Synthesis and characterization of calcium carbonate obtained from green mussel and crab shells as a biomaterials candidate by Ismail, Rifky, Cionita, Tezara, Wong, Ling Shing, Fitriyana, Deni Fajar, Siregar, Januar Parlaungan, Bayuseno, Athanasius Priharyoto, Nugraha, Fariz Wisda, Muhamadin, Rilo Chandra, Ramli, Junid, Nor Azam, Endot

“…This study shows that the chemical composition of PMS is nearly identical to that of commercial CaCO3, where no contaminants were identified. …”
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Innovative Double-Finned absorber and Nanoparticle-Enhanced energy storage for enhanced Thermo-Economic performance of solar stills by Suraparaju, Subbarama Kousik, Samykano, Mahendran, Nandavarapu, Raveendra Reddy, Natarajan, Sendhil Kumar, Muthuvairavan, Guna, Yadav, Aman, Vasudevan, Gopi

“…Thermal efficiency improves to 51.38 %, nearly doubling the 29.88 % efficiency of conventional solar stills. …”
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A large-area lithium metal–carbon nanotube film for precise contact prelithiation in lithium-ion batteries by Wang, Chao, Yang, Fangzhou, Wan, Wang, Wang, Shihe, Zhang, Yongyi, Huang, Yunhui, Li, Ju

“…The Li-CNT films show high specific capacities and nearly 100% lithium utilization owing to their exceptional conductive network, porous structure, and electrolyte-philic nature, which facilitates the efficient transport of both electrons and lithium ions. …”
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High-performance deep red colloidal quantum well light-emitting diodes enabled by the understanding of charge dynamics by Hu, Sujuan, Shabani, Farzan, Liu, Baiquan, Zhang, Lingjiao, Guo, Min, Lu, Guanhua, Zhou, Zhisheng, Wang, Jing, Huang, Jacob C., Min, Yonggang, Xue, Qifan, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Liu, Chuan

“…Colloidal quantum wells (CQWs) have emerged as a promising family of two-dimensional (2D) optoelectronic materials with outstanding properties, including ultranarrow luminescence emission, nearly unity quantum yield, and large extinction coefficient. …”
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Cationic carbon monoxide-releasing polymers as antimicrobial and antibiofilm agents by the synergetic activity by Wang, Liping, Zhong, Wenbin, Liu, Bo, Pranantyo, Dicky, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…They also demonstrated potent dispersal efficacy on recalcitrant well-established biofilms through a synergetic activity with a biofilm log10 reduction of 2.5-3.2 ≥ 64 μg/mL and nearly 2.0 at the concentration of as low as 16 μg/mL. …”
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Erasure temperature measurements of heat assisted magnetic recording media by Chen, Y. J., Yang, H. Z., Leong, S. H., Cher, K. M., Hu, J. F., Sethi, P., Lew, Wen Siang

“…Magnetic force microscopy (MFM) and magnetic Kerr microscopy observations of the scanning laser induced degradation/erasure/demagnetization of the pre-recorded magnetic patterns on disk media (over a wide area of a few hundreds of μm2) show that the magnetic (MFM and Kerr signal) amplitude of the pre-recorded magnetic patterns decreases slowly with increasing laser power (Pw) (/temperature rise) for Pw ≲ 66 mW and then drops sharply to nearly zero for Pw ≥ ∼72 mW (the laser power corresponding to complete thermal erasure when the media temperature is ∼Te). …”
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Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance by Martínez, Eric

“…First, although GPT-4’s UBE score nears the 90th percentile when examining approximate conversions from February administrations of the Illinois Bar Exam, these estimates are heavily skewed towards repeat test-takers who failed the July administration and score significantly lower than the general test-taking population. …”
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Spectroscopic study of emergent electronic phases in transition metal based compounds by Song, Qian

“…Antiferromagnets with non-relativistic spin splitting are outstanding candidates as the next generation of spintronic materials owing to their electron-volt (eV) scale spin splitting, ultrafast spin dynamics and nearly vanishing stray fields. Achieving voltage-based control of spin polarization in antiferromagnets is of great interest for realizing energy-efficient and compact devices for information storage and processing. …”
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Engineering memristor : control over the fourth fundamental element for memory application and beyond by Ge, Ning

