Improved Photocatalytic Performance of a Novel Fe3O4@SiO2/Bi2SiO5 Hierarchical Nanostructure with Magnetic Recoverability by Xinxin Zhang, Xiaoli Dong, Baiyu Leng, Hongchao Ma, Xiufang Zhang

“…It was found that the introduction of Fe3O4@SiO2 could turn the morphology of Bi2SiO5 from close-grained slab to hollow hierarchical architecture with fabric-structure. …”
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Design of Silicide-Strengthened Nb–Si–Cr–(Mo) alloys for additive manufacturing by Alice Perrin, Patxi Fernandez-Zelaia, Chris Ledford, Yan-Ru Lin, Ellen Berry, Ryan Dehoff, Michael Kirka, Ying Yang

“…The weld processing was found to produce fine-grained microstructures in each alloy with fine-scale intermetallics uniformly distributed among a body-centered cubic Nb matrix. …”
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Effect of Ca Concentration on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of As-Cast and As-Extruded Quasicrystal-Strengthened Mg-7.2Zn-2.4Gd Alloy by Jianchun Sun, Yilong Ma, Hongwei Miao, Kejian Li, Chunhong Li, Hua Huang

“…With the increasing of Ca concentration, the grain size is decreased gradually. However, the yield strength of the alloys is decreased to about 230 MPa and then up to 269 MPa, while the elongation increases first from 12.9% to 13.6% yet then decreases to 9.9%.…”
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Traceable and undeniable ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption for cloud storage service by Gang Yu, Yongjuan Wang, Zhenfu Cao, Jian Lin, Xiangyu Wang

“…Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption is a promising mechanism with fine-grained access control for cloud storage system. However, there is a long-lasting problem of key abuse that a user may share its decryption key and a semi-honest authority may illegally issue decryption keys for unauthorized users for profits. …”
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Characteristics of Nanophase WC and WC-3 wt% (Ni, Co, and Fe) Alloys Using a Rapid Sintering Process for the Application of Friction Stir Processing Tools by Daeup Kim, Young Choi, Yongil Kim, Seungboo Jung

“…The sintered bodies with a diameter of 66 mm showed relative densities of up to 99% with an average particle size of 0.26~0.41 μm under a pressure condition of 60 MPa with an electric current for 35 min without noticeable grain growth during sintering. Even though no phase changes were observed after the ball milling process the phases of W2C and WC1-x appeared in all sintered samples after sintering. …”
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Avoided Crossing Phonons Realizes High‐Performance Single‐Crystalline β‐Zn4Sb3 Thermoelectrics by I‐Lun Jen, Cheng‐Yen Lin, Kuang‐Kuo Wang, Chun‐Ming Wu, Chi‐Hung Lee, Hsin‐Jay Wu

“…TEM characterizations of the β‐Zn4Sb3 single crystal with intrinsic and ultralow κL reveal a grain‐boundary‐free structure with uniformly dispersed rotation moiré fringes that contribute to low lattice thermal conductivity while maintaining a uniform elemental distribution. …”
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Food manipulation and processing in wild western gorillas of Central African Republic: implications for studying behavioural variability by Shelly Masi, Ellen JM Meulman, Françoise Aubaile, Sabrina Krief, Angelique Todd, Emanuelle Pouydebat

“…Such manipulative abilities may induce fine-grain inter-individual variability in food-manipulation techniques and, when such techniques are socially transmitted, greater cultural diversity. …”
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Research on Wood Defects Feature Imbalance Optimization and Recognition by Xiao Wang

“…Classical CNN classifiers are employed to distinguish three kinds of wood images: dead knot, live knot and ordinary grain. Results show that Modified Cross Entropy makes model more sensitive to hard samples regardless of the batchsize. …”
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Evolution of the Electrical Displacement and Energy Dissipation of Lead Zirconate-Titanate Ceramics under Cyclical Load by Sheng Cang, Jiankang Chen, Chunsheng Lu

“…Furthermore, ferroelectric 90° domain switching was observed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and the percentage of domain switching has been calculated by the variation of the peak intensity ratio of (002) to (200) at about 45 degrees. Then, grain debonding, crack, and crush were found around voids inside the specimen by using scanning electron microscope (SEM). …”
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Dual intent view contrastive learning for knowledge aware recommender systems by Jianhua Guo, Zhixiang Yin, Shuyang Feng, Donglin Yao, Shaopeng Liu

