Design and Implementation of Active Antennas for IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring System by MUSA, UMAR, MOHD SHAH, SHAHARIL, A. MAJID, HUDA, MAHADI, ISMAIL AHMAD, A. RAHIM, MOHAMAD KAMAL, YAHYA, MUHAMMAD SANI, ZAINAL ABIDIN, ZUHAIRIAH

“…In terms of nonlinear characteristics of the antenna, the third-order intermodulation distortion products (IMD3) frequencies are generated within an input power range of 0 to 20 dBm from the two-tone nonlinear measurements. Specifically, the IMD3 at 2.4 GHz is measured at −36.18 dBm and −47.19 dBm at 5.8 GHz. …”
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Identifying actionable serial correlations in financial markets by Cheong, Siew Ann, Lee, Yann Wei, Li, Ying Ying, Lim, Jia Qing, Tan, Jadie Jiok Duan, Teo, Joan Xin Ping

“…To do so, we downloaded daily closing prices of the Dow Jones Industrial Average component stocks, as well as various assets like stock market indices, United States government bonds, precious metals, commodities, oil and gas, and foreign exchange. …”
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Discovery and characterization of ligase activity determinants in plant asparaginyl endopeptidases by Chan, Ning-Yu

“…Asparaginyl endopeptidases (AEPs) are cysteine proteases that break Asn/Asp(Asx)-peptide bonds. Recently, a small group of AEPs is found to function as peptide asparaginyl ligases (PALs). …”
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Electronic modulation of non-van der Waals 2D electrocatalysts for efficient energy conversion by Wang, Hao, Chen, Jianmei, Lin, Yanping, Wang, Xiaohan, Li, Jianmin, Li, Yao, Gao, Lijun, Zhang, Labao, Chao, Dongliang, Xiao, Xu, Lee, Jong-Min

“…Among them, non-van der Waals (non-vdW) 2D materials with numerous chemical bonds in all three dimensions and novel chemical and electronic properties beyond those of vdW 2D materials have been studied increasingly over the past decades. …”
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Sustainable finance: ESG/CSR, firm value, and investment returns by Chang, Xin, Fu, Kangkang, Jin, Yaling, Liem, Pei Fun

“…Furthermore, more socially responsible firms deliver no higher excess stock returns in the long run. Green bonds neither provide issuers with a price premium nor make investors sacrifice on lower returns. …”
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Cobalt-Catalyzed Arylative Cyclization of Acetylenic Esters and Ketones with Arylzinc Reagents through 1,4-Cobalt Migration by Yan, Jianming, Yoshikai, Naohiko

“…1,4-Migrations of organopalladium and organorhodium species have been utilized for the development of various cascade reactions involving remote C–H bond activation. Recently, we reported a cobalt-catalyzed migratory arylzincation reaction of an alkyne that features alkenyl-to-aryl 1,4-cobalt migration and cobalt-to-zinc transmetalation as key steps. …”
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Controlling the assembly of proteins and cells on SiO₂ surfaces by Seong, Jiehyun, 1973-

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Novel electrochromic materials of PANI-TiO2 hybrid by Phua, Si Lei.

“…In order to improve its electrochromic contrast, we has successfully prepared PANI-TiO2 hybrids in which inorganic metal oxide was covalently bonded to aniline groups on the macromolecular chains. …”
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Frail Line by Er, Kia Hui, Ong, Grace Xi Wei, Ho, Baofei, Tan, Jit Quan, Boithar, Faizal

“…The seemingly familial reunion eventually leads to a different kind of bond. How will they struggle to redefine their changing relationships? …”
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Ir and Rh complexes of under-explored n-heterocyclic carbenes : synthesis, mechanism, dynamics and catalysis by Song, Guoyong

“…Chapter 3 describes the synthesis of iridium and rhodium complexes stabilized by 2-methyleneimidazoline ligands via highly selective intramolecular activation of 2-methyl C-H vs C4/5-H bonds of the imidazolium moieties with the chelation assistance of phosphine ligands. …”
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Core level shift of diamond and graphite upon Ar+ ion bombardment by Geng, Han He.

