Effects of salts on the sol-gel transition and gel network structure by Xu, Yirong

“…In this study, the effects of various salt-out salts, salt-in salts and salt mixtures on the sol-gel transition of aqueous methylcellulose (MC) solutions have been studied systematically by means of micro differential scanning calorimetry (micro DSC), rheometry and UV/Vis spectroscopy.…”
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Effects of high loading rate on reinforced concrete beams by Fujikake, Kazunori, Adhikary, Satadru Das, Li, Bing

“…The majority of past research on reinforced concrete (RC) beams has focused on their behavior under static and relatively slow loading rates, while limited attention has been paid to the corresponding behavior under high loading rates. …”
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Finding similar motion across video sequences by Sim, Si Jia.

“…Security threats had always been an issue of concern in global countries and thus, security organizations had been trying to find ways to detect possible threats by the means of CCTVs to take a real time image of the surroundings of the public places. …”
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Triggered drug release and enhanced drug transport from ultrasound-responsive nanoparticles by Kwan, JJ, Coussios, CC

“…To address this challenge, there have been major advances in stimulus-responsive technologies for active drug delivery. …”

Human activity recognition based on smartphone sensors by Rajendran, Abinaya

“…Some of these methods are discussed in this dissertation work and an attempt has been made to utilize them to recognize the human activities. …”
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Energy storage circuit for piezoelectric energy harvest system by Tan, Janice Yuan Zhen

“…Most energy harvesting devices developed to date are single resonance frequency based, and while recent efforts have been made to broaden the frequency range of energy harvesting devices, what is lacking is a robust tuneable energy harvesting technique. …”
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Investigation of the image processing algorithms for medical applications by Nurul Hidayah Abdul Manan

“…Biomedical image processing technique has been widely used in facilitating visualization analysis for medical images, for instance tumour. …”
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3-D Topology Optimization of Spatially Averaged Surface-Enhanced Raman Devices by Hammond, Ian M.

“…An objective function represented by ട|E|⁴dV effectively approximates Raman enhancement. This function tends to diverge near sharp tips and other singular geometries in three-dimensional spaces for relevent materials. …”
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Hobbes and the tragedy of democracy by Holman, Christopher

“…Democracy is tragic to the extent that it must be a regime of self-limitation, there existing no ethical standard external to society that may intervene so as to guide our political self-activity, and yet the structure of deliberation in democratic assemblies tends to render such self-limitation impossible. …”
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Generational divide : how Pakatan Harapan swung the youth vote in GE14 by Waikar, Prashant

“…The article argues that BN’s brand of politics which employs Malay-Muslim supremacy is reliant on a practice of feudalistic politics which privileges older Malaysians and thus tends to disempower youths. Since BN utilised this brand of politics to remain in power, it became exceedingly difficult for its component parties to avoid alienating Malaysian youths. …”
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Domain aggregation and associated pore growth in lipid membranes by Liu, Yue, Zou, Guijin, Gao, Huajian

“…To help reveal and understand the underlying mechanisms, here we establish a theory to show that the deformation energy of the membrane tends to limit the growth of molecular domains on a lipid membrane, resulting in a characteristic domain size, and that the domain aggregation significantly reduces the energy barrier to pore growth. …”
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Effects of load handling and aging on balance control by Tan, Sherri Xue Qi.

“…From the results analysis, the Mature group tends to sway more than the Young group at various loading conditions. …”
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3D measurement of movements of fish fins using high-speed cameras-I by Tan, John Wei You

“…Despite the square shape and the looks of clumsiness and bulkiness that the boxfish tends to leave an impression on others, the body shape of the boxfish is design to aid in the navigation of the fish through tight spaces. …”
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Effective and efficient bunker operations, logistics, procurement, developments in the maritime industry. Part 2 : Effective and efficient management of bunker quality in the pers... by Wong, Jyun Yir

“…Bunker quality when compared to price tends to be less emphasised by owners and operators when procuring for fuels. …”
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Positive bias-induced Vth instability in graphene field effect transistors by Liu, W. J., Fang, Z., Wang, Z. R., Wang, F., Wu, L., Zhang, J. F., Wei, J., Zhu, H. L., Sun, Xiaowei, Tran, Xuan Anh, Ng, Geok Ing, Yu, Hongyu

“…The ΔVth of GFETs increases as stressing time and voltage increases, and tends to saturate after long stressing time. In the meanwhile, it does not show much dependence on gate length, width, and the number of graphene layers. …”
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Ant, spider and DNA: letting mindless generative mechanisms speak by Bråten, E

“…Their privileging of spatiotemporal immediacy entails a one-dimensional (flat) ontology that tends to push mindless generative mechanisms out of view. …”

Wear modelling of a rail-wheel system by Lim, Darren Wei Xiang

“…As one of the most efficient and aggregate means of transportation, the service life of the railway has been expected to be maintained or improved. …”
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Decentralization : the China and Indonesia experiences. by Quan, Quan.

“…In this paper, we would like to attempt to address the puzzle that if decentralization has been widely regarded as a tool to promote the democratization process in non-democratic countries and improve welfare at local level, why some of the decentralization experiences in China and Indonesia do not seem to confirm that. …”
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The weak π − π interaction originated resonant tunneling and fast switching in the carbon based electronic devices by He, Jun, Chen, Ke-Qiu, Sun, Changqing

“…A fast electrical switching behavior based on negative differential resistance has been found when two molecules are coupled by the weak π − π interaction. …”
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Option-based quantification and generic optimization of debt refinancing in public-private partnership infrastructure projects by Zheng, Sha

“…The concept of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and its application in procurement and development of infrastructure projects have been promoted worldwide due to the introduction of additional financing sources and value for money by this means. …”
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