“…However, it was only a theory for nearly thirty years until the first paper published by HP Labs by the Stanley Williams group in Nature on May 1st, 2008. …”
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The durability properties of high volume oil palm biomass waste mortar by Abdul Shukor Lim, Nor Hasanah

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Exploring the freshwater cladocera (Pleuroxus spp.) as new potential live feed in aquaculture by Amirah Yuslan, Hidayu Suhaimi, Nizalmie Azani, Wong, Wey-Lim, Nadiah W. Rasdi

“…In freshwater lakes, cladocera play a crucial role in the food chain, as they are the primary source of nutrition for nearly all aquatic species. Pleuroxus spp. are very suitable for aquaculture due to their ease of handling, rapid growth, non-selective filter feeder, high nutritional value, and remarkable ability to adapt to many environmental conditions. …”
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Exploring the trait plasticity of ipa1-2d and qpl6 under different nitrogen treatments and heading periods by Zhuang, Wenshu, Jin, Guangyang, Zou, Yiting, Bian, Zhong, Xie, Dong, Zhang, Shuwei, Yeilaghi, Hadi, Yu, Liangliang, Wong, Muiyun, Fan, Xiaolei, Zhao, Dongsheng, Liu, Qiaoquan, Zhang, Lin

“…QTL analysis could elaborate on the environmental impact on trait plasticity using nearly isogenic lines (NILs) of different QTLs. Two QTLs, ipa1-2D and qPL6 are identified to have pleio-tropic contributions to panicle size and plant architecture, but their responses to different growth conditions are still unclear. …”
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Engineered terahertz emission from spintronic heterostructures: amplitude, phase and chirality by Agarwal, Piyush

“…To summarize, the thesis aims to contribute to the synergies of spintronics and photonics for advanced applications in developing scalable devices bearing low-cost fabrication with on-chip compatibility.…”
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Amino-functionalised β-diketiminate ligands (N-nacnacs): Synthesis and coordination chemistry with Main Group elements by Huan, D

“…The establishment of a library of germylenes and stannylenes bearing different N-bound aromatic substituents with varying degrees of steric bulk allows for a systematic study of the steric effects of the flanking aryl groups on the overall molecular metrics of these complexes. …”

Non-contact actuated snap-through buckling of a pre-buckled bistable hard-magnetic elastica by Zhang, Yingchao, Ma, Yinji, Yu, Jing, Gao, Huajian

“…We identify an optimal position for the single M−interface and direction for the uniform actuation field for pre-buckled beams with two-ends fixed, which can reduce the required actuation field for snapping to nearly half in comparison with the symmetric cases. …”
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Quantum State Obfuscation from Classical Oracles by Bartusek, James, Brakerski, Zvika, Vaikuntanathan, Vinod

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Probabilistic and Analytic Methods in Combinatorics by Sawhney, Mehtaab

“…This chapter gives the first such algorithm for finding a low discrepancy coloring which runs in nearly input sparsity time. The seventh chapter concerns effective bounds for special cases of the polynomial Szemerédi theorem. …”
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教会华校的特色与地位 ：以新加坡公教中学为案例 = Missionary Chinese-medium school : its traits and position with Catholic high school, Singapore as case study by 卓汶德 Toh, Boon Teck

“…With a long history of nearly 80 years and holding onto the teaching ideology of focusing students to become bilingual with Chinese and English, Catholic High School has produced some of the well-known personalities in the entertainment and the political arenas in Singapore. …”
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Spin-ice physics and phase transitions in cadmium cyanide by Coates, CS

“…</p> <p>The main result of this thesis is to demonstrate that by replacing the magnetic dipole in spin-ice with the electric dipole of the cyanide ion, cadmium cyanide displays spin-ice behaviour at temperatures nearly sixty times higher that in its magnetic analogue. …”

Government resilience in the digital age by Raieste, A, Rebane, A, Tapupere, M, McBride, K

“…<br> For many governments, the COVID-19 pandemic was a wakeup call. Nearly 30% of governments in Europe had to postpone elections, education was disrupted, and many governments struggled to ensure the availability of their public services. …”