“…To further enhance learning, a set of intents are integrated into each user-item interaction as a separate class of nodes, fulfilling three crucial roles in the GNN learning process: (1) providing fine-grained representations of user-item interaction features, (2) acting as evaluators for filtering relevant relations in the knowledge graph, and (3) participating in contrastive learning to strengthen the model’s ability to handle sparse signals and redundant relations. …”
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Weed Control in Corn (Zea mays L.) as Influenced by Preemergence Herbicides by Travis W. Janak, W. James Grichar

“…Corn injury was minimal (≤3%) with all herbicides. In general, corn grain yield was greatest with herbicide treatments containing more than one active ingredient compared with a single active ingredient.…”
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An NoC Traffic Compiler for Efficient FPGA Implementation of Sparse Graph-Oriented Workloads by Nachiket Kapre, André Dehon

“…We perform load balancing, placement, fanout routing, and fine-grained synchronization to optimize our workloads for large networks up to 2025 parallel elements for BSP model and 25 parallel elements for Token Dataflow. …”
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Genotypic variability for root nodulation and identification of high yielding chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes by Jyoti Kumari, Rafat Sultana*, Zafar Imam, Mankesh Kumar and Reena Kumari

“…The investigation on root nodule parameters can shed light on the nodulation potential and nitrogen-fixing efficiency of the genotypes and its role in enhancing grain yield as well as soil health. Hence, the present study was carried out involving 30 diverse chickpea genotypes including 3 checks and was evaluated under natural soil condition for agronomic traits associated with high root nodulation. …”
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Metaphor recognition based on cross-modal multi-level information fusion by Qimeng Yang, Yuanbo Yan, Xiaoyu He, Shisong Guo

“…The module can reduce the heterogeneity between modes, learn fine-grained information, and better integrate the characteristic information of different modes. …”
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An enhanced media ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption algorithm on media cloud by Hao Li, Lianbing Deng, Cheng Yang, Jianbo Liu

“…With the development of cloud computing, more and more video services are moving to the cloud. How to realize fine-grained access control of those data on cloud becomes an urgent problem. …”
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IQNet: Image Quality Assessment Guided Just Noticeable Difference Prefiltering for Versatile Video Coding by Yu-Han Sun, Chiang Lo-Hsuan Lee, Tian-Sheuan Chang

“…Thus, this paper proposes a fine-grained JND prefiltering dataset guided by image quality assessment for accurate block-level JND modeling. …”
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Intercultural and Intertextual Crossings in Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade (2015) by Yasna Bozhkova

“…Loop of Jade explores the experience of cultural hybridity and deracination through an intertextual poetics predicated on artifice and irony, going against the grain of a simple, unmediated confessional poetic narrative “of the origins.” …”
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Finite Element-Based Simulation of Cooling Rate on the Material Properties of an Automobile Silent Block by Burak Öztürk, Fuat Kara

“…As a result of the isothermal transformation, the grain size in the microstructure of the material had shrunk. …”
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Measuring Children’s Computational Thinking and Problem-Solving in a Block-Based Programming Game by Kayla Teng, Gregory K. W. K. Chung

“…<i>TechCheck</i>, an externally developed and validated measure of CT, was administered before the first game day and after the last game day. Using fine-grained, moment-to-moment gameplay data, we developed and validated seven game-based indicators (GBIs) of CT using correlational analysis and nonparametric tests and integrated them into a problem-solving framework. …”
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Double-layered wrap-around sensor network for three-dimensional positioning of acoustic emission sources and its effect on monitoring crack propagation in rock samples by Jing Yang, Zonglong Mu, Guangjian Liu, Shaokun Gong, Atif Javed, Jinglong Cao, Bofei Yang, Fang Yuan

“…In addition, acoustic emission activity of medium-grained sandstone showed a tendency of decreasing—remaining at a low value—increasing—remaining at a high value, which exactly corresponds to the four rock loading stages of compaction, elastic deformation, crack development, and crack connection; (3) rock samples experienced micro-cracking of low energy, micro-cracking of high energy, and crack connection in sequence in the failure process, which shows a high consistency between crack development and acoustic emission activity. …”
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