Chinese Aircraft Carrier’s Debut: Gunboat in the South China Sea? by Koh, Swee Lean Collin

“…The maiden voyage of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning to the South China Sea carries strategic and operational significance for Beijing and Southeast Asia. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Investigation of solar cell carrier lifetime using photoconductance lifetime measurements by Sng, Joseph Ding Wen

“…By flashing short pulses of light on the Si wafers and monitoring the decay of the induced photoconductance, the effective lifetime of the carriers and the open circuit voltage can be determined. …”
Get full text

Development of advanced Fe-based oxygen carriers for chemical looping applications by Fan, Qianwenhao

“…The highly reproducible synthesis protocol allows fine-tuning of the shell morphology and porosity. The Fe@s-Y oxygen carrier exhibited a consistent oxygen carrying capacity of 3 wt% over 50 consecutive redox cycles, without any distinguishable structural degradation. …”
Get full text

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

“…During the simulated chemical looping cycles at 600 °C, the Fe2O3@Y2O3 oxygen carriers exhibit a consistent oxygen carrying capacity of 3 wt% over 50 cycles, without any distinguishable structural deterioration. …”
Get full text

The potential impact of the Singapore-Malaysia high speed rail operation on the passenger demand for the low-cost carriers by Ong, Tuan Hock

“…The aim of this paper is to forecast the passenger demand and market share of the Low-Cost Carriers (LCC) when the High-Speed Rail (HSR) commence operation in 2026 along the 350 km long Kuala Lumpur-Singapore (KL-SG) route with the possibility that the two-different transport mode will complement with each other. …”
Get full text

Multi-carrier M-ary DCSK system with code index modulation : an efficient solution for chaotic communications by Cai, Guofa, Fang, Yi, Wen, Jinming, Mumtaz, Shahid, Song, Yang, Frascolla, Valerio

“…A new multi-carrier M-ary differential chaos shift keying system with code index modulation, referred to as CIMMC-M-DCSK, is proposed in this paper. …”
Get full text

Fragrance carrier based on zeolite-A modified bentonite as a controlled release system in air freshener applications by Kusrini, Eny, Anwar Usman, Ayuningtyas, Karina, Wilson, Lee D., Putra, Nandy, Prasetyo, Agus Budi, Rahman, Arif, Nugrahaningtyas, Khoirina Dwi, Santosa, Sri Juari, Noviyanti, Atiek Rostika

“…The quality of air fresheners with low cost production can be improved by using a carrier matrix such as synthetic zeolite to increase the long-lasting properties of fragrance product by encapsulation technique. …”
Get full text

Load-carrying mechanism to resist progressive collapse of RC buildings by Qian, Kai, Li, Bing, Ma, Jiaxing

“…The contribution of each mechanism on the load-carrying capacity is discussed. A series of analyses are also carried out to better quantify the findings made in the study.…”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Optimisation of syngas production from a novel two-step chemical looping reforming process using Fe-dolomite as oxygen carriers by Xu, Tingting, Wang, Xun, Xiao, Bo, Zhao, Haibo, Liu, Wen

“…The TS-CLR process is best carried out in a bed of Fe-dolomite oxygen carriers with a Ca:Fe ratio of 1:1 (denoted as C1F1). …”
Get full text

Load-carrying capacity of ultra-thin shells with and without CNTs reinforcement by Nguyen, Tan N., Dang, L. Minh, Lee, Jaehong, Nguyen, Pho Van

Subjects: Get full text

Passive thermal control design methods, analysis, comparison, and evaluation for micro and nanosatellites carrying infrared imager by Selvadurai, Shanmugasundaram, Chandran, Amal, Valentini, David, Lamprecht, Bret

“…This work numerically studies the performance of some of the passive thermal control techniques such as thermal straps, surface coatings, multi-layer insulation (MLI), and radiators for a 6U small satellite configuration carrying a mid-wave infrared (MWIR) payload whose temperature needs to be cooled down to 100K. …”
Get full text

Optical properties of semi-conductive MXene Sc2COx, CsPbBr3 nanoplatelets and quantum dots by Chen, Qiran

“…The maximum optical gain of thinner NPLs needs higher carrier density to reach saturation. To obtain high differential gain, the carrier density in thick NPLs has to maintain in a small range. …”
Get full text

A study of GPS based attitude determination technique by Dai, Lin

Get full text

A procedure for the motion of particle-encapsulated droplets in microchannels by Yap, Yit Fatt, Chai, J. C., Wong, Teck Neng, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Toh, Kok Chuan, Zhang, H. Y., Yobas, Levent

“…A fixed-grid approach for modeling the motion of a particle-encapsulated droplet carried by a pressure-driven immiscible carrier fluid in a microchannel is presented. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Electrical charge transport and optical properties of iron pyrite by Shukla, Sudhanshu

“…The film showed similar electrical properties and degenerate semiconducting behavior with Mott-VRH charge transport over a wide temperature range. Charge carrier dynamics in nanocube thin film revealed fast carrier localization and long-lived trap states in the pure pyrite. …”
Get full text

Applications of optical modulator in subcarrier multiplexing systems by Chen, Wenyue.

