Smart window for tuning transparency and noise absorption by Shrestha, Milan

“…As a tunable optical surface scatter, it turns transparent with a smooth surface like a flat glass; but it turns ‘opaque’ (translucent) with the micro-rough surface. …”
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Global Bifurcations Organizing Weak Chimeras in Three Symmetrically Coupled Kuramoto Oscillators with Inertia by Ashwin, P, Bick, C

“…Hence, it is interesting to understand precisely how frequency synchrony is lost and how invariant sets such as attracting weak chimeras are generated at torus breakup, where the phase description breaks down. …”

'Donkey Friends' in China: the Internet, civil society and the emergence of the Chinese backpacking community by Lim, Francis Khek Gee

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Cohort differences in physical health and disability in the United States and Europe by Gimeno, L, Goisis, A, Dowd, JB, Ploubidis, GB

“…Still, in both the United States and Europe, we observed a structural break in disability trends, with declines observed in prewar cohorts slowing, stalling, or reversing for cohorts born since 1945. <p><strong> Discussion</strong></p> In all regions, we found evidence for worsening health across cohorts, particularly for those born since 1945. …”

Elephant in the room by Muhammad Iskandar Thani BMB, Ng, Qin Ching

“…A man born without a soul finds himself on a quest to 'fix' himself after the death of his mother. …”
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Voltage-type Г-source inverters by Loh, Poh Chiang, Li, Ding, Blaabjerg, Frede

“…It therefore uses lesser winding turns, while yet producing the same high gain as its comparable correspondences. …”
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Routing drone by Zheng, Min

“…In Drone routing, both the capability of the drone and the algorithm used for pathfinding are crucial in order to achieve a feasible and optimal complete tour. This project aims to build an approximation algorithm and a model, with the algorithm created as realistically as possible, being based on the state-of-the-art drone capability to suite the study on defining and controlling the flight path. …”
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The role of polarity in nonplanar semiconductor nanostructures by de la Mata, María, Zamani, Reza R., Martí-Sánchez, Sara, Eickhoff, Martin, Xiong, Qihua, Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna, Caroff, Philippe, Arbiol, Jordi

“…The lack of mirror symmetry in binary semiconductor compounds turns them into polar materials, where two opposite orientations of the same crystallographic direction are possible. …”
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Educated : a memoir / by Westover, Tara 1986- 656335, author

“…Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. …”

The design of liquid desiccant dehumidification control system by Wang, Gaige

“…To make a dehumidifier run in a more stable, controlled and energy-saving way has been a meaningful research direction and goal. …”
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MORNING, NOON & NIGHT / by Sheldon, Sidney, author 498270

“…From the splendors of the Italian Riviera to the fashion salons of Paris and New York, from the elite parlors of Back Bay to the social register of Florida's Hobe Sound, Sidner Sheldon's latest story twists and turns its way through smoke and mirrors toward the explosive surprise ending.…”

Exploring multi-level motivations towards green design practices : a system dynamics approach by Li, Qing, Zhang, Lianying, Zhang, Limao, Jha, Sunil

“…Furthermore, a combination of policy considering hybrid effects turns out to be more effective to reinforce green design practices. …”
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The radial spreading of volcanic umbrella clouds deduced from satellite measurements by Prata, F, Prata, A, Tanner, R, Grainger, RG, Borgas, M, Aubry, TJ

“…A hyperbolic tangent model, A ⇠ tanh (C) is presented that matches the entire radial spreading time history and has a conserved torus-shaped volume in which the intrusion depth is 20 proportional to sech (C). …”

Thin 3-D bandpass frequency-selective structure based on folded substrate for conformal radome applications by Omar, Ahmed Abdelmottaleb, Shen, Zhongxiang

“…A fabricated prototype of this radome is measured in the presence of a broadband horn antenna.…”
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Study of organization structure and empowerment profile of construction companies in Singapore by Pham, Thanh Hai.

“…However, they might not have full authority to execute the jobs which in turn reduces the project efficiency and effectiveness, suggesting a possible causal-effect relationship of Organization Structures, Empowerment profiles with success of construction projects. …”
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System optimization of an absorption refrigeration system by Chan, Ryan Yaowei

“…With refrigerant in the gaseous state at a lower boiling point means that heat transfer can be much more efficient and ionic absorbent are necessary to convert the vapor refrigerant in the back to liquid state which in turn helps the refrigerant to circulate throughout the system. …”
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Optimizing Android smartphone’s user experience and power efficiency through governor and scheduler customization by Koh, Nicholas Ming Xuan

“…This concept enables processes to boost the CPU clock speeds, in turn possibly getting optimal user experience. These boosts are managed by CPU governors, which can be changed by users. …”
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Topological phases with parafermions: theory and blueprints by Alicea, J, Fendley, P

“…In particular, we highlight how parafermion chains host a topological phase featuring protected edge zero modes. We then tour several blueprints for the laboratory realization of parafermion zero modes—focusing on quantum Hall/superconductor hybrids, quantum Hall bilayers, and two-dimensional topological insulators—and describe striking experimental fingerprints that they provide. …”

Efficient digital traffic accident mapping by Koo, T. K.

“…This paper describes the design and development of one system born out of an attempt to produce a low cost, simple to use, photogrammetric-based three dimensional computer graphics visualization system for traffic accident mapping.…”
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The turntable tribe: a communications campaign to raise awareness about the effects of excessive fast furniture consumption and encourage environmentally sustainable shopping habit... by Tan, Gerald Zheng Jie, Low, Naomi Min Yee, Wee, Nicolette Shing Ying, Tan, Yuan En

“…Guided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour, these efforts were targeted to increase Perceived Behavioural Control and Social Norms, in turn increasing behavioural intention. The campaign met all impact objectives and behavioural intention had a significant increase by 24.5%. …”
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