The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) by Wheeler, Mark

“…This chapter examines Paul Schrader’s directorial debut Blue Collar (1978) with reference to its entrapment of three Detroit autoworkers. Within this rust-belt drama, two of the men are black --- the thirty year-old Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Brown (Richard Pryor) and the two-time ‘loser’ ex-convict thirty-five-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). …”
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Arsenene nanoribbon edge-resolved strong magnetism by Wang, Sanmei, Zhang, Xi, Huang, Yongli, Sun, Chang Qing

“…We proposed a mechanism to induce strong magnetism of up to 10.92 emu g-1 in hexagonal-phase arsenene nanoribbon (AsNR) from the perspective of edge quantum entrapment. Consistency between bond-order-length-strength correlation (BOLS) theory and density functional theory (DFT) calculations verified that: (i) the edge bond contraction of 9.54% deepened the edge potential well of AsNR, (ii) a net charge of 0.06 e- transferred from the inner region to the edge; and (iii) the edge quantum well polarized the unpaired electron and the net spin (antiferromagnetic or ferromagnetic depending on the width) is localized at the zigzag edge. …”
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Triggered release from thermoresponsive polymersomes with superparamagnetic membranes by Bixner, Oliver, Kurzhals, Steffen, Virk, Mudassar, Reimhult, Erik

“…Magnetic heating of the embedded SPIONs led to increased bilayer permeability through dehydration of the thermoresponsive PNIPAM block. The entrapped calcein could therefore be released in controlled doses solely through exposure to pulses of an alternating magnetic field. …”
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The formation of a carbon nanotube–graphene oxide core–shell structure and its possible applications by Dong, Xiaochen, Xing, Guichuan, Chan-Park, Mary B., Shi, Wenhui, Xiao, Ni, Wang, Jing, Yan, Qingyu, Sum, Tze Chien, Huang, Wei, Chen, Peng

“…Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and electrical characterization suggest that SWCNTs are completely wrapped by GO nano-sheets. The spontaneous formation of such a core–shell structure is due to the strong pi–pi stacking interaction between the two materials. …”
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Morphology of silicon/silicon-oxide nanowires grown from nickel-coated silicon wafers by Li, Feng Ji, Zhang, Sam, Guo, Jun, Li, Bo

“…Side-by-side biaxial, smooth or sinusoidal triple-concentric, fishbone-profiled, Ni-nanosphere entrapped nanowires, and the transitional morphologies were observed co-existing with the most abundant coaxial ones. …”
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Water‐binding‐mediated gelation/crystallization and thermosensitive superchirality by Xing, Pengyao, Li, Yongxin, Wang, Yang, Li, Pei-Zhou, Chen, Hongzhong, Phua, Fiona Soo Zeng, Zhao, Yanli

“…Ordered water molecules entrapped in self‐assembly arrays revealed by crystal structures behave as hydrogen‐bonding linkers to facilitate three‐dimensional growth into crystals rather than one‐dimensional gel nanofibers. …”
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Computational Electronic Circuits : Simulation and Analysis with MATLAB® / by Hamedi-Hagh, Sotoudeh, author 643057

“…The DC, Transient, AC, Noise and behavioral analyses are implemented in MATLAB to study the complete characteristics of a variety of electronic circuits, such as amplifiers, rectifiers, hysteresis circuits, harmonic traps and passes, polyphaser filters, directional couplers, electro-static discharge and piezoelectric crystals. …”

Developing ultrasound-responsive and drug delivery nanoparticles for acoustic implantation by Chen, Jia Yi

“…In order to nucleate cavitation, Gold nanocones must trap a nanobubble. Thus, Gold nanocones were first pegylated before freeze drying. …”
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3D printed magnetic digital microfluidics for biomedical applications by Kanitthamniyom, Pojchanun

“…The second part of the thesis reports a novel rapid surface modification method of creating surface energy traps for magnetic digital microfluidics. The protocol of fabrication polydopamine surface energy trap on the Teflon-coated glass substrate was characterized and optimized . …”
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Novel viral vector vaccines for tropical infections by Rampling, T

“…Two studies evaluate the safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of a combination vaccination regimen containing the leading pre- erythrocytic <em>P. falciparum</em> malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01B and the liver stage, viral vector heterologous prime-boost regimen of ChAd63 ME-TRAP and MVA ME-TRAP. Vaccine efficacy is evaluated using the CHMI model. …”

An interactive projector camera system by Huang, Fu Quan.

“…A simple aquarium game has been build to demonstrate the usefulness of the system. This report wraps up with a conclusion and some possible suggestions for future related works or improvements for continuation of this project.…”
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RoughPy: streaming data is rarely smooth by Morley, S, Lyons, T

“…RoughPy is our new Python package that aims change the way we think about sequential streamed data, by viewing it through the lens of rough paths. In RoughPy, data is wrapped in a stream object which can be composed and queried to obtain signatures that can be used in analysis. …”

On the class S origin of spindle solutions by Bomans, P, Couzens, C

“…We analyse the backreacted geometry corresponding to a stack of M5-branes wrapped on a spindle, with a view towards precision tests of the dual $\mathcal{N}$ = 1 superconformal field theory. …”

A parallel dipole line system by Gunawan, Oki, Virgus, Yudistira, Tai, Kong Fai

“…The system serves as a trap for cylindrical diamagnetic object, produces a fascinating one-dimensional camelback potential profile at its center plane, yields a technique for measuring magnetic susceptibility of the trapped object and serves as an ideal system to implement highly sensitive Hall measurement utilizing rotating magnetic field and lock-in detection. …”
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Curing kinetics of epoxies by thermal and alternative radiation in the application of fibre-reinforced composites by Ng, Feng Lin.

“…Therefore, the removal of the gel time constraints could lead to improved laminate quality; for example, there is more time for precise fibre placement and orientation, complete fibre wetting and the removal of entrapped air. The aim of this project is to study the feasibility of employing radiation curing in the fabrication of glass fibre reinforced composites using epoxy based matrices. …”
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Rapid defect detections of bonded wafer using near infrared polariscope by Asundi, Anand Krishna, Ng, Chi Seng

“…Defects and trapped particles may exist on the top and bottom of the wafers, or at the interface of bonded wafer pair. …”
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A conceptual paper on action research in job satisfaction and turnover intention for a chinese property company by Xue, Fu, Teo, Poh Chuin, Ho, Theresa C. F., Choo, Ling Suan, Tan, Jun Wei

“…Following, this paper also covers the research design and methods aspects, and wrapped up with a conclusion.…”

Microfluidic droplet formation and manipulations for microdroplets used as miniaturized laboratories by Wang, Wei

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3D profilometry for turbine blade shape profiling by Koh, Hoe Jyh.

“…The fringe patterns captured by a CCD camera are then analyzed with phase shifting method to retrieve the wrapped phase map. This is followed by temporal phase unwrapping to obtain the unwrapped phase map, which is then paired with calibration parameters to obtain the final 3D result. …”
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Flapping-flight (I): development of a DC motor-based resonant flapping mechanism for large wing strokes by Kong, Yi Wen.

“…The third mechanism stretched an elastic string wrapped around a cylinder which was rotating. The three mechanisms were tested and compared. …”
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