Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…Keyboards have been the key human-to-computer input device since they were first introduced to the commercial world in the 1970s. …”
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Role of Water Solvation on the Key Intermediates Catalyzing Oxygen Evolution on RuO2 by Di Liberto, Giovanni, Pacchioni, Gianfranco, Shao-Horn, Yang, Giordano, Livia

“…This study provides further mechanistic insights on the role of the oxide surface chemistry in the OER mechanism and highlights the importance of explicitly treating the catalyst/water interfaces including dynamical aspects to assess the stability and the interconversion mechanism of key surface species, since the adoption of static solvation approaches tends to overestimate the energetic difference between −OOH and −OO–H reaction intermediates.…”
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Seismic performance of reinforced concrete columns with plain longitudinal reinforcing bars by Pham, Thanh Phuong, Li, Bing

“…Further comparisons with the existing model for evaluation of existing structures revealed that the ASCE/SEI 41-06 provision tends to overestimate initial stiffness and shear strength, but substantially underestimates drift capacities of columns with plain reinforcing bars. …”
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Why did China seldom claim? : Overseas investment and bilateral investment treaties by Chen, Jiaxin

“…The research finds that, instead of solving the dispute settlement issues, the China-EU BIT tends to play its role in market liberalization. …”
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Characterizing correlation within multipartite quantum systems via local randomized measurements by Liu, Zhenhuan, Zeng, Pei, Zhou, You, Gu, Mile

“…Yet, the experimental access of this quantity remains challenging as it tends to be nonlinear, and hence often requires tomography which becomes quickly intractable as dimensions of relevant quantum systems scale. …”
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Electroosmotic flow hysteresis for fluids with dissimilar pH and ionic species by Lim, An Eng, Lam, Yee Cheong

“…However, complete displacement tends to be achieved by lowering the NaCl concentration, i.e., increasing its zeta potential. …”
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Brewers’ spent grains as potential novel functional food ingredients for food security by Tan, Yong Xing

“…BSG are residues generated as side streams from beer production. Currently, BSG are used as animal feed or disposed in landfills and these massive amount of BSG generated annually are causing significant environmental, economic, and climatic issues. …”
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Distributed execution of workflow by Khademi Hedayat, Maryam

“…The main reasons which led us to this selection are: (i) there is few existing work on partitioning workflow, specially as a means of accelerating workflow execution; (ii) several systems have been developed using three main enactment models (i.e., centralized, hierarchical, and distributed models), but most of them focus on centralized execution control while the existing hierarchical and distributed models still have problems such as high overhead in communication amongst the distributed parties; and (iii) data movement mechanisms are divided into: centralized, mediated, and peer-to-peer models. …”
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Exploring Literature Anxiety among Students Studying Literature in English at Universiti Sains Malaysia by Wei, Agnes Lin Liau

“…Although there have been efforts to research on anxiety and students' performance in the learning situations, there has not been any recorded research to date on literature anxiety. …”
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Distribution of an enzyme in porous polymer beads by Ampon, Kamaruzaman

“…Trypsin has been immobilized by adsorption onto Amberlite XAD‐7 beads. …”

Design and comparative analysis of different pricing mechanisms and energy allocation policies for energy trading by Lim, Jerand Ze Hui

“…As a result, the dependency on fossil fuels, natural gas, and coals to produce electricity will be minimized. Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading has been proposed as a solution to this problem. …”
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Lean Six Sigma in healthcare: a systematic literature review on motivations and benefits by McDermott, Olivia, Antony, Jiju, Bhat, Shreeranga, Jayaraman, Raja, Rosa, Angelo, Marolla, Giuliano, Parida, Ratri

“…While Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has been applied extensively in healthcare organisations, there has been limited research on the trends of LSS application in healthcare in recent years. …”
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The intransitive dice kernel: $$\frac{\mathbbm {1}_{x\ge y}-\mathbbm {1}_{x\le y}}{4} - \frac{3(x-y)(1+xy)}{8}$$ by Sah, Ashwin, Sawhney, Mehtaab

“…Answering a pair of questions of Conrey, Gabbard, Grant, Liu, and Morrison, we prove that a triplet of dice drawn from the multiset model are intransitive with probability $$1/4+o(1)$$ 1 / 4 + o ( 1 ) and the probability a random pair of dice tie tends toward $$\alpha n^{-1}$$ α n - 1 for an explicitly defined constant $$\alpha $$ α . …”
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Memory and fluctuations in chemical dynamics by Farahvash, Ardavan

“…Using these methods, I show that the local coordination number around a CO molecule plays a crucial role in the transition states of the adsorption/desorption process, and that CO tends to increase its coordination number before desorbing. …”
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The potential roles of granular activated carbon in anaerobic fluidized membrane bioreactors : effect on membrane fouling and membrane integrity by Wu, Bing, Wong, Philip Chuen Yung, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…GAC can exhibit two major beneficial roles in reducing membrane fouling, namely, (1) GAC scours the membranes to limit the cake layer formation and facilitate cake layer removal; (2) GAC tends to absorb potential foulants to reduce the interaction of foulants with the membranes. …”
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Analyticity, regularity, and generalized polynomial chaos approximation of stochastic, parametric parabolic two-scale partial differential equations by Hoang, Viet Ha

“…Passing to the limit when the microscale tends to zero, using two-scale homogenization, we obtain the parametric two-scale homogenized problem. …”
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Cluster-based information fusion for probabilistic risk analysis in complex projects under uncertainty by Zhang, Limao, Wang, Ying, Wu, Xianguo

“…This paper proposes a hybrid soft computing approach that integrates the Dempster–Shafer (D–S) evidence theory and cluster analysis for probabilistic risk analysis in complex projects under uncertainty. The fusion model tends to solve multi-criteria decision-making problems with a focus on the information content reflected from evidence. …”
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A molecular dynamics simulation to shed light on the mechanical alloying of an Al-Zr alloy induced by severe plastic deformation by Morkina, Alina Y., Babicheva, Rita I., Korznikova, Elena A., Enikeev, Nariman A., Edalati, Kaveh, Dmitriev, Sergey V.

“…This happens because in the second case, grain boundary sliding is the main deformation mechanism, and Zr tends to remain within the interfaces. In contrast, the involvement of dislocations in the case of normal orientation of grain boundaries with Zr segregation significantly contributes to deformation and facilitates better dissolution of Zr in the Al matrix. …”
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Design of slender reinforced concrete column using Indian design code and Chinese design code (dual project) by Tan, Xesman Zhong Hong

“…Column with higher L/h ratio tends to have a lower compressive strength. In addition, this lower compressive strength will decrease even further when the column has a low e/h ratio. …”
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Initiation, marketing and branding of smart city projects: a study of decision processes by Vijaygopal, Rohini, Bennett, Roger, Savani, Sharmila

“…Today, smart city areas and initiatives are found throughout the world, yet little research has been completed into the processes whereby decisions concerning the initiation, marketing, and branding of smart city projects have been taken. …”
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