Internalisation of externalities: who bears the cost of pollution control? by Rahim, Khalid Abdul

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Stearic acid-coated superhydrophobic Fe2O3/Fe3O4 composite film on N80 steel for corrosion protection by Hu, Jun, He, Shijun, Wang, Zhen, Zhu, Jianbo, Wei, Liping, Chen, Zhong

“…Our work finds that the concentration of NaOH in the second hydrothermal method is a critical factor for the morphology of the Fe2O3 film and the annealing treatment plays a significant role in realizing the superhydrophobic stearic acid coated micro-nanostructure Fe2O3/Fe3O4 composite.…”
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Rational construction of highly transparent superhydrophobic coatings based on a non-particle, fluorine-free and water-rich system for versatile oil-water separation by Gao, Shouwei, Dong, Xiuli, Huang, Jianying, Li, Shuhui, Li, Yuwei, Chen, Zhong, Lai, Yuekun

“…The emulsion prepared under optimum proportion of THF and water was stable and showed no obvious change even after being stored for 6 weeks. The coated substrates exhibit superhydrophobic property with a water contact angle (CA) larger than 155.0°. …”
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Utilization of biomass pectin polymer to build high efficiency electrode architectures with sturdy construction and fast charge transfer structure to boost sodium storage performan... by Zhao, Jing, Yang, Xu, Zhang, Yu, Loh, Xian Jun, Hu, Xiaodong, Chen, Gang, Du, Fei, Yan, Qingyu

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Microlensing Near Macro-Caustics by Weisenbach, Luke, Anguita, Timo, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Oguri, Masamune, Saha, Prasenjit, Schechter, Paul L.

“…Microlensing near macro-caustics is a complex phenomenon in which swarms of micro-images produced by micro-caustics form on both sides of a macro-critical curve. …”
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In situ metal organic framework (ZIF-8) and Mechanofusion-Assisted MWCNT coating of LiFePO4/C composite material for lithium-ion batteries by Mathur, Priyatrisha, Shih, Jengywan, James Li, Ying Jeng, Hung, Tai-Feng, Thirumalraj, Balamurugan, Kannan Ramaraj, Sayee, Jose, Rajan, Karuppiah, Chelladurai, Yang, Chunchen

“…The uniform and stable spherical morphology of LFP composites was obtained when the ZIF-8 coating was processed by the agitator [A], instead of the magnetic stirrer [MS], condition. …”
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Sensitivity study of weather research and forecasting physical schemes and evaluation of cool coating effects in Singapore by weather research and forecasting coupled with urban canopy model simulations by Zhou, Mandi, Long, Yongping, Zhang, Xiaoqin, Donthu, Eswara V. S. K. K., Ng, Bing Feng, Wan, Man Pun

“…The model was used to study the urban heat island (UHI) effect and urban cooling effect by applying cool coating on various urban surfaces. Maximum UHI intensity of 3.2°C is found at nighttime (21:00) at a hot spot in the Commercial/Industrial area. …”
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Electrochemical performance of NASICON type carbon coated LiTi2(PO4)3 with a spinel LiMn2O4 cathode by Aravindan, Vanchiappan, Chuiling, W., Madhavi, Srinivasan

“…The synthesized LiTi2(PO4)3 particles are ball milled and subsequently carbon coated from the carbonization of glucose (C–LiTi2(PO4)3). …”
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Canonical Diffeomorphisms of Manifolds Near Spheres by Wang, Bing, Zhao, Xinrui

“…Abstract For a given Riemannian manifold $$(M^n, g)$$ ( M n , g ) which is near standard sphere $$(S^n, g_{round})$$ ( S n , g round ) in the Gromov–Hausdorff topology and satisfies $$Rc \ge n-1$$ R c ≥ n - 1 , it is known by Cheeger–Colding theory that M is diffeomorphic to $$S^n$$ S n . …”
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Near-zero environmental impact aircraft by Prashanth, Prakash, Elmourad, Jad, Grobler, Carla, Isaacs, Stewart, Zahid, Syed Shayan, Abel, James, Falter, Christoph, Fritz, Thibaud, Allroggen, Florian, Sabnis, Jayant S., Eastham, Sebastian D., Speth, Raymond L., Barrett, Steven R. H.

“…We use these models to propose and analyze near-zero environmental impact aircraft, which we define as having net zero climate warming and a greater than 95% reduction in air quality impacts relative to present day. …”
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Near field wireless power transfer by Er, Gavin Kian Ming

“…Wireless power transmission has been around since the 1890s and has started to become more prominent in the recent years thanks to technological advancements and breakthroughs in near-field wireless power systems using magnetic resonance. …”
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Bio-based lubricant with additives: Tribological performances in hydrodynamic journal bearing by Norazman, Amanda, Paiman, Zulhanafi, Samion, Syahrullail, Afiq, Muhammad Noor, Muhammad Yazid, Witri, Rasep, Zuraidah

“…Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of bio-based lubricants (BBL), namely, palm mid-olein (PMO) enriched with an antioxidant agent, tertiary-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) and a viscosity improver, ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), in journal bearing (JB) applications. Design/methodology/approach: Samples of the BBL were prepared by blending it with TBHQ and EVA at various blending ratios. …”

Influence of particle velocity when propelled using N2 or N2-He mixed gas on the properties of cold-sprayed Ti6Al4V coatings by Tan, Adrian Wei-Yee, Lek, Jun Yan, Boothroyd, Chris Brian, Sun, Wen, Bhowmik, Ayan, Marinescu, Iulian, Song, Xu, Zhai, Wei, Li, Feng, Dong, Zhili, Liu, Erjia

“…Cold-spraying is a relatively new low-temperature coating technology which produces coatings by the deposition of metallic micro-particles at supersonic speed onto target substrate surfaces. …”
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Near Optimal Alphabet-Soundness Tradeoff PCPs by Minzer, Dor, Zheng, Kai Zhe

“…Our result has the following implications: (1) Near optimal hardness for Quadratic Programming: it is NPhard to approximate the value of a given Boolean Quadratic Program within factor (log) 1− (1) under quasi-polynomial time reductions. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

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A Nearly Quadratic Improvement for Memory Reallocation by Farach-Colton, Martin, Kuszmaul, William, Sheffield, Nathan S., Westover, Alek

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Łojasiewicz inequalities near simple bubble trees by Malchiodi, A, Rupflin, M, Sharp, B

“…<br> To prove these results we derive sufficient conditions for Łojasiewicz inequalities to hold near a finite-dimensional submanifold of almost-critical points for suitable functionals on a Hilbert space.…”

Scalable near identical image and shot detection by Chum, O, Philbin, J, Isard, M, Zisserman, A

“…We define two shots to be near-duplicates if they share a large percentage of near-duplicate frames. …”

Spray coating of dense proton-conducting BaCe0.7Zr0.1Y0.2O3 electrolyte for low temperature solid oxide fuel cells by Fan, Liangdong, Xie, Hanlin, Su, Pei-Chen

“…In this work, we report the spray coating, a simple and effective method, to prepare proton conducting BaCe0.7Zr0.1Y0.2O3 (BCZY) membranes on the pre-annealed porous anode substrates. …”
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Evaluation of glutathione S-transferases expression as biomarkers by heavy metals in Geloina expansa from Sepang Besar River, Selangor, Malaysia by Wakid, Sarini Ahmad, Abd Aziz, Nor Azwady Abd, Alias, Zazali, Mustafa, Muskhazli, Syazwan, Wan Mohd, Zulkifli, Syaizwan Zahmir

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