Influence of nanoclay on the morphology of polypropylene foam by Chan, Weng Wan

“…However, due to polypropylene having weak melt strength it is difficult to process due to the collapse and rupturing of cell walls. …”
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Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata” by de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex

“…The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” bears no resemblance to modern high-dimensional data sets on which their methods fail. …”
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Encoding and decoding of serially concatenated codes for data storage systems by Yin, Ke.

“…Furthermore, we study the encoding and decoding of the eIRA code and investigate the effect of decoding schedules on the bit-error-rate (BER) performance over the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels. …”
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Development and simulation of underwater acoustic modem by Song, Ziming

“…Increasing interests have been arising in developing communication network systems which are compatible for underwater scenarios. …”
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Xiangshan Forum – China’s Quest for Stability : Images and Realities by Suryanarayana, Pisupati Sadasiva

“…However, China can enhance this exercise by addressing some external security concerns about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).…”
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Factual approach for tropical forest parameters measurement and monitoring: future option with a focus on synergetic use of airborne and terrestrial lidar technologies by Bazezew, Muluken N., Hussin, Yousif A., Kloosterman, Evert H., M. Hasmadi, Ismail

“…To overcome this challenge incurred due to the complex biophysical properties of tropical forests, Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technologies have been used combinedly. Airborne LiDAR data ‘from above’ are largely restricted to analyses of lower canopy layer trees. …”

Synchronous reluctance motor-drive for energy efficiency solution by Xu, Han

“…In this report, a survey of the existing motor-drives solution has been carried out. To limit the scope of this work, only industrial drives have been considered because these form the largest percentage of drives sold globally and around the tropical belt that includes Singapore.…”
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Performance analysis of linear and non-linear diversity combining techniques of FFH/BFSK communication systems by Tan, Nyit San.

“…The closed-form bit-error rate (BER) expressions for a uncoded fast frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift keying (FFH/BFSK) system using various diversity combining techniques in the presence of multi-tone jamming (MTJ) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) conditions over a non-fading channel are obtained.…”
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A facile alternative strategy of upcycling mixed plastic waste into vitrimers by Ng, Joseph Kok Wei, Lim, Jacob Song Kiat, Gupta, Nupur, Dong, Bing Xue, Hu, Chun Po, Hu, Jingdan, Hu, Xiao

“…Chemical depolymerization has been identified as a promising approach towards recycling of plastic waste. …”
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Investigating the inner controls on explosive eruptions using textural analyses and petrology by Bernard, Olivier

“…I find that sudden decompression-induced crystallization of the matrix due to important undercooling of the melt plays a major role in promoting mafic magma fragmentation and generating mafic PDCs. …”
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Acoustic data communication for industrial drilling applications by Goh, Cher Shin.

“…Project B5035-121, Acoustic Data Communication for Industrial Drilling Applications, looks at the possible ways of incorporating the multilevel modulation of Amplitude Shift Keying-Frequency Shift Keying (ASK-FSK) into the transceiver architecture of an acoustic telemetry system, such that the architecture embodies balance of good traits, such as high data transmission rates and good bit error rate (BER) performance. This is due to the greater need for communication systems of industrial drilling applications to have a higher throughput. …”
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Properties and characteristics of thermoplastic PBT-LCP blend system and the influence of nanosilica-380 by Ng, Vincent Zhijie.

“…Blends of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) and glass fibre reinforced liquid crystalline polymer (LCP A130) have been prepared by the melt mixing technique by the twin screw extruder device. …”
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Linear A libation tables : a semitic connection explored by Eu Min, Niki Cassandra, Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco, Cavallaro, Francesco Paolo

“…Attempts to decipher the writing system have been unsuccessful for several reasons. Unlike the Linear B language (Mycenaean Greek), Minoan, the language hidden behind Linear A and still undeciphered, bears no apparent similarity to Greek, and any ‘translation’ of Linear A based provisionally on Linear B phonetic values has not produced any tangible result. …”
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A three-membered diazo-aluminum heterocycle to access an Al=C π bonding species by Yan, Chenting, Kinjo, Rei

“…An X-ray study shows that the anionic part of 5 bears a considerable short exocyclic Al-C bond, and computational studies involving molecular orbital and natural bond orbital analysis indicate the Al=C π bonding character. …”
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Orientational beamforming via a modified RBF neural network for orientational UWB interference rejection by Han, Jiangyan, Ng, Boon Poh, Er, Meng Hwa

“…Although various techniques have been proposed in the literature to suppress multiuser interference in the time-hopping UWB system, there has been no research on interference suppression in the OBF UWB system. …”
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TDCS-IDMA system for cognitive radio networks with cloud by Hu, Su, Li, Fan, Guo, Huiting, Wang, Pei, Bi, Guoan, Gao, Yuan, Liu, Zilong, Yu, Bin

“…Recently, a new model called cognitive radio networks with cloud (CRNC) has been proposed to eliminate the constraints (pertinent to traditional CR) on power, memory space, and computational capacity. …”
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Numerical simulation of thermal processes in laser cladding of Al-50Si alloy on Al7075 surface by Kong, Meng

“…However, it is very difficult to accurately measure and control the temperature of the laser melt pool and its surroundings in real time using the existing equipment. …”
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Laser-Guide-Star Satellite for Ground-Based Adaptive Optics Imaging of Geosynchronous Satellites by Marlow, Weston, Carlton, Ashley, Hyosang, Yoon, Clark, James, Haughwout, Christian, Cahoy, Kerri, Males, Jared, Close, Laird, Morzinski, Katie

“…Although the preliminary analysis indicates that a single satellite guide star cannot be used for observing multiple astronomical targets, it will only require a little propellant to relocate within the geosynchronous belt. Results of a design study on the feasibility of a small-satellite guide star have been presented, and the potential benefits to astronomical imaging and to the larger space situational awareness community have been highlighted.…”
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Analysis of the role played by ligand-induced folding of the cocaine-binding aptamer in the photochrome aptamer switch assay by Shoara, Aron A., Churcher, Zachary R., Steele, Terry W. J., Johnson, Philip E.

“…Fluorescence anisotropy measurements were used to quantify the affinity of the conjugated aptamer to cocaine. We also used thermal melt analysis and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to show that the addition of the stilbene to the aptamer increases the melt temperature of the cocaine-bound structure-switching aptamer by (6.4 ± 0.3) °C compared to the unconjugated aptamer while the free form of the structure-switching aptamer-stilbene conjugate remains unfolded.…”
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Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link: Bane or Gain? by Saravanamuttu, Johan

“…With the launch of East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), Malaysia has demonstrated its commitment to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). However, the proliferation of mega infrastructural projects in the country involving China companies could lead to Malaysia’s overdependence on China, undermining its foreign policy leverage with Beijing.…”
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