Envisioning Water: Sustainability and Future-Making in Dubai and Los Angeles by Christidi, Nadia

“…As such, I show, for instance, how Dubai’s highly centralized governance structure and foreign-investment development model produce an emphasis on sustainability’s enhancement of the city-state’s competitiveness agenda that can belie larger eco-realities, while LA’s fragmented institutional, regulatory, and financing scapes complicate collaboration on recycling projects which span across and exceed individual institutional mandates. …”
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In Tension: Computational exploration of the design space of tensile network structures by Burke, Adam T.

“…Tensile network structures are often used to span long distances without intermediate supports and have found applications in art, architecture, and structural engineering due to their physical and visual lightness. …”
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From Waste to Structure: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Circular Design by Sørensen, Karl-Johan I.

“…To evaluate the effectiveness of the RL method, it is applied to the specific problem of inventory-constrained design of planar roof trusses and demonstrated in a realistic example of assembling a long-span roof from a disassembled transmission tower.…”
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Forces on oscillating uniform and tapered cylinders in a crossflow by Hover, F. S., Techet, A. H., Triantafyllou, M.S.

“…Forces are measured at both ends of rigid cylinders with span 60 cm, performing transverse oscillations within an oncoming stream of water, at Reynolds number Re ~3800. …”
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The career paths less (or more) traveled : a sequence analysis of IT career histories, mobility patterns, and career success by Slaughter, Sandra A., Joseph, Damien, Boh, Wai Fong, Ang, Soon

“…By tracing the diverse trajectories of career mobility, we enrich our understanding of how individuals construct boundaryless careers that span not only organizational but also occupational boundaries. …”
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EN-79AB surface disinfection by UV & effect of repetitive organisms exposure on self disinfecting chemicals by Enkisra, Irfan

“…Therefore, this study has concluded that the shorter distance, longer time span and which UVC lamp can help the minimize the spread of the bacteria without damage the plastic packaging.…”
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Heat transfer of 3D-printed porous structure used in cold plate by Tew, Hong Boon

“…The experimental investigation was carried out using the setup that was built during the span of the project. The reliability of the setup was validated by comparing the experimental results of the bare tube cold plate against numerical simulation performed using “COMSOL Multiphysics” software. …”
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Electronic band structure and optical gain of GaNxBiyAs1−x−y/GaAs pyramidal quantum dots by Song, Zhi-Gang, Bose, Sumanta, Fan, Wei-Jun, Li, Shu-Shen

“…The effective band gap falls as we increase the composition of nitrogen (N) and bismuth (Bi) and with an appropriate choice of composition we can tune the emission wavelength to span within 1.3 μm–1.55 μm, for device application in fiber technology. …”
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Holocene rate of slip and tentative recurrence interval for large earthquakes on the San Andreas fault, Cajon Pass, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, Weldon, Ray J.

“…The similarity of the four values, which span different intervals of time from 5,900 to 14,400 yr ago, suggests that the slip rate has been constant during this period. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection by Kemp, SA, Collier, DA, Datir, RP, Ferreira, IATM, Gayed, S, Jahun, A, Hosmillo, M, Rees-Spear, C, Mlcochova, P, Lumb, IU, Roberts, DJ, Chandra, A, Temperton, N, Sharrocks, K, Blane, E, Modis, Y, Leigh, KE, Briggs, JAG, van Gils, MJ, Smith, KGC, Bradley, JR, Smith, C, Doffinger, R, Ceron-Gutierrez, L, Barcenas-Morales, G, Pollock, DD, Goldstein, RA, Smielewska, A, Skittrall, JP, Gouliouris, T, Goodfellow, IG, Gkrania-Klotsas, E, Illingworth, CJR, McCoy, LE, Gupta, RK

“…Here we show that chronic infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to viral evolution and reduced sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies in an immunosuppressed individual treated with convalescent plasma, by generating whole-genome ultra-deep sequences for 23 time points that span 101 days and using in vitro techniques to characterize the mutations revealed by sequencing. …”

