Japan's quest for security by Satake, Tomohiko

“…Japan has sought to break away from its previous low-profile security posture and to strengthen its defence capabilities through strategic use of military assets and supply lines, advanced technologies, economic security, and partnerships with like-minded countries.…”
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Living with uncertainty: a whole-of-society approach to pandemics by Tan, Ming Hui

“…Singapore relies on foresight and horizon scanning to navigate emerging risks. Nevertheless, a pandemic highlights the need for such capabilities beyond the government sector and our national borders. …”
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Polarization behaviors of twisted carbon nanotube fibers by Zhang, Yongzhe, Zhou, Jinyuan, Sun, Gengzhi, Zhan, Zhaoyao, An, Jianing, Zhang, Yani, Zheng, Lianxi

“…Polarization behaviors of carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers with different twisting were reported. Scanning electron microscope and polarized Raman spectroscopy were used to investigate the prepared samples. …”
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Roughness-Controlled Self-Assembly of Mannitol/LB Agar Microparticles by Polymorphic Transformation for Pulmonary Drug Delivery by Zhang, Fengying, Ngoc, Nguyen Thi Quynh, Tay, Bao Hui, Mendyk, Aleksander, Shao, Yu-Hsuan, Lau, Raymond

“…As-prepared microparticles were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectra (FTIR), X-ray diffraction spectra (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), and Andersen Cascade Impactor (ACI). …”
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Surface structure formation in WE54 Mg alloy subjected to ultrafast laser texturing by Khadka, Indira, Castagne, Sylvie, Wang, Zhongke, Zheng, Hongyu

“…The surface portion containing yttrium was converted into a white crystal-like structure as observed by optical and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The white color compound of rare earth element is turned into gray, then dark, and is finally ablated from the surface with increasing scanning number and number of laser pulses. …”
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Compression dynamics and radiation emission from a deuterium plasma focus by Muhammad Shahid Rafique.

“…More importantly, an automated scanning and measurement system was also successfully developed and employed to overcome the traditional time-consuming and laborious counting and measurement of ion tracks.…”
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Automatic feature detection and terrain mapping using millimeter wave radar for autonomous land vehicle navigation by Jose, Ebi

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Nondestructive evaluation interfaces defects IC packaging by Guo, Ningqun., Ling, Shih Fu., Wong, Brian Stephen.

“…Common defects such as delamination and crack can be detected using C-mode scanning acoustic microscope with sufficient confidence. …”
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Grassmannian packings

“…H. Conway in "Packing lines, planes, etc.: packings in Grassmannian spaces" (Experiment. …”
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Computational modeling of selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy

“…However, the properties of the printed part depend on several processing parameters including laser power, scanning speed, layer thickness, powder distribution, and hatch spacing. …”
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Effects of double aging on inconel 718 fabricated by laser metal deposition by Tham, Nataniel Yong Syn

“…Studying the effects would involve characterisation techniques such as Optical Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy along with measuring the Hardness Values and performing tensile testing with fractography. …”
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Investigation of remelting effects on controlling microstructure morphology in powder bed fusion by Wong, Wendell Shun Yin

“…Remelting leads to improved hardness in low energy density (ED) specimens from 216.41 ± 10.12 HV for single scan to 234.12 ± 7.43 HV for remelted specimens. …”
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Effect of fish, starch and salt contents on the microstructure and expansion of fish crackers ('keropok') by Cheow, C.S., Yu, S.Y., Howell, N.K., Che Man, Y., Muhammad, Karidah

“…At 700-900 g kg-1 fish content, the fish muscle bundles formed a continuous network that caused a drop in the 'keropok' expansion. From the scanning electron microscopy study, ridges were found in samples (containing 600-900 g kg-1 fish content) with 20 g kg-1 salt at high magnification.…”
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The Influence of Compression Stocking on Jumping Performance of Athlete by Salleh, Mohamed Najib, Mad Lazim, Halim, Lamsali, Hendrik, Salleh, Ahmad Faizal

“…This research had organized a test on fourteen athletes. Their body was scanned and a customized compression stocking which can exert pressure correspond to the intended one was developed. …”
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Influence of the exchange symmetry beyond the exclusion principle by Tennie, F

“…In particular, we <em>analytically</em> study the (quasi-)pinning effect which corresponds to a saturation of the GPCs and imposes structural simplifications on the <em>N</em>-fermion state. …”

Somatosensory and clinical profiles of patients with spine-related and clinical framework-based neck–arm pain by Kapitza, C, Ballenberger, N, Luedtke, K, Schmid, AB, Tampin, B

“…Symptom descriptors, such as burning (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.031), tingling (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.018), pins and needles (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.031), numbness (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.016), spontaneous pain (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.001), and electric pain/shock (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.026) were more common in the radicular/radiculopathy groups compared with the somatic/mechanosensitivity groups. …”

Next-generation transgenic mice for optogenetic analysis of neural circuits by Feng, Guoping, Asrican, Brent, Augustine, George J., Berglund, Ken, Chen, Susu, Chow, Nick, Gloss, Bernd, Deisseroth, Karl, Mancuso, James, Hira, Riichiro, Hoffmann, Carolin, Tan, Gregory, Kasai, Haruo, Katarya, Malvika, Kim, Jinsook, Kudolo, John, Lee, Li Ming, Lo, Shun Qiang, Matsuzaki, Masanori, Nakajima, Ryuichi, Qiu, Li, Tang, Yanxia, Ting, Jonathan T., Tsuda, Sachiko, Wen, Lei, Zhang, Xuying, Zhao, Shengli

“…Here we characterize several new lines of transgenic mice useful for optogenetic analysis of brain circuit function. …”
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Atomically-thin In(OH)3 nanosheets towards photocatalytic CO2-to-CO conversion by Kang, Wei Kiat

“…Investigation was carefully carried out via X-Ray diffraction, UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, Atomic force measurement, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and Transmission electron microscope (TEM) to determine the phase compositions, optical properties and morphologies of the photocatalyst. …”
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Nano-structured super-capacitor electrodes by Quah, Edwin Yi Han.

“…The nano-sized MnO2 were homogeneously distributed on go sheet, which have been confirmed by images from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis depicting its surface morphology. …”
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High capacity cathode materials for lithium ion batteries by Li, Jindan.

“…The analysis helps to gauge the working performance of the resultant. Based on the scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and charge-discharge curve the working performance can be obtained and some adjustments on the parameters were carried out. …”
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