Preparation of low-pressure water softening hollow fiber membranes by polyelectrolyte deposition with two bilayers by Rajabzadeh, Saeid, Liu, Chang, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…Using a low concentration of supporting electrolyte at underneath layers was proved to be an effective way to increase water permeability while maintaining high salt rejection. A salt water flux (SWP) of 12 LMH/bar and 94% Mg2 + rejection was obtained by depositing only two bilayers of PSS/PAH polyelectrolytes on the PES substrate, while for the 3000 ppm mixed salt solution, the water permeability was 11 LMH/bar with Mg2 + and Ca2 + rejection as high as 90%. …”
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Power quality enhancement of isolated power systems through series compensation by Wang, Tongxun

“…It leads to an increase in the ride-through capability of loads to the voltage sags/swells. When a downstream fault occurs, the SC achieves the current limiting function by injecting a voltage component to restore the PCC voltage to its pre-fault phasor value.…”
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Experimental and theoretical study of nanotwinned copper fabricated by pulse-reverse electrodeposition for interconnect and through-silicon via (TSV) technologies by Lin, Nay

“…The role of stress on (111) textured copper crystals is evaluated by first-principle calculations within the framework Generalized Stacking Fault Energy (GSFE) and twinnability. Theoretical calculations show that the biaxial stress has strong effects on the stacking fault energies, unstable and stable stacking and twinning fault energies. …”
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Tectonic influences on late Holocene relative sea levels from the central-eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia by Shaw, Timothy Adam, Plater, Andrew J., Kirby, Jason R., Roy, Keven, Holgate, Simon, Tutman, Pero, Cahill, Niamh, Horton, Benjamin Peter

“…Local standardized published sea-level index points (n = 23) were combined with a new salt-marsh RSL reconstruction and tide-gauge measurements. …”
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Metabolomic characterisation of low-density lipoproteins isolated from iodixanol and KBr-based density gradient ultracentrifugation by Webb, Richard, Lodge, John, Scott, Sophie, Davies, Ian

“…Background/Objectives: Salt-based density gradient ultracentrifugation (SBUC) is frequently used to isolate lipoproteins for their subsequent analysis. …”
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Operation and optimization of membrane distillation bioreactor by Kwan, Joseph Zheng Xin.

“…The main focus of this project is to optimise the operation of a lab-scale MDBR setup, specifically by examining salt accumulation rate and its effect on the bioprocess in the MDBR system. …”
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Self healable neuromorphic memtransistor elements for decentralized sensory signal processing in robotics by John, Rohit Abraham, Tiwari, Naveen, Muhammad Iszaki Patdillah, Kulkarni, Mohit Rameshchandra, Tiwari, Nidhi, Basu, Joydeep, Bose, Sumon Kumar, Ankit, Yu, Chan Jun, Nirmal, Amoolya, Vishwanath, Sujaya Kumar, Bartolozzi, Chiara, Basu, Arindam, Mathews, Nripan

“…Configuring memtransistors as gated-threshold and -memristive switches, the demonstrated system features in-memory edge computing with minimal hardware circuitry and wiring, and enhanced fault tolerance and robustness.…”
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Distributed resilient control for energy storage systems in cyber-physical microgrids by Deng, Chao, Wang, Yu, Wen, Changyun, Xu, Yan, Lin, Pengfeng

“…However, the faults and attacks of the distributed control system could lead to a significant impact and consequently influence the security and stability of MGs. …”
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Effects of groundwater flow on the stability of an underground rock cavern by Natarajan Saravanan

“…The study incorporated the effects of joint geometry and their degree of interconnectivity, fault zones under static and fluctuating groundwater tables.…”
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Humanity's dark side: coping with a failing world order by John, Lord Alderdice

