Fabrication of hollow fiber membranes using amphiphilic block copolymers as pore-forming additives by Loh, Chun Heng

“…A stability study has been carried out on PVDF/Pluronic membranes and Pluronic is observed to be not completely stable in PVDF membrane matrix in long term. Considering this stability issue, as well as the strong pore-forming ability of Pluronic F127 and the effectiveness of Pluronic/LiCl mixed additive to form smaller surface pores as observed in the above PVDF study, the Pluronic/LiCl mixed additive consisting of a very low concentration of Pluronic has been used in further study which investigated the effects of spinning conditions on PVDF hollow fiber fabrication. …”
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Coordinated power management for islanded microgrids by Lin, Pengfeng

“…For a hybridAC/DCMGrunning for the long term, economic operations would e critically significant. …”
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Novel method of probe design for characterising unclassified microbial taxa in wastewater by Tan, Shi Ming

“…Target cells were labelled with a new variant of fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) probes which are termed as RiboProbes, and subsequently isolated via a highly-sensitive fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) sorter. …”
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Evolutionary explanations and the debunking of moral beliefs by Cofnas, N

“…Unlike natural selection, social selection is teleological and could potentially track mind-independent moral truth by a process that I term realist social selection: early humans could have acquired moral knowledge via reason and enforced rules based on that knowledge, thereby creating selection pressures that drove the evolution of our innate moral faculty. …”

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Vollset, SE, Ababneh, HS, Abate, YH, Lacey, BWH, GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

“…This information can be used for policy and long-term health investment, planning, and prioritisation. …”

Interventions for quitting vaping by Butler, AR, Lindson, N, Livingstone-Banks, J, Notley, C, Turner, T, Rigotti, NA, Fanshawe, TR, Dawkins, L, Begh, R, Wu, AD, Brose, L, Conde, M, Simonavičius, E, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…<p><strong>Rationale</strong></p> There is limited guidance on the best ways to stop using nicotine‐containing vapes (otherwise known as e‐cigarettes) and ensure long‐term abstinence, whilst minimising the risk of tobacco smoking and other unintended consequences. …”

Investigations into femtosecond laser hybrid manufacturing for 3D power sources by Tham, Nicholas Cheng Yang

“…Two such alternatives are femtosecond direct laser writing (fsDLW) and femtosecond laser interference lithography (fsLIL). fsDLW is an umbrella term where femtosecond (10-15 s) laser pulses are focused and scanned across a material surface to alter, deposit, or otherwise remove material through unique laser-material interaction phenomena. …”
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