Development of advanced nanotechnology process for sensing materials by Tan, Ooi Kiang.

“…This new class of materials, often characterized by a physical dimension of 1 to 100 nm in at least one dimension and the presence of very high surface area, has found potential application in many areas such as electronics, magnetism, optics, energy storage, electrochemistry and biomedical sciences. …”
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An efficiently generated family of binary de Bruijn sequences by Zhu, Yunlong, Chang, Zuling, Ezerman, Martianus Frederic, Wang, Qiang

“…Based on the properties of this class of LFSRs, we propose two new generic successor rules, each of which produces at least 2n-3 de Bruijn sequences. These two classes build upon a framework proposed by Gabric, Sawada,Williams andWong in Discrete Mathematics vol. 341, no. 11, pp. 2977–2987, November 2018. …”
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How do users respond to online rumor rebuttals? by Pal, Anjan, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…Data were collected from 322 social media users in a between-participants experiment, which manipulated the exposure sequence. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. …”
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Battery thermal-and health-constrained energy management for hybrid electric bus based on soft actor-critic DRL algorithm by Wu, Jingda, Wei, Zhongbao, Li, Weihan, Wang, Yu, Li, Yunwei, Sauer, Dirk Uwe

“…Particularly, a multiconstrained least costly formulation is proposed by augmenting the overtemperature penalty and multistress-driven degradation cost of LIB into the existing indicators. …”
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Antimicrobial efficacy testing of antibiotic-containing biodegradable nanopolymers against biofilm and planktonic cells. by Polimyr Caesar Dave Pelisco Dingal.

“…Minimum biofilm eradication concentrations (MBECs) improved at least 2-fold with increase in exposure time (48 hours) achieving LEV-PLGA MBECs of 1.4 and 0.2 µg/mL and LEV-PCL MBECs of 16.5 and 8.2 µg/mL for E. coli and P. aeruginosa, respectively. …”
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NMR-based quantification of fat in mouse samples by Sreedhar, Sagaana Poongothai.

“…Many possible methods were explored such as exponential fitting, Inverse Laplace Transformation, Principal Component Analysis, and Partial Least Squares Regression techniques. Upon deeper examination, Exponential curve-fitting using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm was selected as the best possible algorithm for implementation. …”
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Analysis of rainfall datasets for major Asian cities (Jakarta) by Loke, Jun Wei.

“…Intensity of rainfall was the least reliable as average monthly rainfall of APHRODITE and TRMM were 50% and 40% to the actual amounts from ground stations respectively. …”
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Tour-into-picture with Kinect by Meng, Taing

“…Further research may focus on the automation of foreground objects masking and perspective projection line tracing, which requires the least manual configuration.…”
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Effects of the layers of foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Leo, Sin Chyuan

“…Each of these soil layers will have a thickness of 5m each and these three layers will be permutated in combinations to achieve the least amount of settlement during a seismic activity. …”
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Comparative study of direct position determination with AOA and TOA methods by Varma Ruchika

“…In cases where the noise statistics are unknown, least square method is applicable to DPD. If the noise is Gaussian, maximum likelihood estimation of location represents DPD. …”
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Hybrid brain computer interface for relaxation management by Ngian, Michelle Mei Xue

“…In mental engagement and mental response, participants are observed to be having lower engagement level and higher stress level during least liked passage and vice versa for most liked passage. …”
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Crosslinked microneedle patch to extract interstitial fluid for diagnosis by Kang, Rong Jie

“…However, current methods of microneedle sampling of the interstitial fluid (ISF) for clinical analysis have long durations of administration (at least an hour), which cause great inconvenience for the patient and often impairs the accuracy of the analysis due to the lag time of the sampling. …”
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Development of self-adhesive mussel-inspired swellable microneedle for transdermal application by Chia, Wen Feng

