Organic solvent-assisted control of hydrogel structures and properties by Zhou, Quan

“…This became possible for the following two reasons: 1) the addition of ethanol makes SA solution exhibit the upper critical solution temperature (UCST) behavior in which gelation occurred when the temperature was reduced below the sol-to-gel transition temperature, and 2) the presence of ethanol significantly increased the viscosity of SA solution and enhanced its shear-thinning feature, thus making it ideal for 3D printing. …”
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Computation fluid dynamics on drag reduction II by Zang, Bin

“…Five RANS turbulence models: Spalart-Allmaras (Vorticity-based production); Spalart-Allmaras (Strain / Vorticity-based production); k-ε Standard (Enhanced Wall Treatment); k-ε Realizable (Enhanced Wall Treatment) and k-ω Standard (Shear Flow Correction), are chosen after comparing with DNS data published by Moser et al (1999). [20] Subsequently, the single and multiple dimpled channel flows are modeled and simulated by the five RANS models chosen in the verification stage with periodic boundary condition, a Reynolds number of 20000, and a three-dimensional channel of L = 1.5 m, B = 0.454 m and H = 1 m. …”
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Debonding-on-demand Fe₃O₄-epoxy adhesively bonded dissimilar joints via electromagnetic induction heating by Caglar, Hasan, Aksoy, Y. Altay, Idapalapati, Sridhar, Caglar, Baris, Sharma, Mohit, Chian, Kerm Sin

“….%) of Fe3O4 exhibited beneficial effects on the mechanical, thermal, thermomechanical, wettability and lap shear strength.…”
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Mechanical properties of additively manufactured kraft paper lattices and paper-epoxy interpenetrating phase composites for polymer foam replacement by Lim, Guo Yao, Kuek, Ryan Jian Xing, Teo, Javen, Seetoh, Ian Peiyuan, Lai, Chang Quan

“…It was postulated that these failure modes minimized shear stresses between the sheets and were, therefore, preferred. …”
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A feed-centric hypoglycaemia pathway ensures appropriate care escalation in at-risk infants by Chandran, Suresh, Siew, Jia Xuan, Rajadurai, Victor Samuel, Lim, Rachel Wei Shan, Chua, Mei Chien, Yap, Fabian

“…FCP involves skin-to-skin care, early breast feeding, checking glucose at 2 hours and use of buccal glucose. …”
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A new reconfigurable true random number generator and physical unclonable function unified chip with on-chip auto-calibration by Cao, Yuan, Liu, Wanyi, Zheng, Yue, Chen, Shuai, Ye, Jing, Qian, Lei, Chang, Chip Hong

“…A new lightweight secure mutual authentication protocol is also proposed to effectively thwart machine learning, replay and man-in-the-middle attacks using only the underlying TRNG and PUF without requiring any other security primitives. …”
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Myocardial injury is distinguished from stable angina by a set of candidate plasma biomarkers identified using iTRAQ/MRM-based approach by Cheow, Esther Sok Hwee, Cheng, Woo Chin, Yap, Terence, Dutta, Bamaprasad, Lee, Chuen Neng, Kleijn, Dominique P. V. de, Sorokin, Vitaly, Sze, Siu Kwan

“…Hence, the search for noninvasive biomarkers that could accurately stratify patients with impending heart attack, from patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD), is urgently needed in the clinic. …”
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Differences in pulse manifestations at Cunkou based on simplified modeling of tactile sensing by Shi, Yubing, Yang, Hongyi, Yeo, Joon Hock

“…Some researchers mentioned that no significant differences were observed in pulse manifestations at various Cunkou areas, hence there might be some difficulty in evaluating the status of different organs through checking pulse manifestations at Cunkou. This research aims to analyze the pulse response at Cunkou from the aspect of the characteristics of tactile sensing, thus to give a preliminary explanation to the above question. …”
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Hermes: Boosting the Performance of Machine-Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System through Geometric Feature Learning by Zhang, Chaoyu, Shi, Shanghao, Wang, Ning, Xu, Xiangxiang, Li, Shaoyu, Zheng, Lizhong, Marchany, Randy, Gardner, Mark, Hou, Y. Thomas, Lou, Wenjing

