Vertical distribution of heavy metals in seawater column during IBA construction in land reclamation – re-exploration of a large-scale field trial experiment by Yin, Ke, Chan, Wei-Ping, Dou, Xiaomin, Lisak, Grzegorz, Chang, Victor Wei-Chung

“…Metal re-adsorption occurred within half an hour after IBA dumping, which however was significantly alleviated when a chute was applied. …”
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Switching devices comparison and RC snubber for ringing suppression in one single leg T-type converter by Liu, Yong, Fei, Fan, See, Kye Yak, Liu, Xiong, Lim, Ziyou, Simanjorang, Rejeki, Pou, Josep, Gupta, Amit K., Lai, Jih-Sheng

“…In this paper, one single leg T-type converter with full silicon carbide (SiC) half-bridge power modules and hybrid power modules combined silicon carbide (SiC) with silicon (Si) power module, are designed and investigated. …”
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Programmable spin–orbit-torque logic device with integrated bipolar bias field for chirality control by Lim, Gerard Joseph, Chua Daniel, Gan Weiliang, Murapaka Chandrasekhar, Lew Wen Siang

“…It is then shown through compact-modeling and circuit simulation that the applications of such reconfigurable logic devices can be further expanded to build half-adders.…”
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Long term surface deformation of Soufrière Hills volcano, Montserrat from GPS geodesy : inferences from simple elastic inverse models by Herd, Richard A., Strutt, Michael H., Ryan, Graham., Widiwijayanti, Christina., Voight, Barry., Mattioli, Glen.

“…Campaign and continuous GPS geodetic measurements on Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat are reported from 1995 to 2009, spanning three dome growth and repose episodes. Uniform elastic half-space inversions were used to examine how crustal pressure sources evolved by inverting subsets of all available 3D site data for any given episode using a single Mogi-source. …”
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Structure of the C-terminal domain of the multifunctional ICP27 protein from herpes simplex virus 1 by Nordlund, Par, Patel, Vidhi, Dahlroth, Sue-Li, Rajakannan, Venkatachalam, Ho, Hai Ting, Cornvik, Tobias

“…The structure reveals the C-terminal half of ICP27 to have a novel fold consisting of -helices and long loops, along with a unique CHCC-type of zinc-binding motif. …”
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Dynamical systems guided design and analysis of silicon oscillators for central pattern generators by Cohen, Avis H., Li, Fei, Basu, Arindam, Chang, Chip Hong

“…Based on this approach, a new leaky-integrate-and-leaky-discharge oscillator circuit is proposed that has dynamical properties closer to biological half-center oscillators while being power and area efficient. …”
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Design and test of a gust generator by Choo, Yuen Ling.

“…Aircraft accidents rate may be falling as technology improves and maintenance practices are enhanced by the latest know-how in the industry but a fatal accident will still result in the loss of hundreds of life, especially when technology enables an aircraft to carry more passengers per flight than was possible half a century ago. When it comes to accidents that are a result of the forces of nature, namely sudden wind gusts, every bit of effort should be made to improve the resilience of the aircraft structure. …”
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A study of the expectation gap regarding fraud detection by Ang, Lay Hian, Chua, Hui Hoon, Tan, Teresa Tsai Lin

“…The r es ult s showed that approximately half of the surveyed investors expected the auditor t o detect fraud. …”
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Quality management : does it really pay? by Bukoh, Seng Khoon, Tan, Choon Huat, Toh, Choon Boon

“…The earlier part of the text describes how and why much emphasis has been placed on the Quality Management, as well as providing a probable explanation for such a phenomenon. The latter half of the report records the detailed statistical test methods, where the realised residuals of the sample stock returns are regressed against the SESALL share index over a period of 24 months. …”
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Digital Media and Social Theory: The View from Xi’s China and Modi’s India by Schroeder, R

“…In both countries, the autonomy of the public sphere of media is constrained, though less so in India’s half-democracy than in China’s authoritarian party state. …”

Dissecting the sinews of power: international trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823 by Dal Bó, E, Hutkova, K, Leucht, L, Yuchman, N

“…We find substantial growth in revenue from traded goods, accounting for over half of indirect taxation around 1800. This challenges the conventional wisdom attributing the development of the British state to domestic factors: international factors mattered, too.…”

Transient photoactivation of anionophores by using redshifted fast-relaxing azobenzenes by Kerckhoffs, A, Ahmad, M, Langton, ML

“…We demonstrate that by tuning the thermal half-life of the more active, but thermodynamically unstable, Z isomer to relax on the timescale of minutes, transient activation of ion transport can be achieved by activating with solely with visible light and deactivating by thermal relaxation.…”

Effect of residual soil depth on soil-water characteristic curve and unsaturated shear strength by Tikno, Nickanor

“…Subsequently, the values of b in the best-fit plot can be estimated visually to be half from the values in ’. This observation is in agreement with the previous study where the value of b was found to be about half of ’. …”
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Energy-efficient hardware accelerators based on bit-serial graph and memory-centric computing architectures by Mu, Junjie

“…To overcome the challenges, we propose graph-based accelerators with a 2D processing element (PE) array to solve PDEs. In the second half of the thesis, we propose two all-digital bit-serial computing graph-based accelerators to solve PDEs using the finite difference method (FDM) and a checkerboard grid update method. …”
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Scope, characteristics, behavior change techniques, and quality of conversational agents for mental health and well-being: systematic assessment of apps by Lin, Xiaowen, Martinengo, Laura, Jabir, Ahmad Ishqi, Ho, Andy Hau Yan, Car, Josip, Atun, Rifat, Tudor Car, Lorainne

“…Half (9/18, 50%) of the CAs identified were rule based (ie, only offered predetermined answers) and the other half (9/18, 50%) were artificial intelligence enhanced (ie, included open-ended questions). …”
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New Resiliency in Truly Combinatorial Auctions (and Implementation in Surviving Strategies) by Chen, Jing, Micali, Silvio

“…To advance resilient mechanism design,We put forward a new meaningful benchmark for the COMBINED social welfare-revenue performance of any mechanism in truly combinatorial auctions.We put forward a NEW notion of implementation, much more general than the ones used so far, which we believe to be of independent interest.We put forward a new RESILIENT mechanism that, by leveraging the knowledge that the players have about each other, guarantees at least one half of our benchmark under a very general collusion model.…”
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Mobile app for used item giveaway by Peng, Xiaoyu

“…Mobile phone has become an essential part in our daily, most of people spend almost half of their spare time with it. As the App are designed with powerful function for various target, the mobile phone has become the upstart of the internet Era, the major way of getting access to information, recreation, and friends for people. and Even the related knowledge of APP designing has become the hot topic in design circle. …”
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London Met presents at Arsenal accessibility and inclusion event, alongside Google Pixel & Microlink by Fernando, Sandra, Lewis, Jane, Nyby, Josefine, Yu, Qicheng

“…It comes a year on from research published by London Met and Islington Council that showed over half of disabled people in the borough are out of work, a problem facing the UK.…”
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Aspects of the management of cheetahs, Acinonyx jubatus jubatus, trapped on Namibian farmlands by Marker, L, Dickman, AJ, Mills, M, Macdonald, D

“…A perceived threat to livestock or game led to the vast majority of live captures and to almost half of the cheetah deaths investigated. Despite this, livestock predation from cheetahs appeared to be minimal, and was usually perpetrated by cheetahs with injuries. …”

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…<p><strong>Findings</strong></p> All risks combined account for 57·2% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 55·8–58·5) of deaths and 41·6% (40·1–43·0) of DALYs. …”