Operation and control methods of modular multilevel converters in unbalanced AC grids : a review by Li, Jinke, Konstantinou, Georgios, Wickramasinghe, Harith R., Pou, Josep

“…As in grid-connected converters, the occurrence of grid-side faults is rather common, leading to imbalances and distortions of the ac-side voltages. …”
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A hierarchical self-adaptive data-analytics method for real-time power system short-term voltage stability assessment by Zhang, Yuchen, Xu, Yan, Dong, Zhao Yang, Zhang, Rui

“…This paper proposes a hierarchical and self-adaptive data-analytics method for real-time STVS assessment covering both the voltage instability and the fault-induced delayed voltage recovery phenomenon. …”
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Design and development of a stopgap rail clamp system by Ong, Xavier Jun Heng

“…Focused on addressing the need for timely and effective temporary fix for track faults, the project aimed to design a steel rail clamping system that offers quick assembly, secure holding, and remote monitoring capabilities. …”
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Non-Abelian adiabatic geometric transformations in a cold strontium gas by Leroux, Frederic, Miniatura, Christian, Grémaud, Benoît, Wilkowski, David, Rebhi, Riadh, Pandey, K., Chevy, F.

“…The concept of topological protection has also become a salient ingredient in many schemes for quantum information processing and fault-tolerant quantum computation. The physical properties of such systems crucially depend on the symmetry group of the underlying holonomy. …”
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Barnacle cement protein as an efficient bioinspired corrosion inhibitor by Bui, My Hanh, Hiew, Shu Hui, Salim, Teddy, Saw, Wan Geok, Webster, Richard David, Grüber, Gerhard, Mu, Yuguang, Miserez, Ali

“…Here, we present an alternative green inhibitor, the recombinant protein rMrCP20 derived from the adhesive cement of the barnacle Megabalanus rosa and show that it efficiently protects mild steel against corrosion under high salt conditions mimicking the marine environment. …”
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Toughening of epoxies by covalently anchoring triazole-functionalized stacked-cup carbon nanofibers by Ding, Guoqiang, Huang, Shu, Dong, Yuliang, Lu, Xuehong, Liu, Wanshuang, Kong, Junhua, Toh, Eric Weilong, Zhou, Rui

“…Novel triazole-functionalized carbon nanofibers (m-CNFs) were prepared by one-step arylation with diazonium salts generated in situ. Microscopic observations indicate that m-CNFs exhibit significantly improved dispersibility in a high-performance epoxy resin compared with pristine CNFs (p-CNFs). …”
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Control of microstructure architecture of polycaprolactone electrospun scaffolds by Rajendran, R., Ham, W. J., Low, C. Y., Alexander, C. H. C., Koh, C. T.

“…The beads formation was reduced by adding PBS salt solution and increasing the distance of the collector plate from the needle tip. …”
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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. …”