Preliminary Investigation of 4D Printing Technology for Deployable UAV Development by Chua, Chee Kai, Teoh, J. E. M., Liu, Yong, An, J., Li, Y.

“…Current unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are large in size due to fixed wings and mechanical components. 4D printing is a technology that allows shape transformation (e.g. compaction, extension) of a 3D printed object. …”
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Morphing structures by Tan, Sharon Si Ying.

“…This project aims to investigate specific applications of smart materials in the design of a morphing wing. Smart materials have great potential in many fields, and are already widely used in some fields. …”
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Deciphering the Role of a Coleopteran Steering Muscle via Free Flight Stimulation by Sato, Hirotaka, Vo Doan, Tat Thang, Kolev, Svetoslav, Huynh, Ngoc Anh, Zhang, Chao, Massey, Travis L., van Kleef, Joshua, Ikeda, Kazuo, Abbeel, Pieter, Maharbiz, Michel M.

“…We investigated the role of a muscle involved in wing articulation during flight in a coleopteran. …”
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Study the effects of annulus fibrosus deficiency on spinal deformity using T7-T9 finite element model by Candy Sarah George

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Design and develop an ornithopter by Wahyu Benardo Fanthony

“…Animal in other hand has unique style; bird for example is able to flying by flapping the wings. It is very interesting way to perform flight. …”
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Ghost Stories / by Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author 324196, James, M. R., 1862-1936, (Montague Rhodes), 242996

“…Twenty-two exciting stories from the twilight world of haunted houses and hair-raising spectres are contained in this spine-chilling anthology. Each tale is illustrated with specially commissioned drawings.…”

Experimental Characterization of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Excited States and their Relevance to Electron Transfer Reactions by Skeel, Brighton A.

“…We find that the energy scale associated with both of these phenomena is commensurate with that of the thermal energy at ambient temperature, and that these alternate valence arrangements and spin configurations are thus relevant to understanding the room temperature reactivity of biological Fe−S systems. …”
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Island area and remoteness shape plant and soil bacterial diversity through land use and biological invasion by Xu, Mingshan, Yang, Anna, Yang, Xiaodong, Cao, Wenting, Zhang, Zengke, Li, Zengyan, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Huaguo, You, Wenhui, Yan, En-Rong, Wardle, David A.

“…However, land use intensity increased with island area which also promoted plant diversity, and loss of pine forest by the pinewood nematode invasion increased with island remoteness which reduced plant diversity. …”
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Sporopollenin-inspired design and synthesis of robust polymeric materials by Glinkerman, Christopher M, Lin, Shaoting, Ni, Jiahua, Li, Fu-Shuang, Zhao, Xuanhe, Weng, Jing-Ke

“…Recent investigation of the molecular structure of pine sporopollenin revealed unique monomeric units and inter-unit linkages distinct from other previously known biopolymers, which could be harnessed for new material design. …”
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CFD investigation of a distributed propulsion system by Chng, Jia Yang

“…Numerical simulation using computational fluid dynamics is used in this paper to determine the lift and drag forces, and subsequently the aerodynamic efficiency of a 3-D finite wing in ANSYS Fluent. The computational domain utilized an overset mesh with the component consisting of the finite wing and equally spaced momentum sources representing propellers mounted on the wing. …”
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Compositional dependence of spintronic properties in Pt/GdCo films by Suzuki, Daniel H, Lee, Byung Hun, Beach, Geoffrey SD

“…We find a 5× increase in effective spin Hall angle with increasing Gd concentration, suggesting an improvement in spin transfer efficiency in rare earth materials. …”
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Narrowband Searches for Continuous and Long-duration Transient Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo Third Observing Run by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…Isolated neutron stars that are asymmetric with respect to their spin axis are possible sources of detectable continuous gravitational waves. …”
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Quantum Monte Carlo study of the phase diagram of the two-dimensional uniform electron liquid by Azadi, S, Drummond, ND, Vinko, SM

“…We present a study of spin-unpolarized and spin-polarized two-dimensional uniform electron liquids using variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (VMC and DMC) methods with SlaterJastrow-backflow trial wave functions. …”

Digest: islands promote population differentiation in dispersive swallows by Estandía, A, Merino Recalde, N

“…However, wing shape remains consistent across populations, suggesting it might not accurately reflect dispersal propensity in this group. …”

THE WINGLESS PRINCE / by Marisa Fendi, author 655832, Naadhira Zahari, editor 655828

“…Cakrawala is the heir to the throne of Bayu, a kingdom inhabited by the forgotten winged folk. But all that changes overnight when his cousin betrays him for the crown. …”

Age-related bone loss is associated with FGF21 but not IGFBP1 in healthy adults by Lee, Shuen Yee, Fam, Kai Deng, Chia, Kar Ling, Yap, Margaret M. C., Goh, Jorming, Yeo, Kwee Poo, Yap, Eric Peng Huat, Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh, Lim, Chin Leong

“…The IGFBP1 concentration was not correlated with BMD at the hip or spine (all P > 0.05). In humans, FGF21 might be involved in the age-associated decline in BMD, especially at the spine, through increased bone turnover. …”
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Design and investigation of air-cooled heat sinks using 3D printing technology by Lim, Ming Chong

“…This study presents the heat transfer performance of five pin fin heat sinks that have been fabricated using Selective Laser Melting. …”
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Design and development of composite structure for a micro-UAV by Loke, Jun Jie.

“…This report describes the design process and fabrication of a composite fuselage for a 2kg class micro-UAV which is propelled by flapping wings. It begins with the comparison and selection of fabrication process. …”
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Improved lower bounds on book crossing numbers of complete graphs by Salazar, G., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V., De Klerk, Etienne.

“…A book with k pages consists of a straight line (the spine) and k half-planes (the pages), such that the boundary of each page is the spine. …”
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Optimization of transition maneuvers through aerodynamic vectoring by Maqsood, Adnan., Go, Tiauw Hiong.

“…Compared to the fixed-wing aircraft case, the angle of incidence of the wing provides an additional independent control variable in the optimization problem formulation. …”
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