Remarkable SERS Activity Observed from Amorphous ZnO Nanocages by Wang, Xiaotian, Shi, Wenxiong, Huang, Weifeng, Lin, Jie, Ma, Guanshui, Li, Shuzhou, Guo, Lin, Jin, Zhao

“…The efficient ICTP can even generate π bonding in Zn−S bonds peculiar to the mercapto molecule adsorbed a‐ZnO NCs, which has been verified through the X‐ray absorption near‐edge structure (XANES) characterization. …”
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Adaptive wing and fuselage structure for UAVs by Truong, Ngoc Quoc Thang.

“…Hence this project proposes a new design that uses Planar Kagome lattice to reinforce the core air-beam.…”
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The future of IPTV: adding social networking and mobility by Mirlacher, T., Montpetit, Marie-Jose, Klym, Natalie

“…Driven in large part by the near-ubiquitous IP-based communication services, the TV experience has been extended over the years to embrace many of the same ancillary services provided by web applications. …”
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A communal furniture informed by the deprivation of Mauritian beach by Fok Kow, Fok-Chi-Seng

“…Having lived near to a beach and creating childhood memories of the place, to later witness its deterioration due to erosion is something unbearable, especially when climate change is one of the major reasons. …”
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PETRINA : personalizing and analyzing spatiotemporal traffic information by Yan, Wye Huong

“…Extensive planning has been done to ensure that PETRINA is highly scalable, sustainable, robust and adaptive to changes. …”
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Electrical and optoelectronic studies of semiconductor nanostructures by Wong, Jen It.

“…Electrical and optoelectronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures including silicon nanocrystals (nc-Si) and n-CdSxSe1-x nanowires have been studied in this thesis. Firstly, the current conduction in nc-Si embedded dielectric thin films of a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) device with different nc-Si distributions in the gate oxide (i.e., SiO2) has been investigated. …”
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3D ultrasonic imaging of surface-breaking cracks using a linear array by Saini, Abhishek, Lane, Christopher J. L., Tu, Juan, Xue, Honghui, Fan, Zheng

“…Although several ultrasonic imaging methods have been implemented to inspect different types of defects, there has been limited research to characterise surface-breaking cracks (SBCs) in 3D quantitatively. …”
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Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head design and simulation by Chaw, Li Huey

“…An optic delivery system is wisely designed to direct the laser beam into the recording medium and to prevent the heat loss from the laser in the read/write head. …”
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Experimental study on effects of multi-column removal affecting behaviour of RC frames to mitigate progressive collapse by Ye, Da Wei

“…In this experiment, 2 similar specimens of multi-panel beam-slab-column system were tested with the only difference being the number of columns removed in each test. …”
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Pulsed fiber laser at 1 μm wavelength region by Liu, Meng

“…Secondly, high average power and high peak power YDPFLs have been constructed and studied. High power YDPFLs have progressed rapidly and been widely utilized for material processing. …”
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Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology by Gould, E, Fraser, HS, Parker, TH, Nakagawa, S, Griffith, SC, Vesk, PA, Fidler, F, Hamilton, DG, Abbey-Lee, RN, Abbott, JK, Aguirre, LA, Alcaraz, C, Aloni, I, Altschul, D, Arekar, K, Atkins, JW, Atkinson, J, Baker, CM, Barrett, M, Bell, K, Bello, SK, Beltrán, I, Berauer, BJ, Bertram, MG, Wood, A

“…Many of these studies have been in the social sciences, but one small “many analyst” study found similar variability in ecology. …”

Exploiting dynamic bifurcation in elastic ribbons for mode skipping and selection by Huang, Weicheng, Yu, Tian, Vella, Dominic, Hsia, K. Jimmy, Liu, Mingchao

“…The planar beam model is also employed for the asymptotic analysis of dynamic snap-through behaviors. …”
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Intelligent database design for microgrids in low voltage distribution systems-I GUI and database design by Ng, Pei Fen

“…Climatic change can lead to consequences such as increasing cases of heat-related illness, endangering wildlife like polar bears and rising of sea level that would trigger natural disasters leading to individual losing their homes. [51] Due to extensively use of electricity in this contemporary society, there arises a need to seek for alternative energy sources, if at all possible renewable resources such as wind and solar. …”
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Diffusion of polyethylene oxide in montmorillonite : single molecule study of polymer nanocomposite by Jefri Sanusi Teguh

“…Slower diffusion was expected due to the presence of depletion zone near the crystal which was confirmed by AFM measurement. …”
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Efficient techniques for subgraph mining and query processing by Lin, Wenqing

“…Graph data has been so prevalent that efficiently obtaining useful information from them is highly demanded. …”
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Interdigital Sensors : Progress over the Last Two Decades / by Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra, editor 180903, George, Boby, editor 643117, Roy, Joyanta Kumar, editor 643118, Islam, Tarikul, editor 643119

“…It presents theory, design, and practical realization of the IDT sensors working over wide frequency rage for scientific, industrial, and consumer applications. The IDT sensors have been widely investigated for wide range of sensing applications including agriculture, environmental monitoring, structural health monitoring, health care, food and beverage testing, testing of dielectric material, proximity sensing, microfluidic application, automatic dispensing system etc. …”

RoboTSP - a fast solution to the robotic task sequencing problem by Suárez-Ruiz, Francisco, Lembono, Teguh Santoso, Pham, Quang-Cuong

“…First, we propose a fast, near-optimal, algorithm to solve RTSP. The key to our approach is to exploit the classical distinction between task space and configuration space, which, surprisingly, has been so far overlooked in the RTSP literature. …”
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Range front faulting and volcanism in the mono basin, eastern California by Bursik, Marcus, Sieh, Kerry

“…The section of the Sierra Nevadan range front near the craters accommodated as much as 1 mm/yr of extension as recently as about 40,000 years ago. …”
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Pan-European atmospheric lead pollution, enhanced blood lead levels, and cognitive decline from Roman-era mining and smelting by McConnell, JR, Chellman, N, Plach, A, Wensman, SM, Plunkett, G, Stohl, A, Smith, N, Vinther, BM, Dahl-Jensen, D, Steffensen, JP, Fritzsche, D, Brugger, SO, McDonald, BT, Wilson, AI

“…The most significant exposure for the rural, nonelite population may have been to background air pollution from silver mining and smelting that underpinned the Roman economy. …”

A structure-function study of the TWIK-1 K2P channel by Abd-Wahab, MF

“…However, it has also been suggested that TWIK-1 at the surface membrane is rapidly internalised into endosomes via the endocytosis pathway. …”