On Constructing a Secure and Fast Key Derivation Function Based on Stream Ciphers by Chuah, Chai Wen, Alawatugoda, Janaka, Arbaiy, Nureize

“…The inputs to the function are known as initial keying materials, such as passwords, shared secret keys, and non-random strings. Existing standard secure functions for the key derivation function are based on stream ciphers, block ciphers, and hash functions. …”
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A study on manpower issues and productivity in warehouses and distribution centres by Wong, Yue Ying

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Construction of eigenvarieties by Newton, J

“…These are notes based on four lectures given at the Heidelberg spring school on non-archimedean geometry and eigenvarieties. …”

The quality/cosmology tension for a post-inflation QCD axion by Lu, Qianshu, Reece, Matthew, Sun, Zhiquan

“…We emphasize that the gauge equivalence of all minima of the axion potential (i.e., domain wall number equals one) is insufficient to solve the cosmological domain wall problem. The axion string on which a domain wall ends must exist as an individual object (as opposed to a multi-string state), and it must be produced in the early universe. …”
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Processes of Stratification Breakdown and Restratification in Antarctic Coastal Polynyas by Xu, Yilang

“…They are characterized by deep winter mixing due to dense water formation from sea ice production and elevated biological productivity after spring restratification. Antarctic coastal polynyas are diverse in terms of their mixing and stratification pattern, as well as the associated biological productivity. …”
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The Emergence of State Sphere in Social Media: A Political Balkanization in Malaysia by Mohamed@Bakar, Badrul Azmier, Yusoff, Moharnrnad Agus, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Efendi, Dori

“…The world political events in the recent times, particularly the Arab Spring have shown a strong correlation between social media and democratization. …”
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Picophytoplankton of the Northeast U.S. Shelf: Community Composition and Dynamics by Stevens, Bethany Lynn Fowler

“…Both groups are light limited in the fall, temperature limited in the spring, and undergo earlier spring blooms in warmer offshore waters. …”
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Lightweight mechanical amplifiers for rolled dielectric elastomer actuators and their integration with bio-inspired wing flappers by Lau, Gih-Keong, Lim, Hoong-Ta, Teo, Jing-Ying, Chin, Yao-Wei

“…This DEA assembly using the CFRP shell achieved 30.9% of the theoretical work density for a BJB-TC5005 membrane at 33.5 MV m−1. In comparison, spring rolls with a massive spring core were reported with overall work density merely 10–20% of the maximum value. …”
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Study of the thermal decomposition of PFPEs lubricants on a thin DLC film using finitely extensible nonlinear elastic potential based molecular dynamics simulation by Deb Nath, S. K., Wong, C. H.

“…Due to temperature rise of PFPE Zdol lubricant molecules on a DLC surface, how polar end groups are detached from lubricant molecules during coating is described considering the effect of temperatures on the bond/break density of PFPE Zdol using the coarse-grained bead spring model based on finitely extensible nonlinear elastic potential. …”
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Lexical-Semantic Content, Not Syntactic Structure, Is the Main Contributor to ANN-Brain Similarity of fMRI Responses in the Language Network by Kauf, Carina, Tuckute, Greta, Levy, Roger, Andreas, Jacob, Fedorenko, Evelina

“…The critical result—that lexical-semantic content is the main contributor to the similarity between ANN representations and neural ones—aligns with the idea that the goal of the human language system is to extract meaning from linguistic strings. Finally, this work highlights the strength of systematic experimental manipulations for evaluating how close we are to accurate and generalizable models of the human language network.…”
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Beating Brute Force for Compression Problems by Hirahara, Shuichi, Ilango, Rahul, Williams, R. Ryan

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An efficient analog Hamming distance comparator realized with a unipolar memristor array: a showcase of physical computing by Ge, Ning, Yoon, Jung Ho, Hu, Miao, Merced-Grafals, E. J., Davila, Noraica, Strachan, John Paul, Li, Zhiyong, Holder, Helen, Xia, Qiangfei, Williams, R. Stanley, Zhou, Xing, Yang, J. Joshua

“…A one-dimensional array of these devices was sufficient to demonstrate an efficient Hamming distance comparator for two strings of analog states represented by voltages from the physical world. …”
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Accelerating black objects and their holographic duals by Boido, A

“…<p>This thesis is devoted to the study of several geometric aspects, as well as their role in the holographic context, of certain supersymmetric AdS solutions that are expected to describe the near-horizon region of accelerating black holes in 4d and accelerating black strings in 5d. In particular, these are AdS3 × <em>Y</em>7 solutions of type IIB supergravity, sourced by D3-branes, and AdS2×<em>Y</em>9 solutions of 11d supergravity, sourced by M2-branes. …”

Waterborne polyurethane as dispersant for liquid exfoliation of graphite to graphene by Loh, Pei Shan

“…Graphene’s extraordinary properties such as high charge carrier mobility, high thermal conductivity, exceptional Young modulus, large spring constant, making it an ideal nanofillers for the production of nanocomposites. …”
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Orbital stability in a classical pilot-wave system by Liu, Nicholas Z.

“…In the limit of vanishing particle inertia, infinite path memory and a linear spring force, we demonstrate the intriguing possibility of infinitely many sharply quantised orbital states, where the allowed orbital radii exist in vanishingly thin intervals, and are stabilised by the combined influence of the time-averaged wave field and spring force. …”
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Better late than never: sleep still supports memory consolidation after prolonged periods of wakefulness by Petzka, M, Zika, O, Staresina, BP, Cairney, SA

Study on the Low-Voltage Ride-Thorough Capability of Photovoltaic Grid-Connected Neutral-Point-Clamped Inverters with Active/Reactive Power Injection by Konstantinou, Georgios, Dehghani Tafti, Hossein, Iftekhar Maswood, Ali, Pou, Josep, Kandasamy, Karthik, Lim, Ziyou, Ooi, Gabriel Heo Peng

“…An algorithm for the calculation of current references, in the dq-frame, during voltage sags is introduced, which considers the inverter current limitation, grid code requirements and the amount of extracted power from photovoltaic strings. The proposed algorithm uses the full current capacity of the inverter in injecting active or reactive powers to the grid during voltage sags, which leads in a better grid voltage enhancement. …”
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The idle period distribution for CSMA/CA networks for spectrum sensing applications by Lau, Chiew Tong, Jayabal, Raymond J.

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Design and development of a gravity-balanced device for the upper limb by Foo, Danny Chen Hui.

“…Here, the author uses the end point manipulator together with the ideal spring mechanism in the final design. A method to examine the functionality and effectiveness of the device using the Electromyography (EMG) technique has also been purposed in this paper.…”
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Mapping the Cellular Landscape of the Brain: A Scalable Approach to Comprehensive Microscopy Data Analysis by Kim, Minyoung E.

“…To address the challenge, we developed an end-to-end scalable framework that seamlessly strings each step of the analysis pipeline together, enabling comprehensive fluorescence microscopy data analysis. …”
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