Bioinformatics analysis and spatiotemporal distribution of the f lic gene and its protein isolated from Escherichia coli-infected patients in Eastern Algeria by Harrar, Abdenassar, Awang Hamat, Rukman, Hamidechi, Mohamed Abdelhafid

“…This study examined the presence of fliC mutant strains of E. coli in infected patients from different age groups, sexes and sample types in eastern Algerian provinces over a span of 2 years. Methods: This retrospective, cross-sectional study involved three provinces in eastern Algeria: i) Bordj Bou Arreridj, ii) Setif and iii) Batna. …”
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Anti-ageing properties of edible bird's nest ascertained by in vitro and in vivo studies in animal model by Hou, Zhiping

“…Most women spend approximately one-third of their life span in the postmenopausal phase. Hormonal imbalance during menopausal stage has been linked to increased risks of the fatal diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and breast cancer. …”
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Microplastics leaching from baby products by Heng, Serene Hwee Fen

“…The results from Py-GCMS suggested that the polymer found on Eeyore was Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) as the major microplastic, followed by Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Furthermore, FTIR also suggested that that the material was PET. …”
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Wastewater-based epidemiology for preventing outbreaks and epidemics in Latin America - lessons from the past and a look to the future by Prado, Tatiana, Rey-Benito, Gloria, Miagostovich, Marize Pereira, Sato, Maria Inês Zanoli, Rajal, Veronica Beatriz, Filho, Cesar Rossas Mota, Pereira, Alyne Duarte, Barbosa, Mikaela Renata Funada, Mannarino, Camille Ferreira, da Silva, Agnes Soares

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Membrane filtration - the effect of turbulence by Chong, Joseph Xuefeng

“…The grid had a solidity of 66.67% with 1cm circular holes. 16 Polyacrylonitrile(PAN) hollow fiber membranes were attached onto the membrane module in each experiment. …”
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Mussel-inspired approach to cross-linked functional 3D nanofibrous aerogels for energy-efficient filtration of ultrafine airborne particles by Zhang, Youfang, Zeng, Zhihui, Ma, Daphne Xiu Yun, Zhao, Chenyang, Ang, Jia Ming, Ng, Bing Feng, Wan, Man Pun, Wong, Shing-Chung, Wang, Zhe, Lu, Xuehong

“…Herein, inspired by mussel glue, cross-linked threedimensional (3D) polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibrous aerogels (NFAs) with ultrahigh porosity, hierarchical porous structures, and good compression resistance are successfully fabricated via electrospinning, facile polydopamine (PDA) coating and crosslinking by ferric ions (Fe3+) followed by freeze-drying. …”
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Pneumococcal genomics and evolution by van Tonder, A

“…This thesis describes the application of genomics to investigating important aspects of pneumococcal biology including the pan-genome, <em>cps</em> locus diversity and genomic regions potentially associated with invasive disease. …”

相声剧中的反思议题 ：以《东厂仅一位》为例 = Topics in stand-up comedy : a case study on “The Last One of Ming dynasty” by 杨凯威 Yeong, Hoi Wai

“…In 1980’s, a theater performance “The Night We Became Hsiang Sheng Comedians” brought Xiangsheng back to life again in Taiwan, and came into a new being called “Stand-up Comedy”, which contain both Xiangsheng and theater art element. …”
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Transport of intensity equation: a new approach to phase and light field by Zuo, Chao, Chen, Qian, Asundi, Anand

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Experimental and numerical studies of S960 ultra-high strength steel welded I-section columns by Su, Andi, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…A testing programme, including initial geometric imperfection measurements and ten pin-ended column tests, was conducted. The testing programme was accompanied by a numerical modelling programme, where finite element models were firstly developed and validated against the test results, and then employed to perform parametric studies to generate further numerical data. …”
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