Wavelength tuning of the soft-approached whispering gallery mode microlasers for display and sensing by Yang, Shancheng

“…Although the mature but sophisticated top-down and bottom-up approaches for semiconductor processing can provide WGM microcavities and microlasers with high quality and ultra-compact integration, the intrinsic rigid nature of the materials hinders the development of flexible applications like displayand sensing, which require the tuning of the wavelengths within the cavity. …”
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Analysis and design of RSSI in the RF receiver chain by Bhaskar Yashaswini

“…Cascaded structure of IFA is used and the output of each IFA is rectified. Few more accessories like chopper and comparators are added to these basic building blocks to meet the design specifications. …”
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Study on system non-functional type response : user interface and batch processing by Vellingiri Naveen Prasath

“…Functional testing is done by developers during software development Unit testing and integration testing require coding skills, but other functional testing methods like black box testing and user acceptance testing do not require coding skills. …”
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Exploration of a low-cost radar and image processing by Zhang, Xingwen

“…In general, the characteristics such as being reflected, refracted and polarized for radio waves are quite like that of the visible lights, which can be further supported by wave–particle duality of light by Albert Einstein in 1905. …”
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Vulnerability of port of Singapore as a maritime hub due to impact of international trade affairs by Ng, Shi Chin

“…Since 1819, Singapore has been involved in the seaborne trade and has been known as a maritime hub providing services like bunkering, crew changes and petrochemical refinery. …”
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Sport fans’ behaviour : the relationship between nostalgia, team loyalty, attitude toward sponsors, and behavioural intentions by Tan, Doreen Xiaofang

“…Previous studies have found that nostalgia can lead to team loyalty, positive attitude toward sponsors, and behavioural intentions like travelling to attend sport events or purchasing a sponsor’s products. …”
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Small-signal neural models and their applications by Basu, Arindam

“…Second, we use small-signal models for deriving parameters for a simple neural model (such as resonate and fire) from a more complicated but biophysically relevant one like Morris-Lecar. We show similarity in the subthreshold behavior of the simple and complicated model when they are close to a Hopf bifurcation and a saddle-node bifurcation. …”
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Overaccommodation in a Singapore Eldercare Facility by Cavallaro, Francesco, Seilhamer, Mark Fifer, Chee, Yi Tian Felicia, Ng, Bee Chin

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Minimal type inference for Linked Data consumers by Ciobanu, Gabriel, Horne, Ross, Sassone, Vladimiro

“…We provide an introduction to the Web of Linked Data from the perspective of a Web developer who would like to build an application using Linked Data. We identify a weakness in the development stack, namely a lack of domain specific scripting languages for designing background processes that consume Linked Data. …”
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Apologia pro Vita-Fabula Sua: Defending Narrativity and How We Make Sense of Our Lives by Chen, Melvin

“…I will demonstrate certain defects in the metaphysical arguments that anti-narrativists like Parfit and Strawson have made against what is essentially a semantic thesis about how we make sense of our lives. …”
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Elucidating the catalytic effect of metal ions in montmorillonite on thermal degradation of organic modifier by Zope, Indraneel Suhas, Dasari, Aravind, Camino, Giovanni

“…This work explores the effect of metal ions (MIs) like Mg2+, Al3+ and Fe3+ that are inherent to clay in altering the kinetics of degradation of organic modifier, hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (HDTMA-Br). …”
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Limited-view ultrasonic guided wave tomography using an adaptive regularization method by Rao, Jing, Ratassepp, Madis, Fan, Zheng

“…Recently, tomography techniques have been developed to quantitatively estimate the thickness map of plate-like structures based on the dispersion characteristics of guided waves. …”
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Multimode-pumped Raman amplification of a higher order mode in a large mode area fiber by Zhu, Sheng, Pidishety, Shankar, Feng, Yutong, Hong, Soonki, Demas, Jeff, Sidharthan, Raghuraman, Yoo, Seongwoo, Ramachandran, Siddharth, Srinivasan, Balaji, Nilsson, Johan

“…We report the first demonstration of Raman amplification in a fiber of a single Bessel-like higher order mode using a multimode pump source. …”
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High-Density 3D-Boron Nitride and 3D-Graphene for High-Performance Nano–Thermal Interface Material by Loeblein, Manuela, Tsang, Siu Hon, Pawlik, Matthieu, Phua, Eric Jian Rong, Yong, Han, Zhang, Xiao Wu, Gan, Chee Lip, Teo, Edwin Hang Tong

“…Compression studies on three-dimensional foam-like graphene and h-BN (3D-C and 3D-BN) revealed their high cross-plane thermal conductivity (62–86 W m–1 K–1) and excellent surface conformity, characteristics essential for thermal management needs. …”
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Mechanisms of ciliary targeting: entering importins and Rabs by Lu, Lei, Madugula, Viswanadh

“…Primary cilium is a rod-like plasma membrane protrusion that plays important roles in sensing the cellular environment and initiating corresponding signaling pathways. …”
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Dengue Virus Non-Structural Protein 5 by El Sahili, Abbas, Lescar, Julien

“…Dengue virus also serves as a prototype for the study of other pathogenic flaviviruses that are emerging, like West Nile virus and Zika virus. Upon viral entry into the host cell and fusion of the viral lipid membrane with the endosomal membrane, the viral RNA is released and expressed as a polyprotein, that is then matured into three structural and seven non-structural (NS) proteins. …”
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An automatic voice conversion evaluation strategy based on perceptual background noise distortion and speaker similarity by Huang, Dong-Yan, Xie, Lei, Zhang, Shaofei, Lee, Yvonne Siu Wa, Wu, Jie, Ming, Huaiping, Tian, Xiaohai, Ding, Chuang, Li, Mei, Nguyen, Quy Hy, Dong, Minghui, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…Voice conversion aims to modify the characteristics of one speaker to make it sound like spoken by another speaker without changing the language content. …”
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Stress amplification effect of lung by Zhou, Hongyuan, Ma, Guowei

“…Under a blast or impact load, rapid movement of the thoracic wall generates stress in lung, a foam-like structure of high compressibility, which is different from general solids. …”
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Oxidation-etching preparation of MnO2 tubular nanostructures for high-performance supercapacitors by Zhu, Jixin, Shi, Wenhui, Xiao, Ni, Rui, Xianhong, Tan, Huiteng, Lu, Xuehong, Hng, Huey Hoon, Ma, Jan, Yan, Qingyu

“…The polycrystalline MnO2 nanotubes can be further converted to porous nanobelts and sponge-like nanowires by annealing in air. Among all the types of MnO2 nanostructures prepared, tubular MnO2 nanostructures composed of assembled nanosheets show optimized charge storage performance when tested as supercapacitor electrodes, for example, delivering an power density of 13.33 kW·kg–1 and a energy density of 21.1 Wh·kg–1 with a long cycling life over 3000 cycles, which is mainly related to their features of large specific surface area and optimized charge transfer pathway.…”
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What causes the low viscosity of ether-functionalized ionic liquids? Its dependence on the increase of free volume by Chen, Zhengjian, Xue, Tong, Lee, Jong-Min

“…To maximize this effect, the alkoxy groups were supposed to contain a rod-like alkyl tail and a short –CH2– spacer between the ether O atom and the cationic N atom, and be in an environment without hydrogen bond donors. …”
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