Colloidal fouling and scaling in reverse osmosis process by Jun, Yan

“…Conductance of the diffusion polarisation layer (GDP) derived from the EIS measurement and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) suggest that surface crystallisation is the main mechanism for scalant formation on the membrane surface in this study. …”
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Index learning style data processing application by Yew, Shao Jie

“…This is because manually tabulating all the students’ learning styles can be tedious and could lead to inaccurate analysis. The main user of this application is teachers who are interested to analyze and discover the optimal learning styles for their learners. …”
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Logarithmic laplacian prior based bayesian inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging by Zhang, Shuanghui, Liu, Yongxiang, Li, Xiang, Bi, Guoan

“…The newly proposed logarithmic Laplacian prior has a narrower main lobe with higher tail values than the Laplacian prior, which helps to achieve performance improvement on sparse representation. …”
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Multiband and wideband 90° polarization rotators by Omar, Ahmed Abdelmottaleb, Shen, Zhongxiang, Ho, Sheng Yu

“…The front and back layers contain metal wire grids orthogonal to each other, while the middle layer consists of resonant elements with 45° twisted angle, which plays the main role in determining the overall response of the structure. …”
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A memetic approach to vehicle routing problem with dynamic requests by Mańdziuk, Jacek, Żychowski, Adam

“…Apart from encouraging numerical outcomes, the main contribution of the paper is investigation into the importance of the so-called starting delay parameter, whose appropriate selection has a crucial impact on the quality of results. …”
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Organ Printing: Past, Present and Future by Rezende, Rodrigo A., Balashov, Sergey, Da Silva, Jorge V. L., Mironov, Vladimir, Kasyanov, Vladimir

“…The organ printing technology consists of three main steps: (i) pre-processing or design of blueprint for bioprinting of human organ; (ii) processing or actual 3D bioprinting using bioink or self-assembling tissue spheroids, biopaper or bioprintable, biocompatible and sacrificial hydrogel and bioprinter or automatic computer-aided robotic dispenser; and finally, (iii) postprocessing or bioreactor-based accelerated tissue maturation. …”
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Emergence of white organic light-emitting diodes based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence by Xiao, Peng, Dong, Ting, Xie, Jianing, Luo, Dongxiang, Yuan, Jian, Liu, Baiquan

“…In this invited review, the fundamental concepts of TADF have been firstly introduced. Then, main approaches to realize WOLEDs based on TADF have been summarized. …”
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Mean first passage time of preferential random walks on complex networks with applications by Zheng, Zhongtuan, Xiao, Gaoxi, Wang, Guoqiang, Zhang, Guanglin, Jiang, Kaizhong

“…On the other hand, the center-product-degree (CPD) is introduced as one measure of node strength and it plays a main role in determining the scaling of the MFPT for the PRW. …”
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The maritime safety management system (MSMS) : a survey of the international shipping community by Thai, Vinh Van, Grewal, Devinder

“…This paper presents the findings of a research project on the Maritime Safety Management System (MSMS) conducted at the Australian Maritime College (AMC) in 2004. The main objectives of this study are to identify key shorebased and near shore activities associated with maritime operations that are currently not covered by the ISM Code and players involved in these activities; to explore and analyse important relationships among them which can affect the management of safety; and to investigate the key safety issues within these relationships and the risks related to these safety issues. …”
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Mythical heroines : the appropriation of myth in reconstructing female identities in ethnic American literature by Goh, I-Mei.

“…In all three texts, the main characters display fragmentation of selves and sometimes a fusing of several characters, or in the case of Jasmine, the embodiment of many selves within one body. …”
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Modulating sub-THz radiation with current in superconducting metamaterial by Savinov, V., Anlage, S. M., Groot, P. A. J. de., Fedotov, Vassili A., Zheludev, Nikolay I.

“…We have identified the main mechanisms of modulation that correspond to the suppression of the superconductivity in the network by magnetic field and heat dissipation. …”
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Polarity assignment in ZnTe, GaAs, ZnO, and GaN-AlN nanowires from direct dumbbell analysis by Fernández-Rojas, Carlos J., Morral, Anna Fontcuberta i., Mata, Maria de la, Magen, Cesar, Gazquez, Jaume, Utama, Muhammad Iqbal Bakti, Heiss, Martin, Lopatin, Sergei, Furtmayr, Florian, Peng, Bo, Morante, Joan Ramon, Rurali, Riccardo, Eickhoff, Martin, Xiong, Qihua, Arbiol, Jordi

“…The theoretical fundaments of these procedures allow us to overcome the main challenge in the identification of dumbbell polarity. …”
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The Japanese economy in crises : a time series segmentation study by Cheong, Siew Ann, Fornia, Robert Paulo, Lee, Gladys Hui Ting, Kok, Jun Liang, Yim, Woei Shyr, Xu, Danny Yuan, Zhang, Yiting

