On-line spectroscopic study of brominated flame retardant extraction in supercritical CO₂ by Xia, Dong, Maurice, Ange, Leybros, Antoine, Lee, Jong-Min, Grandjean, Agnes, Gabriel, Jean-Christophe P.

“…In binary systems, it took less than 2 h to achieve equilibrium for each BFR at 60 °C, 25 MPa and 1000 rpm. In the presence of polymeric matrix, slower extraction kinetics were observed due to the occurrence of competitive dissolution and molecular diffusion within the matrix. …”
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Breast cancer patient-derived whole-tumor cell culture model for efficient drug profiling and treatment response prediction by Chen, Xinsong, Sifakis, Emmanouil G., Robertson, Stephanie, Neo, Shi Yong, Jun, Seong-Hwan, Tong, Le, Tay, Apple Hui Min, Lövrot, John, Hellgren, Roxanna, Margolin, Sara, Bergh, Jonas, Foukakis, Theodoros, Lagergren, Jens, Lundqvist, Andreas, Ma, Ran, Hartman, Johan

“…Several patient-derived models have been established lately for the prediction of drug response. However, each of these models has its limitations that impede their clinical application. …”
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Strength and stiffness performance of geopolymer stabilized washed recycled sands derived from demolition wastes in pavement subgrades by Xue, Yunxin, Arulrajah, Arul, Horpibulsuk, Suksun, Chu, Jian

“…The strength performance of geopolymers stabilized RS for each precursor was investigated through the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) tests. …”
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STandards for reporting interventions in clinical trials of tuina/massage (STRICTOTM): extending the CONSORT statement by Zhang, Xuan, Liang, Feng, Lau, Chung Tai, Chan, Jacky C. P., Wang, Nana, Deng, Jiashuai, Wang, Juan, Ma, Yanfang, Zhong, Linda Lidan, Zhao, Chen, Yao, Liang, Wu, Taixiang, Lyu, Aiping, Tian, Guihua, Shang, Hongcai, Miao, Jiangxia, Bian, Zhaoxiang

“…Explanations and examples (E&E) for each item are also provided. Conclusions: The working group hopes that the STRICTOTM, in conjunction with both the CONSORT statement and extension for nonpharmacologic treatment, can improve the reporting quality and transparency of Tuina/Massage clinical research.…”
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Synthesis of uniform Fe2O3@Y2O3 yolk−shell nanoreactors as chemical looping oxygen carriers by Fan, Qianwenhao, Tan, Mingwu, Yao, Bingqing, Saqline, Syed, Tao, Longgang, He, Qian, Liu, Wen

“…Here, we developed a yolk–shell structured Fe2O3@Y2O3 oxygen carrier, with each unit consisting of a Y2O3 shell encapsulating a nano-sized Fe2O3 core. …”
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Enhancement of air-side heat transfer performance of additively manufactured condensers by Chan, Yi Qing

“…Simulation tests were conducted to obtain the effective thermal conductivity (𝑘𝑒𝑓𝑓), the heat transfer coefficients, and the pressure drop per unit depth (∆P /H) of each structure. The numerical results showed that structures with 70% porosity have a higher 𝑘𝑒𝑓𝑓 than structures with 80% porosity where Schwarz-Diamond - 80% porosity has the highest 𝑘𝑒𝑓𝑓 of 20.8585 W/m·K while Modified Primitive 1 (80% porosity) has the lowest keff of 9.2337 W/m·K. …”
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A multi-scale attributes attention model for transport mode identification by Jiang, Guiyuan, Lam, Siew-Kei, He, Peilan, Ou, Changhai, Ai, Dihao

“…The proposed model first partitions the trajectories into different scales and extract the latent representation of local attributes at each scale. The MSAA model relies on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to capture the spatial correlation of different trajectory segments, and utilizes attention mechanism to select the most suitable local attributes on the different trajectory scales that can effectively characterize the various transport modes. …”
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Multi-stage generative adversarial networks for generating pavement crack images by Han, Chengjia, Ma, Tao, Huyan, Ju, Tong, Zheng, Yang, Handuo, Yang, Yaowen

