Modelling and Design of a Synergy-based Actuator for a Tendon-driven Soft Robotic Glove by Xiloyannis, Michele, Cappello, Leonardo, Khanh, Dinh Binh, Yen, Shih-Cheng, Masia, Lorenzo

“…Being portability one of our main objectives, we use only 1 motor to move 8 degrees of freedom of the hand. To achieve this we use an underactuation strategy based on the human hand’s first postural synergy, which explains alone 60% of activities of daily living. …”
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Solution processable single-walled carbon nanotubes based thin film field-effect transistors by Chen, Simin.

“…Single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) has a unique varying band gap make them one of the choices for fabricating high-performance thin film field-effect transistors by dispersing SWNTs in array to form the conducting channel. …”
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Volunteer service motivations in eldercare : an explorative study of meaningful inputs from existing volunteers, with the purpose of devising strategies for increased volunteer par... by Lim, Russell Fang Yu

“…It calls on Voluntary Welfare Organizations (VWO) and individuals, to step up and provide necessary social services. Attention is placed on Eldercare VWOs, where the nation’s aging population situation has given rise to concerns over its ability to cope with increased demand. …”
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An improved coefficient decimation based reconfigurable low complexity FIR channel filter for cognitive radios by Ambede, Abhishek, Smitha, Kavallur Gopi, Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad

“…The proposed channel filter has a significantly lower multiplication complexity and achieves superior stopband and transition band characteristics when compared to the channel filters based on the conventional CDM. …”
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Beam studies using a Cherenkov diffraction based beam position monitor for AWAKE by Spear, B, Burrows, PN, Pakuza, C, Senes, E, Mazzoni, S, Lefevre, T, Wendt, M

“…A beam position monitor based on Cherenkov diffraction radiation (ChDR) is being investigated as a way to disentangle the signals generated by the electromagnetic fields of a short-pulse electron bunch from a long proton bunch co-propagating in the AWAKE plasma acceleration experiment at CERN. …”

An Efficient EAP-Based Pre-Authentication for Inter-WRAN Handover in TV White Space by Wang, Cong, Ma, Maode, Zhang, Lei

“…The IEEE 802.22 standard regulates wireless regional area network (WRAN) operating at the very high frequency and ultrahigh frequency television white space (TVWS) bands. WRAN supports extensible authentication protocol (EAP)-based authentication schemes. …”
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Impact of Acoustic and Optical Phonons on the Anisotropic Heat Conduction in Novel C-Based Superlattices by Talwar, Devki N., Becla, Piotr

“…C-based XC binary materials and their (XC)m/(YC)n (X, Y ≡ Si, Ge and Sn) superlattices (SLs) have recently gained considerable interest as valuable alternatives to Si for designing and/or exploiting nanostructured electronic devices (NEDs) in the growing high-power application needs. …”
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When is it acceptable to break the rules? Knowledge representation of moral judgements based on empirical data by Awad, Edmond, Levine, Sydney, Loreggia, Andrea, Mattei, Nicholas, Rahwan, Iyad, Rossi, Francesca, Talamadupula, Kartik, Tenenbaum, Joshua, Kleiman-Weiner, Max

“…If these constraints are too rigid, they can preclude actions that are actually acceptable in certain, contextual situations. Humans, on the other hand, can often decide when a simple and seemingly inflexible rule should actually be overridden based on the context. …”
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Design, fabrication and characterization of integrated electronic devices based on wafer-scale 2D materials by Zhao, Guangchao

“…Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have received great attention since the discovery of the first two dimensional (2D) material (graphene) in 2004. …”
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Sulfate radical based advanced oxidation processes coupled with ceramic membranes for water purification by Bao, Yueping

“…Finally, to have a better understanding on the SMX transformation via PMS in the presence of nano-bimetallic Co/Fe oxides, a systematic study was conducted in Chapter 6. …”
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Polarization-insensitive self-collimation and beam splitter based on triangular-lattice annular photonic crystals by Jiang, Liyong., Wu, Hong., Li, Xiangyin.

