Minimising Operational Costs During COVID-19 Pandemic: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Business Model For Enhancing Smes’ Performance by Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Abdul Halim, Hasliza, Ahmad, Noor Hazlina, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Khairuddin, Khairun Nisa

“…This rampant situation creates ‘rubbing salt into the wound’ for many enterprises in order to survival and sustain in the market. …”
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Resilience of power distribution systems by Ng, Si Qi

“…A modified 33-bus test system is verified with six faults and three types of consumers (industrial, commercial and residential) in a reasonable time span. …”
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Distributed voltage unbalance compensation for an islanded microgrid system in a sensitive load bus by Han, Ziying

“…The distributed secondary compensation is able to perform the similar compensation ability as centralized secondary structure; meanwhile, there are also improvement for special conditions including communication fault and plug-and-play. Simulations are carried out in Matlab Simulink environment, and cases involving communication failure, CL shift, and DG plug-out are tested and analyzed to verify the practicability of proposed design.…”
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Developing a real time load frequency control for power systems in a real time digital simulator by Tan, Shi Jie

“…Maintaining the nominal system frequency is a critical aspect of ensuring stable power system operation in power system stability. During faults or other disturbances, there may be a mismatch between the generation and load in the system. …”
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An isolated bipolar DC-DC converter for energy storage integration in marine vessels by Nag, Soumya Shubhra, Satpathi, Kuntal, Ukil, Abhisek, Pou, Josep, Zagrodnik, Michael Adam

“…The proposed converter uses high frequency transformer isolation which helps in protecting the BESS against rapid discharge in the event of short circuit faults on the dc bus. Detailed steady-state analysis of the proposed converter is presented in this paper. …”
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Intellectual property authentication by watermarking scan chain in design-for-testability flow by Cui, Aijiao, Chang, Chip Hong

“…As only the order of the scan cells is varied, the number of test vectors for the desired fault coverage is not affected. The advantage of this scheme is the ownership legitimacy can be publicly authenticated on-site by IP buyers after the chip has been packaged by loading a specific verification code into the scan chain. …”
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Study of bioactivity of complexed DNA in biodegradable polymer films by Debasish Mondal

“…The polymeric system consists of a biodegradable semi crystalline polymer such as PCL blended with a hydrophilic polymer such as gelatin, hyaluronic acid (HA), PEG, PVP, or the sodium salt of poly acrylic acid (PAA). Release studies of pDNA and complexed DNA from different polymeric films were performed by quantifying the amount of DNA released at specific time points over a period of month, utilizing the fluorescence of ethidium bromide complexed to DNA. …”
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Noise detection and removal for highly degraded images by Guo, Huan.

“…User can add noise through three types: Salt and Pepper, Gaussian and Speckle. Image restoration methods usually model the degradation process and apply an approximately inverse process to the degraded image to recover the original image. …”
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Release retardation of model protein on polyelectrolyte-coated PLGA nano- and microparticles by Nugraha, Chandra, Bora, Meghali, Venkatraman, Subbu S.

“…PEM capsules have been proposed for vehicles of drug microencapsulation, with the release triggered by pH, salt, magnetic field, or light. When built on another carrier encapsulating drugs, such as nanoparticles, it could provide additional release barrier to the releasing drug, providing further control to drug release. …”
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The utilization of chitin and chitosan as green modifiers in nanocomposite membrane for water treatment by Mamah, Stanley Chinedu, Goh, Pei Sean, Ng, Be Cheer, Abdullah, Mohamad Sohaimi, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Samavati, Zahra, Ahmad, Nor Akalili, Raji, Yusuf Olabode

“…When compared to unmodified membranes, the chitin and chitosan modified membranes showed a notable improvement in water flux, salt rejection, and anti-fouling characteristics. …”

Coacervates derived from mussel foot proteins by Guo, Qi

“…Repeated three times within the Mfp-5 sequence, enzymatically modified GK-16* could undergo LLPS triggered by certain ionic strength at pH 3, in which the mechanical properties of coacervate droplets would be adjusted by salt concentration and urea concentration. CD and FTIR spectra also characterized the formation of localized β-sheet structures with the addition of salts. …”
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Optimizing frontal polymerization of different epoxy resins for magnetocuring by Tay, Jerry Rong Yao

