Numerical analysis in rock engineering 2 - sequential excavation by Winardi, Aurelia Sharleen

“…Especially in geographically small Singapore, to ensure continuous development and growth, studies on underground space development has been going on as part of a long term development master plan. Therefore, there is a need to learn about the effects of excavation in cases of large underground rock cavern construction to ensure construction safety and long-term stability of the rock cavern structure. …”
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Fibre Bragg grating based system for real-time railway monitoring by Li Jing

“…FBG sensors, a unique type of optic sensors offer immunity to Electromagnetic Interference, very long distance interrogation, long life-span and multiplexing capacity over conventional electrical sensors so as to meet all the above challenges. …”
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The Caliphate at War: Ideology, War Fighting and State-Formation by Hashim, Ahmed Salah

“…My approach towards what is going on in Iraq lies within the French historical school of la longue durée, the study of long-term structural factors. Two long-term historical points should be kept in mind when considering the Islamic State (IS) within the context of Iraq and Syria: the emergence and manipulation of sectarianism, skewed state-formation and nation building.…”
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A survey of few-shot learning for biomedical time series by Li, C, Denison, T, Zhu, T

“…Data-driven models have tremendous potential to assist clinical diagnosis and improve patient care by improving long-term monitoring capabilities, facilitating early disease detection and intervention, as well as promoting personalized healthcare delivery. …”

Devising materials manufacturing toward lab-to-fab translation of flexible electronics by Luo, Yifei, Wang, Ming, Wan, Changjin, Cai, Pingqiang, Loh, Xian Jun, Chen, Xiaodong

“…With concerted efforts from academia and industry, flexible electronics will bring a bigger impact to society as promised.…”
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Exploring multi-level motivations towards green design practices : a system dynamics approach by Li, Qing, Zhang, Lianying, Zhang, Limao, Jha, Sunil

“…It is noted that more policy stimuli may not bring more cost-efficient green outcomes. Besides, the development trends of designers’ green practices are relatively consistent with that of green techniques instead of owners’ requirements. …”
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Fabrication of high-performance thin-film composite and nanochannel-enabled next-generation membranes for water desalination by Lim, Yu Jie

“…First, a module-scale simulation was conducted to examine the impact and actual significance of the benefits which highly permeable membranes could bring about at a system-level (Chapter 3). Based on this theoretical understanding, Chapter 4 studies the possibility to fabricate robust and high-performance membranes by optimizing the support layer of thin-film composite (TFC)-SWRO membranes. …”
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Revisiting high harmonic generation in nonlinear epsilon-near-zero metamaterials by Barbet, Geoffrey Pascal

“…One of many ways to enhance light-matter interactions is to bring the permittivity of a media to zero. This so-called Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) material supports exceptional features such as the decoupling of spatial and temporal field variations, light squeezing, enhanced harmonic generation, phase mismatch–free nonlinear propagation, photonic doping, etc. …”
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Bitstream-corrupted JPEG images are restorable: two-stage compensation and alignment framework for image restoration by Liu, Wenyang, Wang, Yi, Yap, Kim-Hui, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…In this paper, we study a real-world JPEG image restoration problem with bit errors on the encrypted bitstream. The bit errors bring unpredictable color casts and block shifts on decoded image contents, which cannot be resolved by existing image restoration methods mainly relying on pre-defined degradation models in the pixel domain. …”
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Fabrication and properties of oxide semiconductor nanowires by Shen, Youde

“…Studying nanowire growth behaviour and controlling nanowire morphology are the central theme in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Herein, we bring insights to the conventional VLS growth mechanism in the growth of lateral and kinked nanowires and advance the study of Gibbs-Thomson effect in planar nanowires growth. …”
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Expressions of grief on the early modern stage by Welch, K

“…</p> <p>Performances of theatrical mourning thus occur displaced in time, preemptive requests for a death not to happen rather than the belated wish to bring the dead back to life. Mourning in the theatre occurs out of place: testing classbased mourning scripts; moving up and down the vertical axis of the stage; performing a transitory state of emotion through transitory gestures; deploying submissive poses that turn out to hold surprising theatrical and strategic power.…”

Breaking the symmetry : gradient in NiFe layered double hydroxide nanoarrays for efficient oxygen evolution by Zhou, Daojin, Jia, Yin, Duan, Xinxuan, Tang, Jialun, Xu, Jie, Liu, Dong, Xiong, Xuya, Zhang, Junming, Luo, Jun, Zheng, Lirong, Liu, Bin, Kuang, Yun, Sun, Xiaoming, Duan, Xue

“…Breaking the symmetry in catalysts through interface engineering has emerged as a new dimension in enhancing the catalytic performances, while the long-range asymmetry (i.e. in nanometer scale) in catalysts can hardly be achieved by alloying or doping. …”
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Profiling heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease using white-matter impairment factors by Sui, Xiuchao, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…Specifically, APOE ε4 was more associated with the long fibre bundle factor and APOE ε2 was more associated with temporal-frontal factor. …”
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Future reservoir performance projection using integrated models in the framework of climate change by Hamidon, Nuramidah

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N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor- antibody encephalitis impairs maintenance of attention to items in working memory by Dor, A, Harrison, C, Irani, SR, Al-Diwani, A, Grogan, J, Manohar, S

“…Secondly, few studies follow these patients long after treatment. Our findings demonstrate a specific long-term neuropsychological deficit, previously unreported to our knowledge, that highlights the need for greater focus on neurocognitive rehabilitation with these patients.…”

Exploring the moderating role of expressive suppression in the relationship between psychopathy and aggression by Maria, Dayla

“…The link between psychopathy and aggression is well-established and carries significant societal implications. …”
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Event rates and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition in hospitalised SARS-CoV-2 positive children and young people and controls across different pandemic waves: exposure-stratified... by Pazukhina, E, Rumyantsev, M, Baimukhambetova, D, Bondarenko, E, Markina, N, El-Taravi, Y, Petrova, P, Ezhova, A, Andreeva, M, Iakovleva, E, Bobkova, P, Pikuza, M, Trefilova, A, Abdeeva, E, Galiautdinova, A, Filippova, Y, Bairashevskaia, A, Zolotarev, A, Bulanov, N, DunnGalvin, A, Chernyavskaya, A, Kondrikova, E, Kolotilina, A, Gadetskaya, S

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> Long-term health outcomes in children and young people (CYP) after COVID-19 infection are not well understood and studies with control groups exposed to other infections are lacking. …”

High-performance and low-complexity implementation of fixed-coefficient FIR filters by Lou, Xin

“…Moreover, though the product-accumulation line of TDF FIR filters contribute significant amount of delay, it is omitted in most of the existing works. …”
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Understanding customer retrials in call centers: preferences for service quality and service speed by Hu, K, Allon, G, Bassamboo, A

“…<p><strong> Managerial implications:</p></strong> First, our research highlights the importance of recognizing customers’ off-line decisions, which are impacted by online service offerings and, in turn, affect future online service operations. …”

Members’ participation, empowerment and sustainability of self-help groups in Kano City, Nigeria by Ibrahim, Abdul-Aziz

“…Despite the potential of SHGs, there are certain factors that restrained the sustainability of these groups. In line with this, the study examined the relationship between group member’s participation, empowerment, member’s perception towards leadership and group cohesion, and sustainability of self-help groups. …”
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