Bond and electronic relaxation dynamics of graphene, gold clusters, and water ice by Zhang, Xi

“…The hidden force opposing H2O compression behind the repulsion between nonbonding lone pair and bonding pair of hydrogen bond was revealed by theoretical analysis and molecular dynamics (MD) and ab initio MD calculations: i) the compression shortens and strengthens the intermolecular ‘‘O2- : H+/p’’ lone-pair and stretching phonons (<400 cm-1) are thus stiffened; ii) the repulsion pushes the bonding electron pair away from the H+/p and hence elongates and weakens the ‘‘H+/p–O2-” bond, making stretching phonons (>3000 cm-1) softened upon compression. Three springs model was proposed to build up the fundamental physical model of ‘‘O2- : H+/p–O2-” bond, in order to explain the complicated and anomalous behavior of water and ice. …”
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Draft genome sequence of the moderately thermophilic bacterium Schleiferia thermophila strain Yellowstone (Bacteroidetes) by Thiel, Vera, Hamilton, Trinity L., Tomsho, Lynn P., Burhans, Richard, Gay, Scott E., Ramaley, Robert F., Schuster, Stephan Christoph, Steinke, Laurey, Bryant, Donald A.

“…The draft genome sequence of the moderately thermophilic bacterium Schleiferia thermophila strain Yellowstone (Bacteroidetes), isolated from Octopus Spring (Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA) was sequenced and comprises 2,617,694 bp in 35 contigs. …”
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Elongated magma plumbing system beneath the Coso volcanic field, California, constrained by seismic reflection tomography by Wang, Dongdong, Wu, Shucheng, Li, Tianjue, Tong, Ping, Gao, Yongxin

“…Our final velocity model reveals a prominent low-velocity body sitting right beneath the CVF at 5–20 km depths, which we interpret as a rhyolite magma reservoir that supplies heat flux to the hot springs and also feeds the volcanic activities at Coso. …”
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Amazon cloud-based computing for flow/mass cytometry data analysis by Than, Kyaw Min

“…Web application on cytometry data analysis has been deployed by utilising Spring Framework (MVC model). Moreover, developing mobile application (iOS & Android) has become efficient using cross platform deployable Ionic Framework. …”
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A throughput model for CSMA/CA with a cross-layer payload-dropping optimization by Lau, Chiew Tong, Jayabal, Raymond J.

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Complexities of the San Andreas fault near San Gorgonio Pass : implications for large earthquakes by Yule, Doug, Sieh, Kerry

“…The pattern of crustal seismicity beneath these structures includes a 5–8 km high east-west striking step in the base of crustal seismicity, which corresponds to the downdip limit of rupture of the 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake. We infer that this step has been produced by slip on the linked San Gorgonio Pass-Garnet Hill-Coachella Valley Banning (SGP-GH-CVB) fault. …”
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A micromechanical model based on hypersingular integro-differential equations for analyzing micro-crazed interfaces between dissimilar elastic materials by Wang, Xue, Ang, Whye Teong, Fan, Hui

“…The effective stiffness is an important quantity needed for expressing the interfacial conditions in the spring-like macro-model of soft interfaces. Specific case studies are conducted to gain physical insights into how the effective stiffness of the interface may be influenced by the details of the interfacial micro-crazes.…”
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Identification of offshore wind turbine foundation properties from monitoring data by Anderson, EF

“…For the identification of a coupled springs macro-element foundation model, the compliance terms are found to be better parameters for optimisation and assessment, compared to the stiffness terms.…”

Faculty CV system by Zeng, Ziyao

“…Considering the functionalities designed, a full-stack web application is implemented using MongoDB, Redis, Spring Boot and Angular. Starting with a brief introduction to the project, the report will cover literature review, system architecture, implementation process, system testing, conclusion and future work.…”
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Design of an exoskeleton for lifting by Lim, Ernest Zhen Xuan

