Design and Modellingof a Pneumatic Vice Machine by Talemwa, Prosper

“…The design focuses on optimizing the pneumatic actuator mechanism to ensure consistent performance under varying load conditions. …”
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Impact of Coffee Production and People’s Household Income: A Case Study of Kibatsi Sub-County in Ntungamo District. by Oumo, David

“…The study used primary data in its analysis and the researcher used descriptive modes of analysis using mainly quantitative methods of data collection to capture data. Data was collected using research questionnaires where the researcher was asking the questions on the questionnaire and noting down the respondents' answers. …”
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Students’ Attitudes and Performance in Mathematics in Secondary Schools in Kakira Town Council in Jinja District. by Kasononta, Ronald

“…The questionnaires were designed to capture some of the students’ and teachers’ perceptions and beliefs which were grouped according to themes including difficulty, liking, usefulness, and future expectations regarding the subject, learners’ mathematical ability, and achievement. …”
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The role of the African University in the Continent’s Development by Edoru, John Michael, Adebayo, Tajudeen Sanni

“…The important question therefore that this paper attempts to answer is as to whether African universities actually play an important role in providing the required knowledge that Africa and the world badly require for development. …”
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Biogas quality and nutrient remediation in palm oil mill effluent through Chlorella vulgaris cultivation using a photobioreactor by T. Handayani, I.N. Djarot, N. Widyastuti, F.D. Arianti, A. Rifai, A.I. Sitomurni, M.M.A. Nur, R.N. Dewi, N. Nuha, J. Haryanti, D. Pinardi, Y. Suryana, A. Aziz, E. Syamsudin, T. Rochmadi, P.A. Lomak, A. Hadi, M.D. Pertiwi, E. Yuniastuti, N.A. Putri

“…The microalgae will be cultivated in a modified photobioreactor to enhance the capture of carbon dioxide.METHODS: The study utilized anaerobic batch reactor digesters. …”
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Normative Database of Spatiotemporal Gait Metrics Across Age Groups: An Observational Case–Control Study by Lianne Mobbs, Vinuja Fernando, R. Dineth Fonseka, Pragadesh Natarajan, Monish Maharaj, Ralph J. Mobbs

“…., equipped with a triaxial accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer, was used to capture gait data. The IMU was placed at the sternal angle of each participant to ensure optimal data capture during a 50 m walk along a flat, unobstructed pathway. …”
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Études comportementales pour la conservation du singe laineux de Poeppig (Lagothrix l. poeppigii) by Justine Philippon

“…Le but sera ici de savoir si le traumatisme lié à la capture et à la séparation subite du groupe natal produit des effets comparables à ceux du choc post-traumatique observés chez l’homme et les chimpanzés. …”
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Image Segmentation Method of Chinese Yam Leaves in Complex Background Based on Improved ENet by LU Bibo, LIANG Di, YANG Jie, SONG Aiqing, HUANGFU Shangwei

“…The CA mechanism not only focused on the channel information, but also keenly captured the orientation and position-sensitive information. …”
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Dense Nursery Stock Detecting and Counting Based on UAV Aerial Images and Improved LSC-CNN by PENG Xiaodan, CHEN Fengjun, ZHU Xueyan, CAI Jiawei, GU Mengmeng

“…So the model is better able to capture a broader range of contextual information, thereby enhancing the model's understanding of the overall scene. …”
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Dual spatial region flexible chlorine based ionic hypercrosslinked polymer synergistically adsorb formaldehyde and carbon dioxide by Wang Ruimeng, Xie Yawei, Zhao Zhongxing, Zhao Zhenxia

“…In this study, a dual spatial region synergistic adsorption strategy was proposed to achieve synchronous and efficient capture of formaldehyde and CO2 on flexible chlorine (Cl) based ionic hypercross-linked polymer (Cl-IHCP). …”
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Indigenous university students' perceptions regarding nature, their daily lives and climate change: a photovoice study by Ieda M. A. V. Dias, Antonio Jose Grande, Paulo T. C. Jardim, Alessandra Aparecida Vieira Machado, Jacks Soratto, Maria Inês da Rosa, Luciane Bisognin Ceretta, Leonardo Roever, Xanthi Zourntos, Seeromanie Harding

“…Methods Using a participatory arts-based approach, participants captured photographs reflecting their lived experiences with climate change. …”
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GFA-Net: Geometry-Focused Attention Network for Six Degrees of Freedom Object Pose Estimation by Shuai Lin, Junhui Yu, Peng Su, Weitao Xue, Yang Qin, Lina Fu, Jing Wen, Hong Huang

