Remarkably distinct mechanical flexibility in three structurally similar semiconducting organic crystals studied by nanoindentation and molecular dynamics by Devarapalli, Ramesh, Kadambi, Sourabh Bhagwan, Chen, Chun-Teh, Krishna, Gamidi Rama, Kammari, Bal Raju, Buehler, Markus J., Ramamurty, Upadrasta, Reddy, C. Malla

“…The elastic modulus (E) of 1Me is nearly an order of magnitude lower than that of 1Et, whereas hardness (H) is less than half. The low values of E and H of 1Me indicate that these crystals are highly compliant and offer a low resistance to plastic flow. …”
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Elongated magma plumbing system beneath the Coso volcanic field, California, constrained by seismic reflection tomography by Wang, Dongdong, Wu, Shucheng, Li, Tianjue, Tong, Ping, Gao, Yongxin

“…For the first time, we develop a high-resolution crustal P-wave velocity model for the Coso-Ridgecrest region by jointly inverting 137,992 first P and 8,636 PmP travel-time data using an eikonal equation-based seismic reflection tomography method. More than half of the PmP travel times are picked from earthquakes after the 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake. …”
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Non-contact actuated snap-through buckling of a pre-buckled bistable hard-magnetic elastica by Zhang, Yingchao, Ma, Yinji, Yu, Jing, Gao, Huajian

“…We identify an optimal position for the single M−interface and direction for the uniform actuation field for pre-buckled beams with two-ends fixed, which can reduce the required actuation field for snapping to nearly half in comparison with the symmetric cases. Experiments and finite element analysis are performed to validate the model predictions. …”
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A tandem-locked chemiluminescent probe for imaging of tumor-associated macrophage polarization by Huang, Jingsheng, Xu, Mengke, Cheng, Penghui, Yu, Jie, Wu, Jiayan, Pu, Kanyi

“…Through a combined molecular engineering approach via both atomic alternation and introduction of electron-withdrawing groups, near-infrared (NIR) chemiluminophores are screened out to possess record-long emission (over 800 nm), record-high CL quantum yield (2.7 % einstein/mol), and prolonged half-life (7.7 h). Based on an ideal chemiluminophore, the tandem-locked probe (DPDGN) is developed to only activate CL signal in the presence of both tumour (γ-glutamyl transpeptidase) and M1 macrophage biomarkers (nitric oxide). …”
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Precipitation trend analysis for The Langat River Basin, Selangor, Malaysia by Palizdan, Narges

“…Almost all the hydrological and meteorological variables such as rainfall and temperature etc are affected by global climate change. …”
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Correntropy based nonnegative matrix factorization : algorithms and clustering applications by Peng, Siyuan

“…In this thesis, to improve existing correntropy based nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) algorithms and develop new methods for enlarging the range and enhancing the performance in clustering tasks, three novel correntropy based NMF algorithms are proposed, which are respectively the correntropy based graph regularized concept factorization algorithm, the correntropy based orthogonal nonnegative matrix tri-factorization algorithm, and the correntropy based semi-supervised nonnegative matrix factorization algorithm. The half-quadratic optimization technique is adopted to solve the optimization problems of the proposed algorithms, and the multiplicative update rules are derived. …”
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Guidance and navigation of a wheeled mobile robot by Goh, Ing Jya.

“…Asynchronous communication channels are established between the onboard processors to facilitate the transferring of data and a half-duplex wireless platform is set up to allow non-local control of the mobile robot from a remote computer. …”
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Characteristics of materials used in the writing of Singapore popular history by Narayanan, Rakunathan

“…Materials in English were used most of the time (93.65% of the references) with about half published in Singapore. The present study did not reveal a core publishing group.…”
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Protein interactions design. by Tay, Connie Gui Ching.

“…The suggested candidates were observed to retain at least half of the native hydrogen bonds. Therefore, we believe that, with further in-depth analysis, this computational design strategy would be a useful tool in designing protein interfaces.…”
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Forecasting loads for microgrids by Soo, Fui Lan

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Design of wireless charging systems for electric vehicles by Yang, Weng Chiun

“…The main technology/ circuitry used in this project are the half bridge SS-topology circuit and the Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) control method. …”
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MDM2 functions as a timer reporting the length of mitosis by Fulcher, LJ, Sobajima, T, Batley, C, Gibbs-Seymour, I, Barr, FA

“…Because MDM2 has a short half-life and ongoing protein synthesis is therefore necessary to maintain its steady-state concentration, the amount of MDM2 gradually falls during mitosis but normally remains above a critical threshold for p53 regulation at the onset of G1. …”

One-dimensional sectors from the squashed three-sphere by Bomans, P, Pufu, SS

“…Three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}$ = 4 superconformal field theories contain 1d topological sectors consisting of twisted linear combinations of half-BPS local operators that can be inserted anywhere along a line. …”

One-dimensional sectors from the squashed three-sphere by Bomans, P, Pufu, S

“…Three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}$=4 superconformal field theories contain 1d topological sectors consisting of twisted linear combinations of half-BPS local operators that can be inserted anywhere along a line. …”

Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoprism-based nanostructures by Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali

“…Noble metal nanostructures, ranging from a few atom clusters to micrometer-long nanocrystal, have attracted tremendous attention for more than half a century. They have shown the unique physical and chemical properties, which make them promising candidates in a wide range of applications, such as catalysis, electronics, optics, sensing, bioimaging and gene regulation. …”
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Maternal Death Surveillance and Response in Sudan: an evidence-based, context-specific optimisation to improve maternal care by Altijani Osman Abbakar, N

“…Analysis of the latest SHHS showed that village and community midwives [trained birth attendants] attended nearly half of all births [55.5%], followed by doctors, health visitors, and nurse-midwives [skilled birth attendants] [22.8%], and the remainder [21.7%] were not attended by a health provider. …”

Developing a Psychometric Tool to Measure the Emotional Impact of Visual Content by Cucu, Theodor

“…We f irst use crowd-sourcing and a novel nine-point psychometric scale to estimate human valence responses to individual images from the OASIS image set with high reliability (split-half Spearman rank-correlation ρ = 0.95). In a separate group of human participants, we then estimate valence responses following short, random sequences of those images (of length ≤ 10). …”
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Automated Engineering Design for Reusable Concrete Building Structures by Wongsittikan, Pitipat

“…This work presents an automated engineering design workflow for Pixelframe, including a engineering mechanics of the system that conforms to ACI 318- 19 [2] and fib Model Code 2010 [3], half-scale tests to verify the preliminary behavior of the system, and a scalable design algorithm for minimum embodied carbon designs. …”
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15.628 Patents, Copyrights, and the Law of Intellectual Property, Spring 2003

“…The seminar has no prerequisites, and is designed for both graduate students and undergraduates. Half of the seats in the seminar are reserved for students from MIT departments other than Sloan.…”
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Racial discrimination against prospective tenants : evidence from the room rental market in Singapore by Chew, Ilynn Mei Xian, Goh, Pei Ying, Ng, Wan Zhyi

“…Our findings show that landlords have significant discrimination against minority races: On average, the Malay and Indian profiles are half as likely to receive positive responses for room availability than the Chinese profile. …”
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