The Origins of Holding-Together Federalism: Nepal, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka by Breen, Michael G.

“…Federalism was not established in Asia again until Nepal’s new constitution of 2015. Why has federalism been resisted and what causes its institutionalization? …”
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Strategies for enhancing the sensitivity of plasmonic nanosensors by Guo, Longhua, Jackman, Joshua A., Yang, Huang-Hao, Chen, Peng, Cho, Nam-Joon, Kim, Dong-Hwan

“…Many detection schemes have been developed and the field is rapidly growing to incorporate new methodologies and applications. …”
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Elucidating the catalytic effect of metal ions in montmorillonite on thermal degradation of organic modifier by Zope, Indraneel Suhas, Dasari, Aravind, Camino, Giovanni

“…Knowing the effect of each metal ion separately, correlation between clay structural chemistry and organic degradation onset has been established. Degradation mechanism for alkyl fragment (from organic modifier) was provided adding fundamental knowledge to the field that will help in the design and development of polymer/clay nanocomposites with superior fire retardancy.…”
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A proxy signature-based handover authentication scheme for LTE wireless networks by Qiu, Yue, Ma, Maode, Wang, Xilei

“…Besides, since key chains have been used in the handover processes, it is found to be lack of backward security. …”
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A Review of Phosphide-Based Materials for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Xiao, Peng, Chen, Wei, Wang, Xin

“…In addition to sulfides, the search for non-noble metal catalysts has been mainly directed at phosphides due to the superb activity of phosphides for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and their low-cost considering the abundance of the non-noble constituents of phosphides. …”
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Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective α-Arylation of α-Fluoroketones by Jiao, Zhiwei, Beiger, Jason J., Jin, Yushu, Ge, Shaozhong, Zhou, Jianrong Steve, Hartwig, John F.

“…Several enantioselective versions of this process have been reported, but intermolecular, enantioselective coupling reactions of aryl electrophiles with α-fluoro carbonyl compounds have yet to be disclosed. …”
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Cylinder-wall interference effects on finite-length wavy cylinders at subcritical Reynolds number flows by New, T. H., Shi, Shengxian., Liu, Yingzheng.

“…Vortex-shedding behaviour of smaller-wavelength wavy cylinders has also been observed to be considerably less sensitive to variations in the physical configurations, due to the formation of multiple streamwise vortices at the saddles. …”
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Understanding the bonding mechanisms of directly sputtered copper thin film on an alumina substrate by Lim, Ju Dy, Lee, Pui Mun, Chen, Zhong

“…Three different bonding mechanisms, viz., surface adsorption, mechanical interlocking, and diffusion bonding have been assessed. A tensile test was applied to measure the interfacial adhesion strength between the Cu films and the Al2O3 substrate. …”
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TDCS-IDMA system for cognitive radio networks with cloud by Hu, Su, Li, Fan, Guo, Huiting, Wang, Pei, Bi, Guoan, Gao, Yuan, Liu, Zilong, Yu, Bin

“…Recently, a new model called cognitive radio networks with cloud (CRNC) has been proposed to eliminate the constraints (pertinent to traditional CR) on power, memory space, and computational capacity. …”
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Personality traits bias the perceived quality of sonic environments by Lindborg, PerMagnus, Friberg, Anders

“…There have been few empirical investigations of how individual differences influence the perception of the sonic environment. …”
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China and the “Singapore Model” : perspectives from mid-level cadres and implications for transnational knowledge transfer by Liu, Hong, Wang, Tingyan

“…Although this phenomenon has been studied, no attention has been drawn to the perspectives of those mid-level cadres who took part in the training and what those perspectives might imply. …”
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Source language effect on translating Korean honorifics by Paik, Kyonghee., Ohtake, Kiyonori., Bond, Francis., Yamamoto, Kazuhide.

“…Half of the Korean sentences (162,308 sentences: henceforth, KJ) were translated from Japanese and the other half (henceforth, KE) have been translated from English sentences which match the Japanese.…”
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System crash as dynamics of complex networks by Yu, Yi, Xiao, Gaoxi, Zhou, Jie, Wang, Yubo, Wang, Zhen, Kurths, Jürgen, Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim

“…Although the growth and evolution of systems have been extensively studied, our understanding of how systems crash is still limited. …”
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Effect of processing parameters on electroless Cu seed layer properties by Chen, Z., Chan, L., See, Alex K. H., Law, S. B., Zeng, K. Y., Shen, L., Tee, K. C., Ee, Elden Yong Chiang

“…A surface roughness (Rrms) of ∼17 nm has been achieved. The results obtained in current study points out a promising process for laying down thin Cu seed layer.…”
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Formation and characterization of magnetron sputtered Ta–Si–N–O thin films by Xu, S., Chen, Z., Yan, H., Li, L., Ho, F. Y., Liang, M. H., Pan, J. S.

“…The composition, microstructure, thermal stability and electrical resistivity have been investigated. In the as-deposited state, all films consist of amorphous TaSixOy, TaxOy, TaxNy and TaSix compounds. …”
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Ranking of parameters in bioheat transfer using Taguchi analysis by Jamil, Muhammad, Ng, Eddie Yin-Kwee

“…Historically, Pennes bioheat equation has been used for bioheat transfer modeling in living tissue because of its simplicity, effectiveness and ease of application. …”
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Towards an optimal and unbiased approach for tumor cell isolation by Sajay, Bhuvanendran Nair Gourikutty, Chang, Chia-Pin, Ahmad, Hamizah, Chung, Wong Chee, Puiu, Poenar Daniel, Rahman, Abdur Rub Abdur

“…Despite the presence of a vast number of academic and commercial technologies, the lack of a standardized and optimized platform has been widely noted. We present a negative enrichment approach, integrating WBC depletion and chemical-free RBC depletion in the same setup without the need for centrifugation, washing or multiple sample handling steps. …”
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A high-sensitivity 135GHz millimeter-wave imager by compact split-ring-resonator in 65-nm CMOS by Li, Nan, Yu, Hao, Yang, Chang, Shang, Yang, Li, Xiuping, Liu, Xiong

“…Millimeter-wave images has been demonstrated with millimeter-wave imager integrated with antenna array.…”
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Solving combinatorial optimization problems using augmented lagrange chaotic simulated annealing by Wang, Lipo., Tian, Fuyu, Soong, Boon Hee, Wan, Chunru

“…Chaotic simulated annealing (CSA) proposed by Chen and Aihara has been successfully used to solve a variety of combinatorial optimization problems. …”
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Reliability and stability of amphibious house for floodplain areas in Malaysia by Mohammad Ali Nekooie

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