Developing a conceptual framework of household energy consumption – energy efficiency in Selangor by Maisarah, Ahmad Sofi, Salina, Daud, Sabihah, Hitam, Wan Fadzilah, Wan Yusoff, Wan Noordiana, Wan Hanafi, Maryam Jamilah, Asha’ari, Mariam, Abdul Majid

“…To enable the achievement of energy efficiency, behavioural study must be conducted on the energy efficiency at the household level since residential areas contribute the highest carbon and greenhouse gas emission. This research main objective is to determine the energy consumption behavior in aspects of attitude and energy efficiency among households. …”
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Elucidating the clinker-based catalyst deactivation for biodiesel production in a continuous microwave-assisted reactor by Gimbun, Jolius, Mohd Affandi, Mohd Ali, Cheng, Cheng Kui, Sumaiya, Zainal Abidin, Maizirwan, Mel, Chin, Siew Choo

“…XRD and EDX analyses revealed that CaO (66.61 wt%) and Ca (34.63 wt%) are the primary constituents of the CBC, with the main crystalline phases identified as Ca2Al0.67Mn0.33FeO5 (monoclinic) and Ca3SiO5 (orthorhombic). …”
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Design of energy efficient distillation columns for separation of oxygenates process by Mohd Faris, Mustafa, Norazana, Ibrahim, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Kamarul, Asri Ibrahim, Mohd Kamaruddin, Abd Hamid

“…Although it has many advantages, the main drawback is its large energy requirement, which may significantly influence the overall plant profitability. …”
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Atmospheric characterization of cold exoplanets with a 1.5-m space coronagraph by Maire, A. -L., Galicher, R., Boccaletti, A., Baudoz, P., Schneider, J., Cahoy, K., Stam, D., Traub, W.

“…However, the main interest of such instruments, the analysis of planet properties, has remained highly unexplored so far. …”
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Frontal Dynamics in the Alboran Sea: 2. Processes for Vertical Velocities Development by Garcia‐Jove, Maximo, Mourre, Baptiste, Zarokanellos, Nikolaos D., Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J., Rudnick, Daniel L., Tintoré, Joaquín

“…Significant lateral density gradients occur throughout the year in the Alboran Sea, giving rise to two main fronts: the Western Alboran Gyre Front (WAGF) and Eastern Alboran Gyre Front (EAGF), where large vertical velocities often develop. …”
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The rheology of saltwater taffy by Chan, San To, Haward, Simon J., Fried, Eliot, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…Saltwater taffy, an American confection consisting of the main ingredients sugar, corn syrup, water, and oil, is known for its chewy texture and diverse flavors. …”
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Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s Third Observing Run by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…We extend previous analyses in two main ways: we include data from the Virgo detector and we allow for more unequal mass systems, with mass ratio $q \geq 0.1$. …”
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Performance of thin-RPC detectors for high rate applications with eco-friendly gas mixtures by Abbrescia, M., Aielli, G., Aly, R., Arena, M. C., Barroso Ferreira Filho, M., Benussi, L., Bianco, S., Bordon, F., Boscherini, D., Bruni, A., Buontempo, S., Busato, M., Camarri, P., Cardarelli, R., Congedo, L., De Serio, M., Di Ciaccio, A., Di Stante, L., Dupieux, P., Eysermans, J., Ferretti, A., Galati, G., Gagliardi, M., Guida, R., Iaselli, G., Joly, B., Lee, K. S., Liberti, B., Mandelli, B., Manen, S. P., Pastore, A., Pastori, E., Piccolo, D., Pizzimento, L., Polini, A., Proto, G., Pugliese, G., Quaglia, L., Ramos, D., Rigoletti, G., Rocchi, A., Romano, M., Samalan, A., Salvini, P., Santonico, R., Saviano, G., Sessa, M., Simone, S., Terlizzi, L., Tytgat, M., Vercellin, E., Verzeroli, M., Zaganidis, N.

“…As for Resistive Plate Chamber detectors, the main challenges to face are the improvement of their detection capabilities and longevity at very high-rates, and the search for new eco-friendly gasmixtures free from greenhouse components. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

“… (2) To exploit the small support size, our main technical component is a vast extension of the “witness propagation” method, originally designed by Deng, Mao, and Zhong (2023) for speeding up dynamic programming in the easier unbounded knapsack settings. …”
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The Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) by Blaney, Diana L., Hibbitts, Karl, Diniega, Serina, Davies, Ashley G., Clark, Roger N., Green, Robert O., Hedman, Matthew, Langevin, Yves, Lunine, Jonathan, McCord, Thomas B., Murchie, Scott, Paranicas, Chris, Seelos, Frank, Soderblom, Jason M., Cable, Morgan L.

