Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions

“…Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical engineering. …”
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Quantum Computing for Dummies / by Hurley, William, author 656166, Smith, Floyd Earl, author 656167

“…With a Dummies guide by your side, you’ll get a primer on the inner workings and practical applications of quantum computers.…”
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SCHOOL OF THIEVES / by Sabrina Ismail, author 655830, Naadhira Zahari, editor 655828

“…In fact, she won’t be facing any punishment at all. Instead, she gets recruited into the School of Thieves, a place where her criminal skills get polished and she is transformed into a criminal mastermind. …”

An ultra-low-voltage VCO-based ΔΣ modulator using self-compensated current reference for variation tolerance by Narasimman, Neelakantan, Kim, Tony Tae-Hyoung

“…This paper introduces a voltage-controlled-oscillator-based (VCO-based) first-order delta-sigma (ΔΣ) modulator that uses a novel current reference to improve the robustness of the modulator at ultra-low operating voltages. …”
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Physics informed neural network-based high-frequency modeling of induction motors by Zhao, Zhenyu, Fan, Fei, Sun, Quqin, Jie, Huamin, Shu, Zhou, Wang, Wensong, See, Kye Yak

“…This symmetry enables the proposed model to be applicable for both star- and delta-connected induction motors without having to recalculate the circuit element values when changing the motor connection from star to delta and vice versa. …”
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Electrochemical pneumatic battery for untethered robotics by Ge, Junyu, Zhao, Yuchen, Wang, Yifan, Li, Hong

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Real-time facial expression recognition system by Xu, Meng Yao

“…To implement the face expression recognition, histogram-of-oriented-gradient (HOG) based object detector, active shape model (ASM) and extreme learning machines (ELM) algorithms are used in this project. The real-time recognition system could locate face regions, extract facial features and recognise basic human expressions that could be considered as an important study or exploration for the future driving safety enhancement.…”
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Biosignals-based driver’s awareness/emotion monitoring for future car design by Yao, Xibing

“…The aim of this project is to design experiments to obtain and compare the test accuracy of ELM in simulated driving and real driving. As well as to test the performance of artifact removal based on ICA in simulated driving and real driving. …”
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A review of reporting quality in case-control studies of pancreatic cancer by MacCarthy, A, MacCarthy, A, Dhiman, P, Dhiman, P, Kirtley, S, Kirtley, S, Logullo, P, Logullo, P, Copsey, B, Copsey, B, Collins, G, Collins, G

“…Each study was scored by both a researcher and a statistician using a reporting adherence form based on the STROBE checklist for case-control studies. -- (1) von Elm E, Altman DG, Egger M, et al. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. …”

Thermodynamic study of isosteric heat at zero coverage : applications to adsorption cooling and desalination by Fan, Wu

“…For water interaction with silica gel, the electrostatic interaction is found to be high. …”
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Data for 'Extremely low surface recombination in 1 Ωcm n-type monocrystalline silicon' by Bonilla, R, Wilshaw, P

“…Data set embedded in Matlab figures representing the conductance-voltage spectra and interface state density (Dit) derived from it, effective lifetime (tau_eff) as a function minority carrier (Delta_n) and Surface potential, and surface recombination velocity and current calculated from lifetime data, as a function of injection level.…”

The impact of evolving SARS-CoV-2 mutations and variants on COVID-19 vaccines by McLean, Gary R., Kamil, Jeremy, Lee, Benhur, Moore, Penny, Schulz, Thomas F., Muik, Alexander, Sahin, Ugur, Tureci, Ozlem, Pather, Shanti

“…Data from clinical trials and real-world evidence suggest that current vaccines remain highly effective against the alpha variant (B.1.1.7), while some vaccines have reduced efficacy and effectiveness against symptomatic disease caused by the beta variant (B.1.351) and the delta variant (B.1.617.2); however, effectiveness against severe disease and hospitalization caused by delta remains high. …”
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The effect of surface roughness on friction properties of silica-filled epoxidised natural rubber by Che Aziz, Ahmad Kifli, Samion, Syahrullail, Abdul Hamid, Mohd. Kameil, Zaeimoedin, Teku Zakwan

“…On dynamic mechanical properties, the ENR 50/silica possessed the highest tangent delta value and all tangent delta values increased with a change of frequency from 1 to 10 Hz. …”

Raindrop removal from single image by Song, Rongzihan

“…For faster processing of images for surveillance, an Extreme Learning Machining(ELM) method is also used. It can classify these surveillance images into two parts: degraded images and non-degraded images. …”
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Significant of 'C' on self-lubricating hard coating by Ng, Chang Chong.

“…In this industry, people like to get things done fast to get the maximum profit and efficiency. …”
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Agarose as a tissue mimic for the porcine heart, kidney, and liver: measurements and a springpot model by Mishra, A, Cleveland, RO

“…Agarose gels are often used as a tissue mimic. The goal of this work was to determine the appropriate agarose concentrations that result in mechanical properties that match three different porcine organs. …”

The importance of research and development of virgin coconut oil in food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmeceutical industries by Ya’akob, Harisun, Amirmudin, Noor Afiqah, Abdul Aziz, Azila, Aman Nor, Nor Farahiyah, Mat, Siti Alyani, Hasham@Hisam, Rosnani, Al-Batul Azizuddin, Maryam

“…VCO is accepted as natural functional food and has mostly been commercialized in the form of liquid or encapsulated in soft gels. VCO is also a popular ingredient used in the cosmeceutical industry, especially in hair and body care products. …”
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Extreme Water Uptake of Hygroscopic Hydrogels through Maximized Swelling‐Induced Salt Loading by Graeber, Gustav, Díaz‐Marín, Carlos D, Gaugler, Leon C, Zhong, Yang, El Fil, Bachir, Liu, Xinyue, Wang, Evelyn N

“…By tuning the salt concentration of the swelling solutions and the cross‐linking properties of the gels, hygroscopic hydrogels with extremely high salt loadings are synthesized, which enable unprecedented water uptakes of 1.79 and 3.86 gg<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> at relative humidity (RH) of 30% and 70%, respectively. …”
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John Doe by Ng, Bliss TingHan

“…John Doe is a game where the main character has lost his memory and traverses through a surreal world in a bid to get his memories back. The game is an exploratory, puzzle, 2D side scroller game. …”
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Effect of contextual information in human action recognition in videos by Koh, Hong Wei

“…The first phase of the project is to extract features from the videos using log covariance matrix with Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) as the classifiers to discriminate the actions. …”
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