Exploring the limitations of osmotically assisted reverse osmosis: membrane fouling and the limiting flux by Peters, Christian D., Li, Dan, Mo, Zijing, Hankins, Nicholas P., She, Qianhong

“…First, internal membrane fouling at the draw (permeate) side was shown to be insignificant. …”
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Competition in two-sided market : with heterogeneous users and negative externalities. by Chen, Hongyu.

“…Under the two-sided market model, we observe that there exists full participation for end-users and under advertisement for advertisers. …”
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Digging for literature on tailoring cultural offers with and for older people from ethnic minority groups: a scoping review by Tierney, S, Gorenberg, J, Santillo, M, Westlake, D, Wong, G, Husk, K, Vougioukalou, S, Baxter, R, Dawson, S, Roberts, N, Potter, C, Warburton, H, McDougall, B, Latchem, J, Mahtani, KR

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Screening of 906 references–59 of which were read as full documents–resulted in six sources being included in the review. …”

Influence of membrane active layer properties and support layer properties on organic and inorganic fouling in pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) process by Tan, Joelyn Yi Ying

“…Active layer towards draw solution (AL-DS) orientation was set-up for this experiment. …”
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Rethinking relief, reconstruction and development : evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of post-disaster livelihood aid by Daly, Patrick, Mahdi, Saiful, McCaughey, Jamie, Mundzir, Ibnu, Halim, Agus, Nizamuddin, Ardiansyah, Srimulyani, Eka

“…However, aid packages were generally not able to support the development of full-time, sustainable new livelihoods for people lacking pre-disaster training and experience. …”
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Press ECCS to Doubt (Your Causal Graph) by Markakis, Markos, Zhang, Ziyu, Shahout, Rana, Gao, Trinity, Liu, Chunwei, Sabek, Ibrahim, Cafarella, Michael

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Membrane structure-dependent limiting flux behavior and membrane selectivity loss during gypsum scaling : implications for pressure-retarded osmosis operation and membrane design by Fei, Jingyuan, Mai, Weiting, Cheng, Pak Shing, Shi, Jeffrey, Liu, Zongwen, She, Qianhong

“…We selected two typical osmotic membranes, thin-film composite (TFC) polyamide (PA) membrane and integrally asymmetric cellulose triacetate (CTA) membrane with different structures, for gypsum scaling tests in active-layer-facing-draw-solution orientation (an operating mode preferred for pressure-retarded osmosis). …”
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Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous vehicles by Diluka Moratuwage

“…The proposed formulation is based on the factorization of the full CMSLAM posterior into a product of the vehicle trajectories posterior and the landmark map posterior conditioned on the vehicle trajectories. …”
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Echoes From the Stone Reframing Preservation in Syria Through Haurani Folklore by Alrifai, Hajar

“…This interdisciplinary chronicle draws from architecture, agriculture, literature, anthropology, and film, to reconstruct a social history of the village and speculate on alternate ways of dwelling, building, and preserving— reclaiming the archive, reinserting narrative, and reframing heritage through the folklore of Hauran.…”
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Between City and Self: Reading Beirut in Mohamed Soueid’s Tango of Yearning by Anouti, Ghida

“…Soueid sees Tango of Yearning – the first in a trilogy titled Civil War – as an ‘obituary’ of his life prior to making this film. Hence, for him, the film is rooted in the past, yet I argue that it is a significant augury of Beirut itself as a palimpsest of urban memories sublimated by Soueid. …”
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Breaking permutation-based mesh steganography and security improvement by Wang, Yimin, Kong, Lingsheng, Qian, Zhenxing, Feng, Guorui, Zhang, Xinpeng, Zheng, Jianmin

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Fictions of youth: childness in selected West African novels, 1991-2009 by Moellenberg, T

“…A "child" here is defined as a human person under age 18 and is referred to using the term <em>childness</em>, drawing from the work of children's literature scholar Peter Hollindale. …”

Impact of BPL penalty functions and PSF models in PET/CT radial spatial resolution recovery by Si, Wang Jie

“…However, OSEM often struggles with full convergence, necessitating BPL with smooth penalty functions (β values) for regularized iterative reconstruction. …”
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La diplomazia culturale americana, la Guerra fredda e il cinema di Hong Kong negli anni Cinquanta = American cultural diplomacy, Cold War, and Hong Kong cinema in the 1950s by Lee, Sangjoon

“…Drawing on archival materials from The Asia Foundation (Taf) Records at the Hoover Institution Archives, the University of Hong Kong's manuscripts and special collections, and the San Francisco International Film Festival Papers, this article is a focused account of the early history of Taf and its motion picture projects in Cold War Hong Kong. …”
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Reimagining traditional still art in an immersive and engaging form by Lim, Lai Ting

“…Clementine is meant to be an exploration of loss, embracing change and eventually coming into your own person. The film draws inspiration from various renowned artists of different time periods and art styles to create a visually rich and dynamic narrative experience that pays homage to the diversity and innovation of artistic expression throughout history.…”
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Lacuna by Tng, Gabriel Yue Hao

“…In essence, the story is a light-hearted animation that draws on themes normally found in buddy-cop films. …”
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Agamemnon, a performance history by Macintosh, F, Kenward, C

“…Created by the University of Oxford’s Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (the APGRD), the ebook draws on a unique collection of archive material and research at the APGRD and beyond; it uses images, film, bespoke interviews with creative practitioners and academics, and digital objects to tell the story of a play that has inspired countless interpretations onstage and onscreen, in dance, drama, and opera, across the globe from antiquity to the present day.…”

60X3 by Wong, Chun Sing

“…60X3 is a visualisation of an informal trilogy by Hong Kong film director, Wong Kar Wai. The project draws on visual language with a focus on using information design techniques to interpret and highlight the underlying connections between the loosely linked films. …”
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Non-destructive Testing and Repair of Pipelines / by Barkanov, Evgeny N., editor 655999, Dumitrescu, Andrei, editor 656000, Parinov, Ivan A., 1956-, editor 656002

“…It develops an optimization method based on the planning of experiments and surface techniques for advanced composite repair systems, before validating the numerical models developed and experimentally gauging the effectiveness of composite repair with the help of full-scale hydraulic tests…”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…Where such text is of a relatively short length (no more than about a folio), we have included it in full under the label of, "postscript".⁸ Thus, our catalogue generally includes in full all the information given before the first chapter and after the final chapter title.…”