“…We have successfully synthesized a biocompatible and degradable adhesive based on hyaluronic acid derivative (catechol methacrylate modified hyaluronic acid) and demonstrated its adhesive property; able to hold at least 02 N/cm2 while maintaining its structural integrity. …”
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A method for simultaneously determining the zeta potentials of the channel surface and the tracer particles using microparticle image velocimetry technique by Yan, Deguang, Yang, Chun, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Huang, Xiaoyang

“…Thus, the zeta potentials of the tracer particles and the channel surfaces are simultaneously obtained using the least-square method to fit the microPIV measured velocity distribution of the tracer particles. …”
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Lasso environment model combination for robust speech recognition by Xiao, Xiong, Li, Jinyu, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…We propose to estimate the weights by using Lasso (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator) which imposes an L1 regularization term in the weight estimation problem to shrink some weights to exactly zero. …”
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Search for the associated production of charm quarks and a Higgs boson decaying into a photon pair with the ATLAS detector by Aad, G, Aakvaag, E, Abbott, B, Abdelhameed, S, Abeling, K, Abicht, NJ, Abidi, SH, Aboelela, M, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Ackermann, A, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Addepalli, SV, Addison, MJ, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Barr, AJ, Bortoletto, D, Bruckler, TL, Celli, F, Chen, M, Conroy, EI, Cooper-Sarkar, AM, Dingley, T, Draguet, MA, Eberwein, GH, Frost, JA, Gallas, EJ, Grabarczyk, RP, Gwenlan, C, Haslbeck, F, Hays, CP, Hodkinson, BH, Huffman, TB, Iizawa, T, Karava, K, Koch, SF, Li, Z, Moser, B, Nagai, K, Nedic, L, Nickerson, RB, Pacey, HA, Rossi, E, Ruggiero, A, Schopf, E, Shipsey, IPJ, Sultan, DMS, Viehhauser, GHA, Weidberg, AR, Yildirim, TP

“…The observed (expected, assuming the Standard Model signal) upper limit at the 95% confidence level on the cross-section for producing a Higgs boson and at least one charm-quark-containing jet that passes a fiducial selection is found to be 10.6 pb (8.8 pb). …”

Changes in the phenomenon of icon-painting in Romania from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present day by Draghici-Vasilescu, N

“…<p>The thesis aims to prove, on the one hand that the second half of the nineteenth century was the period of maximum deviation from the traditional Romanian style of icon-painting and, on the other hand, that the process following the Romanian Orthodox Church's Synod of 1889, in spite of the proclaimed return to a pure Byzantine style, actually has involved the coexistence of at least two main styles of painting: Eastern Mannerist of Byzantine lineage and Western Mannerist of <em>Renaissance</em> persuasion. …”

Examining the antecedents of medical tourists use of social media from the standpoint of self-efficacy by Balouchi, Mina, Aziz, Yuhanis Abdul

“…To that end, this study presents a conceptual framework for evaluating medical tourists' online behaviour and empirically tests the model's validity by examining various dimensions of self-efficacy.A sample of 224 people who searched for medical tourism information online was used in this study. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was employed to test the proposed model with data from an online questionnaire survey.The findings suggest that sources of self-efficacy reinforce one's belief in the ability to use social media for medical travel planning purposes. …”

Mycoplasma iowae infection in young Turkeys by Bradbury, Janet M., Ideris, Aini, OO, Tin Tun

“…M. iowae was most widely disseminated in tissues following in ovo infection and least after oral infection. Isolations became less frequent with age and no organisms were recovered in birds sampled at 12 weeks. …”
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ESG disclosure, firm internationalization, and firm financial performance: evidence from Asia-Pacific by Hussain, Waleed, Ong, Tze San, Kamarudin, Fakarudin, Khan, Muhammad Asif, Bács, Zoltán

“…The findings of the fixed effect and robust two-stage least square estimations reflect that the modern pillars of corporate social responsibility – ESGD-significantly and negatively influence FFP; however, the degrees of corporate internationalization (international intensity, geographical extensity) significantly and positively moderate the association between ESGD and FFP. …”
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