15.912 Technology Strategy, Spring 2005 by Henderson, Rebecca

“…These tools can provide the framework for insightful planning when deciding which technologies to invest in, how to structure those investments and how to anticipate and respond to the behavior of competitors, suppliers, and customers. …”
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Production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) by Ralstonia eutropha in high cell density palm oil fermentations by Yusof, Zainal Abidin Mohd, Riedel, Sebastian L. S., Bader, Johannes, Brigham, Christopher J., Budde, Charles F., Rha, ChoKyun, Sinskey, Anthony J.

“…Different PHA production strategies were compared using a recombinant strain of Ralstonia eutropha that produces high amounts of P(HB-co-HHx) when grown on plant oils. This R. eutropha strain was grown to high cell densities using batch, extended batch, and fed batch fermentation strategies, in which PHA accumulation was triggered by nitrogen limitation. …”
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Accelerating throughput-aware runtime mapping for heterogeneous MPSoCs by Singh, Amit Kumar, Kumar, Akash, Srikanthan, Thambipillai

“…Experimental results reveal that the proposed approach provides faster DSE, better design points, and efficient runtime mapping when compared to other approaches. In particular, we show that DSE is faster by 83% and runtime mapping is accelerated by 93% for some cases. …”
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Adaptive regional feedback control of robotic manipulator with uncertain kinematics and depth information by Li, X., Cheah, Chien Chern

“…While much progress has been achieved in taskspace control of robot, existing task-space sensory feedback control methods fail when the sensor is out of working range. In this paper, we propose an adaptive regional feedback control strategy that enables the robot to start from an initial position outside the field of view and leave the field of view during the movement. …”
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Hermitian self-dual abelian codes by Jitman, Somphong, Ling, San, Solé, Patrick

“…Based on the characterization obtained, the number of Hermitian self-dual abelian codes in F22l [A Z2k ] can be determined easily. When A is cyclic, this result answers an open problem of Jia et al. concerning Hermitian self-dual cyclic codes. …”
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Topological effects on the magnetoconductivity in topological insulators by Sacksteder, Vincent E., Arnardottir, Kristin Bjorg, Kettemann, Stefan, Shelykh, Ivan A.

“…The wrapped regime and topological signatures discussed here should be visible in the same samples and at the same temperatures where the Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak (AAS) effect has already been observed, when the measurements are repeated with the magnetic field pointed perpendicularly to the TI's top face.…”
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Study of the thermal decomposition of PFPEs lubricants on a thin DLC film using finitely extensible nonlinear elastic potential based molecular dynamics simulation by Deb Nath, S. K., Wong, C. H.

“…We study the effect of breaking of bonds of nonfunctional lubricant PFPE Z, functional lubricants such as PFPE Zdol and PFPE Ztetrao, and multidented functional lubricants such as ARJ-DS, ARJ-DD, and OHJ-DS on a DLC substrate with the increase of temperature when heating of all of the lubricants on a DLC substrate is carried out isothermally using the coarse-grained bead spring model by molecular dynamics simulations and suitable lubricant is selected which is suitable on a DLC substrate at high temperature.…”
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SemFunSim : a new method for measuring disease similarity by integrating semantic and gene functional association by Cheng, Liang, Li, Jie, Ju, Peng, Peng, Jiajie, Wang, Yadong

“…Results The high average AUC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve) (96.37%) shows that SemFunSim achieves a high true positive rate and a low false positive rate. 79 of the top 100 pairs of similar diseases identified by SemFunSim are annotated in the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) as being targeted by the same therapeutic compounds, while other methods we compared could identify 35 or less such pairs among the top 100. Moreover, when using our method on diseases without annotated compounds in CTD, we could confirm many of our predicted candidate compounds from literature. …”
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3D carbon/cobalt-nickel mixed-oxide hybrid nanostructured arrays for asymmetric supercapacitors by Zhu, Jianhui, Jiang, Jian, Sun, Zhipeng, Luo, Jingshan, Fan, Zhanxi, Huang, Xintang, Zhang, Hua, Yu, Ting

“…Thanks to their interconnected three-dimensionally arrayed architecture and mesoporous nature, the C/CoNi3O4 NA electrode exhibits a large specific capacitance of 1299 F/g and a superior rate performance, demonstrating 78% capacity retention even when the discharge current jumps by 100 times. An optimized asymmetric supercapacitor with the C/CoNi3O4 NAs as the positive electrode is fabricated. …”
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Vertical distribution of heavy metals in seawater column during IBA construction in land reclamation – re-exploration of a large-scale field trial experiment by Yin, Ke, Chan, Wei-Ping, Dou, Xiaomin, Lisak, Grzegorz, Chang, Victor Wei-Chung

