Compressive strength of cemented sand by Chong, Ying Jie.

“…In this paper, the four main factors affecting the compressive strength of cemented sand will be investigated: water-cement ratio of 0.5, 0.6, 0.7; sand-cement ratio of 4.0, 5.0, 6.0; curing age at 3, 7 and 28 days; strain rate of 0.5mm/min, 1.0mm/min, and 2.0 mm/min. The other factors such as dry density, sample dimensions (height and diameter), curing conditions were kept constant. …”
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ProtAgents: Protein discovery via large language model multi-agent collaborations combining physics and machine learning by Ghafarollahi, Alireza, Buehler, Markus J.

“…Current methodologies for protein design often rely on AI-based models, such as surrogate models that address end-to-end problems by linking protein structure to material properties or vice versa. However, these models frequently focus on specific material objectives or structural properties, limiting their flexibility when incorporating out-of-domain knowledge into the design process or comprehensive data analysis is required. …”
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Degradation Mechanisms and Applications in Ion Intercalation Materials by Zhuang, Debbie

“…Overall, I set up a consistent framework modeling degradation from single particle to population level and vice versa in LiBs.…”
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Optimization of Sb2(S, Se)3 photoabsorbers for photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction by Lee, Kian Jie

“…However, there was a preferred growth orientation of (hk1) over (hk0) plane for the samples with 10% Se when annealing temperature increased, and vice versa for the samples with 20% Se. Moreover, all antimony chalcogenide films show compact morphology without any presence of the pinholes. …”
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Evaluation of CQAs by Banerjee Snehasish

“…However, the English sites outdo the Chinese sites in terms of answer responsiveness; and vice-versa in terms of corpus comprehensiveness. …”
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On semidefinite programming relaxations of the traveling salesman problem by De Klerk, Etienne., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V., Sotirov, Renata.

“…Unlike the bound of Cvetković et al., the new SDP bound is not dominated by the Held–Karp linear programming bound, or vice versa.…”
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Mobile content contribution and retrieval : an exploratory study using the uses and gratifications paradigm by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Lee, Chei Sian

“…Interestingly, gratification factors for mobile content contribution were also found to have significant effects on mobile content retrieval intention and vice versa. Specifically, the access gratification factor had a significant positive effect on content retrieval intention while the self-gratification factor for content contribution had a significant negative effect on content retrieval intention.…”
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Intertainer Asia (A) : programming and distributing Hollywood movies on-line in the Asia-Pacific countries by Rieck, Olaf, Tan, Shirley

“…In late 2002, Andrew Yap, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice Chairman of Intertainer Asia pondered over the future of his company. …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…This thesis is concerned with three combinatorial optimization problems for job scheduling, named the MinUsageTime Dynamic Bin Packing problem, the Energy-Efficient Job Scheduling problem and the Flexible Job Scheduling problem. …”
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Investigation on frosting and defrosting performance of superhydrophobic metal additively manufactured materials by Yew, Yun Chian

“…However, between etching time of 10 min and 15 min, there is no significant difference in the frost retardation rate of AM metal. …”
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Associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep with next-day cognitive performance in older adults: a micro-longitudinal study by Bloomberg, M, Brocklebank, L, Doherty, A, Hamer, M, Steptoe, A

“…Each 30-min increase in SB was associated with working memory scores 0.05 SD (0.00 to 0.09) lower (p = 0.03); adjustment for sleep characteristics on the previous night did not substantively change these results. …”

Effect of heat-producing needling technique on the local skin temperature : clinical dataset by Liao, Zehuan, Zhao, Yan

“…Within each session, the local ST36 skin temperature and basal body temperature of each participant were measured at 1 min before needle insertion, just after needle insertion and manipulation (if any), 5 min after needle insertion with needle removal immediately after temperature taking, and 5 min after needle removal. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on behaviors in physical activity, sleep quality and usage of sport facilities in university students by Lim, Qing Feng

“…Sedentary (sitting) behaviour was seen to increase by an average of 90.5 min/day (p < .001). There were also a decreased in the booking frequency in sports facilities (2.1 to 1.6, p < .001) and time spent in a sports facility (127 to 51.6 min/week, p < .001). …”
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Acceleration by Stepsize Hedging: Multi-Step Descent and the Silver Stepsize Schedule by Altschuler, Jason, Parrilo, Pablo

“…The core algorithmic intuition is hedging between individually suboptimal strategiesÐshort steps and long stepsÐsince bad cases for the former are good cases for the latter, and vice versa. Properly combining these stepsizes yields faster convergence due to the misalignment of worst-case functions. …”
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Modelling the dynamics of microbubble undergoing stable and inertial cavitation: delineating the effects of ultrasound and microbubble parameters on sonothrombolysis by Tan, Zhi Qi, Ooi, Ean Hin, Chiew, Yeong Shiong, Foo, Ji Jinn, Ng, Yin Kwee, Ooi, Ean Tat

“…An increase in jet velocity is always accompanied by a decrease in the translational distance and vice versa. Therefore, a right balance between the jet velocity and the translational distance is critical to maximise the shear stress on the clot surface. …”
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Simultaneous polymerization and adhesion under hypoxia in sickle cell disease by Papageorgiou, Dimitrios P., Abidi, Sabia Z., Chang, Hung-Yu, Li, Xuejin, Kato, Gregory J., Karniadakis, George E., Suresh, Subra, Dao, Ming

“…We show that (i) hypoxia significantly enhances sickle RBC adherence; (ii) HbS polymerization enhances sickle cell adherence in SRs and SMEs, but not in ISCs; (iii) SRs exhibit unique adhesion dynamics where HbS fiber projections growing outward from the cell surface create multiple sites of adhesion; and (iv) polymerization stimulates adhesion and vice versa, thereby establishing the bidirectional coupling between the two processes. …”
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“Encouraged to be your true self”: an interpretative phenomenological study of medical students’ experiences of role models in shaping sexual minority identity at medical school... by Zacharias, A, Aitken, D

“…From these results, we built upon existing social cognitive paradigms to develop a ‘doublefunnel’ model to represent how social contexts can map onto individual SM identities and vice versa, mediated by role models. The triangulation of these three aspects in relation to medical education presents novel understandings to the field. …”

Organic donor-acceptor cocrystals for multiferroic applications by Wang, Zongrui, Zhang, Qichun

“…The cocrystallization strategy has provided an efficient route to fulfill room temperature magnetoelectricity in single phase owing to the long-range ordered π-π stacking (donor-acceptor assembled) network, long-lived excitons (with μs lifetime), spin orders (±1/2 s pin) and charge transfer (CT) dipoles in the assembled crystal lattice. …”
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The Portevin-Le Chatelier effect of Cu-2.0Be alloy during hot compression by Zhu, Daibo, Wu, Na, Liu, Yang, Liu, Xiaojin, Jiang, Chaohua, Jiang, Yanbin, Zhao, Hongyun, Cui, Shuhui, Xie, Guilan

“…As the strain rate increases, the dislocations outpace the diffusion speed of the solute atoms, limiting their ability to effectively pin the dislocations, resulting in lower dislocation density and serration amplitude. …”
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Compatability and equilibrium approach to slender concrete column design (dual project) by Toh, Yi Hui

“…This report evaluates and compares the proposed design method with the Australian code AS3600-2001 for slender concrete column. The failure loads of pin-end columns under short term loading and uniaxial bending are used as a pre-determined factor to analyse the data. …”
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