“…In this study a structure relationship study of three epoxy monomers, two onium salts and five thermal initiators will be explored, aiming to optimize the curing temperature required for frontal polymerization. …”
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Physical properties and in vitro transfection efficiency of gene delivery vectors based on complexes of DNA with synthetic polycations by Reschel, T, Koňák, Č, Oupický, D, Seymour, L, Ulbrich, K

“…PECs formed by polycations with quaternary ammonium groups were the least resistant to destruction by the added salt and provided the lowest activity in transfection assays. …”

Effect of low temperature blanching, cysteine-HCI, N-acetyl-L-cysteine, Na metabisulphite and drying temperatures on the firmness and nutrient content of dried carrots by Mohamed, Suhaila, Hussein, Rosli

“…LTLT blanching allows pectin methyl esterase to deesterify pectin which can then react with calcium to form salt bridges. 0.3% L-cysteine-HCl was found to be most effective in preventing ascorbic acid loss and obtaining a product with the highest rehydration ability, compared to pretreatments with 0.3% N-acetyl-L-cysteine and 0.1% sodium metabisulphite. …”

Misfit-layered Bi1.85Sr2Co1.85O7.7−δ for the hydrogen evolution reaction : beyond van der Waals heterostructures by Chua, Chun Kiang, Sofer, Zdeněk, Jankovský, Ondřej, Pumera, Martin

“…Herein, a misfit-layered chalcogenide consisting of CoO2 layers interleaved with an SrO–BiO–BiO–SrO rock-salt block and having the formula Bi1.85Sr2Co1.85O7.7−δ is synthesized and examined for its structural and electrochemical properties. …”
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Hyperfast water transport through biomimetic nanochannels from peptide-attached (pR)-pillar[5]arene by Li, Qing, Li, Xuesong, Ning, Lulu, Tan, Choon-Hong, Mu, Yuguang, Wang, Rong

“…This membrane gives a significantly improved water flux while retaining high salt rejection. The results establish a tangible foundation for developing highly efficient artificial water channel‐based biomimetic membrane for water purification applications.…”
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A facile route to enhance the water flux of a thin-film composite reverse osmosis membrane: incorporating thickness-controlled graphene oxide in a highly porous support layer by Lee, Jaewoo, Jang, Jun Hee, Chae, Hee-Ro, Lee, Sang H., Lee, Chung-Hak, Park, Pyung-Kyu, Won, Young-June, Kim, In-Chul

“…The TFC RO membrane made of the GO composite support layer had almost 1.6 to 4 times higher water flux with comparable salt rejection compared to both the current upper bounds of the RO membranes prepared by modification of the active layer and commercial RO membranes.…”
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Antitumor polycyclic acridines. 7. Synthesis and biological properties of DNA affinic tetra- and pentacyclic acridines by Stanslas, Johnson, Hagan, Damien J., Ellis, Michael J., Turner, Claire, Carmichael, James, Ward, Wynne, Hammonds, Timothy R., Stevens, Malcolm F. G.

“…The novel water-soluble agent dihydroindolizino[7,6,5-kl]acridinium chloride 14 has inhibitory activity in a panel of non-small-cell lung and breast tumor cell lines exceeding that of m-AMSA. The salt inhibited the release of minicircle products of kDNA confirming that disorganization of topoisomerase II partly underlies the activity of the compound. …”

Active/Reactive Power Control of PV Grid-tied NPC Inverter Using 3-D Space Vector Modulation in abc Coordinate by Dehghani Tafti, Hossein, Maswood, Ali Iftekhar, Roomi, Muhammad Musthafa

“…Various operation conditions like partial shading of PV strings and balanced/unbalanced grid faults are implemented.…”
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Design and development of a 2-DoF tilt-rotor quadcopter by Ang, Zheng Da

“…A quadcopter with fully actuated propellers is more agile and manoeuvrable, as the propellers can be rotated in their elevation and bank axes using tilt-rotor mechanisms to confer thrust vectoring capabilities. Also, the fault tolerance characteristics of a quadcopter can be enhanced with fully actuated propellers. …”
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