“…Metal re-adsorption occurred within half an hour after IBA dumping, which however was significantly alleviated when a chute was applied. It may be ascribed to various degrees of contact with seawater of IBA, seawater movements and particle resuspension. …”
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Mechanism of charge transfer and its impacts on Fermi-level pinning for gas molecules adsorbed on monolayer WS2 by Zhou, Changjie, Yang, Weihuang, Zhu, Huili

“…Band structure calculations showed that the valence and conduction bands of monolayer WS2 are not significantly altered upon adsorption of H2, H2O, NH3, and CO, whereas the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals of O2, NO, and NO2 are pinned around the Fermi-level when these molecules are adsorbed on monolayer WS2. …”
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The application of nitric oxide to control biofouling of membrane bioreactors by Rice, Scott A., Luo, Jinxue, Zhang, Jinsong, Barnes, Robert J., Tan, Xiaohui, McDougald, Diane, Fane, Anthony G., Zhuang, Guoqiang, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Cohen, Yehuda

“…A novel strategy to control membrane bioreactor (MBR) biofouling using the nitric oxide (NO) donor compound PROLI NONOate was examined. When the biofilm was pre-established on membranes at transmembrane pressure (TMP) of 88–90 kPa, backwashing of the membrane module with 80 μM PROLI NONOate for 45 min once daily for 37 days reduced the fouling resistance (Rf) by 56%. …”
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Acetic acid inhibition on methanogens in a two-phase anaerobic process by Ng, Wun Jern, Guo, Chenghong, Zhou, Yan, Wang, J. Y., Maspolim, Yogananda, Xiao, Keke

“…At pH 6.00, acetic acid inhibition on methanogenic phase methanogens was observed when acetic acid concentration was higher than 1619.47 mg HAc/L although there was no obvious inhibition on acidogenic phase methanogens in the range of 1646.47–2781.19 mg HAc/L. …”
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Dynamic prediction of the incident duration using adaptive feature set by Ghosh, Banishree, Muhammad Tayyab Asif, Dauwels, Justin, Fastenrath, Ulrich, Guo, Hongliang

“…In this paper, we propose an adaptive ensemble model that can provide reasonable forecasts even when a limited amount of information is available and further improves the prediction accuracy as more information becomes available during the course of the incidents. …”
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A study of air molecular contamination (AMC) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in new AMC/VOC controlled cleanroom by Wong, Chee Kong

“…Monitoring of AMC is becoming essential when it comes to managing cleanroom for the present production of semiconductor devices as it advances into DUV and EUV range of manufacturing processes. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance and research methodology by Li, Wei

“…In addition, firms in gambling-prone regions hold more cash only when they are financially constrained, and they invest cash in risky projects such as research & development, which leads to more volatile cash flows. …”
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Enhanced energy dissipated foams for bicycle helmets by Zheng, John Yizhe

“…For Experiment set 1, it can be concluded that CF samples of group C density range exhibit the best results in energy absorption when compared to PF samples while being approximately 30g/L less dense. …”
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Immediate test or delayed test : evidence of primary Mathematics learning by Arunachalam Thannimalai

“…Overall, usage of worked examples facilitated novice primary 2 students’ learning and this benefit became much less significant when learner expertise level grew as seen in the case of primary 4 student participants. …”
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A zero-dimensional mixed-anion hybrid halogenobismuthate(III) semiconductor : structural, optical, and photovoltaic properties by Hoefler, Sebastian Franz, Rath, Thomas, Fischer, Roland, Latal, Christine, Hippler, Dorothee, Koliogiorgos, Athanasios, Galanakis, Iosif, Bruno, Annalisa, Fian, Alexander, Dimopoulos, Theodoros, Trimmel, Gregor

“…Despite the zero-dimensional structure of MBIC, a maximum power conversion efficiency of 0.18% and a high fill factor of almost 60% were obtained with this material as absorber layer. When stored under inert conditions, these solar cells show an excellent long-term stability over the investigated period of more than 700 days.…”
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Design and in vitro release study of siRNA loaded Layer by Layer nanoparticles with sustained gene silencing effect by Tan, Yang Fei, Lee, Ying Shi, Seet, Li-Fong, Ng, Kee Woei, Wong, Tina T., Venkatraman, Subbu

“…Objectives: Clinical translation of siRNA therapeutics has been severely limited due to the lack of stable and sustained siRNA delivery systems. Furthermore, when nanocarrier systems with siRNA are administered systemically to treat diseases, insufficient doses reach the target tissue. …”
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