“…GFA-Net leverages Point-wise Feature Attention (PFA) to capture subtle pose differences, guiding the network to localize object regions and identify point-wise discrepancies as pose shifts. …”
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SafeRespirator: Comprehensive Database for N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Leakage Detection Including Infrared, RGB Videos, and Quantitative Fit Testing by Geoffrey Marchais, Mohamed Arbane, Barthelemy Topilko, Jean Brousseau, Clothilde Brochot, Yacine Yaddaden, Ali Bahloul, Xavier Maldague

“…High-performance IR and RGB cameras were used to precisely capture temperature variations, while a PortaCount® instrument served as the reference for fit quantification. …”
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Development of an Innovative Magnetorheological Gearbox for Positioning Control and Anti-Disturbance of a Robotic Arm by Yuyang Zhang, Shuaishuai Sun, Lei Deng, Guorui Wang, Rui Yu, Weihua Li, Xinglong Gong, Shiwu Zhang, Haiping Du, Jian Yang

“…To resolve this problem, this work integrates a compact magnetorheological (MR) bearing, which is capable of switching between locking and unlocking states utilizing the MR effect, into the gearbox of the actuation system of the robotic arm. This integration enables the gearbox (referred to as the MR gearbox) to exhibit variable damping characteristics. …”
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Multi-Scale Bilateral Spatial Direction-Aware Network for Cropland Extraction Based on Remote Sensing Images by Weimin Hou, Yanxia Wang, Jia Su, Yanli Hou, Ming Zhang, Yan Shang

“…One path extracts attentional feature maps by spatial directions to preserve detailed direction-aware information and generate high-resolution features; the other path obtains local-to-global information through pyramid pooling and attention awareness to capture dense multiscale cropland features to separate targets in complex contexts. …”
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Continuous Genetic Assessment of the Impact of Hatchery Releases on Larimichthys crocea Stocks in China by Lina Wu, Lisheng Wu, Hungdu Lin, Min Liu, Shaoxiong Ding

“…In this study, we analyzed hatchery-released stocks (HRS), and wild-captured stocks in the semi-closed Sansha Bay (SBS, northern Fujian) and in the open waters of southern Fujian (SFS) over four consecutive years (2020–2023) using microsatellite markers. …”
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SERS Platform Based on Bimetallic Au-Ag Nanowires-Decorated Filter Paper for Rapid Detection of miR-196ain Lung Cancer Patients Serum by Ji Xia, Yifan Liu, Menglin Ran, Dan Lu, Xiaowei Cao, Youwei Wang

“…Filter paper treated by hexadecenyl succinic anhydride hydrophobic and modified with AgNWs@AuNPs was used as capturing substrate. The detection limits of miR-196a in PBS and serum were as low as 96.58 aM and 130 aM, respectively. …”
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Detection of Viable but Nonculturable E. coli Induced by Low-Level Antimicrobials Using AI-Enabled Hyperspectral Microscopy by MeiLi Papa, Aarham Wasit, Justin Pecora, Teresa M. Bergholz, Jiyoon Yi

“…The objectives were to (i) induce the VBNC state in Escherichia coli K-12 by exposure to selected antimicrobial stressors, (ii) obtain HMI data capturing physiological changes in VBNC cells, and (iii) automate the classification of normal and VBNC cells using deep learning image classification. …”
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Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task Learning by Weizheng Qiao, Xiaojun Bi, Lu Han, Yulin Zhang

“…Initially, our model was designed to extract high-order and deep representations from EEG spectrum images, enabling the simultaneous capture of spatial and temporal information. Furthermore, EEG-based verification aids in reducing intra-class variation by considering the time correlation of the EEG during the fine-tuning stage, resulting in easier inference and training. …”
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Exploring grid sensitivity in an ice sheet model: A case study of the Amery Ice Shelf by Qian-Xi Wang, Teng Li, Xiao Cheng, Chen Zhao, Lei Zheng, Qi Liang

“…We observed that for the AmIS, grid resolutions coarser than 10 km in our model introduce considerable noise and reduce the ability to capture realistic dynamic processes. Additionally, we found that the inversion parameters were transferable between grid systems of different resolutions, and the AmIS exhibited a consistent response to idealized collapse scenarios across these grid systems, particularly for grids with a resolution of 10 km or finer. …”
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