Analyzing the impact of bicycle geometry and cargo loading on the rideability and safety of cargo bikes: an investigative study by Paudel, Milan, Yap, Fook Fah

“…The effect of using powerful motorized wheels has also been discussed. Results: Long-john cargo bikes are unstable for lightweight cargo loads, more sensitive to cargo loads, and therefore may not be suitable for riding in narrow, crowded spaces like footpaths. …”
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Overcoming thermal quenching in X-ray scintillators through multi-excited state switching by Wang, Min, Zhang, Zhongbo, Lyu, Jing, Qiu, Jian, Gu, Chang, Zhao, He, Wang, Tao, Ren, Yiwen, Yang, Shuo-Wang, Xu, Guo Qin, Liu, Xiaogang

“…Most importantly, the interactions between the components of this perovskite enable the mixing of different excited states, which has been revealed by experimental and theoretical investigations. …”
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Artificial intelligence in optical lens design by Yow, Ai Ping, Wong, Damon, Zhang, Yueqian, Menke, Christoph, Wolleschensky, Ralf, Török, Peter

“…Starting-point design selection has always been the major hurdle for most optical design problem, and different designers might produce different final lens designs even if using the same initial specification. …”
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STDCformer: spatial-temporal dual-path cross-attention model for fMRI-based autism spectrum disorder identification by Zhang, Haifeng, Song, Chonghui, Zhao, Xiaolong, Wang, Fei, Qiu, Yunlong, Li, Hao, Guo, Hongyi

“…However, accurately distinguishing between healthy control group and ASD has been a longstanding challenge. In this regard, this work proposes a model featuring a dual-path cross-attention framework for spatial and temporal patterns, named STDCformer, aiming to enhance the accuracy of ASD identification. …”
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Genetic algorithm LQG and neural network controllers for gust response alleviation of flying wing unmanned aerial vehicles by Ang, Elijah Hao Wei, Ng, Bing Feng

“…A state–space aeroelastic model has been formulated by coupling the unsteady vortex lattice method for aerodynamics with finite-element based structural dynamics. …”
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Low complexity and low power FIR filter design by Ye, Wenbin

“…In order to save the cost and increase battery life for these portable digital products, in the past decades, many efforts have been dedicated for the design and implementation of low hardware cost and low power FIR filters. …”
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New algorithms and VLSI architectures for efficient RNS computations by Tay, Thian Fatt

“…The complex sign detection circuit has been obviated and replaced by simple logic manipulation of some bit-level information of intermediate magnitude scaling results. …”
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The development of improved strategies to monitor and control biofouling of membranes in the water industry by Low, Jiun Hui

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Three essays on corporate finance by Sun, Rui

“…Using hand-collected congressional financial disclosure data, we find that the frequency, dollar volume, timing ability, and profitability of congress trading have been reduced much after the STOCK Act, and especially so in purchase transactions which better reflect the activeness of potentially informed trading. …”
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The road to federalism : finding the middle ground in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka by Breen, Michael Gerard

“…It is not known why Asian states have been reluctant to institutionalize federalism, nor what causes it to be established in these holding together situations, let alone what type of federalism is more likely to be conducive to establishing political equality and bringing an end to conflict and authoritarianism. …”
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Robust cooperative control and optimization of multi-agent systems by Sun, Chao

“…Multi-agent systems have been extensively studied in modern control theory due to their wide range of applications in robotics, transportation networks, and smart grid, etc. …”
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Evaluation of hollow fiber-based direct contact and vacuum membrane distillation systems using aspen process simulation by Guan, Guoqiang, Yang, Xing, Wang, Rong, Field, Robert, Fane, Anthony Gordon

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Investigating Factors Influencing Consumer Willingness to Buy GM Food and Nano-food by Yue, Chengyan, Zhao, Shuoli, Cummings, Christopher, Kuzma, Jennifer

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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for assessment of microbial water quality : current progress, challenges, and future opportunities by Tan, BoonFei, Ng, Charmaine, Nshimyimana, Jean Pierre, Loh, Lay Leng, Gin, Karina Y.-H., Thompson, Janelle R.

“…Secondly, we will examine case studies from recent literature where NGS based methods have been applied to topics in water quality assessment, including development of bioindicators for sewage pollution and microbial source tracking, characterizing the distribution of toxin and antibiotic resistance genes in water samples, and investigating mechanisms of biodegradation of harmful pollutants that threaten water quality. …”
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Theoretical analysis of structures and electronic spectra in molecular cadmium chalcogenide clusters by Nguyen, Kiet A., Pachter, Ruth, Day, Paul N., Su, Haibin

“…A unified treatment of these clusters to obtain a fundamental understanding of the size, ligand, and solvation effects on their optical properties has not been heretofore presented. The clusters belong to three topological classes, specifically supertetrahedral (Tn), penta-supertetrahedral (Pn), and capped supertetrahedral (Cn), where n is the number of metal layers in each cluster. …”
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Duplex stem-loop-containing quadruplex motifs in the human genome: a combined genomic and structural study by Lim, Kah Wai, Jenjaroenpun, Piroon, Low, Zhen Jie, Khong, Zi Jian, Ng, Yi Siang, Kuznetsov, Vladimir Andreevich, Phan, Anh Tuan

“…Duplex stem-loops and four-stranded G-quadruplexes have been implicated in (patho)biological processes. Overlap of stem-loop- and quadruplex-forming sequences could give rise to quadruplex–duplex hybrids (QDH), which combine features of both structural forms and could exhibit unique properties. …”
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Determination of the archaeal and bacterial communities in two-phase and single-stage anaerobic systems by 454 pyrosequencing by Maspolim, Yogananda, Zhou, Yan, Guo, Chenghong, Xiao, Keke, Ng, Wun Jern

“…2-Phase anaerobic digestion (AD), where the acidogenic phase was operated at 2 day hydraulic retention time (HRT) and the methanogenic phase at 10 days HRT, had been evaluated to determine if it could provide higher organic reduction and methane production than the conventional single-stage AD (also operated at 12 days HRT). 454 pyrosequencing was performed to determine and compare the microbial communities. …”
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Engineered cylindrical NiFe magnetic nanoparticles for cancer cell death by Wong, Shawn De Wei

“…For uniform magnetic fields, biaxial field configuration has been shown to be the most efficient magneto-actuated cell apoptosis method, which maximized the induced magnetic torque. …”
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Early Prediction of Skin Viability Using Visible Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy and Autofluorescence Spectroscopy by Zhu, Caigang, Chen, Shuo, Chui, Christopher Hoe-Kong, Tan, Bien-Keem, Liu, Quan

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Virus-specific T lymphocytes home to the skin during natural dengue infection by Rivino, Laura, Kumaran, Emmanuelle A., Thein, Tun-Linn, Too, Chien Tei, Gan, Victor Chih Hao, Hanson, Brendon J., Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Bertoletti, Antonio, Gascoigne, Nicholas R. J., Lye, David Chien, Leo, Yee Sin, Akbar, Arne N., Kemeny, David M., MacAry, Paul A.

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