“…Finally, a polarization beam splitter has been proposed and demonstrated based on the unique PISC and band-gap feature in triangular-lattice annular PCs.…”
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Differential passive microwave planar resonator-based sensor for chemical particle detection in polluted environments by Hallil, Hamida, Bahoumina, Prince, Pieper, Katrin, Lachaud, Jean Luc, Rebiere, Dominique, Abdelghani, Aymen, Frigui, Kamel, Bila, Stéphane, Baillargeat, Dominique, Zhang, Qing, Coquet, Philippe, Pichonat, Emmanuelle, Happy, Henri, Dejous, Corinne

“…Two devices are presented, with 5 (D1) and 50 (D2) layers of composite sensitive film (PEDOT:PSS-MWCNTs). Each one consists of two band-pass resonators with the fundamental modes around 2.5 and 2.7 GHz. …”
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Exploring the formation of behavioral intention toward rural tourism via sensory experience and memorable tourism experiences, a case study in Henan, China by Zhenbin, Wang, Ramachandran, Sridar, Siow, Mayling, Subramaniam, Thanam, Hui, Zhang

“…The research was conducted through a case study in Henan, China. Using a quantitative approach, a survey was conducted where 490 participants completed a face-to-face questionnaire. …”

Evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admission related to common infections: Risk prediction models to tackle antimicrobial resistance in primary care by Fahmi, A, Palin, V, Zhong, X, Yang, Y, Watts, S, Ashcroft, DM, Goldacre, B, MacKenna, B, Fisher, L, Massey, J, Mehrkar, A, Bacon, S, the OpenSAFELY Collaborative, Hand, K, van Staa, TP

High linearity 8-bit VCO-based cascaded ΣΔADC for digital DC-DC converters by Foong, Huey Chian, Tan, Meng Tong, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…These have significantly increased the signal-to-noise+distortion ratio (SNDR) and lead to high linearity. …”
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Thin 3-D bandpass frequency-selective structure based on folded substrate for conformal radome applications by Omar, Ahmed Abdelmottaleb, Shen, Zhongxiang

“…The structure thickness is only 0.06λ , where λ is the free-space wavelength at the center frequency of the passband. …”
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Room-temperature fabricated thin-film transistors based on compounds with lanthanum and main family element boron by Xiao, Peng, Huang, Junhua, Dong, Ting, Xie, Jianing, Yuan, Jian, Luo, Dongxiang, Liu, Baiquan

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Tailoring the phase transition temperature to achieve high-performance cubic GeTe-based thermoelectrics by Ady Suwardi, Cao, Jing, Hu, Lei, Wei, Fengxia, Wu, Jing, Zhao, Yunshan, Lim, Su Hui, Yang, Lan, Tan, Xian Yi, Chien, Sheau Wei, Yin, Yan, Zhou, Wu-Xing, Wong, Nancy Lai Mun, Wang, Xizu, Lim, Suo Hon, Ni, Xiping, Li, Dengfeng, Yan, Qingyu, Zheng, Yun, Zhang, Gang, Xu, Jianwei

“…The fundamental insights drawn from this work provide a pathway towards engineering GeTe-based alloys to achieve high zT at any temperature of interest.…”
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LKAW: a robust watermarking method based on large kernel convolution and adaptive weight assignment by Zhang, Xiaorui, Jiang, Rui, Sun, Wei, Song, Aiguo, Wei, Xindong, Meng, Ruohan

“…Because the magnitude and convergence rates of each loss function are different, an adaptive loss weight assignment strategy is proposed to make the weights participate in the network training together and adjust the weight dynamically. …”
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A recent development on core-shell-based material and their application in membranes for water and wastewater treatment by Dinia Astira, Dinia Astira, Abdullah, Romario, Widyanto, Alvin Rahmad, Cipta Dharma, Hadi Nugraha, Santoso, Liangga, Sulistiono, Dety Oktavia, Zeni Rahmawati, Zeni Rahmawati, Gunawan, Triyanda, Jaafar, Juhana, Othman, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan, Ratna Ediati, Ratna Ediati, Muhammad Hasan, Muhammad Hasan, Fansuri, Hamzah

“…Various membrane modifications and configurations, such as core–shell-based membrane matrix, as membrane filler, or as coating layer, have been carried out to achieve excellent filtration performance. …”