Insight into proton transfer in phosphotungstic acid functionalized mesoporous silica-based proton exchange membrane fuel cells by Zhou, Yuhua, Yang, Jing, Su, Haibin, Zeng, Jie, Jiang, San Ping, Goddard, William A

“…When the adjacent HPWs are close (less than 17.0 Å apart), the calculated activation energy for intramolecular proton transfer within a HPW molecule is higher (29.1–18.8 kJ/mol) than the barrier for intermolecular proton transfer along the hydrogen bond. We find that the overall barrier for proton movement within the HPW-meso-silica membranes is determined by the intramolecular proton transfer pathway, which explains why the proton conductivity remains unchanged when the weight percentage of HPW on meso-silica is above 67 wt %. …”
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A sampling approach for proactive project scheduling under generalized time-dependent workability uncertainty by Song, Wen, Kang, Donghun, Zhang, Jie, Cao, Zhiguang, Xi, Hui

“…We propose a stochastic optimization model to find an optimal Partial-order Schedule (POS) that minimizes the expected makespan. …”
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Knapsack-based reverse influence maximization for target marketing in social networks by Talukder, Ashis, Tran, Nguyen H., Niyato, Dusit, Hong, Choong Seon, Mohammad Golam Rabiul Alam

“…However, seed users might also be activated by some other influential users, and thus, the reverse influence maximization (RIM) models have been proposed to find the seeding cost of target marketing. However, the existing RIM models are incapable of resolving the challenging issues and providing better seeding cost simultaneously. …”
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Ultra-high Q even eigenmode resonance in terahertz metamaterials by Al-Naib, Ibraheem, Yang, Yuping, Dignam, Marc M., Zhang, Weili, Singh, Ranjan

“…The high Q even eigenmode could find applications in designing label free bio-sensors and for studying the enhanced light matter interaction effects.…”
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Risk assessment for integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to aerodromes by Radhakrishnan Keerthana

“…However, it is difficult to find locations or applications without involving aircrafts and people. …”
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Highly stretchable, elastic, and ionic conductive hydrogel for artificial soft electronics by Zhou, Yang, Wan, Changjin, Yang, Yongsheng, Yang, Hui, Wang, Shancheng, Dai, Zhendong, Ji, Keju, Jiang, Hui, Chen, Xiaodong, Long, Yi

“…However, it is difficult to find a material with balanced electronic and mechanical performance. …”
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Valley-layer coupling : a new design principle for valleytronics by Yu, Zhi-Ming, Guan, Shan, Sheng, Xian-Lei, Gao, Weibo, Yang, Shengyuan A.

“…Our finding opens a new direction for valleytronics and 2D materials research.…”
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Biomechanical study on arthroscopic biceps tenodesis fixation techniques by Lim, Gideon Boon Hao

“…Thus, it is important to find the best repair technique among the two different techniques through biomechanical experiments. …”
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An optimal scheduling scheme for electric vehicles in smarts grids by Teh, Xiu Yi

“…Therefore, in this project, two techniques of optimization will be performed to find the optimal electric vehicle charging scheduling. …”
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Long-term multi-resource fairness for pay-as-you use computing systems by Tang, Shanjiang, Niu, Zhaojie, He, Bingsheng, Lee, Bu-Sung, Yu, Ce

“…In view of the heterogeneous resource demands of users' workloads, multi-resource allocation fairness is a must for resource sharing in such pay-as-you-use computing systems. However, we find that, existing multi-resource fair policies such as Dominant Resource Fairness (DRF), implemented in currently popular resource management systems such as Apache YARN [4] and Mesos [23] , are not suitable for the pay-as-you-use computing systems. …”
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Design of RF front-end circuit blocks for low-power applications by Lim, Kok Meng

“…These signals tend to find their way to other frequency sensitive circuits such as oscillators, through certain feedback paths or substrate coupling. …”
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Carbon storage capacity of tropical peatlands in natural and artificial drainage networks by Cobb, Alexander R., Dommain, René, Tan, Fangyi, Heng, Naomi Hwee En, Harvey, Charles F.

“…We explored the maximum amount of carbon that can accumulate as water-saturated peat in natural and artificial drainage networks of northwest and southern Borneo. We find that the maximum volume of peat accumulation in a channel-bounded parcel is proportional to the square of the parcel area times a scale-independent factor describing the shape of the parcel boundary. …”
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An online marketplace platform by Kwek, Theophilus

“…Secondly, it is a platform where they can outsource their problems or find potential partnerships. Thirdly, it is also a platform for companies to list out their products or/and services, thus, enabling them to form an additional stream of revenue. …”
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Self-healing characterizations of polyurea/polyurethane coating & its formulation optimization by Sim, Celine (Shen Silin)

“…With high self-healing efficiency, self-healing polyurea could be the ultimate choice of protective coating. This report aims to find the optimum formulation for fabrication of polyurea with high self-healing efficiency. …”
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Process optimization for selective laser sintering of polypropylene by Wu, Kunlin

“…The process parameter optimization was conducted in order to find out the optimal experiment parameters. The effects of different building orientations on the tensile, flexural, impact and shrinkage properties and failure mechanism of the specimens produced by selective laser sintering process are also examined in order to investigate the anisotropy of the specimens printed by selective laser sintering process. …”
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Translational and rotational critical-like behaviors in the glass transition of colloidal ellipsoid monolayers by Zheng, Zhongyu, Ni, Ran, Wang, Yuren, Han, Yilong

“…Here, through experiments and simulations, we show critical-like behaviors in both translational and rotational degrees of freedom in monolayers of monodisperse colloidal ellipsoids in the absence of crystalline orders. We find rich features of the Ising-like criticality in structure and slow dynamics at the ideal glass transition point ϕ0, showing the thermodynamic nature of glass transition at ϕ0. …”
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Mechanical disorder of sticky-sphere glasses. II. Thermomechanical inannealability by González-López, Karina, Shivam, Mahajan, Zheng, Yuanjian, Ciamarra, Massimo Pica, Lerner, Edan

“…The implications of our findings and future research directions are discussed.…”
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Hedonic and non-hedonic bias toward the future by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Norton, James

“…While, as predicted, we found first-person hedonic future-bias, we did not find that participants were time-neutral in all other conditions. …”
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Does footwork rule in netball increase chances of ACL injury in healthy competitive netball athletes? by Zhou, Regine Yongsi

“…Background: Though mechanisms, risk factors and intervention programmes of non-contact ACL injury have been identified, elite netballers still find themselves highly susceptible to this injury. …”
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The devil is in the detail? Investors’ mispricing of proxy voting outcomes on M&A deals by Li, Lingwei, Zhang, Huai

“…Short sale constraints do not seem to explain our findings. Overall, our results suggest that detailed proxy voting outcomes are neglected by investors.…”
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