IEEE

Handwritten Amharic Character Recognition Through Transfer Learning: Integrating CNN Models and Machine Learning Classifiers

Abstract: Handwritten Amharic character recognition presents significant challenges due to the script’s syllabic nature and variations in handwriting styles. This study investigates a hybrid approach ...
IEEE

Bias to Balance: New-Knowledge-Preferred Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Transition Calibration

Abstract: Humans can quickly learn new concepts with limited experience, while not forgetting learned knowledge. Such ability in machine learning is referred to as few-shot class-incremental learning ...
Frontiers

Getting ahead of the ageing curve: learning from EU experiences for a healthier demographic transition

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Population ageing is accelerating worldwide, with one in six people projected to be over sixty by 2030. This demographic shift is ...
New York Post

Islanders’ Max Shabanov putting in work to tackle learning curve in KHL transition

Max Shabanov’s skill level is obvious from watching just a few minutes of him at practice. The Russian winger can skate. He can manipulate defenders. He can pull moves out of his bag. It’s obvious how ...
Reuters

Critical minerals are stuck between demand hopes and oversupply reality

JIMBARAN, Indonesia, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Definitions vary as to which minerals and metals are genuinely critical, but one thing is certain. The prices of many of them are currently weak and not ...
C&EN

Design of Transition Metal-Intercalated Carbon–Nitrogen–Boron Catalysts and Application to Electrocatalytic Carbon Monoxide Reduction

State Key Laboratory of Bioinspired Interfacial Materials Science, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China ...
C&EN

Access to Hybrid Sandwich Complexes of Early Transition Metals with Cp/Cp* and

State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Tianjin Key Lab for Rare Earth Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China ...
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Sandcast a Brass Axe Keychain to Learn Metal Casting Basics

Expert DIYer April Wilkerson sandcasts a brass axe keychain to demonstrate basic metal casting techniques. New virus strain spikes in 9 US states with symptoms from brain fog to persistent cough ...
Yahoo

Ethiopia’s two bids at democracy have failed: what it will take to succeed

Ethiopia has attempted to transition to democracy twice. First in 1991, when a new government overthrew a dictatorial military regime. Second in 2018, when Abiy Ahmed took over as prime minister after ...
Phys.org

First zinc-bound structures show how calprotectin starves bacteria of metals

Zinc sits at the heart of many bacterial enzymes, so one of our immune system's simplest defenses is to keep zinc out of reach. Calprotectin, a neutrophil protein abundant at infection sites, is ...