Reduced battery usage in a hybrid battery and photovoltaic stand-alone DC microgrid with flexible power point tracking by Hein, Wai Yan, Narang, Aditi, Tafti, Hossein Dehghani, Farivar, Glen G., Pou, Josep

“…The proposed control strategy minimizes the utilization of ESS in order to prolong the battery lifetime, reduce the total system power losses, and maintain the state-of-charge (SoC) of the battery within a desired range as long as the required power from PV is available. …”
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Common visual pattern discovery and analysis by Wang, Zhenzhen

“…Given a set of images, common pattern discovery aims to explore the re-occurring patterns based on their similarities and differences. It is a long-standing but challenging task. On the one hand, patterns are frequently occurring visual primitives, and they are present in various forms, such as local features, semantic visual parts or visual objects. …”
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Highly transparent ITO/HfO2/ITO device for visible-light sensing by Kalaga, Pranav Sairam, Kumar, Dayanand, Ang, Diing Shenp, Tsakadze, Zviad

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Mind the grind by Chong, Joo Xuan, Foo, Elizabeth Wei Zhi, Tan, Natasha Jing Hui, Teng, Yuxiu

“…The digital campaign was conducted on Instagram and utilised various formats like bite-sized posts, short format stories, live streams, and long-form guides to communicate the usefulness of mindfulness meditation in helping working millennials manage their work-related stress and thus improve their performance at work. …”
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A flat carborane with multiple aromaticity beyond Wade–Mingos’ rules by Lu, Wei, Do, Dinh Cao Huan, Kinjo, Rei

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Carbon storage capacity of tropical peatlands in natural and artificial drainage networks by Cobb, Alexander R., Dommain, René, Tan, Fangyi, Heng, Naomi Hwee En, Harvey, Charles F.

“…Our analysis provides a tool that can be used to predict the long-term impacts of artificial drainage, and to devise optimal strategies for arresting fires and greenhouse gas emissions in tropical peatlands.…”
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Reconfigurable and programmable origami dielectric elastomer actuators with 3D shape morphing and emissive architectures by Wang, Jiangxin, Li, Shaohui, Gao, Dace, Xiong, Jiaqing, Lee, Pooi See

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Powder reuse in laser metal deposition phase III - part 2 : feasibility and sustainability by Han, Wen Siew

“…The environmental sustainability analysis showed that there was significant amount of savings if the powder was reused, therefore promoting powder reuse in LMD as a sustainable measure in the long run.…”
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A data-driven bottom-up approach for spatial and temporal electric load forecasting by Ye, Chengjin, Ding, Yi, Wang, Peng, Lin, Zhenzhi

“…How to achieve accurate long-term load forecasts based on land use plans is a realistic problem. …”
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Electrochemical synthesis of NiCo layered double hydroxide nanosheets decorated on moderately oxidized graphene films for energy storage by Jia, Dedong, Jiang, Degang, Zheng, Yiwei, Tan, Hua, Cao, Xueying, Liu, Fang, Yue, Lijun, Sun, Yuanyuan, Liu, Jingquan

“…The flexible solid-state supercapacitor fabricated with MORGO/NiCo-LDH film electrodes exhibits a high energy density (0.51 mW h cm⁻³), as well as a long cycle life (88.2% capacitance retention after 10 000 cycles).…”
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Conformational states of Zika virus non-structural protein 3 determined by molecular dynamics simulations with small-angle X-Ray scattering data by Zhu, Guanhua, Pan, Ankita, Grüber, Gerhard, Lu, Lanyuan

“…Moreover, the simulated ensemble is supported by a direct data-fitting result that requires both short- and long-range structural contacts to recover the experimental data. …”
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Rethinking relief, reconstruction and development : evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of post-disaster livelihood aid by Daly, Patrick, Mahdi, Saiful, McCaughey, Jamie, Mundzir, Ibnu, Halim, Agus, Nizamuddin, Ardiansyah, Srimulyani, Eka

“…This paper presents a field study on the long-term effectiveness and sustainability of livelihood interventions following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia. …”
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The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

“…From Singapore's perspective, rebalancing is a reaffirmation of the United States' long-standing interest in the region. Yet the focus of attention has shifted with different circumstances and administrations. …”
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Energy oriented driving behavior analysis and personalized prediction of vehicle states with joint time series modeling by Xing, Yang, Lv, Chen, Cao, Dongpu, Lu, Chao

“…Finally, a personalized joint time series modeling system based on the long short-term memory and a recurrent neural network is designed to jointly estimate the future energy consumption index considering different driving styles. …”
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Contribution of Mach number to the evolution of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability induced by a shock-accelerated square light bubble by Singh, Satyvir

“…The Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability has long been an interesting subject due to its fundamental significance in scientific research, as well as its crucial role in engineering applications. …”
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Metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors on a GeSn-on-insulator platform for 2 m applications by Son, Bongkwon, Lin, Yiding, Lee, Kwang Hong, Margetis, Joe, Kohen, David, Tolle, John, Tan, Chuan Seng

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Accuracy of peak-power compensation in fiber-guided and free-space acoustic-resolution photoacoustic microscopy by Asadollahi, Amir, Latifi, Hamid, Zeynali, Shahriar, Pramanik, Manojit, Qazvini, Hamed

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Implementation of low sampling rate algorithm by Tan, Michael Teck Xin

“…When these models are trained with a large number of images, it is highly inefficient as it could take extremely long durations of time to train or require a very powerful computer to complete the process. …”
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Methods of sustainability assessment of green logistics projects - part I: review of external stakeholders on green logistics initiatives by Toh, Alvin De Rong

“…This report continues to address existing challenges that Green Logistics initiatives might face during its lifecycle and proposes recommendation guidelines to overcome such problems to achieve long-term sustainability of Green Logistic initiatives…”
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Lotus root-like porous carbon for potassium ion battery with high stability and rate performance by Wang, Huanhuan, Artemova, Anastasiia, Yang, Guang, Wang, Haisheng, Zhang, Lili, Cao, Xu, Arkhipova, Ekaterina, Liu, Jilei, Huang, Yizhong, Lin, Jianyi, Shen, Zexiang

“…Specifically, the in-situ growth of nitrogen-doped lotus-root like carbon matrix contributes to porous and robust structures, which can keep the structural integrity even after long-term cycling test at high current density. Besides, the high conductivity with nitrogen doping contributes to fast current response and fast K+ kinetics, exhibiting high rate capability and high surface contribution. …”
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