“…Both versions, v1 and v2, consist of multiple sequentially connected generation units, with each unit utilizing the Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network-Gradient Penalty (WGAN-GP). …”
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PrimeNet: a framework for commonsense knowledge representation and reasoning based on conceptual primitives by Liu, Qian, Han, Sooji, Cambria, Erik, Li, Yang, Kwok, Kenneth

“…Finally, we conduct primitive detection to build the primitive layer, where a lexical substitution task is used to identify related concepts, and large language models are employed to generate a rational primitive to label each concept cluster as well as verify the primitive detection process.…”
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Spatial pricing and warehouse assortment in online retailing by Wang, Xuchen

“…The practical implications of the retailer's model are explored through numerical studies, where an online retailer manages two warehouses, each selling three different products to customers located in two distinct districts. …”
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Study on pedestrian and cyclist interactions at signalised pedestrian crossings by Liu, Jianye.

“…Signalised junctions are critical locations in which two or more roads intersect with each other with time separation for motorised vehicles and pedestrians to cross the junction. …”
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Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous vehicles by Diluka Moratuwage

“…The most common single-vehicle SLAM (mono-SLAM) formulation is stochastic SLAM, in which the vehicle state and landmark locations are stored in a single vector, which is propagated as a joint posterior via a recursive prediction and update (observation) process, where sensor and vehicle dynamics are modeled in state space form. In this approach, each recursion involves solving certain additional, but crucial sub-problems outside the Bayes recursion, such as clutter filtering, data association and map management. …”
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Study of online reviewers in a UGC community by Phyu Mon Theint

“…The stages are defined by the number of reviews contributed by each reviewer. The idea of this study stems from the research of McAuley & Leskovec (2013) that states different reviewers at different maturity stages adopt different behavior. …”
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Measurement of isotherms and kinetics by volumetric method by Zulqarnain Abdul Halil

“…The adsorption of water vapour on silica gel, CO2 on activated charcoal and on MOFs were done on separate setups each, with more emphasis being made on the setup of water vapour adsorption to study its performance alongside adsorption capabilities of silica gel. …”
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Relevance judgment during health information seeking on a discussion forum by Pian, Wenjing

“…In the analysis, browsing a discussion forum was divided into two stages: scanning a set of post surrogates (post titles) in the summary result screen, and reading a detailed post content (including replies and comments from other users). Within each stage, the user will skim over some of the text or examine a text passage closely (i.e. eye fixation). …”
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Identification and characterisation of novel human dendritic cell progenitors by See, Peter Chi Ee

“…They are heterogeneous and are broadly classified into three groups – two major subsets of conventional DCs (cDC) named cDC1 and cDC2, and plasmacytoid DC (pDC). Each subset has unique transcription factor dependency, and specialised functions. …”
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Modeling and analysis of device-to-device communications and interference management in heterogeneous cellular networks by Afshang, Mehrnaz

“…Different from device-centric content placement, cluster-centric content placement focuses on placing data in each cluster such that the collective performance of all the devices in the cluster is optimized. …”
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Chiral spin textures in a frustrated kondo lattice model by Munir Shahzad

“…In these spin-charge coupled systems the itinerant electrons and localized moments affect each other in a self-consistent way. The magnetic interaction between the spins is mediated by the motion of electrons; on the other hand, the transport of these electrons is affected by the underlying spin textures. …”
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EEG based brain signal analysis on stress level by Ng, Yu Xin

“…However, the stage, that is inducing each level of mental stress, has different question time limit. …”
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Soundfield control using loudspeaker array by Li, Renshi

“…One existing feasible approach to achieve soundfield control is to compute time- or frequency-domain coefficients for each loudspeaker such that the generated sound signals at the pre-defined listening locations can achieve the desired sound energy level for the superimposed sound signals. …”
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