“…MISE will detect illumination from 0.8 to 5 μm with 10 nm spectral resolution, a spatial sampling of 25 m per pixel at 100 km altitude, and 300 cross-track pixels, enabling discrimination among the two principal states of water ice on Europa, identification of the main non-ice components of interest: salts, acids, and organics, and detection of trace materials as well as some thermal signatures. …”
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High-speed grinding: from mechanism to machine tool by Wang, Yu-Long, Zhang, Yan-Bin, Cui, Xin, Liang, Xiao-Liang, Li, Run-Ze, Wang, Ruo-Xin, Sharma, Shubham, Liu, Ming-Zheng, Gao, Teng, Zhou, Zong-Ming, Wang, Xiao-Ming, Dambatta, Yusuf S., Li, Chang-He

“…Finally, the mechanical and dynamic characteristics of the key components of HSG machine tool were summarized, including main body, grinding wheel, spindle and dynamic balance system. …”
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On the spectrum and support theory of a finite tensor category by Nakano, Daniel K., Vashaw, Kent B., Yakimov, Milen T.

“…This enables us to put forward a complete and detailed program to investigate the relationship between the two support theories, based on of the cohomology ring of an FTC, . Our main result is the construction of a continuous map from the noncommutative Balmer spectrum of an arbitrary FTC, , to the of the categorical center and a theorem that this map is surjective under a weaker finite generation assumption for than the one conjectured by Etingof–Ostrik. …”
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Optimizing resource allocation in large communications satellite constellations by Pachler de la Osa, Nils

“…By testing existing designs, it is concluded that the number of satellites, as well as the link quality are the main drivers of performance. Furthermore, the analysis shows that hybrid constellations offer advantages over other designs, thanks to the combination of high quality links on low altitude satellites, and high coverage on high altitude satellites. …”
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Phonetic Faithfulness in Phonological Opacity by Kim, Yeong-Joon

“…This asymmetry in the patterns of phonological opacity underscores that opaque interactions are not independent of phonetic substance. In addition to this main finding, it is also shown that the current proposal offers additional advantages in explaining phonological opacity. …”
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Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing by Piovarci, Michal, Foshey, Michael, Babaei, Vahid, Rusinkiewicz, Szymon, Matusik, Wojciech, Didyk, Piotr

“…A common post-processing step is to apply off-the-shelf varnishes that modify the final gloss. The main difficulty in automating this process lies in the physical properties of the varnishes which owe their appearance to a high concentration of large particles and as such, they cannot be easily deposited with current 3D color printers. …”
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Vortex-induced vibrations of a cylinder with tripping wires by Hover, F.S., Tvedt, H., Triantafyllou, M.S.

“…For a cylinder forced to oscillate harmonically, the main observed wire effects are: (a) an earlier onset of frequency lock-in, when compared with the smooth cylinder case; (b) at moderate amplitude/cylinder diameter (A=D) ratios (0.2 and 0.5), changes in the phase of wake velocity and of lift with respect to motion are translated to higher forcing frequencies, and (c) at A=D = 1:0, no excitation region exists; the lift force is always dissipative. …”
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4.181 Architectural Design Workshop - Rethinking Office Development, Spring 2003 by Duffy, Francis, 1940-, Tsakonas, Konstantinos G.

“…It is certainly intended for graduate students in architecture but also for students in the Center for Real Estate (CRE), and for students in other related disciplines, who are interested in getting the most out of the design process but are not themselves necessarily designers. The main qualification for taking part in the Workshop is an interest in, and an urgent desire to do something about, specifying the type, quality, image and performance of the new wave of speculative office buildings that will be needed in the next cycle of economic recovery. …”
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Experimental and numerical evaluation of composite floor systems under fire conditions by Tan, K.-H., Nguyen, T.-T.

“…Once the composite slab-beam action is weakened by cracks in the slab over the main or secondary edge beams, the benefit associated with a greater stiffness of the edge beams is lost. …”
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Utilization of sewage-sludge-derived hydrochars toward efficient cocombustion with different-rank coals : effects of subcritical water conversion and blending scenarios by Wang, Jing-Yuan, He, Chao, Wang, Ke, Yang, Yanhui

“…The results suggest that SHC-320 reduced the activation energy of the blends and altered the main combustion profiles. Meanwhile, blending of SHC-320 induced greater heat loss for higher-rank coals, whereas a higher portion of SHC-320 further improved the ignition reactivity of high-rank coal blends. …”
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Convergence rate of overlapping domain decomposition methods for the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi model based on a dual formulation by Chang, Huibin, Tai, Xue-Cheng, Wang, Li-Lian, Yang, Danping

“…We introduce a stable “unity decomposition” using a set of “partition of unity functions,” which naturally leads to overlapping DDMs based on the dual formulation. The main objective of this paper is to rigorously analyze the convergence of the SSC and PSC algorithms and derive the rate of convergence $O(n^{-1/2})$, where $n$ is the number of iterations. …”
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