“…Recently there has been an increasing interest in the development of optical sub-carrier multiplexing (SCM) systems. One of the limiting factors in high-capacity SCM systems is the wide bandwidth requirement of the optical receivers. …”
Get full text

Ballistic spin transport in exciton gases by Kavokin, A. V., Vladimirova, M., Jouault, B., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Leonard, J. R., Butov, L. V.

“…They can form coherent quantum liquids that carry spins over macroscopic distances. The price to pay is a finite lifetime of the bosonic spin carriers. …”
Get full text
Get full text

TransLeish: Identification of membrane transporters essential for survival of intracellular Leishmania parasites in a systematic gene deletion screen by Albuquerque-Wendt, A, McCoy, C, Neish, R, Dobramysl, U, Alagöz, Ç, Beneke, T, Cowley, SA, Crouch, K, Wheeler, RJ, Mottram, JC, Gluenz, E

“…A total of 312 protein components of small molecule carriers, ion channels and pumps were identified and targeted in a CRISPR-Cas9 gene deletion screen in the promastigote form, yielding 188 viable null mutants. …”

ENIGMA CHEK2gether project: a comprehensive study identifies functionally impaired CHEK2 germline missense variants associated with increased breast cancer risk by Stolarova, Lenka, Kleiblova, Petra, Zemankova, Petra, Stastna, Barbora, Janatova, Marketa, Soukupova, Jana, Achatz, Maria Isabel, Ambrosone, Christine, Apostolou, Paraskevi, Arun, Banu K., Auer, Paul, Barnard, Mollie, Bertelsen, Birgitte, Blok, Marinus J., Boddicker, Nicholas, Brunet, Joan, Burnside, Elizabeth S., Calvello, Mariarosaria, Campbell, Ian, Chan, Sock Hoai, Chen, Fei, Chiang, Jian Bang, Coppa, Anna, Cortesi, Laura, Crujeiras-González, Ana, De Leeneer, Kim, De Putter, Robin, DePersia, Allison, Devereux, Lisa, Domchek, Susan, Efremidis, Anna, Engel, Christoph, Ernst, Corinna, Evans, D. Gareth R., Feliubadaló, Lidia, Fostira, Florentia, Fuentes-Ríos, Olivia, Gómez-García, Encarna B., González, Sara, Haiman, Christopher, Hansen, Thomas van Overeem, Hauke, Jan, Hodge, James, Hu, Chunling, Huang, Hongyan, Ishak, Nur Diana Binte, Iwasaki, Yusuke, Konstantopoulou, Irene, Kraft, Peter, Lacey, James, Lázaro, Conxi, Li, Na, Lim, Weng Khong, Lindstrom, Sara, Lori, Adriana, Martinez, Elana, Martins, Alexandra, Matsuda, Koichi, Matullo, Giuseppe, McInerny, Simone, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Montagna, Marco, Monteiro, Alvaro N. A., Mori, Luigi, Nathanson, Katherine, Neuhausen, Susan L., Nevanlinna, Heli, Olson, Janet E., Palmer, Julie, Pasini, Barbara, Patel, Alpa, Piane, Maria, Poppe, Bruce, Radice, Paolo, Renieri, Alessandra, Resta, Nicoletta, Richardson, Marcy E., Rosseel, Toon, Ruddy, Kathryn J., Santamariña, Marta, Dos Santos, Elizabeth Santana, Teras, Lauren, Toland, Amanda E., Trentham-Dietz, Amy, Vachon, Celine M., Volk, Alexander E., Weber-Lassalle, Nana, Weitzel, Jeffrey N., Wiesmuller, Lisa, Winham, Stacey, Yadav, Siddhartha, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Yao, Song, Zampiga, Valentina, Zethoven, Magnus, Zhang, Ze Wen, Zima, Tomas, Spurdle, Amanda B., Vega, Ana, Rossing, Maria, Del Valle, Jesús, De Nicolo, Arcangela, Hahnen, Eric, Claes, Kathleen B. M., Ngeow, Joanne, Momozawa, Yukihide, James, Paul A., Couch, Fergus J., Macurek, Libor, Kleibl, Zdenek

“…In contrast, 2.2% of all patients with breast cancer carried functionally wild-type/intermediate missense variants with no clinically relevant breast cancer risk in heterozygous carriers.…”
Get full text

Pneumococcal carriage and disease in adults in England, 2011–2019: the importance of adults as a reservoir for pneumococcus in communities by El Safadi, D, Hitchins, L, Howard, A, Aley, P, Bowman, J, Bertran, M, Collins, A, Colin-Jones, R, Elterish, F, Fry, NK, Gordon, SB, Gould, K, Hinds, J, Horn, E, Hyder-Wright, A, Kandasamy, R, Ladhani, S, Litt, D, Mitsi, E, Murphy, A, Pollard, AJ, Plested, E, Pojar, S, Ratcliffe, H, Robertson, MC, Robinson, H, Snape, MD, Solórzano, C, Voysey, M, Begier, E, Catusse, J, Lahuerta, M, Theilacker, C, Gessner, BD, Tiley, KS, Ferreira, DM

“…<p><strong>Results</strong></p> Overall, 98 isolates (97 carriers) were identified (3 solely by PCR) from 1631 ≥18 years adults (standardized carriage prevalence 6.4%). …”