Effects of lateral soil movements on piles by Socheat, Iv.

“…In developed countries like Singapore, where the land is scarce, many tall buildings have been built very close to each other. Moreover, deep excavation is commonly done near the existing buildings such as construction of basement of new buildings and construction of underground MRT or tunneling. …”
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Red blood cell adhesion to artificial surfaces in the presence of non-adsorbing macromolecules. by Zhang, Zhengwen

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Loss analysis of a mix-flow turbine with nozzled twin-entry volute at different admissions by Xue, Yingxian, Yang, Mingyang, Martinez-Botas, Ricardo F., Romagnoli, Alessandro, Deng, Kangyao

“…Loss breakdown of turbine shows that loss is higher in nozzle but lower in rotor when the majority of flow is fed from upper part of the component (near shroud). Opposite phenomenon happens when the majority is fed from lower part (near hub). …”
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Bubble translation at low-frequency actuation in a resonator-shaped microfluidic chamber by Shang, Xiaopeng, Huang, Xiaoyang, Yang, Chun

“…Bubble dynamics in bulk flow has been widely investigated at high-frequency actuation (normally above 20 kHz, up to several MHz); however, bubble translation in microfluidics has seldom been investigated, especially at low frequencies (below 10 kHz). …”
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Poetry as postmodern by Zhang, Jieqiang

“…According to Brian McHale, “Poetry from certain points of view had been postmodern before the postmodern, or had always already been postmodern.” …”
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Development of an alternative rework process for ceramic ball grid array 256 (CBGA256) assembly by Chua, Kai Meng.

“…Examination of the samples after 500 temperature cycles revealed that cracks were initiated at the outer rows of the array of solder joints in the packages. The cracks occurring near the interface between the solder and the ceramic had been identified as the main cause of final package failure. …”
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Energy saving control of robot by Chan, Chee Siang.

“…For example, control of robot to put an object into a cup, throwing a dart to a dart board, picking up an object from a conveying belt, driving a car along a road etc. The region reaching controller are focusing on reaching on the stationary region, for example, put a straw in a cup. …”
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In memory of Aureliano's ice. by Ho, Jia Xuan.

“…For a man with seventeen sons, thirty odd wars under his belt and a relatively dysfunctional family, the fact that Colonel Aureliano Buendía figures his experience with ice as the defining moment in his life is intriguing to say the least. …”
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Why ‘strategic competitor’? : China’s national image formation in the United States facilitated by the Chinese media in Xi Jinping era by Liu, Kai

“…In the second section, this paper will use two hottest campaigns in China after Xi took office to conduct two case studies, which are ‘China Dream’ and ‘One Belt, One Road Initiative’ to see how the Chinese media’s depictions influence the formation of China’s national image as a ‘strategic competitor’ in the United States. …”
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Volumetric enhancement of Raman scattering for fast detection based on a silver-lined hollow-core fiber by Chu, Qian, Jin, Zhiqiang, Yu, Xingtao, Li, Caoxin, Zhang, Weihua, Ji, Wenbing, Lin, Bo, Shum, Perry Ping, Zhang, Xuping, Wang, Guanghui

“…Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) technique provides a solution for signal enhancement, but may not good at fast detection due to cross contamination and bulky instruments. …”
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Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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Nanoscale Origins of Thermal Transport Phenomena for Hybrid Layered Perovskites by Dahod, Nabeel S.

“…While significant early strides have been made in investigating charge carrier transport through dynamic models and sophisticated experiments, comparatively little attention has been given to understanding the manner in which the design of these nanostructured solids impacts their macroscopic thermal properties via thermal carrier (phonon) transport. …”
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Selective removal of hydroxyl groups from graphene oxide by Chua, Chun Kiang, Pumera, Martin

“…Numerous methods starting from various reducing agents have been developed to obtain near-pristine graphene sheets. …”
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PMU-Based Estimation of Dynamic State Jacobian Matrix and Dynamic System State Matrix in Ambient Conditions by Wang, Xiaozhe, Bialek, Janusz W., Turitsyn, Konstantin

“…The proposed method can be used to detect and identify network topology changes that have not been reflected in an assumed network model. Additionally, an application of the estimated system state matrix in online dynamic stability monitoring is presented.…”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…In the aerospace engineering, many metal parts produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique often bear cyclic loadings, so the fatigue failures of AM alloy parts become very common phenomena. …”
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Coherent Terahertz Control and Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Layered Antiferromagnets by Ilyas, Batyr

“…While powerful transport, thermodynamic, and spectroscopic tools have been developed, they often fall short to reveal the intricate interplay among electronic, spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom. …”
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Towards a Single Bio-molecule Detector Based on CMOS Nanofluidic Platform by Zikrallah, Ahmed S.

“…A silicon Single Photon Avalanche Detectors (SPADs) was also implemented and placed near the nanochannels to utilize fluorescence labeling imaging techniques. …”
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Full threshold change range of threshold changeable secret sharing by Ding, Jian, Lin, Changlu, Lin, Fuchun, Wang, Huaxiong

“…Moreover, we construct some near optimal TCSS schemes to show that the full threshold change range of TCSS schemes (without requiring optimality) is completely covered by the threshold change regimes of our near optimal TCSS schemes together with the full threshold change range of optimal TCSS schemes.…”
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Safety analysis of active mobility mode by Ho, Siu Joon

“…Logistical regression model was chosen as it can be used as future predictor for near misses or crashes at a particular location. …”
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Micro "butterflyers" in stretching of shape memory polymers at different temperatures by Abdul Hanif Abdul Harris

“…Surface patterning has been observed when SMPs are stretched near its glass transition temperature. …”
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