“…The design of the exoskeleton utilizes spring tension to achieve an assisting moment arm which provide support in lifting tasks. …”
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Design and implementation of responsive registration and feedback system using unity3D by Liu, Hao

“…Variety of graphical processors and concurrent virtual engines begin to spring up like mushrooms. Graphical processing enabled devices start appearing in our daily life. …”
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HTX: a tool for the exploration and visualization of high-throughput image assays by Arteta, C, Lempitsky, V, Zak, J, Lu, X, Noble, JA, Zisserman, A

Factors affecting learner success in an ESL self-access programme : a case study by Thanasingam, Santhakumari, González Ruiz, Cristina

“…This online language support programme was designed using data collected from the self-access component of that study which used the Spring-Cycle Curriculum Model (SCBC). The new programme combined the benefits of a consultation mode which offered face-to-face personal support and a self-access mode which enabled students to learn autonomously. …”
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Experimental and numerical study of self-locking adaptable inter connection for modular steel structures by Nadeem, Gohar, Safiee, Nor Azizi, Bakar, Nabilah Abu, Karim, Izian Abd, Mohd Nasir, Noor Azline

“…The findings indicated that the gap produced between connection and column under higher displacement was sensitive to the outer bolt and spring pin. This gap could be further reduced by increasing the number of outer bolts and by reducing tolerance between adapter and column walls.…”

Teaching feedback using blockchain and blind signature by Chandra, Billy

“…One of the platforms is R3 Corda which is suitable for many of the requirements of the project such as information and communication privacy, decentralized and distributed ledger, ease of building a permissioned blockchain, and extensibility of the system such as integration with Spring Boot. The privacy preservation methods used are decentralization through blockchain attribute, using pseudonyms and blind signature in the platform. …”
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Playing by the many rules: taught masters and their assessment regulations by Le Boutillier, Shaun, Woolf, Harvey, Stowell, Marie, Fredricks, Cathi, Coward, Jo, Taylor-Russell, Graham

“…In recent years the taught masters course has become an even more important component of the curriculum portfolio for universities in the UK and elsewhere. In the spring of 2021, the Student Assessment and Classification Working Group (SACWG) surveyed a small number of English and Welsh universities to compare assessment regulations for taught masters courses. …”
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Beating effect between a thermoacoustic source and its mechanical partner by Wang, Kai, Sun, Daming, Zhang, Jie, Zhang, Ning, Luo, Kai, Qiu, Limin

“…Beating effects between a thermoacoustic source and its mechanical partner-a piston-spring oscillator are numerically predicted and experimentally observed in the free-decay process. …”
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Performance of a Modular Ton-Scale Pixel-Readout Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber by Abed Abud, A., Abi, B., Acciarri, R., Acero, M. A., Adames, M. R., Adamov, G., Adamowski, M., Adams, D., Adinolfi, M., Adriano, C., Aduszkiewicz, A., Aguilar, J., Aimard, B., Akbar, F., Allison, K., Monsalve, S. Alonso, Alrashed, M., Alton, A., Alvarez, R., Alves, T.

“…In this paper, we present an analysis of an eight-day data set consisting of 25 million cosmic ray events collected in the spring of 2021. We use this sample to demonstrate the imaging performance of the charge and light readout systems as well as the signal correlations between the two. …”
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Predicting response of reinforced concrete slabs under low-velocity impact by Xiao, Yao, Li, Bing, Fujikake, Kazunori

“…The contact between the impactor and the impacted RC slab is modelled with an elastic spring and a viscous damper. The effectiveness of the 2-DoF model was verified by comparisons with experimental data. …”
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Impact response of reinforced concrete beam and its analytical evaluation by Fujikake, Kazunori, Li, Bing, Soeun, Sam

“…The experimental impact responses of the RC beams were simulated with two-degree-of-freedom mass-spring-damper system model, in which the loading rate effects were duly considered. …”
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