Situated perspectives on the city: a reflection on scaling participation through design by De Carli, Beatrice, Apsan Frediani, Alexandre

“…We discuss these ideas by drawing on our own experience of devising and facilitating a number of participatory design and planning initiatives titled Change by Design with the non-profit organization Architecture Sans Frontières – UK (ASF-UK). Reflecting on this experience, we argue that the inclusion of a design-based, city-level perspective in localized upgrading initiatives can be a powerful conceptual and practical tool to support horizontal, vertical and deep scaling; and we highlight the importance of constructing this design tool in an embodied and situated manner, so that scaling processes remain firmly grounded in everyday lives and experiences.…”
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Innovative UWB phase shifters using groove gap-waveguide technology inspired by metasurfaces for beamforming networks operating at 100 GHz by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Zidour, Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Kouhalvandi, Lida, Shahid, Saleem, See, Chan Hwang, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The metasurface features a "bed-of-nails" structure, where metal pins are connected to a bottom layer and spaced <λ/4 from a top plate. …”
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Metamaterial based ultra-wideband antennas for portable wireless applications by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Various approaches have been reported to reduce the physical size of RF antennas including using high permittivity substrates, shorting pins, reactive components, and more recently, metamaterials (MTM) based on composite right-/left-handed transmission-lines (CRLH-TLs). …”
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Prediction of sedimentation and bank erosion due to the construction of Kahang Dam by Nda, Muhammad

“…This research used the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and ANN with Autoregressive (AR) (NNETAR) in predicting suspended sediment concentration using sediment concentration, discharge and water level as inputs. Similarly, erosion pins were installed on four transects to monitor the riverbank for thirteen months. …”
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Aligning internal market orientation (IMO) with market orientation (MO) to impact performance in the banking sector in Ghana by Kutu-Adu, Solomon Gladstone

“…The pioneering studies of Lings and Greenley on internal market orientation (IMO) in the 2000s and that of Kohli and Jaworski experience enormous investigation empirically. …”
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Aluminium (III) biosorption magnetotactic Alcaligenes sp. SUM 123 isolated from Skudai River Johor by Ali Zargoun, Laila Muftah

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Fabrication and characterization of nylon 6, 6, polysulfone and polystyrene electrospun fibre membranes for adsorption of bisphenol a in water by Jasni, M. Jasmin Fathi

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Phytochemicals, antioxidant studies of deinbollia pinnata (Poir.) schumach. & thonn. and its uses in the synthesis of titania nanoparticles by Rufai, Yakubu

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Effect of dual flocculant by unmodified manihot esculenta starch and aluminium sulphate on the removal of chemical oxygen demand optimized by response surface methodology by Rahmat, S., Othman, N, Ahmad, S. N., Asharuddin, S. M.

“…Besides the performance of COD removal increased, the dosage of the chemical coagulant was reduced by up to 64% at the optimum condition of 18 mg/L alum dosage, 307 mg/L starch dosage, pH 9, and 27 mins settling time. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that the quadratic model was significantly developed with a p-value < 0.05. …”
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Green approach to treat institutional wastewater by using cassava peels starch (CPS) as coagulant aid by Kumar, Vicky

“…Removal efficiency of dual coagulant (alum+CPS) were achieved at optimum dosage of 40:60 mg/L at pH 8 with 60 mins settling time with removal efficiency of COD (41%), TSS (86%) and Turbidity (91%). …”
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Green synthesis, characterization and laser irradiation of silver nanoparticles and its bimetallic nanoparticles by Saleh Mubarak, Salah

“…In contrast, Ag/Cu NPs were synthesized by mixing Cu solution (1, 3, 5 and 7 mM) with Gre-Ag NPs at room temperature and left for 10 mins. Moreover, the silver nanostructures (Ag NSs) was fabricated by manipulating Gre-Ag NPs with diode laser 450 nm at different times. …”
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In vitro bioactivities of anodised titanium in mixtrue of B-Glycerophosphate and calcium acetate for biomedical application by Lee, Te Chuan

“…The parameters for anodic oxidation method such as applied voltage (50-350 V), current density(10-70 mA.cm-2), electrolyte concentration (0.02 M β-GP + 0.2 M CA, 0.04 M β-GP + 0.04 M CA) , anodising time (5-10 mins), agitation speed (300-1500 rpm), ultrasonic amplitude (20-60 μm) and bath temperature (4-100 °C) were varied to investigate the impact on the surface properties of titanium. …”
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