Preparation and characterization of mixed matrix membranes based on PVDF and three inorganic fillers (fumed nonporous silica, zeolite 4A and mesoporous MCM-41) for gas separation by Shen, Yi., Lua, Aik Chong.

“…With the incorporation of the inorganic fillers, the thermal stability of the composite membranes was reduced with lower degradation temperature while the melting temperature and crystallizing temperature seemed to be unaffected. The DSC results showed that the crystallinity of the composite membranes had increased when compared with the pure PVDF membrane. …”
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Surface peptide functionalization of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 for autonomous homing and enhanced delivery of chemotherapeutic agent to lung tumor cells by Nurul Akmarina, Mohd Abdul Kamal, Emilia, Abdulmalek, Sharida, Fakurazi, Cordova, Kyle E., Mohd Basyaruddin, Abdul Rahman

“…Chemotherapeutic agents used in treating certain cancer types operate in a non-selective manner tending to accumulate in normal, healthy tissue when high doses are used. …”
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Concurrent removal of Cu(II), Co(II) and Ni(II) from wastewater by nanostructured layered sodium vanadosilicate: competitive adsorption kinetics and mechanisms by Zhang, Xiaoyuan, Liu, Yu

“…It was further shown that with increasing the Cu2+ concentration from 5 mg/L to 200 mg/L in the ternary system, the respective adsorption efficiencies of Co2+ and Ni2+ tended to decrease from 97.4% to 26.0%, and 97.3 to 13.3% at an adsorbent dosage of 2.0 g/L. …”
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Development of the CHARIOT Research Register for the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia and Other Late Onset Neurodegenerative Diseases by Larsen, Mark E., Curry, Lisa, Mastellos, Nikolaos, Robb, Catherine, Car, Josip, Middleton, Lefkos T.

“…Higher response rates tended to be associated with larger practices (r = 0.34), practices with a larger older population (r = 0.27), less socioeconomically disadvantaged practices (r = 0.68), and practices with a higher proportion of White patients (r = 0.82). …”
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Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles by Wells, Eliza

“…While many role-occupants find conflicts between roles and morality distressing, many others seem not to notice that there is a conflict at all. …”
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Molecular recognition in protein-DNA assemblies by Davey, Curt Alexander

“…Although DNA sequence seemed to dominate site preference, histone octamer association was capable of modulating adduct formation by both inhibiting or promoting platination at certain sites. …”
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Three essays on behavioral and experimental economics by Li, Yupeng

“…We found that Singaporean senders tended to place more trust in responders with a Mainland Chinese accent than they did in responders with a Singaporean Chinese accent. …”
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Gate-level hardware priority resolvers for embedded systems by Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan, Maskell, Douglas Leslie

“…The estimated design metrics show that the modular approach tends to facilitate increasing reductions in delay and power-delay product (PDP) compared to the direct approach, especially as the size of the priority resolver increases. …”
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古典文学中的“戏妻”、“试妻”现象 = An analysis of "Husband Teasing wife" in classical Chinese literature by 郑慧萍 Tay, Hui Ping

“…At times when “Husband Teasing Wife” is being mentioned, Yuan Dynasty’s drama play Qiuhu Teased His Wife tends to appear in our minds. This drama depicts the story of Qiuhu returning home one day and failed to recognize his wife. …”
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Afiksasi nomina dalam bahasa Indonesia by Denistia, K, Rajeg, GPW

“…Our findings indicate that the affix ke-/-an tends to be derived from the adjective word, the affix per-/-an has an over-representation for noun-based words, and verbs have an over-representation as a base word for the affixes -an peN-, and peN-/-an. …”

From cosmos to cell: constructing a paradoxical selfhood through planetary and biological bodies in the poetry of Diane Ackerman and Jane Hirshfield by Tan, Jasmine Hui Jun

“…While Ackerman and Hirshfield’s paradoxical poetics seem to embody qualities of what Linda Hutcheon terms a ‘postmodern poetics’, this project eschews labeling them as postmodern because that would undermine this element of ‘Negative Capability’ (a term that Romantic poet John Keats coined) that both poets valorize. …”
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Learning from nature : experimental observation of mimosa pudica by Zhang, Yi

“…However, a steadily decreasing trend was demonstrated between the reopening time and pulvinus diameter, indicating that the greater pulvinus size tended to have a shorter reopening time. Besides, the fatigue effect was only exhibited with respect to the reopening time, by means of increasing the reopening time and refusing to open with greater stimulation cycles. …”
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Natural robustness of machine learning in the open world by Wei, Hongxin

“…Training with the proposed loss, the network tends to give conservative predictions and results in strong separability of softmax confidence scores between in- and out-of-distribution inputs. …”
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Effectiveness of health education intervention based on health belief model among elderly women in Urmia, Iran by Iranagh, Jamileh Amirzadeh

“…The present study indicated that by the end of the six months intervention, the participants experienced some significant anthropometric changes. It seemed that each of the physical activity or nutrition or compound group led to improvement in the subjects’ body mass index, waist circumference, mid-upper arm circumference, and hip circumference. …”
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Low-power high-performance SAR ADC with redundancy and digital error-correction by Sharma, Sunny

“…The current trend among Nyquist-rate data converters, for example successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADC), tends towards high speeds and medium-to-high resolution. …”
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Effects of energy and protein supplementation on microbial-N synthesis and allantoin excretion in sheep fed guinea grass by Jetana, T, Abdullah, N, Halim, R.A, Jalaludin, S, Ho, Y.W

“…The flow of nitrogenous compounds to the duodenum, i.e., total-N, non-ammonia-N and rumen-undegradable-N were not significantly affected by either protein or energy supplements. Microbial-N flow tended (p<0.08) to be higher in sheep fed CF supplement (average of 10.2 g per day) than in those fed PP supplement (average of 8.1 g per day). …”
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“British English is much more prestigious, everybody knows that!”: reproducing and resisting hegemonic language ideologies in Chilean English teacher education by Pérez Andrade, Gonzalo

“…Consequently, forms of speaking English that are evidently influenced by (Chilean) Spanish tended to be perceived as undesirable and unprofessional (iconisation), supporting the idea that the efficacy of a teacher lies on how close to an idealised model their English is. …”
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation by Lindson, N, Butler, AR, McRobbie, H, Bullen, C, Hajek, P, Wu, AD, Begh, R, Theodoulou, A, Notley, C, Rigotti, NA, Turner, T, Livingstone-Banks, J, Morris, T, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…The most commonly reported AEs were throat/mouth irritation, headache, cough, and nausea, which tended to dissipate with continued EC use. Very few studies reported data on other outcomes or comparisons; hence, evidence for these is limited, with CIs often encompassing both clinically significant harm and benefit. …”