“…Based on the data obtained from the experiment, Bond order-length-strength (BOLS) theory is used to calculate the binding energy of C1s electron with different CN’s, which are useful for further investigation in this field such as the layer- resolved Raman shift.…”
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Multi-modal piezoelectric energy harvester by Wang, Nan

“…One of the prototypes is linear piezoelectric energy harvester and the other is multi-modal piezoelectric energy harvester comprised of a main aluminum cantilever beam bonded with MFC and three small branch beams attached parallel. …”
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Property prediction of bio‐derived block copolymer thermoplastic elastomers using graph kernel methods by Williams, CK, Petersen, SR, Marzagão, DK, Gregory, GL, Huang, Y, Clifton, DA, Siviour, CR

“…The Graphs explicitly encode the entire copolymer of atoms and bonds such that the sequencing of chemical features and polymer chain length are included, alongside relevant stereochemical information. …”

Model-based health monitoring for a vehicle steering system with multiple faults of unknown types by Yu, Ming, Wang, Danwei

“…The steering system is modeled as a hybrid system with continuous dynamics and discrete modes using the hybrid bond graph tool. Multiple faults of different types, i.e., abrupt fault, incipient fault, and intermittent fault, are considered using the concept of Augmented Global Analytical Redundancy Relations (AGARRs). …”
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Engineering bunched Pt-Ni alloy nanocages for efficient oxygen reduction in practical fuel cells by Tian, Xinlong, Zhao, Xiao, Su, Ya-Qiong, Wang, Lijuan, Wang, Hongming, Dang, Dai, Chi, Bin, Liu, Hongfang, Hensen, Emiel J. M., Lou, David Xiong Wen, Xia, Bao Yu

“…Both the experimental results and theoretical calculations reveal the existence of fewer strongly bonded platinum-oxygen (Pt-O) sites induced by the strain and ligand effects. …”
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Nanostructured metal-organic conjugated coordination polymers with ligand tailoring for superior rechargeable energy storage by Xie, Jian, Cheng, Xue-Feng, Cao, Xun, He, Jing-Hui, Guo, Wei, Li, Dong-Sheng, Xu, Zhichuan Jason, Huang, Yizhong, Lu, Jian-Mei, Zhang, Qichun

“…Although recent studies heavily focus on the tailoring of metal centers in the complexes to achieve stable electrochemical performance, the effect on different substitutions of the bridging bonds has rarely been studied. An innovative tailoring strategy is presented toward the enhancement of the capacity storage and the stability of metal-organic conjugated coordination polymers. …”
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NHC-catalyzed enantioselective access to β-cyano carboxylic esters via in situ substrate alternation and release by Wang, Qingyun, Wu, Shuquan, Zou, Juan, Liang, Xuyang, Mou, Chengli, Zheng, Pengcheng, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…One involves in situ ultrafast addition of the aromatic thiol substrates to the carbon-carbon double bond of the enal substrate. This reaction converts almost all enal substrate to a Thiol-click Intermediate, significantly reducing aromatic thiol substrates concentration and suppressing the homo-coupling reaction of enals. …”
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Project Management in the Construction Industry : From Concept to Completion / by Mubarak, Saleh A., author 451381, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Written by a longtime professional and author with diversified and international experience in academia and industry, Project Management in the Construction Industry covers sample topics such as: Project life cycle and organization, covering why and how projects are initiated and pure project versus functional management; Scope management, covering the decision making process, scope creep versus progressive elaboration, and cost of change versus time; The planning phase, covering delivery methods and contract types, priorities, feasibility studies, and the “go” decision; Project budgeting, financing, and cost management, covering direct versus indirect cost, classes and purposes of estimates, bonds and insurance, and the CSI MasterFormat. Using a project management approach customized to fit the construction industry specifically, Project Management in the Construction Industry is an essential learning resource on the subject for all students in project management courses and related programs of study.…”
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Mechanistic Studies of Interfacial Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer to Molecularly Defined Surface Sites by Lewis, Noah B.

“…Nearly all electrocatalytic reactions and all aqueous electrochemical systems involve either the reductive formation or oxidative scission of a surface-hydrogen bond in an interfacial proton-coupled electron transfer (I PCET) reaction. …”
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Molecular basis of converting proteases to ligases by Chang, Hong Yi

“…AEPs hydrolyse the Asx (Asn/Asp)-Xaa bond while PALs ligate them. PALs are the processing enzymes that mediate the backbone cyclization of plant cyclic peptides, such as cyclotides. …”
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