MC-Fluid: Multi-core Fluid-based Mixed-Criticality Scheduling by Lee, Jaewoo, Ramanathan, Saravanan, Phan, Kieu-My, Easwaran, Arvind, Shin, Insik, Lee, Insup

“…Owing to growing complexity and scale, safetycritical real-time systems are generally designed using the concept of mixed-criticality, wherein applications with different criticality or importance levels are hosted on the same hardware platform. …”
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Processing and Properties of Construction Materials for 3D Printing by Tay, Yi Wei, Panda, Biranchi, Paul, Suvash Chandra, Tan, Ming Jen, Qian, ShunZhi, Leong, Kah Fai, Chua, Chee Kai

“…3D printing (3DP), commonly known as additive manufacturing (AM), is a promising technology that can fabricate three dimensional complex shape prototypes directly from computer-aided design (CAD) model without any tooling and human intervention. Owing to its peculiar characteristics, AM is widely used in many industries to assist in the design, manufacture and commercialization of a product. …”
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Attacks in Reality: The Limits of Concurrent Error Detection Codes against Laser Fault Injection by Breier, Jakub, He, Wei, Jap, Dirmanto, Bhasin, Shivam, Chattopadhyay, Anupam

“…Parity-based Concurrent Error Detection (CED) techniques are often deployed as a countermeasure, owing to their low-overhead. Advanced linear and non-linear randomized encodings can be employed for constructing varying CED schemes. …”
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SCADPA: Side-channel assisted differential-plaintext attack on bit permutation based ciphers by Breier, Jakub, Jap, Dirmanto, Bhasin, Shivam

“…Bit permutations are a common choice for diffusion function in lightweight block ciphers, owing to their low implementation footprint. In this paper, we present a novel Side-Channel Assisted Differential-Plaintext Attack (SCADPA), exploiting specific vulnerabilities of bit permutations. …”
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Efficient oil/water separation membrane derived from super-flexible and superhydrophilic core–shell organic/inorganic nanofibrous architectures by Liu, Zhi, Qin, Detao, Zhao, Jianghui, Feng, Quan, Li, Zhengtao, Bai, Hongwei, Sun, Darren Delai

“…The synthesized membranes possess a delicate organic core of PVDF-HFP and an inorganic shell of a CuO nanosheet structure, which endows super-flexible properties owing to the merits of PVDF-HFP backbones, and superhydrophilic functions contributed by the extremely rough surface of a CuO nanosheet anchored on flexible PVDF-HFP. …”
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Label-free detection of ATP release from living astrocytes with high temporal resolution using carbon nanotube network by Huang, Yinxi, Sudibya, Herry Gunadi, Fu, Dongliang, Xue, Renhao, Dong, Xiaochen, Li, Lain-Jong, Chen, Peng

“…Owing to its unique combination of electrical, physiochemical, and one-dimension structural properties, single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) has recently emerged as a novel nanoelectronic biosensor for biomolecular detection with extraordinary sensitivity and simple detection scheme. …”
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Synthesis, characterization, and physical properties of a conjugated heteroacene: 2-methyl-1,4,6,7,8,9-hexaphenylbenz(g)isoquinolin-3(2H)-one (BIQ) by Duong, Hieu M., Zhang, Qichun, Xiao, Jinchong, Yin, Zongyou, Qiao, Fen, Hu, Xiao, Zhang, Hua, Wudl, Fred, Boey, Freddy Yin Chiang

“…In the solid state, it is very stable at ambient conditions and can be stored indefinitely. Owing to its pyridone end unit, BIQ 3 can display different resonance structures in different solvents (aprotic and protic) or Lewis acids to give different colors. …”
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Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) of Nitrothiophenol isomers chemisorbed on TiO2 by Teguh, Jefri S., Liu, Fang, Xing, Bengang, Yeow, Edwin Kok Lee

“…The Raman signal of o-NTP on TiO2 was not detectable, owing to interference from fluorescence emissions. …”
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The inherent electrochemistry of nickel/nickel-oxide nanoparticles by Giovanni, Marcella, Ambrosi, Adriano, Pumera, Martin

“…The direct detection of nanoparticles is at the forefront of research owing to their environmental and toxicological applications. …”
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Adsorption desalination : an emerging low-cost thermal desalination method by Ng, Kim Choon, Thu, Kyaw, Kim, Youngdeuk, Chakraborty, Anutosh, Amy, Gary

“…The energetic efficiency of AD cycles has been compared against the conventional desalination methods. Owing to the unique features of AD cycle, i.e., the simultaneous production of dual useful effects, it is proposed that the life cycle cost (LCC) of AD is evaluated against the LCC of combined machines that are needed to deliver the same quantities of useful effects using a unified unit of $/MWh. …”
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Green amorphous nanoplex as a new supersaturating drug delivery system by Cheow, Wean Sin, Hadinoto, Kunn