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Correlating physicochemical properties of commercial membranes with CO₂ absorption performance in gas-liquid membrane contactor by Xu, Yilin, Malde, Chandresh, Wang, Rong

“…A series of membrane characterization tests revealed that the morphology, pore size, hydrophobicity, and stability of selected commercial membranes were greatly affected by MEA attack during long-term operations. Therefore, the selection criterion of microporous membranes for high-efficiency and long-term stable CO₂ absorption in GLMC processes was proposed. …”
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Coating deposition in cold spray process by Koh, Pak Keng

“…Its distinctiveness presents immense opportunity in providing a new platform to address wear, erosion, corrosion and environmental attack issues. Preliminary study demonstrates the technical viability of the cold spray process as an alternate repair method to address corrosion issues for gas turbine engine fan cases. …”
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Identification of potential common cyclic-di-GMP regulated biomarkers among three gram negative bacteria via transcriptomic and metabolomic profiling by Cai, Zhao

“…Biofilm infections can evade host immune attack and develop into chronic conditions, which cannot be efficiently eradicated by conventional antimicrobial treatments. …”
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Composite material production of nonmetallic printed circuit board waste with recycled high density polyethylene by Muniyandi, Shantha Kumari

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Guaranteed bounds on posterior distributions of discrete probabilistic programs with loops by Zaiser, F, Murawski, AS, Ong, C-HL

“…Since lower bounds can be obtained by unrolling loops, the main challenge is upper bounds, and we attack it in two ways. The first is called residual mass semantics, which is a flat bound based on the residual probability mass of a loop. …”

Self-healing framework for service level agreement monitoring and violation reacting in cloud computing by Mosallanejad, Ahmad

“…The implemented frameworks are executed in described scenario for 20 minutes and every 5 minutes an intrusion attack applied to stop SQL service. The reaction speed and the rate of SLA violation are measured in this experiment for results comparison. …”
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Structure-activity relationships of photo-activated soft tissue Adhesive by Wicaksono, Gautama

“…Finally, to demonstrate potential applications, the proposed CaproGlu bioadhesive is mixed with osseointegrative additive to form a bone cement biocomposite using a model PMMA pin that allows biocomposite curing through a transparent light guide, with resulting lap shear strength up to 40 kPa. Overall, this diazirine-based adhesive system demonstrates a novelty in adhesive design where excellent tunability in material properties can be achieved by modifying composition (adding liquid polymer or solid particles) and light activation parameters (power, wavelength) with direct application towards soft and hard tissue adhesion.…”
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Geotechnical and micro-structural behaviour of chemically stabilized tropical residual soil by Latifi, Nima

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High cycle fatigue characterisation and modelling of 316L stainless steel processed by laser powder bed fusion by Zhang, Meng

“…Despite the diverse fatigue and fracture properties, the models produced good prediction accuracy when checked against the test data. Moreover, the method demonstrated good generalisation capability on applying to literature data. …”
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Wind tunnel design and fabrication for lift force investigation by Ong, Jun Wei

“…With the set-up ready, it will then be used for the collation of data for lift and drag forces at different angle of attack (AOA) and wind velocity. These data will then be analysed and evaluated to obtain the relationship between lift and drag forces with varying AOA and wind velocities. …”
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Screen printed quinone-derivatives-based carbon electrode : a novel universal voltammetric pH sensor in buffered and unbuffered solution by Karya, Arthur Bentus

“…Alizarin exhibits a shift of 56.38mV/pH over pH 1.75-9 in BR Buffer and 0.5% error in unbuffered pH monitoring but it suffers from nucleophilic attack via 1,4-Michael addition to the double bond at high pH, leading to dissolution and production of new compound. …”
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