On-line shape measurement using micro-optics by Li, Chongxiang

“…The configuration of sensor array detection makes the detection speed much faster than single sensor detection because of sensor array inspects area without lateral scanning. …”
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Development of novel microparticles for diabetic wound healing by Chua, Isaiah Jia Qing

“…The chitosan layer was able to deliver its payload faster than PLGA or PLLA and it functioned like a membrane which slowed drug delivery from the inner layers.…”
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Mechanics precision grinding brittle materials by Ngoi, Bryan Kok Ann.

“…Mirror surfaces are more prone to be generated on single crystal silicon than glasses. A smooth surface with a roughness in nano-scale was produced on silicon by properly controlling machining parameters. …”
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Introduction - issue 78

“…Under the previous administration there was more rhetoric than effective legislative activity. The most remarkable statement was President Bush’s desire ‘to cure Americans addiction to oil’. …”

Sustainable antimicrobial resistance surveillance: time for a global funding mechanism by Painter, C, Limmathurotsakul, D, Roberts, T, van Doorn, HR, Mayxay, M, Lubell, Y, Day, NPJ, Turner, P, Ashley, EA

“…For 46 LMICs, the costs would account for more than 2% of their total domestic general government health expenditure (GGHE-D), and for 28 of these countries, the costs are more than 5% of their total GGHE-D. …”

Strong and weak random walks on signed networks by Babul, SA, Tian, Y, Lambiotte, R

“…We introduce a random walk framework tailored to weak balance, accommodating networks with more than two communities. This approach generates a similarity matrix that enables effective community detection. …”

Decoupling transport-CO2 emissions: Mexico, Spain and The USA: a trend analysis by Gómez, AP, Bonilla, D, Banister, D

“…The results reveal that transport volume changes proportionately more than economic activity (materialization). Conversely, CO₂ emissions change proportionately less than do economic activity and surface transport volume (decarbonization), although Mexico requires greater efforts. …”

‘Canon in colour’: contextual knowledge of race and empire as powerful knowledge by Elliott, V

“…Drawing on Muller & Young’s (2019) definition of powerful knowledge which draws on potentia rather than potestas, a distinction which focuses on the enabling potential, rather than the idea of power over others, I argue for the relevance and significance of teaching canonical literature with the context of race and empire. …”

Impostor syndrome and pretense by Levy, N

“…Impostor Syndrome is the belief or feeling that one is passing oneself off as much more capable than one really is. Anecdotally, it is experienced more by members of historically disadvantaged groups, but the empirical data seems inconsistent with this view. …”

Development of resistive random access memory for next-generation embedded non-volatile memory application by Sun, Jianxun

“…Experimental results show that the reduction percentage of the forming voltage is more than 30%, which is much higher than the reported value. …”
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The Cognitive Underpinnings of Legal Complexity by Martínez, Eric

“…We further find that people tasked with writing official laws write in a more convoluted manner than when tasked with writing unofficial legal texts of equivalent conceptual complexity, whereas people editing a legal document do not write in a more convoluted manner than when writing from scratch. …”
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Sensitivity study of weather research and forecasting physical schemes and evaluation of cool coating effects in Singapore by weather research and forecasting coupled with urban ca... by Zhou, Mandi, Long, Yongping, Zhang, Xiaoqin, Donthu, Eswara V. S. K. K., Ng, Bing Feng, Wan, Man Pun

“…Applying cool coating on horizontal surfaces (roofs and roads) provides more cooling effect than vertical surfaces (walls). Cool roofs provide more cooling effect than cool roads since roofs cover more urban horizontal surfaces than roads do in the current setting. …”
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Three essays on behavioral and experimental economics by Li, Yupeng

“…We found that Singaporean senders tended to place more trust in responders with a Mainland Chinese accent than they did in responders with a Singaporean Chinese accent. …”
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Investigation on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with index modulation by Fan, Rui

“…For constellation sizes higher than BPSK, such superiority is only observed for very few carefully chosen system configurations. …”
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Synthesis of robust and multifunctional microcapsules for protective coatings used in marine and offshore environments by Sun, Dawei

“…The relative residue of core fraction was higher than 80% after 20 days in moist environments including ambient water, open air, warm water, acidic and alkaline aqueous solutions. …”
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High-speed indoor MIMO visible light communications by Dong, F

“…Moreover, the peak overall data rate of the system with an ADR (676 Mbps) is 56 per cent higher than that with an ABR (434 Mbps), which means that an ADR shows better performance than an ABR when they are in a similar size. …”

Actuator disk methods for tidal turbine arrays by Hunter, W

“…This is accomplished and it is shown that by using bespoke in situ rotor design it is possible to extract more power than possible with non-blockage designs. For the defined array layout and operating conditions, the bespoke rotor array design yields a power coefficient 26% greater than the implied Betz limit for an unblocked rotor and 4% greater than operating a rotor designed in isolation in the same array.…”

What information really matters in supervisor reduction? by Su, Rong, Wonham, Walter Murray

“…Our theory proposes a preorder (called leanness) over all control equivalent feasible supervisors based on their enabling, disabling and marking information such that, if a supervisor S1 is leaner than another supervisor S2, then the size of the minimal control cover defined over the state set of S1 is no bigger than that of S2.…”
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Single-phase convective heat transfer in a cold plate with wavy channels by Low, Jing Peng

“…The serpentine channel also has better thermal performance than the straight channel but not as efficient as the single-walled wavy channel. …”
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Incorporating silica-coated graphene in bioceramic nanocomposites to simultaneously enhance mechanical and biological performance by Li, Zhong, Zhu, Wenyu, Bi, Shuguang, Li, Ruitao, Hu, Huanlong, Lin, Hang, Tuan, Rocky S., Khor, Khiam Aik

“…Furthermore, when assessed with osteoblast-like MG-63 cells, such novel materials led to faster cell proliferation and higher cell viability and alkaline phosphatase activity than are generally observed with pure HA; additionally, cells demonstrate stronger affinity to S-rGO/HA than to rGO/HA composites. …”
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