Osmotic oedometer using sodium chloride solution and reverse osmosis membrane by Bulolo, Sam, Leong, Eng Choon

“…The updated osmotic oedometer is attractive, as it eliminates the drawbacks of the previous osmotic oedometer, and it can theoretically apply matric suction as high as 5,000 kPa.…”
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Performance enhancement of ultrafiltration membrane via simple deposition of polymer-based modifiers by Tian, Miao, Wang, Rong, Goto, Atsushi, Mao, Weijia, Miyoshi, Yasuyuki, Mizoguchi, Hirotaka

“…The results show that the random copolymer modified membrane exhibited average 26 % rises in water permeability compared with the virgin PES UF membrane when 0.5 wt% BSA solution was used as feed. The stable permeability and flux recovery rate during the cyclic study with chemical cleaning suggest good affinity of the newly synthesized random copolymer with the PES membrane and water. …”
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Powder reuse in laser metal deposition phase III - part 2 : feasibility and sustainability by Han, Wen Siew

“…Therefore, the primary objectives of this project were to study the reusability of Ti-6Al-4V Grade 23 powder in an LMD process and the environmental sustainability of powder reuse. …”
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Multi-objective optimization design and performance evaluation of a novel multi-stream intermediate fluid vaporizer with cold energy recovery by Wang, Zhe, Cai, Wenjian, Hong, Wei, Shen, Suping, Yang, Huizhu, Han, Fenghui

“…The results indicate that this new type of IFV can reach the highest cold energy recovery efficiency up to 95% within the 8% error range when the heat transfer capacity is 11.5 kW and the heat medium flow rate is near 330 L/h.…”
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Insight into the lateral ride discomfort thresholds of young-adult bus passengers at multiple postures : case of Singapore by Nguyen, Teron, NguyenDinh, Nen, Lechner, Bernhard, Wong, Yiik Diew

“…The three levels of ride discomfort are Uncomfortable, Very Uncomfortable and Extremely Uncomfortable with average lateral accelerations of ay = 1.5, 1.75 and 2.0 m/s2, respectively. The lateral ride discomfort thresholds would be useful for several value-add applications which include better vehicle design including its interiors, and better vehicle handling about the road layout. …”
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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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Effect of carbides on the corrosion resistance of industrial corrosion resistant alloys by Muhammad Redzuan.

“…AISI 316L weld overlay specimens were heat treated, at various temperatures, for a period of 5 hours followed by water quenching. The amount of chromium carbides precipitated was evaluated using microscopic examination and point count method. …”
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The contemporary age of square stepping exercise on cognitive and cohesion among older adults by Low, Kimmy Yi Ting

“…Methods: Seven older adults (2 males, 5 females) were recruited for the study. There were six sessions of online SSE conducted twice a week. …”
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Metallic nanowire synthesis by anodized aluminium oxide by Yong, Ching Seng.

“…The AAO template undergoes pore-widening process by using H3PO4 (5 wt%) to remove the barrier oxide layer. The AAO templates are separated into two groups: one is deposited with 200nm of titanium/gold with sputtering/E-beam technique, and attached to ITO glass slides with silver paste; another group is attached directly to ITO glass slides with silver paste. …”
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An energy-saving oriented air balancing method for demand controlled ventilation systems with branch and black-box model by Cui, Can, Zhang, Xin, Cai, Wenjian

“…In the lab, the proposed air balancing method was validated on a real DCV system of 5 zones under various design flow conditions. The experimental results verified the effectiveness of the proposed method on both the air balancing control accuracy and the energy saving ability.…”
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Monolayer tungsten disulfide in photonic environment : angle-resolved weak and strong light-matter coupling by Zhang, Xuewen, Wu, Lishu, Wang, Xu, He, Silin, Hu, Hanwei, Shi, Guangchao, Zhang, Xingwang, Shang, Jingzhi, Yu, Ting