“…The nanoplex powders remain amorphous after 1 month of storage, indicating the high stability owed to the PE’s high glass-transition temperature. …”
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I. Discovery and development of nickel-catalyzed 1,2-dicarbofunctionalization reactions of alkenes II. Synthesis and reactivity of nucleophilic calcium fluoride complexes with oxyg... by Apolinar, O

“…In our investigations, we found that the TACN ligand was appropriate owing to its macrocyclic design, which encapsulates calcium. …”

The cingulum: anatomy, connectivity and what goes beyond by Kollenburg, L, Arnts, H, Green, A, Strauss, I, Vinke, S, Kurt, E

“…For over half a century, the cingulum has been the subject of neuroanatomical and therapeutic investigations owing to its wide range of functions and involvement in various neurological and psychiatric diseases. …”

Integrating alternative and complementary medicine in the management of epilepsy and its comorbidities in low- and middle-income settings by Kariuki, SM, Newton, CRJC

“…There are however serious concerns on reliability of reported findings because of inadequate randomization, and small sample sizes, and concerns on quality and safety owing to lack of standardization of bioactive compounds, accidental or intention botanical substitution of products and unhygienic handling. …”

Structure of a fully assembled γδ T-cell antigen receptor by Gully, BS, Ferreira Fernandes, J, Gunasinghe, SD, Vuong, MT, Lui, Y, Rice, MT, Rashleigh, L, Lay, C-S, Littler, DR, Sharma, S, Santos, AM, Venugopal, H, Rossjohn, J, Davis, SJ

“…However, in contrast to the apparently rigid αβ TCR^2,3,6, the γδ TCR exhibits considerable conformational heterogeneity, owing to the ligand-binding TCR-γδ subunits being tethered to the CD3 subunits by their transmembrane regions only. …”

Catalytic deoxygenation of waste cooking oil for sustainable bio-jet fuel: A comparative study of Ni-Co/SBA-15 and Ni-Co/SBA-15-SH catalysts by Razak, Noor Azira Abdul, Taufiq-Yap, Yun Hin, Derawi, Darfizzi

“…Indeed, the 5Ni5Co/SBA-15-SH catalyst showed superior performance of deoxygenation activity by producing 80 % of yield with 92 % of bio-jet selectivity, owing to the porous properties of the catalyst, which exhibits a substantial surface area (509 m2/g) and a significant pore size (4.4 nm). …”
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Effect of B2O3 on the physical and mechanical properties of calcium fluoroaluminosilicate glass system by Mohammed Efa, Abdelkader, Matori, Khamirul Amin, Mohd Zaid, Mohd Hafiz, Che Abdullah, Che Azurahanim, Zainuddin, Norhazlin, Mayzan, Mohd Zul Hilmi, Kamis, Shahira Liza

“…Bioactive glasses containing boron oxide have attracted substantial attention owing to their unique attributes and the promising prospects they offer for biomedical uses. …”

GC-MS analysis and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of Mentha piperita essential oil extracted by supercritical fluid extraction and hydro-distillation by Abbas, Ali, Anwar, Farooq, Ahmad, Naveed, Rehman, Afifa tur, Mohammed, Osama A., Abdel-Reheim, Mustafa Ahmed, Iqbal, Munawar, Iqbal, Shahid, Nazir, Arif

“…The peppermint EO obtained by SCFE, owing to potent bioactive components, can be a potential candidate to develop nutra-pharmaceuticals.…”
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Revealing the potential role of hsa-miR-663a in modulating the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway via miRNA microarray in spinal muscular atrophy patient fibroblast-derived iPSCs by Gandhi, Gayatri, Kodiappan, Radha, Abdullah, Syahril, Teoh, Hoon Koon, Tai, Lihui, Cheong, Soon Keng, Yeo, Wendy Wai Yeng

“…Although survival motor neuron 2 (SMN2) gene is still present in SMA patients, the production of full-length survival motor neuron (SMN) protein is insufficient owing to missing or mutated SMN1. No current disease-modifying therapies can cure SMA. …”
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Assessment of IoT-driven predictive maintenance strategies for Computed Tomography equipment: a machine learning approach by Mohd Azrul Shazril, Mohammad Habib Shah Ershad, Mashohor, Syamsiah, Amran, Mohd Effendi, Hafiz, Nur Fatinah, Ali, Azizi Mohd, Naseri, Mohd Saiful, Rasid, Mohd Fadlee A.

“…The readings were preprocessed to follow a normal distribution, representing the typical working conditions of the machine. Owing to limited faulty condition data, synthetic data were generated by expanding the tails of the data distribution and using a Gaussian noise generator. …”
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