“…Various crises have exposed fault-lines in the existing global order. It has spotlighted the existing differences in ideologies across the world. …”
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A Slip Gap of the 2016 Mw 6.6 Muji, Xinjiang, China, Earthquake Inferred from Sentinel‐1 TOPS Interferometry by Feng, Wanpeng, Tian, Yunfeng, Zhang, Yong, Samsonov, Sergey, Almeida, Rafael, Liu, Peng

“…The components of the regional Global Positioning System velocities parallel to the Muji fault have been inverted to obtain an interseismic slip rate of ∼10  mm/yr on this structure. …”
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Understanding megathrust behaviour over the earthquake cycle through inversion of geodetic data and dynamic modelling by Qiu, Qiang

“…First, I present a study on how the local morphology of a fault can control the extent of seismic rupture, and how these morphological bounds can modify the rupture dynamics within a seismic cycle. …”
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A Framework for Robust Assessment of Power Grid Stability and Resiliency by Vu, Thanh Long, Turitsyn, Konstantin

“…In particular, we formulate and solve two novel robust stability and resiliency assessment problems of power grids subject to the uncertainty in equilibrium points and uncertainty in fault-on dynamics. Furthermore, we bring in the quadratic Lyapunov functions approach to transient stability assessment, offering real-time construction of stability/resiliency certificates and real-time stability assessment. …”
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A Learning Probabilistic Boolean Network Model of a Smart Grid with Applications in System Maintenance by Rivera Torres, Pedro Juan, Chen, Chen, Macías-Aguayo, Jaime, Rodríguez González, Sara, Prieto Tejedor, Javier, Llanes Santiago, Orestes, García, Carlos Gershenson, Kanaan Izquierdo, Samir

“…This multi-layered PBN architecture provides a significant improvement in terms of performance for fault detection, within a positive-feedback network structure that is more tolerant of noise than other techniques.…”
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Probing the deformation mechanisms of AlCoCrFeNi alloy at various strain rates and grain sizes by Tan, Jaz Whee

“…Dislocation slippage due to the formation of stacking faults was observed. As strain increases, partial dislocation emitted from grain boundaries increases. …”
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Leveraging large language models and BERT for log parsing and anomaly detection by Zhou, Yihan, Chen, Yan, Rao, Xuanming, Zhou, Yukang, Li, Yuxin, Hu, Chao

“…Computer systems and applications generate large amounts of logs to measure and record information, which is vital to protect the systems from malicious attacks and useful for repairing faults, especially with the rapid development of distributed computing. …”
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Load management system for distributed simulation by Yuan, Zijing

“…The HLA lacks the capability of resource management for running simulation in the aspect of re-source discovery, federate deployment, dynamic load-balancing and fault-tolerance. Hence, this project is motivated to develop a programming framework to facilitate the HLA simulation development, with the consideration for possible integration with the Grid environment.…”
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In situ synthesis of silver nanoparticles in poly(vinyl) alcohol layer coated thin film membrane for seawater desalination by Jayavardhana D/o Balaji

“…The permeability of MPVA1-0.2 membrane reduced insignificantly by 8.4% compared to the control membrane without PVA coating layer, achieving PWP of 3.1 L/m2 .h.bar with excellent salt rejection of 99.28%. The observed improvement in the salt rejection of the PVA-coated membrane was owing to the additional selectivity and stability provided by the hydrophilic PVA layer. …”
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Engineering nano-nodular pattern on the substrate surface by tuning phase inversion to construct ultrapermselective ion-separation nanofiltration membrane by Zhao, Yali, Li, Can, Liao, Yuan, Yin, Yurong, Wang, Rong, Chen, Dongliang

“…Ion-selective permeable membranes show enormous potential in salt separation and resource recovery, but the permselectivity of current membranes restricts their broad application. …”
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The struggle for Syria : Iran-Qatar ties come under stress by James M. Dorsey

“…The struggle by Syrian opposition forces to topple the Assad regime is sharpening tensions between Iran and Qatar and threatens sectarian fault lines elsewhere in North Africa and Middle East. …”
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