Grand challenges in entomology: priorities for action in the coming decades by Luke, Sarah H., Roy, Helen E., Thomas, Chris D., Tilley, Luke A. N., Ward, Simon, Watt, Allan, Carnaghi, Manuela, Jaworski, Coline C., Tercel, Maximillian P. T. G., Woodrow, Charlie, Aown, Susmita, Banfield-Zanin, Jennifer A., Barnsley, Sarah L., Berger, Iris, Brown, Mark J. F., Bull, James C., Campbell, Heather, Carter, Ruth A. B., Charalambous, Magda, Cole, Lorna J., Ebejer, Martin J., Farrow, Rachel A., Fartyal, Rajendra S., Grace, Miriam, Highet, Fiona, Hill, Jane K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kent, Eleanor S., Krell, Frank-Thorsten, Leather, Simon R., Leybourne, Daniel J., Littlewood, Nick A., Lyons, Ashley, Matthews, Graham, Mc Namara, Louise, Menéndez, Rosa, Merrett, Peter, Mohammed, Sajidha, Murchie, Archie K., Noble, Michael, Paiva, Maria-Rosa, Pannell, Michael J., Phon, Chooi-Khim, Port, Gordon, Powell, Charlotte, Rosell, Stewart, Sconce, Francisca, Shortall, Chris R., Slade, Eleanor M., Sutherland, Jamie P., Weir, Jamie C., Williams, Christopher D., Zielonka, Natalia B., Dicks, Lynn V.

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Achieving Sustainable Land Development in Malaysia: The Role and Issues in Land Development Laws by Md Dahlan, Nuarrual Hilal

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The effect of solvent quality on pathway-dependent solution-state self-assembly of an amphiphilic diblock copolymer by Venkataraman, Shrinivas, Wei, Guangmin, Mineart, Kenneth P., Hedrick, James L., Prabhu, Vivek M., Yang, Yi Yan

“…Dimethylformamide and methanol display dispersed disks and then form stacked disk structures after dialysis. …”
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SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems. by Boccaletti, Anthony, Schneider, Jean, Traub, Wes, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Stam, Daphne, Gratton, Raffaele, Trauger, John, Cahoy, Kerri, Snik, Frans, Baudoz, Pierre, Galicher, Raphael, Reess, Jean-Michel, Mawet, Dimitri, Augereau, Jean-Charles, Patience, Jenny, Kuchner, Marc, Wyatt, Mark, Pantin, Eric, Maire, Anne-Lise, Vérinaud, Christophe

“…Its purpose is to image and characterize long-period extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks in the visible (450-900 nm) at a spectral resolution of about 40 using both spectroscopy and polarimetry. …”
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Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment-Coronagraph (PICTURE C) by Cook, T., Cahoy, K., Chakrabarti, S., Douglas, E., Finn, S. C., Kuchner, M., Lewis, N., Marinan, A., Martel, J., Mawet, D., Mazin, B., Meeker, S. R., Mendillo, C., Serabyn, G., Stuchlik, D., Swain, M.

“…The mission is designed to characterize the background near those stars, to study the disks themselves, and to look for planets in those systems. …”
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Active vibration control of printing circuit boards using piezoelectric bimorphs by Guo, Ningqun., Yu, Jiun Der.

“…In this research, the dynamic characteristics of monomorph and bimorph piezoelectric disks made from PZT-856 were studied numerically and experimentally.…”
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Science with a Small Two-Band UV-Photometry Mission III: Active Galactic Nuclei and Nuclear Transients by Zajaček, M., Czerny, B., Jaiswal, V. K., Štolc, M., Karas, V., Pandey, A., Pasham, D. R., Śniegowska, M., Witzany, V., Suková, P., Münz, F., Werner, N., Řípa, J., Merc, J., Labaj, M., Kurfürst, P., Krtička, J.

“…The importance of a small UV mission for the observing program (i) is to provide intense, high-cadence monitoring of selected sources, which will be beneficial for, e.g. reverberation-mapping of accretion disks and subsequently confronting accretion-disk models with observations. …”
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Fabrication and characterisation of NiFe nanoparticles and nanowires. by Renuka Prasobhan.

“…On the other hand, out-of-plane magnetic field on 100nm thick nanodisks was found to have vortex chirality, meaning that the spin direction changes from top to bottom of the disk. This can be exploited for heating purposes, as continuous switching of field can generate heat within these disks. …”
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Rethinking Singapore-Sino relations : prospects and perils of China’s regional multilateralism for Singapore by Zhang, Suzie Suyi

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Digital curation projects : a study of selected academic and research repositories in the Philippines by David, Lourdes T., Alayon, Stephen B.