“…Of these, the second and main stage affecting 21 industries lasted only 27 days, in contrast to the two-and-a-half-years across-the-board recovery from the 1997–2003 financial crisis. …”
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State of the nation: class, Labour politics and the contemporary relevance of Our Friends in the North (1996) by Collins, Jeremy

“…The series has been situated in the canons of British social realism and quality drama, and explores issues of class and social power, in particular depicting struggles around poor housing, police corruption, political scandals, and how these intersect with the lives of ordinary people. The main characters are shown variously rejecting, accommodating to or being crushed by, the political changes of the period, from Wilsonian Labourism, via Thatcherite neo-liberalism to the emergence of ‘new labour’. …”
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Forging a green future: synergizing Industry 4.0 technologies and circular economy tactics to achieve net-zero in sustainable supply chains by El Jaouhari, Asmae, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Benbrahim, Fatima Zahra, Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil

“…As part of this objective, the paper conducts an exploratory systematic review of selected articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Three main categories are identified from the selected articles: (i) CE principles and I4.0 technologies integration, (ii) the role of CE-I4.0 nexus in a sustainable supply chain (iii) leveraging CE-4.0 integration for net zero sustainable supply chains. …”
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Evaluation of credit risk and rehabilitation strategies for small and medium-scale commercial loans in Sri Lanka's tourism industry: an analysis of commercial banks practices and m... by Khan, Shahbano, Dhanapala, Wickrama Arachchilage Ishani Hansika

“…The main objective of this study is to evaluate the credit risk on small and medium scale commercial loans in tourism industry within Sri Lanka, identifying how intensely most used by commercial banks while they manage these risks. …”
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Road pothole detection from smartphone sensor data using improved LSTM by Singh, Prabhat, Kamal, Ahmed E., Bansal, Abhay, Kumar, Sunil

“…However, low accuracy in detecting the pothole in low-light conditions is taken as the main problem in this work. To address this issue, we presented an Improved Long Short Term Memory model (ILSTM) that combines a three-layer deep LSTM with a One-Dimensional Local Binary Pattern (1D-LBP) layer to detect the presence of potholes during low-light conditions and extract features such as the number of neighbouring samples and pixel values. …”
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Search for single-production of vector-like quarks decaying into Wb in the fully hadronic final state in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector by Aad, G, Aakvaag, E, Abbott, B, Abdelhameed, S, Abeling, K, Abicht, NJ, Abidi, SH, Aboelela, M, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Ackermann, A, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Addepalli, SV, Addison, MJ, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Barr, AJ, Bortoletto, D, Bruckler, TL, Celli, F, Chen, M, Conroy, EI, Cooper-Sarkar, AM, Dingley, T, Draguet, MA, Eberwein, GH, Frost, JA, Gallas, EJ, Grabarczyk, RP, Gwenlan, C, Haslbeck, F, Hays, CP, Hodkinson, BH, Huffman, TB, Iizawa, T, Karava, K, Koch, SF, Li, Z, Moser, B, Nagai, K, Nedic, L, Nickerson, RB, Pacey, HA, Rossi, E, Ruggiero, A, Schopf, E, Shipsey, IPJ, Sultan, DMS, Viehhauser, GHA, Weidberg, AR, Yildirim, TP

“…The final state is characterised by a hadronically decaying W boson with large Lorentz boost and a b-tagged jet, which are used to reconstruct the invariant mass of the vector-like quark candidate. The main background is QCD multijet production, which is estimated using a data-driven method. …”

'The burglar's mate'? How London's probation officers persuaded magistrates in Social Enquiry Reports, 1958-72 by Lunan, J

“…Sorting the SERs into types of offender, the thesis shows that both generations ultimately persuaded magistrates by subtly indicating in reports whether or not the offender and their families conformed to conventional gender norms. The main reason why SERs by the permissive university graduates closely resembled those written by their older colleagues was due to their common perception of magistrates as being socially conservative. …”

Sympathetic-neuron-derived neuropeptide Y (NPY) regulates adipose tissue immunometabolic homeostasis by Zhu, Y

“…Our imaging of cleared murine brown and white adipose tissue (BAT and WAT) established that NPY⁺ sympathetic axons are only a minority that mostly maps to the peri-vasculature; our analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets identifies mural cells as the main NPY-responsive cells in adipose tissues. We show that NPY sustains mural cells, known as a source of beige cells in both BAT and WAT (Long et al., 2014; Shamsi et al., 2021) and that NPY facilitates the differentiation to thermogenic adipocytes. …”