“…By embedding 1L-WS2 into a dielectric microcavity, strong exciton-photon coupling results in the formation of lower and upper polariton branches with an appreciable Rabi splitting of 34 meV at room temperature, where the observed blueshift of the lower polariton branch is indicative of the enhanced polariton-polariton scattering. …”
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Fabrication of SiC ceramic foams with light weight and ultrahigh strength by a direct foaming method by Wee, Christian Luke Chye Hin

“….% to the weight of SiC dry powder, the sintered sample has porosities up to 67% with an average pore size of ~56 µm and a predicted compressive strength of 32.5 MPa, which brings a good balance of strength and interconnectivity of pores. …”
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Graphdiyne/graphene heterostructure: a universal 2D scaffold anchoring monodispersed transition-metal phthalocyanines for selective and durable CO₂ electroreduction by Gu, Huoliang, Zhong, Lixiang, Shi, Guoshuai, Li, Jiaqiang, Yu, Ke, Li, Jiong, Zhang, Shuo, Zhu, Chenyuan, Chen, Shaohua, Yang, Chunlei, Kong, Ya, Chen, Chen, Li, Shuzhou, Zhang, Jin, Zhang, Liming

“…The per-site turnover frequency of CoPc reaches 37 s-1 at -1.0 V vs RHE, outperforming most of the reported phthalocyanine- and porphyrin-based electrocatalysts. …”
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Comparison between CaO- and MgO-activated ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) for stabilization/solidification of Zn-contaminated clay slurry by Zhang, Yunhui, Ong, Yi Jie, Yi, Yaolin

“…The results showed that the application of the MgO-GGBS (GGBS dosage of 10 % and MgO of 0 %-3 % (of dry clay by mass)) had positive effects on the mechanical strength and Zn immobilization of the contaminated clay slurry while the CaO-GGBS affected negatively and the situation became even worse at a higher CaO dosage (0 %-1.5 % of dry clay by mass). In comparison with OPC, the application of MgO-GGBS produced higher mechanical strength and that for CaO-GGBS was the lowest. …”
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Selective separation and recovery of lithium, nickel, MnO₂, and Co₂O₃ from LiNi₀.₅Mn₀.₃Co₀.₂O₂ in spent battery by He, Hongping, Feng, Junli, Gao, Xiaofeng, Fei, Xunchang

“…The recovery of valuable metals from the LiNi0·5Mn0·3Co0·2O2 in spent batteries deserves more attention. …”
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Efficiency boosting by thermal harvesting in InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes by Lu, Shunpeng, Zhang, Yiping, Qiu, Ying, Liu, Xiao, Zhang, Menglong, Luo, Dongxiang

“…The underlying reason is that the wall-plug efficiency of the LED with a voltage lower than photon voltage (V < ℏω/q) is surprisingly enhanced by elevated temperature owing to the heat transmission by the LED under a high biased voltage in Group A. …”
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Interval job scheduling with machine launch cost by Ren, Runtian, Zhu, Yuqing, Li, Chuanyou, Tang, Xueyan

“…Based on this lower bound, we propose a 5-approximation algorithm in the offline setting. …”
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Integrated optimization algorithm: a metaheuristic approach for complicated optimization by Li, Chen, Chen, Guo, Liang, Gaoqi, Luo, Fengji, Zhao, Junhua, Dong, Zhao Yang

“…IOA is synthesized from 5 sub-algorithms: follower search, leader search, wanderer search, crossover search, and role learning. …”
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Use of peptide asparginyl ligases (PALs) in generating alternative non-Ig protein-drug conjugates for cancer therapy by See, Julia Jing Yi

“…We verified pH-controlled OaAEP1b orthogonal ligation between Affibody & DARPin with 5(6)-Carboxyfluorescein (FAM), generating satisfactory yield. …”
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Detection of crop fields in Ukraine using S1_MSI index by Vaishnavi, Inbanathan

“…A database containing fields from 5 landuse classes (forest, residential, industrial, quarry, heath) apart from cropland was constructed, and used for cropland features extraction, classification, and accuracy testing. …”
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