“…Conversion into microfilm from digital format, use of Internet mirror sites, and off-site repositories of data on hard disks were some of the preservation methods practiced by libraries. …”
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Analysis of Minimum Interaction Time for Continuous Distributed Interactive Computing by Zhang, Lu, Tang, Xueyan, He, Bingsheng

“…In this paper, we study the interaction times of continuous Distributed Interactive Applications (DIAs) in which the application states change due to not only user-initiated operations but also time passing. …”
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Homogenous Metamaterial Description of Localized Spoof Plasmons in Spiral Geometries by Liao, Zhen, Fernández-Domínguez, Antonio I., Zhang, Jingjing, Maier, Stefan A., Cui, Tie Jun, Luo, Yu

“…Finally, experimental evidence of the existence of these modes in extremely thin textured copper disks is also presented.…”
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Asynchronous wood formation in young Acacia mangium planted in Malaysia by Ogata, Yoshiyuki, Nobuchi, Tadashi, Fujita, Minoru, Sahri, Mohammed Hamami

“…Tree heights and girths at breast height for 28 trees were measured every other week. Wood disks from four trees were sampled at breast height for this research. …”
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Oscillatory instabilities in three-dimensional frictional granular matter by Bonfanti, Silvia, Chattoraj, Joyjit, Guerra, Roberto, Procaccia, Itamar, Zapperi, Stefano

“…We formulate analytically the stability matrix in three dimensions and observe that a couple of complex eigenvalues emerge at the onset of the instability as in the case of frictional disks in two dimensions. The dynamics then shows oscillatory exponential growth in the mean-square displacement, followed by a catastrophic event in which macroscopic portions of mechanical stress and energy are lost. …”
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Design and optimization of data center performance by Lim, Melvin Jia Hao.

“…Therefore, to harness the capabilities of these new drives, the hard disk can be used together with the RAM disk or SSD. …”
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Two-dimensional melting of two- and three-component mixtures by Li, Yan-Wei, Yao, Yugui, Ciamarra, Massimo Pica

“…We elucidate the interplay between diverse two-dimensional melting pathways and establish solid-hexatic and hexatic-liquid transition criteria via the numerical simulations of the melting transition of two- and three-component mixtures of hard polygons and disks. We show that a mixture's melting pathway may differ from its components and demonstrate eutectic mixtures that crystallize at a higher density than their pure components. …”
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End-to-end simulation of high-contrast imaging systems: methods and results for the PICTURE mission family by Douglas, Ewan S., Hewawasam, Kuravi, Mendillo, Christopher B., Cahoy, Kerri L, Cook, Timothy A., Finn, Susanna C. Finn, Howe, Glenn A., Kuchner, Marc, J., Lewis, Nikole K., Marinan, Anne D., Mawet, Dimitri, Chakrabarti, Supriya

“…The PICTURE family of missions seek to quantify the optical brightness of scattered light from extrasolar debris disks via several high-contrast imaging techniques: sounding rocket (the Planet Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Rocket Experiment) and balloon flights of a visible nulling coronagraph, as well as a balloon flight of a vector vortex coronagraph (the Planetary Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Recoverable Experiment - Coronagraph, PICTURE-C). …”
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The Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters at High Spatial Resolution with Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) by Russell, Helen R., Lopez, Laura A., Allen, Steven W., Chartas, George, Choudhury, Prakriti Pal, Dupke, Renato A., Fabian, Andrew C., Flores, Anthony M., Garofali, Kristen, Hodges-Kluck, Edmund, Koss, Michael J., Lanz, Lauranne, Lehmer, Bret D., Li, Jiang-Tao, Maksym, W. Peter, Mantz, Adam B., McDonald, Michael, Miller, Eric D., Mushotzky, Richard F., Qiu, Yu, Reynolds, Christopher S., Tombesi, Francesco, Tozzi, Paolo, Trindade-Falcão, Anna, Walker, Stephen A., Wong, Ka-Wah, Yukita, Mihoko, Zhang, Congyao

“…Stellar and black hole feedback heat and disperse surrounding cold gas clouds, launching gas flows off circumnuclear and galactic disks, producing a dynamic interstellar medium. On large scales bordering the cosmic web, feedback drives enriched gas out of galaxies and groups, seeding the intergalactic medium with heavy elements. …”
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Automatic registration of vestibular systems with exact landmark correspondence by Zhang, Minqi, Li, Fang, Wang, Xingce, Wu, Zhongke, Xin, Shi-Qing, Lui, Lok-Ming, Shi, Lin, Wang, Defeng, He, Ying

“…The detected geodesic landmarks partition the VS into three patches, a topological annulus and two topological disks. For each pair of patches of the AIS subject and the control, we compute a bijective map using the holomorphic 1-form and harmonic map techniques. …”
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COMPUTATIONAL FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER : Advances, Design, Control, and Applications / by Awasthi, Mukesh Kumar, editor 654625, Kumar, Ashwani editor 234956, Dutt, Nitesh editor 649945, Singh, Satyvir editor 656047

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