Floating Nuclear Power Plants: Are They Safe and Secure? by Trajano, Julius Cesar Imperial

“…Floating NPPs may provide alternative energy supply to energy-scarce small states, port cities, and remote islands in the region. But just like with traditional land-based NPPs, would floating NPPs also come with potential risks to nuclear safety and security?…”
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Indonesia's regional diplomacy : imperative to maintain Asean cohesion by Sebastian, Leonard C

“…How does Indonesia view itself in terms of regional groupings like ASEAN?…”
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Al-Qaeda grows in Africa : new union with Al Shabaab by Rohan Gunaratna

“…By making inroads to Africa, al Qaeda will exploit Al Shabaab’s long standing links with like-minded threat groups in a fragile continent.…”
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Revolt in the Middle East : Arab monarchies next? by Dorsey, James M.

“…The ever sharper sectarian divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Middle East consitutes the Achilles heel of gulf monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. They have been resisting political reforms and seeking to insulate themselves from the wave of popular protests that have swept the region for the past two years.…”
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Organic electronics and beyond (Advanced Optical Materials 14/2021) by Gather, MC, Lüssem, B, Reineke, S, Riede, M

“…With this Special Issue, we would like to celebrate the 60th birthday of Prof. Karl Leo, one of the leading scientists in the field of Organic Electronics (see also the Guest Editorial, article number 2101108). …”

Advances in Remanufacturing : Proceedings of the VII International Workshop on Autonomous Remanufacturing / by International Workshop on Autonomous Remanufacturing (7th : 2023 : Caserta, Italy), Fera, Marcello, editor 656030, Caterino, Mario, editor 656031, Macchiaroli, Roberto, editor 656032, Pham, Duc Truong, editor 326888

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A Sufficient Condition for k-Contraction of the Series Connection of Two Systems by Ofir, Ron, Margaliot, Michael, Levron, Yoash, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

“…The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnections of contracting sub-systems yield an overall contracting system. …”
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Dual-frequency vortex-induced vibrations of long flexible stepped cylinders by Li, Ang, Mentzelopoulos, Andreas, Triantafyllou, Michael S., Fan, Dixia

“…The results show that the maximum in-line (IL) and cross-flow (CF) displacements and the frequency ratio of the stepped cylinder separated by individual frequency resemble those of a uniform cylinder vibrating in the uniform flow at a single frequency. …”
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Active Extrinsic Contact Sensing: Application to General Peg-in-Hole Insertion by Kim, Sangwoon, Rodriguez, Alberto

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Microlensing Near Macro-Caustics by Weisenbach, Luke, Anguita, Timo, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Oguri, Masamune, Saha, Prasenjit, Schechter, Paul L.

“…Micro-caustics join into a connected network in a region around the macro-critical line of a width proportional to the surface density of microlenses; within this region, the increase of the mean magnification toward the macro-caustic is driven by the increase of the number of micro-images rather than individual magnifications of micro-images. …”
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Effect of curvature variations on the hydrodynamic performance of heaving and pitching foils by van Rees, Wim M.

“…Overall, our results demonstrate that curving fins are consistently able to significantly outperform rigid fins with the same chord line kinematics on both thrust and hydrodynamic efficiency.…”
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Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel by Seering, Joseph, Khadka, Manas, Haghighi, Nava, Yang, Tanya, Xi, Zachary, Bernstein, Michael

“…Moderating online spaces effectively is not a matter of simply taking down content: moderators also provide private feedback and defuse situations before they cross the line into harm. However, moderators have little tool support for these activities, which often occur in the backchannel rather than in front of the entire community. …”
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Regional seismic risk of railway system including derailment consequences by Uchiyama, Yayoi Misu

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Electromagnetic detection of a perfect carpet cloak by Shi, Xihang, Gao, Fei, Lin, Xiao, Zhang, Baile

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Intensity and contrast based surface roughness measurement approaches for rough and shiny surfaces by Prabhathan, P., Song, Chaolong, Haridas, Aswin, Prasad, Guru, Chan, Kelvin

“…In addition to this, in situ monitoring of surface roughness on a workpiece is an important requirement in modern machining process, since it would increase on-line machining rate and consequently productivity. …”
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Experimental investigations on heat and mass transfer performances of a liquid desiccant cooling and dehumidification system by Ou, Xianhua, Cai, Wenjian, He, Xiongxiong, Zhai, Deqing

“…The model predictions are compared with the experimental data, and the results show that the model predictions are well in line with the experimental data with the maximum errors less than 10%. …”
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Crack nucleation from a wedge disclination dipole with shift of rotation axes by Wu, Mao See

“…Biaxial dipoles are more stable when the rotation axis of each disclination approaches the defect line of the other disclination. If the negative disclinations of a uniaxial dipole and a biaxial dipole have the same axis shift, the critical nucleation stress of the biaxial dipole is larger if its positive disclination shift is more than that of the uniaxial dipole. …”
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New circular polarization selective surface by Ren, Zhilin

“… (3)Based on a wideband circular polarizer with parallel metal strip lines, this research optimizes the size, distribution, and shape of the metal strips to reach the goal of broadening bandwidth and smaller thickness. …”
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A review of extraction methods for the analysis of pharmaceuticals in environmental waters by Daniels, Kevin D., Park, Minkyu, Huang, Zhenzhen, Jia, Ai, Flores, Guillermo S., Lee, Hian Kee, Snyder, Shane Allen

“…Additionally, miniaturized and on-line extraction procedures have also attracted a lot of attention. …”
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Phase-field modeling of interfacial debonding in multi-phase materials via an adaptive isogeometric-meshfree approach by Li, Weidong, Nguyen-Thanh, Nhon, Zhou, Kun

“…In this modeling, the crack and interface phase fields are introduced for the regularized representations of crack surfaces and interfaces, respectively, and a convenient approach is proposed for implementing the regularized energy related to both crack surfaces and interfaces without requiring the line integration along them. Numerical implementations of the present modeling are performed via the isogeometric-meshfree approach that constructs the equivalence between isogeometric and meshfree approximations. …”
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