade

“…All-digital chemical imaging may therefore provide a label-free platform for histopathological prognosis in breast cancer, opening new horizons for future deployment of these technologies.…”
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Hate Speech Detection Using Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Review by Aish Albladi, Minarul Islam, Amit Das, Maryam Bigonah, Zheng Zhang, Fatemeh Jamshidi, Mostafa Rahgouy, Nilanjana Raychawdhary, Daniela Marghitu, Cheryl Seals

“…The widespread use of social media and other online platforms has facilitated unprecedented communication and information exchange. …”
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Russian and foreign students’ involvement in the educational process in the context of the digital distance educational technologies use in the Russian universities by M. A. Tanina, V. V. Bondarenko, V. A. Yudina, O. A. Zyablikova

“…In the context of global changes in the world socio-economic system, the formation of an international educational research space, in the technological platform of the education system, the widespread use of distance learning technologies it is extremely relevant to conduct a comparative analysis of the involvement of Russian and foreign students in the educational process in Russian universities. …”
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U-Model and U-Control Methodology for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems by Weicun Zhang, Quanmin Zhu, Saleh Mobayen, Hao Yan, Ji Qiu, Pritesh Narayan

“…It should be noted that (1) this U-control provides a universal control system design platform for many existing linear/nonlinear and polynomial/state-space models and (2) it complements many existing design approaches. …”
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Semi-automatic construction of heterogeneous data schema based on structure and context-aware recommendation by Nan Yin, Junheng Liang, Xi Guo, Xue Jiang, Jie He, Xiaotong Zhang

“…Many data publishing platforms empower users to create self-designed schemas, leading to schema proliferation and more intricate creation processes. …”
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Multi-Smart Meter Data Encryption Scheme Basedon Distributed Differential Privacy by Renwu Yan, Yang Zheng, Ning Yu, Cen Liang

“…Second, we propose a double-blind noise addition protocol to generate distributed noise through interaction between users and a cloud platform to prevent semi-honest participants from stealing data by colluding with one another. …”
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Application of a Short-Term Hydrological Forecast System by Gökçen Uysal, Aynur Şensoy, A. Arda Şorman, M. Cansaran Ertaş

“…Hindcast simulations for the past period are implemented with a closed-loop structure on the Delft-FEWS platform, and performance evaluation is conducted by comparing them with streamflow observations. …”
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Secure OpenID Authentication Model by Using Trusted Computing by E. Ghazizadeh, Z. S. Shams Dolatabadi, R. Khaleghparast, M. Zamani, A. A. Manaf, M. S. Abdullah

“…Single sign-on (SSO) and OpenID have been used to decrease the complexity of managing numerous accounts required in the Internet identity environment. Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and Trust Multitenancy are great trusted computing-based technologies to solve security concerns in the Internet identity environment. …”
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Creating Semantic Learner Groups in Distance Education Using the GraphSAGE approach by Chetoui Ismail, El Bachari Essaid, Ait Lahcen Yassine

“…In this article, we present a novel approach for creating semantic groups of learners in an educational platform using Graph Neural Networks (GNN) and GraphSAGE. …”
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Young Consumers’ Usability Preferences for Mobile and Computer Screens for Online Shopping Activities by Shahid Kalim Khan, Naseer Abbas Khan, null Quratulain, Olga Egorova, Nimra Zia, Maria Akhtar

“…The survey is aimed at gathering information pertaining to the usability aspects of these two online shopping platforms. The findings of this research indicate that consumer preferences for m-commerce and e-commerce are contingent on the specific context of online shopping. …”
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Compilation of 10 Years of MIRU-VNTR Data: Canadian National Tuberculosis Laboratory’s Experience by Meenu K. Sharma, Debra Janella, Alisa McGurran, Cindi Corbett, Heather Adam, Pierre-Marie Akochy, David Haldane, Hope MacKenzie, Jessica Minion, Robert Needle, Caroline Newberry, Michael Patterson, Inna Sekirov, Gregory Tyrrell, Hafid Soualhine

“…The housing of all data on one platform, technical ease of the method, easy exchange of data between jurisdictions, and strong collaboration with laboratories and surveillance units at the provincial and federal levels have the potential to identify possible outbreaks in real time.…”
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Construction Process Simulation and In Situ Monitoring of Dendritic Structure on Nanjing Niushou Mountain by Wenying Zhang, Shaole Yu, Xuewei Zhang, Junsheng Yan, Xinxi Chen

“…The dendritic structure on Nanjing Niushou Mountain is taken as an engineering case study, with a narrow construction space, weak construction platform, and difficulty in setting the equipment in the site. …”
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EXPLORING RELIGIOUS MODERATION IN THE HALAQAH EDUCATION SYSTEM OF ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOLS IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE by Syahril Syahril, Suryadi Fajri, Fatmi Fauzani Duski, Aulia Rahmi Putri, Zulpadrianto Zulpadrianto

“…Consequently, halaqah education serves not only as a platform for transmitting religious knowledge but also as a tool for developing the character of santri to be moderate and open-minded. …”
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Maximizing Information Dissemination in Social Network via a Fast Local Search by Lijia Tian, Xingjian Ji, Yupeng Zhou

“…In recent years, social networks have become increasingly popular as platforms for personal expression, commercial transactions, and government management. …”
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Automatic Screening and Grading of Age-Related Macular Degeneration from Texture Analysis of Fundus Images by Thanh Vân Phan, Lama Seoud, Hadi Chakor, Farida Cheriet

“…Experiments were conducted on a database of 279 fundus images coming from a telemedicine platform. The results demonstrate that local binary patterns in multiresolution are the most relevant for AMD classification, regardless of the classifier used. …”
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Online Incremental Learning for High Bandwidth Network Traffic Classification by H. R. Loo, S. B. Joseph, M. N. Marsono

“…In order to classify high bandwidth network traffic in real-time, data stream mining classifiers need to be implemented on reconfigurable high throughput platform, such as Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). …”
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