Process development for moving mechanical assemblies by Tay, Beng Kang

“…The current generation of MEMS are fabricated using processing technology such as lithography and etching derived from silicon (Si) microelectronics. One tends to compare MEMS with silicon microelectronics but there is a fundamental difference. …”
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Repulsive Casimir effect in Chern insulators by Tiang, Bi Hong

“…The high temperature regime may diminish the hall conductivity and it tends to generate attractive Casimir force. Moreover, for the zero temperature case with higher Chern numbers C = 3, 4, 8, we suggest that it is possible to get repulsive Casimir force as the hall conductivity of two Chern Insulators has opposing signs.…”
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Development and severity analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collision with covered linkway by Ng, Nathaniel Jingwei

“…A higher impact speed resulted in higher maximum contact force and displacement for both rigid impactor and UAV cases. The rigid impactor tends to overpredict the maximum contact force compared to the UAV. …”
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Study of sFRP1 and β-catenin of Wnt signaling pathway in triple negative breast cancer and their correlation with clinicopathologic outcomes. by Seah, Cindy Chiou Peng.

“…Moreover, triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) tends to have a poorer prognosis. A cohort of 109 representative TNBC cases was retrieved to further study the wnt signaling pathway in TNBC by determining the expression profiles of secreted Frizzled-related protein 1 (sFRP1) and β-catenin using immunohistochemistry, and to identify the association of these protein expressions with clinicopathological characteristics and survival data and their prognostic significance, if any, in TNBC. …”
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Popular safe haven assets, do they really exist for stock markets? Analysis on gold, Japanese yen and Swiss franc. by Liu, Chang., Ho, Pauline., Xu, Qiong.

“…After further classifying the stock market data into bull and bear periods, then by looking at the days of extreme negative returns in each situation, we realize that the safe haven effect in these assets tends to be stronger in bearish stock markets. Interestingly, gold loses its safe haven property for extremely negative daily returns of bullish stock markets while yen persists on as the strongest safe haven asset possible overall.…”
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UnidecNMR: automatic peak detection for NMR spectra in 1-4 dimensions by Buchanan, C, Karunanithy, G, Tkachenko, O, Barber, M, Marty, MT, Nott, TJ, Redfield, C, Baldwin, AJ

“…While many algorithms are available to tackle this problem, their performance tends to be inferior to that of an experienced user. …”

Static elastic properties of composite materials containing microspheres by Jones, GW

“…Subsequently, we analyse the buckling criterion asymptotically in the limit as the thickness ratio tends to zero by analogy with the WKB analysis of a beam on a variable-stiffness substrate. …”

Energy transfer in the spatial evolution of double-wave-group focusing by Zhou, B, Ding, K, Xiao, Y, Wang, L, Tang, T

“…The findings reveal that a sea state with a narrower intermodal distance or an uneven distribution of the bimodal spectrum tends to induce larger waves. The third-order nonlinear interaction is primarily triggered by the transient wave focusing, as opposed to a prolonged evolution like the behavior of even-order components. …”

Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Sampling of Visibility Boundaries for Differentiable Rendering by Xu, Peiyu, Bangaru, Sai, Li, Tzu-Mao, Zhao, Shuang

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Optimal design of filters and filter banks using a symbolic approach by Luo, Ziwang

“…Furthermore, if the time localization is optimized withoutany constraints, it tends to end at the origin, so the first vanishing moment is introducedas the constraint. …”
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Optical Properties of Colloidal II-VI and III-V Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Single Nanocrystal Photon Correlation Spectroscopy by Berkinsky, David

“…Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs), also known as quantum dots, are nanometer-sized semiconductor crystalline structures comprised of thousands to tens of thousands of atoms placing them in a world between the molecular-sized and the bulk-sized world, allowing them to harness unique qualities from both. …”
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Transduction on directed graphs via absorbing random walks by De, Jaydeep, Zhang, Xiaowei, Lin, Feng, Li, Cheng

“…In particular, our algorithm is shown to work exceptionally well with large sparse directed graphs with e.g., millions of nodes and tens of millions of edges, where it significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. …”
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Who sells knowledge online? An exploratory study of knowledge celebrities in China by Chen, Xiaoyu, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Pee, Loo Geok

“…A unique data set was collected from a Chinese leading pay-for-knowledge platform – Zhihu – which featured the online profiles of tens of thousands of knowledge celebrities. Online identity types were derived from their self-edited content using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling. …”
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Compressible hollow microlasers in organoids for high-throughput and real-time mechanical screening by Fang, Guocheng, Ho, Beatrice Xuan, Xu, Hongmei, Gong, Chaoyang, Qiao, Zhen, Liao, Yikai, Zhu, Song, Lu, Hongxu, Nie, Ningyuan, Zhou, Tian, Kim, Munho, Huang, Changjin, Soh, Boon Seng, Chen, Yu-Cheng

“…The laser spectroscopy yields identification of cellular deformation at the nanometer scale, corresponding to tens of pascals stress sensitivity. The compressibility enables the investigation of the isotropic component, which is the fundamental mechanics of multicellular models. …”
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Power system modeling and simulation by Luo, Yishi

“…Nowadays, world-wide electrical power systems tend to be more complicated with the penetration of renewable energy as well as the structural diversity resulting more unpredictable contingences for regulators and engineers to analyze and settle. …”
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Social movements and democratization in Malaysia by Khoo, Ying Hooi

“…The mixture model of democracy and authoritarian political system of Malaysia has long been said to hinder the social movements to expand their influence. …”
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The acquisition of English and Mandarin by a Singaporean child in a trilingual home by Teo, Jennifer Lay Heong.

“…Results indicate that: (1)the absence of tense and number markers in the English data was due to the variety of Singapore Colloquial English the child was exposed to in his environment; (2)the use of pragmatic particles and the lack of clear developmental pattern in the English interrogatives were linked to the Singapore Colloquial English usage in the input; (3)the English-language acquisition pattern shows a similar pattern as those in other comparable studies done in Singapore; (4)the order of the grammatical morphemes in the Mandarin data follows the similar pattern as other monolingual children reported on; (5)code-switching and code-mixing were directly affected by social factors: interlocutor, norm of the speech situation and his language dominance; (6)code-switching also occurs for many reasons related to language use; and (7)the child language development has been affected by the varying amount of input. …”
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Effects of surface texture on wetting by Kee, Yong How

“…Wetting is a phenomena which occurs when a droplet tends to spread out on a surface. The extreme behaviour of wetting, also known as superhydrophilicity, is found to be useful in many real life applications and has been receiving considerable attention. …”
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The thermodynamics of multicomponent high-entropy materials by Cantor, B

“…In fact, there are literally billions of multicomponent high-entropy single-phase solid-solution materials, with a wide range of exciting new properties, in most cases relatively straightforward to manufacture by conventional processing methods. There seems, however, to be an upper limit to these effects, so that, beyond about ten or twelve alloying components, the inevitable increase in chemical diversity prevents the configurational entropy of mixing from suppressing the increasingly strong chemical reactions between them. …”

Ergative in Mi=la=ras=pa'i rnam thar by Saxena, Anju

“…Classical Tibetans has been reported to be an aspectually split ergative language (Regamey, 1954; Dixon, 1979). although this is true only of some texts. …”
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